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7 Ways To Improve Your Human Services Organization

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Human services organizations constantly have to navigate change. To help health and human service organizations get ahead, we’re sharing action items based on current trends in human services. Some temporary regulatory measures that made telehealth adoption easier during the pandemic have now faded away.

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Myth-making in Maine

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Unfortunately, Maine’s equivalent of the federal Government Accountability Office, the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability (OPEGA) did indeed fall for it in a report released last week. The report claims that parents have the right to refuse to let their children be interviewed. Source: U.S.

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In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

More than half the time the child who disclosed the abuse was not even interviewed by those charged with investigating the allegation. FAMILY FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE HOMES Arabella McCormack and her sisters were taken from their mother because they witnessed domestic violence. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them.

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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.

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In Oregon white middle-class foster parents try to play the bonding card to prevent relatives from taking custody of their Asian-American niece

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The foster parents in this case didn’t do anything illegal – in fact the placement was authorized by a government agency, and the foster parents probably have the best of intentions. But also shortly after birth, her aunt and uncle, Tige and Karen Nishimoto came forward and said they wanted to adopt the girl. Yet somehow, A.N.