NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

They even acknowledged their own role in “contributing to racism in the legal field” in general and “within the child welfare legal field in particular…” Offhand, I can’t think of an organization that says “establishment” more than the American Bar Association. The topic is “anti-Black systemic racism within the child welfare system.”

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! Get ready to learn how you or others can take advantage of KVC’s child and family services. Typically they have engaged in outpatient services but haven’t experienced improvement.

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CO4Kids

MARCH 3, 2025

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog CISU Offers a New Resource for Advancing Equity in Human Services The Colorado Implementation Science Unit (CISU) supports a variety of partners including cross-agency teams, community organizations, and individuals all of whom have voiced interest in developing culturally responsive services and practices.

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CO4Kids

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In order to engage in evidence-based decision making, it’s important to support evidence building if a service isn’t evidence-based. It’s a powerful tool that helps everyone involved in a service’ s implementation understand the service’s design and how it can achieve its goals.

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Center for Child Protection

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Divided into three teams, our young participants engaged in the adventure course featuring low ropes elements, ground-level obstacles, tricky balancing exercises, and even a rope swing! “At Ironpaws, we have caseworkers, non-direct staff, and the Child Protection Team participating alongside our kids.”

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

This began a shift to reclaim the values-driven culture of KVC’s early days, creating a highly engaged, exceptional place to work. Learn more about work wellbeing and engagement, how KVC has created a positive, supportive culture, and how that culture benefits employees, clients, and supporters alike.

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Center for Child Protection

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Divided into three teams, our young participants engaged in the adventure course featuring low ropes elements, ground-level obstacles, tricky balancing exercises, and even a rope swing! “At Iron Paws, we have caseworkers, non-direct staff, and the Child Protection Team participating alongside our kids.”

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of child welfare and mental health nationally.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 14, 2024

Find your student’s school district’s Child Welfare Education Liaison (CWEL). Engaging students in the activities that give them joy is a great way to encourage school engagement overall. Find folks your student trusts at school and keep them updated. Don’t know where to start? Thinking of making a school change?

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Center for Child Protection

JANUARY 16, 2025

Understanding TRU TRU has already graduated two cohorts, including law enforcement officers and child welfare professionals, with plans to expand through mentorship and community engagement. The Center’s Chief Clinical Officer, Miriam Jansky.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? And always: New York City has one of the least awful family policing systems in America.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Gupta Kagan, a lawyer, joins with a social worker, Andrea Asnes, and a doctor who authored the definitive history of the modern child welfare surveillance state, Dr. Mical Raz, to offer guidelines for clinicians to answer this question “Should I Call Child Protection.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Just a week later, two of our sons were engaged in some rough horseplay. It begins with what happened to one of the authors, Katheryn Goldman, DMD, MPH, ABD: My 9-year-old daughter was jumping on her bed. She bounced off, and I wound up taking her to the emergency room. She got two small stitches under her eye.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

You would think that the institution wouldn’t be having so much trouble since it also appears to engage in a common industry practice known as “creaming” – as in skimming the cream. Are they “creaming”? They get to pick and choose who they’ll accept – and they get to kick them out when things get tough. (We

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KVC

MARCH 9, 2023

We do this by intentionally engaging in activities that encourage the balance of our minds, bodies and spirits. Join a values-driven team that is passionate about transforming people’s experience of child welfare and mental health services. But make no mistake: self-care is so much more than an occasional bubble bath!

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

This bill would reauthorize Title IV-B of the Social Security Act to strengthen child welfare services and expand the availability of prevention services. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means, which held a hearing on the legislation on July 24, following a year-long review of child welfare programs.

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Michigan Social Work

APRIL 19, 2022

Osorio Cooksy was part of the team developing Competency 5: Engage in Policy Practice. The guide offers materials, activities, and assignments that can be woven into almost any course related to work with children and families, especially in the field of mental health, school social work, medical social work, and child welfare.”. . “My

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 14, 2024

The hope is that participants will use the knowledge they have gained to continue engaging in complex conversations with young people and the communities that support them.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Among the many reasons not to engage in this pernicious practice: It discourages domestic violence victims from seeking help, and it actually compounds the trauma of removal for the children. Taking children on these grounds is illegal in New York because of a class-action lawsuit, Nicholson v.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This commitment, affirmed in our strategic plan , calls on us to engage in meaningful dialogue and hold ourselves accountable to action toward social justice. To celebrate this year’s National Latine Heritage Month, our school is working with the founder of J.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Our goals include engaging faculty and staff in meaningful dialogue about DEI/AR in our community and in our work. In response, we launched a Spanish-speaking child welfare track for our bachelor’s students who intern at the Department for Children and Families.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Our goals include engaging faculty and staff in meaningful dialogue about DEI/AR in our community and in our work. In response, we launched a Spanish-speaking child welfare track for our bachelor’s students who intern at the Department for Children and Families.

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Child Welfare Monitor

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

by Patty Flores I am grateful to be publishing this essay by a gifted and needed young voice in the child welfare space. I then found myself in foster care and having to navigate the complicated child welfare system, speaking little English and knowing nothing about how the child protection system (CPS) works in this country.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

is a child welfare agency that works to end the cycle of child abuse and neglect through comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need. Over 2,000 organizations have either successfully achieved accreditation or are currently engaged in the process. Shelter, Inc. Shelter, Inc.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The article aptly describes the Center as a first-of-its-kind organization that intends to engage in affirmative litigation with the [Administration for Children’s Services] —hitting it with lawsuits to potentially hold it accountable for allegedly violating families’ constitutional rights via heavy-handed investigatory and removal tactics.

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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

She is leading a research project on foster care experiences of LGBTQ+ youth who have transitioned out of care from September 2023 through April 2024 entitled Exploration of LGBTQ+ Young Adults' Experiences in Ireland's Child Welfare System: Building a Foundation of LGBTQ+ Culturally Responsive Care. Matarese is among over 800 U.S.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This commitment, affirmed in our strategic plan , calls on us to engage in meaningful dialogue and hold ourselves accountable to action toward social justice. Recognizing the history and achievements of Latina/o/x communities aligns with our social work values and the School’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism.

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KVC

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Some youth engage in bullying behavior due to a lack of understanding differences in backgrounds, cultures and other identity markers. In addition, it’s vital to engage in bullying prevention efforts to keep these destructive actions from taking place at school. What Can You Do To Prevent Bullying?

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Social Work Haven

MAY 14, 2023

From child welfare and mental health to community development and healthcare, social workers can choose to specialise in areas that align with their passions and interests. This aspect of the profession allows social workers to engage in meaningful social change on both micro and macro levels.

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Relias

MARCH 11, 2025

This article was written in partnership with the Child Welfare League of America , a coalition of hundreds of private and public agencies that has supported children and families since 1920. Burnout and high turnover rates continue to challenge many industries, particularly in behavioral health and human services.

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Beyond Advocacy

APRIL 13, 2022

Day, an associate professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work, is establishing herself as an authority in the field of child welfare. Being on the Hill under current circumstances made me realize how dislocated we are from our government when we are not able to fully engage with our representatives.

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

I had a friend encourage me to apply to KVC, to explore if social work in the child welfare system would be a good fit. She found a job listing from KVC in her search for a career in child welfare after graduating from college. I enjoy parent-child visits since they are so important to the clients,” Victoria said.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

School of Social Work faculty and staff are engaged in collaborative teams that are developing and advancing scholarship to address a diverse range of problems, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, adverse childhood experiences, foster care, homophobia, trauma, aging, and more.

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Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 29, 2022

You can view a recording of this session and others on advocacy, immigration, child welfare, and environmental justice on the CRISP website. We need more social workers engaged in the political arena. Please let us know what your students and graduates are doing to become more active. Let us know what you are doing.

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All For Kids

MARCH 10, 2025

Sexual abuse refers to any form of sexual exploitation or inappropriate sexual behavior inflicted upon a child. It includes actions such as molestation, incest, exposure to explicit material, or forcing a child to engage in sexual activities.

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Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

Our work with families focuses on the parents’ readiness to engage in a supportive relationship. Child Welfare League of America. Instead, we support Fostering Families carers to support the whole family, sometimes until the children are grown.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The following list of presentations and sessions represents the wide range of scholarship that School of Social Work researchers are engaged in, including human rights, child welfare, COVID-19, political social work, refugee and immigrant rights, and more. Thursday, November 10. Time: 3:00 – 3:30 PM.

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