Thu.Apr 20, 2023

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Five Ways to Deal With Mental Filters

My Brains Not Broken

In Tuesday’s breakdown of mental health terms, I wrote about mental filters, what they look like and how they appear in our lives. Mental filters can go my many names, but what’s important to know is that they can impact the way we view the world. When mental filters go unchallenged for too long, they can change the way we think, the way we perceive what’s going on around us.

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Safeguarding overhaul needed to better protect disabled children in care, says abuse inquiry

Community Care

Councils should have a bigger role monitoring local residential settings in their areas to better protect disabled children, an inquiry into the abuse of children in three services has concluded. The measure is among nine recommendations designed to overhaul the safeguarding of disabled children and those with complex health needs in residential care, made by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel today.

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New Social Work Jobs of the Future!! (April 2023 Edition!)

Social Work Futures

It’s once again time to add some imagined social work jobs of the future to the mix! This is a game I developed and started playing a few years ago with periodic new additions! My dream is that increasing numbers of fellow social workers join me in boosting our imaginations! Please note that these ideas are not intended to be endorsements – some of these jobs might appeal to us or worry us.

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Labour is on the warpath at last. But why is it targeting benefit claimants and disabled people? | Frances Ryan

The Guardian

By reviving scrounger myths and rubbishing free social care, Starmer’s begun a race to the bottom – one the Tories will win With the local elections round the corner and the general election rumoured for next autumn, Keir Starmer, the measured lawyer, is rebranding. Faced with criticism over attack ads on Rishi Sunak , the newly bullish Labour leader has doubled down, insisting he will continue “no matter how squeamish it might make some feel”.

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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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The Flexibility Mascot

Parenthood Understood

The Flexibility Mascot When your kids were younger, you provided the structure. This meant that you could usually create schedules and expectations that worked pretty well for you! But when your kid becomes a teenager, and has a much more independent life (and personality!) parents find themselves having to put some of their preferences and assumptions aside.

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Starmer was not ‘soft on crime’. But this is politics – and the ruthless Tory machine is just starting up | Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian

The Labour leader’s record as an advocate for victims of sexual abuse is instructive, just don’t expect to hear about it Fiona Ivison was 17 when she was strangled and battered to death by a man who had paid her for sex. He then left her body in a freezing car park. She was only 14 when she was groomed by an older man into what she thought was a loving relationship, and then became a victim of sexual exploitation.

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New at CAPC: April 2023

CAPC

Learn about new tools and resources on capc.org.

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News Items – April 20, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Keith Cunniffe is a member of NASW-NYS: “Here Comes Jimmy Hendrix”: A Psychiatrist and Patient Reconnect and Recollect Psychiatric Times Cunniffe: I started college at Fordham University in the fall of 1986 looking forward to making new friends and, hopefully, having a girlfriend. I vividly recall early on walking past Keating Hall, the pastoral campus’s centerpiece, and thinking that I felt a kind of darkness that I had never felt before.

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