NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A bill in New Hampshire effectively equates strong emotion with abuse. The sponsors seem to have been inspired by the wrong Spock. After decades of expanding the child welfare surveillance state to the point that more than one in three children and a majority of Black children will be forced to endure the trauma of a child abuse investigation by the time they turn 18, some states have noticed: Theyve been doing the same thing over and over and getting the same lousy results.

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Psychology Substance Abuse Foster Care Child Welfare 86

Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The number of social workers employed by council adults’ services in England has reached a new record high, official figures show. Local authorities had 19,200 practitioners in post as of September 2024, up 700 (3.8%) on the total 12 months previously and 1,900 (11%) higher than the number in September 2022, showed Skills for Care’s annual report on the council workforce.

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Social Worker Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government 44

N.A.H

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Arc Telos Saint Amour speaks on the profound impact of shame and its role in preventing introspection and personal growth. Using a case study from an old reality TV show, they explore how ingrained behaviors from socialization influence actions and perpetuate harm. In their storytelling, they emphasize the key to breaking the cycle lies in confronting and taking ownership of our harmful behaviors.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The government has launched an action plan to safeguard telecare users from the switching off of the UK’s analogue phone network. Its replacement by a fully digital network will mean that existing services connected to the copper-based system, including many telecare devices, will need to be switched over by January 2027.

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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!

Behavior Analysis

My Brains Not Broken

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

If you’re like me, you don’t need to read another post about *gestures wildly* what’s going on in the world today. If you’re also like me, you’re being bombarded with a constant influx of news alerts and notifications that don’t seem to stop from morning until night. While I’m not here to write about my opinions on the state of things (mostly because you didn’t ask, but also because I don’t want to end up writing an angry rant today), at leas

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Mental Health Therapist Confidentiality Psychology 147

Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Maren Dale Every day, 17 veterans die by suicide. The number is tragic. At the same time, it can get lost in the volume of data social workers interact with every day. It also can be hard to fully grasp the scope of what that figure means. So, consider this for a moment: Its evening in the city and youre on a walk. You pass a tall apartment building, each window brightly lit, with roughly 120 units inside.

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