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DCW Updates for National Adoption Month 2024

CO4Kids

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog DCW Updates for National Adoption Month 2024 By Shelia Dalton, Adoption Program and ICAMA Administrator November is National Adoption Month and this year’s national theme is Honoring Youth: Strengthening Pathways for Lasting Bonds. Out of those, 260 were kinship adoptions (37%).

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Celebrate National Adoption Day November 23

Social Work Blog

November 23rd marks National Adoption Day. In 1976, Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts decided to celebrate adoption for seven days in his state. Eight years later, President Ronald Regan expanding the observance to becoming National Adoption Week. On November 23, the month’s event culminates with National Adoption Day.

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Navigating AI in Social Work Education

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Practical Pros and Cons : AI can boost the productivity of administrative tasks and richer educational content. Yet, as our lives become increasingly mediated by technology and adopted by those around us, bringing our humanistic lenses to these spaces becomes even more important.

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Child care, family assistance outlined in 2025 California budget

CCRC

Highlights include: Child care access : Though the Governors budget proposal does not outline specific spending for child care slots, the Administration is expected to maintain all existing commitments to child care slots. Overall, the California Budget Act 2025 focuses on education, economic growth, public safety, and accountability.

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Government launches digital social care qualification but providers criticise level of training funding

Community Care

115m cut to planned investment in learning The LDSS’s launch was accompanied by a 115m cut by the then newly elected Labour government to the level of funding for adult social care training planned by the previous Conservative administration for 2024-25. It has also updated the list of courses covered by LDSS funding.

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Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

CO4Kids

If you are a teacher or administrator at the childs school or childcare, you can contact the childs emergency contacts provided by the family during enrollment. Will my children be adopted? I know children who came home from school, and their parents never came home. What should I do?

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Five Steps to Planning your Social Work Program’s Self-Study: CSWE Accreditation

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

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.