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Simple Habits to Adopt for a Mentally Healthy 2023

Psychological Health Care

Forget short-lived New Year’s resolutions and rigid goal setting, instead commit to adopting some simple habits to boost your mental fitness now and well into the future. Making some changes to your routines and adopting some simple habits that you can stick with can have the power to improve your life. Embrace Mindfulness.

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How equipped is children’s social work for digital safeguarding?

Community Care

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. Image: Dzmitry/Adobe Stock Addressing these requires policy changes and for the government to adopt a digital safeguarding approach.

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Breaking Free: Navigating The Complexities Of Living With A Toxic Family

Blurt It Out

These toxic family environments can have profound effects on our mental health, shaping our emotional well-being and sense of self. Low Self-Esteem: Toxic family dynamics erode our sense of self-worth, leaving us feeling undeserving of love and respect. Pet Support : Adopt a pet to provide emotional support and companionship.

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Attn: Older foster youth: Meet the professor who thinks you need money more than love

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Font also is part of a group that rushed to defend the right of a self-proclaimed “race realist” University of Pennsylvania Law School professor to exchange rants with Tucker Carlson – without one word condemning the content of those rants. What’s the difference between adoption and those other options? Nothing surprising there.

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Highlights from a special issue of Family Court Review

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

That false narrative, pushed hardest by those who hate birth parents (and yes, that’s the right word) claims that only adoption guarantees a truly permanent home for a child removed from her or his parents. Partly that’s because adoptions sometimes fail. They also take less time to achieve than adoptions.

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?NASW Member Voices: Social Work and Self-Care — A Review Through an Updated Lens

Social Work Blog

By Violeta Donawa, LMSW, MA Dr. Kathleen Cox and Dr. Sue Steiner bring the concept of ‘self-care’ out of the shadows and demystifies its significance in the lives of social work practitioners and leaders. Throughout the Self-Care in Social Work, Cox and Steiner draw upon their extensive clinical and academic experience as social work faculty.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 5, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Landers’ research: “more than 80% of Native American people who were fostered or adopted eventually reunify.” ● In New York, a bill that would allow children continued contact with their parents even after their legal rights to those parents have been terminated has – again – been passed by the State Legislature. That lasted 11 days….