Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Funding source: Administration for Community Living (ACL). NASW Practice Perspectives: Federal Funding for and Administration of Elder Justice Programs. Applications due: April 21 or 26, depending on the platform used. Elder Justice Innovation Grants – Improving Results for APS Clients FY2022. Elder Justice Innovation Grants (ACL).

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration grant of just over $1 million to expand needed infrastructure, processes, and services to build strong early childhood mental health services. Innovations Institute has partnered with the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Union County, Ohio (MHRBUC) in a new U.S.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MAY 20, 2022

Your institution may already offer guidance or have policies established – please check with your administrators, online learning specialists, and offices of disability services. Additionally, think about ways to discuss and model technology disruption with your colleagues and administrators in your academic unit.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

New York City Administration for Children's Services Commissioner Jess Dannhauser Poor Jess Dannhauser. If a call about a New York City child is accepted by the state, the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) is required by state law to respond to allegations and assess the safety of the child.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JUNE 30, 2023

Editor’s note: Melissa Freedman, MSW, is a social work educator and consultant specializing in leadership, supervision, administration, and quality management and assurance. Which standards will the program director(s) write, and which standards will be written by administrative leadership? More on this later.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 27, 2024

The attack targeted UnitedHealth Group’s subsidiary Change Healthcare, a technology clearinghouse that manages billing and administrative tasks for healthcare organizations. Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) are providing public instructions on how to request for a Medicare accelerated or advance payment.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

Ives-Rublee will join other social worker appointees in the Biden Administration, including Jared Bernstein on the Council of Economic Advisors and Meg Kabat, who is senior advisor for families, caregivers and survivors at the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Secretary.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The New York City Administration for Children's Services Uses Highly Coercive Tactics to Illegally Search Tens of Thousands of Families’ Homes Every Year. Rather they are the headline and subhead that begin a lawsuit against New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

In New York, one leader of ACS during the administration of former Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gladys Carrion, understood that. But in the de Blasio Administration the first responsibility of any commissioner was to protect de Blasio. Organizers had to be pressured to include her. t In this powerful story from Logic Magazine , J.

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My Brains Not Broken

MAY 19, 2022

CRISIS Text Line : 741-741 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline : 1-800-273-8255 The Trevor Project Hotline : 1-866-488-7386 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Hot Line : 1-800-662-4357. Help Lines.

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Mental Health Substance Abuse Administration Depression 130

Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Perhaps one reason for Wyden’s and Reed’s blind spot is the current ideological tendency of what might be called the child welfare establishment, including the federal Administration on Children and Families, state leaders, and large and wealthy foundations and advocacy groups like Casey Family Programs.

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Shelter, Inc

JULY 15, 2022

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration estimated calls and texts to the suicide hotline will more than double in 2022 to 7.6 Advocates for the three-digit number say timing is crucial during an emergency as remembering three digits instead of ten can make all the difference, and the time for change is now.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It’s all in a report commissioned by the Administration for Children’s Services itself. Yesterday: Context for the new study : The Administration for Children’s Services’ own data show that when the agency pulled back, did fewer investigations and took fewer children – child safety improved. ? ACS’ response: Don’t release the report!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Today: Context for the new study: The Administration for Children’s Services’ own data show that when the agency pulled back, did fewer investigations and took fewer children – child safety improved. ? Tomorrow: ACS commissioned a study of racism in the agency. One makes sense, the other makes everything worse.

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Relias

JUNE 2, 2022

For administrators seeking to protect their staff and patients, identifying ways to prevent workplace violence in hospitals and other healthcare settings is a top priority. Healthcare administrators are encouraged to develop a straightforward reporting process that empowers employees to alert leaders when violence occurs.

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Healthcare Domestic Violence Administration Communication 98

Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

However, a final rule released by the previous Administration weakened consumer protections regarding the marketing of Medicare Advantage plans, thereby creating even more confusion for beneficiaries—and the current Administration recently issued a memo to Medicare Advantage plans expressing concerns about plans’ misleading marketing practices.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But when The Imprint asked, out came the standard-issue lie: A spokesperson for New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services told The Imprint that her agency is unable to publicly discuss individual cases. When ProPublica asked about the specifics of the case and the agency's response, ACS just ignored those questions.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

Khadijah Abdurahman, who is both a parent with lived experience dealing with New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services – and a Tech Research Fellow at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. We begin with a photo: Check out the ads on New York City buses, from JMac For Families: ?

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Nnatasha Tracy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The black box warning on antidepressants is, after all, the strongest warning the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can place on a medication. Because of the black box warnings (also known as boxed warnings) on antidepressants, many people think that antidepressants cause suicidal thinking , suicidal behavior, and suicide.

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Administration 93

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2024

And in New York, the New York City family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, still considers itself free to harass domestic violence survivors and their children by putting them under constant surveillance. So now there’s another lawsuit.

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Domestic Violence Foster Care Interviewing Schools 128

Social Work Blog

JUNE 18, 2024

In that context, it is hoped that the federal government will follow Moore’s signal by fully decriminalizing marijuana within the federal system— instead of its current policy of retaining marijuana on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Schedule as a Schedule III drug.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JULY 14, 2022

Rashmi Pandey for her hard work in maintaining all administrative and communications with IASSW Board Members and members. Annamaria thanked all executive committees and board members for their support over the past years especially during these unusual times. A special thanks to Ms. Join IASSW Membership: Https://Bit.Ly/3jihO7m.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The money goes to two adoption advocacy groups (reinforcing the bias that permanency equals adoption, not reunification, and prioritizing paper permanence over what has aptly been called “ relational permanence ”) not one, but two schools of social work, and – I kid you not - a consortium of child welfare system administrators.

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Relias

AUGUST 23, 2023

To create healthier, more positive workplace environments, it is essential for healthcare administrators to take the time to truly understand lateral violence in nursing and the significant adverse effects it can have on patients and practitioners alike. Who are the main perpetrators of lateral violence in nursing?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The article aptly describes the Center as a first-of-its-kind organization that intends to engage in affirmative litigation with the [Administration for Children’s Services] —hitting it with lawsuits to potentially hold it accountable for allegedly violating families’ constitutional rights via heavy-handed investigatory and removal tactics.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the federal Administration for Children and Families hasn’t quite gotten the message. As the story puts it: Notably, the type of public benefits offered doesn’t seem to make a difference. Whether it’s housing subsidies, child care assistance, or cash aid, there appears to be the same positive effect — reducing CPS reports.

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National Casa Gal

JULY 30, 2021

As we prepare for this new school year, it’s important to acknowledge the teachers, school administrators, parents and community members who are working hard to ensure that students can learn safely and make academic progress.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

In 2019 it happened in 58,217 cases. In 2020, unsurprisingly, it went down a lot.

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Foster Care Administration Government Schools 123

Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

She is an Intimate Partner Violence Program Coordinator for the Veterans Health Administration. Julia Rose, MSW, LISW, serves as the president of the NASW Iowa Chapter. She answers questions about her role with NASW. What inspired you to serve as president?

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International Federation of Social Workers

JULY 27, 2024

L’élection d’Abib marque un ajout important au conseil d’administration en […] La région Afrique de la FITS a le plaisir d’annoncer l’élection d’Abib Ndiaye, du Sénégal, en tant que nouveau vice-président.

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Administration 70

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

But he also explains how the Florida Legislature, the current administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis and the administration of former Governor Rick Scott skewed financial incentives for the “CBCs” toward holding more children in foster care and against trying to keep families together. The bad financial incentives compound all that.

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Swhelper

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Educators and their organizations, school administrators, and policymakers increasingly agree that a lack of diversity among teachers hurts U.S. Calls to increase the number of teachers of color, specifically African American teachers, have intensified over the past decade.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 4, 2023

So in Massachusetts, where you can seek an administrative hearing to fight your way out, even though the burden of proof is on you to show you are innocent, families win about half the time. DCF is now providing administrative hearings for those who appeal “substantiated concern” determinations.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

This tradition continued in the first class of White House Fellows, founded in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson, when Harold Richman from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago became a member of the inaugural Fellows class, and was assigned to Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Moreover, it promotes a healthier and more joyful work environment where colleagues and administrators have greater emotional capacity and feel more comfortable supporting each other in the reduction of work-related stress, vicarious trauma and burnout.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Hey, remember when New York City schools and the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, promised that this year they wouldn’t traumatize children and families by sending caseworkers to investigate them on “educational neglect” charges just because they felt it was still unsafe to send them to in-person classes?

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Foster Care Administration Adoption Schools 98

University of Connecticut

JANUARY 5, 2022

This webinar is intended for experienced and new school social workers, principals, and building administrators. Christine Limone will provide tools to empower participants to advocate for change in their home districts. Upon completion, participants will: understand this phenomenon and its impact on the field of school social work.

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