Social Work Futures

MARCH 15, 2023

Here’s one piece: The need to protect the data in our brains – and – an interview with Dr. Nita Farahany about her new book The Fight for Your Brain. ” The future of human rights in the face of rapid technological change is emerging as an important space right now. ” Sounds like science fiction, but it is here.

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Welfare Engagement Social Worker Interviewing 228

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!

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Foster Care Child Welfare Domestic Violence Welfare 98

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges. 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.

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Social Worker Treatment Planning Justice and Corrections Interventional 95

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Part one of NCCPR’s news and commentary year in review for 2023 America’s massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. That’s why we’ve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove” anything.

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Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 83

Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 6, 2022

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) reached a potential news audience of more than 250 million readers in December, thanks partly to coverage of the Kentucky governor announcing pay raises for social workers, mention of NASW in a People magazine on adult adoption, and an op-ed on the drug syringe program in New Jersey.

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Code of Ethics Adoption Social Worker Mental Health 96

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As noted in yesterday’s post, about Putnam-Hornstein’s work in California, the California Department of Social Services declared that The Department believes that “universal-level risk stratification” is unethical and has no intention to use it now or in the future. At that point three things happen: ?

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Child Welfare Welfare Human Services Foster Care 143

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The timing can leave parents reeling and unable to contact government offices with questions or objections: If ACS conducts a removal on a Friday night, for example, a judge will not review it until Monday. And here’s part two , which explains why “permanency” is to child welfare as “creme" is to food: a fake substitute. ●

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Adoption 114