NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Records that have to be “admitted” into the database [but may not have been] include substance abuse records, visitation records and medical records. Similar to a report by a psychologist, if these records were never admitted, it could mean that parental rights were terminated by a court that had insufficient information. ●

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

Nervous Breakdown and Substance Abuse Similar to depression, a nervous breakdown can push someone to abuse alcohol, prescription drugs, or illicit drugs. Conversely, substance use disorder is sometimes an underlying reason for a mental breakdown. That's the essence of " normal functioning."

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This is because they develop treatment plans to address mental illness and substance abuse problems, often holding supervisory roles and advocating for human rights within the criminal justice system. Social workers also play important roles in schools, hospitals, and other public settings.

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All For Kids

MARCH 10, 2025

Self-harm : Your child is engaging in self-harm, such as cutting, scratching, biting, headbanging, substance abuse, suicidal behavior, and more. If your child or someone you love is displaying one or more of these, we suggest seeking assistance from a behavioral health provider at a qualified mental health center.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 29, 2022

I was entrusted to a mental hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont at age fifteen. This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. Maybe there isn’t enough available medication to subside these symptoms people are enduring and they end up turning to other substances.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Walsh explores the role of social workers in mental health settings, such as hospitals, clinics, and community agencies. It covers topics such as helping elderly individuals access benefits, understanding age-related illnesses, addressing elder abuse and developing end-of-life plans. Addressing substance abuse and addiction issues.

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Code of Ethics Substance Abuse Justice and Corrections Social Worker 52

Gateway Foundation

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Without rapid hospital treatment, septicemia can lead to sepsis, which is life-threatening. It’s caused by a bacterial infection that begins elsewhere in the body, such as in the gut, lungs, skin, bladder, or kidneys, and enters the bloodstream.

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Addiction Recovery Substance Abuse Administration 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

First, in more than two-thirds of all Massachusetts cases, no substance abuse of any kind is even alleged. Second, all substance use isn’t opioids. There is no breakdown of how often the substance at issue is one that is now legal in Massachusetts: marijuana. That, too, fails for several reasons.

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Foster Care Domestic Violence Child Welfare Welfare 98

Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

About the skills and frameworks we bring to the table: According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the principles of ‘trauma-informed care’ include safety, trustworthiness and transparency, peer support, collaboration and mutuality, empowerment, voice and choice, and cultural, historical, and gender issues.

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Shelter, Inc

MARCH 12, 2025

Other significant risk factors include housing instability, caregiver instability, substance abuse, involvement in the juvenile justice system, and running away. Because trafficking often follows patterns of systemic inequality, we see trafficking disproportionately impacting girls, LGBTQ+ youth, and low-income individuals.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Oh yes it can: Across the country, hospitals are dispensing medications to patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities when they or their newborns test positive for those very same substances on subsequent drug tests, an investigation by The Marshall Project and Reveal has found.

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Relias

JULY 20, 2023

The new measures included the Birthing-Friendly hospital designation to help reduce maternal mortality and morbidity. It can occur with or without previous mental health factors, such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or domestic risks. Sadly, U.S. rates are continuing to rise. Collaborative care models can save lives.

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Hospitals Medicaid Mental Health Medicare 40

Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

Shortly before KFTA took effect, DCYF, along with the Department of Health, the Health Care Authority, and the Washington State Hospital Association issued new guidelines to birthing hospitals and mandatory reporters. Sometimes the providers refused to cooperate. Lack of subject matter expertise.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

We soon learned that the little girl, who was blind in one eye, had first been removed from Sorey at the age of two months by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) due to Sorey’s substance abuse. Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, was in jail at the time.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The Nevada Independent reports: A January legislative audit identified seven care facilities for children that failed to adequately protect those in their care, with complaints ranging from children self-administering medication to substance abuse issues. He told doctors they pulled his tongue and kicked him.

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Beyond Advocacy

MAY 21, 2024

million individuals are held in 1,566 state prisons, 98 federal prisons, 3,116 local jails, 1,323 juvenile correctional facilities, 142 immigration detention facilities, and 80 Indian country jails, as well as in military prisons, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S.

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