KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed. KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Healthcare Welfare Mental Health 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files? Records that have to be “admitted” into the database [but may not have been] include substance abuse records, visitation records and medical records. Or haven’t been reunited with them? issued a report on one.

Foster Care 74

Foster Care Substance Abuse Child Welfare Disability 74

Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy. Addressing substance abuse and addiction issues.

Code of Ethics 52

Code of Ethics Substance Abuse Justice and Corrections Social Worker 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

First, in more than two-thirds of all Massachusetts cases, no substance abuse of any kind is even alleged. Second, all substance use isn’t opioids. There is no breakdown of how often the substance at issue is one that is now legal in Massachusetts: marijuana. That, too, fails for several reasons.

Foster Care 98

Foster Care Domestic Violence Child Welfare Welfare 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. In 2024, the Kentucky family police agency took away a child whose adoptive parents just needed help to cope with her behavioral problems. He was institutionalized. He ran away, and he died.

Child Welfare 111

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Domestic Violence 111

Relias

JULY 20, 2023

The new measures included the Birthing-Friendly hospital designation to help reduce maternal mortality and morbidity. It can occur with or without previous mental health factors, such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or domestic risks. Sadly, U.S. rates are continuing to rise. Collaborative care models can save lives.

Hospitals 40

Hospitals Medicaid Mental Health Medicare 40

Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

On a page dedicated to KFTA implementation, DCYF explains that it has implemented the law by adopting new policies and procedures to determine whether to remove a child and by training and supporting staff to implement the new procedures and determine whether there is an imminent risk of serious harm to the child.

Domestic Violence 264

Domestic Violence Foster Care Substance Abuse Child Welfare 264