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Positive pathways through the criminal justice system

Social Work With Adults

Lyn Romeo: One of the best aspects of my role as Chief Social Worker for Adults is the opportunity to meet so many wonderful social workers applying their knowledge, skills and values in many different services and settings to transform the lives of the people they work with. I felt the adoption of a holistic perspective.

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Agile working failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland, finds study

Community Care

Agile working practices such as hotdesking are failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland and employers should review them, a study has concluded. Our findings (consistent over the last five years) indicate that agile working models in Scotland are failing to meet the needs of social workers.”

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Social workers urged to help tackle impact on Gypsy and Traveller families of tougher eviction laws

Community Care

Social workers have been urged to help tackle the impact on Gypsy and Traveller families of increased police powers to evict them from unauthorised camps, brought in this year. “So social workers need to separate those two things. So far, the guidance has been adopted by Wiltshire council and the Welsh Government.

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Yolanda Leon, MSW ’05

University of Connecticut

Yolanda currently is a Social Worker in the Statewide Quality Improvement Division’s Case Practice Review Unit. Yolanda has experience working with families as a Social Worker in the Ongoing Social Work Unit, Sexual Abuse Specialty Unit, Medically Complex Specialty Unit and Permanency Specialty Unit.

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“A Liminal Moment in Social Work”: Access NASW’s Social Work Journal Online

Social Work Blog

This research suggests that social workers would be beneficial additions to the abortion care workforce. From Colorblindness to Critical Investigations: Examining Structural Racism in Social Work Research This study investigates the extent to which critical race frameworks are utilized in mainstream social work research.

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NASW Member Voices: The Democracy Restoration Act is a Civil and Voting Rights Imperative

Social Work Blog

The practice of stripping convicted felons of the right to vote goes back to the beginnings of our nation when the federal government and many states adopted felon disenfranchisement laws based on the idea that voting was a privilege for those who demonstrated “good moral character.” – Breon Wells , CEO The Daniel Initiative.

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The Democracy Restoration Act is a Civil and Voting Rights Imperative | NASW Member Voices

Social Work Blog

The practice of stripping convicted felons of the right to vote goes back to the beginnings of our nation when the federal government and many states adopted felon disenfranchisement laws based on the idea that voting was a privilege for those who demonstrated “good moral character.” – Breon Wells , CEO The Daniel Initiative.