CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The child welfare system for the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) oversees child welfare practices, policies and funding. Each of Colorados 64 counties implements child welfare practices and delivers direct services to children, youth and families in their counties.

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Shelter, Inc

MAY 11, 2021

According to Dr. John Walkup, chair of the Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Lurie Children’s Hospital, 20% of children had mental health challenges before the end of high school, even before the pandemic. Without help, the impact on children’s mental health may be long-lasting or even life-long.

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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 26, 2021

According to Dr. John Walkup, chair of the Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Lurie Children’s Hospital, 20% of children had mental health challenges before the end of high school, even before the pandemic. Without help, the impact on children’s mental health may be long-lasting or even life-long.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The child welfare system for the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) oversees child welfare practices, policies and funding. Each of Colorados 64 counties implements child welfare practices and delivers direct services to children, youth and families in their communities.

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It expanded the allowable uses of Title IV-E funding, formerly used to pay only for foster care, to include what the Act called “Prevention Services,” meaning services to prevent foster care. … So under Family First, we created new federal funding for those services. . But is simply not true.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Depression is a very common and serious mental health condition that can significantly impact a person’s ability to function in all aspects of life. In fact, those with other health conditions such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and substance use disorder are also at greater risk of developing depression [1]. Depression.

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Relias

MAY 1, 2023

By implementing effective workplace mental health strategies, you can help your DSPs identify the signs of the burnout and take action before it becomes too much. To help close the gap, here are five effective workplace mental health strategies that your organization can use to promote workplace wellbeing and psychological safety.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

If a familys child(ren) is detained or deported, families can contact the caseworker or their county human services department for support. To find child welfare offices in Colorado, visit the Contact Your County Human Services Department website for county specific information.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 25, 2022

Social workers are the largest group of mental health providers in the United States and treatment of PTSD is one of their specialty areas. Identify future areas of work/growth, boundaries as practitioners as the continued need for mental health treatment remains an essential service during the COVID 19 pandemic in the U.S.

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Relias

JUNE 19, 2023

From counseling individuals with mental health disorders to helping vulnerable children and families access critical resources, your organization and the behavioral health professionals you employ perform a wide range of important work. As demand for behavioral health providers increases across the U.S.

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Relias

JUNE 22, 2023

Whether this comes in the form of bullying, abuse, loss of loved ones, childhood trauma negatively affects children’s mental health and creates lifelong mental and physical health conditions. The benefits of CBT for kids and teenagers For kids and teens struggling with their mental health, CBT offers many benefits.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

County Departments of Human/Social Services will try to work with immigration enforcement officials to contact the detained parents to make a plan. If the family doesnt have a protection plan and there are no surrogate caregivers, this will prompt a referral to the County Department of Human/Services.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed. A few years later, the parent organization KVC Health Systems was created. Each is a nonprofit that provides direct services to children and families.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services published guidelines that warned against fast tapering due to the risk of suicide. Building trust and therapeutic rapport is essential when working with any client referred to mental health services, Kljajic says. It was not until a year later that the U.S.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

People with FASDs may be at high risk for school challenges, criminal justice issues, substance use disorders, and mental health disorders. Department of Health and Human Services as part of a financial assistance award totaling $280,000 with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

As the nation’s largest group of mental health services providers, social workers are uniquely positioned to help clients make significant positive changes in their health and well-being by taking time to talk with them about their drinking.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

They are also at risk for trouble with the law, substance use disorders, and mental health disorders. Department of Health and Human Services as part of a financial assistance award totaling $560,000 with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 1, 2023

As students of social work or other human services professions, it is essential that we understand how economic well-being—or the lack thereof—shapes people’s lives. Poverty and financial insecurity can have devastating consequences to one’s physical and mental health, even threatening basic survival.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 1, 2023

As students of social work or other human services professions, it is essential that we understand how economic well-being—or the lack thereof—shapes people’s lives. Poverty and financial insecurity can have devastating consequences to one’s physical and mental health, even threatening basic survival.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

They argue that organizations that prioritize self-care for social work and human services staff are more likely to improve client care and productivity. In doing so, the authors embarked on a collaborative, ground-up approach to the research that guides their study.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 1, 2023

As students of social work or other human services professions, it is essential that we understand how economic well-being—or the lack thereof—shapes people’s lives. Poverty and financial insecurity can have devastating consequences to one’s physical and mental health, even threatening basic survival.

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Relias

OCTOBER 31, 2022

has one of the highest rates of mental health and substance use issues. While Americans are more likely than people in many other countries to seek help for these issues, they are also more likely to be unable to access care due to high costs or lack of mental health practitioners in their area.

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Relias

OCTOBER 31, 2022

has one of the highest rates of mental health and substance use issues. While Americans are more likely than people in many other countries to seek help for these issues, they are also more likely to be unable to access care due to high costs or lack of mental health practitioners in their area.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

As the nation’s largest group of mental health services providers, social workers are uniquely positioned to help clients make significant positive changes in their health and well-being by taking time to talk with them about their drinking.

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Relias

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Whether they are natural or man-made disasters, human services professionals must prepare accordingly. To help your organization provide the best response possible, we’ve put together this resource on disaster behavioral health. How disasters can affect behavioral and mental health. Disasters happen.

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CO4Kids

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Back to Blogs News & Press New law helps relatives and family friends care for kids, providing an alternative to placement in foster care DENVER (September 23, 2024) – The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) celebrates a new state law that provides more resources for kinship caregivers of children in child welfare cases.

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Relias

APRIL 10, 2025

These frameworks streamline communication, assign roles, and allow faster coordination with external agencies such as emergency responders, utility companies, and public health departments. Provide access to mental health support, flexible scheduling, and temporary housing or transportation assistance if needed.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Resilience is particularly helpful when working with behavioral health clients because it mitigates the impacts of trauma and prevents burnout. As mental health in America continues to worsen, behavioral health professionals will need more resilience than ever before.

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Relias

JUNE 19, 2023

From counseling individuals with mental health disorders to helping vulnerable children and families access critical resources, your organization and the behavioral health professionals you employ perform a wide range of important work. As demand for behavioral health providers increases across the U.S.

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Relias

AUGUST 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans’ mental health has been negatively impacted in several ways. The majority of human services staff was unaware of 988, the new national number for suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis response. The rates of anxiety and depression in the U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In this case, she wrote, From the point of court involvement to the final hearing, the respondent-mother made immense progress toward the goals laid out by [the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services] in her agency treatment plan. Raising a child is difficult, even when there is no crisis.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Going beyond online mental health service, which is largely individually focused and synchronously delivered, the authors offer a map of digital social work practice that can be expanded to include support, identity, community action, education, and psychoeducation.

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Relias

AUGUST 23, 2022

For those working in human services, compassion fatigue and the associated symptoms of burnout occur all too often. Caring for clients going through trauma or who have difficult living conditions can have adverse effects on staff’s mental health. Offer other training regarding self-care.

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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“Another exciting aspect of this study is that we will be providing financial compensation to parents who have lived experiences with the child welfare system to become trained in the intervention and co-facilitate the parenting group alongside a mental health professional.” million with 100 percent funded by ASCF/HHS.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JULY 10, 2024

Editors are currently scoping the possibility of creating a book focusing on the challenges associated with the increasingly widespread use of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Digital Technologies in the welfare, social work and human services and society more generally. facilitates coercive control (e.g.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Providing a GFE to patients is not new to CSWs who, as part of best clinical practice, routinely discuss services and fees before or during the initial interview with new patients. Department of Health and Human Services and several other federal agencies, the “Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part II.”.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

In 43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals , Gerald O’Brien provides a resource to overcome these challenges, because policy familiarity contributes to social workers’ fundamental understanding of the individuals, communities, institutions, and governments they serve.

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