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Beyond Borders: Global Collaborations for Mental Health Research and Services Conference

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

With the support of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Vision 2030 Global Strategy Implementation Grant, this conference will explore academic, artistic, and practical approaches to improving, supporting, and nurturing mental health across the globe.

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Making Time to Talk About Alcohol Use

Social Work Blog

Four in five adults who reported being asked about their alcohol use at a checkup in the past two years and reported current binge drinking were not counseled to reduce their drinking, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report. By Diana Ling, MA and Leslie Sirrianni, LCSW.

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Social services career path leads to exciting new statewide family support opportunity in Washington state

Children’s Home Society of Washington

I eventually received my bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, after stops in Iowa, Thailand, and India. After graduation I had the honor of spending a year providing career counseling as an Americorps volunteer, an experience that confirmed my desire to pursue a career in counseling.

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Standard operating cruelty: When the family police steal more than Social Security checks

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University of Michigan School of Law explains, what children need is relational permanence. Often it means cutting off grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, teachers, coaches and mentors. But as Prof.

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Call for Papers: Adoption Quarterly Special Issue

Jaeran Kim

Ethics are implicitly embedded in nearly all aspects of adoption including (but not limited to) pre/post-placement assessment, clinical practice, education, policy, placement/matching, disruptions/ dissolutions, search/reunion, bioethics/genetic testing, demographics, and economic factors. Augsburg University. 2211 Riverside Avenue.

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40% of family support staff have personal experience of domestic abuse, finds survey

Community Care

However, it also underlined the importance of wellbeing services, including counselling and reflective supervision, for practitioners, said the report, produced by social work academics from the University of Central Lancashire and King’s College London.

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Welcome New Social Workers!

Beyond Advocacy

Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic predicted that in 2016 the number of states experiencing social worker shortages would jump from 20 to 38 by 2030, with a national shortfall of about 200,000 social workers. My clinical MSW is useful in so many ways. However, there is a shortage of social workers.