Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A 2015 study by Oxford Brookes University for the DfE identified 35 consortia or partnerships involved in commissioning care placements, encompassing the majority of councils. A model for this sort of change is provided by the creation of regional adoption agencies (RAAs) over the past seven years.

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Jaeran Kim

OCTOBER 18, 2018

I’m guest editing a special issue of Adoption Quarterly with Bibiana Koh. Special Issue of Adoption Quarterly: Ethics and Adoption. . Adoption Quarterly invites abstract submissions for consideration in a special issue critically examining the intersection of ethics and adoption. adoption. .

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Jaeran Kim

MARCH 12, 2024

Faculty Fellows in Community Engagement – University of Washington Tacoma Office of Community Partnerships Summary of Project: SAMM is a series of activities aimed at supporting and growing peer mentorship communities for youth and adults with lived adoption histories. Link to the official webpage at University of Washington Tacoma.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Tomorrow, on “National Adoption Day, who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals? It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

Now, child welfare leader KVC Health Systems and graduate students at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas are working together to unlock the power of data analytics for the state’s most vulnerable children – those served by the child welfare system. About Emporia State University. Learn more at www.kvc.org.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Barriers to implementation Participants reported challenges and barriers to adoption and implementation of digital safeguarding at both national and local level. Image: Dzmitry/Adobe Stock Addressing these requires policy changes and for the government to adopt a digital safeguarding approach.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

It was created in the wake of the scandal surrounding former foster parent, group home operator (and Penn State football coach) Jerry Sandusky , so the University could show that no one, no one , was going to be tougher on child abuse than Penn State. What’s the difference between adoption and those other options? A report by Prof.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

However, critics within the profession have long raised concerns about the lack of attention and resources directed at other routes into social work, particularly university courses. The fast-track social work training scheme has been funded by the government, and championed by a succession of ministers, since its inception in 2013.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

The magazine covered the gamut of social work and social care including child protection, adoption, mental health and services for disabled and older people. Before he began his degree in social studies at Durham University, he took a gap year. On 3 April 1974, the first ever issue of Community Care was published.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Saturday marked a tragic milestone – the 25 th anniversary of a law that has harmed millions of children, the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. Sarah Katz, director of the Family Law Litigation Clinic at Temple University, in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “A federal law has been destroying families for 25 years.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

But, thanks in part to Sarah Font of the Penn State University “Child Maltreatment Solutions Network” (or, as it should be called the Penn State University Penance Institute ) , I have a new theory. Similarly, “permanency” sounds like permanence – but often it is not; not when it is defined as adoption and only adoption.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

They have not made a proactive choice to become a foster carer or adopter, but find themselves in a situation, not of their own choosing, but wishing to safeguard a child they love. This is in a context where more children are leaving care under special guardianship orders than adoption. This excludes many. This needs to change.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On this Saturday - “National Adoption Day” - who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals? It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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Child Welfare Welfare Adoption Foster Care 98

The Guardian

JULY 22, 2022

My friend John Small, who has died aged 74, was a social worker who rose to be deputy director of social services at the London borough of Hackney before returning to his native Jamaica to work as a lecturer at the University of the West Indies. Continue reading.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

On this Saturday - “National Adoption Day” - who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals. It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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International Federation of Social Workers

DECEMBER 10, 2022

74 years have passed since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 1948, following the Second World War, as a basis for freedom, justice […].

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

Through in-home family strengthening services, foster care, adoption, mental health treatment, disability services, and children’s mental health hospitals, we’re giving people hope and helping children and families thrive. Thanks to our team and supporters, KVC positively impacts approximately 75,000 people’s lives every year.

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The event was sponsored by The Silver School of Social Work at New York University and the University of Buffalo School of Social Work, in addition to the Crown School. The recent tragic mass shooting in Lewistown, Maine , once again focused the nation’s attention on the growing menace of guns and firearms in the United States.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Katie Eklund discusses the use of universal screening scores to predict distal academic and behavioral outcomes among school-aged youth. academic skill curriculum-based measurement scores) to increase the likelihood of universal screener adoption. Lane, Carter, Pierson, & Glaeser, 2006). von der Embse, N.,

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

By Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW Chad Lassiter, MSW This fall, I have returned to the classroom as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and West Chester University and, as I have done so, I’m faced with students eager to become social workers. Bach said she wanted to help. Our students must learn that help has a difficult history.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

While agile working was received positively when it involved adequate desk space, spaces for quite and concentrated work and good access to peer support, this was rare, found the research by social work academics at the University of Dundee and Glasgow Caledonian University. Stress and lack of peer support.

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Jaeran Kim

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Each year University of Washington Tacoma invites faculty to present on their research and I was fortunate to be asked to participate in this year’s Lightening Talk. These are very short presentations (5 minutes!) with timed slides.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The programme aims to support the adoption of digital technologies in the adult social care sector. Alongside this, funding support continues to be available through the digitising social care programme for the adoption of digital social care record solutions (DSCR). [Image created by freepik.com ] What is the fund designed to achieve?

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Social Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Here are some other self-care messages we encourage you to adopt and promote during Self Care Week: Take vitamin D supplements, particularly important as daylight hours decrease Maintain good nutrition and regular exercise to support general wellbeing and help maximize people’s immunity. Get involved and find out more Why not join us?

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

We have recommended that there needs to be a bespoke IRO role and service and that the government should set up and finance a national, fixed-term ‘supervision orders support fund’, akin to the adoption support fund.” Judith Harwin is professor in socio-legal studies, School of Law, Lancaster University.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Drawing on previous studies, it highlighted the challenges for social workers and other practitioners in balancing building a respectful and supportive relationship with parents with adopting a critical and investigative stance.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yolanda has also worked for the Foster Care & Adoptive Services Division where she provided oversight and support to foster parents, conducted training for kinship providers, facilitated support groups, licensed kinship foster homes and relicensed foster homes. This organization encourages, inspires, and empowers women to get active.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

But in this webinar, from the University of Baltimore School of Law, you can see what primary prevention should be all about. ? That’s what they’ve done with the concept of “primary prevention” – turning it into another excuse to load families down with meaningless “counseling” and “parenting education.”

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 22, 2022

IASSW has convened a Task Force of thought leaders to develop ways to support the adoption of the standards as a framework for social work education across the globe. The revised Global Standards were launched at various workshops, webinars and seminars.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In the case of Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, they didn’t just ignore what family policing was doing to families, they spent decades actively undermining efforts to keep families together – including leading efforts to deny the role of racial bias. Today (Nov. The report's author, Hina Naveed, will discuss it at a webinar on Nov.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Robert Latham, associate director at the Children & Youth Law Clinic of the University of Miami Law School, who wrote this on his excellent Blog: And lest you think this law has no teeth, the law prevents admission of any statement made by a parent without the notice being given. So we turn for analysis to Prof.

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Shelter, Inc

JULY 18, 2023

Simone most recently served as VP Development at The Cradle, a recognized leader in infant adoption, where she successfully developed and implemented a fundraising plan to drive sustainable growth. Originally from London, England, Simone has a bachelor’s degree in German & Russian from Leeds University.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Find out more from the contextual safeguarding team based at Durham University, headed by Firmin. ” Principles for reducing risk of violence The report set out 10 principles for reducing the risk of serious youth violence, which it urged agencies in Croydon to adopt.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

There’s still more about the harm of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ● Shanta Trivedi, director of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts at the University of Baltimore explains why "The Adoption and Safe Families Act is Not Worth Saving: The Case for Repeal."

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Our resources focus on important carers’ rights that are almost universal – including the right to an assessment, eligibility for a free flu jab, asking GP practices to identify them as carers, and the right to be identified and consulted before a relative is discharged from hospital. Image created by freepik.com ]. The business case.

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Social Work Awards

AUGUST 16, 2023

Categories include returning favourites like Team Leader of the Year and the Lifetime Achievement Award, and new additions like University Social Work Lecturer of the Year and Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) of the Year.

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