Sat.Dec 25, 2021 - Fri.Dec 31, 2021

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Remembering The Connection Between Physical and Mental Wellness

My Brains Not Broken

As someone who celebrates Christmas, this past week was a busy one. The holiday season can take its toll on us in many ways, and while I tend to shine a spotlight on mental wellness during the holidays, there are other areas of wellness that are important to remember. Sometimes I forget about the connection between my physical health and my mental health, but when I forget to take care of my wellness, my body reminds me in a major way.

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The mental health social work matrix

Martin Webber

New research reveals the complex matrix of mental health social work in Local Authorities and NHS Mental Health Trusts in England and Wales.

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Re-Capping Teaching & Learning in SWK for 2021

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

One of my academic favorites is Dr. Katie Linder who produces a podcast called You’ve Got This , where she offers advice and examples for other academics as they navigate the world of higher education. Frequently, Katie talks about goal setting and how she works to accomplish her own goals. As I listened to her end-of-the-year podcast about her 2021 goals, all I could think about was my blog.

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What you need to know about micro meso macro social work

Save the Social Worker

How was your year? Tough question, isn’t it? As you wind down the year and look forward to a new year, what do you remember about this year? What did you overcome? What could you have done better? Can I tell you a secret? I don’t have a job. Maybe that’s why you shouldn’t listen to me. But being without a job has allowed a break, and to think about where we can go from here.

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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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This Year, You Did Enough

My Brains Not Broken

I don’t have a particularly long post today, but it’s a message I wish would be shared more this week. This year has been hard. At times, this year felt impossible. Even as we near the end of it, parts of this year still feel impossible. But I hope you take heart in the fact that, despite how you may feel about the state of your world and what you’ve done, this year, you did enough.

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IASSW Announces The Release Of Social Dialogue Magazine # 25

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

IASSW Announces The Release Of Social Dialogue Magazine # 25. Dear Friends, International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) is ready with an excellent volume of Social Dialogue. on the theme “The Pandemic that Shook Social Work Education It is a collaborative effort from academics, students, practice teachers and service users from across the globe exploring social work’s educational response to the current COVID-19 pandemic, focusing specifically on how they have responded to the ma

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What 2021 can teach you about deleveraging technology, organisational buffers and quitting your job

Save the Social Worker

How was your year? Tough question, isn’t it? As you wind down the year and look forward to a new year, what do you remember about this year? What did you overcome? What could you have done better? Can I tell you a secret? I don’t have a job. Maybe that’s why you shouldn’t listen to me. But being without a job has allowed a break, and to think about where we can go from here.

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Jean Bell obituary

The Guardian

My friend Jean Bell, who has died aged 62, was an artist and craftswoman and a much-loved founding member of the L’Arche community in south London, where 100 people with and without learning disabilities share life together. Jean was born in Lambeth, south London, to Gladys (nee McLean), a housewife, and Harold Bell, a builder. Her parents had moved to Britain from Jamaica; she was their sixth child and the first to be born in the UK, although there were to be three more girls after her.

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Thoughts on the New Year

Beyond Advocacy

People will be popping champagne corks and yelling “Happy New Year” in a few days but too many may not live to experience that moment as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage the planet. We at CRISP were so looking forward to returning to the Hill and connecting more young social workers with their federal government. However, Capitol Hill remains closed to the public and with the new omicron surge accelerating, who knows when the People’s House will again be open to the people.

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It's a Wrap, 2021! The New Social Worker's Top 12 (+) Articles for 2021, Year in Review, & Getting Ready for 2022

The New Social Worker

2021 is a wrap. The New Social Worker's list of Top Articles for 2021 tells us what has been on social workers' minds. We look forward to spending 2022 with you, our readers, as we move into a new era of the magazine.

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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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Ka whawhai tonu m?tou! We continue to fight.

Reimagining Social Work

In this final RSW post for 2021 Neil Ballantyne and Ian Hyslop reflect on the conflicted and generative relationship between social injustice and social work. It has been a difficult year for many. Our old certainties have been challenged as the pandemic has spread suffering globally, particularly, as always, for the poor and dispossessed. The […].

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How did I survive care and being homeless? I was luckier than the sharp, funny kids I grew up with

The Guardian

After time in a children’s home, and getting a criminal record, I got a break that helped me turn my life around and become a writer. Shamefully, I am a walking, talking anomaly My first time at rock bottom came early. I was an infant when my mum fled with me and my brother to a refuge, to escape violence at home. This period of fear was brief, but it left an indelible mark.

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IFSW wish all Social Workers worldwide a Happy New year

International Federation of Social Workers

IFSW wish all it’s members and social workers worldwide a happy new year. Major developments have taken place in 2021 under our global theme Ubuntu: ‘I am Because We Are’. Globally social workers have worked together and with their communities in minimizing the effects of the pandemic thought facilitating social solidarity and safe practice. As […].

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Let’s Reset for 2022: Celebrating a New Year of Social Work

The New Social Worker

The beginning of a new year is the ideal time to examine our narrative, break free from comfort zones, create a vision for ourselves, and celebrate our evolving careers as social workers. Dr. Veronica Hardy is Your Social Work Mentor.

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Seminar #111: To Build a New Church

What a Shrink Thinks

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How did I survive care and prison? I was luckier than the sharp, funny kids I grew up with

The Guardian

After time in a children’s home, then jail, I got a break that helped me turn my life around and become a writer. Shamefully, I am a walking, talking anomaly My first time at rock bottom came early. I was an infant when my mum fled with me and my brother to a refuge, to escape violence at home. This period of fear was brief, but it left an indelible mark.

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The Environmental Impact of Growing Drugs

Gateway Foundation

The conversation about drugs almost always revolves around their impacts on societal wellness and personal health. It’s true that drug production and usage can cause widespread societal and public health concerns. But the effects of such substances have a more complicated bigger picture. Producing mass quantities of drugs harms the environment in multifaceted ways.

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3 Tips for Year-End Fundraising Campaigns

Famcare

Another whirlwind of a year is coming to an end, and sadly we still haven’t said a final goodbye to the pandemic. But there’s something festive and warm about December that even coronavirus hasn’t been able to touch. In fact, if anything, the pandemic has brought people’s hearts together like never before, and the giving spirit is stronger than ever.

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Social Work Humour for the End of A Long Day

Social Work Haven

TRENDING CONTENT. Essential social work skills include empathy, authenticity, resilience and respect. These skills help us cope with situations and meet the needs of service users or clients. However, the best coping mechanism in social work is definitely humour. Finding humour in situations that stress you out in social work releases endorphins and makes you feel better about the situation.

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Children’s social care system ‘unfit for purpose’ in England

The Guardian

Former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield says it often puts vulnerable teenagers in greater danger The children’s social care system in England is unfit for purpose and often puts vulnerable teenagers in greater danger, according to the former children’s commissioner. Anne Longfield now runs the Commission on Young Lives, which warns in a report that the children’s social care system is “handing over” some vulnerable teenagers to criminals and abusers by moving them “out of area” to live in

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Guide for Clergy Experiencing Substance Use

Gateway Foundation

When the average person thinks of pastors and addiction, they may picture a pastor counseling a person who is trying to get sober. But what if the clergy member was the one in the throes of addiction? Substance use is an issue that affects people from all walks of life, and that means substance misuse… The post Guide for Clergy Experiencing Substance Use appeared first on Gateway.

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Thinking out of the Box: Reminiscences of an Out-of-Hours Social Worker #5

The Masked AMHP

Throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, as well as being a social worker during the day, I also used to do shifts on the emergency out of hours service. You were pretty much on your own, based at home, receiving calls via a deputising service.

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Kids and the Mental Health Pandemic

Shelter, Inc

Since March of 2020, the pandemic fists have been pummeling children from every direction, just as they have adults, but often in different ways. Before we can learn how to help our kids, we need to know their challenges , and there we have help. For example, psychologist Tali Raviv from Northwestern University published a study involving over 40,000 Chicago Public School children from kindergarten through 12 th grade in April 2021.

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I didn’t want anyone else to look after Mum – until I realised what she wanted | Simon Hattenstone

The Guardian

My sister and I thought we knew best for our 93-year-old mother but we neglected something crucial: her independence There was always one thing I was sure of – I’d not let Mum go into a care home or be looked after by a stranger. Marje has always been a brilliant mother, forever loyal when others wrote me off. So come the day when she tired of living by herself in Salford, or couldn’t cope, I’d be there for her.

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Divorce and Teen Drug Abuse

Gateway Foundation

When many people walk down the aisle and say “I do,” they hope their marriage will last forever. The truth is that about half of all marriages end in divorce. In some cases, a married couple splits up before they have children. In others, the couple might have already started a family. When there are… The post Divorce and Teen Drug Abuse appeared first on Gateway.

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Why Case Management Technology is More Important Than Ever in 2022

Famcare

It’s almost 2022 and most organizations across industries have embraced technological solutions. This stands true for most nonprofits around the world as well. This is because, for the most part, technology is a modern necessity that organizations can no longer ignore.

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Shelter’s Pride is Showing!

Shelter, Inc

What is Pride Month? The U.S. is among many countries around the globe celebrating Pride month at various times throughout the year. Ours began June 28, 1969, when New York City Police raided one of the area’s most popular gay bars, the Stonewall Inn. Over the next six days, people in the LGBTQ+ community fought back in what has become known as the Stonewall Uprising.

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Want an adventure? Give fostering a go | Letters

The Guardian

As a foster carer for teenagers for several years, Eileen Flinter encourages others to take up the challenge Having read the stories in your “ How I returned from rock bottom ” series and your report on children’s social care ( 29 December ), can I encourage anyone looking for an adventure or challenge in 2022 to consider fostering or mentoring teenagers for a while?

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Why Family Caregivers Need Help Too

Hospice Chaplaincy

By Nancy Dexter According to an article by the American Psychological Association, 66.6% of caregivers for older adults experience adverse symptoms for Continue Reading.

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Adding Court Mandated Services to your Practice – Interview

Counselor Toolbox podcast

Adding Court Mandated Services to your Practice – Interview Sponsored by: The Diversion Center Adding Court Mandated Services to your Practice – Interview Sponsored by: The Diversion Center

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The value and cost of at-home care for older people | Letters

The Guardian

Readers respond to an article by Simon Hattenstone about finding the right care arrangements for his 93-year-old mother Simon Hattenstone’s article ( I didn’t want anyone else to look after Mum – until I realised what she wanted, 27 December ) almost exactly mirrors my mother’s story. Aged 94, frail but still living independently in a small cottage in London, she fell in late November and spent much of one night on the floor, in pain and disorientated.

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Tell us: how have you been affected by staff shortages in community care in England?

The Guardian

We would like to hear from people struggling to access care services outside of hospital amid rising Omicron cases in England Community care services have been hit by staff absences and increasing numbers of patients as Omicron cases have continued to rise in England. Community care, particularly nursing, could end up being rationed , the Royal College of Nursing has said.