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Standard operating cruelty: When the family police steal more than Social Security checks

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

As the Minnesota Public Radio story explained: Haines Holy Eagle says she believes it’s possible that [the Minnesota Department of Human Services] has held onto these personal effects because they prioritized the wishes of adoptive parents over those of adoptees. But as Prof.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 28, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● Law schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University released a joint report on the state’s “central registry” of those whom a caseworker decided were slightly more likely than not to be child abusers. Their conclusion: Do what Georgia did with its registry: Get rid of it. Particularly black and brown communities."

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Celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Nancy A. Humphreys (1938-2019)

University of Connecticut

Nancy earned an MSW from the University of Southern California, while working for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, where she rose from a direct services worker to assistant program deputy and staff development administrator. She was a member of the board of the Journal of Women and Aging.

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ChatGPT and Social Work: Be Excited, Curious, and Skeptical

Social Work Blog

Engage with a Critical Lens “For social work, what’s happening with ChatGPT is both frightening and exciting,” says Lauri Goldkind, PhD, an associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University and editor in chief of the Journal of Technology in Human Services Data Justice Collective.

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ChatGPT and Social Work: Be Excited, Curious, and Skeptical

Social Work Blog

Engage with a Critical Lens “For social work, what’s happening with ChatGPT is both frightening and exciting,” says Lauri Goldkind, PhD, an associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University and editor in chief of the Journal of Technology in Human Services Data Justice Collective.

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Cutting through the spin about predictive analytics in child welfare

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Department of Human Services, went to great lengths to spin the results and direct readers toward the spin instead of the reviews themselves. Michael Veale of University College, London, saw the problem. The algorithm in question is the second of two in use in Allegheny County. One of the ethics reviewers, Prof.

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Researchers Receive UConn Internal Funding Award to Study Refugee Community Sponsorship

University of Connecticut

Departments of State and Health and Human Services launched a new initiative for community and private sponsorship of refugees. UConn School of Social Work faculty and doctoral students are among the first in the U.S. and social work professor S. During the Biden administration, the U.S. Kathryn Libal, Ph.D.,