Wed.Oct 26, 2022

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One Front Door

Famcare

In the beginning , pioneering social workers responded to the most critical and immediate needs of the destitute, the homeless, and orphans. But as the 20th century wore on social services recognized a more nuanced and complex catalogue of vulnerabilities. Social workers, aid organizations, government agencies, and communities began to support people presenting a complexity of needs like poverty brought on by addiction and child abuse resulting from mental illness or homeless juvenile offenders

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Six New Social Work Jobs of the Future! Let’s Play!!

Social Work Futures

Last July, I launched the Social Work Jobs of the Future game! This game uses futures thinking to imagine what the future of our profession may look like and what social workers may do on a daily basis. It evokes “scenarios” that imagine different worlds where our work occurs – some of them might be scenarios we very much want, and others – scenarios we worry about and actively work against.

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One Way to Help Family Caregivers: Caregiving Navigators

CAPC

Next Avenue article about the role of caregiving navigators when families become overwhelmed as their loved ones age.

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This is how a teacher abused me. And why I’m speaking out to help other victims

The Guardian

I lived with the shame for years until the Truth Project let me tell my story, and empowered me to call for healing and justice The abuse I experienced as a child has reverberated throughout my life. I didn’t allow anybody to touch me, beyond a handshake or a peck on the cheek, for 15 years. It planted in me the sense that everything to do with sex or my body was wrong.

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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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Palliative Care Needs a Defined Scope to Expand Access, Reimbursement

CAPC

Hospice News article includes interview with CAPC CEO, Brynn Bowman.

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Towards rigorous and flexible research designs for personalized psychotherapy

Society of Clinical Psychology

Rigorous and flexible research designs? Although this sounds like a contradiction, it is exactly what we need. Methodological rigor in terms of reliability, validity, and generalizability. Flexibility in terms of adaptation to different individuals seeking help at varying psychotherapy contexts. As clinical psychotherapists, we know about the dilemma that traditional research methods pose for everyday clinical practice.