Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Colin and Colt Gray: TMZ Maylia Sotelo: Fox 11 A fourteen-year-old boy and a fifteen-year-old girl are charged as adults, one for a mass shooting and the other for selling a fentanyl tablet that killed an older teenager. These two young people had something in common–a long history of neglect (and sometimes abuse) by their parents and a failure to intervene by child welfare services despite multiple reports that children were in danger.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul can be a valuable resource for someone grappling with how to align their personal passion for social justice with their sensitive nature. Book review by Allison Berkowitz.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The Labour government has given its explicit backing to the family help model initiated by its Conservative predecessor to promote earlier intervention for families in need. Children’s minister Janet Daby said the model, currently being tested in 10 areas, was “central” to its plans for reforming children’s social care, in response to a written parliamentary question

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 14, 2024

PhD Student Irene Routté has received the 2024 Outstanding Doctoral Student Award from the Association for Community Organizing & Social Action (ACOSA). This award honors meritorious scholarship in the field of community practice.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

● The Indianapolis Star exposes the warehousing of Indiana children in state family police agency offices, sometimes for weeks. The story includes NCCPR’s take on why this happens – it’s what you think. This link goes to a summary which has a link to the full story, which is behind a paywall. ● In words and pictures, The Imprint documents an oral history project that’s also an oral healing project for survivors of the “boarding schools’ that were part of the systematic attempt by “child welfare”

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Professor Emerita Lorraine Guitérrez received the inaugural Maria B. Cerdas Trailblazer Award at the Latino Social Workers Organization’s National Latinx Social Work Conference in Chicago last week; she was also the keynote speaker. The award is named after Cerdas who became the first Latina member of the Chicago Board of Education in the 1960s.

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