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The Art and Science of Social Work

Famcare

Most people think social workers are like high school friends that are willing to help in any way they can. They are willing to listen to your problems then try to think up some way to help you out. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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How equipped is children’s social work for digital safeguarding?

Community Care

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. This presented challenges for children’s social care, but services were quick to adapt.

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10 Things – Dispatches from the Future – May 12, 2022 Edition

Social Work Futures

Periodic interesting things gathered – to accelerate (or disrupt) social working thinking, exploring and practice with a futures/foresight lens. Remember when I did that project to explore how AI was turning up in the social work practice environment ? Social Work in the face of collapse.

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NASW Proudly Acknowledges Women’s History Month

Social Work Blog

It highlights the often-overlooked roles that women have played in various fields, including politics, science, literature, arts, and more. It highlights the often-overlooked roles that women have played in various fields, including politics, science, literature, arts, and more.

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Is Reading Good For Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

There are many times of year we might want to curl up with a favourite novel, maybe by the fireside over the festive season when work winds down, on a beach during the summer when we’ve time to ourselves or on the morning commute when a book may seem friendlier than the eye contact of those around you.

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Is Reading Good For Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

There are many times of year we might want to curl up with a favourite novel, maybe by the fireside over the festive season when work winds down, on a beach during the summer when we’ve time to ourselves or on the morning commute when a book may seem friendlier than the eye contact of those around you.

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Love Letter to OCAD’s Foresight Program

Social Work Futures

The Ontario College of Art and Design has a Master’s Degree Program in Strategic Foresight. I happened upon it via the work of many of their graduates and the way in which they position this work online as a generous and brilliant act of public scholarship. THANK YOU OCAD. You are amazing. Barreda, R. Master’s thesis.

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