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Back to School Tips for Students in Out-of-Home Care

CO4Kids

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Back to School Tips for Students in Out-of-Home Care School’s back in session and the transition can be tough for students in out-of-home care, caregivers and others that support them. Communicate. Ensure that their IEP/504 needs are being met and any re-evaluations are done on time.

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Grow Your Own Home Health Aides To Capture New Business

Relias

“We don’t have the number of employees that it currently takes to meet the care needs of the market.”. In terms of home care aides, the 2020 turnover rate reached 36.5%, according to highlights from a salary report by the National Association for Home Care and Hospice and its survey partner.

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Microlearning in Healthcare Training: Enhancing Skills and Empowering Professionals

Relias

Front-line staff in post-acute care settings are constantly on the go — from room to room in a skilled nursing facility or from home to home, caring for people with various needs. The benefits of microlearning in healthcare training Microlearning is a flexible, more effective, and more engaging way of learning.

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Colorado task force’s solution to stop children from running from residential treatment: Fence ‘em in & lock ‘em up!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The task force says a consultant should draw up the tool and determine how the information obtained from the tools may be used to adjust a treatment plan for the child or youth while they are in out-of-home care. It appears some RTCs are engaging in a common industry practice known as creaming as in skimming the cream.

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40% of people delayed in hospital awaiting social care package

Community Care

The letter follows concerns from social care leaders about the government’s allocation of £200m to the NHS this winter to help reduce delays by block-booking care home placements for up to four weeks. This is in addition to £500m made available for a wider range of services to reduce delays, including home care.

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Regional care commissioning ‘risks greater costs, bureaucracy and remote decision making’

Community Care

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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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

Building Expertise in Serving Children & Families While KVC started as a small group home for boys, we’ve since learned from research that residential group home care is not the ideal living situation for most children. Instead, “Children grow best in families.” KVC is a great place to work!