Community Care

JUNE 13, 2024

A third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties, research has found. They also interviewed 42 social care professionals, 17 lawyers and four mothers with learning disabilities or learning difficulties who had experience of proceedings.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Reducing problematic alcohol use is crucial to preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs)—neurodevelopmental disabilities and birth defects that can occur in a baby exposed to alcohol before birth. One: FASDs are a leading preventable cause of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities in the U.S.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JUNE 8, 2022

Disability Online Research Indaba 2022 Registration and Invitation. Please take note that registration and the call for abstracts for the 2022 UKZN Disability Research Indaba is now open. The UKZN Disability Support Unit cordially invites you to register and/or submit an abstract for the 2022 Disability Research Indaba.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

APRIL 11, 2021

She is a master’s student at the University at Buffalo’s School of Social Work. Geoffrey Kennedy is a co-organizer and host of SWVirtualPal’s Twitter account and is studying at the School of Social Work in Queen’s University, Belfast.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 25, 2022

” If you are unsure that you want to be an adjunct instructor, please read this post by my colleague, Dr. Trish Desrosier, at Western Kentucky University, who will explain why you might want to teach a class for your local social work program. One of my teaching mantras is “if I can teach stats, I can teach anything.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The Hackneys and their lawyer suspect that the algorithm, and the humans who may be slavishly following it, discriminated against them because of disabilities. In this case, and at least two others, they are investigating whether, in Pittsburgh, humans and machines alike violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Jaeran Kim

JULY 1, 2020

Does your adopted child have one or more developmental, physical, or mental health disabilities? Dr. Claudia Sellmaier and I are seeking adoptive parent participants for a survey about parenting an adopted child with a disability. The survey consists of up to 67 questions and includes multiple choice and open-ended questions.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But discrimination against families with physical or mental disabilities gets far less attention, even though it is just as widespread. Robyn Powell of Stetson University College of Law has written: The disproportionate rate of child welfare system involvement in families headed by parents with disabilities is striking.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

Ives-Rublee is currently director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress. She earned her master’s in social work at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She is a well-known advocate for disability justice and inclusion at nonprofit organizations and businesses in the United States.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 29, 2025

With the support of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Vision 2030 Global Strategy Implementation Grant, this conference will explore academic, artistic, and practical approaches to improving, supporting, and nurturing mental health across the globe.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 28, 2022

Persons with disabilities. Towards Universal Social Protection. If there is any inquiry, please contact at swesd2022@gmail.com. The themes and sub-themes are as follows: Groups in vulnerable situations: the quest for social protection. Older persons. Children and adolescents. Women and girls. Migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 8, 2024

Those who are pregnant or can become pregnant also risk alcohol-exposed pregnancy and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), a range of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities that may affect up to 1 in 20 school children nationwide. Every day matters.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

These profiles represent families that are unemployed, disabled, elderly, are single parent households, and recipients of some form of assistance such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or Social Security Disability. Article authors: Anna Maria T. The journal Social Work is a benefit of NASW membership.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 30, 2022

and are the leading preventable cause of developmental disabilities. By Diana Ling, MA, Program Manager; and Leslie Sirrianni, LCSW, Senior Research Project and Training Coordinator; Health Behavior Research and Training Institute, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Article by Diana Ling, MA, Program Manager; and Anna Mangum, MSW, MPH, Senior Health Strategist; Health Behavior Research and Training Institute, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin. Drinking during pregnancy is more common than you might think.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

Article by Diana Ling, MA, Program Manager; and Anna Mangum, MSW, MPH, Senior Health Strategist; Health Behavior Research and Training Institute, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin. How often do you talk with clients about their alcohol use? How much drinking is too much?

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University of Connecticut

JUNE 1, 2022

Dr. Mogro-Wilson received her MSW from the University of Michigan, with a focus on practice with children, youth, and families in 2003, followed by her PhD from the University at Albany, School of Social Welfare in 2007.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1992 after I faced disciplinary action while a graduate counseling student because I had disabling symptoms of psychosis. I was no longer allowed to take graduate courses at this university. I also felt more guilt because I had hit the car of the lead teacher.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 9, 2024

The former Dean of the University of Maryland School of Social Work and self-proclaimed “child welfare scholar” seeks to run from the fact that the system he’s done so much to build and maintain – the family policing system – has failed.

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Relias

OCTOBER 6, 2021

People with disabilities and their families suffer the most serious effects of staff turnover. Constant training of new workers interrupts the continuity of care that allows individuals with disabilities to reach their full potential. High turnover rates mean these individuals deal with a “revolving door” of care providers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. “To But they will remain free to steal their disability benefits. (A Some even are celebrated.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Alcohol-exposed pregnancies may also lead to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), a range of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities that affects an estimated 2-5% of schoolchildren in the U.S.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

Through in-home family strengthening services, foster care, adoption, mental health treatment, disability services, and children’s mental health hospitals, we’re giving people hope and helping children and families thrive. Thanks to our team and supporters, KVC positively impacts approximately 75,000 people’s lives every year.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 10, 2022

Although existing research is limited, there is potential for RJ to prevent further negative mental health outcomes for students who may already have experienced trauma and/or have documented emotional or learning disabilities. Article author: Dayna Sedillo-Hamann, LMSW , adjunct lecturer, Silver School of Social Work, New York University.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

Helping clients discuss their alcohol use can also reduce the risk of prenatal alcohol exposure, a leading preventable cause of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). Here are some common questions and answers that can help you discuss alcohol with clients.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● In the wake of the stunning – in a good way – Supreme Court decision on the Indian Child Welfare Act, ProPublica talks to Kathryn Fort , director of the Indian Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law about how to make sure the law is enforced. And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

DOJ has issued a letter ruling that when judges ban such treatment they are violating the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. There’s more about the failure of the current system, the racial and class bias that are built into it, and the case for abolition in this Youth Today interview with University of Pennsylvania Prof.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 23, 2022

– Persons with disabilities. – Towards Universal Social Protection. If there is any inquiry, please contact at swesd2022@gmail.com. The themes and sub-themes are as follows: Groups in vulnerable situations: the quest for social protection. – Older persons. – Children and adolescents. – Women and girls.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

If you’re wondering how often foster children are abused, do not ask Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. For decades Britain has been imitating America’s worst practices – including massive discrimination against families where a parent has a physical or mental disability. I have a blog post about it.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

● Law schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University released a joint report on the state’s “central registry” of those whom a caseworker decided were slightly more likely than not to be child abusers. Their conclusion: Do what Georgia did with its registry: Get rid of it. Josh Gupta-Kagan.

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Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

There was also recognition for current or former directors of children’s and adults’ services and a leading disability campaigner. Myrna Bernard, who worked for the Association of Jewish Refugees, was recognised for services to the Jewish community and to disabled people in Scotland.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2023

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced increased tax relief for foster and shared lives carers, improved support for care leavers and enhanced help for disabled people to enter the workplace, in his Spring Budget today. This responds to research that disabled people felt the two assessments overlapped and being repeatedly assessed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

If you missed her discussion with Alan Detlaff of the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work and co-founder of the upEND movement, you can find it here: ● Young people also suffer when parents are forced to jump through all sorts of absurd hoops to be reunited. . ●

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Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2024

In addition, the researchers, from Kingston University, Sheffield University, the National Children’s Bureau and Ofsted, identified poor outcomes for children who had suffered neglect, particularly older children on child protection plans. These were often older children and adolescents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As Dean of the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, Alan Detlaff devoted his career to fighting the racism that permeates family policing. Department of Justice has found the state regularly violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by needlessly institutionalizing children with mental health problems. Added Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania Law School is quite a piece of work. The school’s Dean, Theodore Ruger, has written a letter urging the University to consider imposing a “major sanction” against the self-proclaimed “race realist.” As The New York Times reports , AFA sent a letter to University of Pennsylvania President M.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Call for papers for SpringerBriefs in Advancing Social Work and Social Work Education under the subseries of Advancing Social Work Education with the theme of Contemporary Issues in Social Work Education edited by Minna Zechner, Associate Professor of Social Work (Social and Health Services), University of Helsinki, Finland.

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