KVC

JULY 20, 2021

KVC’s shared services teams are Accounting, Ball Conference Center , Business Information Technology , Employee Engagement, Fund Development, Human Resources, the KVC Institute , Legal, and Marketing & Communications. See below or click here to see a helpful graphic that shows what our continuum of care is. KVC Kansas.

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Child Welfare Mental Health Welfare Psychiatric 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The article aptly describes the Center as a first-of-its-kind organization that intends to engage in affirmative litigation with the [Administration for Children’s Services] —hitting it with lawsuits to potentially hold it accountable for allegedly violating families’ constitutional rights via heavy-handed investigatory and removal tactics.

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Justice and Corrections Foster Care Administration Government 107

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2024

In New York, it’s illegal to tear children from their homes and throw them into foster care just because they “witnessed domestic violence” – typically a husband or boyfriend beating the child’s mother. Taking children on these grounds is illegal in New York because of a class-action lawsuit, Nicholson v.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

The Complaint alleges that the two largest counties in Minnesota, Hennepin and Ramsey, engage in systematic, rampant, racially biased needless investigation and surveillance of families and needless removal of children. For example, in Minnesota Black children are twice as likely to be thrown into foster care as white children.

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KVC

JUNE 23, 2021

Foster parents can especially be a welcome source of encouragement and reassurance to birth parents and can act as their parenting partners while their children are in foster care. Click here to learn more about becoming a foster parent. Safe family reunification is the number one goal of foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Most of all, it’s a story about foster-care panic – about what happens when a state family policing agency, in this case, the Division for Children, Youth and Families , responds to a high-profile tragedy with a sharp sudden increase in removals of children from their homes. Are they “creaming”? It wasn’t always so.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter foster care in the first place, we’ve helped states recruit and train thousands of relatives and foster families, ensuring children live in the context of a close-knit family. KVC is a great place to work!

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

School of Social Work faculty and staff are engaged in collaborative teams that are developing and advancing scholarship to address a diverse range of problems, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, adverse childhood experiences, foster care, homophobia, trauma, aging, and more.

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Foster Care Interventional Mental Health Engagement 52

University of Connecticut

JANUARY 9, 2025

Room: Willow A, Level 2 Author(s): Nathanael Okpych, PhD ; Jennifer Geiger, PhD Presentation: Crossing the Finish Line: Factors that Influence College Degree Completion for Students with Foster Care Backgrounds Time: 2:00 p.m. 11:15 a.m.

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Schools LCSW LMSW Criminal Justice 40

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Staff know this underestimates the trauma of investigation and underestimates the even worse trauma of foster care. Though not mentioned in the report, it also underestimates the enormous risk of abuse in foster care itself.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Just a week later, two of our sons were engaged in some rough horseplay. Would she feel that way were she fighting to get her child out of foster care? It begins with what happened to one of the authors, Katheryn Goldman, DMD, MPH, ABD: My 9-year-old daughter was jumping on her bed. She got two small stitches under her eye.

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Hospitals Child Welfare Interviewing Foster Care 98

Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

For some children, foster care, residential care or care by someone within their extended network is considered necessary for their immediate or longer-term safety. An alternative to foster care Fostering Families is an alternative to foster care and draws upon ideas presented by Crittenden and Farnfield (2007).

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Foster Care Social Worker Child Welfare Schools 58

Michigan Social Work

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

She has clinical and macro practice experience in juvenile justice, community mental health, housing, schools and foster care, and is committed to sharing her personal and professional experiences and knowledge to support others.

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Diversity Clinic Foster Care Mental Health 52

University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Matarese is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the National Quality Improvement Center on Tailored Services, Placement Stability, and Permanency for LGBTQ+ Children and Youth in Foster Care, and the National Quality Improvement Center on Family-Centered Reunification funded by the Children’s Bureau. Matarese is among over 800 U.S.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

The legislation mandates early intervention to keep families intact when possible and reduce the need for foster care. This is another example of why it is so important for social workers to be engaged in legislative settings at all levels of government,” Dr. Day concluded. It also strengthens post-adoption services.

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Beyond Advocacy

APRIL 13, 2022

Cortez Carey, the recently hired Executive Director of the Foster Youth Caucus, was the evening’s spokesperson, a job he shared with Zahra Marin, NFYI’s National Policy and Organizing Director. As an Indigenous alumnus of the foster care system, Angelique brings a unique perspective to efforts to care for the nation’s vulnerable children.

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Foster Care Child Welfare Advocacy University 52

Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instructors, building a cohesive and engaging policy curriculum can be daunting. This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including rural social work, voter rights and participation, mental health, hospice care, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, and the rights of indigenous peoples.

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Code of Ethics Hospice Adoption Human Services 52

Children’s Home Society of Washington

MARCH 20, 2023

Given her passion for supporting children and families and her knowledge of CHSW from personal experience, Kris began her 21+ year career with the organization in 2002, working as a direct service staff member in the Therapeutic Foster Care Program.

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Foster Care Communication Engagement Counseling 52

Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

COA Accreditation, a service of Social Current, is an independent, not-for-profit accreditor of the full continuum of community-based behavioral health care and social service organizations in the United States and Canada. Over 2,000 organizations have either successfully achieved accreditation or are currently engaged in the process.

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

KVC case managers Victoria Clark, Dalton Shump, and Micah McEwan all work for the Olathe, Kansas office, where they coordinate and support the day-to-day needs of children and teens in foster care and their families. I was adopted myself and have my own personal background with the foster care system. Dalton Shump.

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Social Worker Case Management Foster Care Child Welfare 52

Child Welfare Monitor

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Her intersectionality and affiliation with marginalized identities such as being an undocumented Salvadoran female, LGBTQ+, foster youth, homeless, and cycling in and out of juvenile jails, have shaped the way she sees social issues. She spent half of her life in foster care, struggling with substance abuse. She now has an A.A.

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Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

While the review acknowledged voluntary regional commissioning arrangements were a reality, it said these were having “limited impact” This was because providers did not have to engage in them, in the knowledge that individual councils would purchase a place independently if need was sufficiently urgent.

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Government Engagement Foster Care Welfare 71

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

I’ve noted before that lots of “child welfare” establishment groups have been engaging in reputation laundering. So take a look at ABA 2022 House of Delegates Resolution 606. The topic is “anti-Black systemic racism within the child welfare system.”

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Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2022

In March this year, a review by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) , the UK government’s competition watchdog, described the children’s social care market as “dysfunctional” and in need of overhaul to tackle high prices and a shortage of placements.

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Consultation Government Administration Foster Care 63

All For Kids

JANUARY 5, 2025

However, when you and your family engage in community service, youll soon realize that the little things you do can make a difference in the lives of others. Even writing encouraging letters to the foster parents and the kids would mean the world to them. Contact local foster care agencies to learn more.

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Empathy Hospitals Nursing Home Schools 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

From the Tampa Free Press The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has arrested a youth counselor at A Kid's Place of Tampa Bay for allegedly engaging in sexual acts with a minor resident.

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Child Welfare Human Services Welfare Engagement 60

Community Care

AUGUST 24, 2023

As part of this, she said authorities should explore all available options within foster care, supported accommodation and children’s home provision, including by encouraging providers to open homes that were registered with Ofsted, but not currently operating. .

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including rural social work, voter rights and participation, mental health, hospice care, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, and the rights of indigenous peoples.

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Human Services Hospice Adoption Clinic 40

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Researcher : Some social workers engage in research to better understand social issues, evaluate programs, and inform policy development. Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems.

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Social Worker Treatment Planning Interventional Justice and Corrections 95

Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Assessments were also generally of good quality for children subject to care proceedings, while most children in care were living locally in foster care thanks to a dedicated focus on bringing back those in out-of-area placements. Highly impressive and aspirational’ leadership.

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Social Worker Interviewing Foster Care Diversity 58

Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As a social worker, I will be able to actively engage in combating discrimination, oppression, and inequality. This can include children and youth in foster care, individuals experiencing homelessness, survivors of domestic violence, older adults facing neglect, and many others. Becoming a social worker VI.

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Social Worker Empathy Advocacy Mental Health 52

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

These would require councils to set regional caps on how much they pay agencies to employ locums, not hire agency practitioners who do not have three years’ permanent experience and maintain direct management of all social workers engaged via agency project teams. The Conservatives provided £36.5m

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

In addition, seven areas are testing providing family support network packages to help extended families care for children and avoid them going into care. Involving family networks: the pathfinders will also test using family group decision-making to help parents minimise risks to children.

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Social Worker Diversity Adoption Government 65

Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 16, 2025

I had taken the training several times in the past–first for my work as a social worker with CFSA and later as a mentor to a foster youth. I had my first experience with the updated training last month as part of my preparation to serve as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for a child in foster care.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Self-harm Welfare 186

University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

retired professor, Dean of Students, and founder of the Puerto Rican and Latin@ Studies Project, the Fellowship provides financial support to an MSW student who demonstrates a commitment to engaging in outreach programs in the Latino community and has, or will have, completed their field education practicum in the Latino community.

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LMSW Justice and Corrections Schools Mental Health 52

Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 25, 2025

The closet had no ventilation and there were no toys or personal possessions indicating that a child lived there.Begidu’s adoptive parents claimed that he engaged in behaviors such as temper tantrums and fecal smearing. The door to the closet was locked from the outside and was monitored by a camera.

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Adoption Schools Justice and Corrections Child Welfare 210

Relias

JULY 5, 2023

Despite public conversation and consistent news coverage of the individuals affected by the opioid epidemic, there remains a large segment of society that is often overlooked: children and youth in foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed.

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