The New Social Worker
MARCH 13, 2023
Social workers shouldn’t “need” to have a side hustle to make a living wage. Still, a side gig can provide extra income to reach your financial goals. An additional job can also be a great way to gain new skills, knowledge, and experience.
My Brains Not Broken
MARCH 14, 2023
I wish it weren’t true, but I’m extremely familiar with self-stigma. I’ve written about it before; in fact, I tried to break it down in a blog post last year. But as much as I’ve learned about how self-stigma exists in the world, I’m a whole different story. I have so much more to learn about how self-stigma exists within myself.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 12, 2023
You probably remember the story: White adoptive parents of six black children drive themselves and the children off a cliff, killing them all. That may be all you remember, and perhaps wondering what would drive such a noble couple to such despair. After all, they rescued these children from their terrible parents, didn’t they? That was the story most reporters told, without asking any tough questions.
Nicole Clark Consulting
MARCH 15, 2023
Try this out and let me know how it goes for you. I was a panelist on a recent webinar, discussing community and structural interventions to support maternal health equity. During the conversation, I shared an evaluation struggle: Evaluation is used to meet funder expectations, instead of serving as a learning tool for [.] The post Try This: Move Away from Funder-Driven Evaluation appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.
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The New Social Worker
MARCH 16, 2023
Based on a true story, Women Talking offers an “imagined response” to the drugging and rape of women and girls in a cult-like religious colony. SaraKay offers commentary and questions for reflection and discussion.
Nnatasha Tracy
MARCH 16, 2023
Staying in an active addiction is a choice. I know that's a controversial statement, but I believe it to be true. This is not to suggest that addiction itself is a choice -- it isn't -- addiction itself can be considered a mental illness, and an illness is never a choice. That said, when a person continues in their addiction, that is a choice. I wish people would acknowledge that.
Social Work Update brings together the best content for social work professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Relias
MARCH 13, 2023
Occupational wellness is a key ingredient to a healthy, happy, and balanced life — no matter one’s line of work. When it comes to direct support professionals (DSPs) and other positions focused on care where burnout is prevalent, occupational wellness is even more important. Although achieving occupational wellness is often discussed from the perspective of the employee, there’s actually quite a bit that organizations can do to promote it.
International Federation of Social Workers
MARCH 16, 2023
“Thousands of children and young people around the Commonwealth help look after a relative with a disability, illness, mental health condition, or drug or alcohol addiction”, said Commonwealth Young Carer […]
The New Social Worker
MARCH 15, 2023
The New Social Worker reviews the updated 2023 edition of Help for the Helper, a book by Babette Rothschild.
Community Care
MARCH 15, 2023
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced increased tax relief for foster and shared lives carers, improved support for care leavers and enhanced help for disabled people to enter the workplace, in his Spring Budget today. However, social care leaders have criticised the lack of funding for core services for the coming years, while the statement also did not provide further detail about public sector pay settlements for 2023-24.
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.
Relias
MARCH 17, 2023
Patient Safety Awareness Week, sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement , is the perfect time to review the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals. Each year, the Joint Commission issues a list of top national patient safety goals for healthcare settings, including hospitals, nursing care centers, behavioral health care and human services, ambulatory healthcare, home care, and more.
Michigan Social Work
MARCH 16, 2023
Ramona Perry, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Psychology, has successfully defended her dissertation "Black During COVID-19: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Adoption of COVID-19 Risk Reduction Behaviors among Black Adults." Her committee included Jamie Mitchell (co-chair) and Jaclynn Hawkins. After graduation, Perry will be co-owner of an evaluation consulting firm.
Shelter, Inc
MARCH 13, 2023
The Cook County Department of Public Health has announced Shelter is one of 18 recipients out of 140 applicants to receive a Behavioral Health Initiative Grant (BHI) to support behavioral health services for Cook County’s most vulnerable communities. The BHI program will address mental health and substance use inequities and aims to increase and enhance access to a full continuum of integrated and equitable behavioral health and substance use services, support, and treatment.
Therapist Development Center
MARCH 13, 2023
This month’s FREE ASWB practice question for the LCSW and LMSW exams covers the topic of parenting styles. Parenting styles refer to the standard strategies, behaviors, attitudes, and emotional climate parents use in their child rearing. There are four main … Continued The post FREE ASWB Question: Parenting Styles appeared first on Therapist Development Center Blog.
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Relias
MARCH 13, 2023
In the healthcare industry, regulations and best practices are always changing. Regular compliance audits help organizations provide the most efficient, effective patient care. But they can also be a source of stress and frustration. In addition, failing an audit can lead to fines and other penalties. The best way to protect your organization is to monitor your compliance risks proactively.
Michigan Social Work
MARCH 16, 2023
Associate Research Scientist Roland Zullo discussed Michigan’s right-to-work law with WEMU. “Repealing right-to-work certainly helps the labor movement on a couple of levels. But the main one,” said Zullo “is that it shows that labor has regained a little bit of political power in this state.
Community Care
MARCH 16, 2023
The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has urged its members, and other social workers, not to work for a new Home Office agency established to assess the ages of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people. Its chief executive, Ruth Allen, said taking a job with the Home Office’s National Age Assessment Board (NAAB) was a “risk to professional objectivity and could compromise the judgment of social workers”, in the light of government rhetoric about adult asylum seeke
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 16, 2023
Long ago, when I was a reporter in Albany, New York, I was approached by a colleague who covered health. He was about to cover a training session for health professionals required to report any suspicion of child abuse and neglect under New York’s “mandatory reporting” law. Knowing I’d just written a book on the failures of the “child welfare” system, he asked for suggestions for questions to ask the trainers.
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.
American Board of Clinical Social Work
MARCH 13, 2023
In 2009, the South Carolina governor reportedly “disappeared” for a few days. It was later discovered that he had been with his mistress in Argentina. In one of his former wife’s interviews on a news talk show, she described their therapy together after his return. She said that she could recall the moment in their treatment when she knew their marriage was over, as she began to realize that he was not going to take any responsibility for his part of the problems in their marriage.
Michigan Social Work
MARCH 14, 2023
Associate Professor Camille Quinn will receive the 2023 Milestone Achievement Award from the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. The Milestone Achievement Award honors Crown Family School alumni for their exemplary social work values, exceptional performance in clinical or administrative practice, and a strong commitment to the social work profession.
Community Care
MARCH 13, 2023
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The number of overseas social workers applying to work in England annually has risen almost threefold in the past three years, Social Work England has reported. While 611 practitioners from abroad applied to register in England from 1 December 2019 to 30 November 2020, 1,684 did in the 2021-22 registration year, the regulator said in its State of the nation 2023 report , published last we
The Guardian
MARCH 17, 2023
Ministers set to halve the £500m promised to invest in staffing of sector with more than 165,000 vacancies, report says Politics live - latest updates Ministers are poised to cut £250m from investment in the social care workforce in England, it has been reported, in a move that providers say could set back care “for years to come”. With more than 165,000 care worker jobs vacant, and low pay driving staff to quit for better wages in retail and hospitality, care providers and councils have been cl
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Social Care
MARCH 15, 2023
"Understanding the ways in which employers, educators and government can best support young carers is hugely important." [Image copyright Carers Trust] Today is Young Carers Action Day I'm Andy McGowan, tthe Policy and Practice Manager for Young Carers and Young Adult Carers at Carers Trust , a UK charity working to transform the lives of unpaid carers.
My Brains Not Broken
MARCH 16, 2023
I recently got the opportunity to connect with Noah Chenevert, a mental health advocate and author of the recently published book “ Mental Health Over Matter.” In this interview, we talked about the book, Noah’s approach to mental health, and his attitudes surrounding mental health in the current day and age. Thanks for taking the time, Noah!
Community Care
MARCH 17, 2023
The government’s Illegal Migration Bill has passed its first parliamentary hurdle as the Children’s Commissioner for England issued a stark warning about its impact on vulnerable children seeking refuge in the UK. The bill, which would effectively ban anyone who comes to the UK without leave to enter or remain from claiming asylum – in most cases regardless of human rights or modern slavery claims – passed its second reading in the House of Commons on Monday, by 312 votes
The Guardian
MARCH 15, 2023
Charities and disability campaigners say chancellor’s budget proposals are more ‘stick than carrot’ Hunt gives top 1% a pension bonus, ignores public services ‘The pain was so bad but the assessors didn’t believe me’ Up to 1 million people claiming incapacity benefits could lose hundreds of pounds a month as a result of plans outlined in the budget to push ahead with the “biggest reforms to the welfare system in a decade,” experts have said.
Social Care
MARCH 13, 2023
Student Nursing Associate, Mercy Sharp, 52, was born in the Philippines and moved to England in 2007. She has worked at Royal Star & Garter in High Wycombe, since the care home opened in 2019. She is nearing the end of her nursing associate course, which she began in 2020. Royal Star & Garter is a charity providing compassionate care to veterans and their partners living with disability or dementia.
Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 13, 2023
The narcissist will not only spread lies about their ex, they will tell people how their ex will deny those lies if confronted about them. Think about that. It means that the ex who seeks to defend themselves against those lies may inadvertently wind up confirming what the narcissist said in the mind of the person the ex is trying to convince otherwise.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 14, 2023
● I’ll begin by repeating my favorite paragraph among all the rave reviews for Roxanna Asgarian’s book, We Were Once a Family. This is from The New York Times: "[Asgarian] knows that abolishing #fostercare as it’s currently practiced might sound not only undesirable but almost inconceivable to many people — myself among them, at least before the book unsettled some of my assumptions.
The Guardian
MARCH 16, 2023
From longer waiting lists to discouraging nursing applicants, the costs are huge – for patients and the service itself When the mighty Royal College of Nursing walked out on its first ever national strike, there was never a doubt that the government would fold and offer a pay increase to NHS staff. Nurses could never be conveniently branded as “militants”, though at first, pathetically, the Tories tried it; nor did that epithet stick to the ambulance staff, physiotherapists and the rest who went
Community Care
MARCH 16, 2023
A quarter of those who quit the social work register in England last year had been on it for less than a year, Social Work England has revealed. Its Social Work in England: state of the nation 2023 study, published last week, showed that 24.1% of the 5,335 social workers who left the register in the year to 30 November 2022 had been continuously registered for less than a year.
Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 13, 2023
I know. It eases the pain. It masks the multitude of hurts. Away you go to another place. You get by. However, it catches up with you. It’s unsustainable. Further the fall. Circling. Circling. Catch a branch. Hold on. Tight is your grasp but weak your resolve. You need support. Another to hold you. Hold you. Therein some strength. Borrow their resolve.
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