Social Workers
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This manual, Child Neglect: A Guide for Assessment, Prevention, and Intervention, covers neglect's definition, causes, impact, and prevention and intervention strategies in more detail. It also builds on both of the earlier manuals, reiterates some of the ...
Child Welfare Information Gateway connects child welfare and related professionals to comprehensive information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. We feature the latest on topics from prevention to permanency, including child ...
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This manual offers guidance on how diverse community agencies, organizations, and individuals can work together to form a web of support for families and create safe, healthy environments where children can thrive. The manual describes the benefits of co ...
Olmsted County Child & Family Services in Rochester, Minnesota, developed a family case conferencing approach in the juvenile court system involving children determined to be at high risk of maltreatment. This approach reflects the value of family inv ...
Although safety and permanency performance measures for cases involving children in foster care have been established, tested, and implemented, court-related well-being measures have yet to be developed. This article describes the initial effort to establ ...
Child Welfare Information Gateway and the National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) partnered to provide this free, self-guided online training on facilitating visits between parents and children involved with the child welfa ...
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is the largest membership organization of professional social workers in the world, with 145,000 members. NASW works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintai ...
The mission of the NASW Louisiana Chapter is to promote quality, integrity, unification and effectiveness of the Social Work profession while supporting social workers in their mission to serve diverse populations, and to ensure justice, equality, and opp ...
The quality of life of 17-year-olds reared in lesbian-parent families did not differ from that of a matched group of adolescents who grew up in heterosexual-parent families, according to a new study published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral ...
The ABA Center on Children and the Law is pleased to announce that its latest Practice & Policy Brief -- Psychotropic Medication and Children in Foster Care: Tips for Advocates and Judges -- is now available from the Child Welfare Information Gateway ...
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This guidebook presents the SAFERR (Screening and Assessment for Family Engagement, Retention, and Recovery) model for helping staff of public and private agencies respond to families affected by substance use disorders. The SAFERR model and this guideboo ...
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This manual describes types of child maltreatment and signs that indicate maltreatment has occurred. It provides an overview of the initial response and investigation in cases of suspected maltreatment, explains how first responders should prepare and pro ...
The goal of this publication is to provide relevant and practical information for public child welfare agencies and social workers when working with incarcerated parents and their children, including a chapter on immigration. This primer also outlines the ...