All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

If you are considering adoption, congratulations! However, the adoption journey can prove difficult to navigate if you don’t have the understanding and resources necessary to guide you through the child adoption process. What are your feelings on international adoption vs. domestic adoption?

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 14, 2024

To make the transition easier, here are a few helpful tips from the Division of Child Welfare’s Education Specialists. Communicate. Find your student’s school district’s Child Welfare Education Liaison (CWEL). Find folks your student trusts at school and keep them updated. Don’t know where to start? or lindsey.tapp@state.co.us

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

In addition, simulations often cover a range of topics such as child welfare home visits, assessment skills, and interprofessional teamwork. Health Communications. Health Communications. The goal of a simulation is to offer students an alternative or mock situation of a real one to meet specific learning outcomes. Peterson, D.T,

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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. A human services worker can experience and hear things day after day that are challenging, painful, and difficult.

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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.

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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.

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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. Not everything has changed for Maggie and her family.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This is why many agencies and local authorities have adopted standardised social worker home visit checklists. Moreover, clients without internet access or a computer may struggle to effectively communicate with their case manager or other social workers, potentially leading to misunderstandings or missed opportunities for support.

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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.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

But with states around the country changing law, policy and practice to reduce child welfare agencies’ footprint, the number of “child maltreatment victims” cited by ACF is likely more a reflection of policy and practice than an indicator of actual maltreatment. Exhibit S-2 summarizes the findings of the newest report.

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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.

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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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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He began his career at a time when, on the back of the 1968 Seebohm report, pre-existing welfare, children’s and mental health services had just been merged into unified social services departments in local authorities. The media] was handled by me, not some communications officer who didn’t understand the things we needed to talk about.

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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. Police officers and child welfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m. In the Albany Times Union, NCCPR offers some answers. ●

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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. That’s where Arabella died.

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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.

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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. How did DCYF reduce foster care by nearly 50 percent? Failure to obtain information from treatment and service providers.

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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.

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