Relias

MAY 25, 2022

While we typically think of DSPs helping clients to perform everyday tasks or live as independently as possible, they often work with clients in crisis. In fact, the work of direct support professionals (DSPs) is often tied directly to crisis prevention and intervention. DSPs routinely provide positive behavior supports to help mitigate behavioral health crises, and when necessary, navigate the aftermath of large-scale events, such as natural disasters or pandemics.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2022

The murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson demonstrate the need for child protection practice to be handed over to specialist multi-agency teams of expert practitioners. That was the verdict today from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s inquiry into the lessons from the killings of six-year-old Arthur and 16-month-old Star, in each case at the hands of the partner of one of their parents, with those parents’ complicity.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 25, 2022

June 2022. NASW recognizes June as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month. PTSD impacts millions of people in the United States. “According to the National Center for PTSD, a program of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, about seven or eight of every 100 people will experience PTSD in their lifetime.” 1 Although PTSD has commonly been associated with the military and veteran populations, it affects people of all ages, communities, gender, and social economic background.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2022

A council is at risk of losing control of its children’s services after the government intervened in the light of a damning Ofsted report. The Department for Education (DfE) has appointed a commissioner, Paul Moffat, to oversee and direct improvements at Sefton council, and also to determine whether it has the capacity and capability to improve itself over the long term.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

MAY 25, 2022

← My journey of healing my inner child. Talking to our littles about preventing sexual abuse is essential. Yes, we can all agree, but so is talking to our not-so-littles. According to the CDC’s Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Study , 1 in 4 women has experienced sexual abuse as a child, as does one in six boys. As adults, there is still a significant risk of sexual assault; research estimates that between 10% and 29% of women are victims of rape or attempted rape after starting co

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Confidentiality Empathy Schools 98

Beautiful Voyager

MAY 25, 2022

As part of my job at Pinterest, I am lucky enough to co-lead an incredible community group called Pinside Out. Through this work, I am connected with incredible people around the world who are also interested in sharing their personal experiences around mental health. One of those people is the incredible Dublin-based Conor Sharkey. Conor, thank you so much for sharing your light with all of us. ??

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OCD Self-harm Mental Health Therapist 98

The New Social Worker

MAY 25, 2022

Clinical social workers and those in management positions hold unique and valuable perspectives and knowledge that can be harnessed to inform and influence elected officials. Advocacy work can seem daunting, but it does not have to be.

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International Federation of Social Workers

MAY 25, 2022

The policy paper “The Role of Social Workers in Advancing a New Eco-Social World” has just been adopted as part of the 2022 IFSW General Meeting. The IFSW United Nations Commission who has developed the policy paper thanks the member organisations for their support. Awareness raising regarding ecological and social change is widespread nowadays, but […].

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Social Worker Adoption 68

Shelter, Inc

MAY 25, 2022

Yesterday, 19 elementary school children and two teachers were shot dead at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, by a lone 18-year-old with an assault rifle. For many of the students in the school for 2 nd-4th grade that morning, the end of the school year and the beginning of a carefree summer were on their minds. For 19 of them, summer would never come.

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Famcare

MAY 25, 2022

The title of this blog is a testimony to the noble instincts that engender the highest aspirations of America's social services community. The Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 initially authorized the Health Care for the Homeless Program. (No one we polled in the past two weeks had any idea that healthcare was available to our homeless population.

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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.

Private Practice

International Federation of Social Workers

MAY 25, 2022

The IFSW executive is pleased to announce that the Censure of the Israeli Union of Social Workers has now been withdrawn as part of the 2022 IFSW General Meeting. In 2018 the IFSW General Meeting supported the executive censure of the Israeli Union of Social Workers because of concerns “that the Israeli Union of Social […].

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Social Worker 59

The Critical Blog

MAY 25, 2022

If you are a social worker, practice educator, on-site supervisor wanting to expand your toolkit of creative ideas, this beautifully illustrated book edited by Heidi Dix and Aisha Howells provides an array of innovative and practical tools. To be used with students, apprentices, Newly Qualified Social Workers, the tools can even be used to develop a social worker’s own practice!

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Social Worker 45

Counselor Toolbox podcast

MAY 25, 2022

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