NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The Imprint’s weekly podcast features a fascinating interview with Andrea Elliott, author of Invisible Child. ? There’s more about the failure of the current system, the racial and class bias that are built into it, and the case for abolition in this Youth Today interview with University of Pennsylvania Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Also in New York City, Black Agenda Radio interviews Anne Venhuizen of The Bronx Defenders about their big win against the family police – successfully suing the family police agency for tearing a child from her mother at birth because the mother smoked marijuana. The interview starts at 27:15 in. ● I have a blog post about it.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast. Not only for me personally, but for all the people, especially Black women, who’ve been devalued in these systems.” This story from The Imprint has a good summary of Prof. One state moving in the right direction on these issues is New Jersey. Some even are celebrated.

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Bipolar Bandit

JANUARY 23, 2024

Her son, Ben, has been hospitalized over ten times for schizophrenia. She’s also an actor, voice talent, radio broadcaster, audiobook narrator, teacher and speaker. She has spoken at CIT International, American Psychiatric Association, APNA, and The Missouri Behavioral Health Council.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2023

N: In my first job at the State Hospital in Illinois, the agency director and my supervisor took me under their wing and taught me many things, including how to conduct a social history, interviews with patients, and how to lead group therapy. S: Have you had mentors throughout your career?

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Social work is generally seen as a clinical field, so if you do choose to pursue roles outside of “traditional” social work, it might take some time to learn how you can sell yourself in the application and interview phase and prove that your skills are transferable. Make sure you approach salary negotiations at the right time.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Safe and effective, COVID-19 vaccines have been shown to prevent severe illness, hospitalization, and death. The Committee’s position has been evolving over the last several months. Learn more about Connect to End COVID-19 by visiting NASW’s website.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

The report describes a pattern of poor conditions and abusive practices that the SFC staff observed by reviewing media articles and company documents, supplemented by interviews with senior leaders in the four companies and visits to several facilities not operated by these companies.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The agencies call it “child support” but listen closely at 36:23 in, and you’ll hear Imprint editor John Kelly use the R-word :-)) The interview starts at 16:40 in. This comes on the heels of AP’s revelation that the most far-reaching – and most highly-touted – such algorithm of all, the one in Pittsburgh, is under investigation by the U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

That’s the headline on a New York Magazine story about a hospital that allegedly went to astounding lengths to secretly test a mother for drugs, and then report her to the family police because she tested positive for marijuana. I discuss this in a column for the Brainerd Dispatch. And, what do you know?

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

Leftover social care reforms MHA reform: this would reform the 1983 act to lower the thresholds for detention in hospital and community treatment orders and exclude autistic people and people with learning disabilities from being detained for treatment without a co-existing mental health condition.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In 2020, at the end of my pandemic response mission for the military, I, along with my fellow service members, were compelled to conduct health screening interviews. Our specific mission was to facilitate electronic communication between hospitalized patients and loved ones in the height of New York City’s Covid-19 experience.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

The researchers who wrote the article for JAMA Pediatrics debunking the whole “pandemic of child abuse” myth discuss their findings in this interview. Also: You know all those stories claiming there was an increase in hospital admissions for abusive head trauma? They were less rushed; their kids were less rushed. . …

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Often, when these parents reach out — going to the hospital for example or seeking therapy — that nurse or therapist whose trusted expertise they desperately need, is required under law to report suspected abuse or neglect in the home.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. It is the worst case of child abuse and neglect that I have ever seen,” said a hospital consultant who treated Victoria in her final days.

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Relias

OCTOBER 14, 2022

No hospitals or birth centers offering obstetric care. While still having too few hospitals/birth centers, an increase to over just 60 OB providers per 10,000 births would change a county’s designation from maternity care desert to low-access. This version includes additional information for hospitals and health systems.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In an interview published this week with his constituency’s local paper, the Harborough Mail, O’Brien said he was honoured to have been appointed to the DHSC and commented on its priorities across health and social care.

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Relias

MARCH 7, 2023

A seamless interview process that includes clear directions and maintains a high level of professionalism can help HR teams make a great first impression. Hospitals and health systems learned quickly that salaries need to stay competitive to recruit and retain nurses from a shrinking pool of candidates.

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Relias

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I recently had the privilege of co-presenting a webinar for the American Hospital Association with two colleagues from Memorial Hermann Health System. Memorial Hermann is the largest not-for-profit health system in southeast Texas and spans 17 hospitals and over 260 care delivery sites with 1.7 million patient encounters per year.

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Bipolar Bandit

JANUARY 23, 2024

Her son, Ben, has been hospitalized over ten times for schizophrenia. She’s also an actor, voice talent, radio broadcaster, audiobook narrator, teacher and speaker. She has spoken at CIT International, American Psychiatric Association, APNA, and The Missouri Behavioral Health Council.

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Bipolar Bandit

JANUARY 23, 2024

Her son, Ben, has been hospitalized over ten times for schizophrenia. She’s also an actor, voice talent, radio broadcaster, audiobook narrator, teacher and speaker. She has spoken at CIT International, American Psychiatric Association, APNA, and The Missouri Behavioral Health Council.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In my extended family, we also have someone who spent about 10 years in an assessment and treatment unit [a mental health hospital for people with learning disabilities or autism] and had experienced being in a seclusion room. I have always been concerned about why so many people with learning disabilities and autism are trapped in hospital.

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Community Care

JULY 10, 2024

But the impact was compounded in the early stages by government policies to free up 15,000 hospital beds in March 2020 and for care homes to make their full capacity available. And the number of people awaiting discharge from hospital has remained stubbornly around the 13,000 mark, shows NHS England data.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The COVID-19 vaccine helps protect individuals from severe disease, hospitalization, and death, according to the CDC. In Part Two of this series, an interview with Barbara Bedney, PhD, MSW—NASW Chief of Programs and Principal Investigator (PI) on this CDC-funded grant, Engaging Social Workers in Boosting COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This may include personal interviews, family histories, and the review of relevant documents. Social workers also play important roles in schools, hospitals, and other public settings. At hospitals, they may provide counselling to patients and their families or connect them with resources that can help support their recovery.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 20, 2025

The department also allegedly sought a court order for the hospital to perform a caesarean section while the mother was in labor, all without A.V.s The hospital staff were texting with DCF about the dilation of her cervix, senior ACLU staff attorney Harrison Stark said in an interview. Unbeknownst to A.V., Then it got worse.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This is because the mounting vacancy rate in adult social care is a key driver of delayed discharges from hospital, reducing capacity to admit new patients. NHS leaders have repeatedly warned that tackling healthcare pressures requires investment in social care – particularly by raising wages for the workforce.

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Clinical Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Suffice it for now to say that she's a 28 year old only child who has mainly stayed in a psychiatric hospital during the last 10 years, and who was evacuated to live away from her parents during WWII. When the interviewers go to Maya's home. a confused one'. There are many , many , more examples like this in the book.

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Relias

APRIL 28, 2023

Common signs of birth trauma include: Feelings of depression, anxiety, and/or guilt Flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, or nightmares regarding the event that caused trauma. From these baselines, you can assign the appropriate training to staff members based on their roles within your organization.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

Providing a GFE to patients is not new to CSWs who, as part of best clinical and ethical practice, routinely discuss services and fees before or during the initial interview with new patients and provide informed consent forms. GFEs do not need to be provided to patients who are enrolled in federal health insurance plans (e.g.,

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

Social workers can work in different settings, such as schools, hospitals, non-profit organisations, government agencies, and private practice. They may conduct intake interviews to determine their client’s specific requirements and ensure they are connected with relevant services. Provide support to clients and families in need.

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Community Care

JUNE 27, 2024

Our interview with Ruth Allen is part of a series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to mark Community Care’s 50th anniversary. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. There are many campaign activities to be proud of.

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Relias

MARCH 7, 2023

A seamless interview process that includes clear directions and maintains a high level of professionalism can help HR teams make a great first impression. Hospitals and health systems learned quickly that salaries need to stay competitive to recruit and retain nurses from a shrinking pool of candidates.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

While researching my book, I interviewed a group of stewards for the caseworkers’ union in Massachusetts. Mom is a powerful treatment,” said Dr. Matthew Grossman, a pediatric hospitalist at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital who has studied the care of opioid-dependent babies. Now let’s flash forward to 1989.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 29, 2021

“When your boss asks for proof that you’re in the hospital.” How annoying can that one co-worker be? Just let us go home, Susan! No more social work talk please! ” Desperate times call for desperate measures! Time does not fly, it seems!

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Social Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

I attended the interview and was shown around the unit. Interestingly, one of the service users was also on the interview panel, asking me questions and giving me advice. This included the hospital manager, head of care and nursing, occupational therapy and support colleagues. I agreed and never looked back.

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