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Child Maltreatment 2023: A reduction in child maltreatment victims or a retrenchment of child protection?

Child Welfare Monitor

“New Federal Report Demonstrates Reduction in Child Maltreatment Victims and Underscores Need for Continued Action,” the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in releasing the latest annual report on the government response to child abuse and neglect.

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Federal Grants Available to Promote Elder Justice

Social Work Blog

Funding source: Administration for Community Living (ACL). Purpose: Assess and understand community services that produce better outcomes for people transitioning from short-term Adult Protective Services interventions to broader community-based programs that remediate and prevent recurrence of abuse over the longer term.

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U.S. Administration for Children and Families Grant Funds Research Project

University of Connecticut

The primary goal of the project is to determine whether the “Breakthrough Parenting Curriculum: Navigating Trauma Across Generations (BPC)”— a trauma-informed parenting intervention — is effective at promoting child, parent, and family wellbeing among underserved families at-risk for involvement with the child welfare system.

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ENGAGE 2024 Small Grant Recipients Announced

Michigan Social Work

ENGAGE partners with the School of Public Health’s Detroit Urban Research Center in the administration of the small grants program.

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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). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Shelter, Inc. and The Harbour Partner Under Federal Grant to Expand Emergency Shelter Services Arlington Heights, IL, January 13, 2025 Shelter, Inc.

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The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Transitions to 988

Social Work Blog

The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency has further exacerbated the need to improve access to crisis intervention services. 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.

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Sensitivity to ‘bruised’ staff needed for effective DfE intervention in ‘inadequate’ services, finds study

Community Care

Government intervention in children’s services must be sensitive to the ‘bruising’ impact on staff of working in an ‘inadequate’ authority, in order to succeed. Clarity of roles in the context of there being multiple people involved with authorities in intervention. ” Senior management departures.