In October 2019, we released our findings from the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG) project. QIC-AG was a five-year project working with eight sites that implemented evidence-based interventions or developed and tested promising practices to achieve long-term, stable permanence in adoptive and guardianship homes. Because November is National… Read more »
A guest blog by Dawn Marie Williamson Scott November is National Adoption Month, which is a time to raise awareness for the incredible need for adoptive families for children and youth in the foster system. This November, we are highlighting a personal story from Dawn Marie Williamson Scott, Vice President of Support Texas Adoptee Rights… Read more »
By Megan Morris This Land Is Our Land: Exploring the Impact of U S Immigration Policies on Social Work Practice (2019) D. Franco This article documents the historical context of immigration policy in the United States and examines the stressors that this has created on Latinx migrants. The author argues that social workers must… Read more »
By Allie Long In an article originally published in the December 2018 issue of the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, social work practitioners and authors Megan Finno-Velasquez and Monica Faulkner wrote an editorial surrounding the myths and misinformation on the border, and how social workers are uniquely positioned to help. Almost one year later,… Read more »
By Laurie Cook Heffron and Ana Hernández This article was originally published on the website Youth Circulations on October 7th, 2019. To learn more about their work, visit their website. Against a backdrop of increasing dehumanization and criminalization of migrating families, social work students aim to address trauma within a setting that often serves to… Read more »
Welcome to our monthly feature, News from the Field! This is an extension of the bottom of our newsletter. We will be providing you with some of the latest news, resources, and local & national professional development opportunities. If you haven’t already, sign up to get our monthly e-newsletter in your inbox. This month, we are excited… Read more »
Job Description, as of 10/25/19: The Program Specialist will be an essential team member working on a three-year project in collaboration with The Children with Special Health Care Needs Development Group. The Program Specialist will: 1) help conduct a needs assessment, 2) develop a case management module, 3) develop and implement a quality assurance and… Read more »
Affordable housing is a pressing issue facing many Central Texas residents. In the last decade, the region’s population grew at a rate of 2.9% annually, or approximately 55,350 people per year. Seventy percent of this growth can be attributed to those moving into the Austin-Round Rock housing market area. While the rental market is currently… Read more »
Welcome to our monthly feature, News from the Field! This is an extension of the bottom of our newsletter. We will be providing you with some of the latest news, resources, and local & national professional development opportunities. If you haven’t already, sign up to get our monthly e-newsletter in your inbox. This month, we are excited… Read more »
By Allie Long On August 28th, a sold-out crowd of roughly 150 child welfare professionals gathered at the Center for Child Protection in Austin, TX. Amidst the coffee and pastries, there were caseworkers, therapists, case managers, and social workers alike. On this particular Wednesday, these child welfare professionals convened to ask the question: how do… Read more »