Remove Confidentiality Remove Human Services Remove Welfare
article thumbnail

A fundamental conflict: addressing implicit bias in mandatory reporter training

Child Welfare Monitor

by Marie Cohen Recognizing implicit bias in mandated reporting training is a national focus for addressing racial inequity in child welfare. The video introducing the section explains that implicit bias harms “families of color” in the child welfare system, without providing any evidence of such harm. Here are a few.

article thumbnail

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending May 3, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Roberts discusses her book, and racism in child welfare with Marc Lamont Hill And here with Ali Velshi on MSNBC: ? It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some “child welfare” agency announcing an initiative that supposedly will make family policing kinder and gentler. Velshi refers to Prof. You can read that story here. ?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

You Asked, Case manager vs Social Worker – Surprising Difference?

Social Work Haven

Despite having similar educational backgrounds, their job responsibilities differ depending on the services they provide to their clients. Knowing the distinctions between these roles can aid in determining the ideal career path in human services.

article thumbnail

All You Need to Know About the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Social Work Haven

In March 1973, the panel also advised the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) (now known as the Department of Health and Human Services) to instruct the USPHS to provide all necessary medical care for the survivors of the study.

article thumbnail

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, weeks ending Nov. 28, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. But there are few consequences for wrongly removing children from their homes.

article thumbnail

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. . ●

article thumbnail

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. Thats 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.