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7 Ways To Improve Your Human Services Organization

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Human services organizations constantly have to navigate change. To help health and human service organizations get ahead, we’re sharing action items based on current trends in human services. Some temporary regulatory measures that made telehealth adoption easier during the pandemic have now faded away.

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An Overview of Motivational Interviewing and the Stages of Change

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Motivational Interviewing is an important technique in the field of behavior change and therapeutic communication. Miller and Stephen Rollnick, motivational interviewing has evolved into a widely adopted approach for facilitating positive changes in individuals. What is motivational interviewing?

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Oct. 1, 2024

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Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast. Vermont’s human services agency continued to send teens there — even after the incidents. Kennedy was born July 14, 2014, and was adopted in November 2018. This story from The Imprint has a good summary of Prof. Police believe she died in late 2020.

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Myth-making in Maine

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Department of Health and Human Services Trends in Foster Care and Adoption, FFY 2011-2020 Using the same limited measures, OPEGA suggests that child abuse deaths in June 2021 didn’t have much effect, since investigations didn’t increase. Source: U.S. isn’t reassuring. Caseworkers themselves understand.

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The Stages of Change Model and How To Implement It

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By acknowledging and respecting the client’s current stage, behavioral health professionals can adopt appropriate communication strategies. Motivational interviewing , a technique aligned with the Stages of Change, can be particularly beneficial in eliciting clients’ motivations and enhancing their commitment to change.

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How To Take a Trauma-Informed Approach to Birth Trauma

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A trauma-informed approach to birth trauma To help your clients cope with and overcome the effects of birth trauma, it’s important that your organization adopt a trauma-informed approach to care. The goal of trauma-informed care (TIC) is to prevent traumatization, or re-traumatization.

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. But Alberi seems to want OCFS to adopt a policy that boils down to: Please pass the salt. His hiring is, frankly, inexplicable.