My Brains Not Broken
MAY 15, 2024
As it is Mental Health Awareness Month , it’s a good time to share resources, tips and techniques about mental health and wellness. After a decade-plus of living with depression and anxiety, I am proud of how I’ve learned to manage my mental health challenges. However, chronic mental health issues can mean I sometimes go through my day on auto-pilot, which isn’t great for my mental health.
International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 16, 2024
IFSW congratulates the Australian Association of Social Workers, the Australian Council of Heads of Social Work Education, and all other involved parties for their successful lobbying of government ministers to […]
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Stuck on Socialwork
MAY 17, 2024
It has been about two years since I posted something. My disappearance has been due to starting my Doctorate in Social Work about two years ago. What made me reappear? A conference about the future of social work. This is confluence of events for me as I have spent this semester narrowing the scope of.
Child Welfare Monitor
MAY 13, 2024
Officials of New Jersey’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) are congratulating themselves on what they call the decline of child abuse and neglect in their state and attributing this ostensible decline to their department’s preventive services. The number of reports of child child maltreatment has actually increased over this period.
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Michigan Social Work
MAY 14, 2024
Assistant Professor Odessa Gonzalez Benson has joined the editorial board of Social Service Review. The journal publishes original research on social issues, social welfare policy and social work practice. Established in 1927, it is the oldest continually published social welfare journal in the U.S.
International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 16, 2024
IFSW long-term volunteer and leader Nigel Hall has just been awarded the ‘Chairman’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Services to Social Care’ by the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards on 11 May 2024 […]
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The New Social Worker
MAY 12, 2024
As you step into the world with knowledge and a passion to make a difference, remember that your legacy starts now. Every choice you make, every relationship you build, and every challenge you overcome contributes to the lasting impact you will have.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 14, 2024
Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one before. There’s a scandal involving horrific abuse at a residential treatment center. No, not the one in Arizona, or the one in Kentucky, or the one in Tennessee, or Indiana, or Utah, or Oklahoma, or Washington state or Arkansas, or Connecticut or — well, you get the idea. This time it’s Rhode Island. But don’t worry.
International Federation of Social Workers
MAY 16, 2024
At the United Nations Civil Society Conference held in Nairobi on May 9 – 10, IFSW was represented by former African Regional President and Global Vice President Charles Mbugua, of […]
Community Care
MAY 14, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The Care Act 2014 remains the right legislation for social care sector and has led to progress, but its aims have not been realised because of a lack of funding. That was the verdict of sector experts who contributed to a Local Government Association report to mark the tenth anniversary of the Care Act becoming law and designed to influence the general election expected this autumn.
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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.
The New Social Worker
MAY 15, 2024
It is important to recognize that approximately half of degreed social workers are earning less than the median yearly income. As a result, many social workers are living below the living wage needed to support a household of two or more persons.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 13, 2024
It was 49 years today when a groundbreaking investigative series in the Daily News told a story that had been hidden for a century or more: Cloaked in a veneer of benevolence, New York’s private foster care agencies were deliberately prolonging the time children languished in foster care because their huge, mostly taxpayer-funded budgets were based on payments for each day they kept the children in their “care.
Michigan Social Work
MAY 14, 2024
Assistant Professor Ashley Cureton has received the 2024 Lester Monts Award from the U-M Center for Educational Outreach. The Lester Monts Award is a distinguished honor for faculty and staff who have collaborated with our team and contributed exceptionally to advancing educational outreach on campus and beyond. Cureton was selected for her inspiring commitment to initiatives including the Michigan Pre-College and Youth Conference, and Raise Scholars; the development of new collaborations with s
Relias
MAY 13, 2024
Shoulder dystocia is a relatively uncommon birthing complication that occurs when one or both of a baby’s shoulders get stuck in the birthing parent’s pelvis during labor. Despite its relatively low rate of occurrence — and the fact that a majority of babies in these cases are born safely — shoulder dystocia is still a leading cause of litigation in obstetrics.
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Community Care
MAY 16, 2024
Employers have offered council staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland a “full and final” pay rise of £1,290 or 2.5%, whichever is higher, in 2024-25. They said that the offer, which will be topped up for those working in London and pro rated for part-time employees, was at the limits of affordability for councils. It is worth about 3-4% for social workers (see box).
Shelter, Inc
MAY 15, 2024
Shelter, Inc. announced their participation, in partnership with more than 2,300 leading brands, nonprofits and cultural leaders globally, in the fourth-annual Mental Health Action Day, to be held on Thursday, May 16.
Michigan Social Work
MAY 14, 2024
Assistant Professor Katie Schultz is a principal investigator on a recently awarded R01 grant, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This longitudinal, mixed methods study will examine changes in the social networks of American Indian youth across adolescence and collect community-level social network data to identify optimal timing and strategies for culturally grounded prevention of substance use, suicide and exposure to violence at the micro (individual) and macro (community) levels
The Guardian
MAY 13, 2024
We know about the hardship of ‘Thatcher’s children’, but a new generation of Tories has raised inequality to even higher levels Children of austerity need a rescue plan, says Gordon Brown They are austerity’s children, born after 2010, perhaps now at secondary school – and they account for 3.4 million of Britain’s 4.3 million children in poverty. Most have never known what it is like to be free of poverty.
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
MAY 14, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Regional caps on the amount that councils should pay agencies to hire social workers will not come into force until spring 2025, the Department for Education (DfE) has said. This is a year later than the original planned start date for the DfE’s rules to curb local authorities’ use of locum practitioners in children’s services, which are designed to reduce cost and improve
Gary Direnfeld
MAY 13, 2024
The baby goes wah. It’s the parent’s job to figure out why so that they may soothe the child. The parent often checks the diaper first. It’s quick and easy. Assuming a clean diaper and the baby is still in distress, the parent tries to feed the child, wondering if hungry. However, in this case the child continues to wah. Not sure what to do next, the parent lifts the child in the air and goes, “Cootchi coo.” With that, the child settles.
Michigan Social Work
MAY 14, 2024
Clinical Associate Professor Daicia Price is quoted in a Crain’s Detroit article on the challenges in creating specialized units to respond to mental health emergency calls. The Detroit Police Department, which created a mental health unit at the end of 2022, received over 16,000 calls last year that involved someone in mental distress — or more than 43 calls per day.
The Guardian
MAY 11, 2024
Observer and Bureau of Investigative Journalism find that workers whose sponsoring company had been sanctioned were also being punished Thousands of migrant care workers have been threatened with deportation, despite doing nothing wrong, after the Home Office took enforcement action against their employers. In one case, a brother and sister from India who paid a recruitment agency £18,000 to secure care jobs in the UK, only to find they had been scammed, were told they must find another company
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Community Care
MAY 12, 2024
English councils have been invited to sign up to a scheme to highlight, and thereby tackle, racial inequalities in their social care workforces. Skills for Care has opened registration for the 2024-25 social care-workforce race equality standard (SC-WRES) , under which councils collect data on nine metrics comparing outcomes for black, Asian and minority ethnic staff and white colleagues.
Gary Direnfeld
MAY 13, 2024
Parenting theories and approaches can go in and out of style. It’s as if the theory of the day is the only one that holds merit. The older theories become outcast. However, they mostly all continue to hold merit. Today’s parenting approach is labled gentle parenting. With that, gone are behavioral approaches where one consider reward and consequences.
Michigan Social Work
MAY 14, 2024
Associate Professor Shanna Kattari’s book “Exploring Sexuality and Disability: A Guide for Human Service Professionals,” has received the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists 2024 Book Award (Sexuality Professional Focus). Chapter editors include Lecturers Jax Kynn, Erin Martinez and Laura Yakas; and PhD students E.B.
The Guardian
MAY 17, 2024
‘Strikingly large’ sum being recouped from people who fell foul of system that did not flag overpayments Ministers are clawing back more than £250m from unpaid carers over benefit infringements that occurred largely as a result of government failures, it can be revealed. More than 134,000 people who care for loved ones are being forced to repay often huge carer’s allowance overpayments.
Community Care
MAY 12, 2024
Revisions to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 code of practice are still under discussion two years after proposed changes were consulted upon. That was the message from care minister Helen Whately in response to a parliamentary question from shadow justice minister Alex Cunningham earlier this month. Cunningham had asked if a revised code would be published before the election , due by January 2025 but expected to take place in the autumn of this year.
Gary Direnfeld
MAY 13, 2024
So many parents seem befuddled, not knowing what to do when their child is hooked on video games. They spend considerable time negotiating, coaching, goading, yelling, screaming and threatening. If the child cannot stop their play and is resistant to any of those approaches, the real solution is to cut off their supply. It’s important to appreciate that gaming can be compared to any substance addiction.
Social Work Blog
MAY 17, 2024
By Ja’Bree Harris, MSW, NASW Public Policy and Advocacy Manager Today is the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is celebrating the advocacy and hard work that led to this pivotal decision, which has greatly influenced our nation. Seventy years ago, the Court unanimously ruled that “separate but equal” has no place in public education, fundamentally changing the civil rights landsca
The Guardian
MAY 16, 2024
Suppressed DWP study told of hardship endured by carers forced to repay thousands after minor allowance breaches Ministers were warned three years ago that unpaid carers were being treated unfairly and forced to repay huge sums for minor benefit breaches, a long suppressed government report has revealed. A Department for Work and Pensions document presented to politicians in 2021 detailed how carers – the majority of whom were on low incomes and spending 65 hours a week caring for loved ones – e
Community Care
MAY 15, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social workers are doing more with less, seeing increased need and weighed down by administrative work, a survey of just over 7,000 practitioners has found. Practitioners also feel less valued and supported by their employers and are more likely to quit their roles over the next 12 months than was the case a year ago, found the latest Local Government Association ‘health check’,
Gary Direnfeld
MAY 13, 2024
My first essay at university earned me a “D” It was written on the top of the page as a large red letter. The comment beneath the letter was, “You have a serious writing problem.” I went to that prof and asked for help. He told me to read Hemingway. I told him I didn’t enjoy novels and he said that I should get his anthology of short stories then.
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