All For Kids

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Adoption is a remarkable journey that can bring immense joy and fulfillment to both the child and the adoptive family. However, it’s important to acknowledge that it can also present unique challenges and complexities through the psychological effects of adoption.

Psychology 52

Psychology Adoption Psychosocial Substance Abuse 52

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. That’s not correct.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Substance Abuse 98

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.

Code of Ethics 52

Code of Ethics Substance Abuse Justice and Corrections Social Worker 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

First, in more than two-thirds of all Massachusetts cases, no substance abuse of any kind is even alleged. Second, all substance use isn’t opioids. There is no breakdown of how often the substance at issue is one that is now legal in Massachusetts: marijuana. That, too, fails for several reasons. the White House.

Foster Care 98

Foster Care Domestic Violence Child Welfare Welfare 98

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.

Child Welfare 111

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Domestic Violence 111

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.

Domestic Violence 264

Domestic Violence Foster Care Substance Abuse Child Welfare 264

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The Columbus Dispatch reports that Children sent to a state-licensed facility for mental health care are subjected to chokeholds and slaps, being pinned to the ground and verbally abused, and are regularly leaving the campus, according to an investigation conducted by Disability Rights Ohio.

Child Welfare 117

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 117