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23 Social work quotes to (de)motivate you in 2021

Save the Social Worker

Introduction. First week of 2021 … and you’re looking for motivational quotes already ? Finding quotes that will do the trick in upping your motivation to return to work, after the long break? To see clients again? To find out why you continue in this difficult sector? Well, if you’re looking for that here, look no further. You won’t find it. I don’t have it.

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Mindful Monsters Feelings Chart

Creative Play Therapist

Click for your free download. This feelings can be found in the "Mindful Monsters Therapeutic Workbook" along with close to 100 other interventions, coloring pages, crafts and worksheets. The workbook can be used on its own, or alongside the children's book "Be Mindful of Monsters.". Visit BumbleBLS.com/Shop to buy these books. “Be Mindful of Monsters” is an early reader created to help children understand and cope with powerful emotions.

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Good Grief! Coping with grief & loss

Millennial Social Worker

Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”. ? Jamie Anderson. Many of us have experienced some form of grief this year. We have all felt its weight in one way or the other.

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He Died Waiting: Book Review

Learning Social Worker

Book review, by Stephanie Hassanali (nurse and clinical nurse trainer), of He Died Waiting: Learning the lessons – a bereaved mother’s view of mental health services by Caroline Aldridge. I read He Died Waiting because I want to impact positively on outcomes for everyone, “patients”, professionals and families. I have worked hard to put into practice care that is personalised.

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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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How to make supervision work for you

Save the Social Worker

You probably already know this. You need good supervision to progress as a social worker. Not supervision that tells you what to do. But supervision that works with you, for you. How do you do that? But more importantly, why should you do that? Let’s start with what good supervision looks like, before we go into how to make your own supervision better.

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How investing teaches social service strategy

Save the Social Worker

Table of Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. Who are you to tell me this? 3. Because let’s face it…. 4. Strategy is playing people chess, not people checkers. 5. Successful strategy is in the day-to-day course correction. What are the practical steps? 6. Successful strategy is a habit. 7. But I’m just a member of staff! Be active, not passive. Manage your boss.