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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

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. Confidentiality: Maintaining strict confidentiality is essential. They keep their promises and follow through on commitments.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending May 30, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

A 12-year-old Native Alaskan girl in foster care says she wants to commit suicide. What could be better for a child like that than to ditch her in a hospital for a week, all alone, without telling her family, or anyone else, where she is? I have a blog post about it. --A That’s not unusual.

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“The hospital staff were texting with [the child welfare agency] about the dilation of her cervix”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

For those on it, it is alleged, this state will rely on a network of informers to plunder confidential records and spy on any mother they deem high risk. Her confidential medical records were obtained and read by strangers without her knowledge. One state allegedly maintains a secret docket of pregnant women. to support its actions.

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NCCPR at the Kempe Center Conference: Attn: Family Police: Children's "well-being" is none of your damn business!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

We have forced millions into foster care where the rate of abuse is, in fact, vastly higher than in the general population and, independent studies show , vastly higher than agencies admit in official figures. She complains about kinship foster care in part because relatives “live on the economic margins” [p.157]

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 6, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. It involves a nine-year-old girl trapped in a psychiatric hospital only because the state family police agency had no place to put her. Now check out the new twist, as reported by WBBM-TV in Chicago.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 15, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

So the only real answer is to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting – as Texas has done , though too late to prevent a tragedy. --All All the caller – whoever it was – had to say to trigger an investigation was that the woman smoked marijuana in front of her child – even though marijuana is legal in New Jersey.