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Lesson from an appalling case in Michigan: If you don’t conform in EVERY way, the family police are gunning for you.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

His mother consulted experts and followed their advice to allow him to express himself and not do anything to shame or stigmatize him. Like the psychiatrist who implied that Mom was to blame for being a victim of domestic violence. (He The child is now 11 and currently identifies as male.) All of the children were taken away.

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SSW Alumni Spotlight: Barbie Nadal-Cristofaro, MSW

University of Connecticut

Currently, my role as Vice-Chair for Interval House Connecticut allows me to create awareness on domestic violence and intimate partner violence issues; it is the largest safe house in the state. I have been fortunate to continue doing community work around many social issues. What are your favorite hobbies?

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How Social Workers can Use Words to Heal

Social Work Blog

Owner of Change Your Narrative consulting and training practice, Nancy S. Poetic approaches have been and continue to be used to promote awareness of such critical problems as domestic violence, poverty, racism, sexism, and so much more. Poetry and narrative can be powerful tools in promoting social justice.

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Children and Domestic Violence. They Know.

Gary Direnfeld

This post addresses domestic violence. ?————— He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice. Trigger warning. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

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How Becoming an Adjunct Improved My Social Work Practice

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

It is an incredible feeling to meet a social worker student for the first time and hear their aspirations of opening a group home, fighting for indigenous rights, or protecting battered spouses from domestic violence, and then be the one to give them the tools they will use for the rest of their lives to help countless others.

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How Social Workers Can Use Words to Heal

Social Work Blog

Owner of Change Your Narrative consulting and training practice, Nancy S. Poetic approaches have been and continue to be used to promote awareness of such critical problems as domestic violence, poverty, racism, sexism, and so much more. Poetry and narrative can be powerful tools in promoting social justice.

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If there’s another foster-care panic in NYC, it’s on The New York Times

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Among the worst: “ requiring home visits by the police in suspected abuse cases when someone in the family has a domestic violence history.” This new broken windows-style measure will only further scare domestic violence victims and give their abusers more power.