Case Study: National Association Of Social Workers

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There are a number of implications for Social Workers who serve clients who are children involved in abuse. One implication is funding and space. Services such as Child in Youth or Halfway Houses are finding it difficult to find services to help children affected by the abuse. Services such as the Child Welfare System also acknowledge the underlying reasons of abuse such as poverty, culture, and race cannot always be fixed or helped by the agency responding to the abuse report (National Association of Social Workers, 2015).

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