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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Oct. 1, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. (A Vermont’s human services agency continued to send teens there — even after the incidents.

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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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Association between Loneliness, Mental Health Symptoms, and Treatment Use among Emerging Adults

Social Work Blog

There is limited research on how loneliness and social support impact young people’s mental health and mental health services use. In the May 2023 issue of the journal Health & Social Work , which is co-published by NASW and Oxford University Press, an article looks at loneliness among emerging adults.

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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.