Think about the last time your family faced a crisis. Maybe it was financial stress after a job loss, the struggle to care for an aging parent, or helping a teenager through mental health challenges.

Natural language processing can be used for automated extraction of social work interventions from electronic health records, thereby supporting social work staffing and resource allocation decisions.

An advisory committee wants to require school social workers to have master's degrees if the state provides $10.9 million to raise pay.

Western Michigan University is now offering a pathway for students interested in becoming child welfare professionals to learn more about child welfare-related work. Child welfare workers will work ...

The 911 call came in from a parent whose son was threatening to kill himself. Typically, a police officer will race to a call like this, assess and stabilize the situation, and most likely request an ...

Nathaniel Wylie, a diversion social worker, begins his morning by checking emails and getting a jump start on the dozens of meetings and phone calls he participates in throughout the day. Credit: ...

After last year’s budget cuts to social services, including a NZ$14 million cut to early home visits, social services providers in New Zealand raised concerns about what the move would mean for ...