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Child Abuse Prevention Month

Social Work Blog

Below is an advocacy opportunity, educational resources, and related organizations to help social workers and others engage in Child Abuse Prevention Month.

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Principles of Case Management

Counselor Toolbox podcast

Summary - The demand for case managers is growing rapidly as insurance companies restrict reimbursement, move toward capitation and as individuals with high copays try to reduce expenses. -

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Immigration Social Work: Big Ideas From Texas

Social Work Blog

At the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), in an area that’s 85 percent Hispanic, the BSW course “Introduction to Social Work” includes a heavy dose of “U.S.-Mexico The same goes for the School of Social Work at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), where Dr. Luis R. Mexico border realities,” says Eva M.

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Social Work History Month 2021: Social Workers are Essential

Michigan Girl's Café

Social work is the only helping profession which requires social justice advocacy as part of its professional code of ethics, and is therefore a large workforce mandated to advance the rights of the most vulnerable in society.

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Ultimate Social Work Intervention Strategies

Social Work Haven

Examples of intervention strategies include counselling, crisis intervention, community organisation, case management, advocacy, and active listening. Some examples of social work intervention strategies include counselling, crisis intervention, case management, community organisation, advocacy, and active listening.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 20, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

As Dean of the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, Alan Detlaff devoted his career to fighting the racism that permeates family policing. An expert found that she could just as well have stayed home with her family and gotten treatment like intensive case management. That’s why he’s no longer the dean. (He

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23 interventions to supercharge your social work

Save the Social Worker

You know the usual theories they teach you about loss and trauma in social work university. The graduation ceremony at university. Sometimes, we think that toolkit is limited to the twins of case management and counselling, with little else. Social work advocacy is all about the relationship, not the revenge!