Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

Social work quotes or quotes about social workers provide a source of inspiration and motivation. Motivational quotes for social workers highlight the need for social workers to believe in themselves, help one person at a time and pursue their own goals and aspirations. Although challenging, social work is one of the most rewarding careers presenting an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of individuals.

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Community Care

APRIL 3, 2023

Social workers and other children’s services staff and volunteers will be mandated to report child sexual abuse (CSA), Suella Braverman pledged yesterday. The home secretary said the government would introduce a mandatory reporting duty, subject to consultation, in response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse’s final report, published last October.

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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 6, 2023

You must understand, the narcissist isn’t really out to win. They are out to annihilate you. If you give in thinking it will create peace, think again. If working with a narcissist, and you have survived with what you gave up on, they will come back for more. To manage with a narcissist, it really requires a paradigm shift, a change in one’s own thinking.

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My Brains Not Broken

APRIL 6, 2023

This is a post about trying and failing. And trying again, and failing again. Trying and failing so often, in fact, that I’ve forgotten how many times attempts I’ve made. In some ways, this is a post about meditation (and I’ve written a few of those posts before). But it’s also a post about being resilient, and staying open minded.

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The New Social Worker

APRIL 3, 2023

Be like the trees. Breathe.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

● The first paragraph of this story from Reason says it all: Two Colorado child care workers will go on trial this June for presiding over a day care center where a 5-year-old pulled down a 3-year-old's pants. See NCCPR’s comment in the Reason story. And check out the report in the Colorado Sun , which broke the story. ● The American Civil Liberties Union At Liberty podcast devotes an episode to how “Mandatory Reporting Is Destroying Families.

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My Brains Not Broken

APRIL 4, 2023

What does it mean to have a timeline? Understanding and working with timelines feels like a key part of being part of today’s world. Whether at work or school, in our professional or personal lives, we have created a world that’s always on a timeline. Some plans might be short-term, while others can stretch on for years. Like many parts of our lives, there are pros and cons to these timelines.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

In social work, we write case notes and record information daily; part of record keeping. Record keeping helps in planning and decision-making. Maintaining high-quality social work case notes and recording fosters collaborative working relationship between the social worker, other professionals, and the adults/children they support. A sample case note for social work will help you understand what makes a high-quality case note.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

● It aims to stamp a scarlet number risk score on EVERY child at birth. ● There is no opportunity for any family to opt-out or deny the use of their personal data. ● It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. ● Developers say: Don’t worry, the data will be anonymized – but the promise is unenforceable.

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International Federation of Social Workers

APRIL 2, 2023

IFSW President, Joachim Mumba, welcomed the Afghanistan Organisation of Social Work into full IFSW membership. He said, ‘ASO will be a great asset to the international social work profession.

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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

APRIL 5, 2023

When it comes to advocacy for social justice, silence is not golden. We need to say something and do something. At the same time, we need to be mindful and strategic and prepare for possible pushback and retaliation.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

You asked; What is an eco-map in social work? An ecological map or ecomap is a diagram showing the social and personal relationships of an individual. It gives a visual representation of the key relationships a child or an individual has based on a strength based and person-centred perspective. Ann Hartman developed these ecological maps (or ecomaps) in 1975 to depict the ecological system that encompasses a family or individual (Hartman, 1995).

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

By Paul R. Pace Carol Sobelson, MS, said she was inspired to enter social work because, “I recognized I was a good listener.” “That led me down a clinical path for training so I could be even a better listener in understating and helping people,” says Sobelson, president of the NASW New Hampshire Chapter. “It’s interesting how my whole professional life was in clinical social work, and now I am involved in macro social work because it allows one to actively work for social justice and dignity an

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International Federation of Social Workers

APRIL 6, 2023

The Sierra Leone Social Workers shares the World Social Work Day 2023 report.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 6, 2023

Education Resource- International Perspectives of Disability video Here is a video from social work day prepared by various student/intern at the UN NY and participated in the Global Student Conference held on April 2, 2023. The video is about the different perspectives of disability around the world. The purpose of the video was to serve as an educational tool to those unfamiliar with disability but also a way to hear the changes people with disabilities from different countries want.

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Community Care

APRIL 5, 2023

The government has announced that the implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is being delayed beyond this Parliament. This short article explains the implications of this decision for the health and social care sector, and the likely way forward. What is the LPS? The LPS scheme was introduced through the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act in 2019 as the planned replacement system for the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Poverty continues to be a significant public health crisis across the United States, and its impact is particularly prevalent among school-aged youth and their families. Many K–12 educators do not fully understand the realities associated with living in poverty. Such a lack of understanding impacts teachers’ ability to meet the unique educational needs of students experiencing poverty and develop positive teacher–student relationships.

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International Federation of Social Workers

APRIL 5, 2023

The World Social Work Social Development Conference (SWSD2024) will be held in Panama from 4th to 7th April next year.

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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.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 7, 2023

In social work practice, the Generalist Intervention Model (GIM) is an approach to working with individuals, families, and communities that is based on a recognition of the interconnections of human systems. It emphasises building partnerships with clients and utilising their strengths to address problems and create solutions. The model uses an ecological perspective to identify multiple levels of influence in client’s lives, including but not limited to: family, peers, school/work, community, a

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Therapist Development Center

APRIL 5, 2023

Last month’s ASWB exam prep blog for the LMSW and LCSW exams covered the topic of parenting styles. We reviewed the characteristics of the four main parenting styles: authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved. If you haven’t already, be sure to … Continued The post ASWB Question: Parenting Styles Part 2 appeared first on Therapist Development Center Blog.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

The NASW Code of Ethics is a set of standards that guide the professional conduct of social workers. The 2021 update includes language that addresses the importance of professional self-care. Moreover, revisions to the Cultural Competence standard provide more explicit guidance to social workers. All social workers should review the new text and affirm their commitment to abide by the Code of Ethics.

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International Federation of Social Workers

APRIL 6, 2023

The IFSW UN Commission, Geneva Team update The Commission Geneva team met with the UN-Commissioner Priska Fleischlin in Geneva having the first in person meeting with members as well as […]

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Michigan Social Work

APRIL 4, 2023

Assistant Professor Rebeccah Sokol has been named a 2023 Public Engagement Faculty Fellow. The university launched its Public Engagement Faculty Fellowship program in 2020 to help faculty bolster their knowledge and skills, and also reflect on how public engagement aligns with their scholarly identity. The effort includes creating an interdisciplinary, intergenerational learning community, as well as encouraging recognition of and experimentation with all forms of public engagement.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

The Care Act 2014 introduces a duty on local authorities to assess an adult who appears to have needs for care and support (needs assessment) 9 (1) of the Care Act 2014. If the adult meets the eligibility criteria, then a local authority will have a duty s18 or power s19 to meet the needs for care and support under the Care Act 2014. The care and support plan or in the case of a carer, a support plan should be personalised.

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Community Care

APRIL 6, 2023

A government asylum age assessment body that the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has urged practitioners not to take jobs with has started work. The Home Office said its National Age Assessment Board (NAAB) will start operating, initially, in the London and West Midlands, before being rolled out to the rest of the country once its full complement of 40 social workers had been recruited.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

APRIL 2, 2023

Just like public speaking or any other skill, I am realizing that conflict resolution is a skill worth mastering. As an Army officer, you are expected to lead, but in order to lead, you have to know how to manage conflict to accomplish the mission. The “mission” does not always mean going into battle or winning a war. Depending on your specialty, your unit, or work environment, the mission may be proving good health care, gathering intelligence information, maintaining and supplying units, etc.

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Michigan Social Work

APRIL 4, 2023

Lauren Whitmer, Joint PhD in Social Work and Anthropology, has successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Ay Amiga, ¿Qué Puedo Hacer? Oh Friend, What Can I Do?: An Ethnographic Analysis of How Socio-Cultural and Structural Factors Shape Help-Seeking Relationships for Intimate Partner Violence in Lambayeque, Peru." Her committee included Beth Glover Reed (co-chair) and Richard Tolman.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

To become a Best Interests Assessor, social workers have to be registered with Social Work England for at least 2 years and enrol on a postgraduate BIA-DOLS qualification. Eligibility to be a best interests assessor is detailed in the DoLS Regulations. MENTAL CAPACITY ASSESSMENTS MADE SIMPLE A BIA-DOLS qualification course qualifies a social worker or other professionals such as nurses to assess people in situations, such as residential care or hospital, where their liberty may be in question, a

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Community Care

APRIL 3, 2023

Berkshire headteacher Ruth Perry’s death has reignited an old debate about the appropriateness of Ofsted’s single-word grading system. Under this, schools, social care providers and local authority children’s services receive an overall grade based on the same scale – outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate. This has long been opposed by children’s services leaders, with directors and academics criticising Ofsted’s assessment system last year for perpetuating the sector’s r

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The Guardian

APRIL 3, 2023

Sir Peter Wanless welcomes creation of taskforce but says ‘there must be a focus on more than just race’ Politics live - latest updates The NSPCC and experts on grooming gangs have warned ministers against framing the issue as one based on ethnicity, warning that this could hamper efforts to tackle a crime that a Home Office report said was carried out predominantly by white men.

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Michigan Social Work

APRIL 4, 2023

ENGAGE Program Manager Fatima Salman spoke with WDET about both the critical role social workers play in supporting individuals and communities and how the celebration of Social Work Month supports the profession. The state of Michigan officially recognized March as Social Work Month thanks to a resolution by State Representative Carrie Rheingans, MSW ’11.

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Social Work With Adults

APRIL 4, 2023

"Although progress towards real and sustained care sector reform remains challenging, the voice of adult social work has a powerful and constructive role to play." [Created by freepik.com ] The benefit of insight It is one of the privileges of being Chief Social Worker for Adults that my professional colleagues and I can offer our advice, insight and guidance to inform major social care initiatives in England.

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