All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

An outside source, like an adoption counselor, can help you better grasp all that goes into the adoption process, and can teach you about the benefits of foster care, becoming a foster parent, and adoption. In addition, the cost of foster care adoption is typically significantly lower in this type of system.

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Adoption Foster Care Interviewing Child Welfare 52

University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Associate Professor Nate Okpych led one of the first large-scale representative studies about the effects of long-lasting, supportive relationships on older foster youth.

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Interviewing Foster Care Social Services Social Services 40

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! Now let’s flash forward to 1989.

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Foster Care Domestic Violence Child Welfare Welfare 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast. Dorothy Roberts has received a MacArthur Fellowship -- the awards that are commonly known as “genius grants.” Not only for me personally, but for all the people, especially Black women, who’ve been devalued in these systems.”

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Child Welfare Welfare Hospitals Disability 95

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The report includes interviews with parents, family defenders, and more than 50 ACS employees from frontline caseworkers to top staff. Staff know this underestimates the trauma of investigation and underestimates the even worse trauma of foster care. What’s in the report It’s easy to see why Hansell was so embarrassed.

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Child Welfare Administration Foster Care Welfare 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

It deters families from seeking needed assistance and weakens the capacity of teachers, doctors, and social service workers to nurture children’s well-being. So many of the parents I interviewed for this story have none of these luxuries. ?

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Child Welfare Welfare Empathy Psychology 76

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. TRENDING CONTENT ON SOCIAL WORK HAVEN What is the main role of a social worker? What skills does a social worker need?

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Social Worker Treatment Planning Justice and Corrections Interventional 95