Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Scherlong discovered a passion for doing healing work with words when she was an MFA student with a background in creative writing and psychology. “I Scherlong used this approach with children in foster care who had endured what she described as “horrific losses.” The results were powerful.

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Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

Contrary to the values that lead most into their profession, we can find ourselves in the profoundly uncomfortable position of causing unequivocal psychological harm when separating children from their parents. It expands the definition of fostering to include long-term support to the whole family while the children remain at home.

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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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Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Scherlong discovered a passion for doing healing work with words when she was an MFA student with a background in creative writing and psychology. “I Scherlong used this approach with children in foster care who had endured what she described as “horrific losses.” The results were powerful.

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Social Worker Domestic Violence LCSW Nursing Home 59

Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Colin Gray was ordered to retrieve the other children, or they would be placed in foster care. There is no information from media reports about whether DCFS evaluated Colin Gray for his fitness to take care of his three children or to monitor their well-being in his care before closing the child welfare case.

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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. Additionally , psychology and social work can be used together to address both the psycho-social aspect of a person’s life.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It fails because even when you really mean it, under this system, the prerequisite for prevention is inflicting trauma on children and families by interrogating and stripsearching children in the middle of the night, at best, and hauling them off to the chaos of foster care at worst. No, you cant fight trauma with trauma.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

This can include children and youth in foster care, individuals experiencing homelessness, survivors of domestic violence, older adults facing neglect, and many others. Advocacy for Vulnerable Populations One of the primary responsibilities of a social worker is to advocate for the rights and well-being of vulnerable populations.

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Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 5, 2024

In her 2009 book, Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare , Dorothy Roberts drew attention to the disproportional representation of Black children in foster care and child welfare in general and helped make “racial disproportionality” a buzzword in the child welfare world.

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Part of this is understanding the socioeconomic and psychological ramifications within the family unit and how these factors can negatively impact those affected by maltreatment. Parents in such circumstances are often young with past experiences in foster care or the juvenile justice system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

She did it -- three times -- when The New York Times exposed foster care as “the new ‘Jane Crow’.” She wrote: I’m a licensed clinical social worker who spent my career in public child welfare, primarily providing foster care services. All this made “Jane Addams” very upset. there in order to investigate families.

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CO4Kids

MARCH 3, 2025

According to the Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado, Colorado defines brain injury as: Damage to the brain from an internal or external source, including, but not limited to, a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), that occurs post-birth and is noncongenital, nondegenerative, and nonhereditary, resulting in partial or total functional impairment in one or more (..)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Child Welfare League of America, a trade association for public and private family policing agencies, many of which are paid for each day they hold a child in foster care, called CAPTA “foundational to the country’s ability to prevent child abuse and neglect.” Nah, just kidding. maybe it’s poverty, but it’s not just poverty.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Then we’ll let them into the homes of families let them, interview everyone, assess those families, spend an average of 12 minutes every working day investigating the case - and then they can effectively decide if the child will go into foster care. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Florida’s family policing agency, the Department of Children and Families, has, in effect, confirmed the findings of a USA Today Network investigation that found DCF ignored widespread abuse in foster care. And once again, USA Today reporters trace the origins of the problem to the foster-care panic in Florida starting in 2014. (As

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KVC

APRIL 7, 2021

Healthcare is a fundamental part of overall child well-being and development, as it includes not just doctor or dentist visits, but attention to nutrition and their psychological health as well. Healthcare is similar to education in that it is important that kids have both access and quality.

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Shelter, Inc

JUNE 14, 2021

While in theory, the foster care system should provide the stable and nurturing care all children need. In reality, because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, a youth may be subjected to the same abuse and neglect from foster parents. Illinois Services to LGBTQ In Care.

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All For Kids

MARCH 12, 2025

A study in the American Journal of Community Psychology (2015) examined the long-term economic benefits of natural mentoring for youth. You can volunteer, become a mentor , get involved in foster care, coach a sports team, attend a father-daughter dance as a father figure, or help connect kids to positive male role models.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

The kind of violence that leaves lasting psychological damage, rippling through generations. Rampant sexual abuse by staffers, beatings so severe they broke bones. Residents forced by staff to fight each other for food. Solitary confinement stays that stretched for months. It’s been that way for more than 150 years.

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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 26, 2021

While in theory, the foster care system should provide the stable and nurturing care all children need. In reality, because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, a youth may be subjected to the same abuse and neglect from foster parents. Illinois Services to LGBTQ In Care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It was called “Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families.” Kissinger heard arguments from state and police lawyers on their motion to dismiss Olivia Atkocaitis’s lawsuit, which alleges she endured years of extreme physical and psychological abuse and was kept locked in the family’s New Boston basement.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

At almost three years old, and after two straight years in foster care with the same family that fostered her from the start and wanted to adopt her, Harmony was returned to her mother for the second time. Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, was in jail at the time.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In time, the stress can start killing off neurons and — especially in young children — wreaking dramatic and long-term damage, both psychologically and to the physical structure of the brain. For one, their kids were placed with relatives after a brief stint in foster care, allowing them to regularly see Clarence and Cal.

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