Mon.Oct 14, 2024

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School shootings and fentanyl overdoses: the uncounted costs of neglecting maltreated children

Child Welfare Monitor

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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ENGAGE 2024 Small Grant Recipients Announced

Michigan Social Work

In 2018, ENGAGE launched the Small Grants Program to encourage faculty to build partnerships with Detroit community-based organizations and to support resident-led efforts to strengthen Detroit neighborhoods. These awards are supported by the Office of the Provost and are part of the School of Social Work’s strategic effort to connect Detroit engagement efforts and increase impact in the city.

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Book Review—Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways

The New Social Worker

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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Irene Routté Receives 2024 ACOSA Outstanding Doctoral Student Award

Michigan Social Work

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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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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NCCPR news and commentary roundup, week ending Oct. 14, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● 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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Lorraine Guitérrez Receives Inaugural Maria B. Cerdas Trailblazer Award

Michigan Social Work

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.