International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 23, 2024
IFSW has been invited to work with The World Health Organisation (WHO) as they undertake a refocus that emphasizes engagement and relationships between action-orientated leaderful communities, populations and health authorities.
The New Social Worker
MAY 20, 2024
The New Social Worker is going on summer break June-August and won’t be doing new posts. However, we’re not neglecting you! Join us in having a Super-Self-Care-Summer!
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Community Care
MAY 22, 2024
Rishi Sunak has called a general election for 4 July. The prime minister made the announcement in a statement in Downing Street today, firing the starting gun on a six-week campaign. The news comes with the Labour Party roughly 20 percentage points ahead in the polls (source: BBC), strongly suggesting they will end 14 years of Conservative rule on polling day.
National Casa Gal
MAY 24, 2024
CASA of Sebastian County advocates past and present were invited to walk in the parade as a touching tribute to her late mother, Whitney Marsh, a beloved CASA volunteer. Read More. The post Miss America and CASA of Sebastian County appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.
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International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 21, 2024
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Relias
MAY 23, 2024
The Office of U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murphy MD, MBA published its Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being to guide employers in promoting worker mental health and well-being in the post-COVID era. In response to widespread “quiet quitting” and the Great Resignation, the Surgeon General’s framework for workplace mental health aims to ameliorate some of the major issues driving burnout and disengagement among America’s workers.
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Michigan Social Work
MAY 22, 2024
Professor Lisa Wexler was awarded an NIMH R01 grant for her project “Efficacy-Implementation Study for PC CARES in Rural Alaska” through the NIH Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health. The trial evaluates the impact of Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) on adult participants and the adults and youth they are close to, and who could benefit from the intervention.
International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 24, 2024
The Maltese Association of Social Workers is celebrating a major milestone next month as it marks its 30th anniversary.
Relias
MAY 21, 2024
Trauma-informed care is an approach to health and social services that recognizes the impact of trauma on people’s lives. Its aim is to create a safe, respectful, and empowering environment for healing. Many people who seek help have experienced some form of trauma, such as abuse, violence, neglect, loss, or oppression, and these experiences can affect their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
MAY 21, 2024
Great news! You are invited to the official announcement of the GSSWET eLearning course. When: May 29, 2024 @15:00 Rome/SA time/ 21:00 HK time. Pre-Register in advance for this meeting: [link] After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. The post IASSW Global Standards for Social Work Education and Training e Learning Official Announcement Webinar first appeared on International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW).
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.
Michigan Social Work
MAY 22, 2024
Professor William Elliot III provided testimony as an expert witness at the United States Senate Committee on Finance hearing on child savings accounts and other tax-advantaged accounts benefiting American children. “Children’s asset investments are more than just financial benefits for higher education: they have demonstrated the potential to transform the opportunity landscape—and in the process, to reset young people’s confidence in U.S. institutions and their ability to deliver equitable ret
International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 23, 2024
Photo: Arturo Requesens-Galnares, Pradeep Wagle, Priska Fleischlin, Rory Truell.
Relias
MAY 20, 2024
Staff well-being, just like with any other aspect of an organization, begins with effective, trauma-informed leadership. Without this type of approach, organizational leaders will not be able to provide supportive supervision, foster teamwork, or improve culture. And, if these key ingredients are not in place, it’s more difficult to care for clients, retain staff, and maintain profitability.
Community Care
MAY 21, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Our interview with Eileen Munro is part of a series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to mark Community Care’s 50th anniversary. One look at Professor Eileen Munro’s resume and it becomes clear that staying idle is not her strong suit.
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Abuse Survivor
MAY 20, 2024
I’ve been placing less pressure on myself to accomplish a long list of tasks every day. Instead, I’ve dedicated more time to rest and meditation. This shift in focus has allowed me to care for myself more deeply, especially during moments when painful memories or flashbacks surface. I’m creating a gentler life that prioritizes my healing and well-being.
The Guardian
MAY 18, 2024
Children crying out for stability are paying the highest price for Britain’s chaotic and exploitative residential care I’m a patron of a small local charity that helps struggling children to rebuild trust and connection. It’s called Sirona Therapeutic Horsemanship , and it works by bringing them together with rescued horses. The horses, like many of the children, arrive traumatised, anxious and frightened.
Social Work With Adults
MAY 21, 2024
"Most people would agree maintaining social connection is important to living better lives." [Image created by freepik.com ] Losing connection Support for people with mental health problems, their families and carers, is often overlooked, meaning the ‘social’ in social care is sometimes forgotten. People experiencing mental health problems often say things like better housing, employment, enough money, more friends, and close relationships would make a positive difference in their lives.
Community Care
MAY 20, 2024
By Deb Solomon Recently councils and other employers of social workers in the UK have been encouraged to sign up to a new pledge to celebrate neurodiversity in the profession. But why? At the moment there is a patchy picture of acceptance for neurodivergent social workers, those with conditions – or neurotypes – such as autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
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.
Health & Social Care Workforce
MAY 22, 2024
The Dementia Community Research Network (DCRN) turns one this year, and what better way to celebrate than to showcase the incredible work of Network members and start a conversation about better, more inclusive, dementia care?
The Guardian
MAY 22, 2024
Government watchdog says action prompted by DWP’s lack of progress in tackling overpayments problems The government’s spending watchdog is to investigate the growing scandal over carer benefits that has plunged tens of thousands of vulnerable unpaid carers into debt after they unwittingly breached benefit rules. In a letter , the National Audit Office (NAO) told the Commons work and pensions select committee its intervention was triggered by public and political concerns over the mounting human
Social Work With Adults
MAY 23, 2024
"Brain injury is the leading cause of disability and death for people aged 0-40 in the UK, with an estimated hospital admission rate of one person with a brain injury every 90 seconds, and a cost to the country of £15 billion." [Image created by freepik.com ] Plugging the gap between knowledge and need People living with traumatic brain injuries can have many long-term needs.
Community Care
MAY 21, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The Care Quality Commission has awarded good ratings to the first three councils it assessed under its new adults’ services performance regime. Hertfordshire, Hounslow and West Berkshire all gained the second top rating – behind outstanding – in assessments under the CQC’s local authority assurance system, published last week.
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Social Care
MAY 22, 2024
Cygnet Health Care colleagues are proud of their new social hub spaces and the pleasure they bring to patients (Expert by Experience Lead, Raf Hamaizia, foreground). Space for everyone Our patients across Cygnet Health Care services now have access to homely environments – ‘social hubs’- away from the wards, after unused spaces in our hospitals were given a makeover in an effort to provide safe spaces where the people we support can relax and socialise together.
The Guardian
MAY 18, 2024
I have followed the life of this desperate child as her life has been ruined by a bankrupt system You’re a teenage girl and you’ve been locked in a bare hospital room for more than 15 months. Your bed is a platform attached to the floor. There’s a plastic toilet and a sink moulded into the wall. Your only human contact is through a hatch in the door.
Gary Direnfeld
MAY 22, 2024
When the relationship with your teen is in tatters, it’s up to you to restore it. Lectures won’t do it. Gifts won’t do it. Harsher punishments won’t do it either. Consider guerilla love. In guerilla warfare we sneak up on our enemy combatant and when they least suspect it, we attack, slay and sneak away. With guerilla love, we sneak up on our kid not to slay, but to deliver a small and quick act of affection.
Community Care
MAY 19, 2024
The approved mental health professional workforce is 35% short of what is required to provide a 24-hour service, AMHP leads have warned. The finding, from Skills for Care’s latest report on the AMHP workforce in England, suggests practitioner shortages are increasing amid a mounting number of people being made subject to the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA).
Health & Social Care Workforce
MAY 23, 2024
Katharine Orellana & Kritika Samsi (NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, King’s College London; NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South London).
The Guardian
MAY 19, 2024
My wife, Liz Wolstenholme, who has died of cancer aged 78, combined family life with a career in health and social care, mainly in Yorkshire. Liz’s achievements came from being a quiet, firm and inspirational leader who worked behind the scenes to unite disparate factions of the organisations in which she was employed. She placed collaboration ahead of competition and was always on the side of the underdog.
Gary Direnfeld
MAY 22, 2024
It was one of those showers that felt extra good. Plenty of hot water. Nice stream. It flowed over me. It came after this mornings kayak ride. The shower wasn’t necessary from sweating. It was because when I first got into the kayak, I wasn’t centered. I bailed. Our house backs onto a little waterway. It’s actually a man-made lagoon that was dug somewhere around the 1920s.
Community Care
MAY 24, 2024
Legislation to end profit-making from the provision of children’s care placements in Wales has been published. The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill would permit only not-for-profit organisations and councils from providing fostering, children’s home or secure accommodation placements. The reform would make Wales the first UK country to ban profit-making from both fostering and residential services.
Health & Social Care Workforce
MAY 19, 2024
Prof Ian Kessler of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce is Professor of Public Policy and Management at King’s Business School.
Social Work Blog
MAY 23, 2024
By Jaimie Seaton Imagine if an entire classroom of students died— every single week. It’s hard to overstate the horror. And, unfortunately, we don’t have to imagine it. An average of 22 adolescents (14 to 18 years old) died from drug overdoses in the U.S. each week in 2022. That makes drug overdoses and poisonings the third leading cause of pediatric deaths in the nation (behind gun injuries and motor vehicle accidents).
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