The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Professionally and personally, we must attend to our individual self-care of hope. We must practice that hope in our professional and collective actions.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The child said they were bored. It was a casual hint to the parent that the child wanted to watch TV. The child was hoping to appeal to the parent’s wish to make them happy by signaling distress. The child was moping. The parent said, “I hear you.” That’s it. Then the parent carried on with what they were doing. The parent knew not to rush in to make their child feel better by giving into something.

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work (COSW) will play a key role in advancing social work perspectives at the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa from 20 […]

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

By Maren Dale How much social media is too much for a teen? No one knows for sure, but the issue of social media addiction has many people concerned. One study, published in 2016, not only showed that 59% of parents believe their teens are addicted to their mobile devices, but 50% of teens themselves believe they are addicted. That in and of itself is alarming.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. An expert on adultification bias against black children and young people has been appointed as the first national kinship care ambassador by the Department for Education (DfE). Jahnine Davis’s role will involve supporting and challenging councils to improve practice, amplifying children’s voices and those of under-represented groups and championing kinship care within government

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Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 5, 2024

The MacArthur Foundation has announced its new class of Fellows, the recipients of what are commonly called the “Genius Awards.” Among the recipients is Dorothy Roberts, the self-styled popularizer of the term “racial disproportionality” and creator of the term “the family policing system.” According to the Director of the Program , “The 2024 MacArthur Fellows pursue rigorous inquiry with aspiration and purpose.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

By Jo Seiders NASW Senior Human Rights Policy Associate – DEI As with most holidays, the history behind their recognition is complex, with perspectives that are dynamic and intersectional. Social workers, who continuously advocate for justice across cultures, must create space for reflection and education to foster inclusivity. This includes promoting policies that elevate those who are underrepresented and those whose perspectives are often neglected.

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CO4Kids

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Back to Blogs Community Blog October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month CDHS makes child support services safer for domestic violence survivors October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic Violence Awareness Month is an opportunity for us to uplift the voices of survivors and supporters and engage in a national conversation about domestic violence to help change the narrative on this important topic.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This is the text of the NCCPR’s presentation at the 2024 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare What the cover says How many times have we heard it or read it? “Safety, permanency, well-being.” It’s practically the slogan of everyone in the family policing establishment, from the federal government’s Administration for Children and Families to the smallest county family police agency.

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Nnatasha Tracy

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Partnering with Otsuka Pharmaceuticals for World Mental Health Day has sparked controversy, but I believe collaboration with pharmaceutical companies can benefit patient advocacy and innovation. While I understand the skepticism around "big pharma," my work with Otsuka is about amplifying patient voices and ensuring medication development includes our needs.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

National Casa Gal

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As we celebrate 40 years of VOCA, we reflect on its remarkable contributions and the lives it has changed. Read More. The post Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Image: Augustina Onyinye Ugbana (CPF) and Basamba Drammeh (TASWIG) In a significant step toward enhancing social work practices in The Gambia, The Association of Social Workers in The Gambia (TASWIG) […]

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 8, 2024

CSWE's 70th Annual Program Meeting takes place in St. Louis, MO, October 24-27, 2024; nine UConn School of Social Work faculty members and 12 Ph.D. students will offer 18 presentations of their work. Friday, October 25, 2024 Time : 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Room: 1501A Panel Presentation : The Limits of US Asylum Law and Policy: Social Work Education and Practice Implications Author(s) : Berthold, S.M. , Mortley, C. , Klicheva, E. , Libal, K. , Harding, S. & Mbewe, Y.

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N.A.H

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Subscribe on YouTube | Follow on Apple Podcasts | Follow on Spotify Dear Subscribers, Thank you. Whether you’ve recently subscribed... The post Join me at Social Justice Origin Stories appeared first on Notes from an Aspiring Humanitarian.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The government will create a body to set pay and conditions for adult social care staff in England should its Employment Rights Bill become law. The bill, published yesterday, would allow the government to make regulations creating an Adult Social Care Negotiating Body, to make agreements about the pay, terms and conditions of adult social care workers in England.

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 7, 2024

IFSW is pleased to announce a series of webinars, in collaboration with the Identity Rights Working Group, aimed at addressing access to justice for children whose identity rights have been […]

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Children’s Defense Fund

OCTOBER 10, 2024

For Immediate Release The court will hear oral arguments to cases that concern the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and whether families can intervene as parties in ‘Texas v. DHS’ Media Contact: John Henry, jhenry@childrensdefense.org , Media Relations Manager, 708-646-7679 AUSTIN, TX —Today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in two cases that will largely determine the futures of hundreds of thousands of children and their famil

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Health secretary Wes Streeting told to speed up changes as inability to free up hospital bed linked to deaths of patients Health secretary Wes Streeting has been urged to speed up reforms to the adult care system in the wake of patient deaths after two coroners warned him of the impact insufficient care beds and service provision are having on the NHS.

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Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media. In this webinar, Gary Direnfeld will discuss how social media marketing can help you build your private practice and grow your client base.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. A £22.6m government payment for innovative adult social care projects in England is almost two months overdue and is “in danger of disappearing”, a carers’ charity has warned. The second tranche of the accelerating reform fund (ARF) was due to be paid to local authorities in August, enabling them to continue financing 122 projects to improve support for carers, enhance cho

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Image : Augustina Onyinye Ugbana (CPF) et Basamba Drammeh (TASWIG) Dans une démarche importante visant à améliorer les pratiques du travail social en Gambie, l’Association des Travailleurs Sociaux de Gambie […]

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Children’s Defense Fund

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Once again, the aftermath of the recent hurricanes and storms has left children and families across the Southeast reeling as they work to repair homes and rebuild lives. Many families have spent the last few days and weeks in deep uncertainty, waiting to find out when schools will reopen, adults will be able to return to work, and, for some families, when they will be able to go home.

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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. Revitalise , a charity that runs unique state-of-the-art respite stays, offering 24-hour care at two specially adapted hotels, said local authority cuts, c

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Community Care

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The number of overseas recruits to the social care sector has plummeted just as a report shows international staff have driven a recovery in the workforce over the past two years. From April to June this year, an estimated 8,000 international recruits joined the adult social care workforce in England, down from a quarterly average of 26,000 in 2023-24, according to data from Skills for Care

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Social Work With Adults

OCTOBER 10, 2024

“Please put on your own mask before assisting others”. How often have we heard this instruction as our plane prepares for take-off? How often do we think to apply this message to our own safety at work? As we mark World Mental Health Day , it is fitting that this year’s theme is ‘ workplace mental health ’, an important consideration whatever your job or industry.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Some kids come home after school and can’t seem to hold themselves together. Meltdowns. There is a belief that after holding themselves together all day at school, they use home as a safe place to let it go. Maybe for some. For those where it may be the case that they truly are spent holding themselves together at school, we wonder about neurodivergences and/or mental health challenges.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Study finds more than 90% of facilities for children and 98% of those for adults that were closed down were run for profit Almost all the care homes shut down for endangering children or vulnerable adults were run to make a profit, according to a landmark study examining the long-term impact of outsourcing care to the private sector. Research published last week by Oxford University reveals that 98% (804 out of 816) of the adult care homes closed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in England t

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

● The Imprint reports on a series of meetings in which families and their advocates told some of New York City’s biggest names in family policing – private agencies that have been around in some cases for a century or more - how much harm they have done. No surprise there. Here’s the surprise: The agencies’ response boiled down to – well yes, you’re right.

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Beyond Advocacy

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The Institute of International Education, a global not-for-profit organization facilitating international exchanges, requested CRISP meet with three senior-level professionals participating in the Distinguished Humphrey Fellowship Program on Leadership sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. These Fellows, part of a cohort of a dozen government and nonprofit sector dignitaries, are on an 18-day visit to the United States.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 9, 2024

There are many reasons why some toddlers and preschoolers are picky eaters. It could be a flavor thing, a texture thing, a digestive thing, and quite commonly… a giving in thing. Once those medical/biological issues are ruled out, what’s left is behavioral, meaning the kid is dictating dinner. It’s easy to happen. Just give in. For some, all it takes is once.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Derbyshire authority proposes asking for up to £113 a week for children in care under voluntary arrangements A cash-strapped English council is considering charging parents of children taken into local authority care half of the weekly cost of looking after them. Derbyshire county council said “unprecedented financial challenges” meant it had little option but to “maximise alternative sources of income” to try to reduce the strain on its children’s services.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 6, 2024

A lack of financial and emotional support for kinship carers could push up to 18,000 children into an already overstretched foster care system Children are being “plunged into ­poverty”, a charity says, because of a lack of support for kinship ­carers – relatives or family friends who step in to look after children after a crisis. Kinship carers, who are often grandparents, are twice as likely as other adults to rely on food banks and four times as likely to fall behind on their bills, according

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The poor record of for-profit care homes must lead to a rethink on how public services are organised The government has yet to respond in detail to the latest, shocking findings about the poor performance of for-profit social care providers, and what a report from Oxford University calls the “astounding pace” of children’s home privatisation. But the revelation that almost all the residential care settings forced to close by regulators in the 12 years to 2023 were privately run must lead to chan

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