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. A few years later, the parent organization KVC Health Systems was created. Each is a nonprofit that provides direct services to children and families.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

They argue that organizations that prioritize self-care for social work and human services staff are more likely to improve client care and productivity. Policies that adopted surrounding these tenets can increase morale, greater leadership within staff, and deepen an agency’s ability to improve client care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

courts adopted a rule requiring balance of harms, entries into foster care decreased sharply. In this case, she wrote, From the point of court involvement to the final hearing, the respondent-mother made immense progress toward the goals laid out by [the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services] in her agency treatment plan.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

It’s when organizations are adaptable and trauma-informed and adopt a culture that fosters resilience within their staff. Resilience is particularly helpful when working with behavioral health clients because it mitigates the impacts of trauma and prevents burnout. What is organizational resilience?

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

In 43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals , Gerald O’Brien provides a resource to overcome these challenges, because policy familiarity contributes to social workers’ fundamental understanding of the individuals, communities, institutions, and governments they serve.

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Relias

AUGUST 23, 2022

For those working in human services, compassion fatigue and the associated symptoms of burnout occur all too often. Caring for clients going through trauma or who have difficult living conditions can have adverse effects on staff’s mental health. Trauma is always defined by the individual.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Prior to 2020, the field of social work was limited in its adoption of digital practice. However, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional, in-person service delivery was dramatically interrupted. 43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals by Gerald V.

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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. As students of social work or other human services professions, it is essential that we understand how economic well-being—or the lack thereof—shapes people’s lives.

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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. As students of social work or other human services professions, it is essential that we understand how economic well-being—or the lack thereof—shapes people’s lives.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Prior to 2020, the field of social work was limited in its adoption of digital practice. However, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional, in-person service delivery was dramatically interrupted. 43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals by Gerald V.

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Relias

JANUARY 24, 2024

By adopting a trauma-informed perspective, juvenile justice systems and organizations can address immediate legal concerns but also foster healing, resilience, and positive transformation for young people engaged in the juvenile justice system. Behavioral health professionals usually conduct these types of assessments.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This could, in part, be due to the longstanding cultural separation of the mind and the body, and thus mental health and physical health, in Western medicine. Caring for an individual’s holistic health has only begun to gain widespread acceptance and adoption within the last several decades.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Whether at their chosen place of worship, a local non-profit, or through work, involvement in the community encourages better health. Veterans engaged in these programs had a 38% reduction in opioid use, reported an improved ability to handle stress, and reduced the costs of their mental health care.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Organizations adopt care coordination to improve health outcomes and reduce the financial cost of treatments by streamlining care delivery and reducing or eliminating redundancies in care. Members assigned to this high-risk category are assigned a care coordinator, which is often paid for by the payer/health plan.

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Relias

APRIL 10, 2025

The CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule applies to 17 different healthcare provider and supplier types.

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Relias

JANUARY 25, 2024

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

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

Speaking of West Virginia, this horror ended there but, in fairness, the blame rests primarily with Minnesota, where, this Associated Press story reports , the children were first adopted. (If

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Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2022

As America faces a mental health crisis, the need for suicide prevention services is more imperative than ever. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, suicide is ranked as the second primary cause of death in young people among the ages of 10 to 34 and the tenth most frequent cause of death in the United States.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services found that a 10% increase in opioid-related overdose deaths directly corresponded with a 4.4% Some highlights of the Family First Prevention Services Act include: 1. Services to prevent foster care These services help reduce the need for foster care in the first place.

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All For Kids

MARCH 12, 2025

Here are some ways a solid father-daughter bond positively impacts a daughters mental and emotional development. Mental Health Benefits Research shows a positive father-daughter relationship boosts a daughters mental health. Overall, they reported better emotional and mental health.

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Relias

MAY 20, 2024

For one, offer flexible benefits that work with the health needs of your staff. Programs like paid time off for mental health days and access to counseling through work can go a long way to mitigating burnout, compassion fatigue, and other signs of extreme stress or trauma.

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Relias

APRIL 6, 2022

Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit American shores in early 2020, mental health experts have worried about its potential effects on those they serve — and with good reason. Measures like social distancing necessary to preserve our physical health took a toll on our mental well-being.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Landry runs the Office of Child and Family Services within Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. One summary, in its entirely states: A parent had significant mental health issues and the inability to protect the children from domestic violence. His hiring is, frankly, inexplicable.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Back to Blogs News & Press Celebrating Four Colorado Adoptive Families November is National Adoption Month DENVER (Nov. 4, 2024) — In honor of National Adoption Month, the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) is spotlighting four incredible families who adopted seven Colorado children and youth from foster or kinship care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But also shortly after birth, her aunt and uncle, Tige and Karen Nishimoto came forward and said they wanted to adopt the girl. We don’t know why, but we do know this: An evaluation from the Oregon Department of Human Services, described the child as “white – no cultural issues.” Yet somehow, A.N. Well – two other states anyway.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The term “social determinants of health” refers to non-medical factors in the environments where we are born, live, work and play that impact various health-related outcomes and risks. Social and Community Context The relationships and connections a person has with others influence their mental and physical health.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Vermonts human services agency continued to send teens there even after the incidents. MLive reports that The CEO of Wolverine Human Services says her agency is taking seriously a lawsuit alleging staff at a now-closed facility routinely sexually abused its minor wards.

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