Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2022

Rises in child poverty fuelled by benefit cuts was associated with more than 10,000 more children being taken into care between 2015 and 2020, a new study has estimated. The research , which is currently being peer-reviewed, suggests 10,356 more children living in English local authority areas became looked after than would have been the case had poverty levels remained at 2015 levels.

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The Frontline

JANUARY 6, 2022

This powerful poem was written by one of our fellows, Charmaine Malcolm, Principal Child and Family Social Worker, and it is dedicated to all social workers. . Dear social worker, Waking up over the past few weeks to reports in the media that social workers are child killers, baby snatchers and evil people. Well, it simply is not true. There have been many children whose lives have been ended prematurely, by people they expected to protect them and not one of them died at the hands of their soci

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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2022

An “unstinting focus on improvements” by managers and a sustained investment in hiring more social workers has led to a council being rated good by Ofsted, three years after an inadequate rating. The inspectorate rated the impact of leaders on social work practice with children and families at Wakefield council as outstanding, and said challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic had not “tempered the drive and determination to improve services”.

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Social Work.Career

JANUARY 6, 2022

This post is part of the monthly series, Free Webinars for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals, featuring over 30 free webcasts that I could find for you this month in the field of social work and mental health. To make it easier for you to find a webinar that is of interest to you, […]. The post Free Mental Health Webinars, January 2022 appeared first on SocialWork.Career.

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Bipolar Bandit

JANUARY 6, 2022

How did you get through the most depressing times? I think having support and love from friends and family is so important in going through hard times. My best friend in the entire world is the reason I am here today. Everyone needs support and someone to talk to regardless of it being friends, family, significant other, therapist, professor etc. We all deserve the same resources and we all deserve to live our best and most authentic lives by being the best version of ourselves.

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Nnatasha Tracy

JANUARY 6, 2022

Can a doctor have a good bedside manner and be medically competent? That is the question. In my experience, these two things rarely go together. This is a shame because I consider them two sides of the same coin when treating patients. You can't just be good at one of them and expect to get the best possible outcomes. And I'm not the only one who says this, research bears this out as well (see more below).

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The Guardian

JANUARY 6, 2022

Staffing and A&E demands risk exacerbating backlog caused by Covid pandemic, says committee Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Plans to tackle the “catastrophic impact” of the Covid pandemic on patients in England waiting for NHS treatment could be derailed by emergency care demands and a lack of staff, MPs have said. With about 6 million people already waiting for planned treatment, the backlog caused by the pandemic is a major and “unquantifiable” challenge as mo

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CAPC

JANUARY 6, 2022

We're welcoming the new year with a look at the most-read blog posts in 2021.

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Michigan Social Work

JANUARY 6, 2022

MSW students Deena Etter , Madeline Loss , Courtney Marsden and Nevo Polonsky have been selected to the Presidential Management Fellowship (PMF) Program. Administered by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the program attracts outstanding graduate students who have a commitment to excellence in leadership and management of public policies and programs.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

JANUARY 6, 2022

Press play to listen to Self-Care Starts with Self-Compassion. [link]. Transcript: An attorney once told me that I was “soft” during a conversation. He said, “well, you’re a social worker and social workers are soft.” His statement wasn’t even relevant to the conversation. I asked him about Georgia law to advocate for a client. My immediate thought was I go into every kind of neighborhood imaginable with only my wit, charm, and power of persuasion.

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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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Famcare

JANUARY 6, 2022

Nonprofits mostly start with great ideas and big hearts trying to address a problem nobody else seems to care about. From Doctors Without Borders to Feeding America, Americares Foundation, Direct Relief, and United Way Worldwide, there are countless examples of large, successful nonprofits around us—but even these were only just ideas at some point.

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Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 6, 2022

Alison Boleware is government relations director for NASW-TX: Mental health issues intensify as omicron takes over the holiday season. KVUE. “Well, we know that a lot of people are really experiencing, you know, another grief process with this, you know, the grief of having to acknowledge that things aren’t going to look like they want to this holiday season,” said Alison Mohr Boleware, with the National Association of Social Workers Texas. “We know that for people,

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My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 6, 2022

Today’s guest post is written by freelance mental health writer Taylor Blanchard, who talks about toxic shame, what it looks like in our lives and how we can manage it. You’re at work; your boss is frustrated. In passing, with a furrowed brow, she briskly asks you if you’ve remembered to call that Very Important Person. . Oh no. You forgot. What happens next?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. The current ombudsman, Christine Alberi, does not. ? In a classic example of trying to make policy-by-horror-story, her latest report uses a tiny, non-random sample of cases she chose herself to justify sweeping conclusions that all boil down to: Take away more kids and don’t send them back!

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The Social Care Elf

JANUARY 6, 2022

Andie Ashdown and Theophanis Kyriacou review a study from the Netherlands that looks at the links between childhood trauma, bullying-victimization and mental illness in people from sexual minority groups. The post Childhood trauma, bullying-victimisation and the mental health of LGBTQ+ individuals appeared first on National Elf Service.

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Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 6, 2022

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) reached a potential news audience of more than 250 million readers in December, thanks partly to coverage of the Kentucky governor announcing pay raises for social workers, mention of NASW in a People magazine on adult adoption, and an op-ed on the drug syringe program in New Jersey. Here are the highlights: Kentucky Gov.

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