Fri.Mar 28, 2025

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Social workers to be allowed to opt out of assisted dying process

Community Care

Social workers are to be allowed to opt out of the proposed assisted dying process, the legislation’s sponsor has pledged. Labour’s Kim Leadbeater has promised to work with fellow MPs to amend her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to ensure practitioners other than health professionals are allowed not to participate. While social workers were originally not part of the bill’s process for assisted dying, they have been added to it through amendments made by Leadbeater dur

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Experts to Brief Ohio Children’s Caucus on Medicaid’s Impact on State’s Youth as Federal Lawmakers Weigh Program Cuts

Children’s Defense Fund

Media Contact: Dr. John Stanford, State Director, Childrens Defense Fund-Ohio,jstanford@childrensdfense.org, 740-914-902 Health experts and youth experts are concerned cuts to Medicaid would jeopardize the well-being of hundreds of thousands of children in Ohio. In 2023, approximately 1.4 million Ohio children were enrolled in Medicaid, according to KIDS COUNT Ohio.

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Q&A with Tawanna Brown: advocate, scholar, and future CASA volunteer

National Casa Gal

"CASA has been the most consistent support in my life throughout my time in foster care." --Tawanna Brown Read More. The post Q&A with Tawanna Brown: advocate, scholar, and future CASA volunteer appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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Starmer fails to confirm future of Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund as end looms

Community Care

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Keir Starmer has failed to confirm the future of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF), with the scheme to provide therapy for children and families just days from ending. He was questioned about the ASGSF – worth 50m a year – at prime minister’s questions (PMQs) this week by Liberal Democrat education, children and young people’s spokesperson Mu

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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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Revisiting an American Prayer

Children’s Defense Fund

By Marian Wright Edelman As Womens History Month draws to a close, theres been one more broad attack on methods of sharing our nations history: on March 27, President Donald Trump issued a new executive order affecting the 21 museums and 14 education and research centers that are part of the Smithsonian Institution, including the American Womens History Museum, which is still years away from breaking ground on its official site, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and th

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