Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

By Leeanne Olivant, NOPT In the dynamic landscape of social work, practice educators (PEs) stand as vital pillars. Caution over new training standards One potential consequence of the research is the development of new education and training standards for PE courses.

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Social Worker Interviewing Diversity Disability 218

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Remember those education workers who at the beginning of the pandemic, switched their approaches on a dime to as best as possible accommodate their students? Now these are the same people doing their best to catch those same students up academically and even socially. Our education workers. Still heroes.

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Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 203

Famcare

JULY 21, 2022

Individuals, families, and especially children attempting to obtain an education may suffer as a result of this. However, the National Alliance to End Homelessness estimates that over 500,000 people are currently homeless in the United States. One of the most significant factors contributing to homelessness is a lack of affordable housing.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 17, 2022

Amy Werman, DSW, LCSW , is a lecturer at the Columbia School of Social Work , with over 20 years of teaching experience in social work education. For the past 20 years, I have been educating MSW students. It is a question on a survey that I give my research students at the beginning of every semester. How do I know this?

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Social Worker LCSW Engagement Interviewing 334

Community Care

JULY 7, 2023

By Clare Jerrom Some social work students face delays in joining the workforce due to the marking and assessment boycott academics are carrying out at 145 UK universities. The British Association of Social Workers’ Student and NQSW Group called for “understanding” from employers for those affected by UCU’s industrial action.

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University Social Worker Hospitals Communication 204

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 25, 2022

It is a fun process as new adjuncts bring new ideas and energy to the role, and I have been reminded of my early days in social work education as an adjunct instructor. I taught statistics to social work students for four years while working on my Ph.D. Learn your boundaries as a social work educator. Plan for communication.

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Communication Disability Counseling Mental Health 217

Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Doug Ford’s government through Stephen Lecce, the Minister of Education will be spinning tales hoping to pit parents against educators. Some believe this to be in part a gender bias, and while it may be, in truth education, like healthcare, is expensive. Ontario used to be the envy of the world for its public education.

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Healthcare Private Practice Government Mental Health 147

Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Yesterday I posed a question to Educational Assistants on my Facebook page. ” Needless to say, things are not going well in public education. There are not enough resources for education, these worker are like first responders running to put out fires, tend to injuries, hunt for children who have wandered off.

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Private Practice Schools Mental Health Social Worker 264

Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

They spend the rest of the time carrying out their substantive role, though employers also arrange social work placements for them, in line with Social Work England’s requirements for students to do 200 days of practice learning across their course. The DfE has provided 79 councils with £11.7m

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University Government Social Worker 228

Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Social Work England has found broad support from the profession for its proposed expectations of students’ knowledge and skills on graduation. Social Work England’s education and training standards , against which it assesses social work courses providers.

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Consultation Social Worker Government Diversity 228

Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The government is examining how councils can place more social work students to meet its ambitions to increase numbers coming into the profession. “This could include lost productivity and more time spent by practice educators to support people through the programmes,” it said.

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Government Social Worker Consultation 253

Community Care

MARCH 30, 2023

WWEICSC – formerly What Works for Children’s Social Care – was commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) to pilot SWIS in three local authority areas in 2018-19, and then to roll it out to 21 areas for the RCT.

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Social Worker Schools School Social Work Interventional 264

Community Care

MAY 20, 2022

While the three courses have differences, they are of similar lengths (around 14 months), involve similar levels of financial support for students (tax-free bursaries of between £17,000 and £20,000 with no tuition fees) and involve the trainee being placed in a host local authority or – in Think Ahead’s case – an NHS mental health trust.

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University Mental Health Social Worker Consultation 324

Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Mandatory CPD or enhancements to the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) are needed to address skills and knowledge gaps left by the disruption to social work education caused by the pandemic. Of 166 students surveyed by researchers for this report, 60.6% Pandemic disruption.

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Diversity Social Worker Communication Consultation 211

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 28, 2022

I am of an age when the educational assistant used to work only on behalf of the student to which they were assigned. In so doing the EA was to facilitate the student’s academic achievement as best as possible. We need a policy that supports public education with more well paid EAs available to students.

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Private Practice Mental Health Administration Government 190

Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2024

They spend the rest of the time carrying out their substantive role, though employers also arrange social work placements for them, in line with Social Work England’s requirements for students to do 200 days of practice learning across their course. These are covered by the apprenticeship levy, a 0.5%

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

COVID-19 caused an unprecedented global pandemic that unmasked inequities in higher education. The pandemic interrupted conventional methods of learning and significantly changed the field of higher education. The findings presented in the article were drawn from 29 students who participated in online surveys and focus groups.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JULY 14, 2021

Editor’s Note : This blog post is adapted from the Second Edition of the Social Media Toolkit for Social Work Field Educators. The purpose of a social media policy is to inform clients, students, colleagues, and others about when, how, and why you use social media in a professional capacity.

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Code of Ethics Communication Self-harm Confidentiality 147

International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Each vignette is accompanied by a series of questions that can be used to stimulate reflection by individuals, or by groups in professional supervision/support meetings and education and training contexts. The vignettes are drawn […].

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

APRIL 19, 2023

I enjoyed all of it, but one of my personal goals has been to shift into a teaching role, and contributing as an adjunct professor for the local university’s social work educational program seemed like a great fit. After seeking this position for several years, I finally found an opportunity in 2022 and was signed up for my first class!

Private Practice 182

Private Practice Domestic Violence Social Worker University 182

Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It’s no secret I have an affinity for educational assistants. To add, I was earning far more on an equivalent basis than educational assistants are today. So all this to say that I understand and appreciate the role educational assistants play. To me, they are heros in education. I was able to support myself then.

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Schools Private Practice Mental Health Government 147

Social Work Futures

MARCH 24, 2023

Expect that a proportion of students will have real world, lived experiences of disaster survival that they bring into the class. They are just as real as other kinds of identity-related or family-related experiences, strengths and/or traumas that students bring to the classroom. For me, the learning in this space never ever ends.

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LCSW Recovery Social Worker Engagement 268

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

As many of you may already know, simulations are increasingly being incorporated into social work education in various ways (online, in-person, virtual or augmented reality, large-scale, standardized patient, OSCE (Objective structured clinical exams), formative assessment, etc.). think moving field hours out of community-based settings). .

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Criminal Justice Empathy Child Welfare Clinic 130

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Editor’s note: Melissa Freedman, MSW, is a social work educator and consultant specializing in leadership, supervision, administration, and quality management and assurance. In this blog post, she shares an overview of the interpretation guide to write a self-study for social work accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

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Communication Consultation Administration Diversity 130

Community Care

MARCH 27, 2023

It said that, in particular, it would focus on: improving and strengthening the transition from education to employment; supporting and guiding early career development; making continuing professional development (CPD) routine, impactful and core to improving professional practice; the development and accountability required of specialist roles.

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Social Worker Diversity Consultation Mental Health 242

Community Care

JANUARY 11, 2024

They spend the rest of the time carrying out their substantive role, though employers also arrange social work placements for them, in line with Social Work England’s requirements for students to do 200 days of practice learning across their course.

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Social Worker Government University 243

My Brains Not Broken

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It’s a public health issue, and we should do everything we can to push for more education and awareness around suicide prevention. But what does it mean to have more education and awareness around this topic? Nearly 20% of high school students report serious thoughts of suicide and 9% have made an attempt to take their lives.

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Mental Health Advocacy Schools 246

Social Work Futures

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Council on Social Work Education regularly goes through a lengthy process to revise its educational and practice standards. It encourages deeper and broader dialogue about now only preparing students for the “world that has been and is” but the world that is emerging. It is a limited “point in time” snapshot.

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Schools 178

Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Those themes included disbelief at the intensity and frequency of violent events across all age of students. The other theme was the disbelief that instead of walking out the disruptive student, the entire class is evacuated from the classroom instead. That is typically the educational assistants. There is a crisis in education.

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Schools Private Practice Consultation Mental Health 147

Social Work Futures

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Here’s a collection of links that I’ve been gathering up the last year – exploring the future of higher education. Check out resources on Racism, Equity, Higher Education and the Future here – AND- resources on Neoliberalism and the Knowledge Economies Paradigm here.) Hope you find them as interesting as I do.

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University Interviewing Engagement 189

Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Graduates of fast-track training schemes feel more prepared for social work but experience greater stress and less satisfaction once in practice, research for the Department for Education (DfE) has revealed. Source: Longitudinal study of local authority child and family social workers (Wave 4), Department for Education (2022).

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University Social Worker 216

Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

On a regular basis I hear the stories of educational assistants with similar scenarios. The main difference is that their occurrences take place in the public school classroom in full view of other students. I understand the issues faced by educational assistants. Students are suffering. These people are burnt out.

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Private Practice Mental Health Government Social Worker 113

Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The number of children’s social workers quitting their posts annually has risen by 40% in five years, Department for Education figures have shown. Source: Department for Education children’s social work workforce census, 2022 The net loss of staff was concentrated among frontline “case holding” practitioners.

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Social Worker 247

Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

Those were among the messages from the Welsh Parliament’s (Senedd) children, young people and education committee in a report on reforming provision for children in care and care leavers in the country.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

With a 6-3 majority decision, SCOTUS declared in Students for Fair Admissions inc. More directly, the ruling forbids all colleges and universities in the United States from taking race into consideration when admitting students. The ruling could spur more Black students to attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

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Diversity Criminal Justice LCSW Social Worker 98

My Brains Not Broken

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Tilly’s Life Center (TLC) is a nonprofit educational program that helps teens overcome the serious obstacles they are met with on a daily basis. Additionally, TLC has launched an Educator Certification initiative to train and license educators to implement our curriculum in their classrooms. can positively impact their lives.

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Mental Health Adoption Communication Schools 246

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 16, 2022

Global Dimensions in Social Work Education – Call for Proposal for SW Education Conference. this time of an increasingly interdependent and interconnected world, the social work profession is challenged to incorporate a global perspective in education, practice, and research that is culturally informed for the 21st century.

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