Swhelper
JUNE 24, 2022
MJ Fernandez. People these days are often so busy with work and their responsibilities that sometimes they forget to take care of their mental and physical health. However, if you keep this up, you risk your chances of burning out and developing certain illnesses that may be hard to treat later on. This is why it is […]. View Full Article - 6 Useful Tips to Keep Your Mind and Body Healthy.
The New Social Worker
JUNE 20, 2022
I should __? “Should”ing is a common way we sabotage practicing self-care. Because these shoulds are so insidiously hidden and harmful, they must be intentionally countered.
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Nnatasha Tracy
JUNE 23, 2022
Some people live with thoughts of suicide every day. I have lived this way. It's hell. Persistent suicidality can happen in depression , although it's not talked about very much. There is a notion that people think about suicide, and they either get help, which rids them of the thoughts, or act on the thoughts. And while I have no doubt some people have had that experience, for many, this just isn't reality.
National Casa Gal
JUNE 21, 2022
June is nationally recognized as Reunification Month— a critical opportunity to share the importance of children and youth in foster care reunifying with their family. Read More. The post Celebrating family — a message from our CEO appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.
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International Federation of Social Workers
JUNE 20, 2022
In the past decade, the global refugee population has more than doubled. According to the UNHCR, over 84 million people have become displaced through fear for their lives. Listening to many stories of people’s journeys as they search for safety they recount the dangerous paths to safety, having experienced exploitation, abuse by people and systems, […].
The New Social Worker
JUNE 21, 2022
The Association of Social Work Boards has named Stacey Hardy-Chandler, PhD, JD, LCSW, as the organization’s new chief executive officer following a national search. She succeeds the current CEO Dwight J. Hymans, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, who is retiring.
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Swhelper
JUNE 24, 2022
Sarah Daren. Social workers aren’t always associated with public education. Their roles in social service delivery, legal arenas, and advocacy are often more readily recognized. However, social workers provide vital support within our education system and contribute meaningfully to helping countless children progress through primary and secondary education in the United States every year.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JUNE 21, 2022
The week-in-review post is a day early because, for the rest of the week I'll be publishing a series of posts about various family policing establishment groups' recent attempts at reputation laundering. ? To the long ugly litany of family destruction at the hands of Florida’s family police add another revelation: allegations of blatant conflict-of-interest.
The New Social Worker
JUNE 22, 2022
Although limiting certain military benefits as a result of misconduct is understandable, we should not deny mental health care for service members who have experienced combat trauma.
Relias
JUNE 22, 2022
Last month, I had the privilege of partnering with Relias to facilitate a webinar entitled: Co-Parenting Building Blocks To Promote Children’s Mental Health and Development. It was wonderful to have such great participation and audience engagement from those in attendance. After the webinar, there were a few questions in the chat that we did not have a chance to address during our discussion.
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.
Community Care
JUNE 22, 2022
The leading family judge has launched a National DoLs (deprivation of liberty) Court to handle applications to deprive children of their liberty, which have risen rapidly in recent years. Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the family division of the High Court, said the court would start work on 4 July, handling all applications to authorise the deprivation of children’s liberty.
International Federation of Social Workers
JUNE 23, 2022
The IFSW Africa is pleased to publish the 2021 International Social Work Conference Abstract book. The Hybrid conference held in Rwanda Kigali hosted by the Rwanda National Organization of Social Work was the first-ever successful hybrid social work conference with over 750 participants. The theme was a continuation of the discussion of the first 2020 […].
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
JUNE 24, 2022
Vacancy in Japan College of Social Work. The Faculty of Social Welfare, Japan College of Social Work, is looking for a faculty, full-Time (Non-tenured), field of studies on “Human Welfare and Culture” For details, visit the following URLs: [link] SeekJorDetail?fn=3&ln=1&id= D122061288&ln_jor=1. [link] saiyo/2022-0623-02.html.
Clinical Philosophy
JUNE 24, 2022
Did my mother or father love me? This is a question all psychotherapists will, at some point, have heard a patient ask. The patient presents with some confusion, perhaps having taken the fact of their parent's love for granted much of their life. And yet, on recovery of their personal being, on dismantling of the adaptive self-presentation which they'd instinctively concocted to manage their parental relationship, they start to wonder.
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Community Care
JUNE 23, 2022
Council leaders have issued safeguarding and resource concerns, after the government opened its Homes for Ukraine scheme to unaccompanied children. Levelling up secretary Michael Gove announced yesterday that 1,000 Ukrainian children who had already made applications under the scheme would be allowed to travel to the UK without their parents to stay with a sponsor, so long as they had parental consent.
Michigan Social Work
JUNE 23, 2022
"It's important to be able to get up every day and to feel like something we do will help to make a better world.". On July 1, 2022, Kathryn Elizabeth (Beth) Angell was appointed as dean of the School of Social Work. She was previously dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Social Work and, before that, held a number of leadership roles at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Relias
JUNE 23, 2022
The need for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in healthcare is not new, but DEI is still a new focus for many healthcare organizations. As you move forward with DEI efforts, thinking about the potential challenges to success is important. Let’s explore ways to overcome barriers to DEI in your organization. In a 2021 Relias survey of 1,310 healthcare and public safety professionals, only 62% of respondents said that their organization participates in diversity, equity, and inclusion
Children’s Home Society of Washington
JUNE 22, 2022
When Nathan courageously came out as transgender at 14 years old in spring 2015 he had the support of his mother to help navigate the complexities of gender affirmation in a teenage world, but desperately sought peer engagement with like-minded teens. They searched for trans-and queer-specific support groups, but nothing was close enough for Nathan to attend regularly to build a community for himself, until he was introduced to Triple Point from a family friend whose child had been part of the g
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.
Community Care
JUNE 20, 2022
Ofsted has proposed to introduce a separate inspection grade for councils on the experiences and progress of care leavers, to increase their profile. The inspectorate said it concluded that its current approach of issuing a single judgment for children in care and care leavers “[had] not maximised the profile of care leavers to the extent we had intended” It has launched a six-week consultation on adding a separate care leavers’ judgment to the inspection of local authority chi
American Board of Clinical Social Work
JUNE 21, 2022
"Don't Despise the Packaging." I recently watched Robin Roberts from Good Morning America, interview Glori Tuitt and her Mother, Ruthie Tuitt. The topic for that program focused on how members of the LGBTQ+ community have felt abandoned, unaccepted and rejected by their families and by their religion.
Michigan Social Work
JUNE 21, 2022
Assistant Dean of Field Education Dan Fischer’s Interprofessional Education (IPE) team has won a 2022 bronze award from 1EdTech for their collaboration with U-M Informational & Technology Services. Their project, Competency-Based Tracking for Interprofessional Education Leveraging Institutional Data, will leverage data to track competencies across U-M’s approximately 35 IPE offerings, which involve 5,000 students from 10 schools across 3 campuses.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
JUNE 18, 2022
Dear Colleagues, IASSW members and Friends. Greetings from IASSW!! IASSW is looking forward to the 2022 General Meeting which will be held via an online platform on the Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at 12:00pm Wed, Jul 13 2022 (CEST). Please register here at [link]. IASSW Board of Directors look forward to your active participation in the activities of our association.
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Community Care
JUNE 24, 2022
Unions have called for a 10.8% pay increase for Cafcass workers, after management warnings that it risked a staffing exodus over government wage constraints. The claim – a 3% pay rise plus the 7.8% retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation as recorded on 1 April 2022 – was made jointly this month by Napo, the main union for staff at the organisation, and UNISON.
American Board of Clinical Social Work
JUNE 21, 2022
Watching the recent upheaval in our society, more specifically watching the January 6th hearings, I began asking myself the question: Is the interaction in the group a product of individual behavior, or is the group understandable as an intact entity suggesting behavior is a product of the group? I am sure most of you have many thoughts to this question, and I hope you all will share.
Michigan Social Work
JUNE 21, 2022
Finn McLafferty Bell, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Sociology, has successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Marginalized Food Growers in a Changing Environment: Tracing Collective Survival Strategies.” His committee consisted of Sandra Danziger and Katie Richards-Schuster. Bell has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor of Human Services at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
JUNE 22, 2022
Social Work International Conference (SWIC) – Call for Abstracts SWIC 2022. The Social Work Department of the University of Bucharest is pleased to invite submissions for presentations at the 6th edition of the Social Work International Conference (SWIC) to be held between November 3rd – 4th, 2022. Conference theme: Riding the Shock Wave: Social Work challenges during and after COVID-19.
Community Care
JUNE 21, 2022
Community Care readers have overwhelmingly called for reduced caseloads as the best way to improve child protection in a snap poll. Almost two-thirds (63%) of more than 1,100 readers who answered a simple multiple-choice question – “what would most improve child protection in England?” – opted for lower caseloads. The poll was carried out after significant changes to child protection were recommended by the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care and the Child Safeguardi
The Guardian
JUNE 18, 2022
Mental health problems are linked to financial squeeze on families, according to new Childhood Trust report The impact of the cost of living crisis on children has led some to start self-harming, a new report by a leading children’s charity has claimed. According to The Childhood Trust, the impact of money worries for British families has caused 47% of children to feel stressed, while 21% of parents said their children smile less because of the financial squeeze.
Michigan Social Work
JUNE 21, 2022
Garrett Pace, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Sociology, has successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Corporal Punishment Bans in Global Perspective: Conceptualization and Child- and Caregiver-Reported Outcomes.” His committee consisted of Shawna Lee and Andrew Grogan-Kaylor. Pace has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Social Care
JUNE 22, 2022
Like all of us, people with learning disabilities need support to reconnect with a reopened society. [Image copyright Mencap ]. Celebrating and supporting diversity. In an ideal world, there would be no need for awareness days, weeks and months. There would be no marginalisation, misrepresentation or ignorance, just open societies, fully supportive of the diversity of the human condition.
Community Care
JUNE 22, 2022
“Exemplary” practice” based on strong social work fundamentals and investment in keeping families together safely has helped a council rise from ‘good’ to ‘outstanding’ After being praised for the strength of its early help and family support approach in last month’s final report of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, inspectors echoed this in awarding Camden council the top grade on the back of an inspection in April.
The Guardian
JUNE 18, 2022
Investigation: Britain called out to workers around the world to ease a staff crisis. But many have to pay thousands in illegal fees to recruitment agencies Read exclusive story: Migrant care workers charged thousands in illegal fees Meera Stephen came to Britain with a big suitcase and even bigger dreams. The 27-year-old had left Kerala in south India to work at a care home in Manchester, one of thousands of migrant workers to come after a government recruitment drive to fill more than 100,000
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