Gary Direnfeld
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
That can bring psychological and emotional harm. That injury can bring harm to self-worth, dignity, trust, security, faith. Trigger warning. This post discusses sexual abuse. —— Sexual abuse. It shouldn’t happen. For some, it does. There can be worse.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
They think they’re going to be working with families, helping families to engage in services, to be self-sufficient, to move on to higher education,” Everett said. In addition to the enormous harm that does to the children, it deluges caseworkers. And, in fact, Toscano tried. So they quit.
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Gary Direnfeld
AUGUST 30, 2023
Safety is code for concerns of domestic violence. Risk indicators includes screaming, name calling, breaking of objects, hitting, pushing, shoving, choking, threatening harm, abuse of pets, limiting access to resources, police or child protection agency involvement. This is but a small sample of indicators.)
Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 1, 2022
They flee those conditions that being harm to self and others within the home. Some young people don’t leave home. Some flea at a young age, teenagers, not yet fully formed, not yet adults. Not yet with all supports in place. They are at tremendous risk even when once fled. Mere survival, let alone exploitation challenge them.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Alleged domestic abuse Isabella spent most of her life in the Central Bedfordshire area with her parents. Gleason-Mitchell had been known to children’s services in the area herself and had a history of mental health problems, including anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 6, 2022
She is wrong about domestic violence, she is wrong about truancy, she is wrong about “alternative response,” she is wrong about false reports and she is wrong to call for more institutionalization of children. Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? She is dangerously wrong.
Gary Direnfeld
JANUARY 4, 2023
The learning for some is the closer you get intimately, the greater the risk of harm and/or betrayal. Just be open to self-examination. Why would you want to invest in a relationship if what you saw between your parents was yelling, screaming, put-downs, or even hitting, pushing, shoving and perhaps even injuries?
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