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Jun 14, 2024

Celebrating Pride Month 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina

Pride Month honors the LGBTQ+ community's struggle for equality and commemorates the Stonewall Riots of June 1969, a series of gay liberation protests that ignited the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. Pride Month is a time for celebrating diversity, promoting acceptance, and advocating for LGBTQ+ rights worldwide.

Jun 13, 2024

June is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month

Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month is observed each June. Men with reported mental illness are less likely to received care, which is a result of the stigma surrounding men needing help or sharing their mental health struggles. We can fight this stigma by encouraging and supporting men who seek help when they need it.

May 20, 2024

May is Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebrates the achievements and contributions of American Asians and Pacific Islanders to American society. Throughout American history, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have shown resilience in the face of discrimination and oppression.

Apr 19, 2024

Our Center’s Training Update

Important Center Announcement  The Center has removed all “Building Cultural Safety.” “Domestic Violence Policy and Best Practices in Child Welfare,” and “Navigating Child and Family Teams: The Role of the Facilitator” training dates April through June 2024. During this time, the Center is working closely with North Carolina Division of Social Services (NC DSS) to…

Apr 1, 2024

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month

Join our Center in acknowledging April as Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Month. The theme of this year’s awareness and impact campaign, led by Prevent child Abuse America and its national network of state chapters, is “Building a Hopeful Future, Together.” Since April was marked as Child Abuse Awareness Month in 1983, this initiative, led by…

Mar 1, 2024

March is Social Worker Appreciation Month!

March is Social Worker Appreciation Month! The theme for 2024 is Empowering Social Workers! There are a lot of different problems impacting the United States today, including rising home insecurity and homelessness; the vast impact of the opioid crisis; and a rising mental health crisis (Center for Disease Control, n.d.). Our country’s social workers are…

Feb 6, 2024

Our Center’s Newest Training Focusing on Unhoused Youth

According to the Youth Homelessness Overview from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), approximately 4.2 million youth and young adults in the U.S. experience homelessness each year, and it is estimated that 700,000 of these are unaccompanied minors (2023). Homelessness, including youth homelessness, is a significant and tragic problem currently facing the United States.…

Dec 14, 2023

The 2023 Kempe Conference

The annual Kempe Conference was held from October 2-5, 2023. Kempe was honored to host the 2023 International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare. The purpose of this conference was to reconvene and expand the international community of practice with over 1,800 participants from over 25 countries. This conference featured keynote…

Nov 27, 2023

A Way Home America’s State of the Movement (SOTM) Event

Last month, a few of our CFACE staff members attended A Way Home America’s State of the Movement (SOTM) virtual event, which was titled “I Declare Transformation–Activate and Advocate.” A Way Home America is a national organization comprised of “homeless youth providers, advocates, researchers, government agencies, philanthropists and young people dedicated to preventing and ending…

Nov 14, 2023

Navigating Child and Family Teams: The Role of the Facilitator

Today, we are highlighting one of the Center’s trainings, “Navigating Child and Family Teams: The Role of the Facilitator.” This is a three-day training for those who facilitate child and family team meetings. A facilitator is someone who is neither the social worker for the family nor the supervisor of that child welfare worker. A…