Community Care

JUNE 13, 2024

A third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties, research has found. They also interviewed 42 social care professionals, 17 lawyers and four mothers with learning disabilities or learning difficulties who had experience of proceedings.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Children deprived of their liberty should have access to advocacy, including non-instructed advocacy as needed. The education secretary and Ofsted must be notified of any deprivation of liberty application where the child is not in a registered home.

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Relias

OCTOBER 6, 2021

People with disabilities and their families suffer the most serious effects of staff turnover. Constant training of new workers interrupts the continuity of care that allows individuals with disabilities to reach their full potential. The State of Medicaid Programs and the Need for Grassroots Advocacy. However, it is possible.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 27, 2022

Social workers have a long tradition of social justice and political advocacy – to include working to expand and protect voting rights and promote voter registration. If passed, such bills will have sweeping impacts on communities of color, students, veterans, LGBTQIA+ people, people with disabilities, and older adults. Getty Images.

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Community Care

APRIL 20, 2023

Councils should have a bigger role monitoring local residential settings in their areas to better protect disabled children, an inquiry into the abuse of children in three services has concluded. “These recommendations set out a roadmap to more humane treatment of these children.

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CO4Kids

MARCH 3, 2025

In an effort to increase awareness of brain injuries, the Brain Injury Association of Colorado (BIAC) and the Arc of Colorado will host the Unmasking Project at the State Capitol on March 6 in conjunction with Disability Rights Advocacy Day. The masks reflect how survivors share their stories and build understanding with others.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

This user-friendly resource can assist in developing organizational responses to policy issues, conducting policy analysis, and working in advocacy coalitions. Social Work Speaks is a reference tool that represents the collective thinking of thousands of social workers across all fields of practice.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

The ensuing chapters examine poverty and its impact on children and adolescents, older adults, adults with disabilities, veterans, immigrants, and other vulnerable groups.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

These profiles represent families that are unemployed, disabled, elderly, are single parent households, and recipients of some form of assistance such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or Social Security Disability. Article authors: Anna Maria T.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Medicare is integral to the economic security and health of people with disabilities and older adults. Center for Medicare Advocacy— Medicare Enrollment Issues for 2022 (October 20, 2021). Center for Medicare Advocacy. Yet, Medicare enrollment can be challenging even for long-time beneficiaries and experienced care partners.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

? Last week, I was asked to list the most important contributions to the field of family advocacy and family defense made by Prof. It gets less attention than the racial and class bias that permeate family policing, but discrimination against families with disabilities is just as pervasive. Martin Guggenheim.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Safeguarding teams took no action in response “serious” concerns about the care of disabled people segregated in mental health hospitals, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said. Almost half did not have an exit strategy from long-term segregation or a robust discharge plan.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

It said that “unclear, complex and energy-sapping” complaints processes, inaccessible information and a lack of advocacy were undermining people’s ability to challenge local authority decisions. You can read more about the findings in our article.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

Ives-Rublee is currently director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress. She is a well-known advocate for disability justice and inclusion at nonprofit organizations and businesses in the United States. She earned her master’s in social work at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

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Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The U-M Council for Disability Concerns established the James T. Neubacher Award in 1990 as a memorial to Jim Neubacher, a U-M alum who was a columnist for The Detroit Free Press and an advocate for equal rights and opportunities for people with disabilities. The award is presented annually in October during Disability Community Month.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

These vague, punitive, and intensely subjective laws have been vehicles for channeling students—disproportionately Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) students and students with disabilities – into the criminal system. That student was then arrested for speaking out against the officer’s misconduct.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2023

Learning disabilities and autism The draft bill aims to strengthen safeguards for those with learning disabilities and autistic people. The draft bill would also remove learning disabilities and autism as conditions for which an individual could be detained for treatment under section 3 of the MHA.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 1, 2022

Disability, Intimacy, and Sexual Health: A Social Work Perspective by Kristen Faye Linton, Heidi Adams Rueda, and Lela Rankin Williams. In this book the authors compile comprehensive research and candid interviews with social workers to explore the complicated intersection of disability and sexuality. CEUs for reading this title! _.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

According to an alert by the Center for Medicare Advocacy (hereafter, the Center)—a national nonprofit organization with which NASW collaborates closely on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries—CMS stated in its December 23 FAQs: “‘The bottom line is visitation must be permitted at all times’” (para. Center for Medicare Advocacy.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Disability. The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) and partner organizations have created comment portals (listed below) for individuals to submit comments regarding specific populations, as well as social media toolkits for organizations to promote them. The deadline to submit comments is Monday, October 3. COMMENT PORTALS. Language Access.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Inaccessible information, “complicated and stressful processes” and a lack of advocacy were undermining people’s ability to challenge local authority decisions in England and Wales, the rights regulator found, on the back of an inquiry it started in 2021. The report also raised concerns about access to advocacy.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Client Advocacy Client advocacy is a core aspect of social work, reflecting a commitment to improving the lives of those who may face challenges in advocating for themselves. Advocacy takes various forms, including individual, organisational, and systemic levels. Client Advocacy 6. What are the roles of social worker?

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Social Work Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Johnson’s case is particularly concerning given his extensive documented history of mental illness, learning disabilities, abuse, and trauma. Johnson’s adolescence was riddled with suicide attempts and hospitalizations, and he ultimately was diagnosed with schizophrenia as early as age 16, according to the Missouri Supreme Court.

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 11, 2022

Supervisors explore techniques for supporting teams in service planning, health education, and health advocacy. Encourage and partner with supervisees to seek contemporary literature to better understand the health challenges confronted by clients (including chronic conditions, developmental disabilities, and acquired disabilities).

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Women, people of color, older workers, workers with disabilities, LGBTQ workers, immigrant workers, and those with multiple and intertwining identities, continue to face employment discrimination at alarming rates, despite decades of civil rights protections.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Department of Justice has found the state regularly violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by needlessly institutionalizing children with mental health problems. It certainly had a negative effect on the children.” Added Prof.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

According to an alert by the Center for Medicare Advocacy (hereafter, the Center)—a national nonprofit organization with which NASW collaborates closely on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries—CMS stated in its December 23 FAQs: “‘The bottom line is visitation must be permitted at all times’” (para. Center for Medicare Advocacy.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 26, 2022

Our amicus brief provided research on the various interrogation techniques and dispositional factors that increase the risk of a false confession such as sleep deprivation, individuals with intellectual disability, lengthy interrogations, and other psychologically coercive tactics, several of which were a part of the Ms. Background.

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Community Care

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) found that just half of services were able to meet demand for services including one-to-one therapy or counselling, group-based interventions, helplines or advocacy for child or adult victims/survivors and family members.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

Read more about NASW’s work on several key policy issues at socialworkers.org/advocacy/policy-issues ). Our second feature article examines social work as it relates to advocating for those with developmental disabilities.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

But the Times reports that even another group that supports her suggested hers was a borderline case: Professor Wax is a test case of academic freedom, “right up on the line,” said Alex Morey, the director of campus rights advocacy for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression [FIRE]. But is the line always bright and clear?

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

. ‘Welcome protection for people receiving care’ Bottery said the government “deserves some credit” for its inflationary rise in the MIG, while Abrahams also welcomed the increases in this, the PEA and the savings credit disregard, saying these would “protect the income of people who have funded care” For learning (..)

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Senator Bob Casey), Sanders oversees the committee’s team and advances a broad-based policy agenda to enhance health and economic security for older Americans and people with disabilities. Sanders led the organization’s federal policy analysis, regulatory and legislative advocacy and coalition building efforts.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Children Act defines children in need as those who are disabled or whose health or development will be significantly impaired, or not be maintained to a reasonable standard, without the provision of services.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

Mike Oliver , an English disability rights campaigner and author, is widely recognised as the founder of the social model of disability. His work has had a significant influence on government policy in relation to disability rights and access to services. He was made a CBE in 2009 for his services to disabled people.

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Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The same discrimination is also applied to children’s religion, gender, ethnicity, geographic location, poverty, disabilities, and more. ?Why? The answer isn’t found in the disparity between kids but in the systemic bias in all child welfare areas, including social work, law enforcement, and the judicial system.

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