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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Jazmin Graham Just as the COVID-19 pandemic exposed cracks and disparities in many facets of society — including health care, governments, education and more — long COVID continues to disproportionately disrupt the lives of certain people. These disparities demand the attention of social work change agents, along with the inability or unwillingness of our government leaders to pass long COVID legislation, the lack of long COVID clinics, and the need for advocacy and education related to workplac

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We’re listening! Tell us what you know, think—and wish you knew—about client alcohol and other substance use. Eight minutes is all it takes to help us better train and educate social.

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International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Social work responds to crises and challenges that threaten the well-being and life of people and communities. Crises do not respect national borders.

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Social Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

"We want to measure your experience at work and help policy makers understand what support is needed to make sure the adult social care sector is a great place to work." [Image created by freepik.com ] Shaping support for adult social care workforce of the future In collaboration with Skills for Care , Ipsos , and The University of Kent , a national survey was recently launched to learn more about how we can improve support for the adult social care workforce.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Sue Coyle Social workers play an important role in health care, even more so as health care services become increasingly integrated. The impact that social workers have on their patients, the patients’ families and the health care team as a whole varies depending on the setting and the specialty. However, the one constant is social workers’ ability to connect their patients with the resources and additional services they need.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Good practice in family group conferencing must not be diluted as the intervention gets rolled out across children’s social care services. That was the warning from experts at an event this week to mark the publication of a study that found rolling out FGCs to families at the pre-proceedings stage could prevent 2,000 children going into care each year, saving over £150m a year.

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My Brains Not Broken

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

How do you have a conversation about a sensitive topic? Where do you even begin? This month, I’ve written several posts about information and resources related to suicide prevention. I’ve been able to compile numbers and information that makes it clear that suicide is a public health issue we need to address as a society. But despite all this information – despite knowing that this is a problem that we need to face – I still have trouble talking about it.

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Social Care

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Celebrating the best of the care sector As the much-anticipated Professional Care Workers’ Week in 2023 gets underway, I am thrilled to share why The Care Workers Charity promotes this vital week of awareness and appreciation. Professional Care Workers’ Week is an annual celebration of care workers and their essential work, created to promote awareness and raise the profile of care workers in the UK.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most home care providers have seen a fall in the number of hours of care councils have commissioned from them, research has found. Half of agencies (48%) reported a fall of 25% in the number of hours of care available to them to deliver, with a further 32% reporting decreases of less than this, found the Homecare Association. The sector umbrella body surveyed members in July and August 2023, receiving responses from 225 agencies which, between them, provided care to almost 43,000 people and had

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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Attachment style is something that is developed in the first few years of life. It can determine how we connect to others in intimate relationships come adult life. In short, the degree to which the infant to toddler is raised in a calm and safe environment with their needs met in a timely basis, they are caused to feel secure and trusting in their attachments.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Between 2019, before the pandemic, and 2023 foster care went down… ENTRIES INTO FOSTER CARE.and child safety improved % ALLEGEDLY SUBJECT TO REPEAT “MALTREATMENT” Among the first studies to debunk the racist claims that, in the absence of “mandated reporters” keeping their eyes constantly on children, COVID would lead to a “pandemic of child abuse” was Prof.

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CAPC

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A speech pathologist shares how she works with seriously ill patients, and offers ways for palliative care teams to consult with and integrate speech pathology into their practice.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The government has delayed its response to a consultation on controversial national rules to regulate agency social work in England’s statutory children’s services. The response was due in September, but the Department for Education (DfE) said it would now be published later in the year because it needed further time to get the policy right.

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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Please know I support persons of the LGBTQ2 community, BIPOC community, women, immigrants, working poor… I value inclusion and social policies that provide for choice on matters concerning one’s own body. This will not sit well with some followers. Some may seek to engage, argue, blame, etc. I value my Facebook page as a safe place. With that, I do not allow opinions that are contrary to the well-being of these groups to be posted.

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International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

IFSW is deeply concerned about the recent outbreak of war in Azerbaijan, with the launch of operations against Armenian forces in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When I started doing sensory stimulation workshops, I worried that playing music for the group would fall flat. I couldn’t have been more wrong In 2013 I was in my last year studying theatre and performance at the University of Leeds. I was a fairly normal student, I think. I sometimes worked hard, often drank too much and thought I was really cool, even though I definitely wasn’t.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The government is pressing ahead with the use of scientific age assessments of asylum-seeking young people in the face of severe criticisms. It has issued regulations that would permit the use of specified scientific methods to inform age assessments of asylum-seeking young people. The law would authorise the use of X-rays of teeth and hand and wrist bones, and MRI scans of the collarbone and knee bones, as part of age assessments.

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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Some kin step up to help a sibling, nephew or niece. They are there against all odds. Often it’s a rescue mission, perhaps saving the kin from themselves or a situation beyond their control. All too often, it’s thankless. So, on behalf of those persons you’ve stepped up for, let me thank you. Even if the person is problematic and continues to have problems, the likelihood is that they are still better off for what you have provided.

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International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work is extending an invitation to all dedicated social workers to attend an enlightening webinar themed “Regulating the Social Work Profession in South-East Asia.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

On eve of party conference, leader says he feels a heavy responsibility to help get Conservatives out of power Ed Davey is to pledge a £5bn-a-year guarantee of free care packages for all in England as the Liberal Democrats gather for their first in-person conference since 2019. Desperate to translate recent byelection successes into a mass haul of parliamentary seats, the Lib Dem leader plans to use the event in Bournemouth, which starts on Saturday, to become the first of the major UK political

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Eight organisations have been selected to help design and then test the government’s proposed early career framework for social workers (ECF) starting their careers in statutory children’s services. The Department for Education (DfE) has chosen three independent, non-local authority providers as early adopters for the five-year ECF: Achieving for Children, for its services in Kingston and Richmond; Birmingham Children’s Trust, and Together for Children in Sunderland.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

During 19-22 of September 2023 in Ohrid, North Macedonia, the Institute of Social Work and Social Policy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje organised an international conference “Social Work and Social Policy in Times of Global Crises”. The conference was attended by more than 130 participants who presented research, practices and policies on social policy and social work responses to crises.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We start this week with something a little different. It’s a picture from the Twitter feed of Prof. Deadric Williams of the University of Tennessee, showing him during one of his lectures – and one of the slides he uses. He uses it to illustrate the desperate efforts of “scholars” to avoid facing up to the fact that the usual reason for racial disparities in any field, including family policing, is racism: ● You know how family police agencies say they never take children because of poverty - an

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International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) is calling for expressions of interest (EOI) for organising and hosting the 2026 World Conference on Social Work and Social Development (SWSD2026).

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Anxiety is one of the most common mental illness. According to Trevor (2017), anxiety is a normal healthy reaction. It happens to everyone at times of danger or when worried about situations. BUT, there are things you should never say to someone with anxiety. So, what is anxiety? Anxiety is a feeling of fear, worry and apprehension about what’s to come.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The increasing rates of suicide in the United States has been an issue for decades. As with many mental health conditions, American society has unfortunately applied stigma to suicide and those coping with suicidal ideation. To overcome the U.S. mental health crisis and decrease the yearly rates of suicide, we must address these stigmas. What is suicide stigma?

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National Casa Gal

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Each organization will create local resources for families and children, and recruit volunteers from the communities to become a voice for children who have been abused or neglected. Read More. The post Celebrating 25 new and expanded local CASA and GAL programs in 2023 appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

By Makeba Royall, LCSW NASW Senior Practice Associate In 1989, National Recovery Month was started during the month of September. The purpose of Recovery Month is to raise awareness and promote evidence-based treatment and recovery practices, celebrate the recovery community, and acknowledge service providers and communities that assist individuals with their recovery.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

There are many things you can do to improve your wellbeing, however, it is difficult to start. So what is well being? Wellbeing is the state of being positive, happy, healthy and feeling empowered. It is more than experiencing moment-to-moment happiness and involves working towards longer-term goals. Your health and well-being matters to keep you less anxious, stressed or depressed.

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Nnatasha Tracy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I know what it feels like when your doctor says they can't help you. I've had this happen many times. I've experienced everything from being fired by a doctor to having a doctor deny me care altogether. These are rough things. Any time your doctor says they can't help you, it's tough to take. But there are things you can do, even at that point. Here's what to do when your doctor says they can't help you.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Though the COVID-19 pandemic is waning, the changes it brought to healthcare persist. Longer hours for clinicians, increased rates of burnout among all providers, and higher rates of reported mental illness are now commonplace. While these and many other difficulties are challenging, organizations can respond by creating systems for building organizational resilience.

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Social Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Self Care Week is a well-established public health initiative, its purpose is to embed support for self-care across communities, families, and generations. New resources to help people get ready for winter Self Care Week returns 13-19 November this year. It's the annual, UK-wide awareness week run by the Self Care Forum , a charity aiming to further the reach of self-care in the population, making it everyone’s everyday habit and culture, to think and practice self-care.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In the realm of social work, where individuals dedicate their lives to making a real difference in people’s lives, the journey often begins with personal experiences that ignite a passion for change. As a prospective social work student, I recognised that my own life experiences, both personal and professional, could pave the way for a career devoted to addressing social problems, advocating for vulnerable people, and tackling issues of social injustice.

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International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The annual Day on Peace is a signal for all of us, drawing our attention to the importance of peace.

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Nicole Clark Consulting

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Try this out and let me know how it goes for you. As an introverted workshop facilitator, I used to believe that online workshops were easier to facilitate than in person ones. Now I see that online workshops aren’t easier or harder; they just have their own set of quirks. There’s benefits and drawbacks to [.] The post Try This: In Person vs Online Workshop Prep appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.

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