Community Care

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The families first for children (FFC) model currently being tested in 10 areas is set to be rolled out to all local authorities, the chief social worker for children and families has said. The planned nationwide expansion of the approach – which involves enhancing early help for families, involving family networks more in decision making and establishing specialist child protection te

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Swhelper

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The time has come for the holiday spirit to infuse almost every part of our lives. Festivity surrounds us, whether at the town square or the local grocery store.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In 2011, Joette Katz stepped off the Connecticut Supreme Court to take a far more difficult job: running the state Department of Children and Families, Connecticuts equivalent of the New York City Administration for Childrens Services. Within months, the death of a child known-to-the-system made headlines. As happened at least twice previously, there were calls to tear apart more families, and enormous pressure on Katz to tell her workers to do just that.

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Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 11, 2024

They kept trying to negotiate and talk their son out of his video game addiction. It didn’t work. They were loathe to disconnect him, to just cut off his supply. They feared violence. Rightly so. It wouldn’t be the first time he would have destroyed stuff in the house or threaten to kill himself. They didn’t want a repeat. Thing was, he certainly wasn’t going to change voluntarily.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. A case review has begun after 10-year-old Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother were convicted of murdering her. After a 10-week trial, a jury found Urfan Sharif, 42, and Beinash Batool, 30, guilty of murder, and Sara’s uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, guilty of causing or allowing her death.

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Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Sometimes the answer is “radical acceptance.” It’s built into the serenity prayer: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.” Its about truly accepting those things over which we have no control, coming to terms with that. With that we no longer fight.

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