NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The family police agency in New York City, the Administration for Children’s Services, has opposed legislation to require it to tell families their rights – not extend any additional rights, just tell them the rights they already have. So think carefully before you click here. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

But, as Hawaii News Now reports , that simply wasn’t true: DHS officials said “the testimony submitted was the incorrect version and the error was not caught until after.” … Social Services Division Administrator Daisy Hartsfield added: “What actually occurred is that we immediately began discussions to consider how we can cease Social Security payments (..)

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Community Care

OCTOBER 10, 2024

No further announcement was made before the July 2024 election, and the Labour administration is yet to comment on whether it is taking forward the so-called financial allowances pathfinder. It is likely that this will be confirmed at the Budget on 30 October 2024.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

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.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 14, 2024

The Older Americans Act (OAA) funds social services and programs such as nutrition programs, family caregiver support, elder abuse prevention, and more. NASW submitted comments ( bit.ly/NASW_OAA_2023comments

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

Non-statutory placements make up over half of practice learning provision for social work students in Scotland, leaving some graduates underprepared for practice, research has revealed. However, participants in the research said funding was inadequate to cover the costs of PLOs.

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University of Connecticut

JUNE 1, 2022

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services has been a core journal in social work research for over 100 years. Cristina Mogro-Wilson to serve as Editor-in-Chief of the Families in Society ( FIS ) journal, which was previously led by Dr. Sondra Fogel, who served as Editor-In-Chief for the past seven years.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

He trained as a social worker, then worked as a probation officer, a youth justice worker and as a social work academic before being elected to the Senedd (Welsh Assembly) in 2011. Then, as health and social services minister, he presided over the passage of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) 2014.

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University of Connecticut

APRIL 2, 2024

The UConn School of Social Work (SSW) is proud to announce that Professor Cristina Mogro-Wilson was elected to the board of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education (GADE). Wilson, an at-large board member, will join the current board in supporting GADE’s mission to promote excellence and equity in social work doctoral education.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

SASW – the Scottish branch of the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) – also called for guaranteed reflective supervision and training, reduced administrative burdens and paid overtime for practitioners. A reduction in administrative burdens to enable more time for direct work. provided by a line manager.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

ACF gave credit to the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA), which “helped change the conversation to be about prevention of foster care placements and preservation of families.” Entries into foster care declined precipitously from April 2019 to March 2020 and continued declining, though more slowly, through March 2024.

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Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2022

The proposals , which form part of a cooperation agreement between the Labour administration and the Plaid Cymru group in the Welsh Senedd, would restrict registration of service providers to those operating a non-profit model. ” Reliance on private sector.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Because Curts didn't have a stable housing alternative, on June 15, 2022, investigators from the Jackson County Children’s Division of the Missouri Department of Social Services and two policemen came to take her children into protective custody. Anybody see the problem here yet? If not, consider how the reporter circles back to Ms.

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 30, 2024

Kamerman was my professor during my doctoral studies at Columbia University School of Social Work. She taught me much of what I know about the welfare state and providing social services in the United States. I attended NABSW conferences at his behest, where he introduced me to many exemplary colleagues. Mario Cuomo.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year. “It But, the crossbench peer says, some of that outstanding work has been lost.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 27, 2022

Nancy earned an MSW from the University of Southern California, while working for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, where she rose from a direct services worker to assistant program deputy and staff development administrator.

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2024

Priorities for adult social care In its first message to the new government, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services set out three priorities for adult social care. This is the strong case we’ll be making to the new government over the days, weeks and months ahead.”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The sector continues to face challenges from years of chronic underfunding in social services.”. MacAlister, whose care review is due to make recommendations in late spring, pledged to address the decline in case-holding social workers.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

MAY 15, 2023

Social workers are tasked uniquely to assist patients in the most difficult psycho-social circumstances and guide patients families and medical providers with navigating medical care coordination and social service challenges in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic. We must adapt to change manage stress and innovate.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts will have to stop using agency social workers from next June, its Department of Health (DoH) has said. ‘Anxiety’ over agency ban.

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Relias

MARCH 3, 2024

We can be mental health professionals, case managers, or administrators, but we are also more than the sum of these. We can work within the human services realm or serve outside of traditional social service organizations, bringing all our strengths where ever we go. We are communicators. We are connectors.

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Relias

JANUARY 16, 2023

While many behavioral health and social service organizations have moved toward implementing trauma-informed practices, it is rarely recognized in organizations serving the IDD population. For those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who have experienced abuse, trauma-informed care can prove very helpful.

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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Age UK said LPS had been “effectively kicked into the long grass for a future administration to deal with” – though there is no indication of whether an incoming Labour government would implement the system. This means that DoLS will likely remain in place for the for the foreseeable future.

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Community Care

AUGUST 27, 2024

It also analysed workloads across children’s services and older people’s teams in Northern Ireland’s HSC trusts, which identified both caseload sizes and vacancy levels. Children’s social workers interviewed for the research reported that both the complexity and urgency of cases, and administrative burdens, had increased over time.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In late 2020, KVC Missouri received a new grant to provide services on behalf of the Missouri Department of Social Services. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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Relias

MAY 21, 2024

Trauma-informed care is an approach to health and social services that recognizes the impact of trauma on people’s lives. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), six key principles guide trauma-informed care. What are the 6 principles of trauma-informed care?

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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. They can be utilised for some tasks which best interests assessors (BIAs) may currently be doing.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

We need social care workers being where they are and they can’t just take on this work because of workforce issues in social work.” ” She said Social Work England would provide the administration for the group and also make use of the data it holds on the profession to inform its work.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 16, 2023

The three systems of social work are the direct practice system, the administrative system, and the macro-system. Direct practice involves working with individuals or families to address their specific needs, such as providing counselling or therapy services.

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Community Care

JULY 10, 2024

While authorities strove to protect adult social care from these cuts, their spending on the service was only marginally higher 2019-20 than 2010-11, after taking account of inflation. One result was a significant fall in the number of people who received long-term care, from 872,520 in 2016 to 838,530 in 2020 ( source: NHS Digital ).

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

.” The pressures were leading to delays for some children, inspectors found, though they noted that senior managers recognised the issues at hand and were trying to recruit both social workers and administrative support staff.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

About the skills and frameworks we bring to the table: According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the principles of ‘trauma-informed care’ include safety, trustworthiness and transparency, peer support, collaboration and mutuality, empowerment, voice and choice, and cultural, historical, and gender issues.

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Community Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

It is not possible to provide service stability and strong positive cultures if there is heavy reliance on agency social workers; Northern Ireland has already taken action to curtail their use in its statutory social services.

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Community Care

JULY 31, 2023

Beverley Tarka, ADASS president, 2023-24 “The government has listened to calls from directors and others in adult social care to make resources available earlier to support planning for winter,” said Association of Directors of Adult Social Services president Beverley Tarka.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

He is one of the UK’s leading thinkers on social justice and the welfare state, Titmuss helped establish social policy as an academic discipline. From 1950 until his death in 1973 he was the professor of social administration at the London School of Economics.

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CO4Kids

JANUARY 31, 2025

The purpose of the rule work is to align Colorado’s rule and practice with the requirements of Colorado House Bill 23-1157.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

s programs, services, management, and administration. The accreditation process involves a detailed review and analysis of an organization’s administration, management, and service delivery functions against international standards of best practice. COA Accreditation evaluated all aspects of Shelter Inc.’s Shelter, Inc.

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