Nnatasha Tracy

JUNE 15, 2022

This week, Snap Out of It! The Mental Illness in the Workplace Podcast with Natasha Tracy is talking about attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and binge eating disorder (BED) at work with Jason Hamburg. Jason is the Vice President of Neuroscience at Takeda Canada Inc. Jason wasn't diagnosed with a mental illness until he was 44 years old, and he can attest to the fact that while he dealt with his mental illnesses in his own ways, those illnesses definitely held him back.

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My Brains Not Broken

JUNE 16, 2022

Earlier this week, I wrote about my upcoming vacation, which is coming on the heels of learning just how bad at resting I really am. Most of the time, my first step toward change is awareness – in the past few weeks, I’ve become painfully aware of just how poorly I prioritize rest and getting what I need for my physical health. That’s why I decided to try and five ways that can help me begin to prioritize rest – not because it’s what I want, but because I know it

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 16, 2022

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his wife, and some friends. A Washington Post columnist is horrified – and rightly so. In what is, in many ways, a very good commentary, Post opinion columnist Alyssa Rosenberg pulled it all together : from Tucker Carlson’s suggestion that family policing agencies (aka “child protective services”) investigate parents who make their children wear masks (which never happened) to Texas Gov.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

Getty images. The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) along with the National Women’s Law Center and 24 other groups on April 12, 2022 filed an amicus brief in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the matter of El Koussa v Massachusetts , challenging the constitutionality of a Massachusetts ballot initiative filed with the state attorney general by Uber, Lyft, Doordash, and Insta-Cart.

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International Federation of Social Workers

JUNE 14, 2022

International Exchange Webinar: IFSW Europe New Social Workers Project – Portuguese Social Work Student Movement Time and date: Friday 17th June 2022 at 5pm CET Speakers: Rita Luis and Debora Silva Country: Portugal/ ONLINE EVENT – ZOOM PLATFORM / Language: English Please join us for a meeting of New Social Workers from IFSW Europe. It is one […].

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My Brains Not Broken

JUNE 14, 2022

Exciting news – for the first time in a while, I’m going on vacation! I’m going to see my family, enjoy time off work, and hopefully reset and recharge in the way many of us do on vacation. But one thing I’m nervous about is that I’m going to try doing something that doesn’t come easy to me: I’m going to try to rest.

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Michigan Social Work

JUNE 17, 2022

Professor Karla Goldman’s op-ed in Lilth asks what can be expected from Reform Judaism in the wake of reports of sexual discrimination released by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC) in Cincinnati. Goldman shares her own personal history as the first tenure-track woman faculty member on the HUC’s Cincinnati campus, and describes her lawsuit against HUC for wrongful dismissal based on gender bias. .

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JUNE 16, 2022

The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) pays tribute to John Small. Social work mourns loss of pioneering anti-racism leader the social reformer, humanist, author, academic and practitioner John Small, who has passed away aged 74. Moving tribute to John Small by friend and social work activist, scholar and practitioner Professor Lena Dominelli [link].

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Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

Of all the 80 recommendations in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care’s final report last month , the one that has met with the greatest opposition is its proposed abolition of the independent reviewing officer role. At a webinar held by the review last week, 32 delegates submitting questions in advance (around 7% of the total) asked about the proposal, while it was also the most popular question posed online during the session with review lead Josh MacAlister.

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KVC

JUNE 16, 2022

Mental health can pose many challenges for young people, and the statistics are particularly startling for LGBTQIA+ youth. But there are many ways to support LGBTQIA+ youth in your life. . In a 2021 survey of more than 35,000 LGBTQIA+ youth , 42% stated they seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, including more than half of transgender and nonbinary youth.

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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.

Michigan Social Work

JUNE 16, 2022

Thanks in part to actions by the Joint Task Force on Stipends (JTFOS), Payments for Placement (P4P), other schools of social work in Michigan, and NASW-Michigan, we have encouraging news of legislative action happening in East Lansing and Washington DC. . In the Michigan legislature, Senate Bill 1012 , which calls for the creation of a new Student Mental Health Apprenticeship Retention and Training (SMART) program, has passed the senate.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JUNE 15, 2022

Social Work Professional Organizations in Europe and Beyond An Opportunity for Social Work and Social Policy in Complex Societies? International Blended Seminar. June, Monday 27th, 2022, 09:30-16:30. (Central European Summer Time). Physical Venue: Pisa, Aula Magna – Department of Political Science, Via Serafini 3. Virtual Venue: [link] via MS Teams.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The NHS remains “heavily reliant” on inappropriate out-of-area mental health hospital placements despite a government target to eliminate them by March 2021, psychiatrist leaders have warned. People spent almost 206,000 days in such placements in England in the year since the target passed, at a cost of £102m to the NHS, found an analysis of NHS Digital figures published yesterday by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

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Nicole Clark Consulting

JUNE 14, 2022

This this activity and let me know how it goes. You’ve probably heard of the SWOT analysis. Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats. It’s considered a traditional component of the strategic planning process. It’s useful, for the most part. What I mean by this is that, a glaring issue with the SWOT analysis is that the [.]. The post Try This: The SOAR Analysis appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.

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Therapist Development Center

JUNE 13, 2022

As I coach our LMSW and LCSW customers, the question of the ‘why’-the purpose of the test- sometimes comes up. Ultimately, the ASWB exists for the purpose of public safety. The ASWB exists to be a gatekeeper to the profession, … Continued. The post ASWB Exam Prep: Ethics and Discipline appeared first on Therapist Development Center Blog.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

? Marketplace Tech interviews Sally Ho and Garance Burke, authors of the Associated Press expose of the highly-touted child welfare predictive analytics algorithm in use in Allegheny County, Pa. They discuss research showing that, just as critics predicted , the algorithm exacerbates racial bias. Among the problems: The algorithm does not even take into account the seriousness of the actual allegation against a family.

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Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

The lack of adult social workers is the sector’s biggest concern as it prepares to deliver the cap on care costs, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has found. The challenge for councils of recruiting significantly more practitioners to implement the cap and associated reforms next year at a time of mounting staffing pressures was cited by many respondents to a DHSC consultation on guidance to implement the changes. . 105,000.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

JUNE 13, 2022

At the end of my last post, I wrote about the shame connected to childhood abuse that must be relived in couple relationships. Couples in which one or both partners were victims of childhood abuse will likely also be reliving terror. Terror is the feeling that leads to a flight or freeze response. The victim experiences such extreme threat to their continued existence or mental integrity that their fear expands into terror.

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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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Creative Play Therapist

JUNE 11, 2022

Play Therapist, Ken Schwartzenberger, created a guide for his clinic on how to create child therapy progress notes that meet Los Angele County Dept. of Mental Health standards. Click here to view his guide.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JUNE 14, 2022

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

Over 40% of social work staff in the UK have faced abuse from service users, their families or members of the public this year, research has found. The finding came from new UK-wide research by UNISON , in which 41% of almost 3,000 respondents working in children’s and adults’ services said they had received verbal abuse at work during the first weeks of 2022.

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The Guardian

JUNE 15, 2022

We’d like to hear from NHS and social care workers, patients and their relatives about the impacts of shortages Nearly 9,000 people in England were waiting for home care services at the beginning of this year, according to figures obtained by the Observer , amid an acute staffing shortage in social care. And we’d like to find out more about the impact of staff shortages now.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

JUNE 15, 2022

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Shelter, Inc

JUNE 15, 2022

Colorful parades, joyous picnics, and inspiring festivals are becoming entrenched in June around the world to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month. The tradition began as a commemoration of when members of the queer community, in 1969, fought back against the violence of anti-gay police at the Stonewall Inn in New York. It signaled a new resistance and sense of pride by all who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and questioning.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

Improvements in child protection practice at an ‘inadequate’ local authority have “accelerated” in the hands of “enthusiastic and motivated” social workers, Ofsted has found. A monitoring visit to East Riding council , which received the lowest possible inspection grade shortly before the pandemic, observed notable progress being made under “determined and stable” leaders operating to a “realistic” plan.

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The Guardian

JUNE 16, 2022

A reader describes how her husband’s 24/7 needs have cost her freedom and independence I have enormous sympathy for those who need care ( Letters, 10 June ), but spare a thought also for the unsung, unpaid carers whose lives are overwhelmed by the task of looking after a close relative. I have “cared” for my husband for 13 years so far. Neither of us is old and neither of us asked for this burden.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

JUNE 12, 2022

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University of Connecticut

JUNE 15, 2022

From the Office of Dean Heller Dear Colleagues, Sunday is Juneteenth, the day that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Also known as America’s Second Independence Day or Emancipation Day, Juneteenth has been celebrated by African Americans since the late 1800s. Last year, it was made a federal holiday by President Biden, and this year the Connecticut legislature also designated Juneteenth an official holiday.

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Community Care

JUNE 16, 2022

By a safeguarding team manager. One Monday a few months ago, I said to my (ever supportive!) partner: “I think something’s awaiting me today, I’ve just got a feeling. They’re coming today.” He kindly reminded me: “You’ve said that every Monday morning for the last six months.” But on that Monday, I was right (it only took six months of Monday morning “feelings” to hit the jackpot!).

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

Care workers from ethnic minority groups are more likely than their white British colleagues to experience insecure working conditions, research has found. Data commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), forming found ethnic minority staff in the independent care sector were likelier than white peers to be on zero-hours contracts.

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