Community Care

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The number of people using council-arranged long-term adult social care in England grew in 2022-23 following years of decline, official data has shown. Overall, 835,335 people received long-term care during the year, up 2.1% on 2021-22, when 817,995 people were given a service, showed the figures from NHS England. This figure had declined year on year from a high of 872,520 since 2015-16, with the exception of 2020-21, where numbers may have been inflated by the inclusion of people receiving Cov

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

April Ferguson LCSW-C, Senior Practice Associate, Children and Adolescents On September 28, 2023, the U.S. Administration for Children and Families (ACF) published a final rule regarding licensing and approval standards for kinship placements. The rule allows for Title IV-E agencies to utilize separate licensing requirements for kinship homes and distribute payments to kinship providers.

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The New Social Worker

DECEMBER 10, 2023

What can we say about 2023? The New Social Worker’s list of Top 10 Articles for 2023 tells us the story of what social workers have been reading here. We look forward to seeing you, our readers, our friends, in 2024.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The group that calls itself "Children's Rights" touts its Tennessee McLawsuit as a huge success. The 12-year-old in this photo, obtained by Nashville television station WTVF, might disagree. You can watch their story here. By the time the group that calls itself “Children’s Rights” was done with Tennessee, the state was taking away 24% more children than it was when the suit was filed.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

The cleats aim to promote and raise awareness for a charity that is important to the players. Read More. The post Six professional NFL players support local CASA programs for My Cause My Cleats initiative appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Living with bipolar disorder can be challenging, and living with bipolar disorder over the holidays even more so. While there are many great things about holidays, bipolar stability often isn't one of them. I believe we need to embrace the good parts of the holidays while protecting our mental health for after the holidays, too. Here are holiday tips when dealing with bipolar disorder.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

● WBTV and The Assembly conclude their three-part series on the failure of family policing with a searing story about how the agency and the courts moved heaven and earth to keep a loving father away from his own son. And if you think this is a case in which a stranger foster parent is fighting the father – nope. On the contrary, the foster father was so supportive that when the family police tried to use housing as an excuse to keep father and son apart, the foster father bought a house so the

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Social work figures have paid tribute to one of their own after Mark Drakeford announced he would be stepping down as first minister of Wales. Drakeford was hailed for maintaining his social work values and commitment to social justice, after announcing he would be stepping down from the role in March 2024. He trained as a social worker, then worked as a probation officer, a youth justice worker and as a social work academic before being elected to the Senedd (Welsh Assembly) in 2011.

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Relias

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Registered nurses are more in demand than ever in terms of projected job growth, impact, and leadership. With the significant need for RNs nationally and globally, understanding the qualities of a good nurse is critical for hospitals and health systems aiming to attract and retain the best nursing talent. As new nurses enter the workforce, identifying and encouraging specific nursing qualities helps healthcare organizations recognize strong candidates for hire and understand which of their curre

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Paul R. Pace “Right now, the LGBTQIA+ community is under attack,” says Seth J. Meyer, PhD, LCSW, assistant professor of nonprofit studies and public administration at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Threats to libraries, education, LGBTQIA+ books, and learning about or discussing queerness is taking place across the U.S. “That hurts queer kids,” Meyer says.

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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.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

In September 2023, the United Nations Secretary General hosted an SDG Action weekend for UN agencies, member states, and stakeholders to discuss the SDGs, their current implementation, and commitments to reach them. From the IASSW team, Dr. Lynne Healy, Main Representative (University of Connecticut-retired), and IASSW’s two interns, Diana Dupuy-Faustin and Lorena Martínez (University of Connecticut) were in attendance.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has streamlined its process for assessing council adult social care services following significant concerns about the burden on authorities. The regulator has issued fresh guidance on the local authority assurance process as it announced it had been given the green light by government to start assessing England’s 153 councils over the next two years.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 14, 2023

HB 68 bans doctors from providing gender-affirming care to trans children and blocks trans girls from playing on girls’ sports teams The Ohio legislature has given its final approval to a bill that would impose substantial new restrictions on the lives of trans children. The bill, HB 68, prohibits doctors from providing gender-affirming care to trans youths.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Paul R. Pace “My mother was the first social work-like person I had ever met,” says Cindy Bautista-Thomas. “She did a lot of work in the community.” “She would volunteer at church, at the soup kitchens, and help people in the community by providing them with resources she would identify,” says Bautista-Thomas, the director of Region III for the NASW national board of directors, which represents New York State.

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Social Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

"This was a positive visit for DHSC and CareTech, both sides learning from each other and gaining a better understanding of how we can work together to improve workforce capabilities." [Image created by freepik.com ] Walk and talk Nigel Taylor, CareTech's Head of Learning and Development: The CareTech Senior Adults team hosted colleagues from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) recently.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By Beverley Tarka, president, ADASS When ADASS and carers’ organisations launched the Carers Challenge in October, our goal was to unearth the gold standard work social care teams and voluntary organisations are doing to support unpaid carers. The response has been great, with lots of stories about how organisations are working with carers to co-produce services and place them at the heart of decision making.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Dominic Carter says the new rules that aim to ban dependants of foreign workers show that the government doesn’t care. Plus letters from Andrew Hillier and Roy Grimwood Social care has been on the ropes for years, following the failure of successive governments to even come up with a funding plan, let alone get a grip on our social care crisis. The announcement of a clampdown on migrant workers could be a knockout blow ( ‘If you go to Saudi, it’s sunny’: foreign care workers could quit UK after

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Paul R. Pace “Right now, the LGBTQIA+ community is under attack,” says Seth J. Meyer, PhD, LCSW, assistant professor of nonprofit studies and public administration at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Threats to libraries, education, LGBTQIA+ books, and learning about or discussing queerness is taking place across the U.S. “That hurts queer kids,” Meyer says.

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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 With Adults

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Lyn Romeo: Deborah Sturdy, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care and I recently visited Salford to hear about the way social care colleagues work with the council, the NHS, providers and voluntary and community sector partners. As part of that day, we heard about their approach to recruitment and retention and building the capacity and capability of their workforce across all sectors.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Department for Education (DfE) has today launched England’s first kinship strategy. The long-awaited document includes plans to pilot giving some kinship carers equivalent allowances to foster carers and expanding the role of virtual heads to cover support for children of kinship carers in education. The department said it would also provide carers with improved training and information, so they could better understand their rights, as well as enhanced peer support.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As she inched towards the end of her life our conversation was the most authentic it had ever been I was shocked at what I didn’t know about nursing homes. A couple of falls and hospital stays meant it wasn’t safe for my mum, Lesley, to live alone any more. In 2017, at 87 years old and a shadow of her former strong self, life was rapidly slowing down for her.

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Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 14, 2023

I’m lucky. We get along in my family. I have two older brothers. We trust each other. My mom trusts all of us. I know that isn’t everyone’s experience. With that, we are prepared for the inevitable. All of us. Family members know where important documents are. Persons have been designated to have POA (Power of Attorney) for financial and health matters.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There have been years of court hearings orders and, in one case, even a settlement and a declaration of victory. But things in Texas and Tennessee are as bad, or worse, than ever. Instead of making the dreadful Texas "child welfare" system better, "Children's Rights" and "A Better Childhood" set off what amounts to a giant game of whack-a-mole. News from Texas and Tennessee in recent weeks illustrate the futility – or worse – of those massive McLawsuits brought against “child welfare” systems, m

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Beyond Advocacy

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The title of this post is taken from a song popularized by the late Gwen Guthrie that made it to the top of the R&B charts in 1986. In the song, Guthrie sings about the reality of paying the rent and that money talks. “No romance without finance,” she croons. “You’ve got to have a j-o-b if you want to be with me.” Such is the reality for too many low-income Americans whose lives are shaped by their ability to pay their rent.

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Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As busy and as difficult as one’s job may be, that person may never know the challenge of needing to go to the bathroom with kids of an age or need, that require continuous supervision. Upon returning home to be asked what one got done that day, is totally devoid of understanding the exhaustion of nary a break, continuous responsibility, and the averting of constant potential crises.

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Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 14, 2023

If you’ve lost the connection to your teen, no amount of begging, cajoling, threats or punishment will get them on track. First and foremost, you need to establish a connection. No connection, no influence. For that, guerilla love. We all know what guerilla warfare is about. You sneak up on your enemy combat and kill them when they aren’t looking and then slip away.

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