NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

. ● When Utah lawmakers first tried to incorporate the protections of the Indian Child Welfare Act into state law, the effort was stalled by legislators who wanted to wait and see if the U.S. Using child welfare to try to destroy native peoples is not unique to the United States, of course. . Supreme Court would uphold ICWA.

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

States have been hard-put to devise plans for implementing the new services because the bill was designed to fix a problem that did not exist–the alleged absence of child welfare services designed to help families stay together. ” As the Child Welfare Information Gateway, an information clearinghouse of the U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 23, 2025

But apparently he can fathom institutionalizing them in shelters because hes introduced a bill to require the state family police agency (a more accurate term than child welfare agency) on its own or through a contract, a central reception center and emergency resource homes for foster children for up to 72 hours.

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CO4Kids

MARCH 3, 2025

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog CISU Offers a New Resource for Advancing Equity in Human Services The Colorado Implementation Science Unit (CISU) supports a variety of partners including cross-agency teams, community organizations, and individuals all of whom have voiced interest in developing culturally responsive services and practices.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MAY 1, 2025

Co-hosting with the Graduate School of Social Service were the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), and International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW.

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Shelter, Inc

MAY 5, 2025

A long-time resident and advocate for youth and families, Santa Maria brings deep experience in child welfare, community development, and social services to this new civic role. Santa Maria, MSW, LCSW, has been elected as a Village Trustee for the Village of Arlington Heights.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

MSW, is a clinical associate professor at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. He researches technology and child welfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. LCSW, is a tech consultant for universities, social work departments, and social work agencies.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents. Anybody see the problem here yet?

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog DCW Updates for National Adoption Month 2024 By Shelia Dalton, Adoption Program and ICAMA Administrator November is National Adoption Month and this year’s national theme is Honoring Youth: Strengthening Pathways for Lasting Bonds.

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Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The harsh reality is not all children are represented equally in the child welfare system, nor do they have equal outcomes. The answer isn’t found in the disparity between kids but in the systemic bias in all child welfare areas, including social work, law enforcement, and the judicial system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are two very important things to know about the process by which a child welfare agency removes a child from a parent and places that child with some other kinship caregiver. Because of the one group it does benefit: The Virginia Department of Social Services and county child welfare agencies.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

Both require case management, but instead of the cost of room and board for foster youth, providing in-home services usually involve referring parents to mental health and drug treatment services often funded by Medicaid or paying for parenting support programs that cost less than foster care. (Of percent of the national total.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Alan Dettlaff, was invited by the Child Welfare League of America, a trade association whose members include agencies paid for each day they hold children in foster care, to write the forward for an issue of one of their journals. A founder of the upEND Movement, Prof. Then CWLA refused to publish it. You can read it here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

.” -- Ann Haines Holy Eagle on what the Minnesota family police stole from her By now we’re all familiar with one odious practice of most family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies): They steal the Social Security benefits to which some foster children are entitled and keep the money for themselves.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Councils continue to fully support the ambition of removing profit from the care of children that the Health and Social Care Bill aims to deliver,” said Charlie McCoubrey, the WLGA’s spokesperson for health and social services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

Only in a system as morally bankrupt as “child welfare” could it be considered acceptable to make children pay an allowance to their substitute parents. It’s also interesting to see where the money DHS steals from foster children is going: It’s used to pay their foster parents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

They were afraid of social services,” a parent with disabilities (one of the groups most vulnerable to family policing), told The Colorado Sun. With the Indian Child Welfare Act facing a challenge before the U.S. ● “When my kids were growing up, they weren’t afraid of the bogeyman.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JUNE 6, 2023

It aims to bring together academics and practitioners in social work and related disciplines to share their experiences in assessing and responding to emergencies, disasters, epidemics, and advancing social services for social development, particularly in the ASEAN region.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

It is estimated, for example, that turnover rates for caseworkers in child welfare averaged 30% nationally before the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, researchers in 2005 estimated the rate of burnout among social workers to be nearly 40% with a lifetime rate of 75%. Journal of Social Service Research.)

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

North Carolina social worker Jocelyn Williams, MSW, learned about the importance of self-care when she took a high-pressure position at the Department of Social Services. That experience prompted her to write a book to help other social workers. A child welfare social worker meets with her clients.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? Tomorrow: The New York Times published a front-page story about the study that was, mostly, very good.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In December 2021, it made its national transfer scheme (NTS) mandatory , requiring social services authorities with relatively few asylum-seeking children as a share of population to take in young people from areas with a higher share.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Involved in or supported innovative educational approaches leading to improvement of the quality of social services, approaches that are usable in different countries as models in teaching social work practice.

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CO4Kids

MAY 1, 2025

When families step up, it means children and youth have a chance to feel safe and supported in a loving home, said Joe Homlar, director of the Division of Child Welfare for CDHS. When parents need additional support to provide safety and care for their children, county human/social service agencies work to meet those needs.

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Shelter, Inc

MARCH 14, 2022

Few people know what goes on behind the scenes at a social welfare agency , and it’s easy to assume social workers and other boots on the ground staff show up 9-5, take care of business, and get on with their lives. No one becomes a social worker for money, fame, or glory. But that isn’t reality.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Last week, Virginia’s Director of Social Services, Danny Avula, gave a presentation to the state Commission on Youth.

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 30, 2024

The Compton Foundation Centennial Professor of Social Work for the Prevention of Children and Youth Problems, she served on the faculty of the Columbia University School of Social Work —where she received her Ph.D.—from She was inducted into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) in 2010.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance invites you join us for our Annual Symposium—to be held virtually during Social Service Workforce Week.

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University of Connecticut

JUNE 1, 2022

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services has been a core journal in social work research for over 100 years. Cristina Mogro-Wilson to serve as Editor-in-Chief of the Families in Society ( FIS ) journal, which was previously led by Dr. Sondra Fogel, who served as Editor-In-Chief for the past seven years.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

By Sue Coyle In February, Lynn Stanley, LICSW, executive director of the NASW New Hampshire and Vermont chapters, testified before Vermont’s Senate Committee on Health and Welfare. Her testimony came nearly a year after a Vermont social worker—the second in eight years—was killed while on the job. Is [the solution] around training?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Have you noticed how the writing of “child welfare” establishment types sounds more frantic lately? Great news, Missouri parents: The state Department of Social Services says you are now free to smoke marijuana, as long as you’re away from the kids! – Josh Gupta-Kagan. I have a blog post about it. ●

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University of Connecticut

APRIL 23, 2024

Since 2007, Libal has taught at both the School of Social Work (SSW) and the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute (HRI), specializing in human rights, refugee resettlement, social welfare and qualitative research methods. Megan Berthold , Scott Harding and several doctoral students in social work.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The three women in the photo are (left to right) the President of IASSW, ICSW and IFSW (International Association of Schools of Social Work, International Council for Social Welfare and International Federation of Social Work) respectively. Environmental Justice at the heart of social justice. Dominelli, L.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 27, 2022

She supported and encouraged generations of social workers and women to be leaders in organizations and elected office. She served on the American Public Welfare Association, National Conference of Social Welfare, and was a past Vice President of the Council of Social Work Education.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

has achieved national accreditation through COA Accreditation, a service of Social Current. is a child welfare agency that works to end the cycle of child abuse and neglect through comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need. Shelter, Inc. Shelter, Inc.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 29, 2024

But she also resolves a host of other pet-related problems for the humane society’s clients: landlord disputes; referrals to community social services; and the like. Animal welfare as a whole has shifted to the idea that keeping people and pets together is the best plan.

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