social work

Lambda Legal, in collaboration with the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), today announced two projects to build the capacity, awareness and skills of social workers and other child welfare professionals serving LGBTQ youth living out of home in foster care, juvenile justice centers, and homeless shelters.

Structured Analysis Family Evaluation [S.A.F.E.] is a home study methodology that was designed to evaluate families for adoption, foster care licensure, concurrent planning, and relative placement. SAFE is built upon social work practice values that stress the importance of engaging families in a mutual evaluation process that strives to include families, not exclude.