A Silence of Mockingbirds tells the story of the murder of a three year old child. If anyone deserves to have the truth told, it is this child.
Posted 02.21.2012
On Thursday, Gov. John Hickenlooper announced several changes to improve Colorado's child welfare system after the tragic deaths of 43 children that w...
Kevin M. Ryan | Posted 04.11.2012
It is hard to imagine something more horrific than the news out of Washington State about Josh Powell, who blew up his two young sons and himself duri...
Christina Patterson | Posted 01.27.2012
I find it hard to disagree with Helen Wright that when little girls wear "Future WAG" T-shirts, and make-up, and high heels, there's "something intensely wrong." But parents, she said, aren't to blame. Schools, she said, had "a key role to play" in providing guidance.
Ilaina Edison | Posted 09.27.2011
"I think of my job as giving voice to people who have none," says Sherri, a social worker. As the former baby boomers turn 65, who will be there to assist a generation through a milestone?
David Ambroz | Posted 05.25.2011
In a time of unparalleled budget cuts and competition for limited resources, it is important to identify why this group should benefit from a privilege-like early/priority enrollment.
Valerie Sobel | Posted 05.25.2011
After my child died, I sat alone for months trying to assimilate emotions I had never felt before and deciding how to move forward. The result was the...
Fernanda Diaz | Posted 05.25.2011
The Social Work community looked within and instead of figuring out ways to get respect and validity from outside, they devised new ways to adapt their own behaviors.
DailyFinance | MATTHEW SCOTT | Posted 05.25.2011
With the financial crisis, the Great Recession and the global economic slowdown wreaking havoc on every sector over the last two years, it's hard to i...
The Denver Post | Colleen O'Connor | Posted 05.25.2011
Social workers across the state say that attempts to fix the long-troubled Colorado Benefits Management System -- a database that processes applicatio...
Christine James-Brown | Posted 05.25.2011
My commencement message was devoted to child welfare practice. Currently, the public child welfare systems and agencies across the country are experiencing a severe workforce crisis.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.17.2011
Over the past 11 years, a succession of children - some in diapers and some in high school - have come to stay in my home for varying amounts of time....
Tracy Whitaker | Posted 05.25.2011
Social work was recently listed on the Huffington Post as one of the worst paying college degrees. We at the National Association of Social Workers would like to respond.
Lisa Mirza Grotts | Posted 11.17.2011
Two weeks ago today, my husband and I drove to Palm Springs from San Francisco for a golf vacation. We were following the sun to escape the rainy Bay ...
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.17.2011
Not enough attention seems focused on ensuring health care systems' preparedness to deal with cognitive health issues -- with Alzheimer's Disease as the most dramatic example.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.17.2011
Today I spent three hours in Hell -- the waiting room of the Family Court at the Arlington County, VA courthouse. As the foster parent of an infant, I...
Martha St Jean | Posted 05.25.2011
Women who want to keep it all together should always have a plan, burn the candle at both ends and make sure to keep the middle for themselves.
Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.22.2012