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NASW and NASW-Texas File Amicus Brief in M.D. v. Abbott, Promoting Caseworker's Role in Child Safety
On April 9, 2018, NASW and the Texas Chapter of NASW filed an amicus brief in M.D. v. Abbott in the U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit that could result in a nationally important decision on the constitutional rights of children in state custody. M.D. v. Abbott is a class action lawsuit brought against the State of Texas by Children's Rights, a national organization, on behalf of Texas foster children, suing for their right to be free from unreasonable risk of harm while in state custody. In January 2018, the federal District Court found in favor of the children in a 116-page order outlining the serious, systemic problems in the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, leading to neglect and abuse over the past 20 years. The judge ruled that the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services needs to overhaul its foster care system and appointed a monitor to ensure that the Department implements the necessary remedies. In March 2018, the State appealed the final order arguing, in part, that the U. S. Constitution protects only the bodily integrity of children in its custody. NASW's amicus brief focuses on the importance of the caseworker's role in promoting child safety, well-being, and permanency and the difficulties that caseworkers face when they do not have adequate time and critical resources to effectively provide appropriate care, treatment, and services. The amicus brief also highlights the importance of reasonable caseloads and workloads; caseworker qualifications; and the importance of outcomes, as well as outputs.
Learn More Reasons to Support the Improving Access to Mental Health Act (S. 2613/ H.R. 1290)
Clinical social workers are the largest group of mental health services providers in the United States and are recognized by federal law as one of five core mental health professions. Clinical social workers are one of three mental health professions that provide psychotherapy services for Medicare beneficiaries. Yet, Medicare reimburses clinical social workers at only 75% of the rate reimbursed to psychiatrists and psychologists. This rate is even lower than the 85% other non-physician practitioners (such as physical therapists, physician assistants, and occupational therapists) are reimbursed. This discrepancy deters clinical social workers from becoming Medicare providers and also makes it difficult to retain clinical social workers as Medicare providers, thereby decreasing Medicare beneficiaries' access to mental health services. Learn more about the Improving Access to Mental Health Act and send a prewritten email to your members of Congress urging them to sponsor the legislation.
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NASW and the NASW Foundation are pleased to announce the recipients of the National Recognition Awards. Recipients fully embody social work values and ethics and will be honored at A Night at the Awards... A Night to Remember, an awards reception and ceremony held in conjunction with NASW's 2018 National Conference, which takes place in June in Washington, DC. Tickets for the awards event may be purchased at 202.408.8600 ext. 484.
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences is asking NASW members to complete a brief survey that will help identify existing sources of information about legal services and public experiences with civil justice problems in order to create an evidence-base for understanding and informing future policy decisions. This data cataloging effort is part of an important project of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Making Justice Accessible: Data Collection and Legal Services for Low-Income Americans. The project is focused on civil court cases related to areas such as debt collections, unfair loan fees, and help with appealing rejected applications for federal financial or medical assistance. Please contact John Tessitore (jtessitore@amacad.org) or Julian Kronick (jkronick@amacad.org) with any questions.
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Article Title: Until the Client Speaks: Reviving the Legal-Interest Model for Preverbal Children
Authors: Kelly, Lisa; Levezu, Alicia
Source: Family Law Quarterly. Fall 2016, Vol. 50 Issue 3, p383-426. 44p.
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The article explores legal-interest advocacy as an alternative to best-interest representation for nonverbal clients in the United States. Topics discussed include challenges to family law attorneys in avoiding disciplinary actions; the attorney's role in the evolving nature of adversary ethics in family law cases; and issues related to adversary ethics: the collection of evidence, civility, and communications with opposing parties and counsel.
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Social workers are often confronted with the task of duty to report threats of harm that they learned during a professional relationship with a client. A prior Legal Issue of the Month article, Social Workers and the Duty to Warn, reviewed court decisions that have addressed this topic; however, many states have passed duty-to-warn legislation and specific contours of the duty to warn are defined on a state by state basis. Many social workers are unaware that duty-to-warn laws vary from state to state. Only a few states have not established a statutory duty to warn. Twenty-two states have statutes applicable to social workers that establish a mandatory duty to warn.
Legal Issue of the Month articles offer guidance in everyday social work practice. Articles address commonly asked questions as well as hot-button emerging issues. NASW members only.
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Created by the NASW Legal Defense Fund as an exclusive online reference tool for NASW members, the Amicus Brief Database is a rich storehouse of legal information on a wide variety of policy and practice issues of concern to social workers and their clients. The Amicus Brief Database contains downloadable copies of almost 300 amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs filed by NASW or on behalf of NASW for the past three decades. Friend of the court briefs are accepted by courts as an aid to understanding aspects of issues that may not be fully addressed by the parties to the litigation, or where specialized knowledge may be helpful in reaching a conclusion in high profile cases.
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A big part of furthering our understanding of mental health is furthering our understanding of how biology and genetics interact with our mental wellbeing. And a new study published in the journal Nature Genetics is making serious headway on that aim. The study identified 44 genetic variants that influence depression, as well as found that we all possess some of those risk factors, Newsweek reported.
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Science Daily
Children raised in a rural environment, surrounded by animals and bacteria-laden dust, grow up to have more stress-resilient immune systems and might be at lower risk of mental illness than pet-free city dwellers, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study, co-authored by researchers from the University of Ulm in Germany and the University of Colorado Boulder, adds to mounting evidence supporting the "hygiene hypothesis," which posits that overly sterile environments can breed health problems.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts
A new federal law, propelled by the belief that children in difficult homes nearly always fare best with their parents, effectively blows up the nation’s troubled foster care system.
Few outside child welfare circles paid any mind to the law, which was tucked inside a massive spending bill President Donald Trump signed in February. But it will force states to overhaul their foster care systems by changing the rules for how they can spend their annual $8 billion in federal funds for child abuse prevention.
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