The New Social Worker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I am a school social worker, a canary in the coal mine of public education. I see the collective strain on school staff, but I also envision the way forward.

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International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) Africa is seeking a dedicated and passionate individual to serve as a volunteer Representative to ANESW (Africa Network for Environmental Social Work and […]

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Social Worker 75

CCRC

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Finding and keeping a job can be an impossible task for families who have lost their shelter. Families without stable housing typically struggle to access child care, but a new partnership between CCRC and Hope the Mission provides unhoused families with onsite child care. The joint effort comes after extensive information gathering by CCRC Early Care and Learning staff, as well as research conducted in part by CCRC, that found families without shelter and child care faced difficulty in finding

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International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The National Association of Social Workers Uganda (NASWU) has recently released its 2024 report, highlighting the significant strides made in advancing social work in Uganda over the past three years.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Sixty per cent of community social care services in England have no or an ‘outdated’ performance rating, an analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) data has found. Almost a quarter of home care, extra care, shared lives or supported living services (23%) had never been rated by the CQC as of June 2024, despite more than half of these having been registered with the regulator f

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Exclusive: Case of Sia Kasparis, who has dementia, had been highlighted in Guardian investigation into unpaid care UK politics live – latest updates An 86-year-old woman with advanced dementia has been told by the government she no longer has to repay a £13,000 benefit debt after her case was highlighted by the Guardian. Sia Kasparis, who is partially blind and has been bed-bound for two years, was ordered to repay the huge sum after officials said she had failed to notify them her son had taken

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The child Maine politicians keep forgetting Among the greatest child welfare tragedies in America is what’s been happening in Maine. Maine doesn’t have the worst system in America, but it’s bad enough, tearing apart families at a rate more than double the national average. What makes it especially tragic is that Maine is a place that almost got child welfare right.

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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Ontario high school students are required to provide 40 hours of community service. I remember a friend of mine who worked for a community agency telling me that parents would ask him to sign a form indicating their kid had done so… when they hadn’t done so. Other parents would do their kids work of finding them a placement to do their time… as if it was a jail sentence.

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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Be cautious about rushing to soothe every frustration your kid experiences. That thing called frustration tolerance cannot develop if each instance is compensated for or soothed by another. Indeed, all that soothing can rob the child of the capacity to develop resilience, the ability to overcome adversity. As they are left to manage their own feelings, then and only then can they come to self-soothe.

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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The thing is, not everyone can manage. Not everyone can maintain employment. Some truly don’t have the skills. Some meet hardship that overwhelms. Some face illness, accident or injury. Some simply lack capacity for self-sufficiency. What of these folks? We can leave them to themselves. Swim or drown. Few will want to drown. They may live a subsistence life, perhaps on the streets, perhaps scrounging, doing anything necessary to survive.

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