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Five Ways to Improve Your Juvenile Justice Services

Famcare

Working in juvenile justice is a difficult task. Case managers in juvenile justice frequently face unfathomable work pressure, a plethora of children's criminal justice guidelines to follow, and a harsh system to deal with. Take a look and start the journey towards betterment today.

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Juvenile Justice.Case Closed

Famcare

Juvenile Justice caseworkers manage cases for "best case" outcomes and "case closed" status. When they are assigned a client, the case worker monitors and supports that youth from their first offense through juvenile court, detentions and residential or other out-of-home placements.

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Massachusetts pilots the most promising reform in child welfare. Guess who’s trying to undercut it.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The Massachusetts Legislature needs to step in and provide the funding to make the approach taken by the Family Preservation Project available in every case. What kind of cases does the program see? In Cara’s case, DCF never should have come to the door. She also abused prescription opioids and had mental health issues.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Feb. 1, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

As Kate Knibbs puts it in her review for Wired: “This closeness to reality is what turns the book’s emotional gut punch into a full knockout wallop. A mother reading it doesn’t close the book, sigh, and think, Thank god the world’s not really like this. No, she closes it and knows she must be very careful.” Emphasis added].

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What do you do when you’ve institutionalized children as young as age 7 in a place that was the subject of a “cascade of complaints” alleging abuse? If you’re New Hampshire, you give ‘em a $9.8 million contract, of course!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Most of all, it’s a story about foster-care panic – about what happens when a state family policing agency, in this case, the Division for Children, Youth and Families , responds to a high-profile tragedy with a sharp sudden increase in removals of children from their homes. Jake apparently was a juvenile justice placement. (We

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The English legal system in relation to social work practice

The Critical Blog

law that is made by the Judge through cases). Legal Jurisdiction Legal Jurisdiction is defined as the extent of power to make legal decisions and judgements within a defined geographical area The Courts in England and Wales have legal jurisdiction to try case in relation to offences committed in the UK.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 5, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

of Justice is investigating claim a. Theresa Moser, a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society of New York’s juvenile rights practice - which represents children in these cases -- told The Imprint why such a law is needed. claiming they’re not biased and b. Well, the U.S.