The New Social Worker

AUGUST 2, 2023

Suddenly, everyone is talking about AI.

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Community Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

Racism is a significant presence in the social work sector. According to survey findings published in March 2022 , one in four social workers had experienced racism from colleagues or managers at least once in the preceding 12 months. Racism may also be contributing to minoritised practitioners abandoning permanent local authority posts for agency work, according to a survey of 1,035 London and South East-based children’s social workers and managers.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

AUGUST 3, 2023

Do you even remember what you ate yesterday? Let’s face it, women are walking, breathing, eat in our car Stress Eaters. We eat when we feel stressed, and we experience stress when we eat. Stress eating contributes to weight gain, poor digestion and stress on the body. In this blog post, we are going to guide you to share “De-stress with Every Bite: The Benefits of Eating Slowly.

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Abuse Survivor

AUGUST 2, 2023

Hey there, beautiful souls! Today, I want to open up about a recent experience that has been both challenging and enlightening for me. A few weeks ago, I found myself triggered into a depressive episode, and I thought it was important to share my journey with you. Sometimes, life throws unexpected curveballs, and it’s okay to lean into the struggle and allow ourselves the time to heal and grow.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

JULY 31, 2023

John Donne penned the often-quoted line “No man is an island entire of itself”. Similarly, most of us are familiar with the African proverb “it takes a village”. One of my personal favorites is a quote from Aristotle “nature abhors a vacuum”. As clinical social workers we come alongside individuals, couples, and families at some of their most challenging times; but we don’t do the work alone.

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My Brains Not Broken

AUGUST 3, 2023

Today’s post is an interview with Drew Landry , a stand-up comedian and writer from Maryland, currently based in Los Angel es. Drew is very open and honest about mental health in his work. In this interview, we talked about his approach to comedy, mental health and his recent comedy special. Thanks for speaking with me, Drew! Landry (image via Drew Landry) First off, I wanted to ask you about your work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 31, 2023

Oh, wait, these are the GOOD kind of druggie moms. The cover story in the latest issue of Boston Magazine is a shocker! It seems druggie moms are everywhere in parts of metropolitan Boston – including children’s play dates! It was bad enough when mothers coped with the stress of raising kids with wine – (street name: “mommy juice”). Now, this shocking expose reveals, drug use is rampant and – Oh, wait.

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Social Work.Career

JULY 31, 2023

This post is part of the monthly series, Free Webinars for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals, featuring over 45 free webcasts that we could find for you this month in the field of social work and mental health. To make it easier for you to find a webinar that is of interest to you, […] The post Free Mental Health Webinars, August 2023 appeared first on SocialWork.Career.

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The New Social Worker

JULY 31, 2023

Wishing is often a significant aspect of a self-care journey. I wish sounds like a positive thing, right? Yet, actually, I’ve noticed I wish often becomes a “but” barrier. It morphs into an obstacle of impossibility.

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Relias

AUGUST 4, 2023

Overcoming staff shortages while still providing quality patient care has challenged many healthcare organizations. To confront this, leaders are avidly seeking nurse engagement strategies. They want to stop losing nurses while improving their ability to retain them. What are the biggest nurse engagement issues and the best approaches to solve them?

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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.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

● Good news, Colorado! Contrary to the fearmongering from the “residential treatment” industry, demon homicidal 6-year-olds are not rampaging through your state. I have a column about it in Colorado Newsline. ● Texas Monthly reports on those new laws curbing the power of the family police in that state. Turns out they’re not the result of a vast right-wing conspiracy after all!

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Children’s Home Society of Washington

AUGUST 3, 2023

Twins: they’re two peas in a pod. They’re twice as nice and make a dynamic duo and no one knows that better than Rosalia*, mom to Natalia and Federico. Like all loving parents, she wants what’s best for her children. However, Rosalia recognized the need for extra help to prepare the twins for school. A few years ago, when Rosalia’s eldest son started kindergarten, she watched helplessly as he struggled to adapt.

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Gateway Foundation

AUGUST 3, 2023

Gambling addiction can pose significant problems for a person’s health and finances, and pro athletes are just as susceptible. While many enjoy occasional gambling, the hobby can become a full-blown addiction when a person experiences a compulsive urge to gamble despite the consequences. Many of these pro athletes with gambling addictions accumulated large debts, borrowed or stole from family members, experienced legal troubles and faced career repercussions.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

AUGUST 3, 2023

Do you even remember what you ate yesterday? Let’s face it, women are walking, breathing, eat in our car Stress Eaters. We eat when we feel stressed, and we experience stress when we eat. Stress eating contributes to weight gain, poor digestion and stress on the body. In this blog post, we are going to guide you to share “De-stress with Every Bite: The Benefits of Eating Slowly.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The American Academy of Social Work and Welfare’s grand challenge to “create social responses to a changing environment” is a call to action for social workers to advocate for environmental justice. The Global Agenda, developed by the International Federation of Social Workers, the International Association of Schools of Social Work, and the International Council on Social Welfare, calls for multilevel responses to concerns such as forced migration, air pollution, ecoanxiety, and food and water

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Michigan Social Work

AUGUST 1, 2023

Professor William Elliott III spoke with Forbes about how San Francisco’s Kindergarten 2 College program, which begins with just a $50 deposit in a college savings account can make a difference. “When you have an asset, it allows you to begin thinking about your future in a more tangible way.

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Gateway Foundation

AUGUST 3, 2023

Gambling addiction can pose significant problems for a person’s health and finances, and pro athletes are just as susceptible. While many enjoy occasional gambling, the hobby can become a full-blown addiction when a person experiences a compulsive urge to gamble despite the consequences. Many of these pro athletes with gambling addictions accumulated large debts, borrowed or stole from family members, experienced legal troubles and faced career repercussions.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

AUGUST 1, 2023

Introduction: In our fast-paced modern lives, it’s not uncommon to find ourselves rushing through meals without a second thought. Whether we’re eating on the go, multitasking while we eat, or mindlessly devouring our food, the habit of eating quickly can have significant negative effects on our health and well-being. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the importance of slowing down and savoring our food, not just for our physical health but also for reducing stress and p

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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 Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The American Academy of Social Work and Welfare’s grand challenge to “create social responses to a changing environment” is a call to action for social workers to advocate for environmental justice. The Global Agenda, developed by the International Federation of Social Workers, the International Association of Schools of Social Work, and the International Council on Social Welfare, calls for multilevel responses to concerns such as forced migration, air pollution, ecoanxiety, and food and water

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Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social work’s poor public image is driving people out of frontline children’s roles, hurting recruitment and making families fearful and distrustful of practitioners. Those were among the findings of research with just over 1,000 social workers and managers working for local authorities in London and the South East , carried out by the two regions’ local authority children

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Gateway Foundation

JULY 31, 2023

Not all addictions are the same, which is true for those struggling with a gambling disorder. People approach gambling differently, with their motivations, behaviors and attitudes varying slightly. People can also display characteristics of more than one type of gambler. Understanding these gambler types can help you determine the best treatment for yourself or a loved one experiencing this condition.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

AUGUST 1, 2023

Introduction: In our fast-paced modern lives, it’s not uncommon to find ourselves rushing through meals without a second thought. Whether we’re eating on the go, multitasking while we eat, or mindlessly devouring our food, the habit of eating quickly can have significant negative effects on our health and well-being. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the importance of slowing down and savoring our food, not just for our physical health but also for reducing stress and p

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 1, 2023

Willa J. Casstevens. PhD Fri, September 29, 2023 9:30 am – 4:00 pm 5 CECs Fee – UConn SSW Alumni and Current Field Instructors Fee – All Others The population of older adults in the USA is growing rapidly. Moreover, older adults have been and continue to be particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, now endemic among us. The global pandemic threatened individual and familial economic security, increased social isolation, and negatively affected individual physical and mental health,

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Community Care

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Home Office has been housing unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels unlawfully since December 2021, the High Court has ruled. The court also judged that Kent County Council has acted unlawfully since 2021 in refusing to accept all unaccompanied children into its care when notified of their arrival in the county, in a stinging judgment issued last week.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 2, 2023

It was more than 12 hours after Rianna Cleary went into labour before anyone came to help her. She was covered in blood – and her daughter was dead. Why were they failed so appallingly? The last thing Rianna Cleary remembers before she passed out in the early hours of 27 September 2019, alone and in the throes of labour pain, was a scene involving a chicken leg in the film Killer Joe, which was showing on the TV screen in her prison cell.

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The Frontline

AUGUST 1, 2023

Laura is a second-year participant on the Frontline programme and part of the 2021 Cohort. She is a newly qualified social worker in the family support and child protection team at her local authority. Laura has a gentle presence that corresponds with the quiet confidence she shows as a leader, advocate, and positive force for social change. Social work is a second career for me, I previously worked in the legal industry as a solicitor.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

By Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW When the Supreme Court finally declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional, Frederick Douglass, amid an outpouring of outrage, advised that we must first take a collective deep breath. The Supreme Court had killed the law that guaranteed African Americans access to public accommodations and stopped barring them from serving on a jury on the grounds it didn’t control actions of individuals.

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Community Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

Kate Shoesmith, deputy chief executive, the REC By Kate Shoesmith We welcome the fact that the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) is no longer calling for curbs on agency social work in England to be implemented earlier than the government’s April 2024 target date. Moving the date forward would have been risky short-termism at a time of shortages of social workers.

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The Guardian

JULY 30, 2023

Brian Bell says ministers have let social care become reliant on low-paid and vulnerable foreign workers Ministers have allowed England’s creaking social care system to become too heavily reliant on low-paid foreign workers who are vulnerable to exploitation, the government’s migration adviser has warned. In a strongly worded intervention, Prof Brian Bell, who has just been reappointed by the home secretary, Suella Braverman, as chair of the migration advisory committee (MAC), called the governm

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Gateway Foundation

AUGUST 1, 2023

Problem gambling can happen to people from all walks of life. Gambling can go from a harmless, occasional diversion into an unhealthy obsession that comes with severe consequences for your life. Problem gambling can quickly cause tension in your relationships, work and finances. People with a severe gambling disorder can end up in financial disaster quickly.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 1, 2023

Much too soon after saying farewell to social justice champion Mit Joyner, we learned of the passing of New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver, just days after temporarily assuming the duties as Governor during the absence of Governor Phil Murphy, who was with his family spending time at a home they own in Italy. Oliver was rushed to the hospital Monday and passed away yesterday at the age of 71.

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Community Care

AUGUST 1, 2023

A “tail of very bad employers in the social care sector” are exploiting overseas staff brought to the UK to fill gaps caused by endemic low pay, a government adviser has warned. Migration Advisory Committee chair Brian Bell has also castigated ministers for their failure to respond to an April 2022 MAC report they themselves commissioned, which called for increases to social care pay, rather than a reliance on immigration, to tackle the sector’s workforce problems.

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