Relias

AUGUST 22, 2022

It’s hard being a human services worker. Let’s take a few minutes to understand these challenges and how human services professionals can work to overcome them. Challenges a human services worker will face. In today’s healthcare world, we have shifted to person-centered, well-informed consumer of services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Part one of NCCPR’s news and commentary year in review for 2023 America’s massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. That’s why we’ve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove” anything.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The fundamental fact of American “child welfare” is that if you’re not white and affluent the system will discriminate against you. That’s not unique to “child welfare” of course, but the field seems to be “in denial” about it to an extraordinary degree.) The phrase, of course, is “ best interests of the child.”

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Famcare

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the United States, there are around 328,120 child welfare employees. However, given the rising number of cases of child abuse and neglect, as well as the demanding nature of the job, it's reasonable to state that there is a severe shortage of child and family social workers in the United States.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! Get ready to learn how you or others can take advantage of KVC’s child and family services. It’s important to note that KVC does not have the same mix of services in each state.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of child welfare and mental health nationally.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

In each of those periods, the child welfare system saw a significant increase in the number of children moved into foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed. However, there is some hope in the form of federal assistance for the child welfare system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

More than a year ago Philadelphia passed a law prohibiting the city’s family policing agency, the Department of Human Services, from doing this. All over the country, states and localities have been swiping Social Security Survivor and Disability benefits to which some foster youth are entitled.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. But there are few consequences for wrongly removing children from their homes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Alan Dettlaff, was invited by the Child Welfare League of America, a trade association whose members include agencies paid for each day they hold children in foster care, to write the forward for an issue of one of their journals. And here’s still another study showing that the best “preventive service” is cash.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Twenty years ago, Penn Law Professor (and NCCPR Board Member) Dorothy Roberts changed the landscape of “child welfare” when she literally wrote the book on racial bias in family policing: Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. will be the keynote speakers at this free virtual conference on April 27. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

The family police agency, the state Department of Human Services, responded with a lie – purely by accident, they say. At this point, it’s worth noting that the Hawaii Department of Human Services has a total budget of nearly $3.8 I haven’t seen the text, I don’t know if they remembered to say “please.”)

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Famcare

MARCH 16, 2023

How we care for the most vulnerable among us is one of the great challenges of our time. As Mahatma Ghandi once said, “A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.” And social workers are hard-pressed to find one group in more dire need of urgent attention than children at risk of neglect or abuse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of child welfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy.

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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The primary goal of the project is to determine whether the “Breakthrough Parenting Curriculum: Navigating Trauma Across Generations (BPC)”— a trauma-informed parenting intervention — is effective at promoting child, parent, and family wellbeing among underserved families at-risk for involvement with the child welfare system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

They wonder if an artificial intelligence tool that the Allegheny County Department of Human Services uses to predict which children could be at risk of harm singled them out because of their disabilities. Most notable is who wrote the latest paper: The lawyers who represent children in “child welfare” cases in New York City.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

Roberts discusses her book, and racism in child welfare with Marc Lamont Hill And here with Ali Velshi on MSNBC: ? It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some “child welfare” agency announcing an initiative that supposedly will make family policing kinder and gentler. Velshi refers to Prof.

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Famcare

OCTOBER 9, 2022

For those working in child services, an understanding of family situations is vital in being able to help improve child welfare. Fortunately for those agencies, utilizing the right social services software can help streamline processes and effectively “humanize” the various situations.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

For the Donlins, their nightmare at the hands of the family police, known in Iowa as the Department of Human Services, consisted of eight months of hypersurveillance and an attempt to take away their young children. It may well have begun because their second child was born just a little too soon – and definitely in the wrong state.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

This gathering, which drew child welfare administrators and practitioners from across the nation, was a crucial platform for discussing the opportunities and challenges presented by the new, flexible licensing standards issued by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in September 2023. million views.

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Michigan Girl's Café

MARCH 8, 2019

Careers in Human Services (2015) by Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD is a comprehensive occupational guidebook that contains 25 chapters describing specific fields of interest in the human services. as well as relevant skills and abilities in the physical and human environment.

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inSocialWork

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Suggestions for individuals interested in research addressing social justice in the child welfare system are provided. Her research focuses on social justice in the child welfare system, and ways that organizational and policy contexts can affect practice in child welfare and other human services settings.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 1, 2023

It’s the same false claim, ignoring the same caveats from the same data source, that misled Kentucky media for years: The “We’re #1 in child abuse!” But, hey, why spoil a great narrative that will “raise awareness” of child abuse, with inconvenient facts? If anything, this kind of misuse of data is even worse in Maine.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

has achieved national accreditation through COA Accreditation, a service of Social Current. is a child welfare agency that works to end the cycle of child abuse and neglect through comprehensive and community-based services for children and families at risk and in need. Shelter, Inc. Shelter, Inc.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A Trump Administration official explained that even if they were wrong to take them from their parents in the first place, if they tried to find them and return them now it would “present grave child welfare concerns. … It would destabilize the permanency of their existing home environment, and could be traumatic to the children.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. Source: U.S.

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Famcare

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Everyone is turning to technology solutions, from businesses to government agencies and non-profit social services. Non-profit organizations, including child welfare, juvenile justice, and senior services, have all adopted case management software in recent years, particularly software designed specifically for the human services sector.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 25, 2022

At the national level, Wood has volunteered her time as a member of the Child Welfare Specialty Practice Section committee. Wood has worked in the human services and social work field for about 30 years, primarily in residential treatment, group home, and foster care environments.

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Famcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

If you're a member of this sizable workforce, you are well aware of the difficulties faced by those who work in the nation's human services. It's never been more challenging to serve the people with a big number of individuals in need of your help, a growing workload, and a slow rate of growth among new employees.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

People who have had their children taken away by a discriminatory child welfare system that targets Black neighborhoods for family separation do not have reproductive freedom. The brief focuses on how ICWA is the gold standard of “child welfare” for all children, not just Native American children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Amid all the concern over children in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems forced to endure makeshift placements — some even shipped more than a thousand miles away — Michigan has lost sight of the real causes of the problem.

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Shelter, Inc

JULY 18, 2023

Simone brings over fifteen years of fund development and philanthropic innovation, primarily in human services and child welfare. Shelter, Inc. is thrilled to welcome Simone Wheeler as our new Development Director.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

KVC has a track record of serving children with the most complex needs and for solving states’ health and human service agency challenges with innovation. Jason Hooper, President and CEO of KVC Health Systems KVC Missouri is part of KVC Health Systems, a family of nonprofits leading the way in mental health and child welfare.

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Social Work Futures

MARCH 15, 2023

The future of social welfare A gym for your feelings? How Denmark’s welfare state became a surveillance nightmare. Making the social welfare stat fit for the future: Commission launches new EU high-level group is an overview of how the EU is exploring and planning for the future of “social care” systems evolution.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Have you noticed how the writing of “child welfare” establishment types sounds more frantic lately? Sarah Lorr’s new article about pervasive family police discrimination against disabled families, reviewed here (with a link to the full article) by Prof. Josh Gupta-Kagan. I have a blog post about it. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

. ● In Hawaii, Honolulu Civil Beat reports, The estate of a 6-year-old Waimanalo girl who died from alleged abuse in perhaps the most notorious child welfare cases in recent Hawaii history is suing her adoptive parents and the state for gross negligence.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Chapters examine distinct content areas, such as child welfare, aging, the climate crisis, and forced migration. 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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