NASW to Educate Social Workers, Others About Adolescent Brain Development
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Association of Social Workers (NASW), with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, has developed ...
Tag: Child Welfare
Rising Ground to Expand the Role of Foster Parents in Supporting Both the Child and Family to Speed Up Reconciliation
Rising Ground, a leading human services provider in New York City, is piloting a new practice in which parents and ...
The Minnesota African American Family Preservation Act: One Small Step in the Right Direction Towards A More Just Child Welfare System
While most of the mainstream media has failed to report on this momentous piece of legislation created to address the ...
Bass, Bacon Introduce Bipartisan Foster Youth Mentoring Act
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) and Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) introduced legislation to authorize funding to support mentoring ...
Building Families: Social Workers in Foster Care
Sponsored by Campbellsville University According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, there were approximately 443,000 children in ...
Right from the Start: Investing in Parents and Babies – Alan Sinclair
It is widely accepted the earliest months and years of a child’s existence have the most profound impact on the ...
Reps. Bass, Marino Introduce Legislation To Develop And Enhance Kinship Navigator Programs
Earlier this week, Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) and Congressman Tom Marino (R-Penn.), Co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth, ...
What is Collaborative Law and Social Work
Collaborative Family Law offers divorcing couples a new approach to untangling marriage. The traditional approach has family lawyers settle disputes ...
Why Involving Entire Families in Child Protection Cases Can Improve the Lives of Endangered Children
By: Susan Meyers Chandler and Laurie Arial Tochiki Annually, about 435,000 children across the United States are taken away from ...
What #NeverAgain Means for Workplace Violence for Helping Professionals
What does the #neveragain movement mean for workplace violence for helping professionals? Social Work Helper hosted a free live discussion ...
Bipartisan Task Force Hosts Discussion on Effects of the Opioid Epidemic on the Child Welfare System
The Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth and the Bipartisan Heroin Task Force teamed up to host a dinner highlighting the ...
Systems Perspective and the Myth of the Self-Made Man
As a social worker, we spend a good deal of time looking at systems, and systems work means we can’t ...
Rescuing Sex Trafficking Victims
Lois Lee, Ph.D., J.D. - Founder of Children of the Night Photo Credit: CalState Forty years ago, it wasn't unusual to ...
Conflict Resolution: Who Started It Doesn’t Necessarily Matter!
Remember in the Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy began her stroll down the Yellow Brick Road? Eventually, she came upon ...
Critical Analysis of the System Changes Needed in the Child Welfare System
The child welfare system coupled with the juvenile and criminal justice systems have ultimately created and perpetuated the systemic constraints ...
Child Welfare System Increasingly Relying on Relatives to Raise Children Exposed to Trauma
According to a new report by Generations United, grandparents and other relatives who step in to care for children, play ...
Scotland National Poet Encourages Looked After Children to ‘Get Write In’
Jackie Kay - Scotland's National Poet ©cc by 2.0 University of Salford Press Office Scotland's national poet, Jackie Kay, has ...
The Case of ‘Mary’: Further Reflections on Child Protection in Ireland
On 29th March 2017, the publication of yet another report was released examining the operation of our child protection and ...
Let’s Talk About Burnout, Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma
Helping professionals do an excellent job of breaking down the stigma surrounding mental illness. However, when we look in the ...
More Than 100 Foster Youth Attend Shadow Day Program On Capitol Hill
Congresswoman Karen Bass speaking to Foster Youth Representatives on Capitol Hill On May 24th, 2017, in honor of National Foster ...
