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7 Ways To Improve Your Human Services Organization

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Human services organizations constantly have to navigate change. To help health and human service organizations get ahead, we’re sharing action items based on current trends in human services. Lean further into telehealth Telehealth offers many benefits to organizations, providers, and persons served.

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How to Build a Customized Employment Program

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The unemployment rate for persons with disabilities is more than twice that of individuals without disabilities. To help clients with disabilities find meaningful, stable jobs, many organizations have turned to customized employment. The post How to Build a Customized Employment Program appeared first on Relias.

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Social Isolation and IDD: How to Help Your Clients Make Meaningful Connections

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Social isolation due to a disability is an all-too-common occurrence. Myriad social forces create an environment in which individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are unable to connect with their peers. This can have lasting and severe consequences for their holistic health.

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You Asked, Case manager vs Social Worker – Surprising Difference?

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Despite having similar educational backgrounds, their job responsibilities differ depending on the services they provide to their clients. Knowing the distinctions between these roles can aid in determining the ideal career path in human services. Provide support to clients and families in need.

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5 Workplace Mental Health Strategies To Promote Workplace Wellness for DSPs

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Caring for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) is emotionally challenging work. Supervisors may be involved in interviewing or hiring them, coordinating their on-boarding, and overseeing their day-to-day operations. And direct support professionals (DSPs) are no different.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 5, 2022

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Roberts’ interview with Boston Review. Roberts, Kassandra Frederique, executive director of Drug Policy Alliance and Dr. Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor ; (the book the Allegheny County Department of Human Services hopes you will never read!)

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Oct. 1, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast. From The Conversation : An exploration of another group that faces discrimination in the family policing system: the disabled. But they will remain free to steal their disability benefits. (A This story from The Imprint has a good summary of Prof.