The New Social Worker

AUGUST 2, 2023

Suddenly, everyone is talking about AI.

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Community Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

Racism is a significant presence in the social work sector. According to survey findings published in March 2022 , one in four social workers had experienced racism from colleagues or managers at least once in the preceding 12 months. Racism may also be contributing to minoritised practitioners abandoning permanent local authority posts for agency work, according to a survey of 1,035 London and South East-based children’s social workers and managers.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

AUGUST 3, 2023

Do you even remember what you ate yesterday? Let’s face it, women are walking, breathing, eat in our car Stress Eaters. We eat when we feel stressed, and we experience stress when we eat. Stress eating contributes to weight gain, poor digestion and stress on the body. In this blog post, we are going to guide you to share “De-stress with Every Bite: The Benefits of Eating Slowly.

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Abuse Survivor

AUGUST 2, 2023

Hey there, beautiful souls! Today, I want to open up about a recent experience that has been both challenging and enlightening for me. A few weeks ago, I found myself triggered into a depressive episode, and I thought it was important to share my journey with you. Sometimes, life throws unexpected curveballs, and it’s okay to lean into the struggle and allow ourselves the time to heal and grow.

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Advertiser: Caseworthy

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

JULY 31, 2023

John Donne penned the often-quoted line “No man is an island entire of itself”. Similarly, most of us are familiar with the African proverb “it takes a village”. One of my personal favorites is a quote from Aristotle “nature abhors a vacuum”. As clinical social workers we come alongside individuals, couples, and families at some of their most challenging times; but we don’t do the work alone.

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Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social work’s poor public image is driving people out of frontline children’s roles, hurting recruitment and making families fearful and distrustful of practitioners. Those were among the findings of research with just over 1,000 social workers and managers working for local authorities in London and the South East , carried out by the two regions’ local authority children

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2023

Oh, wait, these are the GOOD kind of druggie moms. The cover story in the latest issue of Boston Magazine is a shocker! It seems druggie moms are everywhere in parts of metropolitan Boston – including children’s play dates! It was bad enough when mothers coped with the stress of raising kids with wine – (street name: “mommy juice”). Now, this shocking expose reveals, drug use is rampant and – Oh, wait.

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Prosper Health Collective

JULY 30, 2023

In Australia, it’s very common to have difficulties with communicating. Communication problems may result from a range of conditions that may affect children including stroke, brain injury, cleft palate, learning and intellectual disabilities, developmental delay, autism spectrum disorder, cerebral palsy, hearing loss, stuttering, progressive neurological disorders (e.g. muscular dystrophy), cancer, spinal injury.

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Community Care

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Home Office has been housing unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels unlawfully since December 2021, the High Court has ruled. The court also judged that Kent County Council has acted unlawfully since 2021 in refusing to accept all unaccompanied children into its care when notified of their arrival in the county, in a stinging judgment issued last week.

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Nicole Clark Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2023

Have a question you’d like to be featured? Let me know. During a project meeting, I had a conversation with an executive director on structuring their organizational evaluation framework. Understanding programs and all their many parts helps me determine an appropriate evaluation strategy, consisting of data collection and analysis, engaging participants in the process of [.

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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 1, 2023

● Good news, Colorado! Contrary to the fearmongering from the “residential treatment” industry, demon homicidal 6-year-olds are not rampaging through your state. I have a column about it in Colorado Newsline. ● Texas Monthly reports on those new laws curbing the power of the family police in that state. Turns out they’re not the result of a vast right-wing conspiracy after all!

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Prosper Health Collective

JULY 31, 2023

Speech Pathology Week is a special annual event dedicated to promoting the speech pathology profession and the incredible work of speech pathologists who provide invaluable support to 1.2 million Australians with communication disabilities. Communication is a fundamental human right that empowers us to express ourselves, connect with others, and fully participate in society.

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Community Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

Kate Shoesmith, deputy chief executive, the REC By Kate Shoesmith We welcome the fact that the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) is no longer calling for curbs on agency social work in England to be implemented earlier than the government’s April 2024 target date. Moving the date forward would have been risky short-termism at a time of shortages of social workers.

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Reimagining Social Work

AUGUST 4, 2023

The question of whether the Aotearoa statutory social work agency Oranga Tamaraki can be reformed or whether it should be abolished and replaced with something radically different is an issue that has drifted into the fog in recent times.

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Social Work.Career

JULY 31, 2023

This post is part of the monthly series, Free Webinars for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals, featuring over 45 free webcasts that we could find for you this month in the field of social work and mental health. To make it easier for you to find a webinar that is of interest to you, […] The post Free Mental Health Webinars, August 2023 appeared first on SocialWork.Career.

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Prosper Health Collective

JULY 31, 2023

As a parent, you want the best for your child, including their communication and overall development. Speech and language skills play a vital role in a child’s social, emotional, and academic growth. However, sometimes children may experience difficulties in these areas, which can benefit from early intervention by a speech pathologist. Here we’ll explore different aspects of your child’s development and highlight signs that may indicate it’s time to seek support from a s

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Community Care

AUGUST 1, 2023

A “tail of very bad employers in the social care sector” are exploiting overseas staff brought to the UK to fill gaps caused by endemic low pay, a government adviser has warned. Migration Advisory Committee chair Brian Bell has also castigated ministers for their failure to respond to an April 2022 MAC report they themselves commissioned, which called for increases to social care pay, rather than a reliance on immigration, to tackle the sector’s workforce problems.

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Living Sober

JULY 30, 2023

I love this drink! The apple cider gives a great kick of acidity, the cinnamon adds a little touch of spice and the natural sweetness from the apple juice brings it all together nicely. Apple cider vinegar is one of those magical ingredients that has numerous health benefits apparently.

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The New Social Worker

JULY 31, 2023

Wishing is often a significant aspect of a self-care journey. I wish sounds like a positive thing, right? Yet, actually, I’ve noticed I wish often becomes a “but” barrier. It morphs into an obstacle of impossibility.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 2, 2023

It was more than 12 hours after Rianna Cleary went into labour before anyone came to help her. She was covered in blood – and her daughter was dead. Why were they failed so appallingly? The last thing Rianna Cleary remembers before she passed out in the early hours of 27 September 2019, alone and in the throes of labour pain, was a scene involving a chicken leg in the film Killer Joe, which was showing on the TV screen in her prison cell.

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Community Care

JULY 31, 2023

The government has moved £600m originally destined for social care reform into helping councils meet existing pressures on adults’ services over the next two years. Most of the funding – £570m – is designed to increase the capacity of the workforce – with vacancy rates hitting 9.9% as of March this year – though councils may also use it to tackle waiting times for care or assessments or to increase provider fees.

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Sober Courage

AUGUST 4, 2023

BAC (Blood Alcohol Concentration) is a measure of the amount of alcohol present in the bloodstream. The effects of alcohol can vary significantly at different BAC levels. Keep in mind that individual tolerance to alcohol may vary too, and these effects are general guidelines. The legal BAC limit for driving is typically set at 0.

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Social Workers Speak

AUGUST 4, 2023

Jennifer Kelman is a member of NASW-FL: 5 Crucial Boundaries You Need to Set With Your In-Laws, Therapists Say BestLife You don’t just need to spell out your preferences for in-person events, however. Jennifer Kelman, LCSW, a family therapist working with JustAnswer , tells Best Life that it’s also important to put a limit on phone calls from your in-laws.

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The Guardian

JULY 30, 2023

Brian Bell says ministers have let social care become reliant on low-paid and vulnerable foreign workers Ministers have allowed England’s creaking social care system to become too heavily reliant on low-paid foreign workers who are vulnerable to exploitation, the government’s migration adviser has warned. In a strongly worded intervention, Prof Brian Bell, who has just been reappointed by the home secretary, Suella Braverman, as chair of the migration advisory committee (MAC), called the governm

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Relias

AUGUST 4, 2023

Overcoming staff shortages while still providing quality patient care has challenged many healthcare organizations. To confront this, leaders are avidly seeking nurse engagement strategies. They want to stop losing nurses while improving their ability to retain them. What are the biggest nurse engagement issues and the best approaches to solve them?

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Gateway Foundation

AUGUST 3, 2023

Gambling addiction can pose significant problems for a person’s health and finances, and pro athletes are just as susceptible. While many enjoy occasional gambling, the hobby can become a full-blown addiction when a person experiences a compulsive urge to gamble despite the consequences. Many of these pro athletes with gambling addictions accumulated large debts, borrowed or stole from family members, experienced legal troubles and faced career repercussions.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

AUGUST 3, 2023

Do you even remember what you ate yesterday? Let’s face it, women are walking, breathing, eat in our car Stress Eaters. We eat when we feel stressed, and we experience stress when we eat. Stress eating contributes to weight gain, poor digestion and stress on the body. In this blog post, we are going to guide you to share “De-stress with Every Bite: The Benefits of Eating Slowly.

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The Guardian

JULY 30, 2023

Exclusive: Many exhausted relatives asking for help as health and social care services stretched beyond limit Soaring numbers of families struggling to care for someone with dementia have hit a “crisis point” with nowhere to turn for help when their loved one puts themselves or others at risk of harm, a charity has said. More than 700,000 people in the UK look after a relative with dementia.

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Blurt It Out

AUGUST 2, 2023

“How are you?” is a question many of us are familiar with. It’s probably the question we get asked more often than any other. Many of us automatically respond with ‘fine thanks, you?’, because that’s the response we’ve learned to give. It’s the response we heard the adults around us trot out each time they were asked how they were; they probably learned it from the adults around them.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The American Academy of Social Work and Welfare’s grand challenge to “create social responses to a changing environment” is a call to action for social workers to advocate for environmental justice. The Global Agenda, developed by the International Federation of Social Workers, the International Association of Schools of Social Work, and the International Council on Social Welfare, calls for multilevel responses to concerns such as forced migration, air pollution, ecoanxiety, and food and water

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

AUGUST 1, 2023

Introduction: In our fast-paced modern lives, it’s not uncommon to find ourselves rushing through meals without a second thought. Whether we’re eating on the go, multitasking while we eat, or mindlessly devouring our food, the habit of eating quickly can have significant negative effects on our health and well-being. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the importance of slowing down and savoring our food, not just for our physical health but also for reducing stress and p

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The Guardian

AUGUST 4, 2023

More state funding and economies of scale are luring buyers but such firms prioritise shareholders, not society Childcare sector in England ‘must not become playground for private equity’ It’s easy to see why private equity houses are attracted to investment in essential services such as elderly care, fostering and, increasingly, childcare. These are not luxuries that can be easily dispensed with during economic downturns, such as the one into which Britain may soon be sliding.

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Blurt It Out

AUGUST 2, 2023

“How are you?” is a question many of us are familiar with. It’s probably the question we get asked more often than any other. Many of us automatically respond with ‘fine thanks, you?’, because that’s the response we’ve learned to give. It’s the response we heard the adults around us trot out each time they were asked how they were; they probably learned it from the adults around them.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The American Academy of Social Work and Welfare’s grand challenge to “create social responses to a changing environment” is a call to action for social workers to advocate for environmental justice. The Global Agenda, developed by the International Federation of Social Workers, the International Association of Schools of Social Work, and the International Council on Social Welfare, calls for multilevel responses to concerns such as forced migration, air pollution, ecoanxiety, and food and water

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Michigan Social Work

AUGUST 1, 2023

Professor William Elliott III spoke with Forbes about how San Francisco’s Kindergarten 2 College program, which begins with just a $50 deposit in a college savings account can make a difference. “When you have an asset, it allows you to begin thinking about your future in a more tangible way.

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