NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

One of the things that happens to children when they’re institutionalized is they are often doped up on potent, sometimes dangerous psychiatric medication. Interesting things can happen when what used to be a garden party for the “child welfare” establishment starts inviting in some skunks.

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But when she came to KVC Hospitals, she received comprehensive medical and psychiatric treatment. KVC Hospitals Kansas City is commemorating 30 years of providing compassionate psychiatric treatment to youth to help them heal. Hope is a 15-year-old girl who experienced depression and tried to end her life in multiple ways. Read it now.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

A classic example of that adage is Philadelphia’s approach to the welfare of its children. In 2016, Philadelphia closed its only juvenile psychiatric residential treatment facility — Wordsworth — after a 17-year-old died in a fight with staff.

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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. story about the overuse of psychiatric medication on kids. ? She told The Guardian: Prisons are a major impediment in the United States to reproductive freedom.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

In Los Angeles County, WitnessLA begins a multi-part in-depth series on the failure of the child welfare surveillance state with a look at battered mothers afraid to seek help because of the entirely justified fear that the family police might take away their children. NPR and The Marshall Project exposed the practice in 2021.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

From the story: In the child-welfare system, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia’s Kathleen Creamer said the city needs to double down on preventing family separations. That means there still is plenty of opportunity to free up “capacity” by not filling family foster homes with children who don’t need to be there.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

It's been nearly 50 years since the New York Daily News series "Big Money, Little Victims" exposed the power and the greed of private "child welfare" agencies, and abuse in their foster homes and institutions. And why did the CEO of the agency that runs the notorious Pleasantville Cottage School get nearly $700,000 in compensation in 2022?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Kinship placements also are safer, and kin are less likely to dope up foster children on potent psychiatric medication. That’s why federal law has a preference , albeit far too minimal a preference, for placing children with relatives. Emphasis added.] But even this is more than some Kansas lawmakers can stomach.

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

Now, child welfare leader KVC Health Systems and graduate students at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas are working together to unlock the power of data analytics for the state’s most vulnerable children – those served by the child welfare system.

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KVC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

have continued helping people with critical in-home family support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment and more. KVC also thanks and honors its essential frontline workers who courageously continued providing child welfare and mental health services to those in need.

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Psychiatric issues, including depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, and problematic substance use are more common with suicide losses compared to other types of losses. Were already experiencing psychiatric issues, such as depression, or had suicidal thoughts and behaviors prior to the death.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices. Stephenson and KVC have been on the forefront of child welfare best practices including creating trauma-informed care, reducing residential care of children, and helping children and teens grow up in families through evidence-based family strengthening and mental health services.

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The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We must be vigilant against the risk of valuing conformity, compliance and homogeneity over rights, autonomy and welfare. I frequently see professionals, with huge anxieties about a service user’s welfare or safety, attend a meeting and come out with far less anxiety, despite no change in the service user’s situation. Oxford: Berg.

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

child welfare services are provided or managed by the government agency in each state. There are more clinically trained social workers than psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric nurses combined. Social workers do NOT remove children from their homes. In the U.S., The job is not a typical 8-hour workday .

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Stop Abuse Campaign

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If someone attempts suicide, they are likely to experience a profound loss of civil rights- they can be involuntarily committed to psychiatric care for 72 hours. This implication establishes dangerously false expectations in the minds of the desperate and those desperate to help them. . Then a more extended commitment may follow.

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The Vintage Social Worker

AUGUST 2, 2022

Or indeed the terror of walking into a ward in one of the old style psychiatric hospital day rooms when you are only 10. I am also suggesting that until we understand the roots of our welfare systems better and our reliance on centuries old principles that our current care system for all sections of society will remain unfit for purpose.

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Relias

JUNE 22, 2023

It is used to treat a wide range of issues including health-related distress, family and school problems, and numerous psychiatric disorders. As noted above, anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric conditions among youth, affecting between 15-20% of children and adolescents.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If someone attempts suicide, they are likely to experience a profound loss of civil rights- they can be involuntarily committed to psychiatric care for 72 hours. This implication establishes dangerously false expectations in the minds of the desperate and those desperate to help them. Then a more extended commitment may follow.

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Michigan Girl's Café

MARCH 8, 2019

There is extensive coverage on the duties and responsibilities of social workers by practice area (child welfare, school, psychiatric, etc.) This makes me want to take a Holland Interest Test! as well as relevant skills and abilities in the physical and human environment. The second section focused on education and training.

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KVC

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Bullying Led My Daughter to Depression & Psychiatric Hospitalization: How She Achieved Mental Health Wellness [VIDEO]. Not only does it cause harm to those who are being bullied, but it can also spark bullying among other students or peers. Why Do Kids Bully? . The reasons children bully can be difficult to pinpoint.

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 18, 2022

They can be found in Indian Child Welfare, Humans Services, Behavioral Health, Housing, ONE FIRE, Health Services , Education and Sequoyah Schools, just to name a few of the departments that provide supportive services for our citizens. These dedicated workers make up a large part of our 4,300 employees.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

APRIL 26, 2023

US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, Psychopharmacology Research Branch, Division of Extramural Research Programs. Psychiatric Services, 66(6), 578–584. BMC Public Health , 20 , 879. link] Guy, W.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Antecedents to retention and turnover among child welfare, social work, and other human service employees: What can we learn from past research? Quality of publicly-funded outpatient specialty mental health care for common childhood psychiatric disorders in California. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 1050-1062.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available. Part 2: Orientation I’d been in a psychiatric hospital before, almost a year ago to the day. The woman did finally find her boyfriend, at another psychiatric hospital.) I exclaimed.

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