Community Care

JUNE 6, 2023

Story updated* A plan to ban agency social work in Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts could be in place, as planned, by the end of this month. Most locums working for the region’s five trusts – which are responsible for statutory social services – have accepted a permanent contract, with other agency workers still having the opportunity to do so, said the Department of Health (DoH).

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Swhelper

JUNE 6, 2023

SWHELPER A multidisciplinary team led by a University at Buffalo social work researcher has developed and tested a new assessment tool that has the potential to help people recover from alcohol and drug addiction.

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My Brains Not Broken

JUNE 6, 2023

After my latest post about the ebbs and flows of life , I thought more about my day-to-day life. I tend to get stuck in that thought from time to time, reflecting on my daily routine. Most of the time, we’re so busy that our schedule ends up coming together on its own. With the remaining time, we’re free to spend it as we see fit, but since it’s often limited, we try to make the most of things.

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Gary Direnfeld

JUNE 5, 2023

You may have been distant, distracted when your kids were growing up. That may have carried through into adulthood. You may find yourself in different cities as a result, rarely speaking. Hell, you can be down the street too, and distant, barely talking. Do know, there is a likelihood your now adult kid still wants a connection, to feel cared for even this late in the game.

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Nnatasha Tracy

JUNE 8, 2023

I've been unfortunate enough to need to know what to do when I'm suicidal. I know I'm not alone. I know there are many people out there thinking about the same thing. Because, let's face it, while there's lots of advice out there on what to do when you're "down" or anxious or hypo/manic , there's very little advice on what to do when you're suicidal.

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The New Social Worker

JUNE 7, 2023

The film opens six months after Otto’s cherished wife Sonya has died. In flashbacks, we learn how Sonya and Otto met, all they loved about each other, and the crisis they faced together. Marisol and other neighbors take an interest in him.

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Beautiful Voyager

JUNE 8, 2023

A few weeks ago, Gregorio “Craig” Lewis sent me an unusual email requesting to join the “Meet a Voyager” series. Instead of writing in words, Gregorio sent me a video telling me a little bit about himself and his journey. His genuine warmth and kindness radiated from the screen, and I knew I wanted to learn more about his past. So we did our Q&A in an unusual way: I sent him questions, and he sent me video responses.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JUNE 6, 2023

Make a difference-Social Work without barriers: In response to sustainable development and public emergency IASSW invite you to join the International Conference of the ASEAN-Social Work Education and Social Development 2023. The conference entitled, “Make a difference-Social Work without barriers: In response to sustainable development and public emergency” is jointly organised by China and Global Development Network, Department of Applied Social Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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The New Social Worker

JUNE 5, 2023

One way to think about self-care is by using the metaphor of a road trip. Just like a road trip, self-care requires planning, preparation, and a clear destination.

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International Federation of Social Workers

JUNE 8, 2023

Photo: Heike Erkers president of Akademikerförbundet SSR Akademikerförbundet SSR, the Swedish Social Work trade union, have criticised government plans that require social and health professionals to report any persons living […]

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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.

Nicole Clark Consulting

JUNE 6, 2023

Have a question you’d like to be featured? Let me know. This question comes from Larissa, a graduate student in Arizona. Larissa write: Hi Nicole, I’m a graduate student currently taking a class about research and evaluation. I also just finished a course in evaluations within education and training. My first assignment is to distinguish [.] The post Ask Nicole: Should Research Come Before Evaluation?

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Bipolar Bandit

JUNE 8, 2023

What the book is about: The Invisible Backpack is a labor of love created from a life-long struggle to come to terms with who the author is and accept himself as he was meant to be. We are all born with an invisible backpack on our backs. It is where we put all the hurts of life. When we are young and courageously climbing the stairs of life, it is extremely light, and we really don’t know it’s there.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

And Michigan’s leading family advocate blasts a Children’s Rights McLawsuit consent decree for making things “much worse.” How many times have you read what journalists covering child welfare call “the fatality series”? A now-defunct publication that purported to advise journalists on how to cover child welfare actually said: “Do the fatality series” – with what seemed like the implication that it should be done the usual way: by scapegoating efforts to keep families together and setting off a f

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National Casa Gal

JUNE 7, 2023

National Reunification Month allows us to highlight the importance of family preservation. Read More. The post June is National Reunification Month appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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Michigan Social Work

JUNE 8, 2023

Professor William Elliott III spoke with St. Louis public radio about the transformational power of Child Development Accounts and the effect they can have on multi-generational poverty. One of the key things he’s learned, Elliott says, is that the way out of poverty lies along the path of asset accumulation. “Building assets allows people to build their full potential,” he says, “because it augments their ability to tackle the system.

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Bipolar Bandit

JUNE 8, 2023

What I Learned from Hosting 100 Hours of Peer Support By CeCe Cheng, CEO and Founder of ShareWell Peer support isn’t a phrase we hear all that often and I wasn’t fully aware of what it meant until I needed it. Two years ago, I was in an emotionally abusive relationship and my recovery from that changed the course of my life. I saw a therapist and spoke to friends but still felt lonely and isolated.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

When clients have concerns about licensed social workers, they may file complaints with their state licensing boards. Although prior research has explored the types of complaints made against social workers, there has been little research on the experiences of social workers who are being investigated. Social Work Research is a journal co-published by NASW and Oxford University Press, and in a recent issue , researchers revealed their findings in a study of these social worker experiences.

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Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

Welsh councils must be legally required to set maximum manageable caseloads for their children’s social workers and to take all reasonable steps to maintain them. This should be backed by a “comprehensive workforce sufficiency plan”, potentially including national pay and conditions, to ensure authorities have enough practitioners to implement safe workloads.

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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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The Guardian

JUNE 6, 2023

Exclusive: Volunteers sought in England to take equipment and drugs to people’s homes among other tasks Health ministers are to recruit a new volunteer army for social care to ferry medical equipment and drugs to people’s homes in a bid to free up congested hospital wards. Volunteers will also be sent to, though not into, people’s homes to tackle loneliness and carry out shopping and other errands.

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Bipolar Bandit

JUNE 8, 2023

What the book is about: The Invisible Backpack is a labor of love created from a life-long struggle to come to terms with who the author is and accept himself as he was meant to be. We are all born with an invisible backpack on our backs. It is where we put all the hurts of life. When we are young and courageously climbing the stairs of life, it is extremely light, and we really don’t know it’s there.

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Social Work With Adults

JUNE 6, 2023

Social work practice recognises the importance of encouraging and facilitating downtime and social connection for unpaid carers [Image created by freepik.com ] Carers community spirit This year’s theme for Carers Week (5-11 June), ‘recognising and supporting carers in the community’, really chimes with me, especially after my recent visit to Sefton Carers Centre in Merseyside.

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Community Care

JUNE 6, 2023

A plan to ban agency social work in Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts is likely to miss its target of being implemented this month. However, the region’s Department of Health (DoH) said that “good progress” was being made towards ensuring that all social workers at the five trusts – which are responsible for social services in their areas – were permanently employed.

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Social Care

JUNE 6, 2023

"While caring for relatives and partners is often a privilege bringing joy, fun and peace of mind, it can also take its physical and mental toll." Shared experience It’s Carers Week (5-11 June), an opportunity to not only ‘recognise and support unpaid carers in the community’ (this year’s theme), but also reflect on our personal and professional relationships to caring.

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Health & Social Care Workforce

JUNE 5, 2023

Carolin Hess is a PhD student at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, King’s College London.

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The Guardian

JUNE 5, 2023

I had no other choice but to give up my career to become my mother’s full-time unpaid carer – and there are millions like me The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has been calling for people to get back to work. But there’s one group of people he’s overlooked. Many unpaid family carers like me would love to return to full-time employment. But the failure of successive governments to fix our broken social care system has left us to shoulder caring responsibilities that actively stop us working.

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Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

Over three-quarters of social work roles are not being advertised on a part-time or flexible-hours basis, despite a rise in their proportion since last year. Twenty three per cent of online adverts studied by the Social Workers Union (SWU) on two dates earlier this year offered part-time or flexible hours, up from 18.7% in a similar exercise last year.

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The Frontline

JUNE 7, 2023

Naomi Allen was part of the 2017 Cohort of the Frontline programme and currently works as a consultant social worker, supporting current Frontline programme as they qualify as social workers. Naomi demonstrates an optimism that is grounded in empathy and application of principles that lead to real positive outcomes for children and families. This manifests in the abundant sense of clarity and enthusiasm in which she speaks about her work.

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Social Care

JUNE 9, 2023

"Caring, unpaid, for older, disabled or chronically ill relatives or friends is something most of us will experience in our lives." [Image created by freepik.com ].to make the case for support. New research released for this year’s Carers Week reveals we need to think and plan differently for people with unpaid caring responsibilities. The YouGov research, using a poll of 4,000 adults across the UK, found 50 percent of the population has had some sort of experience of providing unpaid care, ei

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The Guardian

JUNE 4, 2023

Academics and an expert adviser point to the case of Sally Lewis, whose death in a care home in 2017 prompted a depressingly familiar ‘scandal-review-inquest-lessons learned’ response Frances Ryan suggests that disabled people in Britain are viewed more as a burden than human ( A decade after the Tories demonised disabled people on benefits, it’s happening again, 30 May ).

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Community Care

JUNE 7, 2023

“Little is known” about which social work practice models work best amid “huge variation” in approaches across England’s 153 local authorities. That was among the messages from Foundations , the new evidence body created from the merger of What Works for Children Social Care (WWCSC) and the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF), which formally started work yesterday.

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Gary Direnfeld

JUNE 5, 2023

The three-year-old had trouble settling at night. There was also difficulty going to daycare or being away from their mother. They called it separation anxiety and tried to let the child cry it out. The child didn’t settle. In meeting with the mom I learned about the conflict between her and her partner. Often it was at night, after the child was put to bed.

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Social Care

JUNE 8, 2023

Building on the success of the NHS Volunteer Responders Programme in healthcare settings over the pandemic, the Government has now expanded the scheme into social care - forming a joint NHS and Care Volunteer Responders Programme. Care providers can now ask volunteers to help people in their local areas across a range of care settings. Volunteers will provide support to people receiving care from local services in the community through chat services and delivery roles.

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