Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker. Smith was taken into care as a baby, spending the first 11 years of his life in a foster home before those same carers adopted him. “I had a really positive experience of social workers,” he says.

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Social Worker Diversity Government Adoption 275

Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

There are twice as many children in kinship care in the UK than there are in foster care, yet this type of care remains largely invisible – to the public and policymakers, but often to professionals too. But to achieve this there needs to be a strategic plan to develop properly resourced kinship care services.

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Adoption Social Worker Foster Care Healthcare 312

KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

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. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

Child Welfare 52

Child Welfare Foster Care Adoption Community Outreach 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Adoption 114