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Colorado recognizes March as Brain Injury Awareness Month

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Back to Blogs News & Press Colorado recognizes March as Brain Injury Awareness Month DENVER (March 3, 2025) More than 5,000 Coloradans are hospitalized with a brain injury each year and more than a half-million Coloradans are living with a brain injury. Brain injuries can impact anyone, said Russha Knauer, director of MINDSOURCE.

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NCCPR at the Kempe Center Conference: Attn: Family Police: Children's "well-being" is none of your damn business!

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The family police took the noble concept of permanence and confused it with permanence in only one form – the paper permanence of formal adoption by strangers. It opted for the paper permanence of adoption, in which often a child is cut off from Mom and Dad to the point of doing everything possible to eradicate them from that child’s life.

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A reminder: The horror stories go in ALL directions

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These stories appeared just in March and April of 2023: ● In San Diego , KNSD-TV reports , A San Diego mother filed a $10 million wrongful death claim against the county last month, saying Child Welfare Services failed her 11-year-old biological daughter, Aarabella McCormack, who died in the hospital last August.

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“Maybe we're just too damn intrusive": Tracing the take-the-child-and-run mentality that has endangered Massachusetts children for more than a century

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Mom is a powerful treatment,” said Dr. Matthew Grossman, a pediatric hospitalist at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital who has studied the care of opioid-dependent babies. During the trial, one expert after another said the same thing: Witnessing domestic violence can be emotionally harmful for a child.

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NCCPR's new Issue Paper: The Failure of Mandatory Reporting

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And rather than face clandestine drug testing and suspicion from medical professionals who are mandatory reporters, pregnant people stay away from prenatal care and giving birth in hospitals. Among those who suffer most: Children of domestic violence victims.

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All You Need To Know About Social Work Articles

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In social work, various articles cover topics such as social work articles on mental health, social work articles on domestic violence, social work articles on learning disabilities, medical social work articles, school social work articles and clinical social work articles. Social Work Quotes.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending March 14, 2023

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As CBC News reports, that suit calls the modern Canadian family policing system "the next round of cultural genocide and discrimination toward First Nations." ● Two big new studies, one in JAMA Open and one in Academic Pediatrics examine who gets drug tested in hospitals and who doesn’t. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them.