Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Scherlong, LCSW-R, CHHC, SEP, PTR/CJT-CM is a licensed clinical social worker and the current president of the IFBPT. licensed clinical social worker and Professor and Dean Emeritus at the Florida State University College of Social Work, has been involved in the practice, research, and teaching of poetry therapy for over 50 years.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 8, 2023

That’s just one of the findings in the new study we highlighted in yesterday's post to this Blog (a study I first read about on the excellent blog written by Robert Latham, Associate Director of the University of Miami Children and Youth Law Clinic). A child abuse investigation is not a benign act. Yes, second highest.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Complaint filed by the Family Justice Law Center , the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private law firms – especially the introductory section – reads like great journalism. But typically, they aim to fix poor conditions for children living in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● 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. ● And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof. I missed this one last month: Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sarah Katz, director of the Family Law Litigation Clinic at Temple University, in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “A federal law has been destroying families for 25 years. The PBS NewsHour has an in-depth report. Recent commentary: ? Let’s get rid of it.” ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan School of Law explains, what children need is relational permanence. Children need to be able to stay connected to everyone who loves them, whether they can care for them or not. But as Prof.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Scherlong, LCSW-R, CHHC, SEP, PTR/CJT-CM is a licensed clinical social worker and the current president of the IFBPT. licensed clinical social worker and Professor and Dean Emeritus at the Florida State University College of Social Work, has been involved in the practice, research, and teaching of poetry therapy for over 50 years.

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Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

She described the award as a “real shock”, adding: “I am proud to be recognised like this, but not just for myself, it’s for the council, for the work it does and also recognition for the social care industry and how important a role we have.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Robert Latham, associate director at the Children & Youth Law Clinic of the University of Miami Law School, who wrote this on his excellent Blog: And lest you think this law has no teeth, the law prevents admission of any statement made by a parent without the notice being given. So we turn for analysis to Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 18, 2021

But a group of mothers, attorneys, and other advocates who know the foster care system from the inside saw things differently,” Hurley writes in a just-published follow-up story for The New Republic. They had long considered the system overzealous in its investigations of poor Black and brown families. “I

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Then we’ll let them into the homes of families let them, interview everyone, assess those families, spend an average of 12 minutes every working day investigating the case - and then they can effectively decide if the child will go into foster care. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

Other experts on childhood trauma, such as renowned researcher Dr. Bruce Perry and University of New Hampshire professor David Finkelhor, agreed. Because that’s what the adverse childhood experience of a child abuse investigation is really all about (except, of course, the toxic environment would be foster care, not a carcinogen factory).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In the case of Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, they didn’t just ignore what family policing was doing to families, they spent decades actively undermining efforts to keep families together – including leading efforts to deny the role of racial bias. Today (Nov. The report's author, Hina Naveed, will discuss it at a webinar on Nov.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The lawsuit was filed by the Family Justice Law Center, the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private firms. Rather they are the headline and subhead that begin a lawsuit against New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

MartinGuggenheim, who founded the nation’s first family defense clinic at New York University School of Law (and who also is president of NCCPR). ? This year the American Bar Association annual conference of family defense attorneys was, of course, an online event.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 28, 2022

The most offensive part is how the story attempts to ignore those who are most vulnerable to this kind of abuse: Public health officials first grew concerned about the problem of multiple medication use, or polypharmacy, a decade ago, when it emerged among young people in foster care and low-income settings.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan, has written : [C]ourts seem to terminate parental rights out of a sense of convenience. This year it’s happening on Nov.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

With aspirations of receiving my LCSW following my degree, the opportunities I was able to have in this placement allow for me to have a better overall understanding of the importance of clinical work. My goal for my final year is to do a clinical internship working with children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School summed it up perfectly: In many ways, the decision was unexceptional. Writing in The Imprint , Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan School of Law says the best thing CR could do would be to get out. If they were, odds are the number of children reported as entering foster care would nearly triple.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan, has written : [C]ourts seem to terminate parental rights out of a sense of convenience. This year it’s happening on Nov.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan, has written : [C]ourts seem to terminate parental rights out of a sense of convenience. This year it’s happening on Nov.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan, has written : [C]ourts seem to terminate parental rights out of a sense of convenience. This year it’s happening on Nov.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

I currently work part-time for a somatic therapy clinic which has afforded me the opportunity to learn about this niche specialty, piquing my interest in the power of mindfulness specifically around the treatment of PTSD. Christopher Cocchi, Individuals, Groups, and Families concentration. Lorena Martinez, Public Policy concentration.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The school has its own hair salon, clothing center and 24-hour health clinic with staff pediatricians. All children need unconditional love – children who have been in or near the clutches of the foster care system probably need it most. No wonder at least two commenters on the Times story aptly called it “Hogwarts.”

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Beyond Advocacy

JANUARY 5, 2024

It had been the subject of her dissertation titled In the Best Interest of the Family: The Outcomes of Children in Foster Care with an Incarcerated Parent and the Adverse Implications of the Adoptions and Safe Families Act. I have known Dr. Pettus since her days on the Brown School at Washington University in St.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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