Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

You asked, what is a social worker home visit checklist? A social worker home visit checklist serves as a comprehensive guide for social workers conducting home visits to assess the holistic health and well-being of their clients. Over the years of practice, I have also found this tool useful.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

Even if they know that can do enormous harm, they may feel obligated to do it because they are mandated reporters. Imagine anyone on the Left, let alone anyone prominent in a self-proclaimed “anti-racist organization” saying that “stop and frisk” policing is preventive, not surveillance. Or they might just call the child abuse hotline.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

Under section 25 of the Children Act 1989 , such secure welfare placements may only be made if a child either has a history of absconding, would likely abscond from any other setting and, if they did so, would likely suffer significant harm; or would likely injure themselves or others if placed in any other setting.

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Self-harm Criminal Justice Government Welfare 65

Relias

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A study conducted by the Department of Veteran Affairs found a “a significant positive relationship between a positive screen for housing instability and a Veteran having a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, psychosis, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and previous suicide attempt or intentional self-harm.”.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As social workers, sometimes we may have feelings that hurt or emotions that sting the most. REMEMBER, quotes can help uplift and inspire you as a social worker. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

SAMHSA defines recovery as a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live self-directed lives and strive to reach their full potential. Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery.

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Social Work Haven

JANUARY 3, 2022

Helps us understand our role as social workers. What are the 9 core social work competencies in the UK? Values and Ethics.   Identify and behave as a professional social worker, committed to professional development. Social workers are members of an internationally recognised profession.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

To become a Best Interests Assessor, social workers have to be registered with Social Work England for at least 2 years and enrol on a postgraduate BIA-DOLS qualification. Necessary to prevent harm and proportionate to risk of harm. That is why a social work to-do list may help us manage better.

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Community Care

MARCH 28, 2024

Though the inquiry stressed that Stephen Boden and Shannon Marsden were responsible for the 10-month-old’s death on Christmas Day, 2020 – for which they were jailed for life last year – it said practitioners knew that the couple posed a risk of significant harm to him.

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Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2024

The panel, which examined 393 cases, found an over-optimism concerning parents’ capacity to give safe care and an over-reliance on parental self-report, with missed “opportunities” to triangulate this information with that from other sources. Long-term reductions in resources for early help and prevention services.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As a Newly Qualified Social Worker a few years ago, I understood that to become effective at what I do as a social worker , there was a need for me to write good Care Act 2014 needs assessments. A needs assessment is carried out by social services to decide your care and support needs.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

I was self-employed and wondered if this hiatus would have an effect on my income and reputation. Who wanted a social media and marketing consultant who’d spent time in a mental hospital? I’ve had worsening fantasies of harming or killing myself and I haven’t been able to get rid of them. I’m self-employed,” I started.

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Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. Police officers and child welfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m. In 2021 ProPublica published a superb expose of this practice.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

Mary Borecki Buck is an UConn School of Social Work alumna committed to supporting the education of future generations of social workers. This scholarship, created by Mary and her late husband, Raymond, will provide financial support to a student enrolled in the Bachelor of Social Work program.

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Community Care

MAY 30, 2022

The “turmoil” in Bradford’s children’s services led to practice failings in Star Hobson’s case that meant allegations of harm against her were not treated sufficiently seriously, a review has found. Social workers felt uninvolved in ‘inadequate’ council’s attempts to improve, says commissioner.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The primary worry is the irreparable harm a self-righteousness and power-driven political culture can do to a Supreme Court that we have long touted as a shining part of our democracy’s system of checks and balances. The intersection of SCOTUS actions and the social welfare of marginalized Americans is unmistakable.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

But treating the decline in foster care (the direct result of government actions) as a desirable outcome in itself can contribute to a disregard of actual child welfare outcomes like safety and permanency. How did DCYF reduce foster care by nearly 50 percent?

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 4, 2024

Cohen As readers digest the report that follows, the content may cause significant discomfort stemming from painful, lived personal experiences and perspectives shaped by social constructs made implicit through centuries of white supremacy and structural oppression. The decision would then be conveyed to the social worker and supervisor.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

He co-authors a “news analysis” for the Los Angeles Times that sounds like a pitch by a company selling “predictive analytics” software for child welfare. The post talked about Therolf’s profound discomfort with any suggestion that there is systemic racial bias in child welfare. Second of two parts. Read part one here. County DCFS.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 5, 2022

A longtime "child welfare" establishment apparatchik says the quiet part out loud Most of the time, the columns that longtime “child welfare” establishment apparatchik Paul DiLorenzo, writes for The Imprint , are just dull regurgitations of establishment talking points. It’s not just social justice that upsets DiLorenzo.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. And here’s part two , which explains why “permanency” is to child welfare as “creme" is to food: a fake substitute. ● Please, Mommy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Part one of NCCPRs news and commentary year in review for 2024 Tomorrow: Part two looks at some of 2024s finest journalism exploring wrongful removal and other harms to children caused by our current system of family policing. Americas massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories.

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