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What to Expect From Virtual Addiction Treatment

Gateway Foundation

Addiction treatment plays a critical role for those with substance use disorders, but only a small percentage of individuals who need treatment receive it. Common barriers to in-person treatment include a lack of nearby providers or facilities and the inability to leave home due to family or job-related duties. Experts In Addiction.

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Stories of Life-Changing Connections: Mental Health Support, Family Reunification, Foster Care and Adoption

KVC

We celebrate the inspiring ways children and adults have healed from serious challenges like strained family relationships, mental health needs, addiction, loneliness and hopelessness. Storytelling’s power is why, each year, KVC Health Systems holds a Story Contest. We received many entries to our 2022 Story Contest.

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Maine’s child welfare providers produce a "framework" for false consensus

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

In particular, the recommendations on family resource centers run by agencies other than Landry’s agency, the Office of Child and Family Services, increasing the availability in rural areas of buprenorphine, a treatment for opioid addiction, and, especially, more affordable housing.

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News Items – February 3, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Allison Carpenter is a member: [Video] Library partners with Family Service Rochester to add social worker. It’s been about two months since Family Resource Center and the Rochester Public Library have teamed up to hire an in-house social worker for the library. Women’s Health.

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News Items – March 3, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Social workers have been finding shelter for homeless covid patients, providing treatment for people with addiction disorders made more challenging by pandemic-related social isolation, and comforting bereaved family members who have lost loved ones to the twin epidemics of covid and opioids. St Louis Today.

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The Illinois “Public Guardian’s” big little lie

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The story in question is about the fact that foster youth are trapped in psychiatric hospitals and juvenile jails because the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has no place to put them. The claim is particularly damaging now in Illinois. So Golbert’s false statement is not trivial.

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News Items – January 13, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Walter “Allen” Pittinger-Dunham, a licensed clinical social worker and certified addictions counselor who served since 2018 as Clinical Director of the Anacostia-based behavioral health and community development organization Inner City Family Services while also operating a D.C. The Washington Blade. 4 of unknown causes.