The mandatory reporters of Child abuse and neglect

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Answer the following questions using complete sentences and comprehensive details. 1. Who are the mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect? 2. How does race as a factor lead to differences in the provision of services to families that seek treatment? Discuss key issues such as substantiation of cases, kinship care, family reunification, and permanency of placement. 3. How can implicit bias lead to disproportionality in the child protective services?

4. The authors note that many child welfare workers are not trained social workers. Discuss the aspects of social work training that could be beneficial to child welfare workers. PART 2 – Use specific examples to help when making your points. For example with question #3, if your state did well don’t just say it did well. Tell me why it did well. Or if it didn’t do well please tell me the reasons it didn’t do well.

Advocacy Research Exercise: Imagine you are a social worker who works for a small nonprofit organization dedicated to homelessness. You have lately noticed what you think is a spike in the number of clients who have children under the age of

5. You have no in-house expertise on research and even if you had, the majority of time is spent providing assistance to individual clients. However, you’ve recently heard that your statewide NASW chapter is lobbying the state’s legislature on a bill targeting homeless children and you want to testify. 1. Go to the Kids Counts Data Center. 2. Figure out which of the measures may be relevant to your question.

3. How did your state fare in the most recent year on these measures?

4. How has your state fared over time? 5. How does your state compare to all other states? 6. How does your state compare to similar states? (Hint: think of what are relevant similarities in this context, i.e., population density? Income? Housing costs? Political leanings?) 7. Based on what you have learned, what information would you want to present to the state legislature?

8. What would be the best way to present that information (i.e. pie chart, bar graph, table)? Be sure to include a copy of the method that you choose.