Relias
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Disasters happen. Whether they are natural or man-made disasters, human services professionals must prepare accordingly. While the steps your organization takes to prepare for a disaster may vary based on its location, there are certain best practices everyone can follow. To help your organization provide the best response possible, we’ve put together this resource on disaster behavioral health.
My Brains Not Broken
OCTOBER 4, 2022
I’ve written about it before, but the way different aspects of our health connect is fascinating to me. I often think about the connection between my physical health and mental health. To be honest, the main reason I focus on my physical health is because of the way it helps me manage my mental health. But today, I want to talk about the unique purpose that certain activities have.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Last month, the New York Law Journal published an excellent article about the Family Justice Law Center. The article aptly describes the Center as a first-of-its-kind organization that intends to engage in affirmative litigation with the [Administration for Children’s Services] —hitting it with lawsuits to potentially hold it accountable for allegedly violating families’ constitutional rights via heavy-handed investigatory and removal tactics.
National Casa Gal
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Through this sponsorship, visitors to the ALM website and readers of their publications will be able to learn more about the mission of National CASA/GAL. Read More. The post ALM continues media sponsorship with National CASA/GAL Association for Children appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.
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International Federation of Social Workers
OCTOBER 1, 2022
International Social Work Research Seminar on September 24, 2022, entitled “Asylum Experiences and Attitudes in Japanese-Hungarian Comparison” The Japanese International Social Work Research Association (ASISW) and the International Working Group […].
My Brains Not Broken
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Earlier this week, I wrote about how everything we do serves a purpose when it comes to our health and wellness. I focused on physical exercise and my therapy sessions, but it applies to all areas of life. Each activity can serve a different purpose, and each moment can help us in a different way. Today, I want to elaborate further on that point because something else needs to be shared along with it.
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Social Work Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2022
By Denise Johnson, LCSW-C. Senior Practice Associate, Clinical Social Work. Depression is a very common and serious mental health condition that can significantly impact a person’s ability to function in all aspects of life. It can result from a number of social, emotional, and biological factors. In fact, those with other health conditions such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and substance use disorder are also at greater risk of developing depression [1].
International Federation of Social Workers
OCTOBER 1, 2022
1-10 October is Older Adult Mental Health Awareness Week IFSW Europe is pleased to support this initiative to raise awareness of the importance of better mental health for older people. […].
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2022
? Last week, I was asked to list the most important contributions to the field of family advocacy and family defense made by Prof. Martin Guggenheim. The fact that he is a founder and president of NCCPR didn’t even make my top five. As Kathleen Creamer put it in this story from The Imprint “No one has done more than Marty to move this field towards justice — even when no one seemed to care about justice.” ?
The New Social Worker
OCTOBER 5, 2022
COVID lockdown forced many social workers to integrate telehealth into their practice, but not much has been written about the mechanics. Here are tips to help you with familiar and unfamiliar platforms, plus the nuts and bolts of needed hardware.
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
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Councils should stop automatically triggering child protection enquiries under section 47 of the Children Act 1989 in response to bruising in pre-mobile infants, government advisers have said. The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel made the call in a briefing published last week , as research found increasing numbers of authorities had policies that required a section 47 enquiry or a strategy discussion to decide whether such an enquiry should take place, in these cases.
International Federation of Social Workers
OCTOBER 1, 2022
The Community Social Work Centre in Ukraine continues to organize and provide group counselling and training/support for internally displaced people who have relocated to the area. A second group process […].
A Splintered Mind
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Come explore with me the strange intersection of pants and ADHD. Last July, I lost three pairs of pants. As usual, I posted to social media to make light of it, but just between you and me, I stayed up fairly late searching the house like a ninja in search of those pants. Hiding my presence, I moved into almost every room in my home, making no sound as I lifted things, rearranged them, and rifled through them hoping those pants would turn up.
Michigan Social Work
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Professors Andy Grogan-Kaylor and Shawna Lee’s research on the relationship between gender inequity and child abuse is featured in Michigan News. Garret Pace, PhD ‘22, and Kaitlin Paxton Ward, PhD ‘22 are also co-authors on the study, which found that gender inequality at the adult level perpetuates women’s economic insecurity that contributes to higher levels of child abuse.
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Therapist Development Center
OCTOBER 5, 2022
As we discussed last month in our blog on Gestalt Therapy, a challenge of the ASWB LMSW and LCSW exams is the breadth of content that can be tested. In particular, many different therapy theories can show up on the … Continued. The post ASWB Exam Prep: Interpersonal Psychotherapy appeared first on Therapist Development Center Blog.
International Federation of Social Workers
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Following the needs identified by social workers, the Community Social Work Centre in Kamianets-Podilskyi district organised a meeting with the staff of the Pension Fund of Ukraine. Internally displaced people, […].
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
OCTOBER 3, 2022
International Symposium on Social Work and War. Social Work and War: Glocal Collaboration in Practice and Education regarding Support to Displaced Persons. Date : November 12 (Sat) 17:00-19:00 （Japan Time）. Venue : Webinar. Please click here for more details: [link]. or contact. Japanese Society for the Study of Social Work (JSSSW). Viktor Virag. E-mail：virag@jcsw.ac.jp.
Michigan Social Work
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Earlier this month, the School of Social Work presented Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, in the School’s second annual Social Justice Changemaker Lecture. The program, “Social Change in Action: How to be a change agent in a world that feels out of control,” featured a conversation in which Walker and Dean Beth Angell explored ways to be a change agent during challenging times and discussed how philanthropy can be used as a force for social change.
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
OCTOBER 3, 2022
There were almost 250 applications to deprive children of their liberty in England in the first two months of a dedicated court set up to handle these cases. The national DoLs court received 237 applications in July and August to authorise the deprivation of liberty of a child or young person using the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court – which is designed to safeguard vulnerable people where there is no statutory provision to do so.
International Federation of Social Workers
OCTOBER 1, 2022
President of the Iran Association of Social Workers Speaks on the Countries Challenges The Iran Association of Social Workers warmly empathizes with Mahsa Amini’s family for the big loss they […].
Social Work With Adults
OCTOBER 6, 2022
"At its best, social work supports people to cope with difficult circumstances, drawing on their own strengths and assets." [Image created by freepik.com ]. Our support continues and always will. Social workers are frequently misrepresented, in some areas of the media, as removers of liberty, curtailers of freedoms and, like bailiffs, only there to take something away.
Michigan Social Work
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Professor Luke Shaefer was quoted in a New York Times article describing the short-term surge in federal per child spending during the pandemic. “In my career, I’ve never seen anything so dramatic as the shift in resources to families with kids during the pandemic,” said Shaefer “Now we have much more evidence that these types of provisions can really work, and almost all of it is going away.
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Community Care
OCTOBER 6, 2022
“I want my kids eating well, and I want them dressed appropriately, that they at least have a school uniform. If we’re actually going to be happier with me in the benefits system, then why not? Why push poverty on my family unnecessarily?”. Amy*, a newly qualified social worker, has been contemplating switching to agency work or going on benefits to provide for their family in the midst of rising costs.
The Guardian
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Exclusive: almost one in four people unable to be discharged were waiting for home care, data reveals A “perilous” shortage of homecare workers is the biggest reason thousands of people are languishing longer in hospital than needed, driving up waiting lists and making people sicker, figures reveal. Almost one in four people unable to be discharged – sometimes for weeks – were trapped in hospital because they were waiting for home care, as agencies hand back contracts because staff are quitting
Counselor Toolbox podcast
OCTOBER 2, 2022
Gary Direnfeld
OCTOBER 3, 2022
I want to speak to those who have lost a child. That child could be of any age. The child could be pre-born. The loss could even be of fertility. These are losses without resolution. A grief without end. Despite the when, why or age, the loss is not just of the child when it happened. The loss includes the recognition of all developmental milestones, that loss of celebrating life events because in one’s mind, that child can continue to grow.
Community Care
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Council social workers and care staff in Scotland will no longer have to pay registration fees after unions agreed a pay deal with employers. Following a protracted dispute that led to strikes by education and waste services staff, the main unions, UNISON, Unite and GMB, agreed to an improved offer from the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), after it was approved in ballots of their members.
The Guardian
OCTOBER 1, 2022
General meeting was held to discuss failing children’s services after an inspection slated its social work as ‘inadequate’ in all areas Councillors called for heads to roll at an extraordinary general meeting held to discuss Herefordshire’s failing children’s services after an Ofsted inspection slated its social work as “inadequate” in all areas. After a slew of damning high court judgments since 2018 that detailed how Herefordshire social workers had breached children’s human rights, the critic
Gary Direnfeld
OCTOBER 3, 2022
The child entered my office and barely could contain themself. Quickly they told me about their preference of who to live with, given their parents separation. The child went on to explain how the preferred parent was better than the other. Once told, the child settled. I thanked the child and complemented on being able to share their information. Given the abundance of information I asked if either parent helped them remember all the points they shared.
Community Care
OCTOBER 6, 2022
By Ann Horne, kinship consultant, CoramBAAF. Kinship carers are motivated by love, commitment and, sometimes, a sense of family or cultural duty. Their decision to care for a child is often made at times of family crisis, triggering heightened stress and anxiety, with little planning or preparation. They have not made a proactive choice to become a foster carer or adopter, but find themselves in a situation, not of their own choosing, but wishing to safeguard a child they love.
The Guardian
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Shortfalls will be most severe among aged and disabled care sectors, says report, which was delayed by former government Get our free news app , morning email briefing or daily news podcast Australia faces a shortfall of more than 200,000 full-time care workers by 2050 as demand doubles within a generation, with a predicted gap in the workforce emerging earlier than expected as a result of the Covid pandemic.
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