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Social Workers Can Collaborate with Physicians to Create ACEs-informed Healthcare
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study: The evidence behind what we know
Want to discuss this article more on Facebook Live? Vote for it above! By Monica Faulkner, LMSW, Ph.D. Important to know: In the late 1990s, researchers collected data from 17,000… Read more »
Risk & Protective Factors for Discontinuity in Public Adoption and Guardianship
Researchers from the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing conducted a literature review on discontinuity in adoption in partnership with the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption & Guardianship… Read more »
The Journey to Safety Part 2: How do you travel 1,500* miles?
This is part two of “The Journey to Safety” blog series which aims to tell the stories of Central American women asylum seekers and are now in detention in the… Read more »
News from the Field: January 2017
This month, we’re featuring a new publication on trauma-informed child welfare practice. The 2017 Texas Legislature also began, giving social workers, youth-serving and child welfare professionals lots of opportunities to… Read more »
Mejia Lutz, E. (2016, November 13). Texas foster youth struggle to get college degrees. Texas Tribune.
In this article on Texas foster youth, TXICFW research coordinator Tymothy Belseth shares the struggles Texas foster youth face in accessing higher education. Mejia Lutz, E. (2016, November 13). Texas… Read more »
Faulkner, M. & Francis, W. (2016, November). Fix Child Protective Services By Making It a Place Where Social Workers Want to Work. Versions ran in Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star Telegram, and the Austin American Statesman.
In this op-ed, Dr. Monica Faulkner identifies how to fix Texas Child Protective Services by making it a place where social workers want to work. The majority of Child Protective… Read more »
Faulkner, M. (2016) Supporting children and families: TANF and Head Start in Puerto Rico. In C. Nazario, Puerto Rican Children and Families: Our Starting Point (pp. 9-40). Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Metro Campus.
Dr. Monica Faulkner explores TANF and Head Start in Puerto Rico in this literature review. With almost half of the population in poverty and vast proportions of the island immigrating… Read more »
Why being reflective is so important for foster and adopted children.
Thanks to a generous grant from Sue Fairbanks, TXICFW will be conducting a Randomized Control Trial of “Family Minds” this year. Research Associate Tina Adkins developed the intervention as her… Read more »