Community Care

MAY 12, 2024

Revisions to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 code of practice are still under discussion two years after proposed changes were consulted upon. That was the message from care minister Helen Whately in response to a parliamentary question from shadow justice minister Alex Cunningham earlier this month. Whately sidestepped the question.

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Beautiful Voyager

APRIL 30, 2021

I started doing an inventory: I launched my own mental health consulting business, completed a few training sessions, quickly boosted my professional network, got involved in various projects and the list goes on. Not another mental health diagnosis and medication! referring to my worst mental health challenges).

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Community Care

AUGUST 30, 2023

It has launched the consultation in the wake of the government’s decision in April to delay introducing the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) – its planned replacement for the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) – beyond the next election, due in 2024.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 5, 2024

Pragati (the erstwhile Integrated Rural Health and Development Project) is a field action project of the Centre for Health and Mental Health, School of Social Work. The consultation was led by Dr. Smitha Nair (Faculty advisor) and Mr. Pravin Yadav (Project Co-ordinator).

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Social Work Blog

MAY 25, 2022

Social workers are the largest group of mental health providers in the United States and treatment of PTSD is one of their specialty areas. Identify future areas of work/growth, boundaries as practitioners as the continued need for mental health treatment remains an essential service during the COVID 19 pandemic in the U.S.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed. A few years later, the parent organization KVC Health Systems was created. Read more about KVC’s mental health treatment services here.

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My Brains Not Broken

JUNE 20, 2023

And that starts by consulting my list. Mental health is not always cause and effect, a lesson that’s taken me a long time to learn. It’s almost as if there’s a missing piece to a puzzle, or as if I’ve forgotten an answer to a question I’ve known my whole life.

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Community Care

APRIL 14, 2025

Regional adoption agencies (RAAs) and local authorities had lodged applications with the ASGSF – which is managed on the DfE’s behalf by consultancy Mott MacDonald – that had been put on hold pending a decision on the fund’s continuation.

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Community Care

MARCH 26, 2025

Published for consultation last week, the suggested PQS are designed to work in tandem with the proposed social work induction programme (SWIP). Respond to the consultation You can respond to the consultation on the PQS, which also covers the proposed social work induction programme, by answering this online survey.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

We also support the removal of geographic restrictions and the proposal to allow beneficiaries’ homes as an originating site for telehealth services for the purpose of diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of mental health disorders. Include Behavioral Health Services in Audio-Only. Chronic Pain Management.

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Community Care

AUGUST 18, 2023

By Tim Spencer-Lane The Supreme Court has handed down its long-awaited judgment in R (Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2023] UKSC 31. Tim Spencer-Lane is a lawyer specialising in adult social care, mental health and mental capacity, and is legal editor of Community Care Inform.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Additionally, I am the Co-owner of ‘2AssureUS’ LLC, which will be providing consultation services for mental health startups and offer therapeutic services as well as parenting programs. What are your favorite hobbies? No hard work goes without some fun! Family and good friends are priorities.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

APRIL 19, 2023

I enjoyed all of it, but one of my personal goals has been to shift into a teaching role, and contributing as an adjunct professor for the local university’s social work educational program seemed like a great fit.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Fast-track programme Think Ahead will train 320 more mental health social workers after the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) extended its contract up to 2027. extension covers two cohorts, starting in 2024 and 2025, each of 160 trainees, the same size as the 2023 cohort.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The NHS remains “heavily reliant” on inappropriate out-of-area mental health hospital placements despite a government target to eliminate them by March 2021, psychiatrist leaders have warned. Proposed Mental Health Act overhaul included in Queen’s Speech. ‘Inhumane and costly’ scandal.

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Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

A: About a hundred years ago back in South Africa where I was born, I trained as a nurse, got several post-grad nursing qualifications, did a master’s in sociology and a doctorate in adult education and public health. I had zero mental health issues for the first fifty-plus years of my life… Q: When did you first experience bipolar disorder?

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

The long-awaited reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 and action to deliver “fair pay” for staff in adult social care are also included in its first legislative programme since taking office this month. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Social Work England has finalised training standards for approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) and the new role of approved mental capacity professional (AMCP) following consultation. AMHP and approved mental capacity professional training standards launched for consultation. Related articles.

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Concerned individuals should consult an experienced and trusted immigration law attorney about your situation to verify that what you are doing will be honored by authorities in your state. What is the states role in overseeing child welfare in Colorado? An ORPC advocate will reach out to you within 48 hours.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

The local authority is required to nominate someone with experience in education in relation to children and a social worker with experience in relation to children, and may appoint other appropriate individuals after consultation with safeguarding partners.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Counsellor : They provide counselling and emotional support to individuals and families facing a wide range of challenges, including mental health issues, addiction, and crisis situations. Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2022

The way ordinary residence is determined for mental health aftercare remains unsettled, despite the government winning a court ruling relating to its radical new approach to the issue. The High Court ruled that this was not applicable to the Mental Health Act, in which there are no deeming rules. MHA reform plans.

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Community Care

APRIL 30, 2024

The government has particularly highlighted growth in the number of claims for people with mental health conditions, with the numbers being awarded PIP whose main disabling condition was mixed anxiety and depressive disorders rising from 2,200 per month in 2019 to 5,300 in 2023.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is certain to be delayed again, with the government yet to consult on how to put the scheme into practice. “We were given a realistic expectation of consultation. Spring to summer consultation – it’s now winter. Regulations can then take up to 40 days to become law.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

By Sue Coyle In February, Lynn Stanley, LICSW, executive director of the NASW New Hampshire and Vermont chapters, testified before Vermont’s Senate Committee on Health and Welfare. Her testimony came nearly a year after a Vermont social worker—the second in eight years—was killed while on the job.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

She also expanded community partnerships, such as collaborating with Global Orphan Project’s CarePortal to create Protective Homes in Kansas and working with community mental health centers and churches to strengthen families and safely prevent children from entering foster care. Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices.

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Relias

JANUARY 24, 2023

According to Congress: “This act directs the Department of Justice (DOJ) to develop scenario-based training curricula (or identify existing curricula) that includes topics such as alternatives to the use of force, de-escalation tactics, and safely responding to an individual experiencing a mental, behavioral health, or suicidal crisis.

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

Social Work England has issued guidance for higher education institutions (HEIs) on implementing new standards for approved mental health professional (AMHP) qualifying courses. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Summary - To thrive, students need access to services and programs of outreach, education, and prevention that: - Eliminate fragmentation and improving access to biopsychosocial services - Recognize patterns in campus life that suggest the presence of mental and behavioral health concerns among individual students, groups of students, or the campus (..)

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Community Care

MAY 20, 2022

For Think Ahead, which trains social workers to work in adult mental health services, primarily, 94% completed their first year, earning a post-graduate diploma in social work, in the most recent intake (2020-21), with 92% doing so in the two previous ones, 2018-19 and 2019-20.

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

New Research: LGBTQIA+ Youth Mental Health & How You Can Help. A shocking 42% of LGBTQ youth considered suicide in the last year, and 70% of LGBTQ youth reported poor mental health throughout most of the pandemic. Read it now. Find out how you can help youth feel accepted and loved. Read it now. Check it out today!

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The long-awaited children’s social care implementation strategy, which will be published today by the Department for Education (DfE), also includes plans to support councils recruit up to 500 social work apprentices and consultative proposals on reducing authorities’ reliance on agency staff.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

People with lived experience cited stress and frustration, a deterioration in mental health and decreased independence as some of the impacts of waiting for an assessment. EMADASS invested additional funding beyond the IMPACT project to commission a consultancy to develop an implementation readiness tool.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The government’s response to the consultation on the draft revised Mental Capacity Act code of practice, including provisions for implementing the Liberty Protection Safeguards , the successor to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.

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Relias

JANUARY 3, 2023

Client Consultant the Center for Spectrum Services. Better manage their own mental health. “Mastering these skills can have a direct correlation to the opportunity to live a socially more fulfilling life,” said Sharon Koczaja, L.C.S.W.-R, R, Q.C.S.W., Initiate and maintain conversation.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

I have colleagues who were former foster youth, had parents that suffered from mental health barriers, or were victims of witnessing domestic violence between adults in the home. I do believe that there are social workers who see themselves in their clients and this is one of many factors as to why individuals stay in this field.

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

Children’s social workers’ caseloads are bigger, more complex and harder to manage, taking a toll on their mental health and family life and leaving some contemplating quitting. It has become increasingly hard to access mental health services, until at crisis point. “My Quality undermined. for social workers and 24.2

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