Social Work Blog

MARCH 25, 2022

The obstacles and stresses that children with developmental disabilities and their families face can become overwhelming. By Dinah Wisenberg Brin. Before exploring how social workers can help neurodiverse children and their families, it’s important to understand their unique struggles.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 12, 2025

. – 3:45 p.m.Online International Social Work Day Disability Entitled ” Care societiesfor everyone: Advancing the social rights of people living with disabilities,” the day aims to raise awareness, mobilize political actors, and devise solutions to build supportive and sustainable societies.

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Nnatasha Tracy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Specifically, I know that many disabled people think that no one would want them if they knew the real them. But do disabilities — bipolar disorder or otherwise — stand in the way of being desirable? But one thing I know is that many people think that no one would want them if they knew the real them.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 12, 2023

During July, communities celebrate Disability Pride by showcasing their contributions and advocating for their rights. The first Disability Pride celebration took place in 2015 to mark the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which was signed on July 26, 1990.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 2, 2025

People with FASDs can live with lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) can occur when a developing baby is exposed to alcohol before birth.

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The New Social Worker

MAY 18, 2022

There are five things social workers can do today to be better intersectional practitioners in support of disabled people in the Asian American community. They center around the need for social workers to be reflective and reflexive practitioners.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When speaking to Elaine James, her passion for upholding the rights of people with learning disabilities is almost infectious. This is also evident in her accomplishments as the head of service for learning disabilities and preparation for adulthood at Bradford council. Can you tell me about your work with Promote the Vote?

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Community Care

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A review into the “complex and fragmented” social care legal framework for disabled children has opened. The DfE’s objectives for the review are: Resolving the patchwork of legislation that currently governs social care for disabled children.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The government said the Mental Health Bill would tackle racial discrimination in care, end the inappropriate detention of people with a learning disability and autistic people and give patients a greater say in decisions over their care.

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Community Care

APRIL 30, 2024

The government has proposed overhauling a key disability benefit in the face of its “spiralling” caseload and costs, in a move labelled “dangerous” and “reckless” by charities. It was introduced in 2013 to replace disability living allowance (DLA) for people of working age. What is PIP?

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Community Care

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The self-reported rate of disability among care leavers is double that recorded by councils, research has found. Meanwhile, recorded disability rates among children in care and care leavers differ widely between local authorities, according to the report, published this week by Coram Voice.

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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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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 6, 2023

Education Resource- International Perspectives of Disability video Here is a video from social work day prepared by various student/intern at the UN NY and participated in the Global Student Conference held on April 2, 2023. The video is about the different perspectives of disability around the world.

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Community Care

APRIL 21, 2023

The ‘outdated’ legal framework on social care for disabled children in England will be reviewed with a view to making it fairer and more effective. To improve how the law on social care for disabled children fits in with the law relating to children’s social care more broadly.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The government has rejected an expert panel’s proposal to “severely curtail” the “inhumane” solitary confinement of people with learning disabilities and autistic people in mental health hospitals.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

Government safeguarding advisers have voiced their disappointment over ministers’ response to their recommendations to improve the safeguarding of disabled children in residential settings. Accepted in principle. Accepted in principle. Accepted in principle. Accepted in principle.

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Community Care

JANUARY 2, 2025

They include a director of children’s services (DCS) who led his authority to two consecutive outstanding ratings and a head of service who has championed the voting rights of people with learning disabilities. There was also recognition for the former head of a university social work centre and a regional adoption agency lead.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Rachel Adam-Smith says stopping benefits when loved ones are in hospital fails to recognise carers ongoing role The mother of a severely disabled young woman was left in financial hardship after her carers allowance was wrongly stopped while her daughter was seriously ill in hospital.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MAY 20, 2022

Your institution may already offer guidance or have policies established – please check with your administrators, online learning specialists, and offices of disability services. For example, consider inclement weather, disability services, information technology, and COVID policies. Who can help me with this plan?

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Associate Professor Shanna Kattari is the editor of “Exploring Sexuality and Disability: A Guide for Human Service Professionals,” published earlier this month.

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Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The annual U-M award is presented to a student, alumn, faculty or staff member who has exhibited leadership and service in support of the disability community. “I This recognition reflects the work of so many people committed to disability justice within our university and community. I am deeply honored to receive the James T.

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CCRC

MARCH 18, 2025

Those limits are $5,000 for the first two filing categories above, $7,500 for the third category, and $3,750 for the final group. Wildfire Tax Breaks Another tax credit for families supports those impacted directly by the Los Angeles County wildfires in early 2025.

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Michigan Social Work

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Professor Connie Sungs research focuses on community-based interventions in improving individuals with disabilities in career development and psychosocial adjustment. She has authored over 90 publications and secured over $20 million in research funding.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The government will review the local authority designated officer (LADO) role after an inquiry into the abuse of disabled children identified “major failings” in relation to the function. ” Urgent actions .

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Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Funding for housing adaptations and homelessness services Alongside the social care funding, authorities will also receive an extra £86m in disabled facilities grant (DFG), which the Treasury said would fund an extra 7,800 adaptations to the homes of disabled people. The DFG is worth £625m this year. in April 2025, to £12.21

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My Brains Not Broken

OCTOBER 11, 2022

After doing some research, I found the following statistics from WHO : Mental health conditions now cause 1 in 5 years lived with disability. I like to use those opportunities to share statistics and resources related to mental health, but I don’t always look at things from a global perspective.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But discrimination against families with physical or mental disabilities gets far less attention, even though it is just as widespread. Robyn Powell of Stetson University College of Law has written: The disproportionate rate of child welfare system involvement in families headed by parents with disabilities is striking.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The Hackneys and their lawyer suspect that the algorithm, and the humans who may be slavishly following it, discriminated against them because of disabilities. In this case, and at least two others, they are investigating whether, in Pittsburgh, humans and machines alike violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Social Service Workforce

OCTOBER 25, 2023

by Lucy Marie Richardson*

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Revitalise says challenges ‘insurmountable’ due to local authority cuts, higher running costs and fall in donations Britain’s only specialist respite holiday provider for severely disabled people and their carers is to close because of financial difficulties, in what has been called a bellwether example of the UK’s growing social care crisis.

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Nnatasha Tracy

DECEMBER 1, 2021

These kinds of hygiene tasks are just too hard for some people disabled with serious mental illnesses. Some people have come to me in confidence and said that they can't brush their teeth and it's causing major dental problems. Other people have said, in hushed tones, that they can't do their laundry so they don't leave their houses.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 23, 2025

These are your autistic kids, nonverbal, [children with intellectual and development disabilities], physically aggressive teenagers, kids that may be doing self-harm, the kids that are difficult to place. Again from the story: These kids are not the kids that foster parents are willing to take in, Bragg said.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 18, 2025

The books themes stem from the 2021 ASASWEI conference titled: Pandemics, poverty, inequality and disability: Social work in the 21st century. It brings together chapters from contributing authors involved in social work practice and education, focusing on issues of poverty, inequality, and vulnerability.

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Community Care

JANUARY 2, 2025

Alongside the announcement, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) pledged a series of other changes to adult social care, including: Increasing the 2024-25 budget for the disabled facilities grant (DFG) by 86m, to 711m, to fund more home adaptations for disabled and older people to enable them to remain independent for longer.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Reducing problematic alcohol use is crucial to preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs)—neurodevelopmental disabilities and birth defects that can occur in a baby exposed to alcohol before birth. One: FASDs are a leading preventable cause of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities in the U.S.

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National Casa Gal

MARCH 17, 2022

March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. We need more volunteers like Anthony across the country to advocate for children with developmental disabilities. The post CASA volunteer advocates for teen with autism to achieve permanency appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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National Casa Gal

MARCH 17, 2022

March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. We need more volunteers like Anthony across the country to advocate for children with developmental disabilities. The post CASA/GAL volunteer advocates for teen with autism to achieve permanency appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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