Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You asked, what are the 10 roles of social workers ? While I can provide a list of 10 common roles of social workers, it’s important to note that our roles often go beyond these. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.

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Social Worker Treatment Planning Justice and Corrections Interventional 95

Save the Social Worker

MARCH 13, 2023

After 2 years being a social worker in a Family Service Centre (FSC) in Singapore, earning all of $3600 per month, before having a pay bump to $3690 in my second year (which I asked for), I realised that we were so sheepish about talking about money, that social workers were actually struggling. Well, well.

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Domestic Violence Social Worker Social Services Social Services 130

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

Families facing investigation by the state family policing agency, the Department of Children and Families, get a lawyer, a social worker who can come up with alternatives to the cookie-cutter “service plans” issued by DCF, and a parent advocate, usually someone who’s been through the system himself or herself. In Springfield, Mass.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Domestic Violence Foster Care 98

Social Work Synergy

APRIL 15, 2020

We are proud to have her as a member of our faculty at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. Social workers are often unsung heroes, and that’s often ok with them. In fact, most people don’t even want to think about it; they hear “social work” and say, “OH, I could never do that.”

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Social Worker Substance Abuse Child Welfare Hospitals 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! Now let’s flash forward to 1989.

Foster Care 98

Foster Care Child Welfare Domestic Violence Welfare 98

Community Care

MAY 30, 2022

It has urged the government to set up multi-agency expert units in each area to handle child protection work, to address both issues, with ministers due to respond later this year. Social workers felt uninvolved in ‘inadequate’ council’s attempts to improve, says commissioner.

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Social Worker Self-harm Domestic Violence Interviewing 294

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The timing can leave parents reeling and unable to contact government offices with questions or objections: If ACS conducts a removal on a Friday night, for example, a judge will not review it until Monday. Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. But she did not see her mother.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Adoption 114