CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

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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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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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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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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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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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.

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Relias

MAY 21, 2025

This article explores practical strategies that providers and organizations can adopt to advance behavioral health equity. These inequities are often fueled by stigma, implicit bias, and systemic barriers that hinder access to effective and culturally responsive services.

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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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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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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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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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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

MARCH 13, 2025

The pandemic accelerated the adoption of these tools, and nurses are now at the forefront of digital health transformation. Workforce shortages, administrative burdens, and restrictive scope-of-practice laws continue to challenge the full realization of nurse-led care models.

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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”.

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Social Worker Government Administration Adoption 63

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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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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Relias

APRIL 10, 2025

How healthcare organizations can stay compliant with the Emergency Preparedness Rule To ensure ongoing compliance with the rule and support operational readiness, healthcare leaders can take the following steps: Establish a preparedness committee that includes leadership, clinical staff, and administrative personnel.

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Healthcare Medicare Medicaid Psychiatric 52

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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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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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.

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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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Relias

APRIL 18, 2025

Organizations that have adopted personalization strategies have observed a 10% improvement in customer experience within 6 to 12 months. Additionally, these organizations have reported a 5% to 10% reduction in administrative costs and a 20% to 25% enhancement in quality standards. 5 key patient experience categories and trends 1.

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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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Community Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

This means including family support workers, social work assistants, contact supervisors and additional administrative colleagues within teams. A recommendation in the Northern Ireland review, which is already being actioned, is for a greater skills mix within children and families teams.

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Child Welfare Monitor

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

in Administration of Justice from Pierce College, a B.A. The child welfare abolitionists have manipulated many young people, students, and activists into adopting oversimplified, Black and White narratives that erase other ethnic groups and the intersectionality children like me experience. Patty turned 18 years old in jail.

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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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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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