Child Protective Services

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Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families. Dr...

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Domestic Violence and Child Protective Services: A Trauma-Informed Bilingual Training & Communication Manual is a practical English–Spanish resource for professionals supporting survivors and families involved with CPS. Designed for caseworkers, advocates, social workers, and multilingual staff, this guide provides clear bilingual terminology, trauma-informed scripts, and communication tools that help reduce fear, build trust, and support safety.

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With a long string of unbelievable stories to explain her frequent injuries, Social Services sees Katt is the stereotypical abused child. When she is admitted to hospital with yet another broken bone, they do the only logical thing to protect her, removing Katt from her mother’s custody. But Katt and her mother know that something is wrong, and it has nothing to do with abuse, and the longer Katt stays in foster care, the worse her health gets. Can they get the answers they need before it is too late? Can they get the answers and get Katt back home? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I was ...

Willow Tree Moon's investigation of a child abduction snowballs into many abductions and missing children from the town of Mercy. The local mayor is becoming an interesting suspect. In an out of body experience, Willow Tree gets all the evidence she needs to put the mayor away if she can make it out alive. Eno ni Esrith, a lieutenant in the Vaedran Star Force takes down a grey's ship but suffers damage to his own ship. He helps a local police officer rescue two little girls and soon discovers a different kind of war going on planet-side and decides to help Willow Tree in her search for ...

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This eBook has been updatged for ease of Audiobook per the many request for an Audiobook. Aleem is a special child with fetal alcohol syndrome and autism. What happens when he gets an Artificial Intelligence pooka named Harvey? Between CPS, the court custody, a police swatting, a mother on the run, and a father who is the poster child for an autistic savant being tossed into the psychiatric ward, things get interesting. Can Harvey guide Aleem through the urban jungle of government secrets, crooked cops aiding human trafficking, and all the other problems in society while staying a secret? I...

The pregnancy podcasts warned Joanna Baker about the baby blues, but when a near-fatal mistake places the first-time mom under the watchful eye of Child Protective Services, she receives a serious diagnosis: postpartum depression. Jo hears the words, yet they dont make sense. Nothing does. Her...

Breakthrough Treatment Offers New Hope for Recovery # Gentling represents a new paradigm in the therapeutic approach to children who have experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and have acquired Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result. This text redefines PTSD in child abuse survivors by identifying child-specific behavioral signs commonly seen, and offers a means to individualize treatment and measure therapeutic outcomes through understanding each suffering child's unique symptom profile. The practical and easily understood Gentling approaches and techniques can be easily ...