August, 2022

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Tips for the new Social Work Adjunct Instructor

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

In my role as the Director of our undergraduate social work program this summer, I have been onboarding several new adjunct instructors to our Department. It is a fun process as new adjuncts bring new ideas and energy to the role, and I have been reminded of my early days in social work education as an adjunct instructor. I taught statistics to social work students for four years while working on my Ph.D.

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How the Right Social Services Software Can Improve the Adoption Process

Famcare

With over 400,000 children in foster care and over 100,000 adoptable children in the United States, we are passionate about improving the adoption process with the right social services software. The length of the adoption process can vary by state but having the right software in place can help improve the process for all parties involved.

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A social worker who left wonders if you should be a social worker

Save the Social Worker

Two years of doing social work. Two years after working full-time as a social worker, it ended. It wasn’t an active decision on my part. It just happened. My contract expired after two years. It was as simple as that. There was no ‘Big Bang!’ Celebrating the end of my time as a social worker. It just ended. In many ways, it symbolised how my career as a social worker ended with a whimper.

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Forging the next generation of social care nursing leaders

Social Care

Around a fifth of the adult social care workforce are from a black or minority ethnic background. This increases to 40% of nurses. Sadly, this diversity is not reflected at senior management and leadership level. A new leadership programme aims to change that. [Image copyright Lauren Hurley/DHSC]. Quality, diversity, status. As Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, one of my unwavering priorities is to improve the quality, diversity and status of adult social care (ASC) nursing.

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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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Cost of living crisis ‘severely’ hitting people accessing children’s and adults’ services, social workers warn

Community Care

The cost of living crisis is ‘severely’ affecting people accessing children’s and adults’ services, fuelling a host of issues including poverty, debt, mental ill-health and domestic conflict, social workers have warned. The vast majority of respondents to a Community Care survey asking about the effects of the crisis said it was hitting individuals and families they support hard.

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Why Do I Always Need to ‘Keep Going’?

My Brains Not Broken

There are many ways to combat mental health challenges, and one of them that I’ve been reflecting on recently is motivation. Using motivational techniques has been very helpful when it comes to my mental health. I’ll watch videos, listen to speeches, or find quotes that give me a boost. I want to find things that will give me the energy I need to get through this moment and on to the next.

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World Indigenous Peoples Day message

International Federation of Social Workers

Photo by the UN The IFSW Message on World Indigenous Peoples Day Today on World Indigenous Peoples Day, IFSW acknowledges the indigenous social workers that have for decades worked patiently to steer the profession towards understanding, respecting and celebrating diverse cultures. IFSW acknowledges that in many places around the world social work as a profession […].

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Should I be a social worker? Here’s what to consider.

Save the Social Worker

Two years of doing social work Two years after working full-time as a social worker, it ended. It wasn’t an active decision on my part. It just happened. My contract expired after two years. It was as simple as that. There was no ‘Big Bang!’ Celebrating the end of my time as a social worker. It just ended. In many ways, it symbolised how my career as a social worker ended with a whimper.

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An Honest Look at Marijuana and Its Place in Palliative Care

CAPC

BJ Miller, MD, shares how marijuana can help patients living with serious illness—from managing pain and symptoms to reframing perspectives.

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Welsh Government consulting on eliminating profit-making provision for children in care

Community Care

The Welsh Government has opened a consultation on plans to eliminate profit-making residential and fostering provision for children in care. The proposals , which form part of a cooperation agreement between the Labour administration and the Plaid Cymru group in the Welsh Senedd, would restrict registration of service providers to those operating a non-profit model.

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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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Finding More Ways to Reset and Recharge

My Brains Not Broken

Recently, I noticed a lot of my posts this summer have focused on resting and recharging. This got me thinking about how this happened. I know people tend to focus on relaxing in the summer, which makes perfect sense. But all year, I’ve had a fixated interest in the concept of rest. At first, I wanted to unlearn the concept of rest that I’d practiced my entire life in favor of something new.

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Hey, Tough Guy.

Gary Direnfeld

Toxic masculinity doesn’t begin in adulthood. It begins in infancy with the expectation that boys must tough it out, suck it up, not cry and never need soothing. Indeed, that toxic masculinity for some is beat into them verbally, some physically. “I’ll give you something to cry about.” “Don’t be a suck.” “You’re a cry-baby.” The infant come toddler learns from an age that young that their acceptance and worth depends upon submerging the

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Roundtable: Asian Perspective for Social Work Education

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Roundtable: Asian Perspective for Social Work Education. . Date: 9 September 2022 (Friday). Time : 3:00-6:00 pm (HKT, GMT+8). Organizer: China and Global Development Network, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Location: Online via Zoom. Registration: [link] (Meeting ID and passcode will be sent to successful registrants).

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September is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Month

Social Work Blog

How Social Workers Can Make a Difference. September 2022. Binge drinking and heavy alcohol use during pregnancy have increased over the past decade, according to a new study in JAMA Network Open. In fact, from 2011 to 2020, binge drinking among pregnant women increased nearly 9 percent a year, while heavy drinking increased by more than 11 percent a year , study authors found.

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Have a Daily Dose of Self-Care During Self-Care Awareness Month This September

The New Social Worker

Download your Self-Care Awareness Month calendar for 2022 and join The New Social Worker as we invite you to deepen awareness and activation of self-care.

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‘Highly effective’ information sharing drives improvements to ‘inadequate’ council’s child protection services

Community Care

Ofsted has praised “highly effective” information sharing as it noted continuing progress at Hull council’s children’s services, which were graded ‘inadequate’ in 2019. A sixth monitoring visit to the Yorkshire authority , focusing on services for children in need of help and protection, found social workers reporting their caseloads were manageable and that they had time to see children frequently. “This has been greatly assisted by the effective duty a

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Metaphors for Mental Health: Lifting Weights

My Brains Not Broken

A couple of weeks ago, I started doing some weight training exercises for the first time in at least a few years. Lifting weights is something I’ve done on and off for years, but I’d fallen away from it for some time. But one day, kind of randomly, I went into the gym and headed for the weights. After the first session, my body was sore in places I’d forgotten I could be sore in, and these new exercises taught me a valuable lesson in how we can help ourselves adjust to things,

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Before Sending Your Kid to Counseling….

Gary Direnfeld

While I am pleased so many parents value counseling and want it for their kids, do know that it is not always helpful and indeed, can be harmful. Many kids interpret counseling as them having done something bad for which they must now talk to someone. That creates a scary endeavor. In other situations kids are brought to counseling for behavior that actually originates from parental issues such as divorce, abuse and/or drug/alcohol issues.

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Global Dimensions in Social Work Education

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Global Dimensions in Social Work Education – Call for Proposal for SW Education Conference. Call for Proposals closes October 1, 2022. Now more than ever, the social work profession is called to action as our world is impacted by social, economic, environmental, and cultural justice issues on a global platform. During. this time of an increasingly interdependent and interconnected world, the social work profession is challenged to incorporate a global perspective in education, practice, an

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NASW Combats Troubling Business Practice Harming Social Workers and their Clients

Social Work Blog

Getty images. In July, many NASW members alerted their state chapters to a disturbing and potentially deceptive marketing practice impacting social workers nationwide — involving CareDash, a healthcare review and referral website for a wide variety of healthcare providers, including clinical social workers. CareDash has been posting the profiles of thousands of social workers — without their consent or knowledge — in order to drive their prospective clients to provider networks

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Draft Interstate Compact for Social Work - 8 Key Points and How You Can Participate

The New Social Worker

An interstate compact license for social workers would facilitate practice mobility, allowing social workers to practice across state lines. A social work interstate licensing compact is under development, and you can submit your feedback now.

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‘Inadequate’ council making headway with front door and early help services, Ofsted finds

Community Care

Ofsted has praised improvements to an ‘inadequate’ local authority’s front door and early help services, in the face of ongoing workforce instability and rising pressure on social workers due to high caseloads. A fourth monitoring visit to Middlesbrough since the council received the lowest possible grade in January 2020 focused on the front door and on child protection enquiries, child in need and early help assessments and how children were stepped up and down between services.

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Receiving Permission to Feel Tired

My Brains Not Broken

I was reflecting on my most recent therapy session when I realized that there was a recurring phrase I was using over and over again. No matter what the topic was or how I felt about it, everything came back to me saying “I’m tired.” Listen – at some point or another, we all get tired. Physically, mentally, emotionally, we are tired and need rest to prepare for what’s next.

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Assessing Alcohol Issues: Context Matters

Gary Direnfeld

She only had one drink a day. It happened to be when the kids were arriving home from school. There were three kids, all girls. The eldest, nine, came in first. She was excited about the grade and comments on a project and wanted to show her mom. Mom however reminder her daughter it was “tea time” and told the daughter she would look at her report after supper.

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Addressing Racism in Social Work Licensing #StopASWB - Charla Yearwood, LCSW; Cassandra Walker, LCSW, CCTP; Alan Dettlaff, PhD, MSW

Doin' The Work

Episode 56 Guests: Charla Yearwood, LCSW; Cassandra Walker, LCSW, CCTP; Alan Dettlaff, PhD, MSW Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW. www.dointhework.com. Listen/Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Stitcher , Spotify. Follow on Twitter & Instagram , Like on Facebook. Join the mailing list Support the podcast Download transcript. We are now offering our Racial Justice & Liberatory Practice Continuing Education Series at Columbia University , Michigan State University , and the University

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6 Challenges of the Human Services Worker

Relias

It’s hard being a human services worker. The role today comes with many of the same challenges our predecessors faced, with a few newer additions. Let’s take a few minutes to understand these challenges and how human services professionals can work to overcome them. Challenges a human services worker will face. While the following may not be comprehensive, it provides an overview of the challenges and struggles human services workers face in today’s market (some are not new but worth reviewing a

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School Safety: How Social Workers Can be Helpful and Stay Mentally Strong

Social Work Blog

By Marisa Markowitz and Daniel Pollack. Early in their careers, social workers learn the concepts of burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious traumatization. But how does self-care play out in real-life scenarios, when new social workers might not get the best supervision or insight into how to handle the stressors that come with the job of being a social worker?

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Make sure you're prepared for autumn boosters

Social Care

Protecting us all: "It’s so important staff in all care settings make the case for covid vaccine boosters and flu jabs now, making consent from colleagues, residents and others in receipt of care a formality." [Image created by freepik.com ]. Always looking ahead. We may be in the midst of summer, record breaking heatwaves and all but, like most care and health professionals, my thoughts inevitably turn to autumn and winter.

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I Am Not My Anxiety

My Brains Not Broken

This post comes on a heels of a similar post I wrote recently called “I Am Not My Depression” ( you can check it out here! ). A big part of my mental health journey is the way I’ve noticed that language has built up the stigma surrounding mental health, which means I’m constantly trying to find ways to break down that stigma.

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My Life’s Crooked Path

Gary Direnfeld

I smoked a lot of dope in high school. I dropped out without completing my grade thirteen. I went from part time to full time at Calderone shoes. A girl I was dating at the time convinced me to return to school. I went to Seneca for audio-visual techniques. While I found that program basic, I took a psychology course as an elective and fell in love with it.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 23, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? We begin with a photo: Check out the ads on New York City buses, from JMac For Families: ? J. Khadijah Abdurahman, who is both a parent with lived experience dealing with New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services – and a Tech Research Fellow at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. I have a blog post about her powerful story in Logic Magazine.

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Self-Care A-Z: To Care for Oneself Requires Finding Oneself—Self-Care Wisdom From Viola Davis

The New Social Worker

Reading life-stories deepens compassion, widens worldview, and encourages spirit—all aspects of expansive self-care. Here are four “big picture” aspects from Viola Davis’s compelling life-story that we can emulate in our own self-care journeys.

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Delivering the promise of integrated health and care

Social Work With Adults

"The challenge of integrating health and social care cannot be fixed simply by addressing one part of the jigsaw." [Image created by freepik.com ]. Digital determination. Earlier this summer , the Department of Health and Social Care's plan for digital health and social care included the assertion that the “long-term sustainability of health and social care is dependent on having the right digital foundations in place, and so digital transformation must be the linchpin upon which all. reforms ar

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Please help the NASW Mississippi Chapter address Jackson’s water crisis

Social Work Blog

Recent flooding in Mississippi caused an already struggling water treatment plant in the state capital of Jackson to collapse. Residents in the city of 150,000 are having difficulty getting water to drink or to flush toilets, prompting the city to close schools and business and residents to wait in long lines for water. The NASW Mississippi Chapter has mobilized volunteers to help and is seeking donations.

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What Are Mental Health Myths?

My Brains Not Broken

I like to bounce around many topics here on My Brain’s Not Broken, especially surrounding anxiety and depression. However, one of my other favorite things to do is break down myths surrounding mental health. Usually it happens on a whim, when I feel there’s a need to debunk a certain aspect of mental health. The more that I do this, the more I see a need to debunk and breakdown these mental health myths.