NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. And so, Mossaides concludes A decision to explore adoption for Harmony should have been pursued earlier. Sorey’s fight for her daughter in this excellent story from The Boston Globe.

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Community Care

JUNE 10, 2024

New DoLS prioritisation tool Against this backdrop, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has adopted a new tool to help councils prioritise DoLS applications that was developed by West Midlands ADASS. In the original, tool acute and psychiatric hospitals were automatically given high priority.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

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. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

As a result, we have transformed youth residential centers into Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs) and Qualified Residential Treatment Programs (QRTPs). KVC has recognized the need to provide residential services as a treatment type, not as a living situation for children.

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Clinical Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2022

(This constructivist trope of sense-making as organising is so central to so much psychology, from Kelly onwards that it can boggle psychologists' heads if you suggest we'd actually do better to adopt a rather more Aristotelian, rather less Kantian, anthropology.) This can be important to note in its own right, of course. (By

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

Over the last 25 years, KVC Kansas has served tens of thousands of children and families with parenting education and support, mental health treatment, foster care, family reunification services, adoption, and other vital services. The organization employs 1,500 professionals across Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Kentucky, and West Virginia.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

The magazine covered the gamut of social work and social care including child protection, adoption, mental health and services for disabled and older people. Even at university, Mark got involved with the International Voluntary Service, where he started a group to help psychiatric patients with painting and decorating.

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Relias

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In 2020, the American Psychiatric Association noted that? amount of telehealth adoption prior to the COVID-19 pandemic,?some Whether your organization chooses to adopt an LMS, EHR, or any other?tool, may be some pushback to adopting a new tool, don’t let this deter your efforts at digital transformation. a majority of?their

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

story about the overuse of psychiatric medication on kids. ? They include such bastions of the family policing establishment as the Children’s Defense Fund, the Child Welfare League of America and the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. In The New York Times even social problems can be gentrified.

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Clinical Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Suffice it for now to say that she's a 28 year old only child who has mainly stayed in a psychiatric hospital during the last 10 years, and who was evacuated to live away from her parents during WWII. Her diagnosis is 'paranoid schizophrenia'; she believes others can read her thoughts and are constantly discussing her.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

It involves a nine-year-old girl trapped in a psychiatric hospital only because the state family police agency had no place to put her. The state allowed the couple to retain custody of their foster children and later adopt them despite nearly 20 complaints of misconduct. NPR and The Marshall Project exposed the practice in 2021.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

They provide family strengthening services , foster care , family reunification services , foster family recruitment and support , adoption , aftercare , outpatient therapy and more. KVC West Virginia KVC West Virginia has been around for more than 20 years, serving children, individuals and families in need of support.

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