Gateway Foundation

JANUARY 19, 2024

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

While researching my book, I interviewed a group of stewards for the caseworkers’ union in Massachusetts. 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. Now let’s flash forward to 1989.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

My personal experiences, from working with substance abuse support groups to volunteering in child welfare and domestic violence programs, have deepened my understanding of the vital role social workers play in our society.

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Domestic Violence Social Worker Mental Health Empathy 52

Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

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. To read Part One, follow this link. I couldn’t agree with Gwen more and will just add a few additional points of my own.

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Social Work With Adults

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They recognise it can help people become more independent, reduce loneliness, improve confidence, and mitigate trauma and substance abuse. Our research found most believed it should be part of their role, in the context of wider efforts to promote physical health and mental wellbeing, as set out in the commitments of the Care Act 2014.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 26, 2023

They also include assessment, interviewing, record keeping and case management. Educator – this involves educating clients on issues such as health promotion, mental health, substance abuse and community resources. Micro practice skills are the day-to-day tasks that social workers employ to help their clients.

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Clinical Philosophy

OCTOBER 31, 2020

31 The reference (31) given here is to a paper on the link between violence and mental health (and drug and alcohol use ) which found that ' if a person has severe mental illness without substance abuse and history of violence, he or she has the same chances of being violent during the next 3 years as any other person in the general population.'

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

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. You may recall this group was the one that did the most to spread the false pandemic of child abuse hysteria in the early days of the COVID pandemic.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration grant of just over $1 million to expand needed infrastructure, processes, and services to build strong early childhood mental health services. Innovations Institute has partnered with the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Union County, Ohio (MHRBUC) in a new U.S.

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Substance Abuse Administration Mental Health Recovery 40

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

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Even In those cases, again, 89% did not involve even an allegation of physical or sexual abuse. Sixty-three percent did not include any allegation of substance abuse. Eleven percent of Black and Hispanic children in Massachusetts will be torn from their parents and consigned to the chaos of Massachusetts foster care.

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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.

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