Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

A clutch of social workers have been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours list, announced this week. 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.

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Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Brittney Barros, dual MSW and MPP student, will brief Congress this week on the Protecting Sibling Relationships in Foster Care Act, legislation which Barros developed as a 2018 intern with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI). Barros speaks this Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 1 PM.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 17, 2024

Christina has been a licensed foster parent in the state of Washington for six years and has adopted one child from the foster care system. Prior to becoming a foster parent, she was a CASA for three years. by Christina Faucett I am honored to publish this essay from Christina Faucett.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The government must set up a task force to tackle longstanding racial disparities in the adoption system, including by making the workforce more diverse. This was because of an increasing focus on the role of race in identity formation and the challenges of transracial adoptions. Lack of diversity in adoption workforce and panels .

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

These five adoption stories couldn’t help but bring a smile to our faces, and we hope they bring one to yours too! Retirees Find Joy in Adoption As a retired couple, Al and Jan still had the desire to have a child in their life but knew that an infant or toddler might not be the best fit. Helping Hand Home For Children 3.

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

KVC Health Systems’ largest subsidiary, KVC Kansas , has been a foster care case management provider on behalf of the Kansas Department for Children and Families since 1996. In this case, the data has been de-identified and will only be analyzed for children who are no longer in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We have forced millions into foster care where the rate of abuse is, in fact, vastly higher than in the general population and, independent studies show , vastly higher than agencies admit in official figures. And did it make children safer? That failure should surprise no one. So, how did that work out?

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

March is National Social Work Month and KVC is honoring the incredible ways that social workers, clinicians, and other professionals improve the lives of children, adults and families. They bring compassion, knowledge, and care to their work and this makes a powerful positive impact in our communities every single day.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

Families facing investigation by the state family policing agency, the Department of Children and Families, get a lawyer, a social worker who can come up with alternatives to the cookie-cutter “service plans” issued by DCF, and a parent advocate, usually someone who’s been through the system himself or herself.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Children who met thresholds were left waiting up to six weeks to see a social worker due to “significant, widespread and systemic” weaknesses in a council’s front door service, Ofsted has found. An inspirational social work leader’: tributes paid to children’s director who died after contracting Covid.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The harms of removal and sometimes also foster care can produce “worse long-term outcomes than if the child had remained at home” in many cases … But Michigan’s removal statutes do not require courts to balance these harms against the harm that might result from staying home. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care. Parents who lose their children to foster care, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Investing in social workers in the face of “extremely challenging constraints in funding” has helped a council improve its Ofsted grade from inadequate to requires improvement. Boost to social worker numbers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2023

● New England Public Media has an excellent story about how Massachusetts is piloting the most promising innovation in the country for safely reducing needless foster care. Tearing apart families because of foster-care panic is common; admitting that’s why you’re doing it is not. Lopez’s oldest child.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Their decision to care for a child is often made at times of family crisis, triggering heightened stress and anxiety, with little planning or preparation. They have not made a proactive choice to become a foster carer or adopter, but find themselves in a situation, not of their own choosing, but wishing to safeguard a child they love.

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Swhelper

JANUARY 21, 2022

After helplessly watching her sister try to navigate the international adoption process, Felicia Curcuru launched Binti in an effort to reinvent foster care and adoption. The software Binti creates helps social workers […]. View Full Article - Technology and Entrepreneurship in Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

If this all weren’t so dangerous the answer would be laugh-out-loud funny: They know it works, they say, not because the algorithm was good at predicting actual child abuse, but because, in many cases, it was good at predicting whether a child would wind up in foster care! So really guys, you didn’t need to bother!

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

A student contacted me recently wanting tips on how to write on the topic; ‘why I want to be a social worker’ I explained the great benefits of being a social worker. I also embedded myself in this task and wrote with my own experiences and views on why I became a social worker in an essay format.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

This may be due to older siblings already having been adopted or even being deemed too old to be adopted and therefore remaining in long-term foster care. The three-hour session was facilitated by nine professionals, including staff from Coram’s activity days team, social workers and play specialists.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Children are staying longer in the care system due to inequalities in payments to kinship carers, a report has found. However, there was a far smaller rise in the number of children leaving kinship foster care for an SGO over this time, with this figure rising by 10%, from 2,270 to 2,500 over this time.

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Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

By Zoe Ash and Toni Mayo Many statutory social workers find themselves in an uncomfortable dilemma when carrying out their duties. For some children, foster care, residential care or care by someone within their extended network is considered necessary for their immediate or longer-term safety.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Agents were also convinced of the subnormal intelligence of most non-WASP and especially non-English-speaking clients; indeed, the agents' comments and expectations in this early period were similar to social workers' views of black clients in the mid-twentieth century…. Not long after, there was a high-profile child abuse death.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

The NASW Code of Ethics is a set of standards that guide the professional conduct of social workers. The 2021 update includes language that addresses the importance of professional self-care. Moreover, revisions to the Cultural Competence standard provide more explicit guidance to social workers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. . Here's one way to do it: In Washington, D.C.,

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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

There are twice as many children in kinship care in the UK than there are in foster care, yet this type of care remains largely invisible – to the public and policymakers, but often to professionals too. But to achieve this there needs to be a strategic plan to develop properly resourced kinship care services.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

In its commentary in Child Maltreatment 2017 (CM2017), New Jersey attributed the one-year drop in children with substantiated dispositions from FFY 2016 to FFY2017 to a revised disposition model it adopted in April 2013. There is one possible explanation for this decline, which I raised in a 2021 blog.

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yolanda currently is a Social Worker in the Statewide Quality Improvement Division’s Case Practice Review Unit. Yolanda has experience working with families as a Social Worker in the Ongoing Social Work Unit, Sexual Abuse Specialty Unit, Medically Complex Specialty Unit and Permanency Specialty Unit.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker. Smith was taken into care as a baby, spending the first 11 years of his life in a foster home before those same carers adopted him. “I had a really positive experience of social workers,” he says.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

The NASW Code of Ethics is a set of standards that guide the professional conduct of social workers. The 2021 update includes language that addresses the importance of professional self-care. Moreover, revisions to the Cultural Competence standard provide more explicit guidance to social workers.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

The legislation mandates early intervention to keep families intact when possible and reduce the need for foster care. It also strengthens post-adoption services. This is another example of why it is so important for social workers to be engaged in legislative settings at all levels of government,” Dr. Day concluded.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

The independent researchers, who received data from the county, also found that social workers disagreed with the risk scores the algorithm produced about one-third of the time. In my own commentary for CommonWealth Magazine last month, I suggested some alternatives. ?

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

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. Social Work Speaks is a reference tool that represents the collective thinking of thousands of social workers across all fields of practice.

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KVC

JUNE 23, 2021

Foster parents can especially be a welcome source of encouragement and reassurance to birth parents and can act as their parenting partners while their children are in foster care. Click here to learn more about becoming a foster parent. Safe family reunification is the number one goal of foster care.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Its key measures prior to RCC implementation are the existing programme to invest £259m in building children’s homes, from 2022-25, and a £27m increase for foster care recruitment and retention, over the next two years.

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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. Follow This Link to Learn About Faculty Exam Copies Other Sample Titles Below. The Delegate Assembly, NASW’s key policymaking body, meets every three years.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Practitioners will be supported to develop, and be assessed against, the “skills and knowledge needed to support and protect vulnerable children”, and, in years three to five, to develop into “expert practitioners” This will be tested by a group of early adopter councils with a view to full implementation in 2026.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

Vic Rayner (@vicrayner) December 31, 2022.

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