Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 3, 2025

It would make it easier for police or social workers to obtain a warrant to view a child and a home for the purposes of investigating a report of child abuse or neglect. The Committee voted unanimously to recommend the bill eliminating the requirement.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

At last: A group involved in oversight of Maine child welfare that shows a real understanding of the problems. The Maine Child Welfare Advisory Panel (MCWAP) Citizen Review Panel has produced a report with six recommendations. Note that often these programs have the full support of state or local child welfare agencies.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

On the contrary, said the court: We expressly hold that there is no ‘social worker exception’ to compliance with constitutional limitations on an entry into a home without consent or exigent circumstances. We wouldn’t even allow a slight deviation from the rules. Lawyers would scream. Appellate courts would intervene.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Yesterday, in a post about “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work, I noted that Alan Detlaff of the University of Houston, who has dedicated his career to fighting racism in family policing (a more accurate term than “child welfare”) had been ousted as the Dean of the university’s Graduate College of Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

More than just a dissent in an individual case, this opinion is a call to transform “child welfare” in Michigan – and everywhere else. is a brilliant dissection of the failings of both law and practice in “child welfare” in Michigan and pretty much everywhere else in America. In 1977, then [U.S.

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The New Social Worker

APRIL 30, 2024

Read The New Social Worker’s book review of Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System: The Case for Abolition by Alan Dettlaff. Reviewed by Stephen Cummings.

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

States have been hard-put to devise plans for implementing the new services because the bill was designed to fix a problem that did not exist–the alleged absence of child welfare services designed to help families stay together. ” As the Child Welfare Information Gateway, an information clearinghouse of the U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I single these stories out not because they are exceptionally awful - there’s far worse out there - but precisely because they are so typical of the journalism of child welfare. One study after another has found that even small amounts of cash significantly reduce what child welfare systems label as “neglect.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

Families facing investigation by the state family policing agency, the Department of Children and Families, get a lawyer, a social worker 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.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Social workers dedicate their lives to helping others, including some of the most vulnerable people in our society. However, research shows members of the social work profession are more likely to experience work-related stress, burnout, and a lower quality of life compared to other professions and the general population.

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Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

At Shelter Youth & Family Services, we honor Black History Month by shining a light on three pioneers who tirelessly fought for justice and equality in America, including in the child welfare system. This includes training foster parents and social workers in cultural competency and actively recruiting more Black foster families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 17, 2022

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 social worker 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

But for America’s giant child welfare industry of helping professionals, that spoils all the fun. Not a lot of money either, since we know that remarkably small amounts of cash are enough to significantly reduce what family police agencies call “neglect.”

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

Editor’s note: In this blog post, four social worker 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.

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KVC

MARCH 9, 2023

A key component to being a social worker is serving others during times of crisis. While social workers are often focused on taking care of other people’s needs, it’s critical that self-care is also a priority for social workers! They often carry the heavy weight for those they serve.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

By Sue Coyle Self-care is an often-discussed topic among social workers, the organizations that employ them, and the profession as a whole—and for good reason. Social work is a challenging career choice in myriad ways. Evidence of this exists in the rates of both turnover and burnout throughout social work.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You asked, what are the 10 roles of social workers ? While I can provide a list of 10 common roles of social workers, it’s important to note that our roles often go beyond these. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 14, 2023

You asked, what are the benefits of being a social worker? Social work is a profession dedicated to improving the well-being of individuals, families, and communities. It is a field that requires social work practice skills and offers a unique opportunity to make a real and lasting impact on people’s lives.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 6, 2024

I am proud to be a part of this project, along with Naomi Schaefer-Riley AEI’s point person on child welfare, and eminent child welfare scholars, Emily Putnam-Hornstein of UNC-Chapel Hill and Sarah Font of Penn State. If you missed the event, you can watch it here.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

NASW Senior Practice Associate, School Social Work and Child Welfare. Social Workers who serve these children, train, and update their skills as they develop a uniqueness that supports the child and their “Forever Family” through the challenges of creating a nurturing permanent environment.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 31, 2022

2022 Winners Emerging Social Worker Leader. This award honors an alumnus social worker who is at the beginning phase of their career and who has demonstrated outstanding leadership as a developing professional. Outstanding Social Worker Award. Outstanding Social Worker Award. Time : 6-9 PM.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When I graduated in 2007, I deferred my loan for a year as I was unable to pay my monthly rate as I looked for a job,” said Howe, who works in the child welfare system. . Though this may sound akin to winning the lottery, it happened after years of Howe struggling to pay the $84,000 it cost to achieve her graduate degree. .

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Remember all those scare stories about how, because COVID-19 prevented overwhelmingly white disproportionately middle-class “mandated reporters” from constantly having their “eyes” on children who are neither, their parents would unleash upon their own children a “pandemic of child abuse” ? million Black children.

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Gary Direnfeld

JULY 28, 2022

To add, there continues to be issues of drinking water for many Indigenous persons and child welfare still needs reform in most jurisdictions. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. My message to white supremacists, you get over it! Your day is over. I’m still angry.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 17, 2024

She is currently a member of the DCYF Parental Advisory Group and is passionate about fixing what is broken in our child welfare system to keep Washington kids safe. Prior to becoming a foster parent, she was a CASA for three years. She lives in the Seattle area with her husband and daughter. You can follow her on X at @DCYFWAtch.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

The independent researchers, who received data from the county, also found that social workers disagreed with the risk scores the algorithm produced about one-third of the time. Roberts discusses her book, and racism in child welfare with Marc Lamont Hill And here with Ali Velshi on MSNBC: ? Velshi refers to Prof.

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

March is National Social Work Month and KVC is joining the National Association of Social Workers to recognize the powerful, positive impact social workers have on their clients and their communities! Social workers and other helping professionals provide crucial support to children, adults and families in need.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

April Ferguson LCSW-C Senior Practice Associate Children and Adolescents April 2024 The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) acknowledges April as Child Abuse Prevention Month.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

But that figure has meaning only in the context of two figures that represent earlier steps in the process, which are always discussed first in the Child Maltreatment reports. “Referrals” is the child welfare system’s term for reports to the state child protective services hotline.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

As the research summarized in NCCPR’s new Issue Paper makes clear, this has backfired – creating a massive child welfare surveillance state that scares families away from seeking help, overloads the system with false reports, trivial cases and poverty cases, and leaves workers even less time to find the few children in real danger.

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

March is National Social Work Month and KVC is honoring the incredible ways that social workers, 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 social worker. It has been such a good fit for me.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

That’s b ecause, as one expert said: “Once you're in the clutch of the child welfare system, you're very vulnerable.” I have a column in Youth Today about why that’s not true either – and why it’s also irrelevant – because In child welfare, if the solution is money, the problem is poverty. ?

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery. Social workers help patients eliminate psychosocial stressors such as homelessness, loss of job, divorce, and loneliness that may have led to their use of substances.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

That’s why this post to the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog is called All the failures of family policing in a single case - and it's not an unusual case. ● WABE Public Radio in Atlanta has published and broadcast a stunning story.

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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? Well, it helps if your definition of abuse includes anything that might affect a child’s well-being.

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Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 29, 2022

One of most rewarding aspects of the work we do at CRISP is encountering so many gifted social workers in all parts of the country who are eager to become change agents and difference makers by working in the policy and political arenas. Many are young and in the beginning stages of their budding social work careers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In New York, that state’s Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights is going to launch an investigation into “possible violations of Black families’ civil and constitutional rights by the New York child welfare system.” ? At least it will be something to have a warrant, but I think we need more than that.”

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