My Brains Not Broken
MAY 25, 2023
Last month, I started my Song of the Month series of posts. Each month on the blog, I’m going to share a song with you. It might be a song I can’t stop listening to at the moment, or a song I have a history with. It could be a song I don’t know much about, or I’ve listened to a thousand times. Regardless of the reason, these songs have inspired me and my mental health, and I want to share them with you.
Community Care
MAY 25, 2023
Secure children’s home bed numbers have fallen over the last year despite huge levels of need for placements for very vulnerable children. The number of approved places in England and Wales’s 14 homes dropped by 7.6%, from 249 to 230 in the year to March 2023, with just 203 of these available for use, down from 220 the year before. The number of places contracted to the Ministry of Justice to place children detained by the criminal justice system remained stable, at 105, meaning the
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The International Association Of Schools Of Social
MAY 25, 2023
Preparing Future Social Workers for Data-Driven Practice: A Panel Discussion with Universities in Moldova and the USA Information about the webinar: Join Data for Impact (D4I) on May 31 at 8–9:00am EDT (15:00–16:00 EET) for a webinar on preparing future social workers for data-driven practice. This webinar will be presented in English and Romanian, with simultaneous interpretation.
Community Care
MAY 25, 2023
The social care workforce has been boosted by 58,000 overseas staff over the past year, revealed government immigration figures published today. But while care homes have made a dent in record vacancy levels experienced in 2022, staffing gaps have remained stubbornly high in domiciliary care, according to separate data issued by Skills for Care. The rise in overseas staff joining the workforce came on the back of the government’s decision to add ‘care workers’ and ‘home c
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The Guardian
MAY 25, 2023
Exclusive: Joint letter from organisations and experts says singling out British-Pakistani men draws attention away from other sources of sexual abuse Politicians who make “inaccurate or divisive claims” about child sexual abuse and grooming gangs undermine efforts to tackle the crime and almost certainly make children less safe, organisations and experts in the subject have warned in an unprecedented joint letter.
Community Care
MAY 25, 2023
The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) new system for assessing council adults’ services’ performance of their Care Act 2014 duties will be piloted by three councils over the coming months. The regulator’s work in Birmingham, Lincolnshire and Nottingham councils, which starts this month, will inform its rollout of its local authority assurance system this autumn.
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Social Workers Speak
MAY 25, 2023
News Items – May 25, 2023 Carmen Reese Foster is a member of NASW-TN: Lack of empathy: Growing anxiety and depression follows wave of activism for Black social workers Milwaukee Independent Since the 2020 racial reckoning, social workers have prided ourselves on working to eliminate social justice disparities. “Eliminating Racism,” for instance, became an official grand challenge of social work in 2020.
Michigan Social Work
MAY 25, 2023
Nina Jackson Levin, Joint PhD in Social Work and Anthropology, successfully defended her dissertation, "Meta/Static Ethnography of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncofertility Research and Practice at a United States Hospital: Implications for Sexual and Gender Minorities.” Her committee included Bradley J. Zebrack (co-chair) and Shanna Katz Kattari. Jackson Levin plans to complete a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan Department of Endocrinology.
Social Workers Speak
MAY 25, 2023
News Items – May 25, 2023 Carmen Reese Foster is a member of NASW-TN: Lack of empathy: Growing anxiety and depression follows wave of activism for Black social workers Milwaukee Independent Since the 2020 racial reckoning, social workers have prided ourselves on working to eliminate social justice disparities. “Eliminating Racism,” for instance, became an official grand challenge of social work in 2020.
Michigan Social Work
MAY 25, 2023
Rich Tolman and the Michigan Father Practitioner Network have received a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation aimed to increase the capacity of Michigan programs that engage and deliver services to fathers, improve the well-being of their children through positive, and support father involvement.
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.
Social Care
MAY 25, 2023
". often the same technologies and gadgets we use at home can also be used to support how we care for people." [Image created by freepik.com ] It's not unusual. Most of us now use digital technology in some way in our day to day lives. Whether it’s doing our weekly food shop via an app on the phone, wearing a watch to track how many steps we are taking each day, or a using a smart speaker to remind us to take the roast out of the oven on time!
Beyond Advocacy
MAY 25, 2023
The Democratic Party has a long history of poor communications. President Jimmy Carter helped to undermine his chances for reelection by handing Republicans a public relations gift that is enshrined in the Hall of Fame of political gaffs. Although he never uttered the word, it is referred to as the “Malaise Speech” that decried the country’s “crisis of confidence.
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