Relias

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Establish open lines of communication Effective communication is essential in behavioral health, and understanding the Stages of Change can significantly improve client-provider interactions. By acknowledging and respecting the client’s current stage, behavioral health professionals can adopt appropriate communication strategies.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

It’s when organizations are adaptable and trauma-informed and adopt a culture that fosters resilience within their staff. An important, and often overlooked, element of relationship building is developing a shared understanding of how to communicate and relate to each other. What is organizational resilience? Support team building.

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Relias

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed the way behavioral health and other human services organizations conduct their operations. For behavioral health and other human services, this often means using technology to find new and better ways to help?persons?served. there was a fair?amount some providers?were?weary

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

The 12th edition of Social Work Speaks is a comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly in 2020. Every phase of supervision is discussed in detail, with a focus on communication, making demands for work, facing taboo subjects, and transitioning into and out of roles and relationships.

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Relias

AUGUST 23, 2022

For those working in human services, compassion fatigue and the associated symptoms of burnout occur all too often. In order to take care of your staff, it’s important to adopt a trauma-informed care approach within your own organization. Trauma is always defined by the individual.

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Relias

APRIL 10, 2025

Communication plan A coordinated communication strategy is essential during an emergency. Based on these findings, the organization must develop an emergency plan that outlines strategies for responding to these risks.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Organizations adopt care coordination to improve health outcomes and reduce the financial cost of treatments by streamlining care delivery and reducing or eliminating redundancies in care. In these scenarios, a care coordinator can: Communicate between multiple providers within the continuum of care, especially with a primary care physician.

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Healthcare Communication Medicaid Hospitals 52

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. Persuasion and coercion of any type is strongly discouraged.

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Relias

MAY 8, 2023

This means your organization will not simply tell staff, “We’re adopting TIC.” Rather, your organization will communicate this model’s benefits, including how it will allow staff to provide better care for clients and how it can make everyone’s job, clinical and non-clinical staff alike, a little easier.

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Relias

APRIL 28, 2023

A trauma-informed approach to birth trauma To help your clients cope with and overcome the effects of birth trauma, it’s important that your organization adopt a trauma-informed approach to care. The goal of trauma-informed care (TIC) is to prevent traumatization, or re-traumatization.

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Relias

JANUARY 25, 2024

Motivational Interviewing is an important technique in the field of behavior change and therapeutic communication. Miller and Stephen Rollnick, motivational interviewing has evolved into a widely adopted approach for facilitating positive changes in individuals. Originally developed by psychologists William R.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

“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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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. So they had to turn to the state which offered no alternatives except institutions – and took control of where the boy would live. He ran away from the institution and drowned. Now DHS can explain itself to a judge.

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Relias

MAY 20, 2024

To help, consider adopting the following strategic initiatives: Prioritize inclusivity : Foster a culture of inclusion where every voice is heard and valued, ensuring a sense of belonging for all staff members. The foundational step lies in securing a commitment from both leaders and staff members.

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Psychology Communication Adoption Mental Health 52

Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services first declared a 90-day public health emergency (PHE). In 2020, Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act that provided states enhanced funding for Medicaid and CHIP and required states to adopt continuous coverage for individuals and families through the end of the PHE.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. Among the enormous harms of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is a dramatic escalation in the number of times children’s rights to their parents are terminated.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As the story explains: The system that promises to monitor these facilities and protect children from abuse often devalues the child’s perspective of what happened — communicating to them time and time again that they are untrustworthy and unbelievable. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them. That’s where Arabella died.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Vermonts human services agency continued to send teens there even after the incidents. Disability Rights Ohio Director Kerstin Sjoberg said neither Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services nor the center, Youth Intensive Services, are working to correct the problems.

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