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Child Abuse Prevention Month

Social Work Blog

Tertiary prevention efforts are interventions for families that have experienced ACES. Below is an advocacy opportunity, educational resources, and related organizations to help social workers and others engage in Child Abuse Prevention Month. Primary prevention efforts aim to prevent abuse and ACES before they occur.

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Child poverty rises linked to 10,000 more children going into care over five years, finds research

Community Care

They found that rates of child in need interventions linked less robustly to increases in poverty than higher-level actions. It also cited previous studies warning that social workers sometimes struggled to engage with poverty – characterised as the “wallpaper of practice” experienced by families they work with.

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Centering Transgender and Gender Expansive People in Social Work and Social Work Education

inSocialWork

Our guests recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare focusing on issues related to trans folks in social work education and practice. Christensen also has experience using theater of the oppressed to construct sexual violence prevention interventions.

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Social work supervision of school safeguarding leads has no impact on appropriate referral levels – study

Community Care

The programme did not lead to more appropriate referrals from schools to children’s social care, nor did it enhance DSLs’ wellbeing, said What Works for Early Intervention and Children’s Social Care (WWEICSC), which managed the Department for Education (DfE) funded project.

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Making the Invisibility of Social Work Interventions in Climate Issues Visible: Varied activities of a profession with a deep history of activities aimed at environmental justice

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Social work educator teaching green social work, including research on climate change and coproduction through community engagement in Croatia. Nepal School of Social Work Students learn about green social work and sustainable interventions in all types of disasters including climate change. Back to Jane Addams.

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JOINT WORLD CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

The SWESD 2022 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the JOINT WORLD CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: REDEFINING SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN A POST-PANDEMIC SOCIETY: SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AT A CROSSROADS.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 27, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Martin Guggenheim calls “ACS’s widespread practice of engaging in lawless home invasions that terrorize parents and children.” That report can then lead to intervention by Child Protective Services (CPS), invasive interviews, threats of child removals and potentially, and most devastatingly, removal of a child from a caring parent.