On Wednesday, the School of Social Work presented its 18th annual Brieland lecturer, professor of sociology at University of California ...

EAU CLAIRE — A Child Protective Services (CPS) social worker for Eau Claire County’s Department of Human Services recently won the Collaboration Award from Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. Hannah ...

Since "Child Protection Service workers ... comprise the essential frontline of the child protection system, their emotional exhaustion can quickly affect a negative domino series of consequences," ...

CHARLESTON — Citing ongoing issues with vacancies within Child Protective Services, a circuit court judge in West Virginia is ordering officials with the state Department of Human Services to report ...

SPOKANE -- A social worker who helped police investigate the Wenatchee child sex-abuse cases -- and who disagrees with suggestions that little or no abuse occurred -- has taken over state Child ...

CPS social workers may overlook or discount parental preferences, particularly during crisis removals when decisions happen rapidly. Lawyers can help parents identify potential kinship caregivers, ...

Heidi Luebbe took over as a K-8 social worker for Columbus Public Schools in the fall of 2013 and has been building trusting relationships with at-risk students and their families ever since. Her goal ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal audit says the state Bureau of Social Services did not comply with intake, screening, assessment and investigation requirements for responding to reports of child abuse ...

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — An Amherst man will spend at least two, and possibly up to three years in prison for assaulting a Child Protective Services (CPS) worker in an incident involving a visit ...