NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

● This just in: America’s foremost scholar on the intersection of racism and family policing (and a member of the NCCPR Board of Directors) Prof. Dorothy Roberts has received a MacArthur Fellowship -- the awards that are commonly known as “genius grants.” From the New York Times story : Another fellow, Dorothy Roberts, a legal scholar and public policy researcher focused on racial inequities in social services, said she appreciated receiving the fellowship after spending decades writing about to

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Social Work.Career

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This post is part of the monthly series, Free Webinars for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals, featuring over 35 free webcasts that we could find for you this month in the field of social work and mental health. To make it easier for you to find a webinar that is of interest to you, […] The post Free Mental Health Webinars, October 2024 appeared first on SocialWork.Career.

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A Splintered Mind

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I joined the Midori Traveler’s Notebook (TN) club this past Summer. I missed the big blogging heyday about them around 2012 to 2015 when the Internet seem to explode over this nifty little notebook system, but I was all about digital back then. I loved my iPhone and didn’t feel a need to go analog. Recently, though, I noticed some artists doing inspiring things in their TNs, and I thought this could be the kick in the pants I needed to fit sketching back into my life.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 1, 2024

An analogy to potty training can show children and their caregivers that emotions can also be felt in the body, and addressing these emotions early on can help with early management to lessen the risk of a crisis.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2018 The State Assembly holds a hearing Oct. 9 that could be a first step in the right direction Last March, the New York City Family Policy Project , an essential resource, and not just for New Yorkers, published a comprehensive report on the harm done by the state’s child abuse hotline, which is run by the state Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS).

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Clinical Assistant Professor Ayesha Ghazi Edwin spoke with CBS Detroit about a new “right to sit” ordinance she introduced in her role as Ann Arbor City Council Member. MSW student Jessica Riley’s participation in the public comments is included as part of the story. The ordinance will be voted on in October.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Combined Reports A team from UConn’s School of Social Work says a new two-year, $4.3 million contract with the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood expands on a six-year relationship with the state agency to provide significantly more resources for the evaluation and development of critical programs benefitting the state’s youngest residents. From assessing access to quality child care and current child care market rates to mapping resources in high poverty and low opportunity communities, the

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The social care watchdog is increasingly finding fault with council decision making in relation to social care assessments and care planning. The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) upheld 80% of complaints it investigated relating to assessment and care planning in 2023-24, up from 67% in 2022-23 and 64% in 2021-22, according to its annual review of adult care complaints.

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 4, 2024

U-M’s Anti-Racism Collaborative, an initiative of the National Center for Institutional Diversity, has announced the 2024 Anti-Racism Grants. Professor Joseph Himle and Associate Professor Addie Weaver have received an Anti-Racism Grant for their project FARWell: The Formula for Anti-Racist Wellness and Therapy. This project — a community-university partnership between My Brother’s Keeper, Formula 734, and social work researchers at U-M and The Ohio State University — will support the developme

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Throughout my career, I have been drawn to opportunities that blend leadership with service. As a Public Health Service Officer and Licensed Clinical Social Worker, my commitment has always been to serve where the need is greatest. Whether during deployments addressing humanitarian crises or through research focused on homeless veterans, I’ve seen firsthand the difference compassionate leadership makes.

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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.

University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II Friday, Dec 6, 2024 – In-person 9:30 am – 4 pm 5 CECs Registration Fee: $125 UConn SSW Alumni and Current Field Instructors receive a 10% discount Classroom location, driving directions and parking details will be included in your email confirmation The 5th edition of the DSM brings with it some of the most significant changes between editions.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The self-reported rate of disability among care leavers is double that recorded by councils, research has found. Meanwhile, recorded disability rates among children in care and care leavers differ widely between local authorities, according to the report, published this week by Coram Voice.

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Assistant Professor Fernanda Cross spoke with WXYZ Detroit about how her own experience as an immigrant inspired the creation of the Latinx Youth Empowerment Series, also known as YES, which connects immigrant students at Ypsilanti Community High School with mental health services. “Immigrating is difficult. The children are having to do a lot of the navigating the new culture.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Inquest hears how 38-year-old Laura Winham, who was deaf and had schizophrenia, wrote of struggling to buy food A vulnerable woman who lay dead unnoticed in a social housing flat for more than three years wrote in her diary that she was starving and running out of food, an inquest has heard. The “mummified and almost skeletal” remains of 38-year-old Laura Winham , who was deaf and had schizophrenia, were found in her flat in Woking in May 2021.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II Friday, Dec 20, 2024 – In-person 9:30 am – 4 pm 5 CECs Registration Fee: $125 UConn SSW Alumni and Current Field Instructors receive a 10% discount Classroom location, directions and parking details will be included in your email confirmation What questions do you ask your clients that get at the information you need?

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Community Care

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Eight per cent of social workers had completed key tasks required for retaining their registration at the end of the first month of the renewal period, the regulator has said. Social Work England said practitioners’ progress on completing their registration renewal form and meeting CPD requirements as of 30 September 2024 was lagging slightly behind the position at the same point in 2

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Professor Shawna Lee’s research on how fathers are connecting with their children — despite economic hardship and negative stereotypes — has been cited in an article on Tech Explorist. Lee and her co-authors call for these positive experiences to be reflected in the media and for health care providers to support father-inclusive practices.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Patricia Swan thought she might be considered too old to care for young children. But now she and her husband are looking after three siblings under seven Patricia Swan was pottering around at home one day in 2022 when a radio broadcast changed the course of her life. “Normally, the radio is background noise, but when I heard a desperate callout for more foster carers in my local area, I had to do something,” she says.

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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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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II Thurs, Nov 7, 2024 Webinar 9 am – 12 pm 3 CECs Registration Fee: $75 10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni and current SSW Field Instructors Link will be emailed when your registration is complete. This training marries the essential elements of a successful supervisory practice with the core ethical standards of helping professions.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Councils are being given £1,125 each to meet new requirements to report on their use of agency social workers in children’s services. The Department for Education funding, which will be paid in October 2024, is designed to cover the burdens on English authorities of fulfilling a new legal duty to submit quarterly data to the DfE on each assignment carried out by an agency social worke

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Professor William Elliott III spoke with San Francisco’s KQED about how children’s savings accounts can provide hope and change perspectives. “You are giving families access to an institution that allows them to build wealth that’s coupled with a change in attitude and reflecting on what’s now achievable for them,” Elliott said.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Some councils are already spending up to 80% of their budget on social care and say costs are rising and increasingly unsustainable The spiralling cost of social services is eating into the budgets of England’s largest councils to the extent that many will soon be forced to abandon “nice to have” functions such as arts and youth clubs and Sure Start centres.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II Thurs, Oct 31, 2024 Webinar 9 am – 12 pm 3 CEC Registration Fee: $75 10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni and current SSW Field Instructors Link will be emailed when your registration is complete. This training marries the essential elements of a successful supervisory practice with the foundation of the diagnostic process.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Half of English councils were given government funding to recruit social work apprentices to work in adults’ services this year, the Department of Health and Social Care has revealed (DHSC). The DHSC allocated £7.7m out of a possible £8m to 74 of the 153 local authorities in March 2024.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As we celebrate Black History Month, it’s important to reflect on the rich history and achievements of black professionals across health and social care. It also gives us time to reflect on the ongoing need to create more inclusive and equitable opportunities within organisations, teams, spaces and communities - particularly in the rapidly evolving field of digital in social care.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Vital role looking after destitute children gave these women unusual degree of power for the time, say researchers In June 1697, at a sitting of the quarter session court in Preston, Lancashire, a widow called Alice Brewer submitted a petition in which she demanded to be paid her due. Brewer, described as “very poor, old and necessitous”, had been caring for 12 years for a “poor distressed child” called Anne Helme, which entitled her to a small annual payment from the local parish authorities.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II Thurs, Oct 24, 2024 Webinar 9 am – 12 pm 3 CEC Registration Fee: $75 10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni and current SSW Field Instructors Link will be emailed when your registration is complete. We know that good supervision can be hard to find, and one major reason is that supervisors are rarely adequately trained.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. A 10% drop in the police’s use of powers to remove people to a place of safety has been linked to a policy restricting forces’ response to mental health incidents. There were 31,213 detentions under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in England and Wales in the year to 31 March 2024, down from 34,685 in 2022-23, according to Home Office data from 43 of the 44 police force

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Associate Professor Xiaoling Xiang is the principal investigator of a recently-funded federal grant from the Administration for Community Living’s National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research. The three-year study will focus on evaluating the real-world effects of the Empower@Home program on social participation among older adults with disabilities.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Family of Laura Winham, who was mentally unwell and lived in social housing, raised concerns two months before her remains were found The family of a vulnerable woman whose dead body lay in her social housing flat unnoticed for more than three years had raised concerns about her welfare two months before she was discovered, an inquest has heard. Laura Winham’s remains were found by her brother in her flat in Woking, Surrey, in May 2021, after the family asked police to break in.

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Children’s Defense Fund

OCTOBER 4, 2024

There is now just one month to go until Election Day in the United States, and in some states early voting and mail-in voting has already begun. In others, deadlines to register to vote or make sure a voter registration is current and correct are approaching over the next few weeks. This means the time for all eligible voters to make sure they have a plan to vote is now !

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Community Care

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Care proceedings are being completed more quickly in England and Wales, but their average duration still far exceeds the 26-week statutory target, official figures have shown. Cases where councils applied for a care or supervision orders that were completed in April to June 2024 took an average of 41.2 weeks, down from a recent high of 44.8 weeks in January to March 2023, when just a quarte

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