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MARCH 5, 2024

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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Human Services Telehealth Communication Disability 52

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Motivational Interviewing is an important technique in the field of behavior change and therapeutic communication. Miller and Stephen Rollnick, motivational interviewing has evolved into a widely adopted approach for facilitating positive changes in individuals. What is motivational interviewing?

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Interviewing Empathy Communication Adoption 52

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

By acknowledging and respecting the client’s current stage, behavioral health professionals can adopt appropriate communication strategies. Motivational interviewing , a technique aligned with the Stages of Change, can be particularly beneficial in eliciting clients’ motivations and enhancing their commitment to change.

Interventional 93

Interventional Communication Psychology Empathy 93

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services Trends in Foster Care and Adoption, FFY 2011-2020 Using the same limited measures, OPEGA suggests that child abuse deaths in June 2021 didn’t have much effect, since investigations didn’t increase. Source: U.S. isn’t reassuring. Caseworkers themselves understand.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Interviewing 98

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APRIL 28, 2023

A trauma-informed approach to birth trauma To help your clients cope with and overcome the effects of birth trauma, it’s important that your organization adopt a trauma-informed approach to care. The goal of trauma-informed care (TIC) is to prevent traumatization, or re-traumatization.

PTSD 52

PTSD Adoption Treatment Planning Psychology 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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.

Child Welfare 66

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 66

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. Among the enormous harms of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is a dramatic escalation in the number of times children’s rights to their parents are terminated.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Self-harm 104