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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

The four companies include three profit making corporations (United Health Services, Acadia Healthcare, and Vivant Behavioral Healthcare), and one nonprofit, Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health. These residential treatment facilities can have a significant benefit to the young person and their family.

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Myth-making in Maine

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But, as the report itself acknowledges: In surveys and interviews, some OCFS supervisors and caseworkers indicated that valuable time is spent investigating reports that – in their opinion – did not appear to warrant an investigation. The report claims that parents have the right to refuse to let their children be interviewed.

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William T. Grant Foundation Funds Study on Child Welfare and Cash Assistance

University of Connecticut

to evaluate how families identified by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services as at risk of child maltreatment respond to strengthened financial security. Grant Foundation, and is the first large scale study in the U.S. several years ago. rural vs suburban). Read more about the EmPwR program.

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Agency social work to be banned in Northern Ireland trusts next year

Community Care

In an interview with Community Care, Jones, who is emeritus professor of social work at Kingston University and St George’s, University of London, said he had recommended that trusts recruit from a wider pool of staff, beyond social workers, and cut administrative burdens for practitioners, and this was now being put into practice.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But Reveal, the documentary series from the Center for Investigative Reporting begins its story about whats happening now, involving a powerful Utah family and a Native American child this way: In 2017, David Leavitt drove to the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana to adopt a baby girl. Actually, startling doesnt begin to describe it.

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Flying blind: the strange story of a strategy, an ideology, and an evaluation

Child Welfare Monitor

On July 13, 2021, the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors passed a motion requiring the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) to pilot the blind removal concept. ” But majorities of the staff interviewed expressed negative views about changes brought about by the pilot.