Famcare
MARCH 16, 2023
Employee burnout exists, and according to a recent survey, 23% of full-time workers in the United States experience burnout the majority of the time during the work week. So, if you're a nonprofit leader and you notice that your case workers aren't as enthusiastic as they used to be or are falling behind in their daily tasks, it may be time to look into whether job burnout could be the issue.
The New Social Worker
MARCH 13, 2023
Social workers shouldn’t “need” to have a side hustle to make a living wage. Still, a side gig can provide extra income to reach your financial goals. An additional job can also be a great way to gain new skills, knowledge, and experience.
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My Brains Not Broken
MARCH 14, 2023
I wish it weren’t true, but I’m extremely familiar with self-stigma. I’ve written about it before; in fact, I tried to break it down in a blog post last year. But as much as I’ve learned about how self-stigma exists in the world, I’m a whole different story. I have so much more to learn about how self-stigma exists within myself.
Community Care
MARCH 15, 2023
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced increased tax relief for foster and shared lives carers, improved support for care leavers and enhanced help for disabled people to enter the workplace, in his Spring Budget today. However, social care leaders have criticised the lack of funding for core services for the coming years, while the statement also did not provide further detail about public sector pay settlements for 2023-24.
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Social Work Futures
MARCH 15, 2023
This is part of a monthly series of posts to share a few things I run across regarding the future of social work (and beyond). For people involved in foresight practice, the practice of scanning, organizing and creatively interpreting “signals of change” in the ecosystem is a primary and foundational part of the work. This blog is a place where I’m doing that “out loud” and in public to both share what I’m finding, and encouraging readers to do the same.
Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 13, 2023
I know. It eases the pain. It masks the multitude of hurts. Away you go to another place. You get by. However, it catches up with you. It’s unsustainable. Further the fall. Circling. Circling. Catch a branch. Hold on. Tight is your grasp but weak your resolve. You need support. Another to hold you. Hold you. Therein some strength. Borrow their resolve.
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Community Care
MARCH 16, 2023
The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has urged its members, and other social workers, not to work for a new Home Office agency established to assess the ages of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people. Its chief executive, Ruth Allen, said taking a job with the Home Office’s National Age Assessment Board (NAAB) was a “risk to professional objectivity and could compromise the judgment of social workers”, in the light of government rhetoric about adult asylum seeke
Save the Social Worker
MARCH 13, 2023
Money is the one thing we don’t often talk about when we are in social work. You may think that because you’ve joined the non profit sector, you can’t talk about money. And you can’t think about money. Because you’re trying to do good, and these two things simply don’t square together. Well, well. I’m going to talk about it. After 2 years being a social worker in a Family Service Centre (FSC) in Singapore, earning all of $3600 per month, before having a pay bump to $3690 in my second year (which
Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 13, 2023
The narcissist will not only spread lies about their ex, they will tell people how their ex will deny those lies if confronted about them. Think about that. It means that the ex who seeks to defend themselves against those lies may inadvertently wind up confirming what the narcissist said in the mind of the person the ex is trying to convince otherwise.
The Guardian
MARCH 17, 2023
Ministers set to halve the £500m promised to invest in staffing of sector with more than 165,000 vacancies, report says Politics live - latest updates Ministers are poised to cut £250m from investment in the social care workforce in England, it has been reported, in a move that providers say could set back care “for years to come”. With more than 165,000 care worker jobs vacant, and low pay driving staff to quit for better wages in retail and hospitality, care providers and councils have been cl
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.
Community Care
MARCH 16, 2023
A quarter of those who quit the social work register in England last year had been on it for less than a year, Social Work England has revealed. Its Social Work in England: state of the nation 2023 study, published last week, showed that 24.1% of the 5,335 social workers who left the register in the year to 30 November 2022 had been continuously registered for less than a year.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 12, 2023
You probably remember the story: White adoptive parents of six black children drive themselves and the children off a cliff, killing them all. That may be all you remember, and perhaps wondering what would drive such a noble couple to such despair. After all, they rescued these children from their terrible parents, didn’t they? That was the story most reporters told, without asking any tough questions.
Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 13, 2023
The lad’s behavior was a mess when we first got together several months ago. Meltdowns, aggression, talking back. There was nothing in the history to suggest anything biological. There was the issue of the parental separation, and although not fully on the same page, at least they were close in terms of parenting. My involvement, however, was with the one parent and their partner, the stepparent.
MQ Mental Health
MARCH 16, 2023
CW: This post references suicide The MQ Foundation is very proud to be working with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to support the work of new MQ Fellow and researcher Dr. Marisa Marraccini from the University of North Carolina. We caught up with Marisa to ask her nine questions about her life and work. What made you want to work in suicide/mental health research?
Community Care
MARCH 13, 2023
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The number of overseas social workers applying to work in England annually has risen almost threefold in the past three years, Social Work England has reported. While 611 practitioners from abroad applied to register in England from 1 December 2019 to 30 November 2020, 1,684 did in the 2021-22 registration year, the regulator said in its State of the nation 2023 report , published last we
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 15, 2023
Self-proclaimed "race realist" law professor Amy Wax having a friendly chat with election denier Tucker Carlson Prof. Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania Law School is quite a piece of work. The school’s Dean, Theodore Ruger, has written a letter urging the University to consider imposing a “major sanction” against the self-proclaimed “race realist.
Famcare
MARCH 16, 2023
While doing some spring cleaning on the FAMCare Blog, I stumbled across this brief but excellent blog article from our very own Danielle Ritacco from March 2017. Dr. Anna Scheyett, PhD , is the speaker, and this is her TED Talk about social workers. Dr. Scheyett's research, which she conducts as a professor at The University of Georgia, has focused on the needs of vulnerable populations.
Social Care
MARCH 15, 2023
"Understanding the ways in which employers, educators and government can best support young carers is hugely important." [Image copyright Carers Trust] Today is Young Carers Action Day I'm Andy McGowan, tthe Policy and Practice Manager for Young Carers and Young Adult Carers at Carers Trust , a UK charity working to transform the lives of unpaid carers.
Community Care
MARCH 17, 2023
The government’s Illegal Migration Bill has passed its first parliamentary hurdle as the Children’s Commissioner for England issued a stark warning about its impact on vulnerable children seeking refuge in the UK. The bill, which would effectively ban anyone who comes to the UK without leave to enter or remain from claiming asylum – in most cases regardless of human rights or modern slavery claims – passed its second reading in the House of Commons on Monday, by 312 votes
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 14, 2023
● I’ll begin by repeating my favorite paragraph among all the rave reviews for Roxanna Asgarian’s book, We Were Once a Family. This is from The New York Times: "[Asgarian] knows that abolishing #fostercare as it’s currently practiced might sound not only undesirable but almost inconceivable to many people — myself among them, at least before the book unsettled some of my assumptions.
MQ Mental Health
MARCH 13, 2023
MQ Mental Health Research is today announcing an investment of £2.2 million into seven new research projects, through the prestigious MQ Fellowships programme. These new MQ Fellows will be conducting research into how serious mental illnesses and physical illnesses can combine to cause premature death. Vital research that will help to save lives in the future, and that would not be possible without donations from the public.
Nnatasha Tracy
MARCH 16, 2023
Staying in an active addiction is a choice. I know that's a controversial statement, but I believe it to be true. This is not to suggest that addiction itself is a choice -- it isn't -- addiction itself can be considered a mental illness, and an illness is never a choice. That said, when a person continues in their addiction, that is a choice. I wish people would acknowledge that.
Relias
MARCH 13, 2023
Occupational wellness is a key ingredient to a healthy, happy, and balanced life — no matter one’s line of work. When it comes to direct support professionals (DSPs) and other positions focused on care where burnout is prevalent, occupational wellness is even more important. Although achieving occupational wellness is often discussed from the perspective of the employee, there’s actually quite a bit that organizations can do to promote it.
The New Social Worker
MARCH 16, 2023
Based on a true story, Women Talking offers an “imagined response” to the drugging and rape of women and girls in a cult-like religious colony. SaraKay offers commentary and questions for reflection and discussion.
International Federation of Social Workers
MARCH 16, 2023
“Thousands of children and young people around the Commonwealth help look after a relative with a disability, illness, mental health condition, or drug or alcohol addiction”, said Commonwealth Young Carer […]
The Guardian
MARCH 15, 2023
Charities and disability campaigners say chancellor’s budget proposals are more ‘stick than carrot’ Hunt gives top 1% a pension bonus, ignores public services ‘The pain was so bad but the assessors didn’t believe me’ Up to 1 million people claiming incapacity benefits could lose hundreds of pounds a month as a result of plans outlined in the budget to push ahead with the “biggest reforms to the welfare system in a decade,” experts have said.
MQ Mental Health
MARCH 16, 2023
It’s the start of a new season with spring sprung and a new series of Open Minds, MQ’s podcast where we speak to researchers, celebrities and people with lived experience of mental illness about the latest progress in mental health research. In our first episode, Professor Rory and MQ’s Craig Perryman were delighted to welcome Dr Anne Duffy to join them.
Nicole Clark Consulting
MARCH 15, 2023
Try this out and let me know how it goes for you. I was a panelist on a recent webinar, discussing community and structural interventions to support maternal health equity. During the conversation, I shared an evaluation struggle: Evaluation is used to meet funder expectations, instead of serving as a learning tool for [.] The post Try This: Move Away from Funder-Driven Evaluation appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.
The New Social Worker
MARCH 15, 2023
The New Social Worker reviews the updated 2023 edition of Help for the Helper, a book by Babette Rothschild.
The Guardian
MARCH 16, 2023
From longer waiting lists to discouraging nursing applicants, the costs are huge – for patients and the service itself When the mighty Royal College of Nursing walked out on its first ever national strike, there was never a doubt that the government would fold and offer a pay increase to NHS staff. Nurses could never be conveniently branded as “militants”, though at first, pathetically, the Tories tried it; nor did that epithet stick to the ambulance staff, physiotherapists and the rest who went
CAPC
MARCH 15, 2023
A breakdown of CAPC’s third John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge.
MQ Mental Health
MARCH 16, 2023
Recently, a systematic review and meta-analysis was published in The British Medical Journal , which looked at mental health symptoms before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. This review examined 137 published studies, predominantly from rich countries in Europe and Asia, that measured psychological distress in the general population before, during and after the COVID pandemic.
Living Sober
MARCH 17, 2023
ELEVEN YEARS AGO. It’s a Monday afternoon. Nothing out of the ordinary is going on. My husband will be taking our two eldest sons to their Scouts meeting shortly, I’m staying home with our baby. Outwardly there is nothing wrong with this day at all. It is a calm, ordinary Monday in our busy but functional and love-filled house. However […] The last night I drank was first posted on March 18, 2023 at 2:40 pm. ©2019 " Living Sober " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercia
The Guardian
MARCH 15, 2023
Home Office is recruiting them for national assessment board, taking decision away from local authorities The professional body for social workers has urged its members not to work with the Home Office to assess the ages of asylum seekers, saying that political pressures could undermine their professional judgment. The Home Office is recruiting social workers to join the National Age Assessment Board (NAAB), which was set up under the Nationality and Borders Act to take responsibility for determ
Social Work Blog
MARCH 17, 2023
IFSW’s North American Regional International Conference, Tuesday, March 28, 2023 (Click image to register) Presented by: Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW), the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) Conference Hosts and Moderators: Joan Davis-Whelan, President, CASW Mildred “Mit” C.
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