Tue.Feb 18, 2025

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Toddler’s murder shows need for cross-border child protection guidance, finds case review

Community Care

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The murder of a two-year-old girl by her mother’s boyfriend has highlighted the need for guidance on protecting children when families move across council boundaries, a local child safeguarding practice review (CSPR) has concluded. The panel reviewing the case of Isabella Jonas-Wheildon , who moved area twice in the weeks before she died, said it showed that issues around cross-border

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The “Benefits” of an Eating Disorder: What Social Workers Need To Know

The New Social Worker

Why do people hold on to their eating disorders? Understanding the benefits of having an eating disorder can help clinicians better understand why their clients are reluctant to get better.

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Try This: Making Your Case to Secure Grant Funding

Nicole Clark Consulting

This activity will help your staff connect the dots between data, community feedback, and a persuasive grant narrative that funders cant ignore. The post Try This: Making Your Case to Secure Grant Funding appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.

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What I learned from a lovely woman on a packed ward in hospital | Zoe Williams

The Guardian

Healthy people are being forced to stay in hospital because of a lack of social care and its an indictment of our current system Politicians talk constantly about the crisis in social care, and the pressure it puts on the NHS, so that the words just turn into a hum. Then you brush against that in real life and think why is anyone, with any kind of authority over anything, doing any activity that isnt sorting out social care?

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Social Workers Must Take a Stand: SAVE Act is Direct Attack on Democracy

Social Work Blog

By JaBree Harris, MSW Democracy is not self-sustaining. It survives only when those of us committed to justice, equity, and human dignity fight to protect it. As social workers, we are not just service providers, we are advocates, organizers, and protectors of civil rights. Thats why the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) firmly opposes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act (H.R.22/S.128).

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Feb. 11, 2025

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Responding to reporting from WXIA-TV , the family police agency in Georgia is taking steps to curb the abuses of child abuse pediatricians steps they should have taken all along, such as allowing families to get second opinions. On this blog: deep dives into two bad bills: In New Hampshire: drenched in trendy psychobabble, legislation proposes to fight trauma with trauma.