All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

If you are considering adoption, congratulations! However, the adoption journey can prove difficult to navigate if you don’t have the understanding and resources necessary to guide you through the child adoption process. What are your feelings on international adoption vs. domestic adoption?

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Relias

JANUARY 25, 2024

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 Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The money goes to two adoption advocacy groups (reinforcing the bias that permanency equals adoption, not reunification, and prioritizing paper permanence over what has aptly been called “ relational permanence ”) not one, but two schools of social work, and – I kid you not - a consortium of child welfare system administrators.

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Community Care

JANUARY 15, 2025

Phase 9 of the series covered 2022-24 and was based on data from 124 local authorities, extrapolated to cover all 153 councils, survey responses from 86 authorities and interviews with 34 directors of children’s services. from 2020-24.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

There’s still more about the harm of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ● Shanta Trivedi, director of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts at the University of Baltimore explains why "The Adoption and Safe Families Act is Not Worth Saving: The Case for Repeal."

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

So, for example, researchers for the Casey Family Programs Northwest Foster Care Alumni study interviewed 479 foster care alumni in Oregon and Washington State – including alumni of Casey’s own program, considered to be a model program. No actual foster youth will be interviewed about her or his own experiences.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

This may be due to older siblings already having been adopted or even being deemed too old to be adopted and therefore remaining in long-term foster care. An older teen was there to spend time with their baby brother who was adopted. If they, decide to meet up with the other adoptive family, brilliant.

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Relias

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

In her interview with NEPM Mossaides made clear she prefers “another new program, based at the nonprofit agency Plummer Youth Promise, that provides mediators to work with parents and the child welfare agency.” The remainder, 14,345 cases, are labeled simply as “neglect.” Then it was back to the fearmongering.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

The researchers who wrote the article for JAMA Pediatrics debunking the whole “pandemic of child abuse” myth discuss their findings in this interview. Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him.

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Jaeran Kim

AUGUST 11, 2017

I was fortunate to be asked to present at the Pact adoption family camp. I presented a keynote about school issues based on the article I published with Pact’s Executive Director Beth Hall for the book Transracial and Intercountry Adoption.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In this BBC interview , Taliah Drayak of the Parents, Families and Allies Network describes what it’s done to children and families – including her own. Speaking of really awful laws and policies, The Imprint has an overview of efforts to repeal, or at least amend, one of the worst: the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

To become a CASA a volunteer must be at least 21 years old and complete a background check and interview process. Most importantly a CASA is someone who has a passion to serve children and families coming from hard places,” said Kristen Blessman, Interim State Executive Director at Colorado CASA.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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Relias

JULY 6, 2022

How you conduct interviews also has a big impact. Many people prefer in-person interviews so they can assess visual cues. However, phone interviews could provide more objective candidate evaluations for a variety of reasons. They can also provide a more comfortable initial interview experience for applicants.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. The magazine covered the gamut of social work and social care including child protection, adoption, mental health and services for disabled and older people. On 3 April 1974, the first ever issue of Community Care was published.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding. Barriers to implementation Participants reported challenges and barriers to adoption and implementation of digital safeguarding at both national and local level.

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Community Care

JUNE 16, 2022

It lists all children in contact with the local authority through early help, child in need, child protection, the care, care leavers and being placed for adoption; and details of all events such as referrals, assessments, strategy discussions, last conference, review or visit etc. Tips if you are due to be interviewed by Ofsted.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. Here’s an excerpt: … It’s not acceptable in most family courts to explicitly argue that, if you have more material advantages to provide a child, you should get to adopt him or her.

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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It explains the fundamental concepts of parental responsibility and human rights, and private and public law, including care proceedings and adoption. If then, How to Ace Your Job Interview by socialworkhaven.com is your ticket! How often have you heard of someone not succeeding at a job interview? I can promise you that.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

Ecomap interview questions should always be in the form of open – ended questions. Genograms lay out the mechanics of people’s relationship (niece by adoption, third cousin once removed, etc.) How do you create a family ecomap? When creating a family ecomap, you look at the sources of support. Who do you spend most time with?

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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. The goal of trauma-informed care (TIC) is to prevent traumatization, or re-traumatization.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

At the federal level the law that makes everything worse is the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. Rise interviews Rutgers Prof. The Imprint reports on a bill that would make ASFA less awful. ? But guess who took away the kids in the first place. I have the answer in this blog post. ?

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

They were based on interviews with 44 parents of 59 children from 13 local authorities in England and Wales. Focus groups put forward parents’ joint recommendations on the reform of supervision orders based on the key recommendations arising from the individual interviews.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Publisher’s Weekly interviewed Roxanna Asgarian about her forthcoming book, We Were Once a Family , the story of “how flaws in the child welfare system contributed to the 2018 murder-suicide of six children by their adoptive parents.”

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Relias

MARCH 5, 2024

Some temporary regulatory measures that made telehealth adoption easier during the pandemic have now faded away. In an interview with Social Work Today , John Jay said, “As organizations adapt to and become more accustomed to delivering telehealth, telehealth is going to be more prevalent in behavioral health moving forward.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Citing the wider body of research into the practice, it said local authorities had generally adopted agile working to make efficiency savings, not in response to social workers’ needs. The final year’s survey included questions on the impact of Covid-19.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Pearce told Community Care that these should include a calculated fair cost for care and rules on provider behaviour, in an interview at this year’s National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC).

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

We interviewed them to learn more about what it’s like to serve in these important roles with KVC. I was adopted myself and have my own personal background with the foster care system. At any given time, these hard-working case managers are working with up to 20 children or families. Dalton Shump, Victoria Clark and Micah McEwan.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Foundations study, based on survey responses from 80 councils (52% of the total), interviews with staff from 35 of these and round table discussions with 31 kinship carers, examined how far authorities provided support to the different types of kinship carer.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 2, 2022

An increasing number of children were placed with adopters, special guardians and long-term foster carers, with the latter being described as “appropriately assessed, trained and supported”. However, as records of return home interviews were not always stored electronically, professionals could not access them to safeguard children.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The inspectorate’s latest report found improvements in the quality and frequency of children’s review meetings, said life-story workwas taking place with more children, that children were helped to achieve permanence through adoption and that it had introduced permanence tracking.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 25, 2025

Ten-year-old Begidu Morris died more than three years ago of horrific child abuse by his parents, who adopted him from Ethiopia. But there was no avalanche of media coverage of his death, no interviews with shocked neighbors saying they had no idea the child even existed. No pyramid of teddy bears and flowers outside his home.

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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. Writing a social work article requires research and an understanding of the field.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“Adopt the mentality of a lion and never settle for anything less than greatness.” Well, writing a letter of recommendation can be a powerful tool in helping social workers advance in their careers, prepare for their interviews, secure job opportunities, or pursue educational endeavors.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

The report describes a pattern of poor conditions and abusive practices that the SFC staff observed by reviewing media articles and company documents, supplemented by interviews with senior leaders in the four companies and visits to several facilities not operated by these companies.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The agencies call it “child support” but listen closely at 36:23 in, and you’ll hear Imprint editor John Kelly use the R-word :-)) The interview starts at 16:40 in. Department of Justice concerning possible bias against the disabled.

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