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Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

CO4Kids

Concerned individuals should consult an experienced and trusted immigration law attorney about your situation to verify that what you are doing will be honored by authorities in your state. What are the challenges of trying to regain custody if my children enter the foster system?

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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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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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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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DfE provides 20% of funding urged by care review in response

Community Care

Chief executive Anna Feuchtwang also welcomed the DfE’s intention to “rebalance the system towards early support for families so they can overcome problems like mental health, domestic violence and addiction, and provide stable and supportive environments for their children to grow up in.”

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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. This includes defending individuals’ rights and addressing issues such as poverty, mental health, domestic violence, disability rights and substance abuse.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

So the public was primed to scapegoat family preservation when Nixzmary Brown died in January, 2006 – leading to a foster-care panic , a sharp sudden increase in the number of children torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care. The panic was welcomed by the Times. So did The Imprint.