International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Indigenous Peoples around the world remain distinct from surrounding settler societies despite attempts at forced assimilation.

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Schools 131

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Have you ever wondered how to create a 5-year plan ? Creating a 5-year plan involves setting yourself goals that would help improve your overall wellbeing. One of the most important lessons I have learned in life as part of my personal development is that some goals can easily be achieved and others can take a long time. Personal development is about improving yourself.

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Mental Health Social Worker Interventional Psychology 52

Abuse Survivor

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Life is a constant journey, and sometimes, it feels like we’re navigating through uncharted territory. Today, I want to open up about my personal journey, one that’s been marked by self-discovery, resilience, and most importantly, self-compassion. The Struggle with Rigidity For the longest time, I held myself to impossibly high standards.

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Anxiety Mental Health 40

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Discover the profound wisdom of empowering attitude powerful lion quotes and how it relates to social workers today. A social worker, like the king of the jungle, possesses a lion’s heart and exhibits the lion’s attitude in the face of adversity. Just as the lion’s roar reverberates through the savannah, a social worker’s actions echo in the lives of the individuals they serve.

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Social Worker Mental Health Interventional Empathy 52

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Community Engagement

There’s more than one way to end the year with impact—and we’re letting you decide the direction. In this "choose your own adventure" community-led webinar, attendees will vote in real time to pick one of three year-end event strategies to explore in depth: Volunteer Appreciation Events 🧡 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaigns 🌈 Mission/Program Celebrations 🎉 Once the path is chosen, we’ll dive into a step-by-step engagement workflow plan tailored to that format, showing how

Engagement

University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Associate Professor Nate Okpych led one of the first large-scale representative studies about the effects of long-lasting, supportive relationships on older foster youth. The more than 700 youth interviewed were participants in the CalYOUTH Study, which evaluated the impact of extending the foster care age limit from 18 to 21 on youth outcomes in early adulthood.

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Interviewing Foster Care Social Services Social Services 40

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As social workers, sometimes we may have feelings that hurt or emotions that sting the most. We get these feelings when we find ourselves stuck and unable to effectively change people’s lives because of several factors such as time restraints and limited resources. Equally, in our personal lives, sometimes we have the longing for impossible things indeed, because they are impossible; nostalgia and reminiscence for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone

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