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Update: Nursing Home Visitation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social Work Blog

According to an alert by the Center for Medicare Advocacy (hereafter, the Center)—a national nonprofit organization with which NASW collaborates closely on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries—CMS stated in its December 23 FAQs: “‘The bottom line is visitation must be permitted at all times’” (para. 2021 ; Span, 2020 ).

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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

I had done mental health advocacy work on a national scale for years before beginning to work on Breakdown and was very inspired by advocates’ tragic stories. If they don’t qualify for inpatient, I can refer them to outpatient treatment programs or give them self-help material. My job is to make this happen.

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The legacy of Conservative rule for adult social care

Community Care

Alongside this, it created rights to support for carers and rights to advocacy for those who would otherwise struggle to participate in key processes, placed councils under a statutory duty to investigate adult safeguarding concerns and sought to improve the transitions process for young people.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. The Bronx Defenders is suing New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, over such a case.