NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Reporters can identify with foster parents – they probably know some, or at least have friends who do – or if not that, then they may have friends who adopted a foster child. So birth parents become, at best, nonentities, at worst those awful people their foster or adoptive parent friends told them about.

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KVC

JUNE 13, 2023

If you have such a story, sharing it with others or with a mental health professional can help you feel freer and lighter, encourage others, and can even change the world by sparking hope. Do you believe every child deserves to be safe and connected to a strong family? We received many entries to our 2022 Story Contest.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

She also abused prescription opioids and had mental health issues. If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides. Unfortunately, much of child welfare operates with a pre- Gault mentality.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

The newest report from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) showed that the number of children in foster care dropped to 368,530 on September in 2022–a drop of 5.8 Of course the supporters of FFPSA ignored this basic fact and claimed the legislation would revolutionize child welfare!).

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. 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.

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

As of July 2023, KVC Health Systems ranks High or Above Average in 14 of the 15 categories. This means KVC is outperforming its peers in child welfare and mental health, its peers in healthcare more broadly, and even most for-profit companies across all sectors.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices. In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes.

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KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In recent years, some Kansas children in foster care have ended up sleeping in child welfare offices overnight because there were no relatives, foster homes or care centers available. With no foster families or treatment centers available, Alex ended up spending the night in a child welfare office. Across the U.S., Let’s rewind.

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KVC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

KVC hosts this event every October to thank the generous supporters who have enabled the nonprofit organization to strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help people achieve mental health wellness. During this time, KVC Health Systems’ nearly 1,500 team members across the U.S.

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

New Research: LGBTQIA+ Youth Mental Health & How You Can Help. A shocking 42% of LGBTQ youth considered suicide in the last year, and 70% of LGBTQ youth reported poor mental health throughout most of the pandemic. Meet Children Who Need Loving, Adoptive Forever Families. Read it now. Read it now. Read it now.

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KVC

MAY 19, 2023

She was adopted, but the family was not able to stay together. Robin’s Early Childhood and Adoption In 1988, Robin was born in the historic city of Philadelphia. This federal law allocates millions of dollars to mental health and substance use treatment services to help families like Robin’s remain safely together.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Social workers are helping to address the impact that the pandemic has had on children’s mental health. As I listened to global social work leaders during the event, I was inspired by the reports of social work’s vital role in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by all United Nations member states in 2015.

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

Now, child welfare leader KVC Health Systems and graduate students at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas are working together to unlock the power of data analytics for the state’s most vulnerable children – those served by the child welfare system.

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Relias

AUGUST 22, 2022

Compassion fatigue/burnout/emotionally draining work – We see these issues arising more and more , especially when working in child welfare, with a high cost/complex population of individuals with multiple chronic conditions. A human services worker can experience and hear things day after day that are challenging, painful, and difficult.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

This bill would reauthorize Title IV-B of the Social Security Act to strengthen child welfare services and expand the availability of prevention services. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means, which held a hearing on the legislation on July 24, following a year-long review of child welfare programs.

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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. Chapters examine distinct content areas, such as child welfare, aging, the climate crisis, and forced migration. Currently, about 5.4

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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.

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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.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Practitioners from the communities have produced a guide to carrying out welfare enquiries to help social workers and others support families affected by the measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. ” Welfare enquiries ‘not routinely carried out’. “So social workers need to separate those two things.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

If you are in another state, please contact your nearest state child welfare agency office. Funds raised through these events support our work strengthening families, preventing child abuse and neglect, and helping people experience mental health wellness. You might find this AdoptUSKids state directory helpful.

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Community Care

MAY 22, 2024

Announcing the election, Sunak referenced global security, defence spending, NHS investment, funding for local transport, schools standards, welfare reform, immigration levels, sending asylum seekers to Rwanda and his plans to prevent future generations from buying cigarettes.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

In social work, various articles cover topics such as social work articles on mental health, social work articles on domestic violence, social work articles on learning disabilities, medical social work articles, school social work articles and clinical social work articles. Social Work in Mental Health Settings” by Kevin J.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Prior to 2020, the field of social work was limited in its adoption of digital practice. Following each set of cases, Reamer includes commentary highlighting key ethics concepts and references to relevant standards in the Code of Ethics.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This is why many agencies and local authorities have adopted standardised social worker home visit checklists. Observe and document signs of the client’s mental health status. Pay Attention to Mental Health Indicators During a social worker home visit, the primary concern is often the physical well-being of your loved one.

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Child Advocates

JULY 28, 2023

“There’s a push to stop the conversations–to stop educating people. Why don’t we want to share knowledge? Some people who. The post How You and Our Youth Can Interrupt Racism | Podcast Episode 20 appeared first on Child Advocates.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Adoption and Safe Families Act have destroyed the lives of millions of children and families. And they commissioned a poll from Gallup , which appears to have been geared toward encouraging more Black families to foster and adopt. But there is. I don’t know.

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

KVC Health Systems is a family of nonprofit organizations working to strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental health wellness. Our Two Families Became One’: Fostering Leads to Adoption and a Lifelong Relationship. Submitted by Jamie Kelsey, KVC Kansas.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

The Child Welfare League (CWLA), in written testimony submitted to the SFC, added that residential services are “a small but important part of the full array of services” that must be available to meet children’s mental health needs.” ” As evidence, the report cites a 2013 report that showed 28.8

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work. The phrase is an invitation to inflict the whims and prejudices of a white middle-class “child welfare” establishment on families that are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite. That’s why he’s no longer the dean. (He

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

In each of those periods, the child welfare system saw a significant increase in the number of children moved into foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed. However, there is some hope in the form of federal assistance for the child welfare system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

In 2024, the Kentucky family police agency took away a child whose adoptive parents just needed help to cope with her behavioral problems. Jamie Thompson called for action on how state-run mental health facilities operate. He was institutionalized. He ran away, and he died. Unfortunately, you can guess what happened next.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A 10% drop in the police’s use of powers to remove people to a place of safety has been linked to a policy restricting forces’ response to mental health incidents. The detention lasts up to 24 hours, extendable for a further 12 to complete the assessment. The Met introduced RCRP in November 2023.

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KVC

JUNE 16, 2022

Mental health can pose many challenges for young people, and the statistics are particularly startling for LGBTQIA+ youth. Rejection and trauma are heartbreaking for a child and can negatively impact their brain development , mental health and their long-term wellbeing. Watch for Mental Health Warning Signs.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: This conference is devoted to the Human Rights Day (every year on 10 December) — the day when the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Child Welfare. Inequality, Poverty, and Social Welfare Policy. Mental Health. Disability.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, because of serious case reviews arising from the unfortunate death of service users over the last decade, there has been a massive pressure on the social work profession to adopt some more robust strategies when working with service users (Payne, 2014). Welfare and wellbeing: Social value in public policy , Bristol: Policy Press.

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