Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Alito’s transgression was compounded by his public disdain of even the thought that SCOTUS should be required to adopt a formal code of ethics ― as evidenced by his bogus insistence that Congress does not have the power to impose mandatory oversight of the on and off the bench conduct of justices.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

If you take money from a federal program meant to help poor people become self-sufficient and spend it instead on investigating those families when their poverty is confused with neglect – and on paying middle-class foster parents – what do you call it? The PBS Newshour has an in-depth, finely-nuanced look at ASFA and the harm it has done.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Landers’ research: “more than 80% of Native American people who were fostered or adopted eventually reunify.” ● In New York, a bill that would allow children continued contact with their parents even after their legal rights to those parents have been terminated has – again – been passed by the State Legislature. That lasted 11 days….

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Relias

AUGUST 23, 2022

In order to take care of your staff, it’s important to adopt a trauma-informed care approach within your own organization. Trauma often leads the person to find a way of coping that works in the short term but causes serious harm in the long run. Offer other training regarding self-care.

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Relias

MAY 21, 2024

3 – Peer support and self-help Support from others with similar experiences is important, especially for individuals from marginalized communities. Building a trauma-informed organization and practice After integrating a trauma-informed approach into your own work, you may be ready to help others adopt this approach.

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The Child and Family Corp

JULY 22, 2024

Key takeaways for caregivers Social exclusion harms individuals of all ages, leading to feelings of loneliness, decreased self-esteem, and even changes in brain activity. For example, it can lead to feelings of loneliness and decreased self-esteem in children.

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Gateway Foundation

DECEMBER 19, 2022

State governments offer lotteries to increase revenue and fund projects such as senior services, environmental protection, and education, but lotteries can become harmful when people develop an addiction to them. Compulsive gambling support groups are excellent self-help opportunities. Adopt Healthy Habits.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. Image: Dzmitry/Adobe Stock Addressing these requires policy changes and for the government to adopt a digital safeguarding approach.

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Relias

MAY 25, 2022

Aiding their clients in learning self-care skills, such as exercise routines, healthy eating habits, and attending therapy. Any learning solution you adopt needs to help improve the clinical performance of your staff. Helping their clients to identify and practice positive coping mechanisms for stress or triggering events.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s what they write: Some may argue that because all harm indicators included here (e.g., Two of them, Sarah Font and Emily Putnam-Hornstein, are part of a group that did indeed send a letter – a letter rushing to the defense of a self-proclaimed “race realist” law professor who pals around with Tucker Carlson. On the contrary.

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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. I look forward to my weekend, especially Saturdays, to help me unwind and catch up with some self care! The post Social Worker Home Visit Checklist to Take Note Of first appeared on Social Work Haven.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Focusing on individual errors or specific cases to eliminate the causes, the authors reasoned, would not be as effective as adopting a systemic approach. AHRQ defined each of the domains as follows: Safe — avoiding harm to patients from the care that is intended to help them. Defining the Six Domains of Health Care Quality.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The panel acknowledges that there are a small number of children who are seriously harmed or die, where bruises have been seen by staff with a responsibility to protect children before more serious injuries have taken place. Is a bruise ‘reasonable cause to suspect significant harm’? Harming children and families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. As is so often the case with these algorithms, they are less prediction than self-fulfilling prophecy. . ● There is no opportunity for any family to opt-out or deny the use of their personal data.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? The errors go in all directions, and all of these errors harm children. ? Another criterion: “The degree of harm alleged to the child.” There are numerous scholarly articles regarding the potential harm of removal. She is dangerously wrong.

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KVC

JUNE 16, 2022

One report revealed that this support and acceptance is associated with greater self-esteem, social support, general health status, less depression, less substance abuse and less suicidal ideation and behaviors among LGBTQIA+ youth. Self-harming or harming others. Use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs.

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Relias

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Patient safety was defined by the Institute of Medicine two decades ago simply as “ the prevention of harm to patients.” They monitor patients’ conditions, administer medication, and convey self-care and discharge information. For example, an incorrect medication or dose can cause immediate harm.

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KVC

APRIL 10, 2023

Here are the most common types of child abuse: Emotional abuse: Mental or emotional abuse typically aims to impact a child’s well-being, self-esteem and self-worth. Physical injuries without an explanation or with an unconvincing story about its occurrence may indicate intentional harm to a child. Behavioral changes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Among the many perverse financial incentives in family policing is the emergence of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families a program intended to help families become self-sufficient as a child welfare slush fund. Unfortunately, the report did not find out how often parents are surrendering adopted children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

More than a decade ago I first wrote about how states use federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds – which are supposed to help poor people become self-sufficient – to investigate those same poor people and take away their children. In 2021 ProPublica published a superb expose of this practice.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Self-proclaimed liberal Elizabeth Bartholet wanted to force every pregnant woman to admit a spy into her living room from pregnancy until the child was preschool age. Bartholet doesn’t say if women would have to self-report their pregnancies or if their doctors or maybe their neighbors would turn them in.) Image created by openart.ai

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 4, 2024

Readers are invited to practice self-care while navigating this content and to consider reading the findings with a group to engage in collective reflection. It is a story of an agency that adopted these preferred approaches simultaneously with blind removal, making it impossible to evaluate any of the interventions.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

As amended by KFTA, the law now requires the agency to demonstrate that removal is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm to the child due to child abuse or neglect. in determining whether removal is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm to the child due to child abuse or neglect. Has DCYF given up on protecting children?

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In an article about The False Gods of Social Change Kevin Campbell, Cormac Russell and Elizabeth Wendell write: In practice, service users receiving aid from the government and charities exchange freedoms of self-determination, choice, participation, and control for the promise of subsistence, not equity, health, or even dignity.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The program, first adopted in Nassau County on Long Island in New York, redacts all race and race-related factors from the dossiers used by social workers and supervisors in determining child welfare cases. That makes the computer-generated risk score more like a self-fulfilling prophecy than an actual prediction.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Part one of NCCPRs news and commentary year in review for 2024 Tomorrow: Part two looks at some of 2024s finest journalism exploring wrongful removal and other harms to children caused by our current system of family policing. As a result, she reportedly suffered significant physical and emotional harm.

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