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White Supremacist and My Anger

Gary Direnfeld

I posted about the Papal visit and hoping well for Indigenous Peoples on another Facebook page – a community page. It drew a racist comment in response to my use of the word genocide. The person wanted me to prove it. It was presented as a demand and insinuated I didn’t know what I was talking about. It felt provocative and bullying in style. I checked out the person’s own Facebook page.

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Taking Care of Our Mental Health During the Summertime

My Brains Not Broken

I don’t know about y’all, but I feel like this summer is flying by. Even though this is what happens almost every summer of my life, the strangeness of the summers of 2020 and 2021 have made this summer feel very foreign and unlike any other one I’ve experienced. It’s been years since I’ve been this busy, and expending that amount of social energy is taxing.

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The joy of Homeshare

Social Care

"Homeshare is a simple concept, it brings together people with a spare room with people who are happy to chat and lend a hand.". “It’s been life-changing having my homesharer living here, especially in the dark winter evenings. It really has made a positive change in my life having someone so kind and friendly around and knowing that I am not alone.

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Ep 8: Hiring and Managing People with Mental Illness — What You Need to Know

Nnatasha Tracy

This week, Snap Out of It! The Mental Illness in the Workplace Podcast with Natasha Tracy is talking to Gary Koplin , Founder, and President at HealthyPlace.com , a large consumer mental health site. Gary has a unique perspective as he specifically hires and manages people with mental illness. He's worked with people who have had disorders from social phobia to bipolar disorder, from depression to dissociative identity disorder, and everything in between.

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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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Parenting Teens – Accept and manage your role as consultant.

Gary Direnfeld

Parenting the infant, preschooler, school age child, the grown up is the boss. We set the rules, structure, expectations. While there may be some room for negotiation, ultimately it is the parent who determines what is eaten and when, bathing and bedtime and activities. All that changes come adolescence. While the parent likes to think themself in charge, the developing teen confronts those notions.

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I Am Not My Depression

My Brains Not Broken

There’s a phrase I see a lot when I am scrolling through social media or finding mental health resources on the Internet that always gets me thinking. The concept behind them all is that you (or I, or anyone) is “more than” their mental illness. So for instance, I am more than my depression; I am more than my anxiety; I deserve to be known for more than experiencing mental illness.

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Whitmer Signs Student Mental Health Apprenticeship Retention and Training Program Bill

Michigan Social Work

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed Michigan Senate Bill 1012 into law. The legislation provides for the creation of a Student Mental Health Apprenticeship Retention and Training grant program (SMART), paying graduate social work students $25 an hour for their field education in public schools settings. The legislation was supported by The School’s Joint Task Force on Stipends and the social work student campaign Payments for Placements in partnership with the Michigan Chapter of the National

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About that Religion….

Gary Direnfeld

Personally, I don’t subscribe to any organized religion. Indeed, I don’t even think about a god and I don’t fret about death particularly, even with what I went through recently. (I am not fond of pain.). I don’t pray whatsoever. I do not practice the faith in which I was raised although I do identify as Jewish from a cultural perspective as that was my upbringing.

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The middle-class white person’s guide to dealing with a child abuse allegation

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The doctor will report you now. That’s not what the recent article in the online publication Parent Map is called, of course. The actual title is “What do Do If You Are Mistakenly Accused of Child Abuse in a Hospital Emergency Room.” But the authors should have made clear the advice only applies if the “You” in that headline is a white, middle-class person.

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Private UK care homes’ profit margins soared in pandemic, research finds

The Guardian

Amid staffing crisis and warnings that system is ‘deeply flawed’ companies caring for elderly and disabled enjoyed financial success The UK’s biggest care home chains saw their profit margins jump by 18% on average during the pandemic, new research shows, while the highest paid director’s salary surged to £2.3m. Amid a social care staffing crisis, and warnings from medical leaders that the system is “deeply flawed” and in need of urgent reform, analysis seen by the Observer lays bare the financi

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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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What About Social Justice? Confronting Race-Based Trauma

The New Social Worker

As a social worker, you have a powerful toolkit of skills to confront practices leading to race-based trauma. Take an inventory of your self-awareness, workplace, and geographic location to determine what steps you can take to promote social justice.

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She Came in Loaded for Bear.

Gary Direnfeld

I was a teen at the time. Selling shoes. It was my part time job. The store was upscale, the shoes expensive, women’s and men’s. The store was located on the corner of an open air mall near Yonge and Finch, in Willowdale, Ontario. Murray’s Highgrade Footwear. It was late on a Saturday afternoon. It must have been towards November. It was getting dark outside.

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Watch the Interstate Licensing Compact Stakeholder July 26 Review Session

Social Work Blog

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), as part of an initiative to promote licensure portability for military spouses, in 2021 awarded a $500,000 grant for the development of an interstate licensure compact for social workers. The compact would give social workers to practice in two or more states, giving the profession much needed license mobility.

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International Exchange Webinar: IFSW Europe NEW SOCIAL WORKERS Project Friday 29th July 2022 at 5pm CEST

International Federation of Social Workers

International Exchange Webinar: IFSW Europe NEW SOCIAL WORKERS Project Maria Pérez Bandera – Spain Friday 29th July 2022 at 5pm CEST THIS REGISTRATION FORM 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 […].

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Brexit realism? The NHS? Some of the key issues ignored by Sunak and Truss

The Guardian

Tory leadership candidates have clashed bitterly but many pressing matters have been overlooked Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have clashed vehemently over tax and spending, immigration and the UK’s stance on China in their acrimonious battle to become prime minister – but have had little to say about many other pressing issues. Here are some largely overlooked key issues of the contest so far.

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Racist and I still Got the Sale

Gary Direnfeld

Then there was the time when a guy came into the store wanting rubber over-shoes. You don’t seem to see these much anymore. They were a black rubber boot that fit over the shoe with a zipper up the center. Great for rain or snow. I was 17 at the time and had been working in the shoe store part-time about a year. It was late in the day and the smell of alcohol was more than this guy’s perfume.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending July 26, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? The Columbia Journal of Race and Law is out with a second set of papers from the Strengthened Bonds symposium. I’ve only begun reading them, but I particularly want to call attention to this groundbreaking paper by Ashley Albert and Amy Mulzer. But read it only if you are ready to reconsider everything you think you know about adoption. ? NPR and The Marshall Project have a follow-up to their groundbreaking stories about family policing agencies swiping foster youth’s Social Security benefits.

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Theta connects CASA/GAL mission to London-based foundation

National Casa Gal

The BBRF board approved an initial “learning grant” to provide unrestricted funding to advance the work of National CASA/GAL’s mission, with the possibility of future support. Read More. The post Theta connects CASA/GAL mission to London-based foundation appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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Key information about adopting mother not shared before baby’s murder, report finds

The Guardian

Leiland-James Corkill might not have died had agencies collaborated better, investigation concludes Information about drinking, debts and mental health that could have prevented a baby boy being placed with an adopting mother who went on to murder him was not shared between agencies, an investigation has concluded. It also found that when the mother told social workers she was struggling to bond with the child, not enough support for the family was put in place.

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Getting Through Recovery with Four Tips

Gary Direnfeld

Six weeks ago I had open heart bypass surgery. Although I keep referring to it as a triple bypass, while on the table, it turned into a quadruple. It doesn’t really matter to me one way or the other. There was also an event during surgery. The best guess is that an air bubble entered the heart giving rise to a minor heart attack while on the table.

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Book Review: Things I Got Wrong So You Don’t Have To

The New Social Worker

Book review of Things I Got Wrong So You Don’t Have To: 48 Lessons To Banish Burnout and Avoid Anxiety for Those Who Put Others First, by Pooky Knightsmith, reviewed by Rhonda Peterson Dealey

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House Passes Bill Extending Telehealth Reimbursement

CAPC

Bill moves to senate before it is passed into law.

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Would-be Tory leaders aren’t facing up to dire state of the NHS | Polly Toynbee

The Guardian

Sunak and Truss have little to say to voters about the colossal staff shortages revealed in a new Commons report The sound and fury of the squalid scramble to lead the nasty party ignores all the real crises. The burning planet is nowhere on the agenda, bar locking up climate protesters. As the pay crunch heads for almighty strikes due to the public sector falling even further behind private pay, their remedies are agency strike-breakers and tax cuts that reward better-off people most.

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RECOGNISING AND COPING WITH PERINATAL DEPRESSION

Blurt It Out

Having a baby can be a wonderful, scary, overwhelming, exciting, joyous, and anxious time. Every emotion can come our way (often multiple times a day). Unfortunately, for some, the overriding emotion we feel is depression. Perinatal depression can be really tough to cope with. WHAT DOES PERINATAL MEAN? Perinatal means before, and after birth; antenatal and postnatal.

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Preventing Teen Suicide: Tips for Parents & Educators

Famcare

For young people, suicide is the third most common cause of death. Suicide can be avoided, though. Young people who are thinking about suicide usually show indicators of despair. Knowing about these symptoms can help friends, family, and educators act promptly and get the aid they require. Numerous social care providers are making an effort to deal with teen mental health difficulties and raise awareness that could be the difference between life and death.

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Sobriety Chat: Hayley

Living Sober

Hayley Holt is a TV presenter, former professional snowboarder and ballroom dancer, partner, new mother. and she is sober. Click on the video or audio below to hear my Sobriety Chat with Hayley. She talks about her former life as a work-hard-party-hard gal, being disconnected from her authentic self, learning how to sit with uncomfortable feelings and being OK with […] Sobriety Chat: Hayley was first posted on July 27, 2022 at 5:18 pm. ©2019 " Living Sober " Use of this feed i

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A Project is Never Just a Project

Nicole Clark Consulting

I’m partnering with a health policy research firm on a multiyear contract to support a philanthropic foundation’s work in increasing its ability to thoughtfully invest in community-driven birth equity solutions. A month ago, while administering a pre-assessment in preparation for a staff training, my project partners and I noticed how staff were responding to the [.].

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Surviving Racism in Academia - Maxine Davis, MSW, MBA, PhD

Doin' The Work

Episode 55 Guest: Maxine Davis, MSW, MBA, PhD 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 of Houston.

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World Refugee Status Our Annual Report

Famcare

Client agencies that labor largely out of public view on behalf of the world's refugees annually share stats with this blog that astound us every year. Americans live in a civilization ordered by the rule of law. Unless we take the time to look outside our society, we rarely notice the civil disorder that plaques millions of our fellow humans.

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Sobriety Chat: Hayley

Living Sober

Hayley Holt is a TV presenter, former professional snowboarder and ballroom dancer, partner, new mother. and she is sober. Click on the video or audio below to hear my Sobriety Chat with Hayley. She talks about her former life as a work-hard-party-hard gal, being disconnected from her authentic self, learning how to sit with uncomfortable feelings and being OK with […].

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do computers compute? do calculators calculate?

Clinical Philosophy

The question answers itself. a pedant may think. Well, of course. If what it is to compute is to enable us to answer our computational questions without ourselves having to perform the computation, then yes, they do. But in themselves? Is there a fact of the matter, independent of our relationship with the device itself, a fact about the inner workings of a computer, that make it apt to say of it that it is right now computing this rather than another sum?

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Dillon Cathro Elected to U-M Police Department Oversight Committee

Michigan Social Work

DEI Program Manager Dillon Cathro has been elected to the U-M Police Department Oversight Committee, which receives and makes recommendations regarding grievances against any police officers deputized by the university. “Social Workers have a responsibility to tackle difficult issues that impact our most vulnerable and marginalized community members, both on and off campus, and police conduct is one such issue,” said Cathro.

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CASA of Sedgwick County volunteer reunites teen with siblings

National Casa Gal

Angela*, a CASA volunteer from CASA of Sedgwick County located in Wichita, KS, was appointed to advocate for Courtney*, a 13-year-old female who had been in the foster care system for 2.5 years. Read More. The post CASA of Sedgwick County volunteer reunites teen with siblings appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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Why Social Workers Are Vulnerable to Privacy Breaches and What You Can Do About It

Famcare

More work is being done online in this digital age, which raises the danger of data theft and privacy violations. When information is accessed or disclosed without authority, privacy violations occur. Given that the majority of NGO's rely on donations and regularly need to analyze and preserve financial records, any NGO may be at danger of data theft or breach.

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Eddie Adams obituary

The Guardian

In the late 1950s a deep strain of community activism took root in North Kensington, west London. Many of the grassroots campaigns there over the next six decades – including notable battles against racism and for better housing – could be mapped through the life of Eddie Adams, who has died aged 85. Eddie , whom I first met while doing research for a TV documentary, was born in London, the son of an Italian mother, Maria Agostinelli.