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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. Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? She is dangerously wrong.

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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

Relias

Domestic violence. At its most basic, safety planning is a way to help clients experiencing suicidal ideation navigate their feelings in a way that prevents self-injurious behavior. Domestic violence and safety planning. Above all, a safety plan is meant to reduce the client’s risk of harm.

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Safety Planning Checklist for You and Your Clients

Relias

Domestic violence. At its most basic, safety planning is a way to help clients experiencing suicidal ideation navigate their feelings in a way that prevents self-injurious behavior. Domestic violence and safety planning. Above all, a safety plan is meant to reduce the client’s risk of harm.

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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. A trained clinical social worker, she has seen first hand the harm of sexual assault on campus, citing the fact that many female students from UMass come to her office in Amherst for therapy.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. This has resulted in a fixation on clinical services and proprietary models rather than proactive family support.