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6 Principles of Trauma-Informed Care

Relias

3 – Peer support and self-help Support from others with similar experiences is important, especially for individuals from marginalized communities. Building a trauma-informed organization and practice After integrating a trauma-informed approach into your own work, you may be ready to help others adopt this approach.

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Anger Management Strategies for Children: How to Deescalate Your Angry Child

Psychological Health Care

Some children, particularly those who have anxiety, or who may have a developmental disability such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Autism Spectrum Disorder, can experience more frequent and severe outbursts of anger. This empowers your child to develop self-regulation skills and problem-solving abilities over time.

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Enhancing Patient Safety in Nursing: Strategies and Practices

Relias

According to research from Johns Hopkins University , nearly 800,000 Americans become permanently disabled or die due to a misdiagnosis every year. Patient safety was defined by the Institute of Medicine two decades ago simply as “ the prevention of harm to patients.” Medical errors are a healthcare professional’s worst nightmare.

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From the people who brought you AFST: The most dangerous "child welfare" algorithm yet

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. As is so often the case with these algorithms, they are less prediction than self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Analysis of Drake et al. “Racial/Ethnic Differences in Child Protective Services Reporting, Substantiation and Placement, With Comparison to Non-CPS Risks and Outcomes: 2005–2019”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Here’s what they write: Some may argue that because all harm indicators included here (e.g., Two of them, Sarah Font and Emily Putnam-Hornstein, are part of a group that did indeed send a letter – a letter rushing to the defense of a self-proclaimed “race realist” law professor who pals around with Tucker Carlson. On the contrary.

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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. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.