My Brains Not Broken
APRIL 14, 2022
Over the years, my relationship with therapy has ebbed and flowed. I’ve gone from being skeptical about it to going twice a week and everywhere in between. The common thread is that I’ve never been with one therapist long enough to making any long-term changes – until now. And now that I’m noticing some things about myself and how mental health affects my life, I’m facing a new challenge.
Community Care
APRIL 14, 2022
“Significant” difficulties recruiting social workers are undermining practice and thwarting improvements at an ‘inadequate’ local authority, Ofsted has found. In a since rating the authority as inadequate in 2019 , inspectors found its recruitment problems had negatively affected the services its duty teams offered to children. Inspectors reported that some children were being left in situations of unknown risk with “too many” experiencing “unnecessary drift and delay” in having their needs ass
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Gary Direnfeld
APRIL 14, 2022
Trigger warning. This post addresses domestic violence. ?————— One eight-year-old boy explained to me that he would hide a walkie-talkie under the kitchen table to listen in on his parents’ fights so he would know when to come downstairs to complain of a tummyache so they’d stop fighting. A nine-year-old girl told me how she would sit out of sight at the top of the stairs to listen for parents fighting to know when to gather her two younger siblings to h
Community Care
APRIL 14, 2022
Projects testing the impact of social work support for schools have received a £5m boost, extending their lifespan until the summer. The schemes, which place social workers in schools and provide school designated safeguarding leads (DSLs) with social work supervision, respectively, were due to end last month. But the Department for Education has provided £4.79m in additional funding for What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) to extend the projects, and their evaluations, until Augu
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R.E.A.L. Social Workers
APRIL 14, 2022
The World is Going Bonkers. The world is going bonkers, and it may feel like you are too. Stress is compounding daily. We are bombarded with negative news, messages and images that increase stress and anxiety. So, how can we Reset? The answer is Retreat. In a recent episode of “Stress Talk” Live with Marcyline we kicked off the month with a discussion about the benefits of planned retreats.
Community Care
APRIL 14, 2022
Social workers are “pivotal” to the success of direct payments but need improved training to build their skills and confidence. That was one of the key messages from a report from Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) designed to help councils boost the number of direct payments and the experience people have of using them, in the face of a year-on-year decline in take-up.
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The Guardian
APRIL 14, 2022
Australia’s home aged care providers facing ‘abysmal’ turnover rates as rising stress and poor pay take their toll Get our free news app ; get our morning email briefing The nation’s largest home care provider says its aged care workers are at “breaking point” and are only receiving a fraction of the Coalition’s promised $800 bonus due to flaws with the scheme’s design.
Famcare
APRIL 14, 2022
As a result of the pandemic's mounting food and medical shortages , the role of nonprofit organizations has grown more important than ever. The pandemic has also elevated the use of technology in charitable organizations. Technological techniques are required to increase productivity, provide caseworkers with the resources they need to manage and support the vulnerable populations they serve, and to reach out to the ever-important funders.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
APRIL 14, 2022
Resources related to older persons in humanitarian action and forced migration. Here are documents address working with older persons who are displaced or in situations of humanitarian assistance in emergencies. One is from the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) and the other was developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, a UN General Assembly-created mechanism for inter-agency coordination in humanitarian assistance.
CAPC
APRIL 14, 2022
All clinicians caring for pediatric patients with serious illness have the responsibility to improve outcomes, but many have not received the training.
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.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
APRIL 14, 2022
Resources of World Social Work Day at the UN-Geneva. We hope you participated in the online edition of the World Social Work Day at the UN-Geneva, on March 16. You can find the speeches, presentations and podcasts of the different sessions by clicking HERE.
Shelter, Inc
APRIL 14, 2022
April 15 marks the third anniversary of six-year-old AJ Freund’s death from child abuse. Though most of us remember his name, there have been so many others since including six-year-olds Damari Perry and infants Ameer and Johntavis Newell. Have we learned anything since then? The average number of children who die from abuse or neglect in the U.S. fluctuates between 4 and 5 per day.
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