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A Family’s Guide to the Child Welfare System
Child Welfare League of America
Category: Tool / service
Topic: child welfare system
The Child Welfare League of America has made its complete 140-page A FAMILY’S GUIDE TO THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM available in PDF format for download from its Web site at the above link.
The guide is a comprehensive resource that social workers can use to help answer many of the questions families have when they are involved in the child welfare system. It can also serve as a useful resource if you are a new social worker or thinking about a career in child welfare.
Tags: child welfare, child welfare league of america, families
A social work hero
Are you wondering if you can make a difference as a social worker? Maybe this will inspire you. I came across an essay today on the Teen Ink Web site, in which a student describes her hero–a school social worker. See:
http://teenink.com/Past/2006/November/20670.html
Social worker safety
Boni Frederick, a social services aide in Kentucky, was tragically murdered this week while supervising a home visit.
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2006/oct/18/she-had-a-big-heart-slain-social-services-aide/
This situation brings to light the risks that many social workers and social service workers take every day. THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine published an article in Summer 2005 on social worker safety issues. Read the article here:
Social work is…
Gary Direnfield, MSW, RSW, a Canadian social worker, appeared on his local TV station during Social Work Week. He had a little under 4 minutes to explain to the host and TV audience what a social worker is and does. Take a look here:
http://www.yoursocialworker.com/videos/sw-week.wmv
(Note: This is a 8.9 MB video file.)
Social Work Week or Month (whichever is celebrated in your area) is an excellent time for other social workers to contact local media to spread the word about what professional social workers do!
Applying Social Work to Life
I found this article interesting:
Outstanding student applies social work studies to career, volunteer work
Recent social work graduate Delinda Buie already had a fulfilling career as a rare books curator at her university’s library. She went back to school to get a social work degree so she could gain skills that would be helpful in her volunteer community work. As she put it, “It really does relate to everything.”
And that is so true. She has used her social work knowledge to enhance the library’s programs. I know of other social work graduates who combine their social work knowledge, values, …
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