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Harbour Partnership

Shelter, Inc

Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, under the Basic Center Program (BCP). About The Harbour The Harbour is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping young people facing homelessness, providing shelter, counseling, and supportive services to at-risk youth in suburban Chicago.

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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. To achieve this, counties will work with consulates and/or social service agencies to help find deported parent(s) and determine if the family can be reunited in their home country.

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“[It] feels like a jail cell has dropped around my family”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.) 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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SSW Alumni Spotlight: Barbie Nadal-Cristofaro, MSW

University of Connecticut

Barbie Nadal-Cristofaro MSW, 092 (pending), 2016 – Administration and Case Work. I am also a school social worker for Hartford Public Schools and I run a small business, ‘Ends2meet LLC’, which creates awareness on poverty and provides people with basic needs including counseling.

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“Es Como Que no los Conociera”: Reunification of Unaccompanied Migrant Youth with Their U.S. Families

Social Work Blog

Data were collected from 30 youth, six parents, and four school administrators via focus groups and semi-structured interviews. Kalina Brabeck, PhD , professor, counseling, Rhode Island College. Unaccompanied immigrant youth had arrived at the United States in the previous three years from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, or Mexico.

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Staff Retention in Behavioral Health: Your Questions Answered

Relias

From counseling individuals with mental health disorders to helping vulnerable children and families access critical resources, your organization and the behavioral health professionals you employ perform a wide range of important work. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) predicts that, by 2025, the U.S.

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Uplifting Women’s Issues is Board Member’s Passion

Social Work Blog

After the tragedy, Sharma stressed to hospital administrators the importance of setting up a volunteer counseling and testing center. It took three years to find funding for the effort, but it finally materialized. Once the center was established, Sharma says she was amazed by the volume of people seeking services.