CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Concerned individuals should engage an attorney for any topics regarding legal guidance. To find child welfare offices in Colorado, visit the Contact Your County Human Services Department website for county specific information. The Supporting Kinship Foster Care Homes Bill supports kinship families involved in child welfare cases.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” And what will these groups do with the $20 million?

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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. In Minnesota the power rests with law enforcement – and they abuse it constantly.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 6, 2023

Social Work in Social Policy: Engagement Strategies for Today and the Next Generation—A Book Event |. In this online event, researchers, social workers, and policy experts will discuss social policy design and engagement, with an eye on training the next generation of human-service professionals in policy innovation.

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The New Social Worker

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It is important for us, as social workers, to enhance our knowledge about the impact of the environment on the health, welfare, and life span of diverse groups. What is the role of social work in relation to environmental justice?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

They even acknowledged their own role in “contributing to racism in the legal field” in general and “within the child welfare legal field in particular…” Offhand, I can’t think of an organization that says “establishment” more than the American Bar Association. The topic is “anti-Black systemic racism within the child welfare system.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Attention child welfare garden partiers: The skunks have arrived Every year, the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse holds a four-day virtual extravaganza featuring more than 100 panels and speakers from around the world. In the past, this event was essentially a garden party for the child welfare establishment.

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CO4Kids

MARCH 3, 2025

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog CISU Offers a New Resource for Advancing Equity in Human Services The Colorado Implementation Science Unit (CISU) supports a variety of partners including cross-agency teams, community organizations, and individuals all of whom have voiced interest in developing culturally responsive services and practices.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

When NCCPR released a comprehensive report on Colorado child welfare in September 2023, we included a section called Tapeworm in the System. The report makes no mention of the fact that, in other child welfare contexts, such tools have an ugly history of bias. And what, exactly, does that mean?

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

If you are wondering what mental health and child welfare services KVC provides and in which areas, this guide is for you! Typically they have engaged in outpatient services but haven’t experienced improvement. The next subsidiary is KVC Kansas which provides child welfare and mental health services. KVC Kansas.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 19, 2025

Participants, including policymakers, senior social workers, and child protection professionals, engaged in an exchange of ideas and gained valuable insights from esteemed international experts. The partnership aims to enhance the professional development of social workers and child protection practitioners in Thailand.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 28, 2022

The SWESD 2022 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the JOINT WORLD CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: REDEFINING SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN A POST-PANDEMIC SOCIETY: SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AT A CROSSROADS.

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Center for Child Protection

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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! “At Ironpaws, we have caseworkers, non-direct staff, and the Child Protection Team participating alongside our kids.”

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

In those instances, we need the care to be delivered in trauma-responsive environments that embrace parent and caregiver engagement throughout the treatment intervention and continually focus on best practice. These residential treatment facilities can have a significant benefit to the young person and their family.

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

This began a shift to reclaim the values-driven culture of KVC’s early days, creating a highly engaged, exceptional place to work. Learn more about work wellbeing and engagement, how KVC has created a positive, supportive culture, and how that culture benefits employees, clients, and supporters alike.

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CO4Kids

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In order to engage in evidence-based decision making, it’s important to support evidence building if a service isn’t evidence-based. It’s a powerful tool that helps everyone involved in a service’ s implementation understand the service’s design and how it can achieve its goals.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MAY 31, 2024

The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) and the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), are proud to announce the upcoming Global Social Work Conference; #SWSD2026.

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Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Trina Shanks was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. The Academy is an honorific society of distinguished scholars and practitioners dedicated to achieving excellence in the field of social work and social welfare through high-impact work that advances social good.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

In each of those periods, the child welfare system saw a significant increase in the number of children moved into foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed. However, there is some hope in the form of federal assistance for the child welfare system.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and The International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) are co-sponsoring a vital online side-event focused on fostering inclusive communities and addressing barriers to social participation. We look forward to your participation.

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Center for Child Protection

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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! “At Iron Paws, we have caseworkers, non-direct staff, and the Child Protection Team participating alongside our kids.”

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Below is an advocacy opportunity, educational resources, and related organizations to help social workers and others engage in Child Abuse Prevention Month.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 14, 2024

Find your student’s school district’s Child Welfare Education Liaison (CWEL). Engaging students in the activities that give them joy is a great way to encourage school engagement overall. Protecting our students in foster care’s privacy while letting important school staff know what may be impacting them is a delicate balance.

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Center for Child Protection

JANUARY 16, 2025

Understanding TRU TRU has already graduated two cohorts, including law enforcement officers and child welfare professionals, with plans to expand through mentorship and community engagement. The Center’s Chief Clinical Officer, Miriam Jansky.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of child welfare and mental health nationally.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Or does ACS prefer a system that allows it to engage in maximum feasible buck-passing? Dorothy Roberts , who explains: “A promising trend that this lawsuit is part of is recognizing that enforcing parents’ constitutional rights is critical to an approach to child welfare that truly benefits children.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 23, 2022

The SWESD 2022 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the JOINT WORLD CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: REDEFINING SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN A POST-PANDEMIC SOCIETY: SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AT A CROSSROADS.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Using firsthand accounts from 200 Black adolescents, Black Male Youth Raised in Public Systems: Engagement, Healing, Hope, edited by Sheryl Brissett Chapman, Ralph Belk, Jasilyn Morgan, and Krystal Holland, with Bruce Tyson and Omore Okhomina, validates the fears, anxieties, and complexities of these youth.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Social work educator teaching green social work, including research on climate change and coproduction through community engagement in Croatia. Social work doctoral candidate engages a local community in recycling waste in Shanghai, China. Erin Kennedy, social work educator, teaching students about climate change in China.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

We are trying through our work at CRISP to influence as many social workers as possible to become more engaged in the political arena where our skills, knowledge, and values are in short supply. There are a few of us engaged in this work and I would like to believe we are making progress. It is our reason for being. We need more.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. Emphasis added.]

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All For Kids

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

According to the Child Welfare Information Gateway, ‘prevention’ is defined as activities that stop an action or behavior or promote a positive one. cdc.gov Child Sexual Abuse : Involves engaging a child in sexual activities, including exposure to pornography, unwanted sexual touching, or exploitation.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He drove that self-care aspect of how we stay present and engaged,” she said. “We His practice and studies in child welfare, supervision, and ethics led to several publications, most recently on cultural humility. We can’t do that if we aren’t taking care of ourselves.”

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Community Care

MARCH 24, 2025

The FJC said the courts should assess whether a parent has engaged in “alienating behaviours” that have led to the childs resistance to seeing the other parent, with the child’s feelings not being a response the latter parent’s actions, including perpetrating domestic abuse, or due to attachment issues.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? Tomorrow: The New York Times published a front-page story about the study that was, mostly, very good.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 9, 2023

Over the course of eight chapters, WUOB tells a story that strips away all the excuses for the family policing system – a more accurate term than “child welfare” system. Please, Mommy.

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