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Constructing and Deconstructing Child Welfare Systems
4:00 PMMonday, March 31 2025
3:00 PMMonday, March 31 2025
2:00 PMMonday, March 31 2025
1:00 PMMonday, March 31 2025
12:00 PMMonday, March 31 2025
10:00 AM
Eleanor Broh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has worked as a therapist and clinical supervisor with current and former foster youth and their families at a community mental health agency in Oakland, CA since 2017. She received her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work in 2016, and before that had worked since 2009 with trauma survivors as a paralegal and case manager in New York City. Outside of work, Eleanor enjoys knitting and taking hikes with her dog.
This course provides an overview of child welfare systems in the context of structural oppression in the United States in order to support providers working with people currently and formerly impacted by child welfare and foster care involvement. The course reviews the history of child welfare systems, legal definitions of child maltreatment, risk and protective factors and long-term impacts of child maltreatment and foster care involvement, as well as data on child abuse and neglect and the role of systemic racism in child welfare. Finally, participants reflect on how to make use of this material with a patient.
This course is eligible for 2 continuing education credits.
This course is suitable for Psychologists, LMHCs, MFTs, Social Workers, LPCs, and Counselors.
Introductory
1-1:10: Introduction and framing
1:10-1:30: History of child welfare systems video; discussion
1:30-1:45: Definitions of child abuse and neglect; discussion
1:45-2: Risk/protective factors for child maltreatment; long-term consequences of child maltreatment and protective factors; data on child welfare
2-2:05: Break
2:05-2:20: Racism in child welfare video; discussion
2:20-2:40: Foster care outcomes; critiques and paths forward for child welfare; parent perspective video
2:40-3: Clinical work with former foster youth
At the end of the workshop, the participant will be able to:
- List two legal definitions of child abuse, neglect, and other forms of maltreatment.
- Describe two aspects of the history and current functioning of child welfare systems in the United States in relation to systems of oppression.