Social Care

MAY 25, 2023

". often the same technologies and gadgets we use at home can also be used to support how we care for people." [Image created by freepik.com ] It's not unusual. Most of us now use digital technology in some way in our day to day lives. Whether it’s doing our weekly food shop via an app on the phone, wearing a watch to track how many steps we are taking each day, or a using a smart speaker to remind us to take the roast out of the oven on time!

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The New Social Worker

MAY 24, 2023

When we meet a client or patient we are working with for the first time, we often subconsciously make judgments or assumptions. Admitting this is an important place to start.

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The New Social Worker

MAY 21, 2023

In this episode of Conversations on Social Work Careers, Jennifer Luna and Brian Rosenbaum talk about Brian's social work career, which has included work in volunteer management, corporate engagement, and fundraising.

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My Brains Not Broken

MAY 23, 2023

How would you describe yourself? What words would you use? Would you describe yourself using full sentences, or create a list of adjectives? When I think about the way I describe myself, my brain freezes. It’s not that I’m afraid of using the wrong words, of talking about myself in a way that’s disingenuous. Actually, it’s the opposite; I’m worried I won’t include words that would clearly state who I am.

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Relias

MAY 23, 2023

What does it mean to look at your work through a trauma-informed lens? Imagine sitting in a parking lot, drumming up all your courage just to walk into a behavioral health center. You have never seen a counselor before, and you are very nervous. You haven’t had a good night’s sleep for weeks. You have nightmares, seem to always be ‘on edge’ and anger easily.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MAY 25, 2023

Preparing Future Social Workers for Data-Driven Practice: A Panel Discussion with Universities in Moldova and the USA Information about the webinar: Join Data for Impact (D4I) on May 31 at 8–9:00am EDT (15:00–16:00 EET) for a webinar on preparing future social workers for data-driven practice. This webinar will be presented in English and Romanian, with simultaneous interpretation.

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My Brains Not Broken

MAY 25, 2023

Last month, I started my Song of the Month series of posts. Each month on the blog, I’m going to share a song with you. It might be a song I can’t stop listening to at the moment, or a song I have a history with. It could be a song I don’t know much about, or I’ve listened to a thousand times. Regardless of the reason, these songs have inspired me and my mental health, and I want to share them with you.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2023

Secure children’s home bed numbers have fallen over the last year despite huge levels of need for placements for very vulnerable children. The number of approved places in England and Wales’s 14 homes dropped by 7.6%, from 249 to 230 in the year to March 2023, with just 203 of these available for use, down from 220 the year before. The number of places contracted to the Ministry of Justice to place children detained by the criminal justice system remained stable, at 105, meaning the

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Michigan Social Work

MAY 25, 2023

Nina Jackson Levin, Joint PhD in Social Work and Anthropology, successfully defended her dissertation, "Meta/Static Ethnography of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncofertility Research and Practice at a United States Hospital: Implications for Sexual and Gender Minorities.” Her committee included Bradley J. Zebrack (co-chair) and Shanna Katz Kattari. Jackson Levin plans to complete a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan Department of Endocrinology.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 24, 2023

By Lorrie Appleton, LCSW I am preparing to meet a new therapy client. (Let’s call her Emily). While anticipating our introduction, I scan my office, particularly noting the empty couch and chairs waiting to be occupied. I wonder how many people will be attending the meeting. I scheduled an individual session, however, I suspect the office will soon become inundated.

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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.

Relias

MAY 24, 2023

­Healthcare workforce safety depends on both nurse safety and patient safety. Nurses and other healthcare staff rely on safe working environments, capable leaders, support for personal well-being, and of course, respect. Patients depend on competent, compassionate care, physical security, and the satisfaction of knowing they’re well cared for. How can healthcare organizations and leaders achieve these goals by protecting nurse and patient safety congruently?

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2023

The social care workforce has been boosted by 58,000 overseas staff over the past year, revealed government immigration figures published today. But while care homes have made a dent in record vacancy levels experienced in 2022, staffing gaps have remained stubbornly high in domiciliary care, according to separate data issued by Skills for Care. The rise in overseas staff joining the workforce came on the back of the government’s decision to add ‘care workers’ and ‘home c

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Michigan Social Work

MAY 25, 2023

Rich Tolman and the Michigan Father Practitioner Network have received a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation aimed to increase the capacity of Michigan programs that engage and deliver services to fathers, improve the well-being of their children through positive, and support father involvement.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

MAY 24, 2023

Brenda was a beautiful woman with long black hair who came for therapy and recounted her story: “Two months ago I had a double mastectomy. At that time, my husband left me for another woman. My daughter, who saw me through all this, is leaving next month for school in California. Now I have no one. Both my parents died in a car crash when I was 12. I went to live with my grandmother who died when I was 17.

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Relias

MAY 24, 2023

­Healthcare workforce safety depends on both nurse safety and patient safety. Nurses and other healthcare staff rely on safe working environments, capable leaders, support for personal well-being, and of course, respect. Patients depend on competent, compassionate care, physical security, and the satisfaction of knowing they’re well cared for. How can healthcare organizations and leaders achieve these goals by protecting nurse and patient safety congruently?

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Community Care

MAY 26, 2023

The quality of social workers’ continuing professional development submissions was “much higher” in the last registration renewal round compared with the previous year. That was the message from Social Work England after the annual assessment of CPD submitted by a randomly selected sample of 2.5% of social workers on the register. While 129 of the 2,225 (5.8%) whose CPD was studied for the 2021 renewal roun d were given feedback on how their submissions could have been improved

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

--Yes, children can be torn from their mothers during some of the most crucial hours and days of their lives – their first – just because Mom smoked pot. The Bronx Defenders is suing New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, over such a case. They’re also suing to find out more about that scathing internal assessment of ACS’ own racism that the agency commissioned and then tried to hide.

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The Guardian

MAY 26, 2023

Ten-month-old Finley Boden died on Christmas Day, just over a month after being returned to parents’ care A couple found guilty of the “savage and brutal” Christmas Day murder of their 10-month-old son have been sentenced to life imprisonment. Finley Boden died 39 days after a family court ruled he could be returned to the care of his parents, Stephen Boden, 30, and Shannon Marsden, 22.

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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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Relias

MAY 22, 2023

One of the most challenging tasks that caregivers for people living with dementia face is understanding certain behaviors and needs. Toxic changes in the brain destroy neurons and affect the behavior and emotional state of the person living with the disease. These changes can be stressful for the person and their caregivers alike and can lead to unnecessary conflicts.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2023

The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) new system for assessing council adults’ services’ performance of their Care Act 2014 duties will be piloted by three councils over the coming months. The regulator’s work in Birmingham, Lincolnshire and Nottingham councils, which starts this month, will inform its rollout of its local authority assurance system this autumn.

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Social Care

MAY 24, 2023

"In the context of care settings, delegated activities are clinical actions, often undertaken by NHS nurses, but which many social care colleagues are already. well-practiced in delivering." [Image created by freepik.com ] The skills to care What’s your definition of high quality care and support? Safe? Consistent? Person-centred? It is all those things and more.

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The Guardian

MAY 20, 2023

Children with serious mental illnesses are being locked up in a modern bedlam In January, a 12-year-old girl was locked into a “seclusion” room in a hospital in Staffordshire. The room contained a platform with a mattress on it, a moulded basin and toilet, and nothing else. For almost 24 hours a day, her only human contact was through a hatch in the door.

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The Frontline

MAY 25, 2023

Frontline, England’s largest social work charity, will be delivering the next iteration of the national fast-track social work training programme, having been awarded the contract by the Department for Education. Commencing in 2024, the new programme will build on the success of and draw on Frontline’s 10 years of experience designing and delivering the Frontline programme.

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Gary Direnfeld

MAY 20, 2023

He went to counseling just as she wanted. He had to address his anger. He learned to take a break if conflict arose. With that break he would compose himself, figure out his feelings and then return to discuss matters more reasonably. Sometimes it took a matter of minutes, other times a few hours, on occasion a day or two. No matter how short or long a break he took to figure himself out and no matter how reasonable he returned, she was triggered by his not staying fully engaged and needing this

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Beautiful Voyager

MAY 22, 2023

All photos in this piece were provided by Bryce Seto. Editor’s Note: I learned about Bryce when he reached out to me through our About page. If you are interested in being featured on Meet a Voyager, you can do the same! - Meredith Q: Tell me a little about your background -- where did you grow up? Where do you live now? I'm Canadian! I was born and raised in the prairies in the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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The Guardian

MAY 21, 2023

Co-author says UK’s oldest form of social housing could be part of solution to care crisis Poor, older people living in almshouses enjoy longer lives than far wealthier people living elsewhere, a study has found. The secret to longer life has been intensely sought after for centuries. But research using data from almshouses going back 100 years has found that the solution devised in early medieval times to help poverty-stricken knights returning from the Crusades is still relevant today.

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The Frontline

MAY 23, 2023

Sophie was part of the third Frontline programme cohort in 2016 and now works as a team manager in the safeguarding service team at her local authority. Sophie is a bold leader and advocate whose passion oozes through her animated hand gestures and voice when she speaks. One can easily imagine children and families feeling reassured to have her fighting their corner.

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Gary Direnfeld

MAY 20, 2023

It’s insidious, meaning it starts slowly, not even noticeable at first, yet it is harmful. You may have never experienced it before. Without realizing it, your thinking shifts. Despair slowly creeps in. You seek to make sense of your feelings. You attribute them to your situation or relationship of both. It’s a depressive episode. The first.

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Beyond Advocacy

MAY 25, 2023

The Democratic Party has a long history of poor communications. President Jimmy Carter helped to undermine his chances for reelection by handing Republicans a public relations gift that is enshrined in the Hall of Fame of political gaffs. Although he never uttered the word, it is referred to as the “Malaise Speech” that decried the country’s “crisis of confidence.

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The Guardian

MAY 21, 2023

Private provider criticised for uprooting more than 60 vulnerable children, with some transferred from south-east England to Scotland The trade body that oversees children’s care homes has taken the unprecedented step of publicly berating a major private provider for jeopardising “the wellbeing of young people in its care” after it announced a string of home closures.

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The Guardian

MAY 25, 2023

Exclusive: Joint letter from organisations and experts says singling out British-Pakistani men draws attention away from other sources of sexual abuse Politicians who make “inaccurate or divisive claims” about child sexual abuse and grooming gangs undermine efforts to tackle the crime and almost certainly make children less safe, organisations and experts in the subject have warned in an unprecedented joint letter.

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The Guardian

MAY 23, 2023

Wages remain a problem, but rising numbers of skilled non-EU workers appear to be helping the NHS, social care, and indeed the overall UK economy The UK public policy landscape is littered with disasters. From record NHS waiting lists to the de facto legalisation of petty crime and serious sexual assault, to the environmental damage created by the privatised water and sewerage companies.

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