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Forging the next generation of social care nursing leaders

Social Care

Around a fifth of the adult social care workforce are from a black or minority ethnic background. This increases to 40% of nurses. Sadly, this diversity is not reflected at senior management and leadership level. A new leadership programme aims to change that. [Image copyright Lauren Hurley/DHSC]. Quality, diversity, status. As Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, one of my unwavering priorities is to improve the quality, diversity and status of adult social care (ASC) nursing.

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Five Benefits of Journaling

My Brains Not Broken

Earlier this week, I shared a post about the importance of feeling your feelings. Though there are a lot of ways you can do this, one of my favorite ways is through journaling. Journaling slows me down, and gives me time to collect my thoughts and figure out what I’m really feeling. It has a way of cutting through the noise and find what really needs to be shared.

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Draft Interstate Compact for Social Work - 8 Key Points and How You Can Participate

The New Social Worker

An interstate compact license for social workers would facilitate practice mobility, allowing social workers to practice across state lines. A social work interstate licensing compact is under development, and you can submit your feedback now.

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At last! One news organization gets the makeshift placement story right!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Once touted as a model institution, the Glen Mills School was closed after the Philadelphia Inquirer exposed widespread abuse. The Philadelphia Inquirer zeros in on real solutions Here’s something I never thought I’d see in a story about children trapped in night-to-night placements because family policing agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) had no place else to put them: Advocates say what’s needed now is to address the short-term glitches while pursuing the long-term

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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CALL FOR PAPERS/CONTRIBUTIONS: SOCIAL DIALOGUE (ISSUE 27)

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

CALL FOR PAPERS: SOCIAL DIALOGUE (ISSUE 27). TITLE OF THIS EDITION: Armed conflicts and disasters: Voices from the ‘unheard’. . We live in a world where the many atrocities and disasters impact the everyday lives of millions across the globe. The failure of the current global system is evident even in the natural disasters that cause widespread destruction.

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Building a Foundation of Memories

My Brains Not Broken

Last week, I wrote about the summer and how it’s flying by. This weekend, everything I did reminded me of the classic phrase “time flies when you’re having fun.” While it might feel our lives are moving faster than we can handle, that can also mean we’re doing things we enjoy and are with people we love. And even though those feelings of enjoyment can be fleeting, being intentional about feeling them can actually go a long way toward long-term health and wellness.

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What to know about grant writing and social work

Social Work Blog

The NASW Specialty Practice Sections webinar, Words with Friends: The Nexus Between Grant Writing and Social Work , provides an overview of grant writing strategies and techniques with emphasis on the written narrative portion of proposals for funding. It is available on demand at the Social Work Online CE Institute. The presentation includes how grant writing fits within an agency’s larger resource development activities.

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Q5id Guardian to support the National CASA/GAL Association for Children

National Casa Gal

Q5id Guardian will begin to immediately focus on providing financial and other support toward increasing the awareness of National CASA/GAL and expanding efforts to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect. Read More. The post Q5id Guardian to support the National CASA/GAL Association for Children appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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IFSW Europe invites social workers and their associations in EUROPE to contribute to the IFSW Europe Poverty Watch Report 2022

International Federation of Social Workers

Dear IFSW European members, Dear social workers, Please help to us to make a new poverty watch report 2022 and answer this questionnaire before 01 September 2022. The questionnaire is available HERE. Please feel free to make it as an organization or to send it to your members. WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Birthe Povlsen Member […].

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Ethics Alive! Ethical Conundrums for School Social Workers in Light of Legal Restrictions on Discussing Gender and Sexuality

The New Social Worker

Ethical challenges arise when school social workers (SSWs) are faced with conflicting ethical codes, laws, and policies. In particular, this article focuses on laws restricting SSWs’ ability to discuss sexuality and gender with students.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

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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How to Get Things Done with No Motivation — Amotivation, Avolition, Abulia

Nnatasha Tracy

I have no motivation, but I still have to get things done, just like everyone. Getting things done without motivation is no easy feat, however. I find that my amotivation (no motivation) combined with the other symptoms of depression pretty much glue me to the couch. And while there seems to be a lot of recognition of a lack of motivation and other similar concepts like abolition and abulia in mental illness, there seems to be precious few solutions.

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A Successful High-Risk Birth: The Baiera Family’s Story

Relias

The Baiera family’s birth story unfolds like a movie we would love to see. It features a hopeful young family, a daunting obstacle to overcome, and a happy ending. But it wasn’t a Hollywood creation — it was real life for Vince Baiera, his wife Parissa, and their twin sons, Rocky and Leo. Their memorable story represents a case of many things going right over five long months, ultimately resulting in two healthy babies.

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Social Service Worker Spotlight: A Q&A with Edgar Danilo López Ramírez, Specialist in Family and Community Strengthening with Changing the Way We Care

Social Service Workforce

1. Please tell us a little bit about yourself. I live in Chiquimula, Guatemala. I am married and have three beautiful children, two boys and one girl. I really enjoy spending time with my family, going on walks in the countryside and spending time with friends. I also enjoy reading books to help me grow as a person.

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Ask Nicole: Trust & the Client-Consultant Relationship

Nicole Clark Consulting

Have a question you’d like to be featured? Let me know. A year or so before leaving my old agency, I conducted an intake assessment with a new client. They were in their early twenties and presented as a young man. They were soon assigned to my caseload, and after a few appointments together, they [.]. The post Ask Nicole: Trust & the Client-Consultant Relationship appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Adopting a cloud-based case management platform is essential for nonprofits and government agencies to operate more efficiently and make better use of their funding and budget.

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Lolita Moss Successfully Defends Dissertation

Michigan Social Work

Lolita Moss, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Psychology, has successfully defended her dissertation entitled “The Medium and the Message: An Investigation of Mainstream Media Use, Relationship Scripts, and Intimate Partner Violence among Black Adolescents.” Her committee consisted of Lorraine Gutiérrez and Richard Tolman. Moss has accepted a position as a research faculty professor at Tulane University's Violence Prevention Institute in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

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NASW Press Reads for Policy, Advocacy, and Impact!

Social Work Blog

43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals , by Gerald V. O’Brien, boils down key policies to their most essential elements: historical overview and nature of the social problem, policy overview, and effectiveness. Analysis elements address issues related to the policy, such as trigger events, problem framing, social engineering, covert rationales, unintended consequences, target efficiency, and governmental responsibility.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 2, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Just two items of interest this week, one of which I’d missed when it was published in May: ? A federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, alleging that UPMC drug tests pregnant women and their newborns without consent, reports the results to the family policing agency and, even if it’s no more than a false positive result for marijuana, the agency automatically investigates.

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Trabajador de servicio social destacado: Una sesión de preguntas y respuestas con Edgar Danilo López Ramírez, Especialista en Fortalecimiento Familiar y Comunitario con Iniciativa “Cambiando la Forma en que Cuidamos”

Social Service Workforce

Also available in English. 1. Cuéntenos un poco sobre su vida personal, por favor.

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Get Connected: Using Social Media for Social Work Success

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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Spiralling inflation, crops left in the field and travel chaos: 10 reasons Brexit has been disastrous for Britain

The Guardian

As small businesses crumble, shelves get emptier and the care-worker shortage intensifies, life outside the EU is having a dire effect on many of us. Why aren’t politicians talking about it? When British politicians talk about Brexit and its consequences, they tend to adopt rictus grins and assure us that, by some miracle as yet unexplained, everything is going to be OK.

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Make sure you're prepared for autumn boosters

Social Care

Protecting us all: "It’s so important staff in all care settings make the case for covid vaccine boosters and flu jabs now, making consent from colleagues, residents and others in receipt of care a formality." [Image created by freepik.com ]. Always looking ahead. We may be in the midst of summer, record breaking heatwaves and all but, like most care and health professionals, my thoughts inevitably turn to autumn and winter.

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Decolonising research methods and knowledge: implications for stepping into a post-doctoral role

Health & Social Care Workforce

Adele van Wyk is a Research Associate at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce at King’s.

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Distress Tolerance – 52 Skills

Counselor Toolbox podcast

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Empower Your Nonprofit With Effective Payroll & HCM Services

Managing a nonprofit involves many challenges, but payroll and HR shouldn’t be among them. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps nonprofits choose the best provider. Efficient payroll services ensure timely, accurate payments, vital for maintaining staff and volunteer morale. Compliance support helps navigate complex labor laws and avoid costly fines.

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Live-in care workers ‘have pay docked by agencies to cover accommodation’

The Guardian

New report says policy changes are needed to protect ‘hidden workforce’ from exploitation Live-in care workers recruited from overseas to care for disabled and elderly people in Britain are being exploited by “unscrupulous” agencies who dock their pay to cover “accommodation costs”, according to new research. The workers, who live with clients to provide round-the-clock care, in some cases had their pay reduced by hundreds of pounds a month despite being paid only the minimum wage to begin with.

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My Life’s Crooked Path

Gary Direnfeld

I smoked a lot of dope in high school. I dropped out without completing my grade thirteen. I went from part time to full time at Calderone shoes. A girl I was dating at the time convinced me to return to school. I went to Seneca for audio-visual techniques. While I found that program basic, I took a psychology course as an elective and fell in love with it.

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Does the Albanese government want to be the one that stripped older Australians of their rights? | Sarah Russell

The Guardian

Granting aged care providers an immunity provision relating to restraint practices is unjust. But there is an alternative Does the Albanese government really want to be remembered as the one that stripped many older Australians of their fundamental legal and human rights? The federal government has recently made numerous, welcome commitments to improve the lives of older people living in residential aged care.

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Immunity over use of restraints in Australian aged care may breach torture conventions, lawyers say

The Guardian

Advocates say proposed laws are an ‘extraordinary overreach’ but minister says they are needed for safety Get our free news app , morning email briefing or daily news podcast Proposed federal aged care laws that would give providers immunity from prosecution over the use of restraints may breach international agreements on civil rights and torture, advocates say.

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Diagnosis of ADHD with the DSM 5 TR

Counselor Toolbox podcast

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Texting with that Narcissistic Ex!

Gary Direnfeld

One of the biggest mistakes separated parents do in their texting and emailing with a narcissistic ex, is try to respond to all their false, misleading and manipulative remarks and allegations. There is a felt need to correct the narcissist and not be blamed for matters that do not originate with oneself, but them. With that the narcissist just sees you as engaged and rather than standing corrected, they respond with more infuriating and manipulative versions of their view of things.

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If You Saw Your Parent Being Hit…

Gary Direnfeld

She wasn’t hit. Her dad did hit her mom though. As mean as he was to her mom, she was treated like gold. She was the favorite. She had learned early on by what she witnessed, never to cross her dad. In fact, she did whatever she could to please and appease him. It was no wonder she was his favorite. Come adulthood she met and married a man much like her father.