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The $20 million boondoggle that perfectly illustrates the banality of child welfare thinking

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” And what will these groups do with the $20 million?

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Co-Parenting Building Blocks: Interview With an Expert

Relias

It was wonderful to have such great participation and audience engagement from those in attendance. When in doubt, remind the parents that these arrangements are in place for the healthy development of the child — the one thing that both co-parenting parties continue to have in common.

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The middle-class white person’s guide to dealing with a child abuse allegation

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Just a week later, two of our sons were engaged in some rough horseplay. By the way, Councilmember Oh’s child was interviewed separately and told the social worker what happened – just like Dr. Goldman’s children. Under many circumstances — but not all — you may be inclined to proactively grant CPS access to your child.

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“[Like being] stopped and frisked for 60 days”: NYC family policing traumatizes kids, confuses poverty with neglect and is racially biased. Who says so? Some of their own caseworkers.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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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“[It] feels like a jail cell has dropped around my family”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. said in court papers.

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Office of Research and Scholarship Update – Winter 2022

University of Connecticut

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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A Day in the Life of a Social Worker

KVC

We interviewed them to learn more about what it’s like to serve in these important roles with KVC. 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.