Relias

AUGUST 22, 2022

Compassion fatigue/burnout/emotionally draining work – We see these issues arising more and more , especially when working in child welfare, with a high cost/complex population of individuals with multiple chronic conditions.

Human Services 105

Human Services Healthcare Child Welfare Interventional 105

KVC

JULY 16, 2023

This means KVC is outperforming its peers in child welfare and mental health, its peers in healthcare more broadly, and even most for-profit companies across all sectors. Join a values-driven team that is passionate about transforming people’s experience of child welfare and mental health services.

Engagement 98

Engagement Child Welfare Mental Health Foster Care 98

KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

I had a friend encourage me to apply to KVC, to explore if social work in the child welfare system would be a good fit. She found a job listing from KVC in her search for a career in child welfare after graduating from college. I was adopted myself and have my own personal background with the foster care system.

Social Worker 52

Social Worker Case Management Foster Care Child Welfare 52

Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

Maggie has been empowered to communicate more effectively within a child protection system. Our hope is to inspire social workers to showcase the work they are proud of, making it possible for others to adopt and share their ideas. Child Welfare League of America.

Foster Care 58

Foster Care Social Worker Child Welfare Schools 58

KVC

JUNE 23, 2021

Maintain Open and Regular Communication. They reached out to the birth mother to help understand what was happening and why. The birth mother provided information that helped the foster family successfully redirect the kids away from the negative behavior.

Foster Care 52

Foster Care Engagement Schools Communication 52

Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

As in the past several years, ACF’s language suggested that child abuse and neglect are decreasing. The new report, Child Maltreatment 2023 (CM2023), provides data for Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2023, which ended on September 30, 2024. ” State data indicates that child welfare agencies screened in 2.1

Child Welfare 162

Child Welfare Welfare Justice and Corrections Administration 162

KVC

MAY 24, 2022

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services.

Foster Care 52

Foster Care Adoption Mental Health Hospitals 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In 2024, adoptive parents in Kentucky couldn’t handle the behavior problems of their 15-year-old daughter. They offered no help except to take custody of the child take control of where she would live. So they had to turn to the state which offered no alternatives except institutions – and took control of where the boy would live.

Adoption 76

Adoption Foster Care Human Services Communication 76

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.

Child Welfare 107

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Confidentiality 107

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Part one of NCCPR’s news and commentary year in review for 2023 America’s massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. That’s why we’ve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove” anything.

Child Welfare 70

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 70

Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

But treating the decline in foster care (the direct result of government actions) as a desirable outcome in itself can contribute to a disregard of actual child welfare outcomes like safety and permanency. Any government can slash the foster care rolls reducing or ending child removals, as many child welfare abolitionists recommend.

Domestic Violence 264

Domestic Violence Foster Care Substance Abuse Child Welfare 264

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

When going up against this family police juggernaut (a more accurate term than child welfare system) families often are almost literally defense-less because their lawyers often have so little time and so many clients. If there is no response in that time frame, the birth family loses the right to challenge the adoption.

Foster Care 87

Foster Care Adoption Child Welfare Welfare 87

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Americas massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. Thats why weve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove anything. Hawaii, 2021: six-year-old Ariel Sellers was allegedly adopted to death.

Child Welfare 117

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 117