Nicole Clark Consulting
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Have a question you’d like to be featured? Let me know. There are two things I know for sure about social work and public health: One: Social work and public health are naturally complimentary fields, perfect partners in improving community health and wellbeing. Two: People are just as confused about what public health is as [.] The post Ask Nicole: What is a Public Health Social Worker?
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
MARCH 1, 2023
World Social Work Day 2023 at the UN Creating a More Inclusive World: Overcoming Barriers to EnABLE Environments Monday, April 3, 2023 10 a.m. – Noon EST Ecosoc Chamber, United Nations, NY City Belo is the Save the Dates. Within the next two weeks, we will be sending a registration link for both events.
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Community Care
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
The system for challenging councils on their adult social care decisions is failing those who need it, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has warned. Inaccessible information, “complicated and stressful processes” and a lack of advocacy were undermining people’s ability to challenge local authority decisions in England and Wales, the rights regulator found, on the back of an inquiry it started in 2021.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Shortages of mental health beds, doctors and transport are leading to severe delays in Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) assessments that are increasing risks to people and their families. That was the warning from approved mental health professional leaders as they urged the government to require partner agencies to support the MHA assessment process, as AMHP services are obliged to do.
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My Brains Not Broken
MARCH 2, 2023
After my (in my opinion) grumpy post about how challenging the month of February is , I’d like to try a different approach today. I’m glad I’ve admitted that the winter is a difficult season for me; doing so has helped shift the way I manage my mental health this time of year. While it hasn’t solved my problems, I’m glad that I’m more aware of what I’m up against.
Social Work Blog
MARCH 2, 2023
When it comes to snap decisions, we can all benefit by pausing to reflect first By Lorrie R. Appleton, LCSW The theme for Social Work month is descriptive and inspiring – Social Work Breaks Barriers. At our best, Social Workers are analogous to Super Heroes. When clients and families are faced with challenges, we rise to the occasion. Social workers advocate for justice, leap over mountains of agency red tape, and scale mountains of paperwork.
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The International Association Of Schools Of Social
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
IASSW Announces The Release Of Social Dialogue Magazine # 27 International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) has launched its volume 27 on “ Wars and Armed Conflict : Voices from the Unheard “. IASSW Human Rights and Social Justice committee has gather articles for this 27th edition of the Social Dialogue : [link] Please visit for current and past volumes : [link] and share your feedback.
My Brains Not Broken
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
The winter season has always been challenging for me. Over the years I’ve started to learn more about myself and my mental health which has made things a little easier, but I still feel like I’m fighting an uphill battle. To me, the months between November and March present a challenge I’m not always prepared to fight. I’ve managed to figure out November and December (loving Christmas certainly helps) and January is starting to figure itself out, but February…I don&
Social Work Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Julia Rose, MSW, LISW, serves as the president of the NASW Iowa Chapter. She is an Intimate Partner Violence Program Coordinator for the Veterans Health Administration. She answers questions about her role with NASW. What inspired you to serve as president? I was interested in uplifting the social work profession when I was approached by the current Iowa Chapter president about opportunities on the board.
Relias
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Effective engagement programs for employees play a pivotal role in the success of human services organizations. These programs allow organizations to innovate care solutions, provide better outcomes for their clients, and create a better culture. All these benefits can help combat two of the largest staff well-being issues in the industry: burnout and retention.
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.
The New Social Worker
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
“The 2022 film White Noise, written and directed by Noah Baumbach, is billed as a comedy-drama. But make no mistake: Baumbach’s achievement is a timely, deadly serious. brilliant depiction of life.” Read SaraKay’s review.
Social Work.Career
FEBRUARY 27, 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, March 2023 appeared first on SocialWork.Career.
Social Work Blog
MARCH 2, 2023
The 12th edition of Social Work Speaks is a comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly in 2020. The Delegate Assembly, NASW’s key policymaking body, meets every three years. The policy statements set the parameters for NASW’s positions and actions on a broad range of public policy and professional issues.
Relias
MARCH 1, 2023
While skilled nursing facility (SNFs) occupancy rates are slowly increasing , they are still 20% lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic, with many SNFs still struggling to fill beds. A CarePort report found that more patients prefer to receive post-acute care at home instead of in nursing homes and SNFs. According to a recent National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care (NIC) survey, one-fifth of nursing care respondents anticipate that occupancy levels will not return to the pre-pan
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The New Social Worker
MARCH 2, 2023
A recent survey shows that social workers are positively touching lives of millions of Americans each year. There are challenges to the profession and barriers we must continue to break to empower the millions of people social workers serve.
Community Care
MARCH 3, 2023
Social work leaders have come together to forge solutions to mounting workforce challenges in England. Social Work England has convened a group including representatives from government, employers and professional bodies, to tackle the severe recruitment and retention pressures being faced across the country. The group will meet every six weeks and has agreed to establish three workstreams focused on recruitment, retention of experienced staff and agency and other working practices, respectively
University of Connecticut
MARCH 1, 2023
Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II Thurs, March 30, 2023 – webinar 10 am – 12 pm 2 CEC $40 – UConn SSW Alumni and Current Field Instructors $50 – All Others Webinar link will be emailed when your registration is complete. This training marries the essential elements of a successful supervisory practice with the foundation of the diagnostic process.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Before the news, a note about an upcoming event: The so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act neither prevents nor treats child abuse – rather it reinforces the foundations of the child welfare surveillance state. There’s still time to register for a webinar tomorrow (March 2) explaining the harm of CAPTA and what can be done about it. ● Last week on this Blog , I wrote about how family policing agencies play the bonding card to turn “child welfare” into the ultimate middle-class entit
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.
The New Social Worker
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
In fighting for what matters, we must remember who we are—social justice workers. We tell our story in our own words and our own terms—we are Social Work, united in pursuit of boundless possibilities.
Community Care
MARCH 2, 2023
The government will “strongly encourage” councils to appoint social work leads for special educational needs and disability (SEND) provision, it said today. It confirmed its support for authorities appointing designated social care officers (DSCOs), in its improvement plan for SEND and alternative education provision (AP). As set out in last year’s consultative green paper on SEND and AP , it said it would do this by proposing an amendment to the SEND code of practice , the st
Social Care
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
"The [social care nursing] advisory councils will bring considerable experience, knowledge, innovation and wisdom to the table to better inform the development of nursing practice across all [health and care] settings." [Image created by freepik.com ] New era of knowledge sharing What an exciting time for the social care nursing profession! Social care nursing advisory councils have now been launched in every ICB (integrated care board) in England and will be chaired by nursing colleagues from a
The Guardian
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Villagers of Staveley want to turn closed care home into facility for older people but have run into council roadblock Shortfall of £2.3bn a year in England’s care homes ‘putting people at risk’ Hospitals are clogged with patients fit for discharge with nowhere to go; care workers are quitting for better pay; almost one in five people aged 70 and over are lonely.
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Social Work With Adults
MARCH 3, 2023
Lyn Romeo: One of the best aspects of my role as Chief Social Worker for Adults is the opportunity to meet so many wonderful social workers applying their knowledge, skills and values in many different services and settings to transform the lives of the people they work with. Liz kindly agreed to write this blog about the work she is doing to support people with health and care needs in the criminal justice system.
Community Care
MARCH 1, 2023
The Home Office has ended a scheme to give councils additional payments to incentivise them to take in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children from hotels, at its scheduled date. As of today, authorities will no longer receive £15,000 for each child they take in from a hotel or from Kent council’s reception and safe care service, which supports newly arrived young people.
Social Work Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
NASW Social Work Pioneer Lester Blackwell Granger (third from right) pushed to integrate the U.S. military after World War II. Source: U.S. National Archives. By Deron Snyder The accomplishments of people of color are often overlooked in American history. That is also true of social workers of color. Lester Blackwell Granger is one such historical figure, a social worker few people know about who should enjoy wider acclaim.
The Guardian
MARCH 1, 2023
Ex-health minister dismisses claims he ignored expert advice as ‘distorted’ and ‘spun to fit anti-lockdown agenda’ UK politics live – latest news updates Matt Hancock has firmly rejected claims he dismissed expert advice to test anyone entering a care home for coronavirus at the start of the pandemic, labelling the reports “categorically untrue”. An investigation by the Daily Telegraph claims England’s chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, told Hancock, the then health secretary, in April 20
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 1, 2023
A news desert makes it easy for an extremist lawmaker to pressure a governor into firing the first Black director of the state “child welfare” agency – less than two months after appointing him. Shortly after taking office, the new Governor of Arizona, Democrat Katie Hobbs, named a reformer to run the state “child welfare” agency. Matthew Stewart would be the first Black leader of the Department of Child Safety (DCS).
Community Care
MARCH 3, 2023
Councils underfunded home care and older people’s care home services in England by just under £2.9bn in 2021-22, according to an analysis by provider bodies. The figure is based on an examination of cost of care exercises that councils carried out recently to determine sustainable fee rates for these services and identify how far they were from paying them.
Community Care
MARCH 3, 2023
The government has told the Care Quality Commission to rate local authorities on their performance in adult social care under its new assessment system, launching later this year. The regulator will give each council an overall score – ‘inadequate’, ‘requires improvement’, ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ – underpinned by scores of 1-4 against each of nine quality statements authorities will be judged on.
Community Care
MARCH 3, 2023
Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. From evidence of a multi-billion funding shortfall and failing complaints system in adult social care to a podcast episode exploring the impact of the government’s strategy for children’s social care reform, here’s this week’s line-up: Care providers tell minister to address multi-billion funding shortfall Photo: chrupka/A
The Guardian
MARCH 2, 2023
Senior employee caused ‘lasting disability’ to former partner, who appealed against decision not to disclose judgment A senior social worker found to have abused his ex-partner and caused “lasting disability” has lost his fight to block details being shared with the regulator Social Work England (SWE). In a high court ruling, Mrs Justice Knowles said details of the case should be disclosed to the organisation, overturning a decision by a family court judge.
The Guardian
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Exclusive: Funding hole directly affects elderly people whose bills are entirely or partly paid for by councils ‘Not shoved miles away’: Cumbrian fight to keep care in the community A £2.3bn-a-year hole has been exposed in England’s elderly care home system, leading to warnings that living standards for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people could be at risk.
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