NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

.” -- Ann Haines Holy Eagle on what the Minnesota family police stole from her By now we’re all familiar with one odious practice of most family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies): They steal the Social Security benefits to which some foster children are entitled and keep the money for themselves.

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Center for Child Protection

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Building trust, step by step For Chief Clinical Officer, Miriam Jansky, Iron Paws is more than just a day for play. . “For many different reasons, our families don’t always get to participate in events like these,” she said.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Is Pittsburgh’s “child welfare” predictive analytics algorithm running amok? The most highly touted, most far-reaching example of computerized racial profiling in family policing (more accurate terms than “predictive analytics” in “child welfare”) is the one in Pittsburgh. (For Inquiring minds (at the US Dept.

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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. A parent may be sentenced to a relatively short time in prison – but, because of ASFA, for their children it can lead to a life sentence of separation from parents they love.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

As many of you may already know, simulations are increasingly being incorporated into social work education in various ways (online, in-person, virtual or augmented reality, large-scale, standardized patient, OSCE (Objective structured clinical exams), formative assessment, etc.). Clinical Simulation in Nursin g, (52), 9-16.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 28, 2022

That’s because, if you read this Blog regularly, you probably work in or study “child welfare.” Child welfare” is not run by the federal government. In Florida, the late George Sheldon made curbing the drugging of foster children a cause when he ran the state “child welfare” agency. You mean you’re horrified – but not shocked?

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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). How, then, does she account for how the Maine family police treat Hispanic families?

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

These trends speak to the legacy of anti-Black racism in the Global North, which deeply entwines disability with racialized boundaries of citizenship and broader debates about “deservingness” of welfare. NOTE on NASW journals : NASW journals are co-published by NASW Press and Oxford University Press.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 7, 2023

Robert Latham, Associate Director of the Children & Youth Law Clinic at the University of Miami linked to it on his excellent blog. State-level variation in the cumulative prevalence of child welfare system contact, 2015 – 2019 (Children and Youth Services Review 147 (2023) I first learned about the study when Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

In the wake of the stunning – in a good way – Supreme Court decision on the Indian Child Welfare Act, ProPublica talks to Kathryn Fort , director of the Indian Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law about how to make sure the law is enforced. And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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Community Care

MARCH 24, 2025

It added that it was “inappropriate” for experts to be called to give fact-finding evidence of whether alienating behaviours had occurred, though it may be necessary to instruct a psychologist to help the court determine the welfare outcome for the child.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Written from a modern, pluralist perspective, the text shows why economists and policymakers disagree about regulations, social welfare programs, government spending, and tax policies designed to address these economic problems.

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Shelter, Inc

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Ninety percent of youth in the child welfare system report having been exposed to at least one traumatic event in their life. This interactive training educates our professionals about the impact of trauma on the development and behavior of youth in the child welfare system. OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH.

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

This means KVC is outperforming its peers in child welfare and mental health, its peers in healthcare more broadly, and even most for-profit companies across all sectors. Join a values-driven team that is passionate about transforming people’s experience of child welfare and mental health services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Somehow, however, this most essential and defining aspect of being human has been overshadowed or cast aside in the industry known as child welfare. This has resulted in a fixation on clinical services and proprietary models rather than proactive family support. Their main interest is to remain in business.

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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The primary goal of the project is to determine whether the “Breakthrough Parenting Curriculum: Navigating Trauma Across Generations (BPC)”— a trauma-informed parenting intervention — is effective at promoting child, parent, and family wellbeing among underserved families at-risk for involvement with the child welfare system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

But we don’t have to worry about harm to families, Gordon writes, because “neither my clinical colleagues nor ACES Aware report instances of patient harms or complaints associated with the routine use of the ACE questions.” So the people who came up with this scheme and the people gleefully enacting it report no problems.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Commission on Civil Rights is hosting a series of public briefings to examine the extent to which racial disproportionalities and disparities exist in the New York child welfare system and its impact specifically on Black children and families. In Michigan, state judges are all upset over a “placement crisis” in child welfare.

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Michigan Social Work

APRIL 19, 2022

Field Faculty Rosalva Osorio Cooksy and Clinical Professor Julie Ribaudo were part of the national task force that developed the Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health, which was released in early April. Osorio Cooksy was part of the team developing Competency 5: Engage in Policy Practice. “The

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Empowering Clinical Social Work Practice demonstrates that strengths-based interventions can be a powerful antidote to the destructive forces of poverty and adversity, and ultimately lead to resource mobilization and empowerment. During these challenging economic times, social workers have an opportunity to empower those at risk.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The primary goal of the project is to determine whether the “Breakthrough Parenting Curriculum: Navigating Trauma Across Generations (BPC)”— a trauma-informed parenting intervention — is effective at promoting child, parent, and family wellbeing among underserved families at-risk for involvement with the child welfare system.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 14, 2023

From child welfare and mental health to community development and healthcare, social workers can choose to specialise in areas that align with their passions and interests. Clinical Social Workers: Clinical social workers who work in hospitals, mental health clinics, or similar settings typically have regular shifts.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

is a child welfare agency that works to end the cycle of child abuse and neglect through comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need. Programs include emergency housing, transitional living, foster care, home visiting and clinical support services. Shelter, Inc. Shelter, Inc. Shelter Inc.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Starting with a discussion of poverty and relevant global social policies, Empowering Clinical Social Work Practice in a Time of Global Economic Distress , edited by Janice Berry Edwards and Linda Openshaw, explores how economic distress exacerbates already stressful situations, and how those challenges surface in clinical practice.

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Center for Child Protection

MAY 28, 2024

Shanna Schuelke, Clinical Services Coordinator. Shanna brings over 15 years of expertise in the Child Welfare System, with 12 years at the Department of Family and Protective Services. Ray brings 27 years of dedicated law enforcement experience, including 11 years with the Travis County Sheriff’s Office Child Abuse Unit.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 27, 2022

She has over 20 years of experience in children’s mental health including Clinical Director. Her program of research focuses on bullying and cyberbullying, sexting and online sexual harassment among youth; and the informal use of digital technology in clinical practice. She was Dean of the Faculty from 2009 to 2019.

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

child welfare services are provided or managed by the government agency in each state. There are more clinically trained social workers than psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric nurses combined. Social workers do NOT remove children from their homes. In the U.S., The job is not a typical 8-hour workday .

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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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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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Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 29, 2022

One such social worker is Justin Hodge, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work where he co-leads the Policy and Political Social Work Pathway and is the director of the Online Certificate in Political Social Work. We need more social workers engaged in the political arena.

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Social Work With Adults

JULY 5, 2023

[Image created by freepik.com ] Parallel evolution As we mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the NHS, it is worth remembering how Clement Attlee's 1945 government embarked on implementing William Beveridge's report recommendations which set the framework for the welfare state.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

In social work, various articles cover topics such as social work articles on mental health, social work articles on domestic violence, social work articles on learning disabilities, medical social work articles, school social work articles and clinical social work articles. Some of these articles are free to access.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

By definition, a social worker’s role includes safeguarding children, vulnerable adults and the promoting the welfare of young people. Social workers play a vital role in ensuring the welfare of children and young people, and their work is an essential element of creating a society where everyone can thrive and live full and satisfying lives.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

This is because any animal welfare concerns should be highlighted and reported. Interventions to think about Referral to the falls clinic for a falls assessment. I observe whether there is any evidence of hoarding or body odour. I ask how they support their pets and find out whether there are any concerns.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Annmarie Arensberg, LCSW, LSCSW, is the Director of Clinical Operations at KVC Hospitals, a network of nonprofit psychiatric hospitals and residential treatment centers serving youth ages 6 to 18. These elements are especially important in the days and weeks immediately following an inpatient stay.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

Policy development, research, and evaluation are also areas where social workers contribute to improving social welfare systems and enhancing understanding of social issues. Clinical social workers work directly with clients, whereas case managers coordinate services and act as liaisons between clients and service providers.

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