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40% of family support staff have personal experience of domestic abuse, finds survey

Community Care

Four in ten family support and early help workers have personal experience of domestic abuse, a survey has found. of the 350 practitioners surveyed, for a scoping study into early help and family support staff’s domestic abuse knowledge and skills. Women accounted for 90.9%

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Do employers address issues with high caseloads in social work teams?

Community Care

And research suggests the problem appears to be getting worse, at least in children’s services. The research also found a link between practitioners’ feelings about their workload and their job satisfaction. Read our guidelines page and contact our community journalist at anastasia.koutsounia@markallengroup.com.

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

Do you believe every child deserves to be safe and connected to a strong family? ” (Notably, JoAnn Ball — a Junior League member at the time — and her family personally picked up the torch. Each is a nonprofit that provides direct services to children and families. Subscribe here!

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Social workers’ quality of working life continues to decline post-lockdowns, study finds

Community Care

But social workers’ overall wellbeing recovered from phase three to four, as it did for other professionals. But researchers found social workers’ quality of working life continued to decline, with scores of 68.92 Overall wellbeing recovers. Quality of working life continues decline. in phase three, 73.67 in phase two and 80.63

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Social Work With Adults

We have continued to relentlessly seek improvement in the health and wellbeing of individuals, families, friends and carers. We have done this in collaboration with our colleagues in the social care workforce who, together with us, work alongside people and communities to enable them to lead the best possible lives.

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U.S. Administration for Children and Families Grant Funds Research Project

University of Connecticut

With a cooperative agreement sub-award of $300,000, co-Principal Investigators Jon Phillips and Cristina Mogro-Wilson will study “ PRESERVE & CONNECT : P artnerships in R igorous E valuation of S ervices that E nhance family wellbeing in R ural VE rmont, and urban Latine and Black communities in CONNECT icut.” Government.

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How to Get Started with Wellbeing

Social Work Haven

There are many things you can do to improve your wellbeing, however, it is difficult to start. Wellbeing is the state of being positive, happy, healthy and feeling empowered. Move More Getting more active is essential for your overall wellbeing. So what is well being? How to get started with well being 1.