Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Article author: Dawn Apgar, PhD, LSW, ACSW, assistant professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice, Seton Hall University. Proceeding forward on the licensure portability continuum toward mutual recognition is no longer an option but a necessity for social work practice in a post–COVID-19 world.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

People with FASDs may be at high risk for school challenges, criminal justice issues, substance use disorders, and mental health disorders. About one in 20 pregnant people report binge drinking in the past 30 days, and up to five percent of school children in the U.S. September is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Month.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It will also cover the offences of ill-treatment or wilful neglect by care workers or providers , under sections 20 and 21 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015. Under the terms of reference, the review will cover all people receiving care at home, including in supported living or other housing with care arrangements, in England.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Wilson served for close to 20 years as NASW’s lead staffer on social justice policies and legislation, and related matters. He continues to be active on a range social policy area including youth justice, immigration, criminal justice, and drug policy.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

JANUARY 29, 2021

FASD in the criminal justice system - Case management and Unmet needs for caregivers Summary - Additional modules will focus on topics including… - Accommodations for the clinician to prevent exasperation and burnout. FASD in the criminal justice system - Case management and Unmet needs for caregivers

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

Ill-treatment or wilful neglect This bill also intends to close a gap in existing legislation by extending the offences of ill-treatment or wilful neglect by a care worker or care provider to someone in their care, under the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, to children aged 16 or 17 in regulated establishments in England.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 9, 2025

Room: Grand Ballroom C, Level 2 Author: Chenglin Hong, PhD, MSW, MPH Presentation: HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Among People Involved in the Criminal Justice Systems in the United States: A Systematic Review Friday, January 17, 2025 Time: 9:45 a.m. 11:15 a.m.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

At UAB, approximately 400 students from medicine, nursing, dentistry, social work, criminal justice, and other majors participate in a poverty simulation each semester, facilitated by numerous faculty and staff from those same disciplines.

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Community Care

JUNE 7, 2022

The Setting the Bar study , which surveyed more than 1,500 social workers in Scotland – about a quarter of the public-sector workforce – recommended ‘indicative’ limits of 15 cases for children’s social workers and 20 to 25 for peers carrying out adults’ and criminal justice work. and criminal justice 24.6.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Since her career path started, she has specialized in working with a wide variety of at risk populations; however, her main career focus has been to specifically work with those who are reentering society from the criminal justice system. At that time, she obtained her Bachelors in Social Work with a focus area in Criminal Justice.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Since her career path started, she has specialized in working with a wide variety of at risk populations; however, her main career focus has been to specifically work with those who are reentering society from the criminal justice system. At that time, she obtained her Bachelors in Social Work with a focus area in Criminal Justice.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 28, 2023

He continues to be active on a range social policy area including youth justice, immigration, criminal justice, and drug policy. He is a co-chairperson on the Justice Roundtable’s Drug Policy Reform Working Group.

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yolanda earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Connecticut in 1998 with a major in Human Development and Family Relations and a minor in Criminal Justice. This organization encourages, inspires, and empowers women to get active. She has served on the Board of Champions since 2022.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In July, a radio producer contacted me to tell me about 74-year-old Judi Morris, whose son George had slid into heroin addiction and fallen in and out of the criminal justice system. It is for this reason that I was shocked to learn only recently of the state having removed children from the custody of lesbian mums.

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Community Care

MARCH 17, 2025

Baroness Berridge (Conservative) argued there is the other danger that – when there is no co-occurring mental health condition – you end up with people coming through the criminal justice system.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 17, 2023

In an effort to address these challenges we have developed four workshops to provide a framework for understanding group work and how it is practiced with different populations (children, adults and older adults) across various settings (schools, criminal justice institutions and elder care settings).

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

Given that regulatory boards represent the social work profession, it also seems fitting that regulatory processes support social work values and principles such as human relationships, access to needed services, and respect for the dignity and worth of all people….

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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Scottish Government intends to create a National Care Service (NCS), under ministerial control, by 2026 , initially with responsibility for adult social care but with a view to taking charge of children’s social care and criminal justice social work over time.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2023

The number of places contracted to the Ministry of Justice to place children detained by the criminal justice system remained stable, at 105, meaning the drop in capacity fell entirely on local authorities looking to place children on welfare grounds or, more rarely, on remand.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

AUGUST 29, 2020

Objectives - Identify purpose, sources of information and areas of concern for screening - Explore the pitfalls of diagnosis in the CJ system - Identify preferred screening and assessment instruments and what they measure - Examine placement strategies based on criminality, mental health and addiction issues - Discuss general treatment issues in CJ (..)

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Contemporary challenges facing social work and the communities it serves, among them: poverty; social exclusion; discrimination and oppression; inequalities, injustice and relationships of power; abuse, trauma, violence and conflict; cultural, political and environmental hazards.

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Jaeran Kim

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Assistant Professor, Social Work and Criminal Justice. Social Work Department, CB #51. 2211 Riverside Avenue. Minneapolis, MN 55102. 612.330.1218. koh@augsburg.edu. . JaeRan Kim, Ph.D., University of Washington, Tacoma. Box 358425, 1900 Commerce Street. Tacoma, WA 98402-3100. 253.696.5623. kimjr@uw.edu.

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Social Work With Adults

MARCH 3, 2023

Liz kindly agreed to write this blog about the work she is doing to support people with health and care needs in the criminal justice system. "I prompt positive change in individuals who had found themselves in contact with the justice system." It was in this role that I first had contact with criminal justice agencies.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Also, it will be a criminal offence to intentionally block others from reporting CSA, punishable by up to seven years in prison. Government mandatory reporting plan The Home Office said that it would introduce mandatory reporting of CSA through amendments to the current Criminal Justice Bill.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

There were also increases in the size of the adults’ (1,790 to 1,851) and criminal justice workforces (858 to 914), though the number in generic roles dropped from 281 to 252. Growing mental health officer shortage.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

In a culture in which medicine diagnoses and treats illness and disease and the criminal justice system identifies the perpetrator and delivers judgment and punishment, it is no wonder that couples might believe that identifying and correcting what is wrong with someone solves the problem.

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Community Care

JULY 12, 2023

Under the new approach, councils, the NHS and the Scottish Government would share accountability for the NCS, which would initially cover adults’ services only, with the possibility in future that it would also incorporate children’s and criminal justice social work.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 10, 2023

Social Work Practice Research – Contact: Professor Darja Zaversik New research paradigms for social work practice Learning by doing – qualitative approaches to research Social worker and data management Changing social workers’ perspectives Social workers’ professional narratives in social and political contexts Reflexive narratives of Social (..)

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Social Work Blog

JULY 28, 2023

He continues to be active on a range social policy area including youth justice, immigration, criminal justice, and drug policy. He is a co-chairperson on the Justice Roundtable’s Drug Policy Reform Working Group.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 14, 2023

Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA, is a former senior policy advisor who continues to be active on a range social policy area including youth justice, immigration, criminal justice, and drug policy. He is a co-chairperson on the Justice Roundtable’s Drug Policy Reform Working Group.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Not one of those words came from a birth parent.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

APRIL 2, 2017

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Mental Health and Criminal Justice Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director AllCEUs.com, Counseling Continuing Education Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox & Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery CEUs are available for this podcast at [link] Objectives ~ Where to begin… ~ Explore the scope of the problem (..)

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In the State House, Chang led the way on air quality protection, education, criminal justice reforms, improving economic opportunities and affordable, safe drinking water. She worked as a community organizer in Detroit for nearly a decade before serving two terms in the Michigan House of Representatives.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Police, Crime and Sentencing Act 2022 amends the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (CJPO) to: Create an offence of residing on land, or intending to, without the consent of the occupier, in or with a vehicle, under a new section 60C of the CJPO. Tougher eviction powers.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

The number of welfare placements in England and Wales’s 14 secure homes has declined from 105 in 2016 to 82 in 2022 , during which time the overall occupancy rate – including criminal justice and remand placements – has fallen from 83% to 66%.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The agency would be responsible for social work qualifications, workforce planning, improvement, training, professional development and pay and grading and, under current plans, would be a part of the Scottish Government, not an independent entity.

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Beyond Advocacy

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

From Left: Dr. Carrie Pettus, Legislative Aide Santos Marino, Dr. Angelique Day, and Rebecca Goodwin of WSIPP. It is fitting to title my first blog during Black History Month with this lyric from Billie Holidays iconic song, “God Bless the Child,” as it captures the zeitgeist of our new gilded age. The rich are getting […]

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