Center for Child Protection

JANUARY 3, 2025

Amanda began her career as an Investigation Caseworker at DFPS after earning a Bachelor of Arts in Government from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. This honor recognizes Amandas 30-year career dedicated to protecting children and supporting families.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 27, 2022

Social workers have a long tradition of social justice and political advocacy – to include working to expand and protect voting rights and promote voter registration. Voter disengagement is a combined result of the cumulative effects of concerted voter suppression and the erosion of trust in government. Getty Images.

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Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Happily they also have support of the family doctor who did a bit of advocacy to shorten the reporting time of one of the professionals. Funding for such services has eroded greatly over the years and most so during the term of the current conservative government. I do represent those doing well offering private services.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Written from a modern, pluralist perspective, the text shows why economists and policymakers disagree about regulations, social welfare programs, government spending, and tax policies designed to address these economic problems. Such evidence can be crucial for justifying budgets, projecting needs, and writing grant proposals.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

We wish to thank NASW leadership and members for their continued advocacy that contributed to these important developments to advance access to care and to strengthen the social work workforce. Further, all three provisions of the Improving Access to Mental Health Act, are also included in the Health Equity and Accountability Act ( H.R.

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Center for Child Protection

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Limbic System: Governs emotions, relationships, and reward. These questions loomed over me, but I soon realized this shared journey would foster a deeper understanding of trauma and its effects on all of us. Diencephalon: Regulates sensory signals and controls alertness. Cortex: Handles problem-solving, decision-making, and impulse control.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

This legislation, originally passed in 2008, came about through years of advocacy and activism from the criminal justice reform community– in collaboration with SCA’s Congressional champion, Danny Davis (D-IL). This news of the reintroduction of SCA is more gratifying when we realize that it coincides with the act’s 16 th anniversary.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 6, 2022

Mike Pierce, Executive Director of the Student Borrower Protection Center, with whom NASW partners on student loan debt advocacy, provided testimony at the hearing. To find out more about NASW‘s advocacy efforts and student loan debt relief, visit the NASW website.

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Community Care

JANUARY 28, 2022

The government should be responsible for ensuring there are enough secure placements for looked-after children to address the current shortage, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said. Meanwhile, the government has provided £259m , from 2022-25, to increase the capacity of open and secure children’s homes. Related articles.

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Relias

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In response, many local and state governments are raising their lowest wages above the federal minimum wage set in 2009. The State of Medicaid Programs and the Need for Grassroots Advocacy. These issues bring the importance of grassroot advocacy to the forefront for DSPs and IDD organizations. However, it is possible.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 18, 2025

Each year, we recognize social workers and others who have contributed significantly to pursuing social work values and principles through Congress and the federal government. Members of Congress, congressional staff, outstanding academicians, students, government personnel, and individuals in business […]

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Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

The first is its ambition to strengthen independent advocacy for children in care, as well as other children and parents involved in the social care system. The review said advocacy needed to be comprehensive, and proposed that all children in care should receive it unless they opt out.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As noted in a special report published recently by the nonprofit Center for Medicare Advocacy (2021), “while there is still work to do, the new Handbook makes important strides towards reversing the bias in favor of MA that was prevalent in recent editions” (p. Center for Medicare Advocacy. National Council on Aging— Medicare in 2022.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

Government safeguarding advisers have voiced their disappointment over ministers’ response to their recommendations to improve the safeguarding of disabled children in residential settings. Accepted in principle. Accepted in principle.

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CCRC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We intend to continue reaching out to representatives of Region 10 (California – Great Basin) to support the development of relationships among one another in the ECE advocacy space. CCRC is planning two more Lunch and Learn Events for Riverside and the High Desert.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Inaccessible information, “complicated and stressful processes” and a lack of advocacy were undermining people’s ability to challenge local authority decisions in England and Wales, the rights regulator found, on the back of an inquiry it started in 2021. The report also raised concerns about access to advocacy.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

This legislation, originally passed in 2008, came about through years of advocacy and activism from the criminal justice reform community– in collaboration with SCA’s Congressional champion, Danny Davis (D-IL). This news of the reintroduction of SCA is more gratifying when we realize that it coincides with the act’s 16 th anniversary.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, rather than statutory principles, it recommended a new provision, placed at the beginning of the MHA, requiring the government to draw up the revised MHA code of practice having regard to and including the principles set out in the independent review.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Because Senate leadership felt DRA should be more closely aligned with the broader voting rights advocacy movement, they decided DRA should be carved out as a standalone bill. DRA was originally a part of the For the People Act (HR-1) that was introduced in 2021.

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Beyond Advocacy

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

After a lunch break, we will return to the auditorium for a panel discussion by young social workers—students and recent graduates—moderated by Howard University School of Social Work alum Avah Toomer, National Manager of Policy and Advocacy at LIFT, Inc. The day concludes with a 4:00 p.m.

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Community Care

MAY 14, 2024

That was the verdict of sector experts who contributed to a Local Government Association report to mark the tenth anniversary of the Care Act becoming law and designed to influence the general election expected this autumn. This must be top of the in-tray for any incoming government.” from 2010-11 to 2014-15.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is certain to be delayed again, with the government yet to consult on how to put the scheme into practice. However, the government is yet to confirm that it will need to delay LPS again. Regulations can then take up to 40 days to become law. LPS timeline. Commission begins work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Given that, you’d think it would have been big news when the federal government released its annual estimate of child abuse fatalities and found that, in the year ending Sept. 30, 2020 – including the first six months of the pandemic – child abuse deaths actually decreased. Another key factor is the potential for bias.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

I know that the advocacy community conflates neglect with poverty," Mossaides said. Only when all sides have aggressive advocacy can judges get the information they need to make the right decisions. Indeed, she seems to think a little racial bias might be good. That is not what the Office of the Child Advocate sees. Except it hasn’t.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Client Advocacy Client advocacy is a core aspect of social work, reflecting a commitment to improving the lives of those who may face challenges in advocating for themselves. Advocacy takes various forms, including individual, organisational, and systemic levels. Client Advocacy 6. What are the roles of social worker?

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Community Care

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) found that just half of services were able to meet demand for services including one-to-one therapy or counselling, group-based interventions, helplines or advocacy for child or adult victims/survivors and family members.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This revealed that: 11% of children in care were recorded as having a disability, the same proportion as in the general population, as measured by the government’s family resources survey. Provide disabled children and young people with access to advocacy to safeguard their rights.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

VAWA is a central way the Federal government responds to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. While they are finalizing the bill, they need our help to build support among Senators so they can introduce the bill with as many bipartisan sponsors as possible.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

There is, in fact, a place for government in assisting with children’s wellbeing. Government can provide voluntary help to their families, especially financial help for better housing and high-quality childcare. But government should never be allowed to become the Wellbeing Police.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Councils ‘unwilling or unable to commission advocacy’ More generally, the CQC reiterated concerns about the availability of statutory advocacy services for people subject to the MHA. Ordinary residence: section 117 approach remains unsettled despite government court win.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2023

The British Association of Social Workers England has warned of the risks of diluting the social worker role after the government unveiled plans for more assessments to be carried out by non-social work qualified staff. Digital technology can contribute to this, as can people other than social workers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 8, 2023

But in 2021, after COVID forced the family police to step back, community-run community-based mutual aid organizations stepped up, and the federal government stepped in with cash – cases labeled child abuse or neglect by family police agencies reached a record low. Politicians bought it – and children wound up with neither.

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Community Care

APRIL 20, 2023

The panel also called for disabled children and those with complex needs to have access to advocacy, for services for them to be jointly commissioned by councils and integrated care boards, for joint inspections of services by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission and for investment in the workforce.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Much of this loss and pain has been directly fueled by government policy. As an attorney for the mother told Michigan radio : “So, imagine being that child, having parenting time, having it for some time and then, unbeknownst to you, not seeing Mom for a while because Mom tested positive for marijuana. Added Prof.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It is expected that this book will be used by academics, policy makers, social work students, lecturers, non-governmental and government agencies, and other stakeholders to promote advocacy for vulnerable client groups affected by climate change.

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Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I had done mental health advocacy work on a national scale for years before beginning to work on Breakdown and was very inspired by advocates’ tragic stories. Emergency programs doing bed searches could report to the government and units could be closed if discrimination is not resolved. .

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