Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 1, 2022
Some young people don’t leave home. They flee. They flee those conditions that being harm to self and others within the home. Some flea at a young age, teenagers, not yet fully formed, not yet adults. Not yet with all supports in place. They are at tremendous risk even when once fled. Mere survival, let alone exploitation challenge them. They seek to find their way.
International Federation of Social Workers
MARCH 1, 2022
Phil is founding member of the Care Leavers Association in England. He writes about the failings of the care system from the from the perspective of his experiences in England, but he sets them against wider international cultures and policies. Ruth Stark, who wrote the foreword to this book, commented: “The unique perspective that Phil […].
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My Brains Not Broken
MARCH 1, 2022
Recently, I came to terms with the fact that I’ve been experiencing a tricky bout of depression for the past month or so. It wasn’t easy to spot, and even though I’ve lived with depression for almost a third of my life, I couldn’t recognize it for a long time. However, it took putting some dots together (and a very patient partner who gives as much support as she can) for me to realize I was living under a fog of depression.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
IASSW Statement on the Ukraine. Social workers subscribe to the principle of self-determination of the people, and stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people taking a stand against the aggressor on the basis of our shared values. We abhor the use of force against the territorial integrity to subjugate any people and urge all nations, government and non-government organizations, to respect human rights, social justice and international laws that uphold Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence.
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The New Social Worker
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
The time is right for social work. The need for social workers is great. Great social workers need serious attention to self-care. Let’s get it right. It’s time.
Social Work Blog
MARCH 2, 2022
By Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA. W hen the National 988 Suicide Prevention Crisis Hotline goes into effect July 16, 2022, it will probably be the most significant public policy initiative impacting behavioral healthcare since the Medicaid expansion. While 988, the new congressionally mandated three-digit calling code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, was originally conceptualized as a national standardized system for comprehensively responding emergency behavioral health crisis calls, it ha
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The International Association Of Schools Of Social
FEBRUARY 27, 2022
Statement on Ukraine by EEsrASSW. Social work as a profession and academic discipline is based on the idea of peace and non-violence (Statement 9 of the Global Social Work Statement of Ethical Principles). The pioneers and founders of professional social work explicitly advocated for peace and against military interventions that continue to inflict suffering on people on all sides of violent attacks.
The New Social Worker
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
It's time! March is Social Work Month, and The New Social Worker invites you to spend it with us. THANK you for all you do. Follow us all month (March 2022) to celebrate the social work profession. The time is right for social work.
Social Work Blog
MARCH 3, 2022
Here are some organizations offering relief to Ukrainian refugees. Ukraine Relief Organizations. Care Ukraine Crisis Fund. Doctors Without Borders. Unicef. World Central Kitchen. International Rescue Committee. International Committee of the Red Cross. UN Crisis Relief. Save the Children. Statements from Social Work Organizations on war against Ukraine.
Social Work.Career
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Dear Social Workers and Colleagues, March is #SocialWorkMonth and I just wanted to thank all of you for all the hard work that you do throughout the year! #TheTimeIsRightForSocialWork! Don’t forget to check out 25 Social Workers Share Why They Love Social Work! This post is part of the monthly series, Free Webinars for Social Workers […].
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.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
MARCH 2, 2022
Invitation to the National Conference. The Department of Social Work, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous), Kerala, India cordially invites you to *DYUTI 22 (22nd Edition) – National Conference on Equitable and Inclusive Education* which will be held online on March 10-11, 2022. Please see the brochure attached. For registration: [link] gle/YxucrNFyEboZ6vCX7.
The New Social Worker
MARCH 2, 2022
We live in interesting times. The time is right for social workers in research, technology, and leadership roles. And the time is always right for social work.
Social Work Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2022
A message from National Association of Social Workers (NASW) President Mildred “Mit” Joyner. NASW President Mildred “Mit” Joyner, DPS, MSW, LCSW. “NASW condemns Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s direction of the Department of Family and Protective Services to implement Attorney General Ken Paxton’s opinion and to actually treat age-appropriate medically necessary gender affirming treatment as child abuse.
International Federation of Social Workers
MARCH 4, 2022
IFSW Europe hosts a webinar on the 15 March 2022, World Social Work Day, at 18.00 CET REGISTRATION FORM Participation is free, but the registration Is mandatory. Our colleagues in Romania, Poland, and Slovakia and other countries in the East of Europe have responded directly to the growing humanitarian crisis caused by the invasion of […].
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The International Association Of Schools Of Social
MARCH 3, 2022
World Social Work Day 2022 : Message from IASSW President. Happy World Social Work Day 2022 (WSWD). This year World Social Work Day will be celebrated on the 15th March 2022. The theme: ´Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind´ which relates to the second theme of the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development. We understand, in current situations, how important is Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind.
Nicole Clark Consulting
MARCH 1, 2022
Have a question you’d like to be featured? Let me know. In late Summer 2021, I started a strategic planning project with a new client organization. During the initial meeting, the Executive Director and I caught up a bit. This Executive Director had previously been a Co-Executive Director for a client organization I worked with [.]. The post Ask Nicole: The Best Way to Follow Up with Former Clients appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.
Social Work Blog
MARCH 1, 2022
The Social Work Leadership Roundtable on March 25 will celebrate Social Work Month with a Facebook Live event focusing on this year’s theme – “The Time is Right for Social Work.”. In preparation for the celebration, we are gathering photos, videos, quotes, testimonials, poems and other content that show why social work is more valuable than ever. Submit your “time is right” reflections by March 14 in one of three ways: Email to media@socialworkers.org.
International Federation of Social Workers
MARCH 2, 2022
This week the leaders of the Panamanian Social Work and Public Health professional associations met to discuss the policy and practice gaps between health and social services. Both national associations recognize that there cannot be public health without social well-being, nor social wellbeing without public health. Yet in Panama and worldwide each of these services […].
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 2, 2022
? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? With ICWA in danger, states, which haven’t done nearly enough even with ICWA, are going to have to step up.
Community Care
MARCH 1, 2022
A “morally and economically nonsensical” failure to fund early help means about 64,000 children a year are being re-referred to social care within 12 months of a closed assessment. That was the warning from Action for Children, after research it carried out found a quarter of children who did not receive early help following a closed child-in-need assessment were referred back to local authorities within 12 months, from 2015-16 to 2019-20.
R.E.A.L. Social Workers
MARCH 4, 2022
How often do you find yourself worrying about a situation, impending event, or the past? Chronic worry leads to chronic stress. Chronic stress negatively affects our physical, mental. and emotional health. So, what is the benefit of worry? Worry is deliberately spending time pondering difficulties or concerns. When we worry, our mind dwells on the problem and the uncertainty of the outcome.
International Federation of Social Workers
MARCH 2, 2022
Press Release: Crisis in Ukraine highlights social and racial inequalities among ethnic minority groups fleeing for their lives from the warzone The Irish Association of Social Workers (IASW) Anti-Racism Advisory Group and our social work colleagues in Ireland and around the world stand in awe and disbelief at the atrocities inflicted by Russian forces upon […].
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The International Association Of Schools Of Social
MARCH 4, 2022
IASSW elections 2022: vote on-line. The IASSW is holding elections for three positions on the IASSW Board of Directors (Treasurer and two Members at large representing all IASSW members). The voting is organized in electronic way. You may go to the link : [link] and vote for candidates. Please note following points: Only those members who have paid membership dues for 2022 are eligible to vote.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Safeguarding teams took no action in response “serious” concerns about the care of disabled people segregated in mental health hospitals, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said. Alerts were raised concerning 13 people with learning disabilities or autistic people in long-term segregation for reasons including poor-quality environments, a lack of care and observation and the person not being able to access outdoor spaces.
Social Work Blog
MARCH 3, 2022
Successful Lobbying Requires Building Relationships, Finding Common Ground. By Laetitia Clayton, Editor. “Social work is political.” You’ve likely heard this statement before, and some say it’s true now more than ever. Social work and NASW have a long history of social and political activism, and all social workers have an ethical responsibility to advocate for clients, per our Code of Ethics.
International Federation of Social Workers
MARCH 2, 2022
The IFSW and Social Work Ethics Research Group (SWERG) would like to warmly invite Social Workers around the world, from different background, to join us in a webinar, with small group discussions, to reflect on learning from social workers’ rethinking of what counts as ethical practice during Covid-19. We want to consider how this can […].
Michigan Social Work
MARCH 1, 2022
Dear Michigan Social Work Community, March is social work month and this year’s theme is The Time is Right for Social Work. The time has always been right for social work. For decades, social workers have been providing essential services, support for individuals, families and communities, and advocating for policies that create a better society. But today — as we face the ramifications of the pandemic, systemic racism, economic inequality and uncertainty, and climate crisis — the time is especi
Clinical Philosophy
MARCH 1, 2022
A talk 12 th June 2020 St Cats, Oxford / Revised for 1st March 2022, Phenolab 1. Introduction a. Psychopathologists tell us of range of distinctly schizophrenic disturbances – Ichstörungen – that we may call ‘self-disturbances’, ‘I disturbances’… even call them ‘ipseity disturbances’ if you want… (a) "My thoughts are not thought by me. They are thought by somebody else" (b) "Feelings are not felt by me, things are not seen by me, only by my eyes" (c) "This (thing, event) directly refers to me.
Social Work Blog
MARCH 1, 2022
Diagnosing and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder by Gregory L. Nooney. Dissociative identity disorder (DID), previously known as multiple personality disorder, is a misunderstood and often underdiagnosed condition. Whether you are a new social worker or an experienced frontline staffer who is new to DID, Diagnosing and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder is the resource that can help.
International Federation of Social Workers
MARCH 2, 2022
Age with Rights: IFSW Europe supports the Global Rally on 3 March 2022 On Thursday, 3 March 2022, the Global Alliance for the Rights of Older People (GAROP) is holding a Global Rally. This is an opportunity to mobilise existing and new advocates to support the call for a UN convention, and to push governments […].
Michigan Social Work
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Charles Williams' editorial, “The Real Lesson That We Learned from the Juwan Howard Incident: A Black Man Still Has No Rights That Require Respect” is included in the latest issue of Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. “Watching Coach Howard try to negotiate anger the best way he could when walking down the handshake line, makes me flashback to every single moment in my life when I got to my car, or made it to my office or left the conflict and literally thanked God that I got away without havi
Gateway Foundation
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Have your friends ever referred to you as an “angry drunk”? Becoming angry or irritable when you drink is a relatively common experience — an often-cited body of research by the World Health Organization notes that aggression has a closer link to alcohol than any other kind of psychoactive drug. But why does alcohol make… The post The Connection Between Alcohol and Anger appeared first on Gateway.
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