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Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

CO4Kids

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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Navigating AI in Social Work Education

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

He researches technology and child welfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. LCSW, is a tech consultant for universities, social work departments, and social work agencies. He is the chemical dependency track coordinator and mental health track chair.

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Backers of a bill that tries to legitimize hidden foster care in Virginia say it creates guardrails. On the contrary; it sends the rights of children and families careening off a cliff.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

There are two very important things to know about the process by which a child welfare agency removes a child from a parent and places that child with some other kinship caregiver. The bill says families must be notified of their right to consult a lawyer. And that assumes the child will even come home.

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

Social Work Blog

North Carolina social worker Jocelyn Williams, MSW, learned about the importance of self-care when she took a high-pressure position at the Department of Social Services. That experience prompted her to write a book to help other social workers. A child welfare social worker meets with her clients.

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

KVC

Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices. Stephenson and KVC have been on the forefront of child welfare best practices including creating trauma-informed care, reducing residential care of children, and helping children and teens grow up in families through evidence-based family strengthening and mental health services.

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges. 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.

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In child welfare, where do ethics reviews come from?

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

A “scholar” who insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare writes a “predictive analytics” algorithm for the State of California. Somehow, the contract to write a so-called “independent ethics review” of the algorithm is given to another “scholar” who also insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare.