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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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

This gathering, which drew child welfare administrators and practitioners from across the nation, was a crucial platform for discussing the opportunities and challenges presented by the new, flexible licensing standards issued by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in September 2023.

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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. Whether it’s housing subsidies, child care assistance, or cash aid, there appears to be the same positive effect — reducing CPS reports. That's certainly a step forward. The post includes excellent recommendations for reform. ●

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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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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

Or, if you’re not looking for services, learn how you can join KVC as an advocate, volunteer, financial supporter, event sponsor, foster or adoptive parent, or even team member. These administrative teams must be agile and innovative, as they provide the infrastructure that supports one of the nation’s broadest continuums of care.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2022

Vibrant Emotional Health, who is the current administrator of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, believes that this change will help increase accessibility to these much-needed services. Initially, introduced in the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act (H.R.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

There are distinct advantages and disadvantages associated with both eight- and 12-hour shifts, and healthcare administrators have yet to come to a consensus on whether one is inherently better than the other. Expedite nurse scheduling — From an administrative perspective, longer shifts can make scheduling significantly easier.

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Relias

APRIL 20, 2022

A learning management platform makes it more convenient for your staff to learn, while streamlining reporting, course enrollment, and other administration duties. Improve Your Administrative Abilities Using a Learning Management Platform. As with any organization-wide initiative, adopting a learning management platform is a journey.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The lawsuit says that investigators for the Administration for Children’s Services deceive and bully their way into people’s homes, where they rifle through families’ most private spaces, strip-search children and humiliate parents. States call it “child support.” WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge, La.,

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Relias

MAY 21, 2024

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), six key principles guide trauma-informed care. Building a trauma-informed organization and practice After integrating a trauma-informed approach into your own work, you may be ready to help others adopt this approach.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, desperately wants to keep it that way. Khadijah Abdurahman In other news: ? This really should be obvious: If you don’t know your rights then you don’t really have those rights.

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Relias

MAY 8, 2023

To begin, educate leaders and administrators on what the TIC framework entails and how to apply it. Once they understand its benefits, leaders and administrators can act as promoters of this model. This means your organization will not simply tell staff, “We’re adopting TIC.”

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Some of those who had already become special guardians reported being pushed into it against their wishes, including by the suggestion that the child might otherwise be placed with unrelated foster carers or adoptive parents.

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Relias

JANUARY 19, 2024

By leveraging technology solutions like electronic health records and compliance management software, you can automate documentation processes, reducing the administrative burden on staff. Manual documentation processes are time-consuming and prone to human errors and inconsistencies.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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Relias

OCTOBER 10, 2023

If designed and deployed effectively, safety protocols empower healthcare administrators to learn from past mistakes, minimize errors, improve the reliability of their medical staff — and most importantly — reduce patient mortality rates. What is patient safety in nursing?

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

The newest report from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) showed that the number of children in foster care dropped to 368,530 on September in 2022–a drop of 5.8 percent over the previous year 15.6 percent since 2018. “We

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Relias

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Tailor training to specific job roles Post-acute care teams include a range of roles, such as nurses, therapists, aides, and administrative personnel. Six strategies to improve your training programs Here are six strategies that can make your training programs more effective and help improve care outcomes: 1.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma are topics that students, instructors, practitioners, and administrators are concerned about. Prior to 2020, the field of social work was limited in its adoption of digital practice.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Gothamist has a story about how she raised $40,000 for an ad campaign to tell families their rights when the city’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, is at the door. One of those quoted in the New York Magazine story is Joyce McMillan, founder of JMac For Families. Our own take is here. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As it happens, another part of this group's approach is the blue pinwheel imagery that Pennsylvania's family policing agency was only too glad to adopt for its report cover.) I heard it from the leader of a group that admits to having practiced it. They say they've stopped.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

The Bronx Defenders is suing New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, over such a case. And CWLA’s long-ago apology rings hollow – since they still support draconian policing laws such as the so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act.)

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Relias

MARCH 5, 2024

Some temporary regulatory measures that made telehealth adoption easier during the pandemic have now faded away. While not exhaustive, this list may get your creative juices flowing as you think of ways to update processes to fit your particular team and clients.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

In its commentary in Child Maltreatment 2017 (CM2017), New Jersey attributed the one-year drop in children with substantiated dispositions from FFY 2016 to FFY2017 to a revised disposition model it adopted in April 2013.

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

I was adopted myself and have my own personal background with the foster care system. Micah’s response echoed Dalton’s, sharing that between scheduled appointments is an ever-present list of administrative tasks to make sure everything is scheduled and logged appropriately. . For Dalton, it was more personal. “[I]

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? Of course, families enmeshed in the net of family policing agencies such as New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services have always known what the brain scientists are discovering.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What this longtime administrator is saying is that the oppressed must always be nice to their oppressors. And we wound up with hideous laws like the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. You’re shaming and blaming! That’s just another form of oppression. The result: The family preservation movement almost niced itself to death.

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Community Care

JUNE 10, 2024

New DoLS prioritisation tool Against this backdrop, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has adopted a new tool to help councils prioritise DoLS applications that was developed by West Midlands ADASS. Efficient fully staffed administrative support: admin staff are key to DoLS and are highly skilled in its processes.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Focusing on individual errors or specific cases to eliminate the causes, the authors reasoned, would not be as effective as adopting a systemic approach. But your organization most likely already has a wealth of data for compliance reporting that could also serve for quality improvement.

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Relias

JANUARY 24, 2024

By adopting a trauma-informed perspective, juvenile justice systems and organizations can address immediate legal concerns but also foster healing, resilience, and positive transformation for young people engaged in the juvenile justice system.

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Relias

OCTOBER 20, 2021

amount of telehealth adoption prior to the COVID-19 pandemic,?some These tools allow administrators to perform a variety of tasks associated with training programs and give staff flexibility in the way they receive and perform their training. Whether your organization chooses to adopt an LMS, EHR, or any other?tool, your staff?will

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Social Care

AUGUST 10, 2023

A priority focus for us is to support the adoption of digital social care record solutions (DSCR) within adult social care. Over the last year, we’ve made significant progress, working with the sector, to help providers to adopt DSCRs, in line with government commitments, but we know there are many providers who still need to make that leap.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The programme aims to support the adoption of digital technologies in the adult social care sector. Alongside this, funding support continues to be available through the digitising social care programme for the adoption of digital social care record solutions (DSCR). [Image created by freepik.com ] What is the fund designed to achieve?

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Relias

MARCH 15, 2022

Set up your training program to repeat this enrollment process every time your organization has a new hire — drastically saving you administrative time and allowing you to focus on other tasks. Automate Reporting for Audits and Surveys. You don’t want an upcoming audit to throw a wrench into your workflow.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In its case for change report, published last June, the review said the proportion of social workers in management, along with practitioners’ administrative burdens, meant professionals were being “staggeringly misused”.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 21, 2022

There are differences in the policies adopted by the devolved administrations to reduce backlogs. million people are queueing for hospital treatment in the UK, around 6 million of them in England, where this is the highest number since records began in 2007. In Wales, more than a fifth of the population is waiting for treatment.

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