Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2025

Best practice would be for the team to include a core group of staff responsible for complex case management, with a care co-ordinator assigned to each person, and an extended team who could be drawn upon for specialist support.

Social Worker 41

Social Worker Hospitals Rehabilitation Disability 41

KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

Building Expertise in Serving Children & Families While KVC started as a small group home for boys, we’ve since learned from research that residential group home care is not the ideal living situation for most children. We started providing foster care case management services in Kansas in 1996.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Healthcare Welfare Mental Health 98

Community Care

JULY 10, 2024

Photo: thodonal/Adobe Stock From March 2020 to April 2021, there were 27,179 more deaths than expected among care home residents, while there were 9,571 excess deaths reported among home care users over a similar timeframe ( source: the Health Foundation ).

Hospital Discharges 57

Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Case Management 57

Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

On August 24, 2024, the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) proudly announced in a press statement that it had reduced the number of children in out-of-home care by nearly half since 2018. Specifically, the number of children in foster care had fallen from 9,171 in 2018 to 4,971 as of August 14, 2024.

Domestic Violence 264

Domestic Violence Foster Care Substance Abuse Child Welfare 264