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Positive pathways through the criminal justice system

Social Work With Adults

Liz kindly agreed to write this blog about the work she is doing to support people with health and care needs in the criminal justice system. "I prompt positive change in individuals who had found themselves in contact with the justice system." It was in this role that I first had contact with criminal justice agencies.

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Councils would still employ social workers under proposed National Care Service for Scotland

Community Care

Under the new approach, councils, the NHS and the Scottish Government would share accountability for the NCS, which would initially cover adults’ services only, with the possibility in future that it would also incorporate children’s and criminal justice social work.

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?NASW Member Voices: Supreme Courts Ends Affirmative Action. What are the Implications?

Social Work Blog

In addition to these groups, women are included as beneficiaries of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Corporate America has been receptive to diversity, equity and inclusion policies. Diversity, equity and inclusion programs at businesses could be threatened by ruling.

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Member Voices: The Death of Tyre Nichols — Lethal Police Encounters Continue Unabated

Social Work Blog

Sadly, this tragedy inadvertently shattered the myth that racial diversity ꟷ especially where hiring Black police officers is concerned ꟷ would lead to reducing the use excessive and lethal violence against young men of color. Clearly diversity ꟷ while important ꟷ is not in itself the solution. That surely has not happened.

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Group Work Series 2023

University of Connecticut

Social group work has a long history of bringing people together in many settings for enjoyment and to share common concerns, provide support and mutual aid, generate diverse solutions to problems, and learn new skills. The social isolation of the pandemic has demonstrated how much people need human connection to survive.

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NASW Member Voices: It is crucial Democratic Coalition that delivered Midterm Elections Successes Must Stay Intact for 2024

Social Work Blog

It is encouraging the Democratic turnout demonstrated a diverse coalition of African Americans, Hispanics, progressive Whites, and young voters that held together despite predictions from detractors that the coalition would fracture. He is a co-chairperson on the Justice Roundtable’s Drug Policy Reform Working Group.

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

Community Care

As they grew more experienced, practitioners sought their colleagues’ advice less and less often, with those who reported doing so frequently falling from 75% in year one to 36% in year five.