Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

NASW Resources New Messaging from Faces & Voices of Recovery for Talking About Recovery Faces & Voices of Recovery (FAVOR) is a national campaign of individuals and organizations joining together with a united voice to advocate for public action to deliver the power, possibility, and proof of recovery from substance-use disorders.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

I have a blog post on both cases which, together, reveal that “child welfare” is a field so arrogant it can assert the right to violate everything from the Fourth Amendment to the Ninth Commandment. ? Although it’s not directly about child welfare, NPR has an important story about recovery from substance use disorder.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

● Take a step back, see – and hear – how the family policing system really works in this report from NPR, featuring perspectives from JMAC for Families and NCCPR: ● You know how defenders of computerized racial profiling in family policing (more accurate terms than “predictive analytics” in “child welfare”) defend their biased algorithms by a.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The number of people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders is increasing, and these clients are disproportionately represented in the legal and child welfare system, and often have significant challenges in school Early and effective differential diagnosis can help a person with an FASD achieve the highest quality of life.

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Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

Ralf has complex additional needs with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Child Welfare League of America. One family’s story Maggie, her current partner, John, and her three children live in a rural area on the outskirts of a city. Maggie has two sons, Ralf,11, and Rex, 3, and a daughter, Bella, 9.

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Relias

JUNE 22, 2023

It is used to treat a wide range of issues including health-related distress, family and school problems, and numerous psychiatric disorders. But CBT for kids has benefits beyond anxiety disorders. CBT is generally short-term and goal-oriented, focusing on helping clients deal with specific problems.

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Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 5, 2024

As an illustration, I am reposting my 2022 review of Roberts’ most recent book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer Worl d. child welfare system. ” Those who liked Shattered Bonds will likely love Torn Apart.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Understanding Mental Health Disorders: What Social Workers Need to Know: This article provides a thorough overview of mental health disorders, outlining their symptoms, causes, and treatments. Below are articles discussing the breadth of topics in social work.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Background There are calls to change the child welfare system to promote better outcomes for children. 2] However, when a removal is necessary, the child welfare community recognizes the importance of kinship placements in reducing trauma in children. What does This Mean for Child Welfare Social Workers?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

When NCCPR released a comprehensive report on Colorado child welfare in September 2023, we included a section called Tapeworm in the System. Even more restrictions, more onerous treatment for any child the assessment tool thinks might run away? And what, exactly, does that mean? They were in psychiatric centers or jails.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The reports were careful, nuanced assessments – far better than what’s spewed forth from certain politicians, and the state’s child welfare “ombudsman.” Those last 11 paragraphs are an indirect reminder of how, in less than 25 years, Maine child welfare went from national scandal to national model to national disgrace. .

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

In each of those periods, the child welfare system saw a significant increase in the number of children moved into foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed. However, there is some hope in the form of federal assistance for the child welfare system.

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This article will explore common questions, facts, and figures about this tragic national epidemic, including how education empowers individuals and ways to get involved locally and nationally in the fight against child abuse. What Is Child Abuse Prevention?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

When Honolulu Civil Beat reached out to NCCPR for comment on the findings of a study, done by the state’s own Court Improvement Project, of what really happens in child welfare court hearings, I said: “What this report tells us is that Hawaii doesn’t really have a court system for ‘child welfare’ cases at all.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 9, 2023

Over the course of eight chapters, WUOB tells a story that strips away all the excuses for the family policing system – a more accurate term than “child welfare” system. Please, Mommy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine!

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KVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Jason Hooper, President and CEO of KVC Health Systems KVC Missouri is part of KVC Health Systems, a family of nonprofits leading the way in mental health and child welfare. Depression, anxiety, and trauma- and stress-related disorders are increasing. We can truly transform the face of foster care and mental health.”

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Relias

JANUARY 23, 2023

Providers should closely monitor women with a history of mood disorders, either prior to or during the perinatal period. Another study found delayed or nonexistent detection, and follow-up was as low as 17.9% on referrals for behavioral health care.

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KVC

APRIL 7, 2021

When children suffer abuse or maltreatment within their families, they are more likely to experience mood disorders, do poorly in school, and even commit suicide. We know that children develop the best in loving families, with supportive and trusting relationships to help them learn and grow.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. In this video , one of Britains foremost child welfare scholars, Prof. Its not just the United States.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Part one of NCCPR’s news and commentary year in review for 2023 America’s massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. That’s why we’ve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove” anything.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

In Los Angeles County, WitnessLA begins a multi-part in-depth series on the failure of the child welfare surveillance state with a look at battered mothers afraid to seek help because of the entirely justified fear that the family police might take away their children.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

But treating the decline in foster care (the direct result of government actions) as a desirable outcome in itself can contribute to a disregard of actual child welfare outcomes like safety and permanency. Failure to remove a child despite safety threats. How did DCYF reduce foster care by nearly 50 percent?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

A mother’s injuries lead to prescriptions for opioid painkillers which lead to a substance use disorder. Even Bill Young, who used to run Vermont’s child welfare agency, is appalled. Is it really too much to ask that Vermont take a more humane approach to child welfare than Donald Trump? Both begin the same way.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

● At long last, the United States has officially apologized for 150 years of trying to use “child welfare” and children’s “best interests” to eradicate Native America. For decades, as the massive American child welfare surveillance state grew, the response to anyone who objected was: “We have to do this, children are dying!

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