Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This is especially true for children who have faced extreme circumstances such as abuse, neglect, or loss, often as part of child welfare systems. Shelter’s professional staff provides free trauma-informed clinical care to children who have experienced trauma so they can heal, build trust, and create a path forward.

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Mental Health Therapist Clinic Child Welfare 59

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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Child Welfare Welfare Recovery Foster Care 40

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. TRENDING CONTENT ON SOCIAL WORK HAVEN What is the main role of a social worker?

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Social Worker Treatment Planning Interventional Justice and Corrections 95

Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

As in the past several years, ACF’s language suggested that child abuse and neglect are decreasing. The new report, Child Maltreatment 2023 (CM2023), provides data for Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2023, which ended on September 30, 2024. ” State data indicates that child welfare agencies screened in 2.1

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Child Welfare Welfare Justice and Corrections Administration 162

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

● Often children are taken when their poverty is confused with neglect only to face actual abuse in foster care. This story from The Press-Enterprise in Riverside describes a case in California in which that happened – and then the children faced horrific abuse in a foster home overseen by a private agency. ●

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Child Welfare Justice and Corrections Foster Care Criminal Justice 110

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! Katz did something simple.

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Foster Care Domestic Violence Child Welfare Welfare 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Confidentiality 109