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Share Clear Messaging During Birth Defect Awareness Month to Help Prevent Lifelong Effects

Social Work Blog

Substance use during pregnancy is common: about 1 in 7 pregnant people drink alcohol, 1 in 20 binge drink, and 4 in 10 of those who drink also use other substances, most frequently tobacco and cannabis. January is Birth Defects Awareness Month, a call to action for social workers to share a key message: for a healthy pregnancy, it is safest to avoid alcohol, smoking, and other recreational drugs.

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Ethics Alive! Before You Sign: Understand Confidentiality Provisions, Noncompete Clauses, and Other Terms of Employment for Social Workers

The New Social Worker

Confidentiality? Noncompete? Be sure that you have a clear understanding of key contractual terms, and their ethical implications, before accepting your next social work job.

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Supporting Loved Ones with Substance Use or Mental Health Disorders During the Holidays

Gateway Foundation

The holiday season can be a time of joy, togetherness, and celebration, but for those struggling with substance use or mental health disorders, it can also be a difficult and isolating time. If you have a loved one who is facing these struggles, its important to offer support with empathy, understanding, and care. Here are a few ways you can support them during the holidays: Be Present Often, the best thing you can do is simply be there for your loved one.

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International Seminar on Social Welfare in Asia and the Pacific Rim

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

The Social Work Research Institute, Japan College of Social Work, is delighted to invite you to the International Seminar on Social Welfare in Asia and the Pacific Rim. Event Details: Dates: January 21 (Tuesday) & 22 (Wednesday), 2025 Time: 5:00 7:30 PM (Tokyo Time) Venue: Online (on-demand via YouTube) Language: English This seminar will delve into the current state and challenges of social work education in the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on the development of registration systems f

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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A Christmas Eve Lesson

Children’s Defense Fund

By Marian Wright Edelman On December 24, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the message at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on what would be his last Christmas Eve, titled A Christmas Sermon on Peace. Once again, on this Christmas Eve, I share some of that powerful lesson. In a season when many people sing carols praying for peace on earth, Dr.

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Oregon’s “child welfare” agency wants to narrow definitions of abuse – but only when THEY are the abuser!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

In Oregon, "child welfare" has become a pathetic game of whack-a-mole. Looks like lawmakers are about to take another whack. When a state takes away too many children it becomes a sellers market for providers who institutionalize those children. They can set the terms for how theyre regulated. There are two possible solutions to this: Pander to the providers at the expense of the children or stop taking away so many children needlessly.

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Rest Therapies To Reduce Seasonal Affective Disorder Symptoms

The New Social Worker

Rest therapies offer a holistic approach to managing Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), enhancing client well-being, promoting self-care, and providing coping strategies.

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Best Mental Health Charities to Donate to This Holiday Season and Beyond

Nnatasha Tracy

Looking for a meaningful last-minute gift? Discover the top-rated mental health charities that make a real impact. Whether you're honoring someone special or simply want to give back, these organizations are doing incredible work to support mental health and serious mental illness. Learn how your donation can make a difference today.

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Transformative professional development: Disaster preparedness, response, and recovery for Colorado’s early childhood councils

Child Care Aware

Maegan Loktoffs aha moment came while attending a virtual presentation provided by Child Care Aware of Americas (CCAoA) Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery team. Maegan, Early Childhood Council Leadership Alliances (ECCLA) Executive Director, reached out to CCAoA, sharing, Disaster readiness is a topic near and dear to my heart and something our members have been asking for!

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Honoring Amanda Van Hoozer:

Center for Child Protection

Three Decades of Leadership and Advocacy in Child Protection The Center for Child Protection is proud to celebrate Amanda Van Hoozer, our Chief Program Officer, who has been awarded the Family Investigations & Alternative Response Challenge Coin by Texas Child Protective Investigations (CPI) at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS).

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Intimate Partner Violence: Understanding Motives and Methods of Abusers Helps With Treatment and Prevention Efforts

Social Work Blog

By Andrea Cooper Intimate partner violence remains a persistent scourge in American culture. Its hard to determine how frequently it occurs, given survivors fear of reporting. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates roughly 41% of women and 26% of men in the U.S. have experienced sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner.

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Rep. Garcia Has Big Plans for Social Work Caucus

Beyond Advocacy

From left: CRISP Director Charles E. Lewis, Jr, CSWE CEO Dr. Halaevalu Vakalahi, Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Sylvia Garcia, NASW CEO Dr. Anthony Estreet.

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How can the business community help its employees—and all workers—solve child care challenges? (Part Two)

Child Care Aware

Heres the second part of a Q and A with Child Care Aware of Americas Executive Director of Respite Care of America (RCoA) Fran Jamison and Senior Vice President of Program Impact Ariel Ford, we continue the conversation from part one regarding key takeaways from the National Child Care Innovation Summit: Business Leaders in Action and their sessions.

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Share Clear Messaging During Birth Defect Awareness Month to Help Prevent Lifelong Effects

NASW Foundation

Substance use during pregnancy is common: about 1 in 7 pregnant people drink alcohol, 1 in 20 binge drink, and 4 in 10 of those who drink also use other substances, most frequently tobacco and.

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Adopting a cloud-based case management platform is essential for nonprofits and government agencies to operate more efficiently and make better use of their funding and budget.

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Year in Review: The New Social Worker’s Top 6 Articles for 2024.PLUS

The New Social Worker

The New Social Worker published 50 articles in 2024. Our list of Top 6 Articles for 2024 tells us the story of what social workers have been reading here. We look forward to seeing you, our readers, our friends, in 2025.

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IASSW President New Year Message for 2025

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

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Commission on adult social care reform announced by government

Community Care

The government will set up an independent commission to recommend long-term reform to adult social care, it announced today. The body, which will be led by former senior civil servant Baroness (Louise) Casey, will examine the key issues facing the sector today before recommending changes designed to help achieve the government’s ambition of creating a ‘national care service’ and based on a cross-party consensus.

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Social Work Research and the Political Arena

Beyond Advocacy

If you are planning to arrive in Seattle early for the Society for Social Work and Research annual conference, we invite you to join CRISP, Wellbeing and Equity Innovations (WEI), and the University of Washington School of Social Work for an Innovation Day workshop on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.

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Get Connected: Using Social Media for Social Work Success

Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media. In this webinar, Gary Direnfeld will discuss how social media marketing can help you build your private practice and grow your client base.

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2024 Milestones—The Year in Review 

National Casa Gal

2024 has been a year of building and progress, thanks to the commitment of staff, volunteers, and supporters like you across our nation. Read More. The post 2024 MilestonesThe Year in Review appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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Family Resource Festival: A Testament to Our Village

Center for Child Protection

On a beautiful, warm November day in Austin, the Center for Child Protection hosted its 3rd annual Family Resource Festival – a vibrant celebration that proved it truly takes a village to create a thriving, supportive community. Held on November 16th, the event provided families with a unique opportunity to connect with local organizations, discover valuable services, and network with one another.

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IASSW President’s New Year Video Message

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Prof. Antoinette Lombard, President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), sends Season’s Greetings to you all!

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Magical Thinking Throughout the Lifespan

University of Connecticut

Ruth Pearlman, LCSW, LICSW, M.ED Wed, February 19, 2025 10 am – 12 pm 2 CECs Registration Fee: $50 10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni and current SSW Field Instructors Webinar link will be emailed when your registration is complete. Magical Thinking, the cognitive process of assigning direct cause and effect to life events, was once thought to only occur in young childhood.

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Empower Your Nonprofit With Effective Payroll & HCM Services

Managing a nonprofit involves many challenges, but payroll and HR shouldn’t be among them. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps nonprofits choose the best provider. Efficient payroll services ensure timely, accurate payments, vital for maintaining staff and volunteer morale. Compliance support helps navigate complex labor laws and avoid costly fines.

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Prayers in an Advent Season

Children’s Defense Fund

By Marian Wright Edelman In many homes, this is the height of a long-anticipated season of celebrations, surprises, light, and joy. It is also a moment when many people across faiths are taking extra time to consider how they can share joy with others, especially children. Even as millions of people are preparing to celebrate the birth of a poor, homeless child threated by Herods violence whom Christians call Savior, there are fears about new threats to children and young people in our own land.

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Extra £200m for social care in council settlement ‘wholly inadequate’, warn sector heads

Community Care

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. An extra 200m for social care in next year’s council finance settlement is “wholly inadequate” to tackle additional costs facing adults’ services, sector leaders have warned. The government pledged to increase the social care grant – which is ring-fenced for adults’ and children’s services in England – by 880m, in its provisional local governm

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Loving Library Ambassadors Create Cozy Reading Space for Center Kids

Center for Child Protection

As the season of giving kicks off, two dedicated youth ambassadors from the Loving Library brought warmth and joy to the Center for Child Protection, donating 100-200 books from their recent drive as well as a custom-built bookshelf. During their visit, ambassadors Deven Kancherla, 14, and Yuvraj Desai, 10, not only assembled the bookshelf but also added thoughtful touches like cozy pillows to create an inviting reading nook for children in the Centers play area.

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Motivating Couples to Stay in Treatment

American Board of Clinical Social Work

The theoretical foundations, structure and techniques of Neurodynamic Couples Therapy provide built-in motivators that enhance a couples desire to stay in treatment. Those primary motivators arehope, respectand mutualunderstanding. Most people who seek mental health treatment are experiencing some level of hopelessness, so it logically follows that all good treatment should provide hope for improvement.

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Why the DSM Doesn’t Acknowledge Sensory Integration Symptoms

University of Connecticut

Ruth Pearlman, LCSW, LICSW, M.ED Wed, January 22, 2025 10 am – 12 pm 2 CECs Registration Fee: $50 10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni and current SSW Field Instructors Webinar link will be emailed when your registration is complete. Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is a condition where a person has difficulties regulating their senses within their environment.

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International Conference on Social Work Practice Research Held at Peking University with Global Participation

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Prof. Antoinette Lombard, President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), was the honorary guest and plenary speaker at the International Conference on Synthesizing Knowledge: Chinese Social Work Practice Research and Its Dialogue with the World, held from November 30 to December 1, 2024, at Peking University, Beijing, China.

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One in three practitioners would recommend social work as a career, finds regulator

Community Care

Just one-third of social workers (34%) would recommend the profession as a career, a Social Work England has found. A greater proportion – 42% – would not recommend social work, with the remainder being neutral on the issue, according to the regulator’s first annual survey of the profession. The online survey, carried out in spring 2024, received 2,120 responses, equivalent to 2% of the registered population in England.

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INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON SOCIAL WELFARE IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC RIM

International Federation of Social Workers

Current State and Issues of Professional Social Work Education in the Asia Pacific Region Development of Registration Systems for Qualification Holders The Japan College of Social Work is pleased to […]

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Ministers plan biggest shake-up of adult social care in England for decades

The Guardian

But final report on reforms would not emerge until 2028, which health leaders say is kicking crisis into the long grass Wes Streeting: Britain has a social care crisis. Heres how Labour plans to fix it Fixing UK social care will be biggest challenge yet for Louise Casey Ministers are to launch a historic independent commission to reform adult social care, as they warned older people could be left without vital help and the NHS overwhelmed unless a national consensus was reached on fixing a faili

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Advancing Supervisory Skills in Responding to Children and Families in Crisis

University of Connecticut

9 am – 12 pm Instructor: Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II This workshop seeks to help social work supervisors to support staff working with children and families in crisis using various supervision models. Supervisors will learn to guide their staff in assessing the diverse needs, strengths, and limitations of their clients. The workshop will also explore techniques to support staff in ethical practice and effective communication with children, family members and family groups.