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Overcoming the barriers to contact between siblings separated by the care system

Community Care

Sibling contact is associated with positive wellbeing outcomes for children including identity formation, a sense of belonging and overall mental health, as well as long-term possibilities for a supportive relationship throughout a child’s life, and children themselves often express a strong desire to stay connected to their siblings.

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Supporting social contact during the pandemic

Martin Webber

Most people with psychosis want more contact with other people.

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Police Contact and Anxiety among Black Young Adults in St. Louis

Social Work Blog

Additionally, some Black young adults who have had encounters, directly or indirectly, with police may experience “police contact anxiety” (PCA) symptoms either during or in anticipation of future encounters with police. Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent disorders for Black young adults (ages 18 to 29) in the United States.

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Please spend two minutes to contact Congress to ask for their support to increase the VOCA Cap

National Casa Gal

The post Please spend two minutes to contact Congress to ask for their support to increase the VOCA Cap appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children. Cuts in the VOCA cap could significantly impact funding to CASA/GAL state organizations and local programs and ultimately children in need.

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Finley Boden: professionals should have protected baby murdered by his parents, review finds

Community Care

Covid impact and concerns over lack of management support Shortly afterwards the country went into the first Covid lockdown, significantly curtailing face-to-face contact by all agencies with the family. Before social worker 2’s return, an agency worker (‘social worker 3′) was asked to carry out an updated assessment.

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Do social workers feel valued by senior management?

Community Care

Read our guidelines page and contact our community journalist at anastasia.koutsounia@markallengroup.com. During a strike at Barnet Council , approved mental health professional manager Gill Robinson said the strike was the culmination of years of mental health services being “largely forgotten about” and “undervalued”.

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Social work supervision of school safeguarding leads has no impact on appropriate referral levels – study

Community Care

These were defined as contacts that did not lead to further action by councils, though researchers acknowledged this was an imperfect proxy measure and that a referral not leading to further action did not mean it was inappropriate.

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