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by Marie Cohen This post was originally published on ChildWelfare Monitor DC on December 9, 2024. Because I rarely post on that site, I am letting it expire and will include future DC-focused posts on ChildWelfare Monitor.
On the contrary, said the court: We expressly hold that there is no ‘socialworker exception’ to compliance with constitutional limitations on an entry into a home without consent or exigent circumstances. A mid-level appeals court overturned the ban on recording interviews but upheld everything else. Lawyers would scream.
Editor’s note: In this blog post, four socialworker educators share a sample from their new and free resource about using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in social work education. Alexander Rubin , LCSW, is a clinical assistant professor based in field education at the University at Buffalo School of School of Social Work.
Families facing investigation by the state family policing agency, the Department of Children and Families, get a lawyer, a socialworker who can come up with alternatives to the cookie-cutter “service plans” issued by DCF, and a parent advocate, usually someone who’s been through the system himself or herself. In Springfield, Mass.
You asked, what are the 10 roles of socialworkers ? While I can provide a list of 10 common roles of socialworkers, it’s important to note that our roles often go beyond these. Case Manager : Socialworkers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.
But just two days after the Parent Map story was published, KFMB-TV in San Diego reported this story: A Marine Corps pilot and his wife are suing the County of San Diego after ChildWelfare Services took their seven-month-old son from their home for more than a month after the boy head-butted his mother as he played after breastfeeding.
March is National Social Work Month and KVC is honoring the incredible ways that socialworkers, clinicians, and other professionals improve the lives of children, adults and families. We celebrate that impact and want to share a peek into a day in the life of a socialworker. It has been such a good fit for me.”
But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of childwelfare – 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.
. ● Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.
Early Inspirations: High School and Beyond From the earliest days of high school, I found myself drawn to social issues and the incredible work done by socialworkers in our communities. It was during this time that I began to understand the profound influence of the social work profession.
The Ethics of Social Work: An Overview” by Felicia Kornbluh offers an accessible look at ethical issues that socialworkers face in their day-to-day practice. These readings will help equip any socialworker with the knowledge they need to effectively apply their skills in practice.
As the Human Rights Campaign explains, “Public childwelfare agencies are government entities that provide a safety net for families. As a prospective parent, you will be expected to pass a home study inspection from either a socialworker or an employee from the agency.
The program was established in partnership with Beacon Health Options, which has collaborated with the Performance Improvement Center (PIC) at UConn School of Social Work to provide data analysis, reporting, and research support to evaluate the program’s impact. The historic event underscored a central theme of the book. “A
It would make it easier for police or socialworkers to obtain a warrant to view a child and a home for the purposes of investigating a report of child abuse or neglect. DCFS visited the home twice in March, 2023 and interviewed Gavin outside the presence of his parents.
The column focused on an excellent Washington Post story about one such family – and how wrenching the trauma was, even though they were so well off they could hire two lawyers and a private socialworker to fight off CPS; even though they had advance warning of the inspection of their home and even though they were able to limit that inspection.
Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “childwelfare” 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!
Socialworkers work in a variety of fields, including mental health, aging, childwelfare, and social services. Many of these socialworkers develop a wealth of expertise in this area and are ready to be resources to the media and other organizations. Few additional cases resulted
Here’s how it worked: socialworkers at times coerced parents into signing [placement agreements that bypassed the courts], saying their children would be placed in foster homes far away if the documents were not signed. In childwelfare, we can’t speak truth to power until we speak truth to CASA.
This side of the childwelfare 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.
But today’s post focuses on one particularly jarring vignette–the story of a mother, her seven children, and a van–and what it means about how childwelfare policy is made and discussed today. David Reed, the Deputy Director of ChildWelfare Services in Indiana, introduced the story of this family in his testimony.
OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than childwelfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. In this video , one of Britains foremost childwelfare scholars, Prof. Its not just the United States.
As for the notion that the problem can be fixed with “more training” here’s what one school socialworker said her training was like: [T]he training sessions she has attended have begun by projecting the names and pictures of young people who have died by parental abuse, the socialworker said, a tactic she considers “fear mongering.”
Tyrone Howard et al, Beyond Blind Removal: Color Consciousness and Anti-Racism in Los Angeles County ChildWelfare. On first reading, the evaluation looks like evidence that the pilot failed to reduce disproportional Black representation in childwelfare.
A longtime "childwelfare" establishment apparatchik says the quiet part out loud Most of the time, the columns that longtime “childwelfare” establishment apparatchik Paul DiLorenzo, writes for The Imprint , are just dull regurgitations of establishment talking points. It’s not just social justice that upsets DiLorenzo.
The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of childwelfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy. Why had this happened?
I’m trying out a different format for ChildWelfare Monitor–a monthly newsletter format that highlights events and information that catch my eye. If you can think of a more exciting title than “ChildWelfare Update,” let me know. Race trumps childwelfare I: Black children don’t get attached?
Americas massive childwelfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. Its also so overloaded the system that workers have no time to find the few children in real danger. A system that attempts to make policy-by-horror-story makes all children less safe.
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