People do not set out to fall in love and start families with any expectations that a barren abusive life or death awaits them. Of the victims that fall to emotional, spiritual, cognitive, and even physical harm, children never imagine or dream that such outcomes could befall them from the hands of those they love. Domestic …
I may end up embarrassing myself a bit here, but the story and the topic in this post are incredibly important to consider in child protection services. OK. . .confession #1. I recall sitting in my supervisor’s office staffing all 16 of my open investigations. I was ready to close several and a handful of others …
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In social work there are a lot of interesting challenges that come our way. Recently, our team at REAL Academy has focused our training development efforts on our Child Protective workers (CPS). Over and over we have found that our social workers come up short on tools that help them do their jobs well. In …
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Marino & Wright’s initial examination of decision-making in child protective casesWhite Paper Presentation to State “A” Child Welfare DHHS Leadership, 2015 Dr. Wright and Dr. Marino with REAL Academy research and developed investigated latent investigative case impacts requiring mediation to adopt evidence-based practices in child protection cases. The key factors shared in this document are …
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