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Welcome to Children's Services Practice Notes, a newsletter designed to enhance the practice of North Carolina's child welfare workers by providing them with information about research and practice models.

Practice Notes is sponsored by the North Carolina Division of Social Services and the Family and Children's Resource Program, part of the University of North Carolina School of Social Work.

In summarizing recent research, we try to give you new ideas for refining your practice. However, this publication is not intended to replace regular supervision and peer consultation--only to enhance them.

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Vol. 28, No. 2: Leaning into Crucial Conversations

Past Issues

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Vol. 28, No. 1: Engaging Stakeholders to Support Responsive, Effective Services
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Vol. 27, No. 2: North Carolina's New Plan to Strengthen Child Welfare
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Vol. 27, No. 1: NC Progress to Engage Families in Child Welfare Services
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Vol. 26, No. 1: Child Welfare Transformation in NC
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Vol. 25, No. 2: NC Is Working to Improve Permanency Outcomes
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Vol. 25, No. 1: Focusing on CPS Intake
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Vol. 24, No. 2: Assessing Safety and Risk
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Vol. 24, No. 1: Prevention in Child Welfare--on the Threshold of Change
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Vol. 23, No. 2: Responding to Opioids
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Vol. 23, No. 1: Supporting the Transition from Foster Care to Independence
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Vol. 22, No. 3: NC Refocuses on Diligent Recruitment of Families for Children in Foster Care
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Vol. 22, No. 2: Making Decisions in Child Welfare
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Vol. 22, No. 1: A Focus on Engagement in Child Welfare
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 21, No. 3: Partnering with NC's Mental Health System
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 21, No. 2: Staying Safe on the Job in Child Welfare
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 21, No. 1: Partnering with Schools
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 20, No. 3: Emotional Maltreatment and Child Welfare Practice
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 20, No. 2: Child Sex Abuse Interviews in North Carolina
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 20, No. 1: Safety Resources and Kinship Care
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 19, No. 3: Attachment and Child Welfare Practice
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 19, No. 2: NC Focuses on Timely Permanence
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 19, No. 1: Making Quality Assessments in Child Welfare
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 18, No. 3: Family Reunification in North Carolina
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 18, No. 2: Preventing Child Maltreatment
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 18, No. 1: Child Neglect: Impact and Interventions
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 17, No. 3: Child Welfare Practice with Adolescents
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 17, No. 2: Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Practice
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 17, No. 1: Prescription Drugs and Child Welfare Practice
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 16, No. 3: Achieving Permanence through Adoption
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 16, No. 2: Strengthening Child Protective Services Intake
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 16, No. 1: Engaging and Supporting Relative Caregivers
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 15, No. 3: Striving for Excellence in Supervision
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 15, No. 2: Being a Wise Consumer of Services for Families
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 15, No. 1: Increasing Our Focus on Visits
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 14, No. 3: Child Welfare's Response to Diversity
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 14, No. 2: Child Welfare Practice and Data: Making the Connection
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 14, No. 1: Accomplishments and Continuing Challenges
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 13, No. 3: Finding Families for Children in Foster Care
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 13, No. 2: Supervisors and the Future of Child Welfare
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 13, No. 1: Enhancing Child and Family Team Meetings
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 12, No. 4: Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, and the Courts
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 12, No. 3: Child Welfare Practice in Rural North Carolina
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 12, No. 2: Update on Foster Care in North Carolina
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 12, No. 1: Child Welfare Worker Retention
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 11, No. 4: Promoting School Success for Children Involved with the Child Welfare System
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 11, No. 3: Outcomes and Child Welfare
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 11, No. 2: Working with American Indian Families
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 11, No. 1: Father Involvement in Child Welfare
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 10, No. 3: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 10, No. 2: Meth and Family-Centered Child Welfare Practice
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 10, No. 1: Supporting Adoptive Families
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 9, No. 4: Data and Child Welfare Practice
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 9, No. 3: Enhancing Collaboration between Child Welfare and Work First (TANF)
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 9, No. 2: Child Welfare Practice with Parents Who Have Cognitive Limitations
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 9, No. 1: Family-Centered Supervision in Child Welfare
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 8, No. 3: Domestic Violence and Child Welfare Services
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 8, No. 2: Child and Family Team Meetings in Child Welfare in North Carolina
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 8, No. 1: Forensic Interviewing and Child Welfare in North Carolina
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 7, No. 4: Multiple Response and the Family-Centered Approach to CPS
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 7, No. 3: Working with Latino Families
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 7, No. 2: Working with Juvenile Sex Offenders
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 7, No. 1: Working with Children with Parents in Prison
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 6, No. 3: Child Maltreatment Fatalities
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 6, No. 2: African American Children in the Child Welfare System
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 6, No. 1: Termination of Parental Rights
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 5, No. 4: Parent-Child Visits
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 5, No. 3: Preparing for Your Day in Court
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 5, No. 2: Child Sexual Abuse and Child Welfare
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 5, No. 1: Child Welfare and Family Support
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 4, No. 4: Substance Abuse in Child Welfare
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 4, No. 3: Turnover in Child Welfare
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 4, No. 2: Mental Health Issues in Child Welfare
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 4, No. 1: Cultural Competency in Child Welfare
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 3, No. 2: A Look at Safety in Social Work
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 3, No. 1: Promoting Resiliency in Families and Children
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 2, No. 4: Separation and Attachment
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 2, No. 3: Helping Children with Special Needs, Part II
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 2, No. 2: Helping Children with Special Needs
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 2, No. 1: Neglect - Search for Interventions
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 1, No. 4: Prevention in Child Welfare, Part II
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 1, No. 3: Prevention in Child Welfare
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 1, No. 2: Kinship Care and Permanency Planning
Small Red Diamond Icon Vol. 1, No. 1: Teen Pregnancy

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Children's Services Practice Notes is funded by the North Carolina Division of Social Services and produced by the University of North Carolina School of Social Work. Each issue is reviewed by representatives of the North Carolina Division of Social Services' Child Welfare Section and by experts in the topics addressed.

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