Relias

JULY 5, 2023

In each of those periods, the child welfare system saw a significant increase in the number of children moved into foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed. However, there is some hope in the form of federal assistance for the child welfare system.

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Famcare

JUNE 15, 2023

It’s 2023, and despite the reluctance of social services to adopt technology, many have finally broken the ice with tech. If you work in a social service field such as veteran service, child welfare, juvenile justice, or mental health provider, it’s about time you embark on the digitization journey.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work. This one takes on what may be the most dangerous phrase in the family policing lexicon: “best interests of the child.” That’s why he’s no longer the dean. (He He continues as a professor.) I have a blog post about it.

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

As of July 2023, KVC Health Systems ranks High or Above Average in 14 of the 15 categories. This means KVC is outperforming its peers in child welfare and mental health, its peers in healthcare more broadly, and even most for-profit companies across all sectors.

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KVC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

KVC hosts this event every October to thank the generous supporters who have enabled the nonprofit organization to strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help people achieve mental health wellness. During this time, KVC Health Systems’ nearly 1,500 team members across the U.S.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices. In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes.

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

New Research: LGBTQIA+ Youth Mental Health & How You Can Help. A shocking 42% of LGBTQ youth considered suicide in the last year, and 70% of LGBTQ youth reported poor mental health throughout most of the pandemic. Meet Children Who Need Loving, Adoptive Forever Families. Read it now. Read it now. Read it now.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Social workers are helping to address the impact that the pandemic has had on children’s mental health. As I listened to global social work leaders during the event, I was inspired by the reports of social work’s vital role in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by all United Nations member states in 2015.

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

Now, child welfare leader KVC Health Systems and graduate students at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas are working together to unlock the power of data analytics for the state’s most vulnerable children – those served by the child welfare system.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

The 12th edition of Social Work Speaks is a comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly in 2020. Chapters examine distinct content areas, such as child welfare, aging, the climate crisis, and forced migration. Currently, about 5.4

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

For more than 50 years, KVC Health Systems has provided heart-centered service to children and families. These services strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental health wellness. KVC Health Systems.

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Social Workers Speak

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Michigan agencies seek strategies to address child welfare worker shortage. However, the state is currently facing what one industry leader described as a “critical shortage” of child welfare workers. Jill Johnson-Young is a member: 11 Mental Health Resources For the LGBTQ+ Community That Will Help You Feel Seen.

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KVC

JUNE 16, 2022

Mental health can pose many challenges for young people, and the statistics are particularly startling for LGBTQIA+ youth. Rejection and trauma are heartbreaking for a child and can negatively impact their brain development , mental health and their long-term wellbeing. Watch for Mental Health Warning Signs.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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Relias

AUGUST 22, 2022

Compassion fatigue/burnout/emotionally draining work – We see these issues arising more and more , especially when working in child welfare, with a high cost/complex population of individuals with multiple chronic conditions.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Reporters can identify with foster parents – they probably know some, or at least have friends who do – or if not that, then they may have friends who adopted a foster child. So birth parents become, at best, nonentities, at worst those awful people their foster or adoptive parent friends told them about.

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Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

He said the expanded law wasn’t supposed to make police determine the state of someone’s mental health. Yvonne Chase is president-elect of NASW: Child’s death, other breakdowns raise questions for DFCS. We can also use the financial aid to increase the mental health and addiction workforce shortage.”. CSL Behring.

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Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In my work as a psychotherapist , I often share a pie chart with my patients that illustrates six vital elements of wellness: health, relationships, security, purpose, environment, and community. Laura Gomez-Horton is a member of NASW-TX: Travis County commissioners approve contracts for behavioral health services. The Texas Tribune.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

In social work, various articles cover topics such as social work articles on mental health, social work articles on domestic violence, social work articles on learning disabilities, medical social work articles, school social work articles and clinical social work articles. Social Work in Mental Health Settings” by Kevin J.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

If you are in another state, please contact your nearest state child welfare agency office. If you’re not called to be a foster parent, but you still want to use your personal resources to help a child in foster care, attending or sponsoring our events are great options. Attend or Sponsor a KVC Event. Hero Luncheon .

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KVC

MAY 19, 2023

She was adopted, but the family was not able to stay together. Robin’s Early Childhood and Adoption In 1988, Robin was born in the historic city of Philadelphia. This federal law allocates millions of dollars to mental health and substance use treatment services to help families like Robin’s remain safely together.

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Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 6, 2022

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) reached a potential news audience of more than 250 million readers in December, thanks partly to coverage of the Kentucky governor announcing pay raises for social workers, mention of NASW in a People magazine on adult adoption, and an op-ed on the drug syringe program in New Jersey.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: This conference is devoted to the Human Rights Day (every year on 10 December) — the day when the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Child Welfare. Inequality, Poverty, and Social Welfare Policy. Mental Health. Disability.

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KVC

APRIL 10, 2023

KVC’s Role in Child Abuse Prevention KVC Health Systems is dedicated to the well-being of our community’s children, teens, and families. Our team provides compassionate care through mental health treatment , in-home family support , foster care, adoption and children’s mental health hospitals.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

Stories from WFAA-TV and KDFW-TV answer that question: ● In 2022, the Kentucky family police took away a child from grandparents who just needed help to handle his behavioral problems. In 2024, the Kentucky family police agency took away a child whose adoptive parents just needed help to cope with her behavioral problems.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Or will they uphold their commitments to child safety through family preservation? -- Based on her extensive research Prof. 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A Trump Administration official explained that even if they were wrong to take them from their parents in the first place, if they tried to find them and return them now it would “present grave child welfare concerns. … It would destabilize the permanency of their existing home environment, and could be traumatic to the children.”

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