School Social Work and Child Abuse

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. This is another difficult topic to discuss in many ways; however it is important for us to call attention to it. According to ChildHelp.org:

• Every year, more than 4 million referrals are made to child protection agencies involving more than 4.3 million children (a referral can include multiple children).
• The United States has one of the worst records among industrialized nations – losing on average 5 children every day to child abuse and neglect.
• In 2019 alone, state agencies found over 656,000 victims of child maltreatment.

For this episode we spoke to Tabatha Ferrer aka Queen T  who is a Licensed Social Worker. She is a school social worker and the founder of The 4AIR Project, LLC. The mission of her organization is to curate mental health and wellness spaces for youth to be educated on mental health, become more aware of their wellness and learn skills to manage daily challenge. 

If you have questions about mandated reporting in your state usually each state offers a free training on mandated reporting. It is a hard call to make whether to call a case in or not however, we have to think of the safety of the child at all times. 

Thank you for listening to this episode. You can find Tabatha on IG @the4airproject. And as you all know you can follow us on IG @thequeensofsocialwork.