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. Addressing substance abuse and addiction issues.

Code of Ethics 52

Code of Ethics Substance Abuse Justice and Corrections Social Worker 52

Relias

JANUARY 24, 2024

By adopting a trauma-informed perspective, juvenile justice systems and organizations can address immediate legal concerns but also foster healing, resilience, and positive transformation for young people engaged in the juvenile justice system.

Rehabilitation 52

Rehabilitation Disorder Mental Health Treatment Planning 52

Child Welfare Monitor

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

She spent half of her life in foster care, struggling with substance abuse. The child welfare abolitionists have manipulated many young people, students, and activists into adopting oversimplified, Black and White narratives that erase other ethnic groups and the intersectionality children like me experience. She now has an A.A.

Child Welfare 273

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Substance Abuse 273

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

? Who says the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act hasn’t accomplished anything good? ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either. ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either.

Child Welfare 76

Child Welfare Domestic Violence Behavior Analysis Adoption 76

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. Did you know that if you’re an LGBTQIA+ adult, you can foster or adopt?

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Self-harm Substance Abuse Adoption 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal child welfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. One way to reduce the harm of ASFA is, of course, to provide real help to families.

Domestic Violence 40

Domestic Violence Child Welfare Behavior Analysis Substance Abuse 40

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

First, in more than two-thirds of all Massachusetts cases, no substance abuse of any kind is even alleged. Second, all substance use isn’t opioids. There is no breakdown of how often the substance at issue is one that is now legal in Massachusetts: marijuana. That, too, fails for several reasons.

Foster Care 98

Foster Care Domestic Violence Child Welfare Welfare 98

Social Work Blog

MAY 6, 2022

The complete policy statement can be found in the 12th edition of Social Work Speaks, which is a comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly. This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including mental health, human rights, and healthcare. May 16, 2022.

Mental Health 105

Mental Health Administration Interventional Telehealth 105

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. In 2024, the Kentucky family police agency took away a child whose adoptive parents just needed help to cope with her behavioral problems. He was institutionalized. He ran away, and he died.

Child Welfare 111

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Domestic Violence 111

Relias

JULY 20, 2023

It can occur with or without previous mental health factors, such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or domestic risks. But it’s also important to adopt a holistic view of the maternal healthcare experience. It is important to focus on clinical protocols and reduction in practice variation.

Hospitals 40

Hospitals Medicaid Mental Health Medicare 40

Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

On a page dedicated to KFTA implementation, DCYF explains that it has implemented the law by adopting new policies and procedures to determine whether to remove a child and by training and supporting staff to implement the new procedures and determine whether there is an imminent risk of serious harm to the child.

Domestic Violence 264

Domestic Violence Foster Care Substance Abuse Child Welfare 264

Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

We soon learned that the little girl, who was blind in one eye, had first been removed from Sorey at the age of two months by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) due to Sorey’s substance abuse. Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, was in jail at the time.

Child Welfare 130

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 130

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The Nevada Independent reports: A January legislative audit identified seven care facilities for children that failed to adequately protect those in their care, with complaints ranging from children self-administering medication to substance abuse issues. Hawaii, 2021: six-year-old Ariel Sellers was allegedly adopted to death.

Child Welfare 117

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 117