Why We Should Care About Adoption Rehoming
“A sick thing”. “Human trafficking in children”. “A gaping loophole with life threatening outcomes”. These are just few of the ...
Tag: Child Welfare
Not an Average Day in the Office: Social Workers from the US to Madrid Come to UK Workplaces for a Day of Unique Learning
Social workers from across the world will be turning up at workplaces in the UK for a series of seminars ...
As Arkansas Outlaws Re-homing, Other States Might Follow Suit
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 Youth Trapped in the School to Prison Pipeline
Foster care alumni abandoned by the educational system often become the inmates at youth detention centers and adult prisons across ...
Paving the Way for Change is #YSocialWork
As a social worker to my core, I love this year’s theme for Social Work Month, “Social Work Paves the ...
96 Percent of Social Workers Want Mobile Technology
How important is mobile technology in social work? We wanted to learn more so we surveyed members of the National ...
Peace And Love Movement Brings Awareness to Foster Care Normalcy Law
In 2013, Florida lawmakers chose to implement the Normalcy Act; a law that requires their state government to allow foster ...
Translating Neuroscience into Policy and Practice for At-Risk Children, with Dr. Jack Shonkoff
Neuroscience has yielded new understandings of how the brain can affect mental illness, addiction, reaction to trauma, and other psychosocial ...
Post Partum Depression Can Be a Child Protection Issue
Post partum depression (PPD) occurs in about 20 - 25% of women after giving birth. Some level of the "baby ...
Answering a Child’s Questions About Out of Home Placement
Recently, a colleague of mine came to me for advice on addressing a very tough question from a child: Why ...
What About Repeat Child Protection Families?
A study just released in the United Kingdom, talks about repeat families within the child welfare system. Researchers from Manchester ...
ICE’s New Policy on Protecting Parental Rights
In cases involving undocumented parents and U.S. citizen-children, the child welfare system often has little power to ensure family preservation. ...
Milton Hershey School: Interview with Ric Fouad
Recently, I had the opportunity to interview F. Frederic Fouad who is an attorney for a Japanese commercial law practice, ...
Licensed Social Workers Do Not Mean More Qualified
Recently, I came across a Boston Herald article questioning why 34 percent of the Boston Division of Children and Families ...
Want to Work With Children: 5 Skills and Qualities You Should Be Working On
Most people love the idea of working with children but not everybody has the skills or the personality for it. ...
Social Workers Respond to the LA County Social Workers Strike
Social Workers Strike in front of the LA County Department of Children and Family Services For social workers with the ...
Confidentiality Policies that Hurt Children in Child Welfare Protection Cases
A news story regarding abuse animal recently resulted in thousands of dollars in donations. The community was appropriately outraged when ...
Children from Adversity: Ronald Maloney Debuting Powerhouse Road
There are many lessons to be learned from children of adversity who able to thrive despite the circumstances placed upon ...
“Crack Babies” and Poverty: Finding the Right Target
The inspiration for this article is the result of a recently published article: "'Crack baby' study ends with unexpected but ...
Tell Your Story or Someone Else Will: Child Welfare’s PR Problem
Ones' opinion regarding the field of child welfare is largely influenced by what they have read or viewed in the ...
