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. Additionally , psychology and social work can be used together to address both the psycho-social aspect of a person’s life.

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Social Worker Treatment Planning Interventional Justice and Corrections 95

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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Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Mental Health 182

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It fails because even when you really mean it, under this system, the prerequisite for prevention is inflicting trauma on children and families by interrogating and stripsearching children in the middle of the night, at best, and hauling them off to the chaos of foster care at worst. So did Washington State.

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Psychology Substance Abuse Foster Care Child Welfare 85

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

It crops up over and over when there’s any story about what family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) do to families. There aren’t enough beds for little guys that need this level of care, and the child welfare system has to kind of figure out ‘how can we do the best with what we have?’”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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Child Welfare Welfare Domestic Violence Foster Care 98

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? Understanding the nature of child abuse is important.

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Domestic Violence Substance Abuse Military Psychology 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This morning, I gave a presentation with the above title At the Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Here is the text of that presentation Have you heard? CAPTA creates the modern framework for the current child welfare surveillance state. Nah, just kidding.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Domestic Violence Welfare 119

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Schools 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

am proud to serve on a special committee of the Philadelphia City Council examining the child welfare system in that city. One of our recommendations is to abolish mandatory child abuse reporting – something that would be in line with decades of research showing that mandatory reporting backfires.

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Child Welfare Welfare Empathy Psychology 76

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Florida’s family policing agency, the Department of Children and Families, has, in effect, confirmed the findings of a USA Today Network investigation that found DCF ignored widespread abuse in foster care. And once again, USA Today reporters trace the origins of the problem to the foster-care panic in Florida starting in 2014. (As

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Psychology 76

Shelter, Inc

JUNE 14, 2021

Why Is PRIDE important in the Child Welfare System? Children and adolescents who identify as LGBTQ+, just like all children, enter the child welfare system because their biological families cannot provide safe and nurturing homes. Illinois Services to LGBTQ In Care. ABC News’ 58 Gender Options for Facebook Users.

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Child Welfare Welfare Diversity Psychology 52

Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Why Is PRIDE important in the Child Welfare System? Children and adolescents who identify as LGBTQ+, just like all children, enter the child welfare system because their biological families cannot provide safe and nurturing homes. Illinois Services to LGBTQ In Care. ABC News’ 58 Gender Options for Facebook Users.

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Child Welfare Welfare Diversity Psychology 40

KVC

APRIL 7, 2021

Healthcare is a fundamental part of overall child well-being and development, as it includes not just doctor or dentist visits, but attention to nutrition and their psychological health as well. But we know that any type of disruption can greatly impact a child. How is KVC working to improve children’s overall wellbeing?

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Foster Care Substance Abuse Schools 52

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. Fatalities where child abuse or neglect was confirmed have continued to decline through the recent period of fewer foster care removals.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Domestic Violence 111

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It was called “Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families.” Kissinger heard arguments from state and police lawyers on their motion to dismiss Olivia Atkocaitis’s lawsuit, which alleges she endured years of extreme physical and psychological abuse and was kept locked in the family’s New Boston basement.

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Adoption Foster Care Psychology University 113

Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

I’m trying out a different format for Child Welfare Monitor–a monthly newsletter format that highlights events and information that catch my eye. If you can think of a more exciting title than “Child Welfare Update,” let me know. Race trumps child welfare I: Black children don’t get attached?

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Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 130

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In time, the stress can start killing off neurons and — especially in young children — wreaking dramatic and long-term damage, both psychologically and to the physical structure of the brain. For one, their kids were placed with relatives after a brief stint in foster care, allowing them to regularly see Clarence and Cal.

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Foster Care Psychiatry Child Welfare Mental Health 98