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OCTOBER 24, 2024

Back to Blogs News & Press CDHS increases safe access to services for survivors of domestic violence October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month DENVER (Oct. 24, 2024) — The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) is committed to making sure that survivors of domestic violence, as well as their children and families, are able to safely get the services and resources they need in order to thrive.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Some of us are late bloomers. I was. I dropped out of high school to sell shoes. It was a girlfriend at the time who convinced me to go to college and after one semester, I transfered to university as a mature student (over 21). Not having learned much in high school, I didn’t know how to write an essay. The first one was returned with a big bright red “D” and the comment that I have a serious writing problem.

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 24, 2024

A three-year global comparison of the working conditions of social workers, just published in The British Journal of Social Work, finds that ‘social workers across the world are exposed to […]

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Excessive advice-giving doesn’t belong in the therapy room. As a new social worker, you will need to resist the temptation a dozen times a day to pack clients full of your fresh therapy knowledge.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

● Dr. Sharon McDaniel, a pioneer in doing kinship foster care the right way, speaks out about the enormous harm of doing it the wrong way – through the subterfuge known as “hidden foster care.” In a commentary for The Imprint , she writes: I want to be clear that while I believe hidden foster care should be eradicated, the path to doing so is not to simply place all of those children in the formal foster care system instead.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Those nar-cissists. They’re not just former partners. Sometimes they are your parent. Growing up with a nar-cissist parent can leave you forever questioning your worth. You wonder how much crap you have to eat to be written into their good books. Thing is, that goal post is forever shifting and even if you scored a goal today, tomorrow you can again be yesterday’s news.

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Center for Child Protection

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As Travis County families string up the spooky decor, light up the jack-o-lanterns, and put the finishing touches on your frightful costumes, now is the perfect time to have important conversations with your little ghosts and goblins around Halloween safety. To make sure everyone’s spooky night stays as safe as possible, the Center for Child Protection’s Education Team has prepared some quick tips to keep in mind before hitting the streets for some trick-or-treating this year.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. This year’s local government pay deal has been agreed after the biggest union failed to gain a sufficient mandate to take effective strike action. UNISON said it had agreed to employers’ pay offer to staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for 2024-25 because of a relatively low turnout in its ballot for industrial action.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 22, 2024

If you are a people pleaser, there is a good chance you came from a family with a member, likely a parent, who was scary and erratic, if not outright abusive. That people pleasing then would have been a learned strategy to cope and manage living with that person. Now, as an adult, when faced with so much as a different point of view, you may find yourself giving in with the belief that it is up to you to keep the peace lest something bad happen.

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Image: Jioji Ravulo, Malakai Waqa Kaitani, Nathan Chong-Nee, Andrzej Frank, Yvonne Crichton-Hill, At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa, a team of six social workers, including representatives […]

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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.

Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 23, 2024

ENGAGE Program Manager Fatima Salman, MSW ’15, has been appointed Vice President of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). Previously, Salman was president of the NASW Michigan Chapter and chair of the NASW Council of Chapter Presidents. “I am excited to step into the role of vice president of this very critical organization that serves all social workers in the country,” said Salman.

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KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When you think of factors that influence your health, you probably think of eating well, staying active and seeing a doctor when sick. But there are many more factors that impact our wellbeing beyond the actions we take for ourselves and our families. In fact, our health is greatly determined by the conditions in which we live. Health starts in homes, schools, workplaces and communities.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I was about thirty years old when my first marriage ended. I was a social worker at a large children’s mental health centre. Much of my work involved providing family and marital therapy. I was even co-training psychiatry residents (students) in family therapy along with the staff psychiatrist. The failure of that marriage hit me professionally.

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The UN Secretary-General’s Harmony with Nature Report, 2024 has once again highlighted the essential role of social work in driving transformative change.

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Associate Professor Anao Zhang and PhD student Rachel Brandon are part of a team that recently received a grant from the Children's Cancer Research Fund. Their project evaluates the virtual delivery of a strength-based psychological treatment to young adults with cancer. “We are excited to receive this grant and conduct a pilot clinical trial at Michigan Medicine's Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program,” said Zhang.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social care services are likely to be badly affected by cuts across most English councils next year, a Local Government Association (LGA) has found. Almost four in five authorities (79%) said services for disabled or older adults were very or fairly likely to be negatively affected by savings in 2025-26, while 63% said the same about provision for children, young people and families.

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Children’s Defense Fund

OCTOBER 25, 2024

By Marian Wright Edelman Amidst the final few weeks of calls for adults to vote right now for people and policies that will ensure children and young people’s well-being and joy, I share these prayers for all of our nation’s children and the country they need and deserve. A Prayer for Children © (By Ina J. Hughs) We pray for children who put chocolate fingers everywhere, who like to be tickled, who stomp in puddles and ruin their new pants, who sneak Popsicles before supper, who erase holes in m

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Social Work With Adults

OCTOBER 23, 2024

"As the fastest growing profession in the NHS mental health workforce, [We] need to embrace this opportunity to help bring about the changes we all want to see." [Image created by freepik.com ] Our voice is needed This week, the Department of Health and Social Care, in partnership with NHS England, launched the Change NHS campaign. This is the beginning of an ongoing conversation with the public as, together, our government and healthcare leaders seek the widest range of views possible to shape

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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 Care

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Generational opportunity This week, the Department of Health and Social Care , in partnership with NHS England , launches the biggest national conversation about the state of the NHS in its 76-year history. Change NHS is a once in a lifetime opportunity for all of us, whatever our age, circumstance, or profession, to share our experiences, ideas, and concerns about the state of our health and care system.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Principal social workers have urged practitioners to “let go of their frustrations” regarding Social Work England’s decision not to check continuing professional development (CPD) submissions made for this year’s registration renewal round.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When anxiety forced Kathryn Faulke to give up her NHS job and became a care worker, she never thought she would enjoy it. Now, she has written a ‘love story’ of a book about the profession Care work, Kathryn Faulke thought as she scoured job adverts, “is a rubbish job. They’re not going to turn me down.” She had, after all, been a senior dietitian and worked for several years in the NHS – a career that had left her with anxiety and burnout.

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CO4Kids

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Foster mom works around the clock to care for medically fragile children Vera Garyeazon has a very busy schedule and often works around the clock to care for the medically fragile children in foster care who live in her home. Vera, who has been a registered nurse since 2003, decided she needed a change in 2021 after all of her children had grown and left her home, and decided to provide foster care for medically fragile children.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and its Ohio chapter partnered with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio to file an amicus curiae brief to the Ohio Supreme Court in the case In re LES. The lawsuit centers on Ohio’s parentage laws as they pertain to same-sex couples and the best interest of the children. The case revolves around how Ohio’s parentage laws apply to same-sex couples who reared their children but split up before same-sex marriage was legal.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The planned fair pay agreement for adult social care is likely to increase costs to councils, as well as those funding their own care, the government has said. Providers have limited scope to absorb the expected boosts to staff pay and conditions by improving productivity, narrowing salary differentials or squeezing profits, according to an impact assessment of the proposal contained in the

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Though royal commissions have a bad reputation, this is a real chance to establish a realistic plan before it is too late A collective groan greeted the rumour that the government will announce yet another royal commission on social care. The fear is that it just kicks this problem into the blue yonder; it was Harold Wilson who jibed that royal commissions “take minutes and waste years”, which can be politically convenient.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Self-proclaimed liberal Elizabeth Bartholet wanted to force every pregnant woman to admit a spy into her living room from pregnancy until the child was preschool age. Image created by openart.ai Last month I wrote a post about how what was once the Next Big Thing in “child welfare” – “predictive analytics” increasingly is being seen for what it really is: an Orwellian nightmare of computerized racial profiling that bears an uncanny resemblance to some of the worst aspects of Project 2025 – the r

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Beyond Advocacy

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Social Work Democracy Project (SWDP) has launched a campaign in four battleground states to energize social work students and inspire young people to participate in the democratic process. Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina students have been sent tee shirts with the powerful message ‘ Our Voices Matter.’ They were encouraged to wear these shirts in their daily lives, engaging with voting-age young people and encouraging them to vote by Election Day, November 5.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Children’s services in Worcestershire have returned to council control after being run by a trust for five years. Worcestershire Children First (WCF) is being wound up with its former staff having been transferred to Worcestershire County Council, which is now back in charge of children’s services in the area, as of 1 October 2024.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Four others taken to hospital and home evacuated, with early line of inquiry that residents may have been affected by carbon monoxide Three people have died at a care home in Dorset and four more have been taken to hospital. Dorset police said: “We received a report at 7.16am to three people who had been found deceased at a care home in Ulwell Road in Swanage.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The first years post-qualification are daunting for any social worker. It is the challenging transition from theory to practice, when practitioners find their footing with children, families or adults and shape their professional identity. However, on top of this, they often face high caseloads, increasingly complex needs , and a loss of experienced staff to support them.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 20, 2024

My friends and I don’t want to become just grist to the mill of a profit-making institution, says Bryony Lee Emma Beddington ( Opinion, 13 October ) is right about the many frightening prospects of ageing, but she did not mention the one prospect people of my age (76) speak about together with horror most often: “having to go into a home”, or “being put into a home” by one’s children.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Why does Rivals’ high-camp, warts-and-all frolic through the 80s make Zoe Williams feel so nostalgic? Is it wrong for Elon Musk to offer voters $1m to get Trump elected? ‘I was blown away by how meaningful and interesting it is: one woman’s ‘love story’ to the caring profession. And Philippa Perry advises a reader to be more forgiving to a friend who is a perpetual liar Continue reading.

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