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Community wellbeing in Manchester

Martin Webber

Please take part in our survey of community wellbeing in Greater Manchester.

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Who’s Helping You? Coping with Trauma as a Health Care Worker

CAPC

What repeated trauma without healing can do to a health care worker—and how to establish a new and healthier “normal”.

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Overturning Roe v. Wade will disproportionately affect people of color; Here is what social workers should know

Social Work Blog

Getty Images. By Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA. The leaked report of a draft Supreme Court ruling to completely overturn the seminal abortion rights opinion Roe v. Wade sent shockwaves throughout the country. While most reproductive health and other social justice advocates expected the conservative-leaning court would “gut” Roe v. Wade, they did not anticipate the absolute evisceration of the law.

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Hospice Billing Compliance: The Latest PEPPER Updates

Relias

The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report, or PEPPER, contains valuable information to help your hospice organization identify billing issues and prevent improper payment audits. The provider-specific PEPPER analyzes Medicare data and statistics from discharges and services compared with every hospice nationwide. Reviewing your hospice PEPPER is an important part of your hospice compliance program.

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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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NASW Continues to Advocate for Student Loan Debt Relief

Social Work Blog

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) continues to advocate for student loan debt-relief for social workers and to improve existing debt-relief programs such as the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. Unfortunately, programs such as PSLF have been wrought with endemic challenges, making it difficult for social workers especially to access debt relief—even after satisfying all of this program’s service requirements.

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Ep 1: The Extraordinary Mental Illness Program at Johnson & Johnson

Nnatasha Tracy

We are honored to talk with Geralyn Giorgio about an incredible program she created for those with mental illness and their caregivers at Johnson & Johnson. We'll be talking about her personal experience with mental illness, why she's driven to help others affected by mental illness, and how the program she created can be rolled out in your workplace.

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Sober Story: Dawn

Living Sober

This week's Sober Story comes from Dawn, a 61-year-old living in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. = Mrs D: How long have you been in recovery? Dawn: For nearly 33 years. Mrs D: Whoop! What can you tell us about the last months/years of your drinking before you gave up? Dawn: I was lost. I was a mother to two beautiful […]. The post Sober Story: Dawn first appeared on Living Sober.

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‘Inadequate’ councils bore brunt of sharp rise in social workers quitting posts last year, analysis shows

Community Care

‘Inadequate’ authorities bore the brunt of a sharp rise in children’s social workers leaving their jobs last year, a Community Care analysis has found. Turnover at English councils currently rated inadequate by Ofsted increased by 4.6 percentage points on average, from 2019-20 to 2020-21, more than double the 1.9-point rise nationally that took turnover to 15.4%, the highest in five years.

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Why I Meditate (And You Should Too)

Stop Abuse Campaign

← My Mental Health is Bad! Why and What Now? After doing yoga for many years, I thought I didn’t “need” to meditate. Practicing yoga on a regular basis should be enough, right? Not quite. . Although yoga and meditation tend to go hand in hand, it’s too easy to run through the craziness of the day in your mind while going through the yoga poses.

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NASW Brings Awareness to the Importance of Mental Health

Social Work Blog

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) wishes to bring attention to the importance of mental health as it affects millions of people in the United States. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), each year 1 in 5 adults and 1 in 6 youths ages 6-17 deal with mental illness [1]. The impact has been further exacerbated by the Covid pandemic.

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Get Connected: Using Social Media for Social Work Success

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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News Items – May 5, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Kristen Lee is a member: Therapy Isn’t Grubhub. Psychology Today. Finding a therapist takes savvy. You press on, taking on the persona of Nancy Drew: solving the mystery of how to get an appointment with an actual.decent.therapist. in the middle of a global mental health crisis that accepts your insurance, has a verifiable license, and knows something more than the 32 podcasts you’ve binged and all those Google searches on “what to do when I’m having an existential crisis” and “how do I know if

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The Roe Act and the Path Forward for our Nation

Social Work Blog

Hyperlocal Organizing Starting Now. By Rebekah Gewirtz. After Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed that a leaked draft of the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in the Mississippi abortion case was authentic, I began doom scrolling to the point of anger and despair. Although many of us have known that this day was coming based on the appointments of Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, it still felt shocking, and in those first 48 hours after

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2022 School of Social Work Innovations Award Recipients

Michigan Social Work

The inaugural Innovation in Research and Teaching Award recognizes research — with either incremental innovation that builds over time, with its impact to be felt in the future, radical Innovations that current issues in the moment they occur and disruptive innovation that challenges the status quo — or existing theories, methods, and pedagogies. Professor Wiliam Elliott III.

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