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. They involve clients in decision-making processes and encourage them to actively participate in setting goals and developing intervention plans.

Social Worker 95

Social Worker Treatment Planning Interventional Justice and Corrections 95

Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The sharp rise in child protection enquiries follows the final report of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, which warned that the system was “increasingly skewed to crisis intervention” and needed to be rebalanced towards early help and family support. Care review concerns .

Crisis Intervention 64

Crisis Intervention Child Welfare Anxiety Interventional 64

Social Work Haven

MAY 14, 2023

There are a wide range of job positions available in various settings, including healthcare, education, mental health, government agencies, private practice, counseling centers, research organisations and more. Case Manager–This role involves assessing, planning and implementing interventions to help meet the needs of clients.

Social Worker 98

Social Worker Private Practice Diversity Interventional 98

Brightpoint

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

That family—especially if they are black or brown–might find themselves a couple of steps away from a foster care intervention when what they really needed were options that money can literally buy, like clothing, food, and child care. [5]. The William T.

Child Welfare 52

Child Welfare Foster Care University Welfare 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Tokenism about racism Children’s Rights is a group that once actually claimed, in a fundraising pitch, to be “driving a national conversation about the urgent need to end unjust government intervention in the lives of Black children and families.” That makes especially offensive how that whole issue is handled in this McLawsuit.

Foster Care 52

Foster Care Child Welfare Government Welfare 52

All For Kids

MARCH 10, 2025

Family Resource Centers (FRCs) are community-based hubs that provide a range of prevention and early intervention services to families. FRCs typically get funding from government grants, private donations, and partnerships with local businesses. Reduced involvement with the child welfare system.

Domestic Violence 52

Domestic Violence Substance Abuse Counseling Case Management 52

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.

Child Welfare 188

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Mental Health 188

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Identifying and proactively targeting services to families with no [child welfare services] involvement is a violation of families’ privacy and their rights to parent as they see fit. This would be an overreach in the roles and responsibilities of a government agency. Emphasis added.]

Child Welfare 142

Child Welfare Welfare Human Services University 142

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

After decades of expanding the child welfare surveillance state to the point that more than one in three children and a majority of Black children will be forced to endure the trauma of a child abuse investigation by the time they turn 18, some states have noticed: Theyve been doing the same thing over and over and getting the same lousy results.

Psychology 84

Psychology Substance Abuse Foster Care Child Welfare 84

Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

“New Federal Report Demonstrates Reduction in Child Maltreatment Victims and Underscores Need for Continued Action,” the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in releasing the latest annual report on the government response to child abuse and neglect.

Child Welfare 162

Child Welfare Welfare Justice and Corrections Administration 162

Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

In those instances, we need the care to be delivered in trauma-responsive environments that embrace parent and caregiver engagement throughout the treatment intervention and continually focus on best practice. They are informed by the emerging literature highlighting promising practices in residential interventions.”

Foster Care 158

Foster Care Interventional Child Welfare Medicaid 158

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.

Child Welfare 69

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Self-harm 69

Shelter, Inc

MARCH 12, 2025

Focus on Prevention and Intervention Prepare communities to recognize red flags and how to respond effectively. These coalitions bring together law enforcement, nonprofits, schools, hospitals, and government agencies to share information, improve victim identification, and strengthen response efforts, states Santa Maria.

Substance Abuse 52

Substance Abuse Advocacy Child Welfare LCSW 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Here’s what you’ll find in it: PREFATORY MATERIAL Editor’s Note—Growth in Unprecedented Times, Nicolás Quaid Galván Foreword—Strengthened Bonds: Abolishing the Child Welfare System and Re-Envisioning Child Well Being, Nancy D. The full issue is here. Polikoff & Jane M. Not one of those words came from a birth parent.

Child Welfare 76

Child Welfare Welfare Administration Foster Care 76

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This is the text of the NCCPR’s presentation at the 2024 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare What the cover says How many times have we heard it or read it? I think government can play a huge, constructive role in promoting the well-being of children. Let’s start with safety.

Child Welfare 104

Child Welfare Domestic Violence Adoption Foster Care 104

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.

Child Welfare 117

Child Welfare Foster Care Domestic Violence Welfare 117

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 20, 2024

Child Welfare Social Worker vs. Social Services Specialist III) Organization Type: (Government, Non-profit, For-profit, Outside social services) Setting: (School, Clinic, Hospital, etc.) Develop strong clinical skills, especially in crisis intervention and grief counseling. Job Information: Descriptive Job Title: (e.g.,

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Psychosocial Hospitals Diversity 130

Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2022

“Policies that move children into poverty may trigger cascading inequalities through child protection systems and beyond, as poverty clusters with the very childhood adversities it produces, giving rise to further inequalities in health, life and death,” the paper warned. After housing costs, 31% were in poverty in 2020.

Criminal Justice 72

Criminal Justice Interventional Child Welfare Social Worker 72

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. But that has failed repeatedly.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Interviewing 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

For them, intervention by the family police is, literally, the norm. In addition, Emily takes a “holistic approach” to her family’s health that includes “declining certain medical interventions during her pregnancies and declining to vaccinate her sons.” She says she doesn’t even take ibuprofen for headaches.

Foster Care 113

Foster Care Hospitals Human Services Child Welfare 113

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Some advocates in Maine have tried to use one data point in the federal governments annual Child Maltreatment report to justify the states ongoing foster-care panic. To move away from the ineffective intervention of mandatory reporting, policymakers must decriminalize absenteeism. But the Maine Monitor took a closer look.

Foster Care 78

Foster Care Self-harm Child Welfare Confidentiality 78

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. Sometimes one small detail from a government document tells a huge story especially when a good reporter adds a little context.

Child Welfare 111

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Domestic Violence 111

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Through an upstream preventative lens that narrows the front door and addresses poverty through support and not victimization, I assert fewer children will need any form of formal care as their parents will have the necessary community support and resources to care for their children without child welfare intervention. …

Foster Care 79

Foster Care Domestic Violence Child Welfare Self-harm 79

Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The findings highlight the significant reach of social care interventions and raise questions about the systemic issues contributing to such widespread need. The Department for Educations (DfE) annual children in need census indicated that 3.4% of all children aged 0-17 were classified as in need on 31 March 2023. times the national average.

Child Welfare 58

Child Welfare Interventional University Welfare 58

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

With a few notable exceptions (generally written by nonwhite reporters), the Globe follows the party line of those whose 19 th Century counterparts proudly called themselves “child savers” – that massive intervention into families is needed to keep children safe. Here’s a case in point from 2020. Things haven’t changed much.

Child Welfare 114

Child Welfare Welfare Domestic Violence Addiction 114

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

Everywhere you turn, it seems, the liberal child welfare establishment is churning out statements “blasting” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for unleashing the state’s family policing agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare agency”) against transgender children and their families. McCown’s legacy lives on.

Child Welfare 117

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Administration 117

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

He doesn’t dismiss the harm to these children entirely: Nelson says an unanticipated, middle-of-the-night removal is a particularly extreme event for a young child. But, of course, government agents pounding on the door and demanding to take away your children tends to be unanticipated. Child protection has dealt with this forever.

Foster Care 98

Foster Care Psychiatry Child Welfare Mental Health 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

President Biden has apologized for what “child welfare” did to Native Americans in decades past. It didn’t matter if they were institutionalized by government or private faith-based agencies. But it’s an especially good time now. Fortunately, he’s the guest on The Imprint podcast. His thoughts on policy begin at about 22:30 in.

Child Welfare 77

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Clinic 77

Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 2, 2024

But due to the weakness of the requirement and the federal government’s lack of enforcement, only a few states make meaningful disclosures in the wake of these horrific events, as documented in a new report. Instead, HHS provided guidance in the form of questions and answers in its Child Welfare Policy Manual (CWPM).

Confidentiality 257

Confidentiality Child Welfare Welfare Human Services 257