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Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

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Back to Blogs Community Blog Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation click to Download information in pdf The following information is not legal advice or guidance. What is the states role in overseeing child welfare in Colorado? Will county child welfare staff follow a family protection plan?

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Lesson from an appalling case in Michigan: If you don’t conform in EVERY way, the family police are gunning for you.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The child is now 11 and currently identifies as male.) His mother consulted experts and followed their advice to allow him to express himself and not do anything to shame or stigmatize him. Like the psychiatrist who implied that Mom was to blame for being a victim of domestic violence. (He And there is so much more: ?

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Social worker talks about importance of self-care in self-published book

Social Work Blog

Q: Why did you decide to become a social worker and work in the child welfare arena? A child welfare social worker meets with her clients. Williams: As a child, outside of my mother and aunt, I did not have a lot of guidance and stability from adults to teach me how to carry myself in a mature and respectful manner.

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges.

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If there’s another foster-care panic in NYC, it’s on The New York Times

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Their deaths were among a string of fatalities involving children who were the subject of warnings to child welfare authorities or the police in New York City. That’s implied when the Times regurgitates the Big Lie of American child welfare: the claim that keeping children safe and families together are at odds.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of child welfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy.

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Child welfare in Maine: Some lawmakers want to strengthen a law that prohibits doctors from thinking.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Its taken more than half a century but slowly, some people in family policing (a more accurate term than child welfare) are realizing that mandatory child abuse reporting laws were a huge mistake. A bill has been introduced to implement those recommendations. By the standards of family policing, those acts are revolutionary.