International Federation of Social Workers
AUGUST 26, 2024
The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) Africa is inviting applications for up to 3 volunteer positions as Regional Representatives to the UN Office.
The New Social Worker
AUGUST 27, 2024
Celebrate our anniversary and deepen awareness and activation of self-care. This calendar provides a daily dose of self-care for September 2024.
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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.
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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International Federation of Social Workers
AUGUST 29, 2024
Social workers along with colleagues from other professions are taking a stand for children’s identity rights through the Identity Rights Working Group based in Geneva, Switzerland.
The New Social Worker
AUGUST 29, 2024
It Ends With Us is a film adaptation of the best-selling Colleen Hoover novel of the same name. Intimate partner violence is a primary theme, and the movie has been surrounded by controversy. Did they get it right? A social worker's view.
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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.
Center for Child Protection
AUGUST 29, 2024
Summer Theater 2024 Each Friday over the summer, the Center’s backyard would transform into a bustling outdoor rehearsal space for our annual Summer Theater program. More than 30 team members would greet 25 children and 17 protective caregivers to rehearse this year’s production, “When Two Worlds Collide: The Meter Rises” Written by the Center’s Chief Clinical Officer, Miriam Jansky, the play was a magical mash-up of Barbie, Willy Wonka and Candyland.
Child Care Aware
AUGUST 28, 2024
Building off a busy legislative year in 2023, states continued to make progress in 2024 on advancing policies and investments for their child care systems. This year, states had multiple factors to juggle related to child care policy, including spending down remaining American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding, developing new Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Plans for 2025-2027, and addressing new federal requirements in CCDF regulations.
Community Care
AUGUST 26, 2024
A “worrying” number of looked-after children and care leavers have been wrongly placed in supported accommodation, Ofsted’s social care chief has warned. Yvette Stanley said that inspectors had encountered young people who were “clearly in need of a higher level of care than supported accommodation is equipped to provide” in visits to the settings.
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CO4Kids
AUGUST 30, 2024
Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog NTDC (National Training and Development) Statewide Train-the-Trainer Training The NTDC (National Training and Development Curriculum) continues to be the preferred curriculum for certifying foster/adoptive parents in Colorado. In an effort to expand trainers across the state, the Division of Child Welfare, Learning and Development team in partnership with Spaulding is excited to announce two virtual statewide train-the-trainer training opportunities.
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.
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.
Community Care
AUGUST 27, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Researchers have proposed a definition of safer and effective staffing levels within social work to inform legislation on the issue in Northern Ireland. The definition, based on practitioner feedback, is believed to be the first of its kind, and covers both staff sufficiency and practitioners having access to “regular supportive, reflective supervision”, “compassionate line management” and
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The Guardian
AUGUST 29, 2024
Care leaders warn of serious safety risk as research reveals some providers have never been inspected Care leaders have warned of a serious safety risk as research revealed 60% of homecare providers had not been inspected for at least four years, or ever. As the government prepares to receive a report on profound failings at its Care Quality Commission (CQC) that triggered the chief executive’s removal this summer and a public apology, the Homecare Association warned 37% of providers of domicili
Community Care
AUGUST 28, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The AMHP Leads Network has appointed fresh leadership to represent the views of those responsible for approved mental health professional (AMHP) services. Christina Cheney and Robert Lewis have stepped down as co-chairs after just over two years at the helm.
The Guardian
AUGUST 25, 2024
Care homes and homecare providers wait weeks for people to be brought from hospital, report reveals More than 14,000 NHS hospital beds are being occupied every day by patients who are well enough to be discharged, figures show, as experts urged ministers tackle the crisis. The data emerged as a damning report revealed that almost a fifth of care providers were waiting weeks for people to be transferred into their care.
The Guardian
AUGUST 25, 2024
The photographer Halena Hucker has spent the last year interviewing care workers and photographing behind the scenes of the care sector in a project titled In Love and Care. She documents the multifaceted nature of care work and highlights humanity amid the care system’s economic and political uncertainties, emphasising how the dedication of carers sustains the system In Love and Care came from a personal place in my heart.
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The Guardian
AUGUST 24, 2024
Experts have questioned why so few homes are rated substandard, given the commission found one in three residents experience neglect, abuse or poor care Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The star rating system of aged care homes was introduced in December 2022 to help older people and their families compare the quality and safety of services and providers.
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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