Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

You asked, what is a social worker home visit checklist? A social worker home visit checklist serves as a comprehensive guide for social workers conducting home visits to assess the holistic health and well-being of their clients. Over the years of practice, I have also found this tool useful.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

How can you use the ecomap for intervention? Differences between genogram and ecomap Similarities between genogram and ecomap How does a genogram or ecomap help your social work practice? In addition, using ecomap symbols as part of ecomap creation gives social workers a comprehensive picture of many things.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

A student contacted me recently wanting tips on how to write on the topic; ‘why I want to be a social worker’ I explained the great benefits of being a social worker. I also embedded myself in this task and wrote with my own experiences and views on why I became a social worker in an essay format.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

Since Lyn Romeo announced her retirement in October last year , the tributes to the now former chief social worker for adults from across the profession have been warm and fulsome. Lyn Romeo is without a doubt a social worker for social workers! Will be hugely missed by many and certainly me.

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Community Care

APRIL 7, 2022

As he prepared to take over as Association of Directors of Children’s Services president, Steve Crocker said he was “awed” by the proficiency of social workers entering the profession. I know when I go and talk to newly qualified social workers in Hampshire, I am awed by their professionalism and experience and skills and ability.

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Community Care

JULY 25, 2023

Three councils have been selected to test giving responsibility for child protection cases to specialist social workers.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Social workers have been urged to help tackle the impact on Gypsy and Traveller families of increased police powers to evict them from unauthorised camps, brought in this year. This isn’t about parenting; this is about state intervention into private and family life,” she says. You’re constantly living in anxiety’.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

courts adopted a rule requiring balance of harms, entries into foster care decreased sharply. But when a child welfare system spends too much time investigating, monitoring, and adjudicating families that do not require court intervention, these serious cases can slip through the cracks. In 1977, then [U.S.

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Community Care

MARCH 5, 2024

Postcode lottery This identified huge variations between councils in the likelihood of children having no further action taken following a social care referral, proportions of children in need on CIN plans, the number of plans per head of population and their duration. ” Who are children in need? And though 27.5%

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker. Smith was taken into care as a baby, spending the first 11 years of his life in a foster home before those same carers adopted him. “I had a really positive experience of social workers,” he says.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy.

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Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

By Zoe Ash and Toni Mayo Many statutory social workers find themselves in an uncomfortable dilemma when carrying out their duties. The family had had all the support that social care could think to offer. Social workers Peter Abbott and Anna Wilsher also contributed to the article.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

“The fact that selected areas will be able to voluntarily form RCCs, and will receive both set-up and capital resource from central government to do so, while so many other areas of the country won’t, simply cannot be described as a decisive intervention to reform the whole dysfunctional care market,” it said.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

Reflecting upon past experience is a vital capability for all social work professionals to develop improved communication skills, commend ourselves for what went well, enhance future performance, and continuing professional development. Reflection also allows social workers to link theory to practice.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The council came under government intervention in 2019 after an inspection found children were not being protected, cases were being “inappropriately closed” and leaders did not understand the extent of the failings. Boost to social worker numbers despite funding constraints helps council improve Ofsted grade.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The sub-group also found that, in many cases, the courts, social workers and guardians used supervision orders as a formal way of securing resources for the child or family, risking “unwarranted state intervention” in family life. Related articles. Vital but not fit for purpose’: parents’ views on supervision orders.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

The legislation mandates early intervention to keep families intact when possible and reduce the need for foster care. It also strengthens post-adoption services. This is another example of why it is so important for social workers to be engaged in legislative settings at all levels of government,” Dr. Day concluded.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 21, 2023

Wilcox, LCSW Friday, April 28, 2023 In-person 9:30 am – 12:30 pm 3 CECs $60 – UConn SSW Alumni and Current Field Instructors $48 – All Others Social workers are often leaders in implementing practice changes within their programs. Patricia D. It’s going beyond just awareness and knowledge to really change behavior.

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Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

“There is a presumption in cases of persistent or systemic failure that children’s social care services will be removed from local authority control, for a period of time, in order to bring about sustainable improvement, unless there are compelling reasons not to do so,” it said in its statutory notice. Council improves to ‘good’.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Discover the profound wisdom of empowering attitude powerful lion quotes and how it relates to social workers today. A social worker, like the king of the jungle, possesses a lion’s heart and exhibits the lion’s attitude in the face of adversity. ” What is the best quote about a lion?

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Relias

JANUARY 24, 2024

For effective interventions, understanding the existing traumas that contribute to delinquency is paramount. Juvenile justice is shifting towards a more compassionate and nuanced approach that recognizes the profound impact of trauma on young offenders’ lives. thyroid disorder or neurological problems) Review of personal history (e.g.,

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Relias

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Telehealth has enabled providers to offer care to clients no matter where they live, without the need to break social distancing best practices. Across the United States , just 45% of counties have a psychiatrist, psychologist, or social worker — even worse, only 30% have a child psychologist. target for interventions.?Thus,

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Inadequate’ councils three times as reliant on agency social workers as highest rated authorities. from reserves to tackle children’s social worker shortage. Related articles. Government appoints commissioner to work with ‘inadequate’ council due to lack of progress. Inadequate-rated council finds £1.1m

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Community Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

It is not possible to provide service stability and strong positive cultures if there is heavy reliance on agency social workers; Northern Ireland has already taken action to curtail their use in its statutory social services.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency has further exacerbated the need to improve access to crisis intervention services. While these statistics are a significant cause for concern, social workers have been instrumental in providing support to people in crisis. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline reported receiving almost 2.4

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Gary Direnfeld

MAY 27, 2022

Although the prognosis is good, it remains the most dangerous of interventions to get there. Beyond my family, there is you, extended kin, closest of friends – my adopted family members, friends, colleagues, and those whom I haven’t met but who share space with me virtually. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Children who met thresholds were left waiting up to six weeks to see a social worker due to “significant, widespread and systemic” weaknesses in a council’s front door service, Ofsted has found. An inspirational social work leader’: tributes paid to children’s director who died after contracting Covid.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

High levels of social worker turnover undermined engagement with six young people with histories of social care involvement who were later convicted of violent offences, a review has found. Find out more from the contextual safeguarding team based at Durham University, headed by Firmin.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Social theory in social work refers to hypotheses, ideas, arguments, how and why elements or structures in the society are formed, changed or developed, and how social workers use this understanding to address inequality, promote social justice and inclusion.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 11, 2022

percent), birth or adoptive parents (96.1 Social workers could address these stressors by developing systems-focused interventions and by further considering intersectional health disparities. Most parent participants were White (85.1 percent), female (85.1 percent), and reported strong support for youth’s gender.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The family police took the noble concept of permanence and confused it with permanence in only one form – the paper permanence of formal adoption by strangers. It opted for the paper permanence of adoption, in which often a child is cut off from Mom and Dad to the point of doing everything possible to eradicate them from that child’s life.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2023

Oh, and one more thing: The crisis that led to all this actually began with a botched family police intervention involving Ms. But then … Three weeks later, her social worker surprised Lacie when she announced DCFS would be taking her children, after all. Lopez’s oldest child. Lacie asked for an explanation.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They lead to interventions, including child protection investigations and taking children into care, which can themselves harm children and families. Parents were concerned at the effect of a record of an investigation remaining on file, including one couple who were considering adopting a child in the future.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Motto of the conference: Advancing human rights in global social work profession The conference is dedicated to 18 years work of Georgian Association of Social Workers. Critical reflections on social interventions and programs that are accomplished and based on human rights framework.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

This research suggests that social workers would be beneficial additions to the abortion care workforce. From Colorblindness to Critical Investigations: Examining Structural Racism in Social Work Research This study investigates the extent to which critical race frameworks are utilized in mainstream social work research.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 6, 2022

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) wishes to bring attention to the importance of mental health as it affects millions of people in the United States. Social workers remain dedicated to ensuring the populations they serve have access to much needed resources and support.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. A social worker who doesnt want to report kids in dirty clothes to CPS. Heres the surprise: The agencies response boiled down to well yes, youre right. The allegation was unfounded.

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