Center for Child Protection

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This month the Center is celebrating the incredible success of our annual experiential group event, Ironpaws. On November 2nd, the Center’s main campus came alive with the excitement of Ironpaws 2024, bringing together 21 children and 20 parents and caregivers for a day of courage and connection. Divided into three teams, our young participants engaged in the adventure course featuring low ropes elements, ground-level obstacles, tricky balancing exercises, and even a rope swing!

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

On October 25, 2024, during the Annual Program Meeting for the Council on Social Work Education in Kansas City, MO, my UAB colleagues (Colleen Fisher, Mary Jacque Carroll and Ron Pitner) and I presented an assessment tool developed by Melissa Freedman, MSW, to review syllabi and courses as an effort to ensure the integration of antiracism, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI) within our program curricula at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Social Work.

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Child Welfare Monitor

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

On October 10, the Utah Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) finally released a statement summarizing its involvement with Gavin Peterson, who died on July 9, 2024 at the age of 12. Gavin’s father, stepmother, and older brother are awaiting trial on reckless child abuse homicide, among other charges. The much-awaited “CAPTA statement” from DCFS (named for the federal law requiring that states have a policy to disclose “information and findings” about child maltreatment fatalities

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

On this day of Transgender Remembrance, social workers denounce the political attacks and harmful misinformation about transgender people and their families. The NASW’s National Committee on LGBTQ+ Issues recognizes Nov. 20 th as Transgender Day of Remembrance, which memorializes those who have been killed by anti-transgender violence and hate around the world.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Back to Blogs Community Blog Morgan County Family Steps Up for Children in Need Jessica and Marty met their son Amias when he was enrolled at Marty’s sister-in-law’s daycare and needed a safe place to go. Amias, now six, was adopted in 2022 making them a family of five including their biological children, Piper 15 and Raylan 12. “He enjoys having older siblings.

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The New Social Worker

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Social workers will understand the tightrope of survival for those who come from dysfunctional families. Book review of Welcome Home, Stranger, reviewed by Lisa Eible.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A system that tears apart families at a rate 60% above the national average is driving its own caseworkers away. The Boston Globe had one of those stories almost every major newspaper publishes sooner or later – the one about the enormous number of family police caseworkers who keep quitting and how this adds to the terrible turmoil faced by children and families caught up in the system.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog DCW Updates for National Adoption Month 2024 By Shelia Dalton, Adoption Program and ICAMA Administrator November is National Adoption Month and this year’s national theme is Honoring Youth: Strengthening Pathways for Lasting Bonds. This message from the Children’s Bureau discusses the 2024 initiative to increase awareness of adoption issues across the nation.

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Children’s Defense Fund

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

By Marian Wright Edelman During the Thanksgiving season I often share the description of an editorial cartoon my father kept pinned up in the vestibule of our church that made a deep childhood impression on me I have never forgotten. It was a black and white drawing by the Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Herblock that was originally published in the Washington Post in October 1947.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

It has been said almost too many times that treating couples is very hard work. But, so what. Most couple therapists aren’t afraid of hard work. What they don’t like is working too hard and feeling like they are getting nowhere. It is very difficult to stay motivated that way. I know that therapists are working too hard when I hear them say something like, “I need to get them to….

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National Casa Gal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

We honor the rich cultures and histories of Native American people and communities while also raising awareness about the importance of foster care, reunification, and adoption. Read More. The post Observing Native American Heritage Month and National Adoption Month in November appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog Welcoming Robert “Tres” Newport as Deputy Director of OCYF The Office of Children, Youth and Families is excited to share that a familiar face will be the new Deputy Director of the Office of Children, Youth, and Families. Robert “Tres” Newport has more than two decades of experience at CDHS, bringing a unique blend of leadership, innovation, and a deep commitment to improving outcomes for youth and families.

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Children’s Defense Fund

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

By Marian Wright Edelman On this Thanksgiving, I share once again the beautiful prayer of great Black theologian Howard Thurman, A Litany of Thanksgiving. For many years I always made Thanksgiving dinner for our whole family and for friends away from their homes. Children read various inspirational passages before our meal, and we read this prayer every year.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

● In North Carolina, court hearings in family policing cases are supposed to be open, with limited discretion afforded judges to close them. But some judges have been abusing that discretion. IndyWeek reports on a lawsuit from Civil Rights Corps seeking to stop those abuses. The story quotes Amanda Wallace, who spent a decade as a Child Protective Services investigator before founding Operation Stop CPS … “The majority of children coming into custody, it’s because of poverty-related concerns,” W

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Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Nikole Hannah-Jones was the keynote speaker at the fourth annual Social Justice Changemaker Lecture presented by the School of Social Work at the Michigan Union in October 2024. Hannah-Jones is the Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she founded the Center for Journalism & Democracy. Over the course of her career investigating racial inequality and injustice, she has earned numerous awards including a MacArthur Fellowship.

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Center for Child Protection

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This month the Center is celebrating the incredible success of our annual experiential group event, Iron Paws. On November 2nd, the Center’s main campus came alive with the excitement of Iron Paws 2024, bringing together 21 children and 20 parents and caregivers for a day of courage and connection. Divided into three teams, our young participants engaged in the adventure course featuring low ropes elements, ground-level obstacles, tricky balancing exercises, and even a rope swing!

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Child Care Aware

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

National Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day celebrate s the use of GIS , a powerful software tool used to create and display maps that help geographically illustrate and communicate complex problems. GIS maps can help identify assets and resources, as well as understand underlying location-based trends in datasets.

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International Federation of Social Workers

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Rationale In 2022 the executive unanimously commissioned the drafting of a report and recommendations on a revised structure for the commissions to enable improved teamwork, facilitate greater consistency across the […]

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Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The government has pledged to “crack down on care providers making excessive profit” in children’s social care reforms unveiled today. The overhaul also includes empowering Ofsted to investigate companies running multiple children’s homes and requiring councils to establish multi-agency safeguarding teams. Ministers also said that, underlining their reforms, would be a rebalancing of the system towards early intervention in order to keep families together, with the care p

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Child Care Aware

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Child Care Resource & Referral agencies (CCR&Rs) have an opportunity to connect child care providers with affordable health insurance options through the health insurance marketplace.

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International Federation of Social Workers

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

On 15 November 2024, a fruitful meeting between the International Federation of Social Workers Asia-Pacific Region (IFSW-AP) and the Korea Association of Social Workers (KASW) took place at the Japan […]

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Rising number of vulnerable youngsters are being forced into unsuitable accommodation including Airbnbs, bedsits and caravans A shocking increase in the number of vulnerable children deprived of their liberty by the state is leaving more youngsters in illegal accommodation, at eye-watering costs to the taxpayer, a government-backed assessment has warned.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The government will legislate to create a new type of accommodation for children with complex needs in England who are at risk of being deprived of their liberty. The placement type will be for children who may need to be deprived of their liberty at times, but will provide for restrictions to be increased and decreased according to need.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Getting healthy messages out there Awareness weeks, like National Self-Care Week (18-24 November 2024), play a crucial role in communicating important public health messages. At the Self Care Forum , we believe these weeks are vital for engaging and encouraging people to make better choices about their health and wellbeing. To be effective, health messages must be promoted consistently and by a wide range of organisations, including employers.

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International Federation of Social Workers

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Photo: Members of the Korean Association of Social Workers at the AvenirSocial office in Bern This month the Korean Association of Social Workers met their Swiss and British counterparts for […]

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Government says wide-ranging reforms will end ‘neglect’ in system that leaves young people behind Labour ready to show it is serious about changing children’s social care Excessive profiteering by unscrupulous private companies charging sky-high fees for substandard placements for vulnerable children will be clamped down on as part of a major overhaul of children’s social care in England.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The government plans to strengthen recently introduced agency social work rules by putting them into law, in a move dubbed “reckless” by recruitment firm leaders. The Department for Education (DfE) also intends to extend the rules to non-social work staff in children’s services, it said in a children’s social care reform policy paper published this week.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Saturday, on “National Adoption Day, who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals? Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." So why do some of the very judges who order a family "executed" preside over public celebrations of the aftermath?

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Independent adult social care providers in England face a £2.8bn in extra costs in 2025-26 due to wage and tax rises announced in last month’s Budget, an analysis has found. The Nuffield Trust assessed that the almost 18,000 providers would face £940m in increased costs from the rise in employer national insurance contributions (NICs) plus £1.85bn from the boost to the national living

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The government has set limits on increases in council tax in 2025-26. English local authorities will be able to raise core council tax by 3% and the adult social care precept – which is ring-fenced for the sector – by 2% – the same limits that have applied over the past two years. Authorities generally made full – or near full – use of this limit in 2024-25.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Sector will have extra £2.8bn cost burden from April due to tax and wage rises announced in budget, says Nuffield Trust Large parts of England’s adult social care market face collapse as a result of tax and wage rises announced in the budget, with devastating consequences for vulnerable and older people who rely on care services, a leading thinktank has warned.

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