My Brains Not Broken

AUGUST 21, 2024

Over the years, I’ve learned a lot about the impact that my experience with anxiety has on me. It impacts the way I see the world, the way I interact with it, and the way I interact with others. But after years of learning about myself and my anxiety, I’ve started to notice the patterns that my anxiety creates. One pattern in particular is how my anxiety can lead to making assumptions, and how those assumptions can create problems in my life that didn’t exist before.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 20, 2024

My colleague, Dr. Melanie Sage and I are excited to invite submissions for our upcoming book, tentatively called 101 Things to Do with a Social Work Degree. This book aims to showcase social workers’ diverse and impactful roles across various settings. We seek contributions in English from social workers actively practicing or utilizing their social work degrees in traditional or unique settings at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.

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National Casa Gal

AUGUST 21, 2024

The 2024 Mid-Year Impact Report highlights key recent accomplishments, including continuing education for CASA/GAL volunteers and staff. Read More. The post National CASA/GAL’s 2024 Mid-Year Impact Report appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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International Federation of Social Workers

AUGUST 18, 2024

IFSW United Nations Commission representatives Dr Sebastian Cordoba and Evelyn Tomaszewski attended the latest UN Summit of the Future consultation forum advocating for more collaborative, transparent and accountable action.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 23, 2024

On behalf of the editorial board, I am pleased to extend an invitation to you to contribute a research article to the Journal of Social Policy, Social Change and Development. As a distinguished academic in the field, your expertise and insights would be a valuable addition to our journal. The Journal of Social Policy, Social Change and Development is a prestigious Thai journal dedicated to advancing knowledge and fostering dialogue in the fields of social policy, social change, and development

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N.A.H

AUGUST 22, 2024

I wrote this letter in 2015, but a recent experience encouraged me to share it again in a new way.... The post An Open Letter to the Parents and Families of College Students: Embracing Change and Unconditional Love appeared first on Notes from an Aspiring Humanitarian.

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Community Care

AUGUST 23, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The number of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) referrals hit a new high in 2023-24 but practitioners managed to cut backlogs, official figures have shown. Care homes and hospitals made 332,455 applications to deprive a person of liberty for their own protection last year, up 11% on the figure for 2022-23, according to NHS England’s annual DoLS data.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 21, 2024

On behalf of the editorial board, I am pleased to extend an invitation to you to contribute a research article to the Journal of Social Policy, Social Change and Development. As a distinguished academic in the field, your expertise and insights would be a valuable addition to our journal. The Journal of Social Policy, Social Change and Development is a prestigious Thai journal dedicated to advancing knowledge and fostering dialogue in the fields of social policy, social change, and development

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The Guardian

AUGUST 18, 2024

Clemency Jacques told to pay extra £1,300 for accidental carer’s allowance breach or have case sent to CPS A vulnerable unpaid carer threatened by benefits officials with prosecution for fraud unless she agreed to pay a £1,300 penalty for an accidental breach of carer’s allowance earnings rules has described her experience as “like blackmail”. Clemency Jacques, a carer for her disabled son, was told by Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) investigators her case would be referred to the Crown P

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 19, 2024

Catherine Ewing, LCSW, MDiv Fri, Sept 27, 2024 9:30 am – 1:30 pm 4 CECs Fee: $100 10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni and Current SSW Field Instructors **Optional 6 Week Follow Up Mastery Class Available To Attendees (See description below. Separate registration required. Getting comfortable using EFT comes with practicing on yourself and with clients who are generally well-functioning, but may be struggling with anxiety, physical pain, intrusive thoughts, past trauma, self-limiting beliefs,

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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.

Social Care

AUGUST 20, 2024

Being ready for the inevitable flu season means we can support more positive health outcomes for those we care for. [Image created by freepik.com ] The flu season is inevitable, so let's be fully prepared The 18 th century American philosopher, statesman and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin, famously said: “…in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.

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Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 20, 2024

I remember smoking when I was a teen. Mostly it was to get a break at my part time job. To say you wanted five minutes for a smoke was acceptable. To say you wanted five minutes to stand around doing nothing, wasn’t. Even our high school had an indoor smoking area for students. Smoking was everywhere. The olden days. Now, after years of the antismoking messages getting through, smoking, while still around, isn’t like it used to be.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 19, 2024

Exclusive: RCN renews call for investigation into sector as unscrupulous employers target vulnerable workers The number of foreign social care workers reporting that they are trapped in exploitative contracts has risen sixfold in the last three years, in the latest evidence of widespread abuse of migrants in the British care system. Data from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) shows that the organisation was contacted 134 times in 2023-24 by care workers reporting that their employers were deman

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 19, 2024

Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II Friday, September 13, 2024 In-person 9:30 am – 4:30 pm 5 CECs Clinicians are faced with significant strains on the boundaries of the clinical relationship in this politically charged, post-pandemic climate. Exhausted and pressured, clinicians need support and tools to navigate these unique stressors on clinical practice.

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Children’s Defense Fund

AUGUST 23, 2024

Just as Fannie Lou Hamer’s historic appearance before the credentials committee at the 1964 Democratic National Convention paved the way for history being made right now, this moment has been infused by the groundbreaking legacy of the eternally unbought, unbossed U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm. Rep. Chisholm, the Brooklyn-born daughter of immigrants from Barbados and Guyana, was honored multiple times during this year’s Democratic National Convention for her roles as the first Black woman

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Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 20, 2024

Don’t chase the parent who isn’t seeing their kids to see the kids. It’s their responsibility, not yours. If you assume their responsibility and fail, as often happens, then it looks as if you are to blame. Also, do not give the kids false impressions of the other parent. Do not say, “Oh, but they love you.” That’s gaslighting.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 18, 2024

Both women have used their work to process childhoods ravaged by neglect and abuse. Meeting for the first time, they discuss survival and anger, Fagan’s new memoir, and the state of the UK’s care system today The writer Jenni Fagan and the actor Samantha Morton have not met one another until today and there is, from the start, a sense of occasion – as if they were destined to be friends.

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 19, 2024

Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II Friday, September 20, 2024 In-person 9:30 am – 3:30 pm 5 CECs The Mental Status Exam has long been used as a vital tool in the assessment and diagnosis of clients, yet how to administer this tool effectively is often not learned during the masters level education in the helping professions. This training will break down each section of this tool, explore exactly what you are assessing, and the best questions to ask to get the needed information.

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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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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 19, 2024

The Social Work Democracy Project , a 501(c)3 nonprofit and nonpartisan organization created to encourage social workers to step up our civic engagement in the wake of increasing threats to destabilize and end democracy as we know it in the United States, is embarking on a project to send social work students and recent graduates to schools in battleground states to motivate their students to work to get young voters to the polls.

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Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 20, 2024

When you are looking at the price of professional time, remember an hour with a person whose experience is less than five years is not the same hour as with the professional whose experience is more than twenty five years. (Or in my case 40+ years.) You are buying more than time. You are buying experience. The more the experience, the greater the cost.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 18, 2024

New discoveries about our bodies are emerging. But we need care as well as research to cope with ageing Increased longevity is a triumph of modern medicine and health systems. In the UK, life expectancy has risen by about 25 years in a century – from 56 for men and 59 for women in 1920, to 80 and 83 in 2019 (since when it has slightly fallen back). While this extension is often taken for granted, rising interest in the science of ageing reveals an awareness of the challenges as well as the benef

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 18, 2024

Qur-an Webb, MSW Thursday, August 22, 2024 Live Webinar 2 pm – 4 pm 2 CECs Registration Fee: $50 10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni and Current SSW Field Instructors This training addresses a critical concern in today’s society by focusing on the protection of the elderly from abuse and neglect. Participants will examine the various forms of mistreatment that older individuals may face and explore strategies for prevention, detection, and intervention.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 23, 2024

As I watched the Democratic National Committee’s convention last week and listened to many pundits describe it as flawless, I thought about how much of Motown’s success was due to its meticulous grooming of its artists and the music they presented. You have to be a certain age to appreciate the Motown era that began in 1960. You had the chance to experience it as it unfolded.

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Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 20, 2024

If you really want your kid to be happy, stop giving in to their wants and stop compensating for their upsets. Those two strategies do not make happy kids. Indeed, quite the opposite. Those strategies create indulged kids who think every negative outcome must be compensated for, instead of learning to cope with life’s bumps and grind. When life doesn’t give them everything or compensate for their upsets, they will be anything but happy.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 23, 2024

As the winter fuel allowance is scrapped for many pensioners, we outline some other key benefits • Millions facing ‘cruel winter’ without fuel payments, Labour MPs warn Labour backbenchers are warning that millions of vulnerable people will face a “cruel winter” amid rising energy prices and a reduction in benefits, including the removal of winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 23, 2024

Rather than free care for all, funding should concentrate on better care for the less well-off, says David Lipsey Alan Walker is right to condemn the “low priority given to social care compared with healthcare” ( Letters, 14 August ). And yet he praises as “brilliant” the job done by the Sutherland royal commission. The Sutherland commission was a disaster for social care.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 20, 2024

Edinburgh international film festival Informed by her own experiences, Daisy-May Hudson’s portrait of a woman trying to regain custody of her kids is surprisingly even-handed Daisy-May Hudson is the British film-maker who in 2015 made a fiercely personal documentary about homelessness: her own. Half Way told the story of how she, her mum and her 13-year-old sister lost their home and then found themselves in the bureaucratic nightmare of hostels and halfway houses, and her camera showed the audi

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The Guardian

AUGUST 19, 2024

My friend Ellena McCabe, who has died aged 104, was the inspiration behind the creation of a social care reform campaign in Scotland at the age of 99, when she complained about standards in Scottish nursing homes. As a resident of a care home herself, Ellena’s concerns led to the creation of BetterCareScotland , the charity of which I am director of research, and which aims to get the Social Work and Care Inspectorate to properly address alleged abuses.

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Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 20, 2024

His boy was having a meltdown. The dad, rather than timing out the child, simply said, “I’ll wait, and when you’ve calmed down, we will talk this through.” With that the dad simply sat beside his son as his son continued to bawl and scream. As the dad sat there, he remained remarkably calm. He knew that just as his son’s emotions could be contagious and cause him to get upset too, so too could his calm influence his son.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 21, 2024

If you have not watched former First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention , you owe it to yourself to watch what CNN’s Anderson Cooper called the most powerful political speech he’s ever heard. It is an extraordinary and necessary message for these times. She reveled in the newfound excitement and hope engendered by the candidacies of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

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