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Technology Disruption Readiness Plan: A Best Practice for the Social Work Classroom

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Your institution may already offer guidance or have policies established – please check with your administrators, online learning specialists, and offices of disability services. For yourself, you might want a list with contact information for your colleagues and your human resources office.

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A Helpful Guide to KVC’s Mental Health and Child Welfare Services in Kansas and Missouri

KVC

As the parent organization, KVC Health Systems does not provide direct services to children and families; rather it provides administrative support to its local subsidiaries or business units. For our administrative support teams like HR or Accounting, contact KVC Health Systems at www.kvc.org or (913) 322-5900.

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Big Savings: All NASW Press eBooks on Sale 20% Off!

Social Work Blog

Schmitz, can serve as a guide for educators, students, practitioners, and administrators to support the growth and development of female leaders. Women who lead effectively know the importance of lifting as we climb—of bringing other women along—and that mentoring is a critical component to the leadership development process. Starks, Gayle M.

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Social Workers Breaking Barriers-One Day at A Time

American Board of Clinical Social Work

This make take months to even years requiring collaboration with the State Administration Department of Human Affairs. They did their research and brought their own united voice to Human Resources. These are examples of providing dignity in overcoming barriers.

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Save on All NASW Press eBooks: 15% Off!

Social Work Blog

Burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma are topics that students, instructors, practitioners, and administrators are concerned about. The book is timely in that the economic downturn has put pressure on agencies to do more with less, which ultimately leads to stress.

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

Community Care

With increased workloads and changing working patterns, managers and human resource professionals have been dealing with the brunt of staff frustrations and backlash, this alongside a lack of recognition and understanding needs addressing as we progress through this next stage of the pandemic.”. .

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Native Americans and Opioid Addiction: Understanding the Problem

Relias

Perhaps even more concerning for the future, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) estimated that over 5% of the total AI/AN population in 2019 struggled with opioid misuse. They rose further to 56.6 deaths per 100,000 Native Americans in 2021, the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic — a sharp increase of 33%.