My Brains Not Broken
MAY 10, 2022
During Mental Health Awareness Month , there is a lot of attention focused on knowing what mental health challenges look like. It makes sense – mental illness and mental health disorders have become much more prevalent in the past few decades and the pandemic has only amplified that, so awareness is extremely important. But there are so many things to be aware of when it comes to mental health that not everyone might know.
The New Social Worker
MAY 11, 2022
The pandemic has opened our minds to new ways of working. Is it time to consider a career move? Deciding to leave your job is an emotional decision. Make sure that you have given yourself plenty of time to think about it and make the best choice.
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Community Care
MAY 10, 2022
Proposals to overhaul the Mental Health Act 1983 will be considered by Parliament over the next year, the government announced today in the Queen’s Speech. It will produce a draft bill designed to reduce the number of detentions, tackle longstanding racial disparities in the use of compulsory powers and end the detention of people on the sole grounds of them being autistic or having learning disabilities.
Social Work Futures
MAY 11, 2022
Periodic interesting things gathered – to accelerate (or disrupt) social working thinking, exploring and practice with a futures/foresight lens. 10 things seems like a good amount of things…and about as much as any of us can handle at one time. ( I’ve been away from doing this for awhile…but you can see previous posts of this kind here.).
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My Brains Not Broken
MAY 12, 2022
Last year, I took a deep dive into some statistics and data surrounding mental health and the LGBTQIA+ community during Pride Month. I think that diving into data and statistics is one of the clearest ways to make mental health visible in our society. The more we use anecdotal evidence or rely on assumptions, the harder it is to have a conversation around mental health and mental illness.
Social Work Blog
MAY 9, 2022
As America faces a mental health crisis, the need for suicide prevention services is more imperative than ever. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, suicide is ranked as the second primary cause of death in young people among the ages of 10 to 34 and the tenth most frequent cause of death in the United States. Since 1999, the suicide rate has increased more than 30 percent, with a 10 percent increase among individuals ages 15-24 (National Institute of Mental Health, 2022).
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Beautiful Voyager
MAY 8, 2022
A page from Jacob's Apartment by Joshua Kemble. Joshua Kemble, award-winning artist and author of Two Stories, revisits Beautiful Voyager to share the story of his latest graphic novel, a beautiful book about identity, purpose, creativity, and love. BEVOYA : It's great to talk to you again Joshua! What's changed since last we talked ? Illustrated self-portrait by Joshua Kemble.
The New Social Worker
MAY 9, 2022
Our host Jennifer Luna is joined by Cindy Snell from the Boston College School of Social Work and Michelle Woods of the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Join them as they discuss the HOT social work job market of 2022.
Social Work With Adults
MAY 11, 2022
The annual report captures a wide range of updates from our diverse and dedicated profession. Coming out the other side. It is with a sense of relief, but also pride in our collective resilience as a profession, that we are able to publish the Chief Social Worker for Adults Annual Report 2021-22 in a world which has, at long last, regained some of the familiar trappings of normality.
Community Care
MAY 11, 2022
“Exceptional” direct work and strong leadership have helped a London council improve to ‘outstanding’, despite a spike in vacancies last year. Ofsted upgraded Merton from the good rating it earned in 2017 after finding “skilled, experienced” professionals were making a positive difference to children’s lives, backed by “highly aspirational” leaders who had “strengthened and built on the impressive work at the time of the previous inspection”.
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.
The Guardian
MAY 11, 2022
I survived care, criminality and homelessness to become an award-winning journalist – but the system I endured makes such success stories vanishingly rare When I zipped up my tent on my first night sleeping rough, I felt no despair. It was 2013 and I had picked a grassy patch near a bridle path, where I listened to the wind rustling through the trees as raindrops bounced off my nylon roof.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 8, 2022
A brief update before this Blog takes a couple of weeks off: ? WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina, continues its excellent reporting on the harm done to children and families by hidden foster care in that state. ? Prof. Dorothy Roberts and members of Rise discuss Prof. Roberts’ new book, Torn Apart at Revolution Books: Rise has more about the event here. ?
Social Work Blog
MAY 11, 2022
Parents of trans and gender-diverse (TGD) youth can experience challenges navigating gender-affirming (GA) care such as stigma, transphobia, and lack of support. There is little information available about stressors, worries, and positive feelings of parents as they try to support their youth accessing GA care. An article in a recent issue of the journal Health & Social Work presents baseline survey data on experiences and stressors of 160 parents/caregivers in the Trans Youth CAN!
Community Care
MAY 13, 2022
By Rob Preston and Mithran Samuel. A council’s lack of social work capacity is leaving children inadequately protected, Ofsted has found, as it downgraded its children’s services to inadequate. Inspectors found “serious and widespread failures” in core areas of social work practice at Sefton council, including assessment, planning and management oversight, and said that these had not been “sufficiently understood” by leaders.
The Guardian
MAY 8, 2022
Services across country are patchy with some areas ‘treatment deserts’ when it comes to trauma, say experts Russia-Ukraine war – latest updates Traumatised Ukrainian refugees who have sought sanctuary in the UK may have to wait two years before they can get specialised therapy to help them heal from the horrors of war, according to experts. Therapists who specialise in treating war trauma say they have seen NHS waiting lists of two years before refugees can access the specialist treatment they n
Stop Abuse Campaign
MAY 12, 2022
← Am I Crazy? Anxiety Symptoms, Causes, Treatment. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I tend to overcomplicate the simple. Laundry, for example. I’ve just recently learned from a much younger friend that I need not sort it. . What? For years, even decades, I pre-sorted laundry by color, only to try not sorting at her suggestion, and what do you know, she was right!
Social Work Blog
MAY 10, 2022
Restorative justice (RJ) is both a philosophy and a set of practices meant to repair harm and maintain connection in the face of wrongdoing. While RJ is becoming increasingly popular among K–12 educators and in schools, emphasis is typically on its social justice applications, including its use as an alternative to zero-tolerance discipline policies and its role in dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline.
Community Care
MAY 10, 2022
Social workers’ quality of working life continued to decline following the end of Covid lockdown measures despite other frontline professionals reporting improvements, according to a new study. Phase four of the Health and Social Care Workforce Study, covering November 2021 to February 2022 , found social workers were more likely to feel burnt out than social care workers, nurses and allied health professionals.
International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 7, 2022
IFSW Europe – WEBINAR – Developing eco-wisdom – leave no one behind! Platform: ZOOM / English language May 24th 2022, 18.00 – 19.30 hrs CET Dear social workers, social services staff and managers, We would like to invite you to take part in a webinar on climate change and the importance of the role social workers […].
National Casa Gal
MAY 10, 2022
May is National Foster Care Month. With more than 407,000 children entering the system on any given day, National CASA/GAL is thankful for foster families. Read More. The post National Foster Care Month – Thank you for being a part of the village appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.
Social Care
MAY 12, 2022
Nursing is a broad church. Today is International Nurses Day and, while many outside the caring professions tend to think of nursing in a purely clinical context, for those of us working in the adult social care sector, we know it is so much broader in scope, complexity and provision. This year’s theme is all about leadership, respecting professional skills and rights, and empowering nurses everywhere to deliver improved global health.
Community Care
MAY 11, 2022
The government has increased weekly payments for care home residents with nursing needs by 11.5% as vacancies for nurses working in social care continue to mount. The Department of Health and Social Care will also fund £87m in back payments for NHS-funded nursing care (FNC), on the back of research it conducted with providers on the costs of nursing services within care homes.
A Splintered Mind
MAY 13, 2022
Can you be so forgetful that you’d forget that you were dating somebody? For a few groggy moments, I was convinced that I had. As I dealt with forgotten bills, paperwork unearthed from the Jurassic era, and various and sundry things I had meant to get to sometime around last September, I wondered if maybe, perhaps possibly, I was forgetful. Oh, everybody forgets things!
The Guardian
MAY 13, 2022
Academic and social worker who was less interested in theories than in practical solutions From the time of her research in the late 1980s, Ann Buchanan, who has died aged 80, was interested in the outcomes experienced by children in care. Through her work as a social worker, she showed that in adulthood such children developed significant mental health and other problems.
CAPC
MAY 12, 2022
Study aimed to understand the barriers to patient referral and acceptance of HBPC, despite increased funding.
Community Care
MAY 12, 2022
By Rob Preston and Mithran Samuel. A council has recovered from a dip in performance and weathered a spike in referrals to retain its outstanding Ofsted rating. Inspectors found Leeds council had promptly addressed issues with its child protection services identified in a focused visit last year , in its latest full inspection, carried out in February and March.
Nnatasha Tracy
MAY 12, 2022
Snap Out of It! is looking forward to speaking with Saskia Lightburn-Ritchie , the Chief Operating Officer (CEO) at My CWA (Cheshire Without Abuse), a charity in the United Kingdom. Her company works to build a community where adults and children can live free from the fear of domestic abuse and runs a 24-hour helpline, among other things. But don't get it confused, Saskia's charity is no small potatoes.
The Guardian
MAY 8, 2022
Concerns raised that ‘kidfluencers’ are being used by parents to capitalise on lucrative social media market The government must introduce legislation to protect child social media influencers from exploitation, according to MPs. The rise of influencers has produced a new outlet for the UK’s creative industries and boosted the UK economy but it has also brought considerable risks, said the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport committee.
CAPC
MAY 12, 2022
KevinMD features a story from a palliative care clinician on a recent podcast episode.
Community Care
MAY 13, 2022
By Rob Preston and Mithran Samuel. Inspectors have praised Hull council’s care leaver service in their fifth monitoring visit to the authority since an inadequate rating in 2019. Ofsted found that “skilled” staff were “providing greatly improved support to care leavers”, and felt “extremely well supported” by managers, on the back of significant investment from a “stable and determined leadership team”.
Nnatasha Tracy
MAY 12, 2022
Snap Out of It! is pleased to speak with award-winning podcaster and mental health advocate Gabe Howard. Gabe has lived with bipolar and anxiety disorders since 2003. Gabe has a harrowing tale of when he was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Not only can he speak to what it was like to work with bipolar disorder before being diagnosed, he can also speak to what it was like to "come out" at work and, finally, be fired because of his bipolar disorder.
Living Sober
MAY 11, 2022
Kate Smith is an ex 'Mad Woman' (aka high-powered advertising guru), mountaineer, wife, pet-owner, and sober. Click below to watch or listen to my Sobriety Chat with Kate. Apologies for the glitches at the top of the video and also for my muffled audio. The good news is Kate can be heard loud and clear! You'll hear her talk about […]. The post Sobriety Chat: Kate S first appeared on Living Sober.
Shelter, Inc
MAY 12, 2022
May is National Foster Care Month, and this year’s theme is Relative and Kin Connections: Keeping Families Strong. Did you know Shelter’s Foster Care Program works to reunite families whenever it’s in the youth’s best interest and that our foster families may be traditional or home-of-relative? How many of these Facts & Stats do you know? Over 407,000 children and youth are in foster care , and 34 percent were placed with relatives or kin.
Famcare
MAY 12, 2022
You've probably struggled with project management if you've ever worked for a non-profit organization. Over the years, the non-profit sector in America has grown steadily. It is now one of the country's most active and socially beneficial sectors. It currently employs over 12 million people, accounting for 10% of the total workforce in the country. A growing number of non-profit volunteers and social workers are joining a market that is constantly bemoaning a lack of project management tools.
Nnatasha Tracy
MAY 12, 2022
We're pleased to speak with Daisy Abbot of workplace mental health platform company Unmind. Daisy will talk about how mental illness needs to be a part of the conversation when it comes to workplace mental health. We will be discussing Daisy's personal experience with mental illness, her time as a mental health professional, and how she uses her role to ensure she and her employees are their most authentic selves -- including those with mental illness.
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