Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 31, 2025
Just know that a kid’s need to be loved, admired, cared for by anyone other than their parents is often tied to the degree to which they are disconnected from their parents. That means these kids are more vulnerable to exploitation. Your connection to your kids is more protective of them than locking them up, taking away their phone, punishing them for misdeeds.
Community Care
MARCH 28, 2025
Social workers are to be allowed to opt out of the proposed assisted dying process, the legislation’s sponsor has pledged. Labour’s Kim Leadbeater has promised to work with fellow MPs to amend her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to ensure practitioners other than health professionals are allowed not to participate. While social workers were originally not part of the bill’s process for assisted dying, they have been added to it through amendments made by Leadbeater dur
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Child Welfare Monitor
MARCH 16, 2025
by Marie Cohen Recognizing implicit bias in mandated reporting training is a national focus for addressing racial inequity in child welfare. States from New York to Washington have updated their training for mandatory reporters to include implicit bias or highlight the distinction between neglect and poverty in an effort to reduce racial disparities in child welfare involvement.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 13, 2025
Courts in New York, Texas, Arizona and at least 11 other states demand that fathers control the mothers of their children, punish fathers who dont and, worst of all, deprive children of loving parents who have done them no harm. New Yorks highest court is being asked to put a stop to it. A New York City mother, known in court papers as Ms. W., used drugs during her pregnancy.
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Social Work Blog
MARCH 13, 2025
By Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW In our current societal landscape, where radical indifference often feels pervasive and insurmountable, its crucial to cultivate a sense of optimism. Despair, defined as a loss of hope, can paralyze us and render us ineffective in our fight for justice and civil rights. However, amidst these challenges, there are pathways to resilience, and historical figures such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Ida B.
Nnatasha Tracy
MARCH 13, 2025
Should doctors be allowed to medicate people with mental illness without their consent? This controversial topic sparks debate, but in emergency situations, what are the real options? Explore the ethical and practical considerations of psychiatric treatment without consent and why it might be necessary for patient safety.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 23, 2025
First came the bill that would send caseloads skyrocketing. Now, theres another well-intentioned bill that would produce horrible results. ENTRIES INTO FOSTER CARE PER THOUSAND IMPOVERISHED CHILDREN, 2022 This is what we mean by "Child Rremoval Capital of America Of all the options for placing children torn from their homes, among the very worst are so-called shelters.
Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 31, 2025
To my social work and therapist colleagues: Typically after my first meeting with people I serve, I would ask three questions: 1) What are your takeaways from our meeting? 2) What was your experience of me? 3) Is there anything I could have done differently to improve your experience? Those questions form a quick debrief. A debrief is about reflecting on the experience as opposed to discussing the content.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
MARCH 12, 2025
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 10 a.m. – 3:45 p.m.Online International Social Work Day Disability Entitled ” Care societiesfor everyone: Advancing the social rights of people living with disabilities,” the day aims to raise awareness, mobilize political actors, and devise solutions to build supportive and sustainable societies. People with disabilities, whether temporary or permanent, experience greater poverty, discrimination, and social exclusion.
Community Care
MARCH 19, 2025
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. MPs have overturned an exemption for adult social care providers from the forthcoming increase in employer national insurance contributions (NICs), in what leaders have described as a “devastating blow” to the sector. In a vote today, they rejected House of Lords amendments to the legislation introducing the NICs rise that would have exempted regulated care home and home care pr
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Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.
Children’s Defense Fund
MARCH 26, 2025
CDF-New York, 90+ Partner Organizations Sign Letter in Support of Youth Justice Innovation Fund: Proposal would help to build up critical community resources in State Budget The Innovation Fund builds on evidence showing that linking youth with community-based services reduces criminal legal system contact and promotes community safety. Media Contact: John Henry, jhenry@childrensdefense.org , CDF Media Relations Manager, 708-646-7679 NEW YORK , NY Childrens Defense Fund-New York joined 97partne
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 17, 2025
When NCCPR released a comprehensive report on Colorado child welfare in September 2023, we included a section called Tapeworm in the System. Its about Colorados love affair with the worst form of care for children group homes and institutions. At the time, we noted that, as of 2021, Colorado was using them at a rate 33% above the national average. By 2022, use of group homes had fallen, but Colorado was using the worst of the worst, institutions at a rate 40% above the national average.
Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 31, 2025
That people pleasing behavior. It’s not uncommon particularly for folks who grew up with an abusive parent. One quickly learns that if they are to survive unscathed, life may be easier appeasing versus challenging your abuser. However, kids have a way of growing up yet the strategies of surviving childhood become ingrained and are taken into adult relationships.
Social Work Blog
APRIL 1, 2025
While its common knowledge that tobacco use increases the risk of cancer, under half of Americans are aware that even low amounts of alcohol use are a leading preventable cause of at least seven types of cancer. Every year, alcohol use contributes to nearly 100,000 cancer cases and about 20,000 cancer deaths, according to a recent advisory from the former U.S.
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Children’s Defense Fund
MARCH 25, 2025
Child-serving organizations from across the state have proposed child-centered recommendations to Governor Mike DeWine and the 136th General Assembly as they deliberate on how to effectively invest in Ohios children, families, and future. Media Contact: John Henry, jhenry@childrensdefense.org , Media Relations Manager, 708-646-7679 COLUMBUS, OH The Ohio Childrens Budget Coalition (OCBC), a partnership of more than 20 organizations committed to the health and well-being of children, has released
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 12, 2025
A lawsuit alleges that a child who wandered out of his mothers home in West Virginia was placed for that reason alone -- in foster care. He wandered out of the foster home and died. I have a blog post about why this tragedy is a failure not only of West Virginia foster care but also of West Virginia journalism, with links to news accounts about the lawsuit from WTAP-TV, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel and WCHS-TV.
Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 31, 2025
They were separated about a year. Everything was at issue. The big fight was over the kids. She felt she had to respond to every disturbing email and text. She thought she had to set the record straight. It created a rabbit hole of communications over which the accusations got crazier and nastier. She learned that rather than seeking to defend herself, the less she responded, the less those communications were received.
Nicole Clark Consulting
MARCH 18, 2025
Try this out and let me know how it goes. Learning from program participants who leave? Have you ever considered this? Understanding why participants leave a program can provide valuable insights for improvement. Instead of viewing dropouts as failures, organizations can learn from them to refine program structure, engagement strategies, and outreach.
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Community Care
MARCH 26, 2025
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Over three million families will lose an average of 1,720 per year in real terms by 2029-30, as a result of proposed changes to disability and incapacity benefits, the government has estimated. This includes 370,000 people who will lose their current entitlement to the daily living allowance element of personal independence payment (PIP), said the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), in
Children’s Defense Fund
MARCH 28, 2025
Media Contact: Dr. John Stanford, State Director, Childrens Defense Fund-Ohio,jstanford@childrensdfense.org, 740-914-902 Health experts and youth experts are concerned cuts to Medicaid would jeopardize the well-being of hundreds of thousands of children in Ohio. In 2023, approximately 1.4 million Ohio children were enrolled in Medicaid, according to KIDS COUNT Ohio.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 19, 2025
West Virgina State Capitol (Photo by O. Palsson) But thats what West Virginia is likely to get if a well-meaning, but ill-thought-out proposal by one legislator becomes law. Its entirely reasonable that West Virginia Del. Adam Burkhammer is horrified by the fact that some children who are horribly abused are overlooked by the states family police agency.
CCRC
MARCH 18, 2025
Tax season is here and many families filing taxes this year can take advantage of tax credits. The different tax credits for families listed here include various income brackets. Child Tax Credit Parents with children under age 17 can reduce their tax burden by up to $2,000 per qualified dependent. This includes your own children, stepchildren, or related child who lives with you at least half the tax year.
Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.
You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media. In this webinar, Gary Direnfeld will discuss how social media marketing can help you build your private practice and grow your client base.
Nicole Clark Consulting
MARCH 25, 2025
Participant drops out are program design feedback insights in disguise. We dont often think of former participants as a source of program design feedback. We mostly tweak our programs and services based on program design feedback from participantswho stay. However, in getting feedback from participants who leave, we often discover ways to build stronger programs. [.
Community Care
MARCH 17, 2025
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has set out lessons from the first tranche of assessments of local authority adults’ services since it resumed performance checks in December 2023. It said that support for carers was in need of improvement, while authorities also needed to enhance their understanding of population equality and diversity issues and use of data, though reablement was an area of strength.
CO4Kids
MARCH 31, 2025
Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Elevating Connections offers community and connections for siblings and teens in foster care In 2015, Stacy Sanders, founder and executive director of Elevating Connections , and Tamisha Macklin, an advocate who had lived experience in Colorados fostercare system, started Elevating Connections. The purpose was to address the need for siblings who were separated by foster care to have opportunities to reconnect throughout the year to help strengthen their bond an
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 25, 2025
What happens when you tear apart families at a rate more than double the national average and find yourself with no place to put them? For starters, as this story from the Concord (N.H.) Monitor makes clear, you make sure to turn a blind eye to rampant abuse in the places where youve now forced the children to live. Meanwhile in Oregon, which tears apart families at a rate only 20% above the national average, this is happening: The governor and some lawmakers are pushing legislation to make it
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Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
MARCH 18, 2025
The Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI) marked World Social Work Day on March 18th, 2025 , with the launch of a groundbreaking book titled: Social Work in the 21st Century: Scholarship and Praxis Reimagined Towards Vulnerability. Volume Editors Allucia L. Shokane Annaline Keet Varoshini Nadesan Synopsis This scholarly book is the third volume in the Knowledge Pathing: Multi-, Inter- and Trans-Disciplining in Social Sciences book series.
All For Kids
MARCH 14, 2025
How To Help a Child With Social Anxiety By Susan J. Wood (Updated Month, Day, Year) Social anxiety is a common experience among people of all ages. After COVID-19s stay-at-home orders, your child might be experiencing heightened social anxiety with the return to the classroom. If youre wondering how to help a child with social anxiety, look no further.
Community Care
MARCH 26, 2025
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Children’s social workers are to be measured against a new set of post-qualifying standards (PQS), under Department for Education (DfE) proposals. The proposed standards would replace the existing PQS , which largely date back to 2015, and are designed to set out what a practitioner working in local authority children’s services should know and be able to do after two years in p
CO4Kids
MARCH 31, 2025
Back to Blogs News & Press News & Press CDHS spotlights ways to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect April is Child Abuse Prevention Month Denver (March 31, 2025) In the decade since Colorado launched its Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline in April 2015, Coloradans have placed more than 1 million calls to report concerns related to child safety.
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