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Child Protective Services in the District of Columbia: An alarming increase in incomplete investigations in FY2024

Child Welfare Monitor

Contributing factors might be the end of COVID-19 assistance programs and the growing mental health, substance abuse, and housing crises in the District. But it seems likely that this trend stems from the workforce crisis that is affecting CFSA and other child welfare and human services agencies around the country.

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How to Get an Illinois DUI Evaluation

Gateway Foundation

What to Expect During a DUI Evaluation DUI evaluations involve in-person interviews with a certified treatment provider. In Illinois, your evaluator must also compare your interview answers to your driving history, chemical test results, and Objective Test score and category.

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How to Get an Illinois DUI Evaluation

Gateway Foundation

What to Expect During a DUI Evaluation DUI evaluations involve in-person interviews with a certified treatment provider. In Illinois, your evaluator must also compare your interview answers to your driving history, chemical test results, and Objective Test score and category.

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Social Work on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Look Back, A Look Ahead (Part Two)

Social Work Blog

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. Social service providers under COVID-19 duress: Adaptation, burnout, and resilience. To read Part One, follow this link.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

A few years later, during an interview with a documentary filmmaker, Leavitt, a wealthy Utah politician, told a startling story about how he went about getting physical custody of that child. For decades, weve said states grossly underestimate the rate of abuse in foster care indeed they dont even try to find out.

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Child Welfare Update: February 2024

Child Welfare Monitor

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. An article in the Washington Post reported on interviews with three of the mothers participating in the pilot.

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In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long (2024 Edition)

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The center was understaffed and more interested in the profits from enrollment, and the state Children, Youth and Families Department, which licensed and oversaw the center, was aware of issues at Sandhill and allowed the abuse to happen, the suit alleges. The foster/adoptive parents have been charged with murdering the child.