Tue.Jun 21, 2022

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Lower caseloads – not expert units or staff – best way to improve safeguarding, say social workers

Community Care

Community Care readers have overwhelmingly called for reduced caseloads as the best way to improve child protection in a snap poll. Almost two-thirds (63%) of more than 1,100 readers who answered a simple multiple-choice question – “what would most improve child protection in England?” – opted for lower caseloads. The poll was carried out after significant changes to child protection were recommended by the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care and the Child Safeguardi

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Stacey Hardy-Chandler, PhD, JD, LCSW, Named CEO of the Association of Social Work Boards

The New Social Worker

The Association of Social Work Boards has named Stacey Hardy-Chandler, PhD, JD, LCSW, as the organization’s new chief executive officer following a national search. She succeeds the current CEO Dwight J. Hymans, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, who is retiring.

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‘Inadequate’ council doing better for young people but services remain inconsistent, says Ofsted

Community Care

An ‘inadequate’ council has made significant progress in services for care leavers and older children in care under “determined” senior leaders, but practice remains inconsistent, Ofsted has said. After a fourth monitoring visit to the coastal Kent district since its 2019 full inspection, the inspectorate found improved workforce stability and capacity had cut caseloads, improving practitioners’ relationships with young people.

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Celebrating family — a message from our CEO

National Casa Gal

June is nationally recognized as Reunification Month— a critical opportunity to share the importance of children and youth in foster care reunifying with their family. Read More. The post Celebrating family — a message from our CEO appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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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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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 20, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The week-in-review post is a day early because, for the rest of the week I'll be publishing a series of posts about various family policing establishment groups' recent attempts at reputation laundering. ? To the long ugly litany of family destruction at the hands of Florida’s family police add another revelation: allegations of blatant conflict-of-interest.

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Don't Despise the Packaging.

American Board of Clinical Social Work

"Don't Despise the Packaging." I recently watched Robin Roberts from Good Morning America, interview Glori Tuitt and her Mother, Ruthie Tuitt. The topic for that program focused on how members of the LGBTQ+ community have felt abandoned, unaccepted and rejected by their families and by their religion.

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Dan Fischer’s IPE Team Receives a 2022 Bronze Award for Data Leveraging Project

Michigan Social Work

Assistant Dean of Field Education Dan Fischer’s Interprofessional Education (IPE) team has won a 2022 bronze award from 1EdTech for their collaboration with U-M Informational & Technology Services. Their project, Competency-Based Tracking for Interprofessional Education Leveraging Institutional Data, will leverage data to track competencies across U-M’s approximately 35 IPE offerings, which involve 5,000 students from 10 schools across 3 campuses.

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Group Perspective to Current Events

American Board of Clinical Social Work

Watching the recent upheaval in our society, more specifically watching the January 6th hearings, I began asking myself the question: Is the interaction in the group a product of individual behavior, or is the group understandable as an intact entity suggesting behavior is a product of the group? I am sure most of you have many thoughts to this question, and I hope you all will share.

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Finn McLafferty Bell Successfully Defends Dissertation

Michigan Social Work

Finn McLafferty Bell, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Sociology, has successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Marginalized Food Growers in a Changing Environment: Tracing Collective Survival Strategies.” His committee consisted of Sandra Danziger and Katie Richards-Schuster. Bell has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor of Human Services at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

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Garrett Pace Successfully Defends Dissertation

Michigan Social Work

Garrett Pace, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Sociology, has successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Corporal Punishment Bans in Global Perspective: Conceptualization and Child- and Caregiver-Reported Outcomes.” His committee consisted of Shawna Lee and Andrew Grogan-Kaylor. Pace has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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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.