Tag: Child Welfare

Add digital skills to the many skill sets we wear as social workers. Our clients are carrying around devices that ...

Dr. Richard Barth Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Richard Barth at the Society for Social ...

Traveling with friends and family to events is something I like to do for two reasons. One is the fact ...

“It’s natural for you to think about how fostering will affect your life.  About how hard it will be or ...

When I tell people I am a former foster youth they usually have a similar response (something along the lines ...

Just like there are laws we have to abide and adhere to everyday, it is also a similar set of ...

If you find yourself a mandated reporter of child abuse and neglect and have ever had to report a client ...

Time to get digitally competent In an age where information technology is growing rapidly in our everyday personal and professional ...

Fullerton, Calif. – Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) is proud to announce the agency’s nomination and selection as ...

The Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW) have commented on the proposed guidance to the Children and Young People Act ...

BASW AGM via Twitter @SimonHadelyPix Today, the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) is holding a members conference in order ...

“A sick thing”. “Human trafficking in children”. “A gaping loophole with life threatening outcomes”. These are just few of the ...

Social workers from across the world will be turning up at workplaces in the UK for a series of seminars ...

Re-homing, a practice which consists in transferring a child’s custody to non-family members without the oversight of child welfare or ...

Foster care alumni abandoned by the educational system often become the inmates at youth detention centers and adult prisons across ...

A social worker to my core, I love this year’s theme for Social Work Month, “Social Work Paves the Way ...

Social Work is a tough profession even under the best of circumstances, but the impact social workers have on the ...

How important is mobile technology in social work? We wanted to learn more so we surveyed members of the National ...

In 2013, Florida lawmakers chose to implement the Normalcy Act; a law that requires their state government to allow foster ...

Neuroscience has yielded new understandings of how the brain can affect mental illness, addiction, reaction to trauma, and other psychosocial ...