Wed.Mar 26, 2025

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CDF-New York, 90+ Partner Organizations Sign Letter in Support of Youth Justice Innovation Fund

Children’s Defense Fund

CDF-New York, 90+ Partner Organizations Sign Letter in Support of Youth Justice Innovation Fund: Proposal would help to build up critical community resources in State Budget The Innovation Fund builds on evidence showing that linking youth with community-based services reduces criminal legal system contact and promotes community safety. Media Contact: John Henry, jhenry@childrensdefense.org , CDF Media Relations Manager, 708-646-7679 NEW YORK , NY Childrens Defense Fund-New York joined 97partne

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Over three million families to lose out from disability and incapacity benefit changes, says DWP

Community Care

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Over three million families will lose an average of 1,720 per year in real terms by 2029-30, as a result of proposed changes to disability and incapacity benefits, the government has estimated. This includes 370,000 people who will lose their current entitlement to the daily living allowance element of personal independence payment (PIP), said the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), in

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National CASA/GAL and member programs mistakenly linked to immigrant advocacy group in media reports

National Casa Gal

CASA and GAL programs and volunteers do not work in federal immigration courts. Read More. The post National CASA/GAL and member programs mistakenly linked to immigrant advocacy group in media reports appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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Children’s social workers to be measured against new post-qualifying standards

Community Care

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Children’s social workers are to be measured against a new set of post-qualifying standards (PQS), under Department for Education (DfE) proposals. The proposed standards would replace the existing PQS , which largely date back to 2015, and are designed to set out what a practitioner working in local authority children’s services should know and be able to do after two years in p

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Pam Walker obituary

The Guardian

My friend Pam Walker was a social worker who later turned her attention to painting. After starting out at the London borough of Brent in the early 1970s, a decade later Pam went part-time at the London borough of Barnet so that she could pursue her artistic interests. Working mainly in acrylics and collage, she took as her principal subjects urban landscapes undergoing change, although she also focused on the beaches of the south coast of England, where she went walking with her sketchbooks.

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Resilience and Fortitude Will Help Us All Get Through This

Social Work Blog

By Scott M. Banford, LCSW I remember hearing back in 2017 Steve Bannon, a first term Trump advisor, saying the administrations strategy was to keep citizens and the media off balance so they couldnt focus on everything going on. And now DOGE is seemingly running rampant through our government. Every department and every institution of democracy is getting hit.

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Using Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans is legally, morally questionable

Social Work Blog

By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Adviser The Trump Administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members is both legally and morally questionable. The use of this centuries-old wartime law bypasses due process and violates constitutional protections by allowing for detention and deportation without court proceedings.