Sentences with phrase «welfare agency practice»

Adoption Practice Guidelines (PDF - 951 KB) Utah Division of Child and Family Services (2017) Gives child welfare agency practice guidelines for adoption services for children in Utah.

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The agencies also announced that they had trained over 12,300 frontline welfare staff, city workers, parents and other caregivers in safe sleep practices since January, 2016.

Overview Recent initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels have charged child welfare agencies with the challenge of better integrating research - based programs and practices into their daily routines.

Practice 4: Establish partnerships with community - based program providers and other agencies, such as social services, welfare, mental health, and law enforcement.

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND — Veterinarians Without Borders Veterinarians Without Borders will leverage their grant from PetSmart Charities of Canada to host a first - of - its - kind educational conference in Charlottetown dedicated to sharing best practices for animal welfare agencies working in partnership with First Nations communities to help manage and prevent pet overpopulation and promote pet health in historically underserved areas of Canada's north.

Canada's Codes of Practice for the care and handling of farm animals lay out national expectations for animal welfare as arrived at by consensus between the farmers, veterinarians, scientists, government agencies, SPCAs and humane societies, who are all members of the National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC).

These practices are clearly laid bare in several recent Petitions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- petitions asking the EPA to reconsider its «Endangerment Finding» that anthropogenic greenhouse gases endanger our public health and welfare.

Many of these underlying issues will require consideration of social and economic issues that contribute towards this situation, but will also require better collection practices by child welfare agencies.

The results of this study provide empirical evidence on the steps that child welfare agencies currently take to identify, locate and involve nonresident fathers in case planning; the barriers encountered; and the policies and practices that affect involvement.

The Policy Action Guide is designed for representatives of child welfare agencies, health and human services organizations, community coalitions, or other entities working toward improving child welfare systems or practices through one or more of the following principles:

As part of the revised selection plan, the team asked the public child welfare agencies to identify and include local private and non-profit child welfare - serving agencies (partner agencies) in on - site discussions so that their perspective could be included and their practices explored.

The project team conducted site visits to child welfare agencies to talk with agency administrators, supervisors, and workers, among others, regarding the issue of over-representation, and to find out more about the types of programs, practices, and strategies that are being implemented to meet the needs of children and families of color, particularly African - American children and families.

The findings presented in this study suggest that, despite the challenges it faces and the factors that are outside of its control, there are several factors that public child welfare agencies can address to improve child welfare practice and the delivery of services to children and families, including families of color.

Using Social Media in Recruitment AdoptUSKids Offers resources that can help child welfare professionals decide if their agency is ready to use social media as a tool for recruiting and retaining families, including tips and best practices to get the most out of a Twitter profile or Facebook page.

Child welfare services agencies should be allowed and encouraged, with incentives from all levels of government, to change their parent education practices as they modify their children's services policies.

Sharing the Baton, Not Passing It: Collaboration Between Public and Private Child Welfare Agencies to Reunify Families Spath, Werrbach, & Pine Journal of Community Practice, 16 (4), 2008 View Abstract Presents results from a study of a partnership of two State child welfare agencies and a private child welfare agency aimed at reunifying families whose children have been removed and placed in fostAgencies to Reunify Families Spath, Werrbach, & Pine Journal of Community Practice, 16 (4), 2008 View Abstract Presents results from a study of a partnership of two State child welfare agencies and a private child welfare agency aimed at reunifying families whose children have been removed and placed in fostagencies and a private child welfare agency aimed at reunifying families whose children have been removed and placed in foster care.

Review of the Literature on Child Welfare Training: Theory, Practice, and Research (PDF - 4560 KB) Collins, Amodeo, & Clay (2007) Reviews macro issues impacting child welfare training, describes training practice and delivery approaches, discusses the development of partnership models between public child welfare agencies and institutions of higher education, and presents information on evaluation rPractice, and Research (PDF - 4560 KB) Collins, Amodeo, & Clay (2007) Reviews macro issues impacting child welfare training, describes training practice and delivery approaches, discusses the development of partnership models between public child welfare agencies and institutions of higher education, and presents information on evaluation rpractice and delivery approaches, discusses the development of partnership models between public child welfare agencies and institutions of higher education, and presents information on evaluation research.

Workforce Resources 1 - page Summary # 13: Data - driven Performance Improvement (PDF - 238 KB) National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (2013) Discusses the use of data from a study that measured frontline worker perceptions of evidence - informed practices to assess performance and promote outcome achievement by both private and public child welfare agency staff.

The Georgia Psychotropic Medication Monitoring Project: Final Report and Recommendations (PDF - 1,900 KB) Barton Child Law and Policy Center of Emory University School of Law, Casey Family Programs, & Child Welfare Collaborative (2012) Offers lessons learned for improving practices around the use of psychotropic medication for children in foster care, including protocols for coordination among child welfare, mental health, and Medicaid agencies.

This bulletin for professionals reviews ways to work with families experiencing chronic neglect, including critical elements of successful casework practice, examples of what agencies are doing, and ways agencies can integrate child welfare approaches to chronic neglect with prevention and early intervention efforts.

Project staff believed that by implementing the CFA guidelines, these principles would serve to extend and enhance the agency's child welfare practices related to family engagement.

Meeting the Needs of Immigrant Children and Youth in Child Welfare (PDF - 74 KB) Torrico (2010) Children, Youth and Families Practice Update Explains the challenges immigrant families face, including those involved in child welfare agencies, and presents practice strategies for the child welfare workers who assiPractice Update Explains the challenges immigrant families face, including those involved in child welfare agencies, and presents practice strategies for the child welfare workers who assipractice strategies for the child welfare workers who assist them.

Family reunification in law, policy, and practice Family reunification can be viewed from multiple perspectives, such as the body of law that delineates parental rights and the implications of the law on public policy, the practices and decision - making processes child welfare agencies engage in when deciding whether to return children to their birth parents, and child and family factors that may affect the possibility of successful reunification.

This study was undertaken for two purposes — to gain insight into the issue of over-representation from the child welfare community, and to examine the programs and practices child welfare agencies are implementing to serve children and families of color.

Going Beyond Trauma - informed Care (TIC) Training for Child Welfare Supervisors and Frontline Workers: The Need for System - wide Policy Changes Implementing TIC Practices in All Child Welfare Agencies (PDF - 179 KB) Heffernan & Viggiani (2015) The Advanced Generalist, 1 (3/4) Reviews current efforts to train child welfare workers in trauma - informed practices and argues that trauma - informed care adaptation and training must transcend case workers and supervisors in order for true systemic change to occur.

(2011) Offers numerous articles on the impact of technology on child welfare practice, including guidance for agencies considering a social media presence and a description of Arizona's use of videos to recruit foster and adoptive families.

Standards and Guidelines for Training Programs (PDF - 168 KB) Kanak, Maciolek, & O'Brien (2005) In Training System Assessment Guide for Child Welfare Agencies Synthesizes national standards for child welfare agencies and training activities into a matrix that identifies common performance principles in the areas of case / clinical practice, supervisory practice, managerial practice in internal partnerships, and managerial practice in external partnAgencies Synthesizes national standards for child welfare agencies and training activities into a matrix that identifies common performance principles in the areas of case / clinical practice, supervisory practice, managerial practice in internal partnerships, and managerial practice in external partnagencies and training activities into a matrix that identifies common performance principles in the areas of case / clinical practice, supervisory practice, managerial practice in internal partnerships, and managerial practice in external partnerships.

Doing so is a best practice that can help child welfare agencies be better prepared to serve children and families, both those that were previously in contact with the agency and those that may require the agency's assistance due to the disaster.

Quick Summary: HB 3881 amends the child Care Act providing that licensed child welfare agencies may adopt faith based policies and practices relating to the placement of children for adoption which provide for the placement of a child with a prospective adoptive parent who holds the same religious beliefs as those held by that religious institution.

Senior administrators, program managers, and policy - makers can help child welfare agencies minimize or overcome potential challenges by implementing certain policies and practices.

A Foster Care Practice Model: Lifelong Families Case Practice Tools The Annie E. Casey Foundation (2012) Includes resources and materials related to Lifelong Families, a practice model that is intended to serve as a method of improving foster care practice within private child welfare agencies and advancing permanency outcomes for children in care, especially older youth in treatment fostPractice Model: Lifelong Families Case Practice Tools The Annie E. Casey Foundation (2012) Includes resources and materials related to Lifelong Families, a practice model that is intended to serve as a method of improving foster care practice within private child welfare agencies and advancing permanency outcomes for children in care, especially older youth in treatment fostPractice Tools The Annie E. Casey Foundation (2012) Includes resources and materials related to Lifelong Families, a practice model that is intended to serve as a method of improving foster care practice within private child welfare agencies and advancing permanency outcomes for children in care, especially older youth in treatment fostpractice model that is intended to serve as a method of improving foster care practice within private child welfare agencies and advancing permanency outcomes for children in care, especially older youth in treatment fostpractice within private child welfare agencies and advancing permanency outcomes for children in care, especially older youth in treatment foster care.

As child welfare agency administrators and policy - makers continually strive to improve services and outcomes for children and families, establishing child welfare policies and practices that promote and facilitate an individualized, strengths - based approach is essential.

Guidelines to Applying a Trauma Lens to a Child Welfare Practice Model (PDF - 535 KB) Chadwick Trauma - Informed Systems Project (2013) Designed as a tool for child welfare agencies to assist them in making their child welfare casework practice model more trauma - iPractice Model (PDF - 535 KB) Chadwick Trauma - Informed Systems Project (2013) Designed as a tool for child welfare agencies to assist them in making their child welfare casework practice model more trauma - ipractice model more trauma - informed.

Read further briefings and submissions by the Kinship Care Alliance to consultations by Government and other agencies to reform child welfare law and practice including family justice.

In my mediation practice, I offer private mediations to families in transition and child protection mediation to families involved with child welfare agencies.

Settings for SFT include private practice, mental health clinics, substance abuse programs, child welfare agencies, and schools.

For over two decades the PRIDE Model of Practice has increased opportunities for child welfare agencies to provide a standardized, consistent, structured framework for the competency - based recruitment, preparation, assessment, selection, of foster and adoptive (resource) parents, and for foster parent in - service training and ongoing professional development.

Child welfare agencies are so accustomed to the way office - based visits have always been done that it is difficult to see how — unintentionally — visit practices alienate parents, children and foster parents.

National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW) Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration The mission of the NCSACW is to improve systems and practice for families with substance use disorders who are involved in the child welfare and family judicial systems by assisting local, State and tribal agencies.

An Introduction to the Practice Model Framework: A Working Document Series (PDF - 129 KB) National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement & National Child Welfare Resource Center for Family - Centered Practice and Permanency Planning (2008) Presents a framework to help child welfare agencies and Tribal social service programs develop and implement a comprehensive, written, and articulated practicPractice Model Framework: A Working Document Series (PDF - 129 KB) National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement & National Child Welfare Resource Center for Family - Centered Practice and Permanency Planning (2008) Presents a framework to help child welfare agencies and Tribal social service programs develop and implement a comprehensive, written, and articulated practicPractice and Permanency Planning (2008) Presents a framework to help child welfare agencies and Tribal social service programs develop and implement a comprehensive, written, and articulated practicepractice model.

We're working to research, analyze, and identify best practices for improving how child welfare agencies, domestic violence programs and other partners work collaboratively to improve outcomes for families experiencing domestic violence.

Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative The Children's Bureau's Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative helps public child welfare agencies, tribes, and courts enhance and mobilize the human and organizational assets necessary to meet Federal standards and requirements, improve child welfare practice and administration, and achieve safety, permanency, and positive well - being for children, youth, and their families.

This bulletin for professionals discusses what we know about chronic child neglect and then reviews ways to work with families experiencing chronic neglect, including critical elements of successful casework practice, examples of what agencies are doing, and ways agencies can integrate child welfare approaches to chronic neglect with prevention and early intervention efforts.

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Child Abuse and Neglect Attorney Practice Standards (PDF - 276 KB) Superior Court of the District of Columbia, District of Columbia Courts, Family Court Advisory Rules Committee (2003) Defines practice standards for the roles of counsel for children, parents, and the child welfare agency in child abuse and neglecPractice Standards (PDF - 276 KB) Superior Court of the District of Columbia, District of Columbia Courts, Family Court Advisory Rules Committee (2003) Defines practice standards for the roles of counsel for children, parents, and the child welfare agency in child abuse and neglecpractice standards for the roles of counsel for children, parents, and the child welfare agency in child abuse and neglect cases.

This section addresses child welfare agency administration and management, ethical practice, program evaluation, disaster preparedness, funding, information systems and data, practice improvement, supervision, system reform, training, and strategies to strengthen the child welfare workforce.

Minnesota's Best Practices for Family Assessment and Family Investigation (PDF - 1,180 KB) Minnesota Department of Human Services (2016) Provides direction as to protocols mandated by State statutes and recommended as best practices for local child welfare agencies to promote standards for child protection practice related to assessment and investigation.

During that time, I have worked in psychiatric hospitals, child welfare agencies, substance abuse treatment centers, general counseling centers, and private practice.