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Social Workers: The Backbone of Reimagined 988 Emergency Crisis Services

Social Work Blog

Developing best practices emergency crisis communication models for Regional Crisis Call Hubs. On the behavioral health practice side, challenges include changing to a crisis services paradigm that ensures that a continuum of crisis services exists in every state—especially in rural and inner-city communities.

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Poverty Simulations in Social Work Education

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

At UAB, approximately 400 students from medicine, nursing, dentistry, social work, criminal justice, and other majors participate in a poverty simulation each semester, facilitated by numerous faculty and staff from those same disciplines. Health Communications. Health Communications. Hitchcock, L.I, Peterson, D.T,

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

Community Care

Urging employers to review their approaches, the report said: “Social workers need opportunities to communicate with team members; they need ready access to managers and technology, as well as quiet places for concentrated work. ” More on agile working. 11 tips to improve hotdesking for social workers.

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Mental health and Deaf Awareness Week

Social Care

Adapting to the needs of deaf people Within Cygnet Hospital Bury we make sure our care planning and support is individualised and we attempt to meet each patient’s communication needs. For example, understanding of the Law and Criminal Justice System and concepts like ‘symptoms’ can be limited, as these are never taught to deaf people.

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

Mediator : They facilitate communication and resolve conflicts between individuals or within families to promote healthy relationships. This is because they develop treatment plans to address mental illness and substance abuse problems, often holding supervisory roles and advocating for human rights within the criminal justice system.

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What Are The New Government Guidelines For Children’s Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

One of the most impactful projects MQ has supported has been the ground-breaking Adolescent Data Platform (ADP) which brought together anonymised health data from schools, local authorities, NGO’s, the Criminal Justice system and the NHS, and made it accessible for research.

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What Are The New Government Guidelines For Children’s Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

One of the most impactful projects MQ has supported has been the ground-breaking Adolescent Data Platform (ADP) which brought together anonymised health data from schools, local authorities, NGO’s, the Criminal Justice system and the NHS, and made it accessible for research.