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NASW Member Voices: What does it really mean to help?

Social Work Blog

By Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW Chad Lassiter, MSW This fall, I have returned to the classroom as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and West Chester University and, as I have done so, I’m faced with students eager to become social workers. By any metric, social work is not as diverse as it needs to be.

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

Community Care

While agile working was received positively when it involved adequate desk space, spaces for quite and concentrated work and good access to peer support, this was rare, found the research by social work academics at the University of Dundee and Glasgow Caledonian University. Stress and lack of peer support.

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

Through in-home family strengthening services, foster care, adoption, mental health treatment, disability services, and children’s mental health hospitals, we’re giving people hope and helping children and families thrive. Diverse perspectives are key to our progress. For example, KVC participated with The Annie E.

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Review -The Higher Education Personal Tutor’s and Adviser’s Companion

The Critical Blog

The book is even more timely given the pressures faced by HE generally and individual students particularly in the context of the pandemic, and the significant changes to teaching and learning, such as the increased adoption of blended approaches. 25 UK institutions are represented, including long-established and more modern universities.

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Understanding Value-Based Contracts in Behavioral Health

Relias

While value-based contracts are widely used in other healthcare fields, their application in behavioral health is far from universal. Caring for an individual’s holistic health has only begun to gain widespread acceptance and adoption within the last several decades. Know what is “in it for them.”

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

KVC

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. Casey Foundation, Child Trends and Dr. Glenn Saxe of New York University.

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Anton Grizzle – 2015 Frontline programme fellow

The Frontline

After speaking to a careers advisor at university who suggested Frontline, I researched social work and was struck by how it brought together my key interests. The Frontline programme training taught me to adopt a way of working that always considers the experiences of children and their parents.