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.

Administration 130

Administration Consultation Adoption Anxiety 130

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.

Child Welfare 103

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Administration 103

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?

Foster Care 98

Foster Care Administration Adoption Schools 98

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.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Mental Health Welfare Psychiatric 98

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.

Crisis Intervention 116

Crisis Intervention Mental Health Confidentiality Clinical Social Work 116

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. ●

Foster Care 98

Foster Care Child Welfare Medicaid Administration 98

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.

LMSW 98

LMSW Self-harm Administration Clinic 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

It’s practically the slogan of everyone in the family policing establishment, from the federal government’s Administration for Children and Families to the smallest county family police agency. Safety, permanency, well-being.” We hear family police agencies even claiming they want a “child and family well-being system.”

Child Welfare 108

Child Welfare Domestic Violence Adoption Foster Care 108

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.

Child Welfare 76

Child Welfare Welfare Administration Foster Care 76

CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog NTDC (National Training and Development) Statewide Train-the-Trainer Training The NTDC (National Training and Development Curriculum) continues to be the preferred curriculum for certifying foster/adoptive parents in Colorado. For more information contact moinette.dickens@state.co.us.

Child Welfare 52

Child Welfare Welfare Adoption Human Services 52

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.,

Foster Care 85

Foster Care Adoption Advocacy Administration 85

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 15, 2023

She was placed with foster parents who adopted her. Prosecutors say Aarabella’s adoptive grandmother, adoptive grandfather and adoptive mother worked together to torture and physically abuse Aarabella and her two surviving sisters, ages 7 and 6. The boy wasn’t lying. The foster parent was sentenced to 94 years in jail. ●

Foster Care 52

Foster Care Adoption Domestic Violence Administration 52

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

Foster Care 130

Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare Substance Abuse 130

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.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Administration 98

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.

Administration 52

Administration Human Services Adoption Engagement 52

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.

Child Welfare 52

Child Welfare Foster Care Administration Welfare 52

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.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Therapist Administration 98

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.

Child Welfare 52

Child Welfare Foster Care Adoption Community Outreach 52

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.

Healthcare 98

Healthcare Self-harm Clinic Psychology 98

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.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Hospitals Healthcare Administration 52

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.

Recovery 52

Recovery Community Outreach Adoption Healthcare 52

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.

Foster Care 65

Foster Care Government Administration Adoption 65

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.”

Administration 52

Administration Clinic Communication Psychology 52

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.

Child Welfare 100

Child Welfare Diversity Welfare Foster Care 100

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. ?

Child Welfare 52

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Administration 52

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]

Social Worker 52

Social Worker Case Management Foster Care Child Welfare 52

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?

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Self-harm Healthcare Administration 52

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.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Nursing Home Hospitals Healthcare 52

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”.

Social Worker 64

Social Worker Government Administration Adoption 64

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.

Psychiatric 54

Psychiatric Hospitals Adoption Mental Health 54

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

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Telehealth Human Services Medicaid 52

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.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Clinic Therapist Administration 52

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.

Domestic Violence 40

Domestic Violence Child Welfare Behavior Analysis Substance Abuse 40

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.)

Child Welfare 40

Child Welfare Welfare Adoption Administration 40

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.

Human Resources 40

Human Resources Mental Health Advocacy Social Worker 40

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.

Human Services 52

Human Services Telehealth Communication Disability 52

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.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Engagement Administration Adoption 52