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Podcast 041: Listen to Engage

Ultimate Youth Worker

In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast, “Listen to Engage”, Aaron speaks to us about the need for youth workers to listen respectfully to their young people. Listen to Engage. As youth workers we engage in a relational profession. We speak, we listen, we engage.

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Fatherhood Engagement and Social Engagement

University of Connecticut

This webinar will examine the importance of engagement with fathers and father figures in positive child development. The webinar will incorporate breakout sessions to address information on co-parenting, engaging mothers as gatekeepers, legal rights pertaining to child support and paternity, young fatherhood parenting, and empowering fathers. explore strategies on how to engage fathers. Qur-an Webb, MSW and Welcome 2 Reality. Monday, April 18, 2022.

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7 Effective Engagement Programs for Employees in Human Services

Relias

Effective engagement programs for employees play a pivotal role in the success of human services organizations. By creating engagement programs that make staff members proud or happy to work for your organization, you can reduce the likelihood of burnout and retain staff longer.

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Monthly Series Engages Students, New Social Workers

Social Work Blog

To do things like this engages students with the association, and they get a better understanding about it as well.”. And, Riggs said, they get to engage with other students from a variety of schools, backgrounds and states, “all on the same webinar.”. By Alison Laurio.

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5 Social work engagement skills to deepen rapport with clients

Save the Social Worker

Much of this requires engagement. Engagement is tough. How do you engage involuntary clients, whom may not like what you are saying to them? It will also help you better engage the client. Engagement is about the relationship.

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What’s in it for Me?: Evaluating Stakeholder Engagement

Nicole Clark Consulting

Evaluating Stakeholder Engagement appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting. Last fall, I joined an ad-hoc group to strategize around Black maternal health and abortion access. During our initial meeting, one member asked, “How will this be different from what’s currently being done?”

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2022 ENGAGE Active Grant Recipients: Empowering Engagement with Detroit Communities

Michigan Social Work

Youth Engagement through Cannabis Prevention and Employment Training. Faculty Member: Associate Professor Cristina Bares. Community Partner: Kartav Patel, Manager of Youth Services, Southwest Economic Services.

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What About Social Justice? Engaging in Environmental Justice Work

The New Social Worker

What is the role of social work in relation to environmental justice? It is important for us, as social workers, to enhance our knowledge about the impact of the environment on the health, welfare, and life span of diverse groups

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Racial Justice and Implicit Bias: Fostering Authentic Engagement

University of Connecticut

Participants will learn to talk about race constructively within their workplace, with colleague organizations, and with their clients by having conversations about racial justice work to help foster authentic engagement. Provides 2 hours of content on cultural competence. Qur-an Webb, MSW and colleagues from Welcome 2 Reality. Wed, Feb 15, 2023. 2:00 – 4:00 pm. 2 CECs. $40 40 – UConn SSW Alumni and Current Field Instructors. $50 50 – All Others.

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Advancing Active Allyship for Social Justice: Cross-Group Friendships, Social Empathy, and Political Engagement

Social Work Blog

college students (N = 329), this study explores the relationship between cross-group friendships, social empathy, and political engagement. Collections of policies in the United States have produced and perpetuated ubiquitous social disadvantage.

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Palliative Care TikTok: Describing the Landscape and Explaining Social Media Engagement

CAPC

Investigators analyzed the content and engagement metrics of palliative care TikTok videos to determine if they are a valuable education tool. News Bites

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IASSW’s Message For Peaceful Engagement With Social Justice, Opposing And Condemning Racism, Discrimination And Violence

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

IASSW’s Message For Peaceful Engagement With Social Justice, Opposing And Condemning Racism, Discrimination And Violence.

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Promoting Patient Engagement in Rehab Therapy: Strategies That Work

Relias

In other words, to promote patient engagement in rehab therapy, you must start with the individual patient’s motivation and work together toward optimal outcomes. Getting patients more engaged in their rehab therapy can be tricky even for the most experienced therapists.

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An important moment for social work and social care

Social Work With Adults

I have been so impressed with the huge amount of great policy work undertaken by Department of Health and Social Care colleagues, and the broad and comprehensive engagement with the sector – with over 200 organisations engaged in developing the vision and proposals.

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Engaging in Self-Awareness: How Not to Judge When Helping Others

Socialwork License Map

The post Engaging in Self-Awareness: How Not to Judge When Helping Others appeared first on Social Work License Map Social workers and other helping professionals need to practice self-awareness to avoid appearing judgmental to the people whom they are helping.

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Ashley Cureton Named 2022 U-M Center for Academic Innovation Engagement Faculty Fellow

Michigan Social Work

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Katie Richards-Schuster on How the Pandemic Has Changed Youth Community Engagement

Michigan Social Work

Katie Richards-Schuster joined the Michigan Minds podcast to discuss the importance of keeping students engaged and how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the ways youth participate in their communities

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HOPES 2 study launches! Helping older people with mental health needs to engage with social care

Health & Social Care Workforce

Led from the University of York by Dr Louise Newbould and Dr Mark Wilberforce, the project’s full title is ‘Helping older people with mental health needs to engage with social care: Enhancing support worker skills through … Continue reading → Ageing Mental healthThe HOPES 2 study commences this month.

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From the Journals: Impact of the Coronavirus Lockdown on Older Adolescents Engaged in a School-Based Stress Management Program

Social Work Blog

[Note: Below is an excerpt from an article in the most recent issue of the journal Children & Schools , co-published by NASW and Oxford University Press.

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The Role of Self-Stigma in Engagement in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

University of Connecticut

Associate Research Professor Hsiu-Ju Lin is working on several federally funded projects related to the opioid crisis. She is a co-investigator on a Nation Institute of Drug Abuse funded Diversity Supplement study for Transitions Clinic Network: Post Incarceration Addiction Treatment, Healthcare, and Social Supports ( TCN-PATHs). To read more about the TCN-PATHs project, visit the UNC Center for Health Equity Research website.

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The “Money in Politics” Debate and Effective Ways to Improve Local Democracy in America

Swhelper

Ideally, local governments as the smallest jurisdictions in the American political system allow citizens to engage in a direct and substantive way. Brian Adams.

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Work with the Young Person as the Focus

Ultimate Youth Worker

I was recently looking at the Certificate IV in Youth Work training package and wondering the age old question of what makes how youth workers engage with young people different. For us to engage respectfully with them it must not be from a stance of the all knowing adult.

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Social Care WRES: In praise of the phase!

Social Work With Adults

Communities Consultation and engagement SocietyA new beginning for racial equality in social care.

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Self-Care A-Z: Self-Care for Humans

The New Social Worker

This need is even more crucial when we’re engaged with human dynamics that require intense engagement, empathy, and advocacy Social Workers Are Human. As such, we must attend to our human-ness.

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12 Things I Learned from Teaching a New Class: Disaster Social Work – An Anti-Racist Lens

Social Work Futures

Creative ways of anticipating future needs and engaging local communities in planning are featured, and tensions present in this kind of work as it co-exists with other vital, urgent and important social, political and economic needs.

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Notes from the Future – March 14, 2023

Social Work Futures

Get involved – this is a very engaging and visionary group. Social work needs to be active, engaged and leading in this space. This is a question I ALWAYS ask in any foresight work I engage in.

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Saturday Dream Workshop

What a Shrink Thinks

This is an educational/experiential workshop designed to support therapists and counselors, artists and creatives, meditators and those engaged in spiritual practices and anyone who wants to learn to work with their dreams in service of healing, creative or contemplative processes.

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My name is Nyarueni

Social Service Workforce

By Glynis Clacherty, lead researcher on the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action's Community Engagement in Case Management project.

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At A Moment’s Notice

My Brains Not Broken

It doesn’t matter what the thought is, really; what matters is whether or not I engage with it (or them, if the thoughts are persistent enough). It happens every so often: I’ll be having a good day, minding my business and enjoying myself, when a thought pops into my head.

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Ask Nicole: Applying Reproductive Justice Beyond Programs & Services

Nicole Clark Consulting

Reproductive Justice presents an added layer to how organizations engage and hold themselves accountable to the communities they work with. Have a question you’d like to be featured? Let me know.

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Entering the Social Work Life: Congratulations to Our 2022 Graduates!

The New Social Worker

While celebrating, many will also engage in preparation. Congratulations, social work grads! This period may consist of making determinations about employment, pursuing further education, and considering what your “social work life” will look like

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Two Ways to Decolonize a Social Work Research Course

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Editor’s Note: Dr. 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.

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Introducing the National CASA/GAL executive leadership team

National Casa Gal

The executive team leads National CASA/GAL’s support to and engagement with our network of 939 state organizations and local programs as well external stakeholders.

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Your Staff Knows Your Programs Better Than You

Nicole Clark Consulting

Your staff knows your programs so much in fact, that when you report to your board of directors or engage new funders, you rely heavily on them to provide [.].

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Ten Ways to Try and Get Out Of Your Head

My Brains Not Broken

I have so much going on in my brain, it can be exhausting trying to engage with it on a daily basis. Whether it’s an intense physical workout or a brief walk outside, getting your body going is a good way to engage with other areas of health.

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Anticipatory Social Work: Foresight-Based Tools for Social Imagining and Collective Praxis

Social Work Futures

Social In the context of community and/or society – actively engaged with and paying attention to the ways in which society is constructed. Progress and focus for forthcoming book under contract with Oxford University Press – anticipated publication date: September-November 2024.

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Meeting Download from the Institute for the Future’s Annual 10-Year-Forecast – September 2020

Social Work Futures

It is always a robust, engaging – and sometimes unsettling gathering. The week before last, the Institute for the Future (where I have a Research Fellowship affiliation) had their annual “Ten Year Forecast” meeting.

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Agency social worker pay to be capped to that of permanent staff

Community Care

That councils do not engage agency workers for a period of three months after they have left a substantive role within the same region (excluding certain exceptions). They treat skilled social workers as a commodity, rather than engaging with them as professionals.”

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Human Trafficking Case Manager and Research Analyst Focus Group

Swhelper

According to the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, a great number of these individuals have been coerced, forced, or engaged in ‘The Life’ due to poverty and other conditions […]. Lisa Rymshaw.

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Three-quarters of social workers still to renew registration with one month to go

Community Care

Overall, 44% of registrants have engaged with the CPD process to some degree this year, said the regulator. Three-quarters of social workers are yet to renew their registration, with one month to go until the deadline.