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KVC Health Systems and Emporia State University Launch Data Analytics Research to Benefit Children in Foster Care

KVC

Now, child welfare leader KVC Health Systems and graduate students at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas are working together to unlock the power of data analytics for the state’s most vulnerable children – those served by the child welfare system. About Emporia State University. Learn more at www.kvc.org.

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Immigration Social Work: Big Ideas From Texas

Social Work Blog

At the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), in an area that’s 85 percent Hispanic, the BSW course “Introduction to Social Work” includes a heavy dose of “U.S.-Mexico The same goes for the School of Social Work at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), where Dr. Luis R. Mexico border realities,” says Eva M.

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Why data and collaboration are key to social workers’ success

Social Work Blog

Collaborative case management software facilitates these valuable connections, increasing a social worker’s capacity and expanding their impact. A purpose-built, cloud-based, highly secure case management system, ECINS is the most widely used multi-agency collaboration tool in the U.K. 3: Empower People to Enact Change.

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

We started providing foster care case management services in Kansas in 1996. Casey Foundation, Child Trends, and Dr. Glenn Saxe of New York University on the first-ever longitudinal study on the impact of integrating trauma-informed care into child welfare and mental health services. Today the national average is 14%.

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Principles of Case Management

Counselor Toolbox podcast

Summary - The demand for case managers is growing rapidly as insurance companies restrict reimbursement, move toward capitation and as individuals with high copays try to reduce expenses. -

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“Child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

I suspect the person who visited the mother in the child’s hospital room was not truly a Social Worker, but a case manager of some sort with probably only a bachelor’s degree. program at Eastern Kentucky University. The same sort of comment appears after publication of any story exposing racial bias in family policing.

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Child Abuse Prevention Month

Social Work Blog

Examples of social work support at all three levels of prevention are below.