A Caseworker Quits Over Texas’ Trans Kids Policy
Slate – What Subsequent Podcast
One transgender man give up his job as a toddler welfare employee in Texas after having to analyze households of trans children for little one abuse. Morgan Davis noticed his job as an investigator within the Texas Division of Household and Protecting Companies as a calling. As a transgender man, he joined the kid welfare company to be the advocate he by no means had whereas rising up. However Davis ultimately give up, following Governor Greg Abbott’s order to analyze the households of transgender youngsters. Whereas Abbott’s order is presently paused because of an injunction, many households are nonetheless left in limbo because of open instances – and different little one welfare staff are handing of their notices.
[Audio] Texas welfare workers are resigning over orders to investigate trans kids’ families
NPR
You understand, most of them are social staff. They obtained into this job to analyze severe issues of kid abuse and neglect. And now they’re being despatched out or concern being despatched out on investigations the place a toddler is receiving medical care in session with a health care provider and being requested to form of intervene between that relationship between the dad and mom and the kid’s physician. And that paired with a few of the, , issues over how these instances are being dealt with has left them, lots of them say, with no selection however to resign.
She wrote a book on body safety for kids. Will it get past the adults?
The Washington Publish
Johnson, whose résumé reveals she acquired a grasp’s diploma in social work in 1996 and has spent many years working for Baltimore Metropolis Public Faculties, revealed the e-book “Body Safety Zones BSZ” in April 2020. The principle character in it’s a college social employee named Ms. B Persistent and she or he works on the Rhoda Lee Jones Elementary Faculty. There, she teaches college students about physique autonomy and how one can ask for assist if somebody touches them inappropriately.
Mamie B. Todd, an outspoken civil rights activist whose work as a social worker led to the founding of the state’s Child Protective Services Agency, dies
Baltimore Solar
Mamie B. Todd, the granddaughter of a slave who grew to become an outspoken civil rights activist and social employee whose advocacy for youngsters led to the founding of the state’s Little one Protecting Companies Company, died in her sleep April 8 at her Pacific Grove, California residence. The previous longtime Ashburton resident was 105. “My grandmother was all the time impatient when it got here to the humiliation and degradation of segregation, as a result of she knew who she was descended from,” stated her grandson, Benjamin Todd Jealous, who had been head of the NAACP from 2008 to 2013 and was the Democratic candidate for governor of Maryland in 2018. “She was a quiet humble energy.”
Columnist Sara Weinberger: A diminishing social worker supply chain
Each day Hampshire Gazette
The medical social work provide chain is diminishing. As soon as licensed to turn out to be impartial practitioners, rising numbers of social staff are leaving neighborhood work for personal follow, which is usually inaccessible to low revenue, uninsured, and/or non-English talking individuals. The general public is essentially unaware that social staff signify the biggest group of psychological well being suppliers within the nation. The previous two-plus years have and proceed to precise a heavy toll on individuals’s psychological well being. We’re in a psychological well being disaster, the place the huge want for remedy clashes with workers shortages.
Greg McGann is a member:
‘The 1619 Project’ shows how the legacy of slavery continues to keep us divided
The Gainesville Solar
I simply completed “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning collaboration by a number of lecturers and historians on the historical past of slavery and its affect on America. I labored by means of the e-book, not as a result of it’s poorly written; it’s compelling, exhaustively researched and documented with intensive footnotes. “The 1619 Venture” is a troublesome learn as a result of the account is so harrowing. To dehumanize a whole race required legalizing unbelievable savagery. An estimated one-third of these kidnapped from Africa died in passage. There are a number of accounts of enslaved households being torn asunder, husbands separated from wives, youngsters offered away from dad and mom.
Chad Dion Lassiter is a member:
COVID-19 proved we need more diversity among social workers
Penn Dwell
All of us are watching the delivery of recent disparities. COVID got here and swept thousands and thousands of Individuals – most of whom had been already working low-paid jobs – into poverty. About 37 million Individuals attempt to make a life beneath the federal poverty line, an impossibly low $500 every week for a household of 4. From poverty comes a litany of woes – housing insecurity, utility shut offs, poor well being, starvation, substance abuse and psychological well being points. Throughout COVID, these vulnerabilities that we had ceased to see, revealed themselves.
Ravita Omabu Okafor is a member:
[Video] On the Record: Mental health is a matter of life and death
WRAL
From the onset of the pandemic to the nice resignation, psychological well being challenges are shifting the local weather of life as we all know it. Nervousness and melancholy are impacting so many people. One in 5 North Carolinians admits to struggling, however so many extra usually really feel too afraid to talk out. Our friends are two individuals who know that psychological well being is a matter of life and loss of life. Chris Curley misplaced his sister Jenny to suicide in 2018. He and his spouse are actually working to lift consciousness concerning the significance of speaking about psychological well being with these you like. Information station WRAL featured NASW-NC member Ravita Omabu Okafor within the “On the Document” phase about entry to psychological well being providers.
WRAL Documentary ‘Pandemic Generation: Kids in Crisis’
WRAL
As a part of our dedication to offering options and actual assist to the neighborhood, WRAL Information, in partnership with the Nationwide Affiliation of Social Staff NC and the North Carolina Psychological Affiliation, will host a psychological well being execs on name hotline to assist anybody battling psychological well being points. Dozens of licensed professionals will likely be readily available to reply your questions on psychological well being points and entry to assist. WRAL’s Mikaya Thurmond and Cristin Severance will host the telephone financial institution.
DSPS head pushes back on criticism of agency amid licensing delays
Wisconsin Enterprise
Marc Herstand, govt director of the Wisconsin chapter of the Nationwide Affiliation of Social Staff, spoke concerning the difficulty in mid-March throughout a gathering of the Meeting committee. “In my 29 years, I’ve by no means, ever seen the backlog as dangerous as it’s now,” he stated. “Up to now, I typically acquired two or three contacts per 12 months, principally from out-of-state of us having issue getting licensed. Within the final 12 months or so, it’s been one to 2 every week. So it’s been actually dangerous.”
Carali Mclean is a member:
A Dunnellon Town Hall meeting brought awareness to opioid deaths in Marion County
WCJB
In line with the CDC opioid abuse has brought about the loss of life of greater than 75,000 individuals within the U.S. alone. “Teenage overdoses have gone up about 80% within the final couple of years,” stated medical social employee Carali Mclean. On the Boys & Women Membership in Dunnellon, they talked about how one can stop this in our youth. “The entry to opioids and the fentanyl that’s so deadly,” stated Mclean.
