Wed.Dec 22, 2021

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Social Worker of the Year: ‘As social workers, we promote social justice’

Community Care

Advanced fostering practitioner Vivian Okeze-Tirado was working at home when she was crowned overall winner at this year’s Social Worker of the Year Awards. She had been handed the social justice advocate award earlier in the ceremony for her work creating diversity workshops for foster carers and social work colleagues following George Floyd’s murder in May last year.

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Child Not Listening? Try the Hearing Game!

Gary Direnfeld

The parents complained that their son didn’t listen. He was just four. A sweet little boy. It’s not that he was wild, he just wouldn’t always follow through with requests. He would stand looking dumbfounded. I had the parents ask him to get a ball which was laying on the floor. Pointing and nodding, the parents provided the instruction verbally and through simple gestures.

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Essential workers thousand of pounds worse off than a decade ago, TUC says

The Guardian

Nurses, care home staff and police officers have had real pay cuts since 2010 as wages lag behind prices Nurses, care home staff and police officers working on Christmas Day will be thousands of pounds worse off than they were a decade ago as a result of wages failing to keep pace with prices, Trades Union Congress analysis has shown. Urging the government to raise the minimum wage to £10 an hour, the TUC said the key workers expected to keep Britain going on 25 December had taken real pay cuts

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A Snowfall with Naps

Untipsy Teacher

Dear Readers, We were very lucky to get to visit New York City during this holiday season, before they started shutting down some venues due to the new Covid surge. I’ve always wanted to see the big Christmas tree, ice skating ponds, and other sights that I only have seen on television in New York. We had a wonderful time, and even got to see the Rocketts!

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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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Charity says 16,000 UK children could be exposed to domestic abuse at Christmas

The Guardian

Early Intervention Foundation calls on ministers to commit to funding specialist support services in new year Almost 16,000 children in the UK could be exposed to domestic abuse this Christmas, a leading research charity has estimated, calling on ministers to commit to funding specialist support services in the new year. The tragic cases of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson, two young children murdered in their homes, have recently cast a spotlight on the risks of domestic abuse to children.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 21, 2021

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

December is the month when editors rush to publish big projects, so they’ll be eligible for awards competitions. That helps explain why there’s so much this week – though probably not the first item: ? As we prepare for another surge in COVID cases, this seems a good time for a reminder of the massive amount of media malpractice that took place at the start of the pandemic, when almost every news organization in America accepted the myth that, in the absence of overwhelmingly middle class, dispr

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A Caseworker's Christmas Card

Famcare

A Caseworker's Christmas Card. ~. Oh, That I Might. Be the Adult. Remember the Forgotten. Heal the Abused. Bring Homeless Home. Feel the Fear. Be Hope in Despair. Free the Imprisoned Spirit. Redeem Relapse. Feed Souls. Touch the Lonely. Venerate the Aged. ~. "And if I cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that I should leave my work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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Attachment and Motivation in a Trauma Informed Workplace

Counselor Toolbox podcast

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