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Share Clear Messaging During Birth Defect Awareness Month to Help Prevent Lifelong Effects

Social Work Blog

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the NASW Founda tion are collaborating with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work in a national effort to engage social workers in the prevention of substance-exposed pregnancy. Government.

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Child care, family assistance outlined in 2025 California budget

CCRC

The $322 Billion budget introduces no cuts to core programs, and maintains initiatives to fully implement Universal Transitional Kindergarten, expand after school and summer school programs, and Universal school meals. Contact the team for more information at Governmentrelations@ccrcca.org.

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Poverty and homelessness driving demand for children’s social care, directors warn

Community Care

The findings come from the ADCS’s latest Safeguarding Pressures* research, its regular stocktake on the state of children’s social care in England, and were shared in a submission to the government’s child poverty taskforce.

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Alcohol Use Linked to Breast and Other Cancers, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Social Work Blog

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and NASW Foundation are partners with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work in a national initiative to prevent alcohol- and other substance-exposed pregnancy. Government.

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Over three million families to lose out from disability and incapacity benefit changes, says DWP

Community Care

Over three million families will lose an average of 1,720 per year in real terms by 2029-30, as a result of proposed changes to disability and incapacity benefits, the government has estimated. In today’s spring statement , the government said that the 50 per week rate for new claimants would also be frozen until 2029-30.

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Challenging Handmaid’s Tale jurisprudence in child welfare

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Now Mr. Bs lawyers, The Bronx Defenders, the Family Justice Law Center and the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic, are asking New Yorks highest court, the Court of Appeals, to take up the case and overturn the lower courts. In fact, the control the government demands can predate conception.

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Finding Optimism and Hope Amidst Radical Indifference | NASW Member Voices

Social Work Blog

Dr. King emphasized that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Encourage community members to get involved in local governance and advocacy initiatives. Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights leader, famously stated, Nobodys free until everybodys free.