One hundred percent of the kinship families we served last year reported positive impact. Amara is proud and grateful to support the wonderful families taking care of family. Learn more about our impact: https://lnkd.in/g5eEu4gg #familywellbeing #childwelfare #kinshipcare
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A critical issue of note– the leading reason many children are at risk of losing family care is, broken families. 🏠💔 Broken relationships in families are part of the reason why children experience child neglect or abuse and are separated from their families. As practitioners, you can help mend these relationships by helping uncover the root causes of these broken relationships by connecting with them 📹 In connection, you build trust and then the relationship. We hope this video inspires and reminds you that how you show up matters. #ChampioningforChildren #AICCAD #FamilyCare #CommunitySupport #ChildWelfare #PamojaTunaWeza
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Check out this factsheet to learn how #kinshipcare is improving #outcomes for families involved with the #childwelfare system. It's also available in Spanish! ENG: https://buff.ly/3OajlgH SPA: https://buff.ly/3HC9pc9
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An #IntensiveFamilySupportServices Success Story from Tabor Children's Services. IFSS was able to help a parent get all 4 of her children to the dentist. All 4 children were behind and needed to be seen, and IFSS helped the family achieve this goal. #SuccessStory #FamilyServices #CommunityResopurces #Community #IFSS #ChildWelfare #FamilyWelfare
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Child Welfare Specialist at Daniel Martin Consulting and Training Inc. Published Author. Model author HEERO (Helping Everyone/Each Other Reach Out).
Yes! To all. Remember it’s not all about placement. It is relational Permanence we must all strive for. We all Have our people who care for us. In so many ways. Instead of narrowing the question to where can they live ask who do they matter to and who matters to them? Who are the three people the youth would drop everything for and go and help in need? Because those same three people will Come to them the same. Who can they call when they just need to talk? Who can they spend time with recreationally? Who can they borrow an egg from? Who can give them A drive to their practice, game, outing, friends? The list of needs is endless. The potential To fill and meet them? Greater than the system as designed will ever consider. We…can…do this. Together we can change a world around which many are impacted -life trajectories can change. Start asking “what CAN they do?” Instead of seeking to judge what they might ‘t. And urgently urgently act on it. Look at this picture! See the love that is mutual and something we will NEVER replace. Support that. Yes! Support familes and support their kin and community. Now!
To those of you working in the #childwelfare space, are you looking for increased placement stability, reduced likelihood of re-abuse, and reduction of psychiatric disorders and negative behaviors? No, I’m not going to offer a new program, initiative, or pilot. Rather, an opportunity to go back to the roots of our humanity, to what we have proven over and over again to be best for youth and families. I’m referring to kinship care. September is #KinshipCareMonth. Let’s celebrate appropriately by; supporting caregivers raising relative children (which can prevent child welfare involvement), prioritizing kinship care and kin first practices, removing barriers that could prohibit kin placement, providing equitable resources and support to kin, and listening to and respecting families. Pic of my dad and my son, because if something happened to me, I would want nothing more than my kids to be with people who know and love them.
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Some recent feedback from our #FamilyGroupConference service. A Conference helps to bring a support network together, commit to offering helping, and create a plan for safety and well-being. If you are working with families supported by Children's Social Services teams in #Reading, #Wiltshire, #Portsmouth, #Bromley and #Hackney - then enquire about how they can access our services. DM, comment or email us. #DaybreakCharity #FamilySupport #ParentingSupport #CommunitySupport #SocialWork #ChildWelfare #SocialWorkers
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Millions of children and families are affected by the U.S. child welfare system every year. From disproportionality, lack of resources and placement instability, the need for reform is prominent. Driven by a deepened understanding of the system, Think of Us is actively working to mend these interconnected challenges. During the Emerson Collective’s #ECDemoDay2023, TOU’s CEO and Founder Sixto Cancel discussed his non-profit’s efforts to rebuild the inequitable foster care system through research, technology, and advocacy. Learn more about Think of Us and watch Cancel’s complete speech here: https://bit.ly/3SGtmDR #equityeducation #childwelfare #transformfostercare #youthadvocacy
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📘The second installment in #ManifestoWeek is from the Conservatives. Their manifesto, launched this morning, has a few things to say on children's social care. They commit to: 🔵prioritising keeping families together where that’s best for the child through the Kinship Care Strategy. 🔵delivering a Family Hub in every local authority in England. 🔵 support those leaving care with housing, education and employment, in addition to expanding befriending and mentoring programmes for care leavers. For 50 years, Family Rights Group has worked to ensure the child welfare system supports children to live safely in their family. 💜Ensuring parents get help early to keep their children at home. 💜Supporting kinship care when that is not possible. 💜For children in care & care leavers, our Lifelong Links approach is building loving relationships. It's good to see our ideas are now the direction of travel in children's social care reform. With record numbers of children in the care system, a system reset is urgently needed. 📣Will you help us make sure every candidate in this election has child welfare and kinship care on their agenda? Ask them to commit to joining the APPG on Kinship Care by using our easy email tool. ✉️https://lnkd.in/eifMBPGt #KinshipCare #Children #Families #GeneralElection
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The last article in the Star Tribune’s four-part series “In Harm’s Way” takes a closer look at substantial changes taking place in Hennepin County, the state’s largest child protection agency. Equipped with more funding, additional staff and extended training, the county is seeing encouraging results: Reports of repeated maltreatment have dropped to less than 5 percent in 2022. Additional staff have been added to the county’s Parent Support Outreach Program (PSOP), which connects at-risk families with various resources. And more workers have been added to the review team for screening in reports and recommending either Family Assessment (FA) or investigation. Of course, more work needs to be done at Hennepin County and across the state. But these changes underscore the need for increased funding for child protection. “In the end, leadership is so key,” said Judith Meltzer with the Center for the Study of Social Policy, who has worked with states across the nation on child welfare reform. If government officials do not prioritize spending to support families and protect children, she said, “years of hard work just fall aside.” Volunteer to help with our legislative efforts at https://lnkd.in/gZXk6Duf Make a donation to support our work for kids at https://lnkd.in/gbvNnQd6 #safepassagemn #safepassage #childprotection #Hennepincounty #mn #minnesota #startribune #volunteer #give #forkids
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Another day, another word! Gatekeeping is defined as the process of referring or diverting vulnerable children and families to care arrangements or appropriate services that help limit the number of inappropriate or unnecessary entries into alternative care or institutional care. Gatekeeping is an essential tool that is best used by child welfare professionals and aided by community members and local government service providers. It includes different family support services and community-based care options such as economic strengthening, daycare, and affordable healthcare. Effective and fair gatekeeping helps ensure children at risk of losing family care get access to the services that will help their families care for them best– remember, at the end of the day, a safe, loving, and sustainable family is best for ALL children. #KnowYourTerms #OutofHomeCare #FamilybasedCare #AlternativeCare #ChildsBestInterest #ChildWelfare
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What we need from the incoming government is a commitment to address overall funding levels
📚Last week, the Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems published their general election manifestos. ✅All three commit to better support for kinship care. Thank you to families and everyone who has worked with us over two decades to push kinship care up the political agenda and to secure this cross party recognition. 🚨But we need all political parties to be more ambitious in prioritising child welfare. 📢Family Rights Group works cross-party to put child welfare and kinship care in the rooms where it matters. We’ve presented proposals to all the main political parties and support families to share their views and experiences. ❗We need to see an ambitious plan to tackle the crisis in children’s social care, to invest in kinship care for children who cannot remain at home, and support for positive, loving relationships for children in care and care leavers. ✉️Will you help us to do that by emailing your local candidates today? It only takes 3 minutes with our easy tool: https://lnkd.in/eifMBPGt You can find a full summary of what the manifestos say about child welfare on our website: https://lnkd.in/eqPTnnZC #ManifestoWeek #KinshipCare #Children #Families #ChildWelfare #Politics #Election #SocialCare
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