Wed.Dec 14, 2022

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Minimum price of home care to rise by 12% next year, says provider body

Community Care

The minimum price commissioners should pay home care providers will rise by 11.8% next year due to increases in the national living wage and the impact of inflation on services’ costs. That was the message from the Homecare Association as it announced that the minimum for 2023-24 would be £25.95 , up from £23.20 currently. The umbrella body’s annual calculation is based on the cost of complying with minimum wage legislation, while also paying for care workers’ travel time, mile

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10 Things Everyone in Recovery Has to Remember

Gateway Foundation

Recovery is a lifelong process that offers hope for people overcoming substance use disorder. Individuals can overcome challenges in recovery when they remember important things, like their progress, goals, and healthy habits. The recovery process teaches individuals positive coping skills, such as how to take care of their mental and physical health, skills for maintaining sobriety, and how to foster healthy relationships.

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Book Review: Career Self-Care

The New Social Worker

Despite not being written by social workers or from their perspectives, Career Self-Care is an invaluable resource for us because of its practical and interdisciplinary nature. Read The New Social Worker’s review of Career Self Care.

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New Treatments for Bipolar Depression—Options for Treatment Resistance

Nnatasha Tracy

Recently, Psychiatric Times did a comprehensive piece on new or unusual bipolar depression treatments, treatments that may be an option for treatment-resistant bipolar depression. They are thinking outside the standard bipolar depression treatments. This is critical because many people just aren't being helped or aren't being helped enough by standard bipolar depression treatments.

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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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Active Learning Lessons, Activities, and Assignments for the Modern Social Work Educator

Karen Zgoda

My book, Active Learning Lessons, Activities, and Assignments for the Modern Social Work Educator has been published!! I wrote this book to address this main question: How do we train the next generation of social workers in classrooms to impact complexity and evolution in the real world? It’s not for lack of trying. Social work educators are busy. There are classes to prepare, papers and assignments to grade, student situations and questions to address, emails to answer, meetings to attend, pol

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2022 Reboot

Famcare

Social work is an evolving profession and every year new challenges emerge. When December rolls around it is our custom to interview three experienced social workers (one from the East Coast-one from the West Coast-and one fr om Nebraska) and ask them to share any new themes that may have emerged in their practices.

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Rogério M. Pinto Discusses the Toll of A Denied Tenure Bid at Columbia University in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Michigan Social Work

Professor Rogério M. Pinto discussed his denied bid for tenure at Columbia University in 2014, and the physical, emotional and intellectual toll it took, with The Chronicle of Higher Education. . “Everybody who is involved with you, either as a professional or someone who is doing research with you or the participants in your research, the people who you love — everybody is affected by it one way or another, and they’re affected very deeply.

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New at CAPC: December 2022

CAPC

Learn about new tools and resources on capc.org.

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