The Role of Social Work Education
Ruth McRoy?s lecture focuses on the role of social work education in fighting for social justice for children who are in out-of-home care and languish in the child welfare system. The child welfare system is mired in a web of bureaucracies and social policies that are influenced by risk factors such as substance abuse, incarceration of parents, poverty, homelessness and racism. McRoy provides a historical overview of the varying approaches to children in care and society?s competing values around protecting children from abusive and neglectful parents and the children?s right to be raised by their biological parents. She concludes that social work education should not just teach poverty in social policy courses, but also look at the implications for children and families in practice and systematically address the interrelationships between substance abuse, child welfare, criminal justice, and children and families.
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