NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Although it’s not directly about child welfare, NPR has an important story about recovery from substance use disorder. Contrary to the common stereotype – a stereotype often used to justify the draconian timelines in ASFA -- most people recover and maintain their recovery. ?

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. At hospitals, they may provide counselling to patients and their families or connect them with resources that can help support their recovery.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

I am completing my field education at Natchaug Hospital in an outpatient program for older adults experiencing mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders. My passion is to advocate for underserved and monolingual Latinx populations, undocumented individuals, and children involved in the mental health or foster care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

● Often children are taken when their poverty is confused with neglect only to face actual abuse in foster care. This story from The Press-Enterprise in Riverside describes a case in California in which that happened – and then the children faced horrific abuse in a foster home overseen by a private agency. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

So in 2021, the most recent year for which data are available, when you compare entries into care to impoverished child population, Massachusetts tore apart families at a rate 60% above the national average. The snapshot number – the number of children trapped in foster care on any given day -- is even worse. She said no.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 3, 2024

The research presented by the SSW community comprises a variety of topics, including foster care, LGBTQIA+ youth, substance abuse treatment, mindfulness-based intervention, and gender-affirming care, among many others.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.

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