Social Work Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Policies that adopted surrounding these tenets can increase morale, greater leadership within staff, and deepen an agency’s ability to improve client care. Given that this book was published in 2013, it is important that I bring in recent data to this review. For more information, you can visit her website: www.violetadonawa.com.

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Gateway Foundation

MARCH 24, 2023

But what might start as a fun game played between friends can quickly become problematic for someone who has previously struggled with gambling addiction. Break Free From Gambling Addiction What Is Fantasy Football? Still, participating in fantasy sports can be problematic for people who struggle with sports betting addiction.

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Gateway Foundation

AUGUST 11, 2023

But what might start as a fun game played between friends can quickly become problematic for someone who has previously struggled with gambling addiction. Break Free From Gambling Addiction What Is Fantasy Football? Still, participating in fantasy sports can be problematic for people who struggle with sports betting addiction.

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Gateway Foundation

JULY 31, 2023

Not all addictions are the same, which is true for those struggling with a gambling disorder. It’s important to note that professional gamblers may not develop a full-blown addiction, as addiction often diminishes self-control and rational thinking, leading to more losses than wins.

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Gateway Foundation

AUGUST 7, 2023

Gambling for entertainment can become an obsession or a compulsion, and a person with a gambling addiction may spend more than they can afford to try to win the jackpot with scratch-off tickets. People can develop a scratch-off addiction, becoming a gateway to riskier activities or decision-making. Are Lottery Scratch-Offs Bad?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. Had she been around at the time, can you imagine Maria Mossaides recommending that a drug addict like former First Lady Betty Ford have her children taken forever because of the risk of relapse?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Reporters can identify with foster parents – they probably know some, or at least have friends who do – or if not that, then they may have friends who adopted a foster child. So birth parents become, at best, nonentities, at worst those awful people their foster or adoptive parent friends told them about.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Yet when adoptive parents want to cut children off from any and all contact with their birth parents, those birth parents usually have no recourse. . ● There’s more about the harm of turning in substance-using mothers to the family police in this overview from Scientific American. The article cites multiple experts including Miriam S.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy. Addressing substance abuse and addiction issues.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

Some states explicitly reported that their screening changes were adopted in order to decrease the number of screened in referrals. Kentucky reported adopting a new SDM screening tool designed to decrease the number of referrals that are “incorrectly accepted for investigation.”

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

We celebrate the inspiring ways children and adults have healed from serious challenges like strained family relationships, mental health needs, addiction, loneliness and hopelessness. Our Two Families Became One’: Fostering Leads to Adoption and a Lifelong Relationship. We received many entries to our 2021 Story Contest.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

Parents who struggled with addiction were often criminalized, and there were few resources available to assist their children and other family members. It also eliminates the time limit for family reunification services and reauthorizes incentives to states to promote adoption and legal guardianship.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

They acknowledged that most of the infants born with drugs in their system were exposed not to heroin, but to drugs like methadone or buprenorphine – drugs medically prescribed to treat heroin addiction. That doesn’t mean we can always leave children with addicted parents. the White House.

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All For Kids

MARCH 12, 2025

They are more likely to end up in poverty or drop out of school, become addicted to drugs, have a child out of wedlock, or end up in prison. This Fathers Day, whether youre a father by biology, foster care, adoption, guardianship, mentoring, leadership, influence, or love, we at All For Kids honor and celebrate you!

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: This conference is devoted to the Human Rights Day (every year on 10 December) — the day when the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Substance Misuse and Addictive Behaviors. Inequality, Poverty, and Social Welfare Policy. Mental Health. Race and Ethnicity.

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KVC

APRIL 10, 2023

Mentoring has benefits like helping the child build stronger relationships, increasing confidence and self-esteem, reducing their risk of addiction, improving behavior and school performance, increasing college enrollment rates and choosing a healthier lifestyle as they grow. Become a foster parent.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

It has also been adopted by the Department for Education in its 2023 strategy for the sector, Stable Homes, Built on Love. The need for children’s services to shift from crisis response to prevention was also a key conclusion from Josh MacAlister’s Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, which reported in 2022.

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Relias

APRIL 6, 2022

For more severe SUDs, experts still suggest that individuals enter addiction treatment facilities that follow best practices regarding COVID-19. Before adopting such a solution, determine the needs of your organization and then pick the tool that will help you resolve those needs. Domestic Violence.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

By Deron Snyder The high court issued three rulings in June 2023 — on affirmative action, same-sex couples and student loan cancellation — that have the potential to disproportionately harm minority and disadvantaged groups. The impact on social workers and clients will be substantial.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Authors review data that demonstrate the evolution of labels and argue that adopting these terms in practice and research will have fruitful and affirming effects on access to care, treatment attrition, and the design and quality of research in and for the LGBTQ+ community.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. In 2024, the Kentucky family police agency took away a child whose adoptive parents just needed help to cope with her behavioral problems. He was institutionalized. He ran away, and he died.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Addictions to cocaine are more expensive to maintain, "so the parents' attention is focused on getting the drug, and the dependency itself consumes their time," [the study co-author] said.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

--Another group afraid to seek help because of justified fear of the family police is pregnant women with substance use issues, As NBC News reports: That's why a growing number of experts — including maternal/fetal specialists, federal health officials and people who treat addiction — are calling for changes to the laws. "We

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Now 14, 12 and 10 the siblings were adopted in 2021 and have improved both socially and academically. “We We knew they were looking for a permanent home but decided we would wait until the kids got to know us before discussing adoption but after living with us for six months the kids sat us down and said we need to talk.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

On a page dedicated to KFTA implementation, DCYF explains that it has implemented the law by adopting new policies and procedures to determine whether to remove a child and by training and supporting staff to implement the new procedures and determine whether there is an imminent risk of serious harm to the child.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Disability Rights Ohio Director Kerstin Sjoberg said neither Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services nor the center, Youth Intensive Services, are working to correct the problems. The headline on the story is: White West Virginia couple accused of adopting Black children and forcing them to work as slaves.

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