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How to Be an Ally to People Who Are Bisexual

Socialwork License Map

Social Work Licensing Map asks experts about bisexual erasure, how it affects mental health and what allies can do to support people who are bisexual. The post How to Be an Ally to People Who Are Bisexual appeared first on Social Work License Map.

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Opportunities expand for teaching partnerships

Social Work With Adults

Local authorities and their partners are providing more opportunities for statutory placements, within the community and across NHS settings. Success story. Teaching partnerships, to improve placement opportunities and the quality of learning and development students experience on placement, have been a great success. So much so, government funding, channeled through the Department of Education and the Department for Health and Social Care, is now being expanded.

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Local authorities show commitment to support for their social workers

Social Work Awards

The Social Work Awards has announced its category sponsors for this year’s Social Worker of the Year Awards in November 2021. This year’s event has 12 award categories which have been sponsored by social work organisations and local authorities across the country keen to demonstrate their support of social work and commitment to continuous professional improvement of the social work community.

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How we can better support LGBTQ+ young people in care

The Frontline

In celebration of Pride Month 2021, Dan shares his advice for social workers supporting LGBTQ+ young people. Dan is a care leaver, and now works as a care experienced participation lead with young people in care in the South of England. As a child growing up in foster care, I was given so many different labels – Looked After Child, challenging, disruptive, difficult to place and having ‘anger issues’, to name a few.

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Adopting a cloud-based case management platform is essential for nonprofits and government agencies to operate more efficiently and make better use of their funding and budget.

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2021 NACSW 71st Annual Convention

The Advocate

NACSW is pleased to announce this year’s 71st Annual Convention , “Bringing All People Under One Roof: Supporting Vulnerable Groups in Our Communities” in Glendale, CA from November 18-21st, 2021. Mark your calendars today so you do not miss this remarkable event for Christians in social work – or better yet, register today ! Check out this video message from the 2021 Planning Committee members.

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Reunification: How Foster Parents and Birth Parents Can Work Together

KVC

During National Family Reunification Month , KVC celebrates birth parents who have overcome adversity to safely bring their families back together. They have done the work needed to stabilize their lives and strengthen their families. There are many people involved in the steps toward safe and successful family reunification. Foster parents can especially be a welcome source of encouragement and reassurance to birth parents and can act as their parenting partners while their children are in fost

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When the people you’re trying to help seek to deceive #2: Nigel

The Masked AMHP

From the early 80’s to the late 90’s I used to do out of hours standby duty sessions. I covered nights and weekends, in addition to the day job. It always seemed to be that the most extraordinary and perplexing cases turned up outside normal working hours. Nigel was certainly one of those. One Saturday, I received a call from the Samaritans in a town in the county I covered.

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Child Abuse and Custody in Family Court

Stop Abuse Campaign

← Research Roundup May 2021. Why Family Courts Usually Fail Abuse Victims → Our child abuse and custody crisis. I believe we are all aware that child abuse is real, and parents hurt children way too often – but are you aware that the legal professionals who are required to protect these children are quite frankly failing at the very profession they have chosen?