Save the Social Worker
DECEMBER 12, 2023
If you’re a supervisor, you’ve probably faced this. Walk into supervision, and the supervisee looks at you, expectantly, awaiting you to start the ball rolling. You think to yourself: I thought you were supposed to take charge of your own supervision! Or you might be a supervisee (the one being supervised). You walk into the supervision, with an agenda in hand.
Community Care
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The number of people using council-arranged long-term adult social care in England grew in 2022-23 following years of decline, official data has shown. Overall, 835,335 people received long-term care during the year, up 2.1% on 2021-22, when 817,995 people were given a service, showed the figures from NHS England. This figure had declined year on year from a high of 872,520 since 2015-16, with the exception of 2020-21, where numbers may have been inflated by the inclusion of people receiving Cov
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Save the Social Worker
DECEMBER 12, 2023
When I was in university, we once had a strange assignment. We watched a video twice, and we were told to write about what we saw. We were also told to write about our opinions. When I look back, I realised that was an exercise to teach us how to write good case notes in social work. Case notes are a part of every social workers’ life. But before you look at how to write better case notes, you need to know why case notes are even important.
Social Work Blog
DECEMBER 11, 2023
April Ferguson LCSW-C, Senior Practice Associate, Children and Adolescents On September 28, 2023, the U.S. Administration for Children and Families (ACF) published a final rule regarding licensing and approval standards for kinship placements. The rule allows for Title IV-E agencies to utilize separate licensing requirements for kinship homes and distribute payments to kinship providers.
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The New Social Worker
DECEMBER 10, 2023
What can we say about 2023? The New Social Worker’s list of Top 10 Articles for 2023 tells us the story of what social workers have been reading here. We look forward to seeing you, our readers, our friends, in 2024.
Community Care
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Social work figures have paid tribute to one of their own after Mark Drakeford announced he would be stepping down as first minister of Wales. Drakeford was hailed for maintaining his social work values and commitment to social justice, after announcing he would be stepping down from the role in March 2024. He trained as a social worker, then worked as a probation officer, a youth justice worker and as a social work academic before being elected to the Senedd (Welsh Assembly) in 2011.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The group that calls itself "Children's Rights" touts its Tennessee McLawsuit as a huge success. The 12-year-old in this photo, obtained by Nashville television station WTVF, might disagree. You can watch their story here. By the time the group that calls itself “Children’s Rights” was done with Tennessee, the state was taking away 24% more children than it was when the suit was filed.
Reimagining Social Work
DECEMBER 9, 2023
A personal reflection on the repeal of s7AA and te reo In this guest post from Kerri Cleaver (Lecturer, Whare Wānanaga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury), Kerri explains her personal response to recent government changes. Ko wai au?
Community Care
DECEMBER 14, 2023
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has streamlined its process for assessing council adult social care services following significant concerns about the burden on authorities. The regulator has issued fresh guidance on the local authority assurance process as it announced it had been given the green light by government to start assessing England’s 153 councils over the next two years.
Gary Direnfeld
DECEMBER 14, 2023
As busy and as difficult as one’s job may be, that person may never know the challenge of needing to go to the bathroom with kids of an age or need, that require continuous supervision. Upon returning home to be asked what one got done that day, is totally devoid of understanding the exhaustion of nary a break, continuous responsibility, and the averting of constant potential crises.
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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.
Social Care
DECEMBER 14, 2023
"This was a positive visit for DHSC and CareTech, both sides learning from each other and gaining a better understanding of how we can work together to improve workforce capabilities." [Image created by freepik.com ] Walk and talk Nigel Taylor, CareTech's Head of Learning and Development: The CareTech Senior Adults team hosted colleagues from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) recently.
National Casa Gal
DECEMBER 13, 2023
The cleats aim to promote and raise awareness for a charity that is important to the players. Read More. The post Six professional NFL players support local CASA programs for My Cause My Cleats initiative appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.
Community Care
DECEMBER 11, 2023
By Beverley Tarka, president, ADASS When ADASS and carers’ organisations launched the Carers Challenge in October, our goal was to unearth the gold standard work social care teams and voluntary organisations are doing to support unpaid carers. The response has been great, with lots of stories about how organisations are working with carers to co-produce services and place them at the heart of decision making.
Gary Direnfeld
DECEMBER 14, 2023
If you’ve lost the connection to your teen, no amount of begging, cajoling, threats or punishment will get them on track. First and foremost, you need to establish a connection. No connection, no influence. For that, guerilla love. We all know what guerilla warfare is about. You sneak up on your enemy combat and kill them when they aren’t looking and then slip away.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2023
● WBTV and The Assembly conclude their three-part series on the failure of family policing with a searing story about how the agency and the courts moved heaven and earth to keep a loving father away from his own son. And if you think this is a case in which a stranger foster parent is fighting the father – nope. On the contrary, the foster father was so supportive that when the family police tried to use housing as an excuse to keep father and son apart, the foster father bought a house so the
Nnatasha Tracy
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Living with bipolar disorder can be challenging, and living with bipolar disorder over the holidays even more so. While there are many great things about holidays, bipolar stability often isn't one of them. I believe we need to embrace the good parts of the holidays while protecting our mental health for after the holidays, too. Here are holiday tips when dealing with bipolar disorder.
Community Care
DECEMBER 14, 2023
The Department for Education (DfE) has today launched England’s first kinship strategy. The long-awaited document includes plans to pilot giving some kinship carers equivalent allowances to foster carers and expanding the role of virtual heads to cover support for children of kinship carers in education. The department said it would also provide carers with improved training and information, so they could better understand their rights, as well as enhanced peer support.
The Guardian
DECEMBER 14, 2023
HB 68 bans doctors from providing gender-affirming care to trans children and blocks trans girls from playing on girls’ sports teams The Ohio legislature has given its final approval to a bill that would impose substantial new restrictions on the lives of trans children. The bill, HB 68, prohibits doctors from providing gender-affirming care to trans youths.
Psychological Health Care
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Giving the gift of better mental health during the holiday season can be a wonderful and meaningful way to show you care. Forget high end commercial gift giving. Sometimes the best gifts are those that encourage a deeper connection and stay true to the sentiments of the holiday season – love, joy and goodwill. Especially for those needing a mental health or wellbeing boost, a non-commercial approach can have the power to enhance mental health by fostering personal connections, providing emotiona
CAPC
DECEMBER 15, 2023
CAPC's Diane Meier, MD, and Brynn Bowman, MPA, interviewed in Forbes article about health care predictions for 2024.
Social Work With Adults
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Lyn Romeo: Deborah Sturdy, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care and I recently visited Salford to hear about the way social care colleagues work with the council, the NHS, providers and voluntary and community sector partners. As part of that day, we heard about their approach to recruitment and retention and building the capacity and capability of their workforce across all sectors.
Living Sober
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Watch Matty chat about his life in the navy, reaching a low he never thought he'd escape and his rich life in sobriety today.
The Guardian
DECEMBER 11, 2023
As she inched towards the end of her life our conversation was the most authentic it had ever been I was shocked at what I didn’t know about nursing homes. A couple of falls and hospital stays meant it wasn’t safe for my mum, Lesley, to live alone any more. In 2017, at 87 years old and a shadow of her former strong self, life was rapidly slowing down for her.
International Federation of Social Workers
DECEMBER 11, 2023
The Young African Social Workers Network held a webinar on the 10th of December commemorating the International Human Rights Day.
Relias
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Registered nurses are more in demand than ever in terms of projected job growth, impact, and leadership. With the significant need for RNs nationally and globally, understanding the qualities of a good nurse is critical for hospitals and health systems aiming to attract and retain the best nursing talent. As new nurses enter the workforce, identifying and encouraging specific nursing qualities helps healthcare organizations recognize strong candidates for hire and understand which of their curre
Social Work Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2023
By Paul R. Pace “Right now, the LGBTQIA+ community is under attack,” says Seth J. Meyer, PhD, LCSW, assistant professor of nonprofit studies and public administration at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Threats to libraries, education, LGBTQIA+ books, and learning about or discussing queerness is taking place across the U.S. “That hurts queer kids,” Meyer says.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
DECEMBER 11, 2023
In September 2023, the United Nations Secretary General hosted an SDG Action weekend for UN agencies, member states, and stakeholders to discuss the SDGs, their current implementation, and commitments to reach them. From the IASSW team, Dr. Lynne Healy, Main Representative (University of Connecticut-retired), and IASSW’s two interns, Diana Dupuy-Faustin and Lorena Martínez (University of Connecticut) were in attendance.
The Masked AMHP
DECEMBER 10, 2023
One day Perdita left a message on our voicemail: "About to take a massive overdose. See me now or see me in hell." I knew she wasn’t messing about. Grendel was in charge. I went straight out to see her, taking a female colleague with me. I know when not to go alone. When we arrived at her house, her front door was ajar. I had a horrible feeling of déjà vu.
Society of Clinical Psychology
DECEMBER 9, 2023
The benefits of cultivating compassion have been described for thousands of years and, over the last two decades, an increasing number of therapeutic approaches have been promoting its use in addressing mental health difficulties. As an evolutionary-focused, biopsychosocial therapy model, Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) conceptualizes compassion as a prosocial motivation, characterized by “the sensitivity to suffering in self and others with a commitment to try to alleviate and prevent it”.
Social Work Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2023
By Paul R. Pace “My mother was the first social work-like person I had ever met,” says Cindy Bautista-Thomas. “She did a lot of work in the community.” “She would volunteer at church, at the soup kitchens, and help people in the community by providing them with resources she would identify,” says Bautista-Thomas, the director of Region III for the NASW national board of directors, which represents New York State.
CAPC
DECEMBER 11, 2023
If legislation passes, people living with serious illness in New Jersey will be able to access palliative care paid for by Medicaid.
The Guardian
DECEMBER 10, 2023
Dominic Carter says the new rules that aim to ban dependants of foreign workers show that the government doesn’t care. Plus letters from Andrew Hillier and Roy Grimwood Social care has been on the ropes for years, following the failure of successive governments to even come up with a funding plan, let alone get a grip on our social care crisis. The announcement of a clampdown on migrant workers could be a knockout blow ( ‘If you go to Saudi, it’s sunny’: foreign care workers could quit UK after
Living Sober
DECEMBER 9, 2023
What gifts does sobriety give me so I can face the silly season with confidence, control, grace and patience?
Social Work Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2023
By Paul R. Pace “Right now, the LGBTQIA+ community is under attack,” says Seth J. Meyer, PhD, LCSW, assistant professor of nonprofit studies and public administration at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Threats to libraries, education, LGBTQIA+ books, and learning about or discussing queerness is taking place across the U.S. “That hurts queer kids,” Meyer says.
CAPC
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Study emphasizes the importance of palliative care education for neurologists in the community, to improve outcomes for people living with Parkinson disease.
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