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Catholic Charities of Fort Worth (CCFW), a Texas faith-based organization that helps find foster care placements for refugee children, recently sought out the help of Fatma Marouf, a 41-year-old law... By Christie Renick This post Lawsuit: Lesbian Couple Who Did …
Self-sabotage is intentionally undermining your own efforts to do something. You may find it surprising then to think that anyone would take steps to ruin their own chances at achieving their goals. It happens though; and often. Despite ones best …
In a previous post to the NCCPR Child Welfare blog, I discussed how actual experts on substance abuse keep pleading with reporters not to make the same mistakes in covering the opioid epidemic that they made covering the crack epidemic – …
Earlier this month, a Rhode Island state senator introduced a bill that would compel the state’s foster care agency to split the cost of transporting foster youth to school with... By Daniel Heimpel This post Scarcity Pits Education Against Foster …
I never had active shooter drills in schools. We had one nuclear bomb once that seemed silly, as hallways and desks were known even then for being a poor substitute to any actual threat. Now children go through so many …
Most people are often horrified about the thought of sex trafficking, yet society continues to see pornography as an accepted and even celebrated genre of entertainment. It is vital that as conscientious citizens, we see the link between pornography and …
Photo by Andrey Popov | Dreamstime.com “Social Work is the art of listening and the science of hope”- unknown March is social work month. While the month celebrates the contributions and hard work of social workers across the nation, …
One of the most difficult jobs in government is deciding whether or not to take children from parents who have been accused of child abuse, and place them in foster... By Michael Fitzgerald This post In New York, State and …
Dr. Suzanne Frank has known about the impact of childhood adversity on young lives for decades. She’s seen the fallout in the faces of young people huddled in beds at a children’s shelter where she worked years ago. She’s …
Jim Roberts, CEO and Founder Voice of our CEOIt is beginning to feel like our country is being overtaken by a pervasive, dense, ominous fog which is clouding our ability to see clearly and cause us to lose direction. It …
