Social Work Blog

AUGUST 30, 2024

Labor Day, celebrating workers and their contributions, began during a period of swift U.S. industrial growth with limited worker rights. In the late 19 th century, many Americans, especially those experiencing profound poverty and those who had recently immigrated were working 12 hours per day, six or seven days per week with little or no access to ventilation, hygiene and rest breaks.

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International Federation of Social Workers

AUGUST 30, 2024

1 October is the UN International Day of Older Persons. Every day social workers change the lives of people of all ages.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

Back to Blogs Community Blog Governor Polis proclaims September as Kinship Care Month September marks the beginning of Kinship Care Month in Colorado. Kinship Care Month honors the important role kinship caregivers play in the lives of children and youth who temporarily cannot stay with their parents or guardians. Kinship Care Month Proclamation 2024 WHEREAS, the family unit is a vital structure for providing Colorado’s children with love, dignity, and belonging.

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Relias

AUGUST 30, 2024

Social isolation due to a disability is an all-too-common occurrence. Myriad social forces create an environment in which individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are unable to connect with their peers. This can have lasting and severe consequences for their holistic health. To help you better serve your clients, we’ll delve into this problem and offer some guidance on how to address it.

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CO4Kids

AUGUST 30, 2024

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Colorado CASA seeking volunteers to support kids in foster care Helping to get a kid a bike and motivating them to do better in school or helping a young person learn life skills and figure out what type of career path they might want to pursue after high school are just a few of the ways Larry Atwell helps to advocate for the youth in his care.

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Children’s Defense Fund

AUGUST 30, 2024

As summer draws to a close, we are also nearing the end of an extraordinary milestone – the 60 th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom Summer. As a brand new Yale Law School graduate in 1963, I was fortunate enough to receive one of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF)’s first two fellowships to help young attorneys seeking to practice in the South.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 30, 2024

Matt Atkinson on having to persuade his local authority to investigate a young traveller, and Joan Lewis on cross-Europe travel I am one of those interfering do-gooders who have referred instances of children travelling alone across Europe to social services. I’m surprised that they were so quick to investigate Kirstie Allsopp ( Kirstie Allsopp reported to social services for allowing son, 15, to travel abroad, Report, 25 August ), considering the difficulty I had persuading my local authority t

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