These are the latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:
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inThese are the latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:
12 Wednesday Apr 2023
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inThese are the latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:
11 Tuesday Apr 2023
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inA new document published by the head of the family courts in England and Wales sets out litigants’ right to receive support from Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVA) and Independent Sexual Violence Advisers (ISVA) before, during and after a hearing.
The guidance is set out in full below:
The guidance can be accessed here.
If you would like to find an IDVA or an ISVA, Google “Find an [IDVA]/[ISVA] in [NAME OF YOUR COUNCIL]”
Additional links:
07 Friday Apr 2023
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inThese are the latest forced adoption items that should be right on your radar:
06 Thursday Apr 2023
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inThese are the child welfare items that should be right on your radar:
05 Wednesday Apr 2023
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inThese are the latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:
04 Tuesday Apr 2023
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inAn online workshop offering parenting support through an evidence-based trauma informed model has been made available to the public.
It is the second workshop in a 5-part series hosted by the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and the New York Foundling’s Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection. All six workshops focus on positive parenting.
The one hour workshop, which is being hosted on Zoom, costs $20 (around £16) to join, but if you have any queries or questions or just want to ask if you might be able to attend free of charge, the contact for this event is Leslie, who can be emailed at Leslie.Schmerler@nyfoundling.org
The conference would be particularly beneficial to UK child welfare practitioners working with families.
We’re adding additional information found in the invitation below:
Workshop Description
This is the innovative, evidence-based, trauma-informed model Dr. Ross Greene describes in his influential books The Explosive Child, Lost at School, Lost & Found, and Raising Human Beings. The model represents a significant departure from discipline-as-usual: it focuses on solving problems rather than on modifying behaviour, emphasises collaborative rather than unilateral solutions, encourages proactive rather than reactive intervention, de-emphasises diagnostic categories, and provides practical, research-based tools for assessment and intervention.
Date & Time
April 26th, 2 pm to 3pm ET (7pm to 8pm UK time – we think)
Speaker Biography
Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and the originator of the innovative, evidence-based approach called Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (CPS), as described in his influential books.
He also developed and executive produced the award-winning documentary film The Kids We Lose, released in 2018. Dr. Greene was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for over 20 years, and is now founding director of the non-profit Lives in the Balance. He is also currently adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech and adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Greene has worked with several thousand children with concerning behaviours and their caregivers, and he and his colleagues have overseen implementation and evaluation of the CPS model in countless schools, inpatient psychiatric units, and residential and juvenile detention facilities, with dramatic effect: significant reductions in recidivism, discipline referrals, detentions, suspensions, and use of restraint and seclusion.
We like how the acronym CPS has been turned on its head* – perhaps deliberately to shift the way social work professionals think about their role and what they are there to achieve for families.
*CPS in the UK refers to Child Protection Services, a term which has become filled with negative meaning, including the underlying notion that child welfare professionals are hostile and unwilling to collaborate with families. By contrast, Dr. Greene uses the acronym for Collaborative and Proactive Solutions, which has a far more positive and sophisticated tone.
Language matters.
Many thanks to the End Violence Global Partnership’s Professor Joan Durrant for sharing this workshop with Researching Reform.
03 Monday Apr 2023
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inWelcome to another week.
The image of the month has once again very kindly been provided by Researching Reform’s Artist In Residence, Paul Brian Tovey.
Paul is an adult adoptee whose adoptive parents physically, verbally and sexually abused him in childhood. His work reflects the impact this maltreatment has had on his mental health and his physical health, as a child and as an adult.
Paul now campaigns for adoptees to have the legal right to revert back to their birth identities.
This painting is titled, “Dog Identity.”
Paul shared a poem with Researching Reform about this piece:
It was pre and post adoption times in the childhood head
Mixing pet dog images along the dream street where it led
I’d watched on four legs my dogs howl at windowed cats
I was one of them and we all chased the rubbish bin rats
When my dogs howled for life to get out of the shed chains
I heard my Adoptee senses joining in with split adoptee brains
You cannot keep my wild genes clammed and jammed of jaw
But they did mostly even at school as I got into playground war
I hated the children with real family and smoother lives
I drew my dogs chasing them with paws holding knives
One day I called a teacher “Mommy” out of displaced love
I wanted her arms like a fingers wrapping me in a glove
Down the hound road to the Adopters home I sensed a wrong
My heart could cross time sing my daddy a gene song:
“Oh daddy daddy I’ve been away as a beaten dog so long
I’ll draw our bones and hidden home and speak in bark
It’s primitive daddy but I’ll be back to make a primal mark
Istol is my lost star daddy, and the truth is wet and stark”
(In memory of Dog and his kind ways)
Many thanks to Paul for allowing us to share his art, and his insight into abused childhoods.