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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

Relias

Domestic violence. For behavioral health specialists, a safety plan can help to open lines of communication with a client and provide a template on how you and your client can check in with one another. Domestic violence and safety planning. Creating a domestic violence safety plan.

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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

Relias

Domestic violence. For behavioral health specialists, a safety plan can help to open lines of communication with a client and provide a template on how you and your client can check in with one another. Domestic violence and safety planning. Creating a domestic violence safety plan.

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Addressing Trauma and Abuse in Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Relias

Individuals who are non-verbal or need assistance with communication are often not able to report abuse, or if they do, they are often not considered to be reliable sources. Perhaps more unfortunately, many abuse response organizations – whether domestic violence shelters or abuse hotlines – are not accessible to people with disabilities.

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In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

As the story explains: The system that promises to monitor these facilities and protect children from abuse often devalues the child’s perspective of what happened — communicating to them time and time again that they are untrustworthy and unbelievable. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them. That’s where Arabella died.

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News Items – September 30, 2021

Social Workers Speak

Victor Armstrong is the first chief health equity officer at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Jennifer FitzPatrick is a member: How to Communicate with Frontline Staff at Your Loved One’s Long-Term Care Facility. The Charlotte Observer. They hope to train 160 students through the program. You are dumb.