Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Looked-after children are being denied their right to a family because of councils’ lack of data on potential overseas placements and “stretched” social workers’ difficulties in exploring them, a charity has warned. Children and Families Across Borders (CFAB) found that UK local authorities explored the possibility of reuniting just 233 children in care with family members in a different country in 2018-20, with an “extremely low”112 being placed.

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Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It can be so confusing when statistically, almost everyone has parents who love them and puts them first and you have a parent whose needs supercede your own. Between the notion that all parents are loving and the child’s need to be accepted and loved, having a parent who does otherwise is befuddling. The child, whether a youngster, teen or adult remains in a struggle seeking to protect themselves from the demands of such a parent whilst still clinging to the need and hope to be appropriat

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My Brains Not Broken

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Sometimes, anxiety is like an itch you can’t scratch. You know it’s there – you can sense it, feel it, even acknowledge it if you’re able – but you feel helpless to do anything about it. I’ve experienced this feeling a few times here and there during the past week, which is what I want to talk about today. There are times when I can accurately describe how anxious I’m feeling to someone, and there are times when I can’t even get close.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

As many of you may already know, simulations are increasingly being incorporated into social work education in various ways (online, in-person, virtual or augmented reality, large-scale, standardized patient, OSCE (Objective structured clinical exams), formative assessment, etc.). In addition, simulations often cover a range of topics such as child welfare home visits, assessment skills, and interprofessional teamwork.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The experiences of most children in need are not given sufficient priority by North Somerset Council, while those of some are “secondary” to their parents’, Ofsted has warned. While inspectors found no children at risk of immediate harm, they said some were experiencing “repeated patterns of harm” because of the council’s failure to escalate cases promptly to pre-proceedings when their situations did not improve.

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Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Like so many other meetings, this was a separated person terrified and intimidated by an abusive former partner. The person’s main source of information about their position and responsibilities was the former abusive partner. The separated person was being exploited and was fearful to rock the boat. Sometimes what is therapeutic is not dwelling on how the person in this situation feels.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Scarlet Number: Allegheny County (metropolitan Pittsburgh) has been trying to slap a "risk score" on every child at birth. The score could haunt them their entire lives. In Allegheny County, Pa., even the county’s hand-picked ethics reviewers had reservations about the county’s Orwellian “Hello Baby” algorithm. A key feature of the program flunked one reviewer’s ethics test.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Social workers at Bradford council felt uninvolved and “done to” in its efforts to improve since an inadequate rating in 2018, the authority’s government-appointed commissioner has said. In a report , which recommended the council lose control of its children’s services after failing to improve swiftly enough, commissioner Steve Walker said some experienced practitioners felt performance standards introduced by senior managers undermined their professional autonomy.

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Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

That childhood anxiety. As you ask the many questions seeking an answer as to why from the child, you may inadvertently be ramping up anxiety for you both. Anxiety, as a disorder, is about feelings betraying the mind as the feelings are either disproportionate to the triggering event or an independent experience. Seeking to know why or even what from the child is very often unanswerable.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Food Insecurity: Youth from the grassroots speak out in the context of COVID 19 crisis. Wednesday, February 16, 2022. 10:00 am 11:30 am (EST). Panellists. • Augustine Kaheeru Bahemuka Human Rights Specialist, UNAMI. • Alexandra Mustafá Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. International. Associatio n of Schools of Social Work IASSW). • Miroslav Budimir , University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. • Videos from youth in Brazil, Indonesia, Kenya. • Concluding remarks Dr.

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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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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Posted January 28, 2022, and revised February 10, 2022. Icon of two adults, facing each other and touching hands. One is sitting in a wheelchair. This post updates information provided in a Social Work Blog post of December 17, 2021. The January 28, 2022, post was revised on February 10, 2022, to reflect changes since publication. Following its November 12 release of guidance for nursing home visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic, CMS released three versions of frequently asked questions (FAQs

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Stoke-on-Trent council is confident of improving on its inadequate rating after Ofsted hailed its “tenacious” recruitment of social workers and “discernible progress” since its damning 2019 inspection. In a recent visit focused on the council’s front door, inspectors praised its recruitment of 77 social workers since March 2021, cutting its number of vacancies and use of agency staff by over 50%.

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Nnatasha Tracy

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I have been told that I trigger people with my writing and speaking. And let's make something clear: that is never my intent. I never stand up in front of people or sit behind the keyboard and think about how to trigger someone. In fact, I soften my language quite frequently so people aren't triggered. Nonetheless, people say I trigger them. Well, this is incorrect.

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Sober Courage

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A year sounds like a very long time to be in rehab, but that’s exactly what I did last year. My battle with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) had reached its peak and the fight became a full blown war. Why is it so hard to stay sober? I’ve done it before, but ever since I … Continue reading The Year I Spent In Rehab.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Reaching nutritionally vulnerable social groups: the quest for multifaceted policy response. Online Side event. 9 February 2022, 8:30-9:45 am EST. Co-organized by The International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW), Korea National Council on Social Welfare (SSN), The International Association of the Schools of Social Work (IASSW), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

People with less wealth and in poorer regions will have significantly reduced protection against “catastrophic” care costs due to a government change to the way the cap on care costs will work, an analysis has found. The proposed government amendment to the Care Act 2014 would would mean that only client contributions to personal care costs – not the full bill – would count towards the £86,000 cap for those receiving means-tested council support.

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The New Social Worker

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

How do I even get started? What are the pros and cons? If you have had these and other questions about international social work, tune in to this conversation with Dean Tanya Voss, MSSW, on the world of international social work.

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Ultimate Youth Worker

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast, “Thinking Critically About Youth Work: Part Two”, Aaron continues to speak with Dr. Brian Belton about the need for youth workers to be critically reflective about who we are as professionals. Taking our conversation up to the next level we speak about the need for supervision to help youth workers become more critically reflective.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

? One might hope that those various “problem-solving courts” that have sprung up across the country – to knee-jerk acclaim in hundreds of gushy news stories – would actually know how to solve problems. But, particularly when it comes to substance use, some of these courts exist where so much of the child welfare establishment does, at the intersection of ignorance and arrogance.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Government plans to more closely integrate health and social care will not succeed in their aims to improve care quality, personalisation and value for money without adequate funding and staffing, sector bodies have warned. The integration white paper , issued yesterday, includes plans to make a single leader accountable for delivery against joint health and social care outcomes in each area, make pooling budgets easier, create shared care records for individuals and remove barriers to staff mov

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Worker fears people ‘warehoused’ in hotels meant to relieve pressure on beds in pandemic Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A care worker at a hotel used to relieve pressure on NHS beds has claimed vulnerable people have been “failed”, with problems including stinking clinical waste being stored in a bathtub and a lack of accessible showers.

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The New Social Worker

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Eating disorders may affect gender minority individuals at up to double the rates of their cisgender counterparts. Social workers must recognize this heightened risk and increase screening and prevention efforts in gender-diverse community spaces.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

KEY POINTS ? A “scholar” who insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare writes a “predictive analytics” algorithm for the State of California. Somehow, the contract to write a so-called “independent ethics review” of the algorithm is given to another “scholar” who also insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare. In fact, they co-authored a screed on this very topic. ?

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CAPC

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Health Affairs Forefront article offers strategies and recommendations to reduce the impact of racism in palliative care.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

GMB says Andrew Bailey should gain first-hand experience after he said workers should not ask for big salary rises One of Britain’s largest trade unions has invited the governor of the Bank of England to work as a care worker for a day to witness how people cope on low pay. The GMB, which represents about 500,000 full and part-time workers, said Andrew Bailey should see first hand the challenges of making ends meet for people struggling on below average earnings – many of them low-paid women wor

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Psychological Health Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Your relationships with others can have a big impact on your mental health and wellbeing. Whether it’s friends and family, romantic partners or work and school life, the quality of your close relationships can affect your long-term health. Research shows that people with positive relationships are more socially connected and tend to be happier, physically healthier and live longer, with fewer mental health problems than people who are less well connected.

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International Federation of Social Workers

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The International Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics, which is published by IFSW, is seeking submissions for a special issue on the topic of Social Work Values and Ethics in Intercultural Relations. The aim is to highlight the role of social work values and ethics in relation to dimensions of global diversity and professional […].

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Eddie Bocanegra, MSW. Photo from LinkedIn. Social worker Eddie Bocanegra, MSW, a longtime violence prevention advocate in Chicago, has been named senior adviser for community violence intervention in the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice. The appointment was announced in a press release from Heartland Alliance, where Bocanegra is a senior director.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

If you failed your child so miserably, there would be criminal proceedings – but not for this shameless government Have you ever been so hungry you became delusional? I have, when as a child in care I was placed in a hostel a few months after finishing my GCSEs. I remember rummaging through old birthday cards in the futile hope of finding a tenner. Despite my benefits and the job I did alongside school, I could not afford food and electricity – let alone books, school trips, or clothes.

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The New Social Worker

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In The Other Side of Suffering: Finding a Path to Peace After Tragedy, Katie Cherry examines the suffering and healing experiences of disaster survivors of the 2005 hurricanes, Katrina and Rita. Read Shakima Tozay’s review.

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Social Work Bubble

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Negative on unhelpful thinking can perpetuate harmful beliefs we hold about ourselves and our experience. This can be the basis for continuing to feel distressing emotion, including depression and anxiety. Now before we dive into some proven cognitive behavior strategies to reduce this thinking patterns, a disclaimer: Negative thinking can certainly be unhelpful and continue cycles of intense emotional experiences, but this does not mean positive thinking is the end-all, be-all.

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Living Sober

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Matt Calman is a writer, journalist and author, an artist and photographer, dad and husband and. sober. Click on the video or audio below to hear my Sobriety Chat with Matt Calman. We had a great talk about many things, including the fear when you first quit drinking, learning how to socialise, dealing with underlying issues, changes in self-knowledge […].

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

This investigation of the UK’s dysfunctional care system exposes many painful truths about the treatment of vulnerable children The key question comes towards the end of this fine investigation into why we are taking more children into care than since records began in the 1990s, exercising draconian powers, including forced adoption, to break up more families than any other western country.

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Learning Social Worker

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It’s a year since He Died Waiting: Learning the lessons – a bereaved mother’s view of mental health service was launched. In this blog, I shall reflect on a year of change and surprises. It feels like the different threads of my life are coming together in a purposeful way. I shall begin with one of my most used quotes from the book: "Anyone who has experienced loss will find elements in my narrative to relate to.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Press Play. Transcript. 00:00:01. Hi there. It’s Marcyline. I wanted to jump on and tell you a little something. Before I go into my exercise class today about the hit, the weights and work workout a little bit for about 30 minutes, but I wanted to share something with you today. That is really, that really came from our livestream podcast that we did on Sunday, entitled Give to Yourself What You Give to Others.

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