Relias

AUGUST 22, 2022

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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Save the Social Worker

AUGUST 23, 2022

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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Famcare

AUGUST 24, 2022

We are quite surprised but pleased by our readers' enthusiastic response to our recent blog on forensic social work. Social workers and workers from other professions were so intrigued by the work that forensic social workers do within the criminal justice system that they asked if we would flesh out a little more the career details of the forensic social work specialty.

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Social Work With Adults

AUGUST 22, 2022

"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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Advertiser: Caseworthy

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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My Brains Not Broken

AUGUST 25, 2022

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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Community Care

AUGUST 26, 2022

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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Save the Social Worker

AUGUST 23, 2022

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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My Brains Not Broken

AUGUST 23, 2022

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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Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2022

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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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 24, 2022

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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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

? 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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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 25, 2022

As economic inequality grows unabated in the United States, policymakers are reaching for solutions to ensure the future of children born into low-income households. This is a quest that Brown School professor Michael Sherraden has been at for decades with notable success in the US and abroad. Most recently, researchers at the Center for Social Development at the Brown School welcomed the launch of CalKids , a state program designed to give newborns and eligible low-income public school students

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Community Care

AUGUST 25, 2022

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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The Guardian

AUGUST 24, 2022

Health expert says NHS needs money too and diverting promised £13bn is not a sustainable solution Politics live: latest updates Liz Truss would be “robbing Peter to pay Paul” if she diverted £13bn of funding for the NHS to deal with a Covid backlog in social care, experts have said. The Conservative leadership frontrunner told a hustings on Tuesday night that she would spend the £13bn earmarked for the NHS to catch up on delayed treatment after Covid on social care instead.

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Karen Zgoda

AUGUST 22, 2022

Read all about it! Here is the press release from my amazing employer, Villa Maria College : Book Cover. Karen Zgoda, LMSW, Director of the Care Center, has authored a new book. Entitled Active Learning Lessons, Activities, and Assignments for the Modern Social Work Educator , provides tools to seamlessly integrate innovative techniques into the classroom. .

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 22, 2022

The IASSW Task Force on the Global Standards (2020). The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), in collaboration with the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), has launched its latest iteration of the Global Standards for Social Work Education and Training. IASSW looks forward to working with schools of social work across the globe to implement these standards to achieve excellence in social work education, that is grounded in deep respect for cultural and reg

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Community Care

AUGUST 23, 2022

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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The Guardian

AUGUST 23, 2022

MPs tackling crisis of 165,000 staff vacancies hear of managers dreading Aldi opening nearby ‘as I know I will lose staff’ Half of care workers employed in independent care homes would earn more if they took an entry level job in a supermarket, according to new research into a staffing crisis that has left thousands of vulnerable people suffering inadequate care.

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Famcare

AUGUST 25, 2022

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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International Federation of Social Workers

AUGUST 23, 2022

IFSW is delighted to publish the findings of the international research project, ‘Beyond the Pandemic: Exploring Social Work Ethics and Values as a Contribution to a New Eco-social World’. This project, undertaken between March and July 2022, is a follow-on from an earlier online survey on ethical challenges for social workers during Covid-19 conducted in […].

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The New Social Worker

AUGUST 24, 2022

It may be time to examine clinical supervision from a social justice lens. From this standpoint and with renewed commitment to “meeting clients where they actually are,” we can fully reclaim our profession’s mission within the clinical arena.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 20, 2022

If domestic bills are climbing, so too are those of schools, sheltered housing and museums. We speak to the people grappling with the soaring costs of keeping vital services running this winter The faint worry lines under Oona Goldsworthy’s eyes tell their own story. It has been a gruelling few weeks at the helm of Brunelcare, a charity that provides sheltered housing to 1,400 people and runs seven care homes in Bristol and Somerset.

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Nnatasha Tracy

AUGUST 24, 2022

Successful corporate mental health speaker Mike Veny is this week's guest on Snap Out of It! The Mental Illness in the Workplace Podcast with Natasha Tracy. Mike is now a Certified Corporate Wellness Specialist®, but just five years ago, Mike was suffering from a mental health breakdown thanks to depression and anxiety. While now, Mike talks to corporations about mental wellness for their employees, only a few years ago, it was showing them, personally, what it was like when that isn't taken car

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International Federation of Social Workers

AUGUST 20, 2022

As our Community Social Work Centre team has formed, it has become clear that since the start of the invasion there is a very limited understanding of the current state of social and community support services within the district of Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine. To fill this gap, the local social workers’ team, in cooperation with IFSW, […].

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National Casa Gal

AUGUST 24, 2022

The NRAC members will provide perspective from the various scientific disciplines they represent. Read More. The post National CASA/GAL Association for Children appoints members to its National Research Advisory Council appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 20, 2022

Ministers asked for funding to cope with a rise in the number of visitors seeking shelter this winter Britain’s libraries and museums are preparing to act as warm havens for people unable to afford to heat their homes in the winter months. Ministers are being called on to provide urgent new funding so public buildings can cope with a surge in visitors during the coldest months.

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The New Social Worker

AUGUST 22, 2022

Is your field placement disappointing or just not what you expected? By shifting your mindset, you can find something unexpected that brings you one step closer to your true potential.

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International Federation of Social Workers

AUGUST 25, 2022

Time and date: Wednesday 31st August 2022 at 5pm CEST Speaker: Marta Cherubin – Italy Please join us for a meeting of New Social Workers from IFSW Europe. It is one of a series of webinars presented by New Social Workers from different European Countries. They will each lead one webinar where they share their own experience of being […].

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tanya Bulls, DSW, LCSW. Christine L. Limone, PhD, LCSW. Thurs, September 8, 2022. 2 pm – 4 pm. 2 CECs. $40 – UConn SSW Alumni and Current Field Instructors. $50 – All Others. Webinar link will be emailed when your registration is complete. School social workers don’t always receive discipline-specific clinical supervision in their school setting. The lack of supervision is inconsistent with known best practices of the social work profession.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 21, 2022

Anne Thompson says her husband’s experiences at a Harrogate home left her angry, bitter and in despair Staffing crisis leaves many English care home residents’ basic needs unmet “There is no joy in the air,” said Anne Thompson, describing the impact of the national care staff crisis on her husband’s Harrogate care home. “There’s no sense of companionship.

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Famcare

AUGUST 25, 2022

FAMCare, an innovative and creative, human services-focused. case management platform that is web-based, is different from others in the industry. Knowing the reasons that set it apart highlights the advantages it offers those individuals — the healthcare providers, caseworkers, foster care parents and countless others — who directly influence and care for the most vulnerable population in the country — children.

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International Federation of Social Workers

AUGUST 23, 2022

Note from the IFSW news editor: The following article and call for support has been written by Ana Radulescu, the IFSW European President and global Vice President. Ana has been the key facilitator of the Social Work Response in Ukraine since the Russian invasion. From February to July, this involved organising support systems for refugees […].

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Blurt It Out

AUGUST 24, 2022

Many of us find sleep tricky. Whether we’re too busy to go to bed on time, frequently lie awake until the early hours, or have a toddler who apparently thinks 3am is morning, sleep problems can be a real struggle. In fact, in 2020, the Mental Health Foundation found that 48% of adults and 66% of teens felt that poor sleep had negatively impacted their mental health.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 21, 2022

Vulnerable people left alone in rooms for 24 hours a day and denied showers for a week as number of vacancies grows to 165,000 ‘They don’t have time to talk’: residents feel impact of care staffing crisis Thousands of vulnerable people are suffering inadequate care as severe staffing shortages in previously good care homes push operators to break rules and put residents at risk.

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A Splintered Mind

AUGUST 24, 2022

This process may seem dull, but it works extremely well for me, especially since I'm dealing with Post-COVID brain fog. Writing slowly by hand is helping me sort out my thoughts. In this entry, I decided the fate of the second novel. It's nice to imagine that I can simultaneously write two novels while blogging weekly while juggling Great White sharks and chainsaws on a unicycle, but I have to be honest with myself.

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