NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

So they experience feelings of fear, anger, abandonment, shame, embarrassment, and low self-esteem. He calls it " Commodified inequality: Racialized harm to children and families in theinjustice enterprise." In contrast, a status known as guardianship does not require such a trade-off.

Foster Care 76

Foster Care Adoption Self-harm Psychology 76

Social Work Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

not enrolled in any health plan) and self-pay (e.g., Expected charge” for an item or service: the cash pay rate or rate established by a provider for an uninsured (or self-pay) patient, reflecting any discounts for such individuals; or. Inform all uninsured and self-pay patients of their right to a GFE.

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Clinic Social Worker Self-harm Psychotherapy 98

Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The panel acknowledges that there are a small number of children who are seriously harmed or die, where bruises have been seen by staff with a responsibility to protect children before more serious injuries have taken place. Is a bruise ‘reasonable cause to suspect significant harm’? Harming children and families.

Self-harm 72

Self-harm Hospitals Adoption Disorder 72

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. As is so often the case with these algorithms, they are less prediction than self-fulfilling prophecy. . ● There is no opportunity for any family to opt-out or deny the use of their personal data.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Self-harm 98

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Educator : Social workers educate clients about resources, coping strategies, and life skills to enhance their well-being and self-sufficiency. This approach helps clients build resilience and self-efficacy. Self-Care: Personal Well-being: Social workers understand the importance of self-care to maintain their own well-being.

Social Worker 95

Social Worker Treatment Planning Interventional Justice and Corrections 95

Relias

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A study conducted by the Department of Veteran Affairs found a “a significant positive relationship between a positive screen for housing instability and a Veteran having a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, psychosis, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and previous suicide attempt or intentional self-harm.”.

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Depression Disorder Human Services PTSD 98

Relias

MARCH 7, 2023

Consider a shared governance approach to scheduling Nurses that have input into their schedules are more likely to feel empowered and in control of their work. If nurses become aware of inequities, that could harm your retention strategy. Examine pay equity Compare compensation rates for each level and role to ensure equity.

Healthcare 98

Healthcare Clinic Communication Engagement 98

Community Care

MAY 25, 2023

The figures come despite chronically high demand for welfare placements for children on secure accommodation orders, who typically have severe and complex needs such as self-harm, suicidal ideation or high risk of exploitation. Overall occupancy levels were 60% of approved places, down from 72% in 2020.

Criminal Justice 64

Criminal Justice Welfare Self-harm Interventional 64

Community Care

AUGUST 30, 2023

It has launched the consultation in the wake of the government’s decision in April to delay introducing the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) – its planned replacement for the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) – beyond the next election, due in 2024.

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Community Care

AUGUST 26, 2022

“This is very evident in school, in loss of concentration on learning, self-harming, thoughts of suicide and early signs of eating disorders.” “[It will lead] to safeguarding concerns, self-neglect and safety issues – and an increase in hospital admissions as a result,” said one.

Social Worker 62

Social Worker Self-harm Anxiety Schools 62

Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

Sharp rise in children’s social workers leaving council roles, government figures show. Hidden harms endured over the pandemic are now coming to light, meaning the time and resources needed by each individual family are greater than ever before. I am looking for jobs away from local authority social work.”. Related articles.

Social Worker 67

Social Worker Mental Health Interventional Government 67

Community Care

JULY 10, 2024

Labour’s return to power last week was greeted with a chorus of welcomes from adult social care organisations in England – along with a chorus of demands of the new government. In its 2021 white paper, People at the Heart of Care, the government concluded that the full spirit of the Care Act had not been realised.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Case Management 55

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

New resource ● While we continue to wait for the federal government to put out the annual AFCARS report, its official foster care statistics for the year ending September 30, 2022, The Imprint has released its own survey , covering the year ending March 31, 2023. That lasted 11 days….

Child Welfare 52

Child Welfare Adoption Self-harm Foster Care 52

Community Care

MARCH 8, 2023

Providers reported a “sharp increase”, particularly since spring 2022, in referrals for children – some very young – with deteriorating mental health, with rising numbers self-harming as well.

Foster Care 69

Foster Care Self-harm Anxiety Mental Health 69

Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. Image: Dzmitry/Adobe Stock Addressing these requires policy changes and for the government to adopt a digital safeguarding approach.

Case Management 53

Case Management Communication Self-harm Adoption 53

Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

In NRA & Ors, Re [2015] EWCOP 59 judgement made it clear that it is well established that the approach to the existence of a deprivation of liberty is governed by the Guzzardi principle. Necessary to prevent harm and proportionate to risk of harm.

Self-harm 52

Self-harm Mental Health Social Worker Consultation 52

Community Care

JUNE 7, 2022

A council’s response to children at immediate risk of harm has “deteriorated” after senior leaders failed to speedily put in place extra funds to boost social work capacity, Ofsted has warned. MP calls for government intervention. “That’s a big worry for me.”

Self-harm 52

Self-harm Social Worker Government Interventional 52

Community Care

DECEMBER 12, 2021

However, this is unlikely given children in these circumstances generally need high levels of care, and those under 16 cannot be placed in unregulated settings following a government ban introduced in September.

Mental Health 54

Mental Health Self-harm Hospitals Government 54

Gateway Foundation

DECEMBER 19, 2022

State governments offer lotteries to increase revenue and fund projects such as senior services, environmental protection, and education, but lotteries can become harmful when people develop an addiction to them. Compulsive gambling support groups are excellent self-help opportunities.

Addiction 64

Addiction CBT Disorder Engagement 64

Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

They also work on issues in relation to abuse, for example, how emotional abuse can cause significant harm to a vulnerable person. This process is referred to as social prescribing, an initiative that received significant backing from the UK government in 2018 with an investment of £4.5 Can a counsellor prescribe medication?

Social Worker 52

Social Worker Treatment Planning Mental Health Interventional 52

Relias

MARCH 7, 2023

Consider a shared governance approach to scheduling Nurses that have input into their schedules are more likely to feel empowered and in control of their work. If nurses become aware of inequities, that could harm your retention strategy. Examine pay equity Compare compensation rates for each level and role to ensure equity.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Clinic Communication Engagement 52

Community Care

MAY 5, 2022

As defined by England’s national minimum standards (standard 22), an allegation is a claim that a carer has, or may have, harmed a child, possibly committed a criminal offence against or relating to the child or behaved towards a child in a way that indicates he or she is unsuitable to work with children.

Social Worker 52

Social Worker Foster Care Self-harm Communication 52

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Airbnbs and other temporary accommodation have been deployed because no secure placement can be found anywhere in England that is prepared to accommodate the child, who self-harms, makes weapons, assaults staff members, damages property and has been taken to hospital after expressing suicidal thoughts. Continue reading.

Self-harm 17

Self-harm Hospitals Government 17

Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

By JaBree Harris, MSW Democracy is not self-sustaining. If passed, the SAVE Act would effectively eliminate mail-in voter registration, burdening those without easy access to government offices and disproportionately impacting the very communities that social workers serve every day. Now, we face yet another assault on voting rights.

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Social Worker Advocacy Self-harm Engagement 115

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Some advocates in Maine have tried to use one data point in the federal governments annual Child Maltreatment report to justify the states ongoing foster-care panic. 13 to three counts of aggravated child abuse causing great bodily harm and three counts of child neglect with great bodily harm, Seminole County records show.

Foster Care 79

Foster Care Self-harm Child Welfare Confidentiality 79

Clinical Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

The person who’s wise can take a step back and recall the longer-term perspective, can get the true measure of things, remember that anxieties pass, remain self-possessed - and thereby be less anxiously vulnerable in the face of life’s vicissitudes. The embodiment of these virtues is what we call ‘wisdom’.

Self-harm 52

Self-harm Anxiety Psychology Psychotherapy 52

Community Care

MAY 30, 2022

The “turmoil” in Bradford’s children’s services led to practice failings in Star Hobson’s case that meant allegations of harm against her were not treated sufficiently seriously, a review has found. Arthur and Star cases show need for expert child protection units, finds review.

Social Worker 61

Social Worker Self-harm Domestic Violence Interviewing 61

University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

This scholarship was established in memory of Donna Millette-Fridge by the School of Social Work in recognition of her commitment to helping the mentally ill become self-sufficient. My plan is continuing to work in the group setting and IOP services, specifically with individuals who are experiencing self-harm, depression and anxiety.

Criminal Justice 98

Criminal Justice Schools Mental Health Social Worker 98

Community Care

MARCH 28, 2025

” However, in response, the prime minister merely said the government would “set out the details just as soon as we can”, an answer that has been given repeatedly by children’s minister Janet Daby in response to multiple parliamentary questions. All of those have nothing [come 31 March].”

Adoption 71

Adoption Therapist Welfare Self-harm 71

Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

But treating the decline in foster care (the direct result of government actions) as a desirable outcome in itself can contribute to a disregard of actual child welfare outcomes like safety and permanency. in determining whether removal is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm to the child due to child abuse or neglect.

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Domestic Violence Foster Care Substance Abuse Child Welfare 264

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

● Dr. Sharon McDaniel, a pioneer in doing kinship foster care the right way, speaks out about the enormous harm of doing it the wrong way – through the subterfuge known as “hidden foster care.” And imagine if the price for not meeting the government spy’s standard for “well-being” were to have the child taken forever.

Foster Care 79

Foster Care Domestic Violence Child Welfare Self-harm 79

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Self-proclaimed liberal Elizabeth Bartholet wanted to force every pregnant woman to admit a spy into her living room from pregnancy until the child was preschool age. They charged that the plan was really just a subterfuge by liberals to put an agent from Big Government into every American home. Image created by openart.ai

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Child Welfare Self-harm Adoption Welfare 109

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In an article about The False Gods of Social Change Kevin Campbell, Cormac Russell and Elizabeth Wendell write: In practice, service users receiving aid from the government and charities exchange freedoms of self-determination, choice, participation, and control for the promise of subsistence, not equity, health, or even dignity.

Child Welfare 52

Child Welfare Welfare Self-harm Adoption 52

Community Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Policy response to foster care shortages Under its Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy , the previous Conservative government took action to bolster foster care recruitment and retention, including by: Increasing national minimum fostering allowances by 12.43% in 2023 and 6.88% in 2024. Government policy should reflect this.

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Foster Care Self-harm Government 58

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But while they’re making themselves media stars, their statements fan the flames of foster-care panic , encouraging more needless removal, doing enormous harm to the children needlessly removed, and overloading the system – making it even more likely that the next child in real danger will be missed. That’s not their intent.

Schools 98

Schools Child Welfare Welfare Government 98

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Those were always they whom I assessed as having been harmful to their children or the situation. Historically, the Liberals and Conservatives have formed most governments given a fear of overspending by New Democrats. All this because services have been gutted by the current Conservative government. Political parties matter.

Private Practice 130

Private Practice Rehabilitation Mental Health Self-harm 130

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. -- Based on her extensive research Prof. Another important book was released in 2023. The Imprint talks to Prof.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Adoption 110