Foster Care Human Services Social Worker 
Child Welfare Monitor
JANUARY 10, 2025
The number of children entering foster care increased for the first time in over ten years. There was a drop in in-home case openings but a similar increase in foster care placements during the year. This included 19 social workers carrying 20 or more cases and five social workers carrying more than 30 cases.
Child Welfare Monitor
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Sometime in the early years of the current century, a group of powerful advocates who thought that too many children were being placed in foster care came up with a proposal for change that they called “child welfare finance reform.” … So under Family First, we created new federal funding for those services.
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Michigan Social Work
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Brittney Barros, dual MSW and MPP student, will brief Congress this week on the Protecting Sibling Relationships in Foster Care Act, legislation which Barros developed as a 2018 intern with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI). Barros speaks this Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 1 PM.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
The harms of removal and sometimes also foster care can produce “worse long-term outcomes than if the child had remained at home” in many cases … But Michigan’s removal statutes do not require courts to balance these harms against the harm that might result from staying home. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.
Social Work Blog
APRIL 5, 2023
The NASW Code of Ethics is a set of standards that guide the professional conduct of social workers. The 2021 update includes language that addresses the importance of professional self-care. Moreover, revisions to the Cultural Competence standard provide more explicit guidance to social workers.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 3, 2022
The independent researchers, who received data from the county, also found that social workers disagreed with the risk scores the algorithm produced about one-third of the time. So, of course, leave it to the governor and his human services leadership team to propose doubling down on their failed approach.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 18, 2022
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a scathing rebuke to Philadelphia’s family police agency, the Department of Human Services, rejecting the idea that its caseworkers are effectively exempt from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and a similar clause in Pennsylvania’s constitution.
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