Relias

AUGUST 23, 2022

For those working in human services, compassion fatigue and the associated symptoms of burnout occur all too often. Caring for clients going through trauma or who have difficult living conditions can have adverse effects on staff’s mental health. Trauma is always defined by the individual.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

They argue that organizations that prioritize self-care for social work and human services staff are more likely to improve client care and productivity. Policies that adopted surrounding these tenets can increase morale, greater leadership within staff, and deepen an agency’s ability to improve client care.

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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. As students of social work or other human services professions, it is essential that we understand how economic well-being—or the lack thereof—shapes people’s lives.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Prior to 2020, the field of social work was limited in its adoption of digital practice. However, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional, in-person service delivery was dramatically interrupted. 43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals by Gerald V.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

It’s when organizations are adaptable and trauma-informed and adopt a culture that fosters resilience within their staff. Resilience is particularly helpful when working with behavioral health clients because it mitigates the impacts of trauma and prevents burnout. What is organizational resilience?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

courts adopted a rule requiring balance of harms, entries into foster care decreased sharply. In this case, she wrote, From the point of court involvement to the final hearing, the respondent-mother made immense progress toward the goals laid out by [the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services] in her agency treatment plan.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This could, in part, be due to the longstanding cultural separation of the mind and the body, and thus mental health and physical health, in Western medicine. Caring for an individual’s holistic health has only begun to gain widespread acceptance and adoption within the last several decades.

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Social Workers Speak

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Charles Palmer was a member: Charles Palmer, who led Iowa Department of Human Services for 16 years, dies at age 82. Charles “Chuck” Palmer, who was director of Iowa’s Department of Human Services for 16 years, died Sunday. Des Moines Register. He was 82 and lived in Des Moines.

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Relias

APRIL 6, 2022

Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit American shores in early 2020, mental health experts have worried about its potential effects on those they serve — and with good reason. Measures like social distancing necessary to preserve our physical health took a toll on our mental well-being.

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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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Relias

JANUARY 25, 2024

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

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Relias

JANUARY 24, 2024

By adopting a trauma-informed perspective, juvenile justice systems and organizations can address immediate legal concerns but also foster healing, resilience, and positive transformation for young people engaged in the juvenile justice system. Behavioral health professionals usually conduct these types of assessments.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Organizations adopt care coordination to improve health outcomes and reduce the financial cost of treatments by streamlining care delivery and reducing or eliminating redundancies in care. Members assigned to this high-risk category are assigned a care coordinator, which is often paid for by the payer/health plan.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. One summary, in its entirely states: A parent had significant mental health issues and the inability to protect the children from domestic violence. His hiring is, frankly, inexplicable.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But also shortly after birth, her aunt and uncle, Tige and Karen Nishimoto came forward and said they wanted to adopt the girl. We don’t know why, but we do know this: An evaluation from the Oregon Department of Human Services, described the child as “white – no cultural issues.” Yet somehow, A.N. Well – two other states anyway.

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