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UConn School of Social Work Faculty and Ph.D. Students to Present at SSWR 2025

University of Connecticut

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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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

.” It does not define RTF’s, but the term clearly refers to facilities that provide behavioral health services in a residential context to children with funding from programs under SFC jurisdiction, mainly Medicaid and foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.

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The power of wishful thinking: The continued promotion of Healthy Families America as a child abuse prevention program

Child Welfare Monitor

All the programs “struggled to enroll, engage and retain families.” Home visiting programs can also receive funding through Medicaid, Title IV-B and IV-E of the Social Security Act, and many other funding sources. ” Program benefits generally accrued to only a subset of enrolled families and were often quite modest.

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PART THREE OF FOUR: Reputation laundering in child welfare: “Social Current”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

As America’s racial justice reckoning finally catches up with “child welfare” – or, as it should be called, family policing – the “child welfare establishment is engaged in its own campaign of reputation laundering. Most recently it was the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities and before that the Alliance for Children and Families.

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What Effect Does the Environment Have on Your Health & How We Can Improve Community Health

KVC

Healthcare policy shifts like the Medicaid expansion have helped in this arena, but insurance isn’t the only limitation on healthcare access. Social engagement and forming healthy attachments are essential to healthy brain development. Without proper healthcare, a person’s medical needs cannot be properly addressed.

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In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long (2024 Edition)

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than foster care or massive surveillance, its also safer. From KABC-TV, Los Angeles : A story about a civil lawsuit filed by victims of horrific abuse both in their own home and then in foster care.