Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 31, 2025

Just know that a kid’s need to be loved, admired, cared for by anyone other than their parents is often tied to the degree to which they are disconnected from their parents. That means these kids are more vulnerable to exploitation. Your connection to your kids is more protective of them than locking them up, taking away their phone, punishing them for misdeeds.

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CO4Kids

MARCH 31, 2025

Back to Blogs News & Press News & Press CDHS spotlights ways to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect April is Child Abuse Prevention Month Denver (March 31, 2025) In the decade since Colorado launched its Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline in April 2015, Coloradans have placed more than 1 million calls to report concerns related to child safety.

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Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 31, 2025

To my social work and therapist colleagues: Typically after my first meeting with people I serve, I would ask three questions: 1) What are your takeaways from our meeting? 2) What was your experience of me? 3) Is there anything I could have done differently to improve your experience? Those questions form a quick debrief. A debrief is about reflecting on the experience as opposed to discussing the content.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2025

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social workers are the least likely adult social care staff group to feel valued or that they are making a difference to the people they support, government-commissioned research has found. As a result of this, and other indicators, such as how safe and autonomous staff feel in their role, social workers have the lowest work-related quality of life of any part of the adult social care workf

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Behavior Analysis

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 31, 2025

That people pleasing behavior. It’s not uncommon particularly for folks who grew up with an abusive parent. One quickly learns that if they are to survive unscathed, life may be easier appeasing versus challenging your abuser. However, kids have a way of growing up yet the strategies of surviving childhood become ingrained and are taken into adult relationships.

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CO4Kids

MARCH 31, 2025

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Elevating Connections offers community and connections for siblings and teens in foster care In 2015, Stacy Sanders, founder and executive director of Elevating Connections , and Tamisha Macklin, an advocate who had lived experience in Colorados fostercare system, started Elevating Connections. The purpose was to address the need for siblings who were separated by foster care to have opportunities to reconnect throughout the year to help strengthen their bond an

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2025

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) has expired today (31 March 2025), with no news on its future. The Department for Education said today that it would “set out more details on the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund as soon as possible”, while children’s minister Janet Daby reported that announcements on ASGSF funding from April 2025 wou

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED APRIL 1, 2010 , MOST RECENT UPDATE: MARCH 29, 2025. Back in 2003, one of the groups most responsible for fomenting hype and hysteria about child abuse came remarkably close to admitting that they did just that and that it had backfired. Rather like Dr. Frankenstein admitting hed created a monster, in a 2003 Request for Proposals concerning how to improve their messaging, Prevent Child Abuse America wrote: While the establishment of a certain degree of public horror relative

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