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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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. Sibling bonds are truly one of a kind.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Global Agenda, developed by the International Federation of Social Workers, the International Association of Schools of Social Work, and the International Council on Social Welfare, calls for multilevel responses to concerns such as forced migration, air pollution, ecoanxiety, and food and water insecurity.

Code of Ethics 52

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Global Agenda, developed by the International Federation of Social Workers, the International Association of Schools of Social Work, and the International Council on Social Welfare, calls for multilevel responses to concerns such as forced migration, air pollution, ecoanxiety, and food and water insecurity.

Code of Ethics 52

Code of Ethics Private Practice Social Worker Engagement 52

Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes School of Social Work alumni whose achievements exemplify the values of the School of Social Work and who have made an exceptional impact on the profession, the community and/or Social Work education. Gary Anderson, MSW ‘76 Professor, School of Social Work, Michigan State University.

Child Welfare 52

Child Welfare Criminal Justice University Psychology 52

Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

The convening leaders included Rebecca Jones Gaston, the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families commissioner at the Administration for Children and Families within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Joining her was Aysha E. Schomburg, the associate commissioner of the Children’s Bureau.

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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. Additionally, 30% of these disorders are so severe that they lead to functional impairments.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Back to Blogs Community Blog Meet the Morgan County DHS Team: 100+ Years of Dedication and Expertise Morgan County Department of Human Services has a wealth of knowledge and experience in their Department of Human Services (DHS) staff. I also really love adoptions and that side of it too.

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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% Adoption, foster home recruitment, and reunification services The act provides 8 million dollars in competitive grants to support the recruitment and retention of highly qualified foster families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. “To Vermont’s human services agency continued to send teens there — even after the incidents.

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All For Kids

MARCH 12, 2025

They are more likely to end up in poverty or drop out of school, become addicted to drugs, have a child out of wedlock, or end up in prison. Single parenthood is tough, from working, paying bills, school drop-offs, extracurriculars, meal planning, grocery shopping, doctors appointments, love to nurturingit all adds up!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

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. The result is the Disney version of how a family policing agency works.

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Relias

APRIL 6, 2022

To help combat these rising numbers, 150 countries have put measures in place to strengthen the resources and services available to survivors of such abuse. But what crisis prevention and intervention measures can human services organizations provide?

Interventional 52

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. Janell, thrilled to avoid reading time, trotted off to the school office. There’s no question that some children live in dangerous environments, and it’s in their best interest to be removed from their homes.

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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

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. had written, I am a bad kid and I need to behave at school or Mommy and Daddy will be arrested. Department of Health and Human Services confirms it. O]nce outgoing and cheerful, [Y.A.]

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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. In September you send your son off to boarding school. Janell, thrilled to avoid reading time, trotted off to the school office.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Health starts in homes, schools, workplaces and communities. This might include the quality of schools, the safety of workplaces and the availability of clean food and water. In fact, our health is greatly determined by the conditions in which we live.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

At almost three years old, and after two straight years in foster care with the same family that fostered her from the start and wanted to adopt her, Harmony was returned to her mother for the second time. It would bar school districts and Health and Human Services from investigating educational neglect in a homeschool setting.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Consider what institutionalized young people told the Juvenile Law Center for their latest report on these places: What should have happened in my story is that someone should have asked me why I was always late to school. Vermonts human services agency continued to send teens there even after the incidents.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

That led to the tragedy exposed in this documentary from WRAL-TV, a tragedy allegedly including the murder of one of her children by the foster parent who adopted them. Other adopted foster children allegedly were tortured. I have a blog post with a link to the documentary and some additional context. Culprits include U.S.

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