NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

● Law schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University released a joint report on the state’s “central registry” of those whom a caseworker decided were slightly more likely than not to be child abusers. Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files?

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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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Shelter, Inc

JULY 18, 2023

Simone brings over fifteen years of fund development and philanthropic innovation, primarily in human services and child welfare. Simone most recently served as VP Development at The Cradle, a recognized leader in infant adoption, where she successfully developed and implemented a fundraising plan to drive sustainable growth.

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Gary Anderson, MSW ‘76 Professor, School of Social Work, Michigan State University. He has been the editor for the journal Child Welfare, director of the Michigan State University School of Social Work, and has served in Michigan on the Governor’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. Learn more about the Distinguished Alumni Award ».

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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.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This type of contract means that individuals and insurers pay based on the value of care provided, rather than the number of services. While value-based contracts are widely used in other healthcare fields, their application in behavioral health is far from universal. Know what is “in it for them.”

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Relias

APRIL 28, 2023

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. It can be used to support services that appropriately address the needs of people who may have experienced trauma.

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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?

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

. ● And finally, from WRAL-TV: State and Smithfield police are investigating a report from a 7-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted inside the Johnston County Department of Social Services building by a 17-year-old boy. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them. That’s where Arabella died.

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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. Among the enormous harms of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is a dramatic escalation in the number of times children’s rights to their parents are terminated.

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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. Decades later, Stacy Torres, now a professor of sociology at the University of California, San Francisco, writes in Vital City that the wounds have not healed. He was institutionalized.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services first declared a 90-day public health emergency (PHE). In 2020, Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act that provided states enhanced funding for Medicaid and CHIP and required states to adopt continuous coverage for individuals and families through the end of the PHE.

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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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