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The State of Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training and What it Means for Your Staff

Relias

have grown considerably, leading many experts to worry about a potential rise in crisis situations such as suicidal ideation, overdoses, and domestic violence. The majority of human services staff was unaware of 988, the new national number for suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis response. Roles and Expertise.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

She is wrong about domestic violence, she is wrong about truancy, she is wrong about “alternative response,” she is wrong about false reports and she is wrong to call for more institutionalization of children. Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services.

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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. Four University of North Texas professors hope to use federal dollars to provide counseling for bilingual Americans who have experienced trauma. The Charlotte Observer. Denton Record-Chronicle (TX).

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

This has resulted in a fixation on clinical services and proprietary models rather than proactive family support. The practice of taking children from survivors of domestic violence was curbed in New York City thanks to a successful lawsuit. See also the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law , where Prof.