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How equipped is children’s social work for digital safeguarding?

Community Care

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding.

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KVC Health Systems Ranks in Top 1% of Employers Nationwide with 77 Work Wellbeing Score

KVC

This began a shift to reclaim the values-driven culture of KVC’s early days, creating a highly engaged, exceptional place to work. Learn more about work wellbeing and engagement, how KVC has created a positive, supportive culture, and how that culture benefits employees, clients, and supporters alike.

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Social Worker Home Visit Checklist to Take Note Of

Social Work Haven

This is why many agencies and local authorities have adopted standardised social worker home visit checklists. Moreover, clients without internet access or a computer may struggle to effectively communicate with their case manager or other social workers, potentially leading to misunderstandings or missed opportunities for support.

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Ultimate Social Work Intervention Strategies

Social Work Haven

Typically, assessments are perspectives constructed at a particular time and place, and include the following elements (Parker, 2013): Preparation , planning , and engagement involve working with the individual requiring support to introduce the need to perform an assessment and agree on how the social worker will carry it out.

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A Helpful Guide to KVC’s Mental Health and Child Welfare Services in Kansas and Missouri

KVC

Or, if you’re not looking for services, learn how you can join KVC as an advocate, volunteer, financial supporter, event sponsor, foster or adoptive parent, or even team member. Your support helps us achieve our vision: to create a world in which every person is safe and connected to a strong family and a healthy community.

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What Care Coordination Is and How To Implement It

Relias

Organizations adopt care coordination to improve health outcomes and reduce the financial cost of treatments by streamlining care delivery and reducing or eliminating redundancies in care. In these scenarios, a care coordinator can: Communicate between multiple providers within the continuum of care, especially with a primary care physician.

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A Day in the Life of a Social Worker

KVC

KVC case managers Victoria Clark, Dalton Shump, and Micah McEwan all work for the Olathe, Kansas office, where they coordinate and support the day-to-day needs of children and teens in foster care and their families. I was adopted myself and have my own personal background with the foster care system. Dalton Shump.