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Children, Youth, and Families

• Practice Perspectives
  Social Work Services with Parents: How Attitudes and Approaches Shape the Relationship (9/14/2012)
• Practice Perspectives
  Overcoming Economic Hardships (5/24/2012)
• NASW Standards for Social Work Case Management: Comments requested (4/26/2012)
• May is National Foster Care Month (May 2012)
• Practice Perspectives
  Addressing the Educational Needs of Older Youth (12/16/2011)
• Practice Perspectives
  Gangs: A Growing Problem in Schools (9/29/2011)
• Practice Perspectives
  Engaging Young People in their Transition Planning (8/2/2011)
• Practice Perspectives
  Adolescent Depression and Suicide Risk: How Social Workers Can Make a Difference (2/25/2011)
• Practice Perspectives
  Healthy People 2020: Social Work Values in a Public Health Roadmap (2/25/2011)
• Practice Perspectives
  Supporting the Child Welfare Workforce to Reduce Child Maltreatment (pdf format |12/7/2010)
• Practice Update: Youth Aging Out of Foster Care: Supporting their Transition into Adulthood (August 2010)
• Practice Update: Meeting the Needs of Immigrant Children and Youth in Child Welfare (June 2010)
• The Childhood Obesity Epidemic: The Social Work Response (January 2010)
• The Economic Downturn: Implications For School Social Work (January 2010)
• From Poverty to Child Welfare Involvement:  The Critical Role of Housing in Family Stability (10/8/2009)
• Just the Facts About Sexual Orientation and Youth (2008)
• NASW Practice Snapshot: Promising Practices in Foster Care for Recruiting and Retaining Resource Families (1/6/06)
• NASW Practice Snapshot: What Social Workers Need to Know about the Administration’s Marriage Initiative (10/18/05)
• NASW Practice Snapshot: Helping Prospective Adoptive Parents to Navigate the Foster Care System (6/1/05)
• NASW Practice Snapshot: April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month (5/3/05)
• NASW Practice Snapshot: Promising Practices in Child Welfare (3/25/05)
• NASW Practice Snapshot: What's New at DHHS (3/25/05)
• NASW Practice Snapshot: Parental Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (3/6/05)
• Child Welfare Specialty Practice Section Members Describe their Experiences In Child Welfare (pdf format | 6/7/04)
• NASW's Child Welfare Initiative
  NASW is implementing a child welfare initiative with the goal of helping communities' better support child well-being.
• ASFA and Substance Abuse: Understanding The Issues Impacting Two Systems of Care (October 2003)
• Notes from the Field: Child Welfare and Schools (PDF) (August 2003)
• Child Welfare: A Congressional Report on Workforce Issues (July 2003) (PDF)
• How to Talk to Children About War
• *Understanding the Family Dynamics of Depression (August 2001)
• What Social Workers Should Know about Gender-Based Violence and the Health of Adolescent Girls (July 2001)