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?NASW Member Voices: Social Work and Self-Care — A Review Through an Updated Lens

Social Work Blog

They argue that organizations that prioritize self-care for social work and human services staff are more likely to improve client care and productivity. Policies that adopted surrounding these tenets can increase morale, greater leadership within staff, and deepen an agency’s ability to improve client care.

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Child Maltreatment 2023: A reduction in child maltreatment victims or a retrenchment of child protection?

Child Welfare Monitor

“New Federal Report Demonstrates Reduction in Child Maltreatment Victims and Underscores Need for Continued Action,” the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in releasing the latest annual report on the government response to child abuse and neglect.

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The Opioid Epidemic and Foster Care: The Opioid Epidemic’s Forgotten Victims

Relias

Parents who struggled with addiction were often criminalized, and there were few resources available to assist their children and other family members. Department of Health and Human Services found that a 10% increase in opioid-related overdose deaths directly corresponded with a 4.4% According to the latest data , the U.S.

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The Importance of Father Daughter Relationships

All For Kids

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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Crisis Prevention and Intervention in the Age of COVID-19

Relias

For more severe SUDs, experts still suggest that individuals enter addiction treatment facilities that follow best practices regarding COVID-19. To help combat these rising numbers, 150 countries have put measures in place to strengthen the resources and services available to survivors of such abuse. Domestic Violence.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. Department of Health and Human Services confirms it. For decades, weve said states grossly underestimate the rate of abuse in foster care indeed they dont even try to find out.

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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. 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.