CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

What is the states role in overseeing child welfare in Colorado? The child welfare system for the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) oversees child welfare practices, policies and funding. Will county child welfare staff follow a family protection plan?

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Shelter, Inc

OCTOBER 17, 2024

having received a Medicaid contract allowing our team of trained experts to provide free mental health services to children and families in our care. The post With Your Support, We Accomplished So Much in Child Welfare Last Year! Our impact will be felt even more deeply with Shelter, Inc. Our volunteer force is strong!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

She was also cited for a history of violence and mental health concerns, though there is no allegation she was violent with her children. It is a symptom of the culture of contempt for families and a lust for child removal that has characterized Massachusetts child welfare for decades. This is not an aberration.

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Community Care

JANUARY 15, 2025

Infants are at increased risk of harm due to growth in the numbers of parents with mental health and substance misuse issues, ,research has found. According to the DfE’schildren in need census : Parental mental health concerns were identified 165,480 times in 2023-24, up from 158,330 in 2021-22, a rise of 4.5%.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Kin or relatives are almost always the first resource that child welfare staff will explore if a child needs a safe living environment, even temporarily. It is also the value of child welfare in Colorado to honor all children/youths cultural norms and values in their placements, including staying with family whenever possible.

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

States have been hard-put to devise plans for implementing the new services because the bill was designed to fix a problem that did not exist–the alleged absence of child welfare services designed to help families stay together. ” As the Child Welfare Information Gateway, an information clearinghouse of the U.S.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

To find child welfare offices in Colorado, visit the Contact Your County Human Services Department website for county specific information. Are there resources to help my family or kin take care of my children for more than a day or two through child welfare involvement? Caseworkers can help families make a communication plan.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Researchers hope to ultimately determine if monthly cash gifts over the course of a year prevent future involvement with the Illinois child welfare system by randomly assigning 800 families who are receiving services through the Intact Family Services program to receive a monthly stipend. rural vs suburban).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.

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Shelter, Inc

DECEMBER 5, 2024

For many young people, the emotional scars of trauma can last a lifetime, affecting their mental health, relationships, and overall quality of life. This is especially true for children who have faced extreme circumstances such as abuse, neglect, or loss, often as part of child welfare systems.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

More than just a dissent in an individual case, this opinion is a call to transform “child welfare” in Michigan – and everywhere else. is a brilliant dissection of the failings of both law and practice in “child welfare” in Michigan and pretty much everywhere else in America.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

When NCCPR released a comprehensive report on Colorado child welfare in September 2023, we included a section called Tapeworm in the System. The report makes no mention of the fact that, in other child welfare contexts, such tools have an ugly history of bias. And what, exactly, does that mean?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I single these stories out not because they are exceptionally awful - there’s far worse out there - but precisely because they are so typical of the journalism of child welfare. One study after another has found that even small amounts of cash significantly reduce what child welfare systems label as “neglect.”

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Gary Direnfeld

JUNE 9, 2024

He worried for her welfare. Check out all my services and then call me if you need help with a personal issue, mental health concern, child behavior or relationship, divorce or separation issue or even help growing your practice. He couldn’t meet the intense needs, the high emotions, the shifting moods.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

After decades of expanding the child welfare surveillance state to the point that more than one in three children and a majority of Black children will be forced to endure the trauma of a child abuse investigation by the time they turn 18, some states have noticed: Theyve been doing the same thing over and over and getting the same lousy results.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

He is the chemical dependency track coordinator and mental health track chair. He researches technology and child welfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. Todd Sage , Ph.D., MSW, is a clinical associate professor at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

The next government should take forward reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) in its first 100 days in office, the incoming Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has said. Labour has said it will take forward the reform, if elected.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

She also abused prescription opioids and had mental health issues. If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides. Unfortunately, much of child welfare operates with a pre- Gault mentality.

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Relias

JANUARY 23, 2024

On January 23, we recognize Maternal Health Awareness Day , an initiative by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) to increase awareness and action related to maternal mortality and morbidity in the U.S. It affects not only the mother, but also their children, their families, and their communities.

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Community Care

JUNE 2, 2023

Approved mental health professional (AMHP) leads have sounded the alarm over the Metropolitan Police’s decision to withdraw from attending mental health-related incidents in London by the end of August. He also said that officers spent, on average, 14.2 hours in A&E and 8.5

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KVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

KVC Missouri and Great Circle, two nonprofits with a shared mission to provide high-quality children’s mental health and family services, have finalized the agreement that will guide their integration. We can truly transform the face of foster care and mental health.” Louis and elsewhere.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The rise in DoL numbers has been driven by a lack of appropriate placements to meet their needs, whether in open or secure children’s homes or specialist tier 4 child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), and a reported reluctance from registered providers to admit them.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. 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.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

A major purpose of FFPSA was to enable states to use federal funds that were formerly available only for foster care to pay for parenting support, mental health, and drug treatment that would enable children to stay safely with their families. percent–almost the same as the drop in California’s child welfare case openings.

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Gary Direnfeld

JULY 28, 2022

To add, there continues to be issues of drinking water for many Indigenous persons and child welfare still needs reform in most jurisdictions. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice. Your day is over.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

The purpose of the FGDM meeting is to enable a childs family network to meet to discuss the welfare needs of the child and to make a proposal in response to concerns about the childs welfare. Tim Spencer-Lane is a lawyer specialising in social care, mental capacity and mental health and legal editor of Community Care Inform.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 5, 2023

There is limited research on how loneliness and social support impact young people’s mental health and mental health services use. In the May 2023 issue of the journal Health & Social Work , which is co-published by NASW and Oxford University Press, an article looks at loneliness among emerging adults. (The

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Michigan Social Work

APRIL 19, 2022

Field Faculty Rosalva Osorio Cooksy and Clinical Professor Julie Ribaudo were part of the national task force that developed the Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health, which was released in early April. Osorio Cooksy was part of the team developing Competency 5: Engage in Policy Practice.

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KVC

MAY 24, 2022

KVC Health Systems is a family of nonprofit organizations working to strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental health wellness. Storytelling’s power is why, each year, KVC Health Systems holds a Story Contest.

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Community Care

MARCH 26, 2025

A further 430,000 future claimants who would have been entitled to the daily living component of PIP under the current rules would not be found eligible, under the reformed system set out in last week’s welfare reform green paper. On average, they would lose 4,500 a year.

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Community Care

JULY 26, 2023

Police forces across England will, in future, stop attending mental health-related incidents unless there is a significant risk to safety or a crime being committed, and refer cases to health or social care services instead. The Metropolitan Police has estimated that its officers spend, on average, 14.2 hours in A&E and 8.5

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

They overload child welfare systems – or as they should be called, “family policing systems” -- with false reports and cases in which poverty is confused with neglect , stealing time from finding the few children in real danger. I have written before about how mandatory child abuse reporting laws backfire. In a sane, logical world, nothing.

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KVC

JUNE 13, 2023

If you have such a story, sharing it with others or with a mental health professional can help you feel freer and lighter, encourage others, and can even change the world by sparking hope. Storytelling’s power is why, each year, KVC Health Systems holds a Story Contest. We received many entries to our 2022 Story Contest.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

In each of those periods, the child welfare system saw a significant increase in the number of children moved into foster care. During these past epidemics, the child welfare and foster care systems became completely overwhelmed. However, there is some hope in the form of federal assistance for the child welfare system.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

The Child Welfare League (CWLA), in written testimony submitted to the SFC, added that residential services are “a small but important part of the full array of services” that must be available to meet children’s mental health needs.” ” As evidence, the report cites a 2013 report that showed 28.8

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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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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

As of July 2023, KVC Health Systems ranks High or Above Average in 14 of the 15 categories. This means KVC is outperforming its peers in child welfare and mental health, its peers in healthcare more broadly, and even most for-profit companies across all sectors.

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