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Celebrating Social Work Month 2024: Empowering Social Workers

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Theme for this year’s Social Worth Month is “empowering social workers.” ” Though it’s easy to understand why this is important, I’d like to take the time to innumerate a few of the many ways social workers help our society. This is why I love celebrating social work month.

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Generative AI & Social Work: It’s NOT the End of the World as We Know It

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Lauri Goldkind, PhD, LMSW, is an associate professor at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. Show Notes Goldkind_L_Episode_Transcript Download Cite this podcast – Sobota, P.

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Whole Person Care: What It Means, How To Use It, and Why It’s Important

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Social workers and case managers : Social workers and case managers are more likely to see clients living in their everyday environment. As such, they are positioned to understand the social determinants of health facing their clients and help them navigate these challenges. Payers : Many in the U.S.

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News Items – March 3, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Social workers are the unsung heroes of the pandemic. Should social workers work with police? Across the state, law enforcement departments take varying approaches to integrating social workers into policing, but Goetz and other experts express concerns that it’s being done too hastily. The Washington Post.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, weeks ending Nov. 28, 2023

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Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. Oh honey, that’s not how it works,” the social worker told Janell. But she did not see her mother.

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News Items – March 10, 2022

Social Workers Speak

The time is right for social work, now more than ever before. Around 720,000 social workers across the nation entered the profession to serve vulnerable and marginalized populations to improve the world in which they live.?Social Social Work Month in March highlights the important role of social workers.