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Council takes children’s services back from country’s first trust

Community Care

England’s first independent children’s trust is to close with the council taking services back in-house. Doncaster Children’s Services Trust (DCST), set up in 2014, is transferring provision back to the council after the organisations agreed the current model was hindering progress and as Ofsted downgraded services from ‘good’ to ‘requires improvement’ , with leadership rated inadequate.

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Managing Self-Awareness and Mental Health

My Brains Not Broken

Over the years, my relationship with therapy has ebbed and flowed. I’ve gone from being skeptical about it to going twice a week and everywhere in between. The common thread is that I’ve never been with one therapist long enough to making any long-term changes – until now. And now that I’m noticing some things about myself and how mental health affects my life, I’m facing a new challenge.

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Children and Domestic Violence. They Know.

Gary Direnfeld

Trigger warning. This post addresses domestic violence. ?————— One eight-year-old boy explained to me that he would hide a walkie-talkie under the kitchen table to listen in on his parents’ fights so he would know when to come downstairs to complain of a tummyache so they’d stop fighting. A nine-year-old girl told me how she would sit out of sight at the top of the stairs to listen for parents fighting to know when to gather her two younger siblings to h

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Stay Ready: Attending to Implicit Bias in Health Care

CAPC

A call for all in health care to become aware of unconscious, unintentional responses—or implicit biases—in order to provide the best care for patients and families.

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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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Social work recruitment difficulties undermining practice at struggling council

Community Care

“Significant” difficulties recruiting social workers are undermining practice and thwarting improvements at an ‘inadequate’ local authority, Ofsted has found. In a since rating the authority as inadequate in 2019 , inspectors found its recruitment problems had negatively affected the services its duty teams offered to children. Inspectors reported that some children were being left in situations of unknown risk with “too many” experiencing “unnecessary drift and delay” in having their needs ass

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A Breath of Fresh Air

My Brains Not Broken

Last week I was feeling a little under the weather , which l ed me to writing about the perfectionism that it brought out in me. After several days of not feeling so hot, I woke up yesterday morning feeling somewhat healthy for the first time in a while. It was, as the saying goes, a breath of fresh air – not only physically, but mentally as well.

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The Time is Right for Advocating Alongside Trans and Gender Nonconforming Communities

The New Social Worker

Multiple U.S. states have introduced policies that are harmful to our trans and gender nonconforming communities. These communities are advocating for social justice. What will you, as a social worker, do today to advocate alongside them?

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DfE intervenes in council following ‘inadequate’ children’s services verdict

Community Care

The Department for Education (DfE) has intervened in a council’s children’s services on the back of an ‘inadequate’ verdict from Ofsted. Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole (BCP) is now subject to the direction and oversight of DfE-appointed improvement adviser John Coughlan, under a statutory direction issued by the department this week.

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Retreat When a Vacation is Not Enough

R.E.A.L. Social Workers

The World is Going Bonkers. The world is going bonkers, and it may feel like you are too. Stress is compounding daily. We are bombarded with negative news, messages and images that increase stress and anxiety. So, how can we Reset? The answer is Retreat. In a recent episode of “Stress Talk” Live with Marcyline we kicked off the month with a discussion about the benefits of planned retreats.

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Family Lawyer – Be Mindful of Your Influence.

Gary Direnfeld

My open letter to family law lawyers… ————— Dear Family Law Lawyer. Please be mindful in the pursuit of your client’s wishes. In so doing, please remind yourself and client that conflict itself is predictive of poor child outcomes. That children raised with parental tension and conflict are more apt to have issues of mental health, behavior and academic performance.

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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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Mum dedicated her life to protecting others. In Australia’s aged care system, she received no such sanctuary

The Guardian

My mother picked a particularly inhumane epoch in Australian politics to get sick. When it comes to aged care, something has to give Get our free news app ; get our morning email briefing In 2013, my mum Lenore was diagnosed with a rare neurodegenerative illness. This sickness – a sadistic killer – was resolutely incurable. “It’s the worst-case scenario,” said the neurologist, who had a model of a human brain on his desk.

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£5m boost for school social work projects

Community Care

Projects testing the impact of social work support for schools have received a £5m boost, extending their lifespan until the summer. The schemes, which place social workers in schools and provide school designated safeguarding leads (DSLs) with social work supervision, respectively, were due to end last month. But the Department for Education has provided £4.79m in additional funding for What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) to extend the projects, and their evaluations, until Augu

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ACE 101: Physical Abuse in Childhood

Stop Abuse Campaign

← The Show Must Go On? An Abuse Survivor’s Take on Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock. Physical abuse against children causes lifelong harm. We know that physical abuse can be prevented, and it’s crucial that we dedicate resources to prevention. To do that, it’s important to learn about it and its lifelong consequences, so we have a better understanding of why it’s so critical that we dedicate resources to prevention.

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Separated Parents: Your Distress May Still Impact Your Kids.

Gary Direnfeld

Children look up and recognize they are the product of both parents. I am half this one and half that one. What does it say to a child then if the one parent then runs down the other to the child? How does the child experience this? Do they hear something just as a reflection of the disparaged parent or do they see that as something said of themselves too, being half that other parent?

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Conversations on Social Work Careers: Interview With Dr. Octavious Bishop on Social Work in Sports

The New Social Worker

Your Social Work Career Coach Jennifer Luna interviews Dr. Octavious Bishop on social work in sports, inclusion, entrepreneurship, and more! He shares his experience and views on working with student athletes and working at “eye level.

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Social workers ‘pivotal’ to success of direct payments but need training to build confidence, report finds

Community Care

Social workers are “pivotal” to the success of direct payments but need improved training to build their skills and confidence. That was one of the key messages from a report from Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) designed to help councils boost the number of direct payments and the experience people have of using them, in the face of a year-on-year decline in take-up.

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WRES stories: the race for equality is on

Social Care

Multiple perspectives from four dedicated Hertfordshire County Council colleagues, fully invested in the progress, aims and ambitions of the social care workplace race equality standard (SCWRES). Liz Fergus, Diversity and Inclusion Project Manager. I started my role as Adult Care Services (ACS) Project Manager for Diversity and Inclusion as we were applying to be one of the first SCWRES sites.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 12, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? While discussing her new book, Torn Apart , on public radio’s The Takeaway , Dorothy Roberts made host Melissa Harris-Perry gasp. Want to hear it? And see also this story in Jezebel. ? Thanks to Greg Abbott, affluent white people are discovering that even “CPS-lite” is enormously traumatic for children and families. As I note in this column for The Imprint , for Black, Brown, Native and poor white families it’s a whole lot worse. ?

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Sister Professions: Tips for Social Workers To Build a Thriving Partnership With Your Community Library

The New Social Worker

As library social work grows, it is vital to dispel the myth that social workers or librarians must be embedded in the same organization to accomplish desired outcomes. Although a viable choice, much can be done through project-based collaboration.

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Ukraine refugee payments should not count for care charges, says government

Community Care

People who take Ukrainian refugees into their homes should not have the money they receive for doing so counted for the purposes of care charges, the government has said. In guidance issued yesterday, the Department of Health and Social Care said councils should disregard the £350 a month paid to sponsors under the Homes for Ukraine programme when assessing their resources for charging purposes.

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ASWB Exam Prep: Suicide

Therapist Development Center

Today’s topic is one near and dear to us here at TDC-suicide. If you haven’t already heard, I’m excited to share with you that Amanda Rowan’s incomparable 6 hour suicide training is here. On the Edge of Life: Introduction … Continued. The post ASWB Exam Prep: Suicide appeared first on Therapist Development Center Blog.

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Home aged care staff at ‘breaking point’, as most miss out on Coalition’s $800 bonus

The Guardian

Australia’s home aged care providers facing ‘abysmal’ turnover rates as rising stress and poor pay take their toll Get our free news app ; get our morning email briefing The nation’s largest home care provider says its aged care workers are at “breaking point” and are only receiving a fraction of the Coalition’s promised $800 bonus due to flaws with the scheme’s design.

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The Time is Right for Advocating Alongside Trans and Gender Nonconforming Communities

The New Social Worker

Multiple U.S. states have introduced policies that are harmful to our trans and gender nonconforming communities. These communities are advocating for social justice. What will you, as a social worker, do today to advocate alongside them?

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AHA's Circle of Life Award Application Period Open

CAPC

Part one of Circle of Life Award application due by May 31, 2022.

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Luke Shaefer Selected for the President’s Award for Public Impact

Michigan Social Work

Professor Luke Shaefer has received the 2021 U-M President’s Award for Public Impact. This award honors individuals whose research and expertise tangibly address a major public-sector challenge. Shaefer is a leading scholar of contemporary American social welfare policy and the inaugural director of U-M’s Poverty Solutions. He is co-author of the acclaimed book, “$2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America,” which helped lay the groundwork for current anti-poverty legislative efforts, includin

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Covid has shown flexible working is a benefit only for the privileged few | Sonia Sodha

The Guardian

A pilot of four-day weeks is unlikely to bear fruit for low-paid staff with little power to negotiate terms It feels strange now to recall that two years ago we had just entered a three-month stretch of government-enforced hermithood as the battle with Covid was joined. I lived alone, forbidden from spending time with anyone else, so my social life consisted of Saturday nights in front of my laptop doing a virtual pub quiz.

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Poetry: When Social Workers Lobby in COVID-y Times of Injustice

The New Social Worker

When Social Workers Lobby in COVID-y Times of Injustice, a poem written by Susan Mankita, LCSW, inspired by the NASW 2021 Social Work Month theme “Social Workers are Essential.

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Clinical Philosophy

I don't know about you, but the reason I often make notes after psychotherapy sessions is because I need aides-memoires. I've about 18 patients - in my private psychotherapy practice - at any one time; most of them attend just once a week. And sometimes they'll say something, or I'll think of something during or after the session, that I want to make sure I hold onto for later lest it should then prove relevant.

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Prepare To Be Alcohol Free (book excerpt)

Living Sober

The lovely Jean McCarthy has written another book, and we are so fortunate she is sharing an excerpt with us here at Living Sober! Jean is the author of the UnPickled blog and host of The Bubble Hour podcast. She shared her Sober Story with us here. In her new book, "Prepare To Be Alcohol Free" Jean shares all the […]. The post Prepare To Be Alcohol Free (book excerpt) first appeared on Living Sober.

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How Can Technology Help Nonprofits Increase Productivity and Reach?

Famcare

As a result of the pandemic's mounting food and medical shortages , the role of nonprofit organizations has grown more important than ever. The pandemic has also elevated the use of technology in charitable organizations. Technological techniques are required to increase productivity, provide caseworkers with the resources they need to manage and support the vulnerable populations they serve, and to reach out to the ever-important funders.

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Resources related to older persons in humanitarian action and forced migration

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Resources related to older persons in humanitarian action and forced migration. Here are documents address working with older persons who are displaced or in situations of humanitarian assistance in emergencies. One is from the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) and the other was developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, a UN General Assembly-created mechanism for inter-agency coordination in humanitarian assistance.

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Back on the Hill for Dinner with Karen Bass

Beyond Advocacy

I was back on Capitol Hill Tuesday, April 5, for the first time in two years. My last visit to the Hill was CRISP’s Social Work Day on the Hill reception in the Rayburn Building in March 2020. We cancelled Student Advocacy Day scheduled for the next day as the House and Senate would go into hiatus until the Covid-19 pandemic abated. We are still waiting.

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Do you fear dying?

Social Work Blog

A hospice nurse visits an elderly man. Getty Images. Brittney Chesworth. While most people don’t like the idea of death, they are able to accept to some degree that they are going to die one day. For some, however, the fear of death leads to a host of worries about anything that could potentially end their lives, says NASW member Brittney Chesworth, PhD.

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Alzheimer's.The Suffering Behind the Suffering

Famcare

In the 2004 film, The Notebook , James Garner watches Gina Rowlands, the love of his life, slip away into the isolation of Alzheimer's disease. Garner's character reflects as Gina Rowlands stares off into the space of her isolated mind: "The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be.

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Resources of World Social Work Day at the UN-Geneva

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Resources of World Social Work Day at the UN-Geneva. We hope you participated in the online edition of the World Social Work Day at the UN-Geneva, on March 16. You can find the speeches, presentations and podcasts of the different sessions by clicking HERE.

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