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CDHS honors five Colorado families in celebration of National Foster Care Month

CO4Kids

They have 10 biological children (three of whom still live at home), one adopted child and currently have four children in foster care living in their home. Not long after becoming a foster parent, Braggston welcomed siblings into his home, whom he eventually adopted brothers Nemo, 9, and August, 4. Homeowners or renters.

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Social workers honoured in King’s birthday list

Community Care

The recipients included a past and present principal social worker (PSW), the co-founder of the secure base model of therapeutic caregiving and a retired practitioner who used to support Holocaust survivors. It has been implemented in fostering, adoption and residential care placements in a number of local authorities.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 28, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● Also in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh’s highly-touted predictive analytics family policing algorithm reportedly is under investigation for bias against the disabled. Sarah Lorr’s new article about pervasive family police discrimination against disabled families, reviewed here (with a link to the full article) by Prof. Josh Gupta-Kagan.

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6 Principles of Trauma-Informed Care

Relias

Trauma-informed care is an approach to health and social services that recognizes the impact of trauma on people’s lives. These groups may face barriers to accessing and receiving culturally appropriate care and may mistrust and fear mainstream health and social systems.

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No funded social care commitments in Labour manifesto

Community Care

. “Alongside these changes, we will build consensus for the longer-term reform needed to create a sustainable national care service. ” Fair pay agreement not costed Labour said its proposed fair pay agreement would set “fair pay, terms and conditions, along with training standards” for adult social care staff. .”

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Seven lessons for practitioners from the review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland

Community Care

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. Parents of disabled children who need constant care may be exhausted.

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From care management to ‘social work as we know it’: Lyn Romeo on her decade as chief social worker

Community Care

Munro saw the role as serving three overarching functions: Providing professional advice to government, including on the challenges in delivering social work services and the profession’s contribution to achieving local and national outcomes.