Mon.Apr 24, 2023

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Improving Employment for Workers With Autism

Relias

Employment for individuals with autism is a pressing issue worthy of attention. According to recent studies , the employment rate for adults with autism is alarmingly low. A significant portion of individuals with autism are not able to secure gainful employment which can lead to a host of challenges, including financial difficulties and social isolation.

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What abuse inquiry report means for social workers and councils

Community Care

Government safeguarding advisers set out a series of recommendations for improving care, social work practice, commissioning and regulation in residential services for disabled children and those with complex needs, in a report last week. The study, from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel , came in response to “very serious abuse and neglect” of children – mainly autistic or with learning disabilities – at three residential special schools registered as children

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Learning-disabled and autistic people are being neglected and tortured. How much longer? | John Harris

The Guardian

Across the UK, revelations of institutional abuse keep mounting up, yet people are still being denied basic respect Imagine a chain of scandals focused on a huge number of very vulnerable and fragile people. Picture a horrific mixture of mistreatment and neglect that is institutional, subjecting hundreds of people to completely the wrong “care”, and ensuring that many of them are effectively locked up, often for years.

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Look who’s embraced US “best practice” in “child welfare”!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Yes, it’s this guy: It’s tough being part of America’s “child welfare” establishment these days. Americans are catching on to the harm done by a massive child welfare surveillance state that falsely equates child removal with child safety, and investigates the homes of more than half of all Black children. They’re noticing the massive confusion of poverty with neglect – and not buying the excuses for it.

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Adopting a cloud-based case management platform is essential for nonprofits and government agencies to operate more efficiently and make better use of their funding and budget.

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?NASW Member Voices: Social Work and Self-Care — A Review Through an Updated Lens

Social Work Blog

By Violeta Donawa, LMSW, MA Dr. Kathleen Cox and Dr. Sue Steiner bring the concept of ‘self-care’ out of the shadows and demystifies its significance in the lives of social work practitioners and leaders. The authors’ undergraduate and graduate students inspired them to more fully flesh out the tenets of self-care as a means to prepare them for the field.

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Swipe Right for Access: A SmartPhone Guide for Social Workers

The New Social Worker

Increasing access to necessary resources for clients can be as easy as the swipe of a finger. Awareness of accessibility tools available on smartphones can help social workers provide access to apps, resources, and providers for clients.

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Lessons from an Assistant Director on the Pathways programme

The Frontline

Tara has worked as an Assistant Director at Havering for the past 18 months, after spending 6 years as an HMI in Ofsted. Tara is currently considering progression to Director of Children’s Services and has started her journey on the Pathways programme to support her progression into this role. Before starting your journey on Pathway 4, what were you hoping to get out of the programme?

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NASW Member Voices: ?Can Social Workers Ethically and Legally Keep Clients when they Leave Their Agencies?

Social Work Blog

By Daniel Pollack & Kathryn Krase Social workers cannot assume they will stay in their jobs for a long time. Most social workers stay in a job for fewer than five years. When you leave your job, you might leave your clients too. You might consider: “Can I bring my clients with me?” An instinctive response might be, “Of course!” But the answer is more complicated.

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Liberatory Lawyering to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline - Ashleigh Washington, JD & Ruth Cusick, JD

Doin' The Work

Episode 64 Guests: Ashleigh Washington, JD & Ruth Cusick, JD Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW www.dointhework.com Listen/Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Stitcher , Spotify Follow on Twitter & Instagram , Like on Facebook Join the mailing list Support the podcast Download transcript Doin’ The Work is offering our Racial Justice & Liberatory Practice Continuing Education Series through several of our partner universities.

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NASW Member Voices: We need Social Workers to help Fix our Housing Issue

Social Work Blog

By Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW When I was young, I loved a gloomy ballad sung to perfection by R&B crooner Luther Vandross. The piece had a haunting refrain which is also the title of the song – A House is Not a Home. April is Fair Housing Month and as always it is an opportunity to reflect on our myriad attempts to provide high quality safe affordable housing.

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Get Connected: Using Social Media for Social Work Success

Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media. In this webinar, Gary Direnfeld will discuss how social media marketing can help you build your private practice and grow your client base.

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Akron Children’s Hospital Research to Define Standards for Pediatric Palliative Care

CAPC

Hospice news article describes an upcoming study to develop professional standards for high-quality pediatric palliative care.

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NASW Member Voices: Using Collaborative Poetry to center student voices, create connection and celebrate diversity

Social Work Blog

By Amber Sutton, PhD, LICSW As part of a BSW diversity course at Auburn University at Montgomery in Alabama, I used a collaborative poetry exercise as a way to center the lived experiences of the students and to showcase how research can be creative and meaningful. By lived experiences, I mean the personal responses they shared in having to think about and write about where they came from and the memories that have influenced them I have previously written about the power of poetry and provided

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Ep. 79 – Early Intervention Social Work and What Makes a Happy Ending

Social Work Discoveries

How do we measure a successful outcome in our practice? What would we consider a happy ending for the people we work with? Would they agree? In this episode, Mim and Lis explore a story from a social worker in the Early Intervention space. We hear what Early Intervention is, and the approaches for supporting families before their situation reaches a crisis point.

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NASW Member Voices: We need Social Workers to help Fix our Housing Issue

Social Work Blog

By Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW When I was young, I loved a gloomy ballad sung to perfection by R&B crooner Luther Vandross. The piece had a haunting refrain which is also the title of the song – A House is Not a Home. April is Fair Housing Month and as always it is an opportunity to reflect on our myriad attempts to provide high quality safe affordable housing.

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Visibility through Intersectionality

American Board of Clinical Social Work

Intersectionality refers to the interconnectedness of social categories such as race, gender and socioeconomic status. It can enhance understanding an individual and the interplay among their identities. For example, a person may identify as non-binary and self-report in an ethnic minority category. In addition to these primary identities, there could be less salient ones such as religious or spiritual preferences and generational group.