Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 17, 2022

If we’re being completely honest, social workers are in the business of “doing,” whether that’s providing concrete services, administering programs, writing policy, or ameliorating a host of micro-level to macro-level problems on the local and global level. Or making it more interesting for your social work students?

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 6, 2023

Social Work in Social Policy: Engagement Strategies for Today and the Next Generation—A Book Event |. Social workers have profoundly shaped social policy for over a century, but how can they continue to influence it effectively? Louis, and Founding Director, Center for Social Development.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 3, 2025

For example, the Make Homeschool Safe Act developed by the Coalition for Responsible Home Education proposes that no person who has been found to have engaged in child abuse or neglect can operate a home school. Perhaps most effective would be to increase the protections for homeschooled children.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MAY 6, 2021

Agata Dera, MSW, is an Associate and Live Support Specialist with the Columbia School of Social Work’s (CSSW) Online Campus, where she works with social work faculty and students in online courses to optimize the digital learning environment. Introduction.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Social workers across practice settings provide services to individuals, including pregnant people, who are consuming alcohol at risky levels. This Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Awareness Month, social workers can deepen their understanding of FASDs and how to prevent them.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This example personal statement will inspire you to write your own unique social work, personal statement to support your application to the University of your choice. Social Worker Personal Statement My inspiration to study to become a social worker stemmed from my desire to make a positive impact in people’s lives.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You asked, what are the 10 roles of social workers ? While I can provide a list of 10 common roles of social workers, it’s important to note that our roles often go beyond these. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 14, 2023

You asked, what are the benefits of being a social worker? Social work is a profession dedicated to improving the well-being of individuals, families, and communities. It is a field that requires social work practice skills and offers a unique opportunity to make a real and lasting impact on people’s lives.

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Social Work Haven

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This personal statement will suit social work students who will soon qualify as social workers, and may want to look into applying for a Newly Qualified Social Worker role within children services. I recognise that there may be a power imbalance between social workers and service users.

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KVC

MARCH 9, 2023

A key component to being a social worker is serving others during times of crisis. While social workers are often focused on taking care of other people’s needs, it’s critical that self-care is also a priority for social workers! They often carry the heavy weight for those they serve.

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The New Social Worker

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

What is the role of social work in relation to environmental justice? It is important for us, as social workers, to enhance our knowledge about the impact of the environment on the health, welfare, and life span of diverse groups.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 5, 2022

School social workers don’t always receive discipline-specific clinical supervision in their school setting. The lack of supervision is inconsistent with known best practices of the social work profession. This webinar is intended for experienced and new school social workers, principals, and building administrators.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Adherence to masking and social-distancing guidelines remain difficult to guarantee. The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) provides information on how to reach people with limited access to COVID-19 vaccines in the Connect to End COVID resources. The CDC has information on arranging a mobile vaccine on its website.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

High levels of social worker turnover undermined engagement with six young people with histories of social care involvement who were later convicted of violent offences, a review has found.

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The social work profession must not only address these challenges through science and research but also must increase its engagement with the political arena if we are to have an impact on policy and legislation. Much is at stake in the coming years.

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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.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Department for Education (DfE) also intends to extend the rules to non-social work staff in children’s services, it said in a children’s social care reform policy paper published this week. We will continue to engage with government on the next phase of its social care reforms.”

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Community Care

JANUARY 3, 2025

Just one-third of social workers (34%) would recommend the profession as a career, a Social Work England has found. A greater proportion – 42% – would not recommend social work, with the remainder being neutral on the issue, according to the regulator’s first annual survey of the profession.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

By Daniel Pollack & Kathryn Krase Social workers cannot assume they will stay in their jobs for a long time. Most social workers stay in a job for fewer than five years. Social workers serve a variety of clients, in many capacities, for many different types of employers. Or illegal?

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 19, 2025

This landmark event marked the first initiative following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between PolyU and the Social Work Professions Council of Thailand. The partnership aims to enhance the professional development of social workers and child protection practitioners in Thailand.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

By Daniel Pollack & Kathryn Krase Social workers cannot assume they will stay in their jobs for a long time. Most social workers stay in a job for fewer than five years. Social workers serve a variety of clients, in many capacities, for many different types of employers. Or illegal?

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 10, 2025

We are focusing on the need for social workers in political arenas. Weve always been in legislative settings, participated in campaigns, mobilized voters, testified at hearings, and engaged in other activities. Social workers are elected to all levels of government, including Congress. We have […]

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 25, 2022

School social workers don’t always receive discipline-specific clinical supervision in their school setting. The lack of supervision is inconsistent with known best practices of the social work profession. This webinar is intended for experienced and new school social workers, principals, and building administrators.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Advanced fostering practitioner Vivian Okeze-Tirado was working at home when she was crowned overall winner at this year’s Social Worker of the Year Awards. Social Worker of the Year Awards winners unveiled. Better relationships with children’s social workers ‘key to tackling foster carer crisis’.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

Heather Rose Artushin, LISW-CP By Heather Rose Artushin, LISW-CP As social workers, we often embark upon this professional journey with a heart for helping people to live well. National Healthcare Decisions Day, which is April 16th, is a good reminder for social workers on the importance of discussing advance care planning.

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The New Social Worker

APRIL 18, 2022

Social Workers Are Human. This need is even more crucial when we’re engaged with human dynamics that require intense engagement, empathy, and advocacy. As such, we must attend to our human-ness.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The Department for Education (DfE) has ditched plans to cap agency social worker pay to the equivalent of permanent staff in local authority children’s services. The changes came after the DfE received over 1,200 responses to the consultation on the rules , 70% of which were from individual social workers.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Jeremy Hunt has scrapped plans to abolish the IR35 rules for agency social workers and other public sector staff working off payroll. To prevent agency staff from avoiding tax by being paid through a limited company, it made the public body engaging them responsible for determining whether they fell under IR35.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Agency social worker pay in would be capped to the equivalent earned by permanent staff under government plans to reduce the use and cost of locums in statutory children’s services. ” “However, overreliance on agency social work resource has led to workforce instability, churn and high costs,” it said.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

DECEMBER 30, 2021

As I think about how to set goals for 2022, I do know the following: About 1600 users visited my blog last year Most people find my blog from Twitter Several of my academic publications started as blog posts My blog represents my efforts to engage in public scholarship – something I value.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

The report includes several recommendations supportive of social work , including the recommendation that every nursing home—regardless of size—employ a. collaboration with social workers, other disciplines, and like-minded organizations to advocate for implementation of various report recommendations.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JULY 14, 2021

Editor’s Note : This blog post is adapted from the Second Edition of the Social Media Toolkit for Social Work Field Educators. There are many reasons for social workers to have a personalized social media policy – to maintain boundaries, protect privacy and confidentiality, and model professional behavior.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 25, 2023

Empathetic social work practitioners are those that can harness this natural function of empathy and use it to create meaningful connections with their clients. TRENDING CONTENT ON SOCIAL WORK HAVEN As social workers, empathy is not just important in our professional lives, but in our personal ones as well.

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2024

The shortage in children’s social workers in English local authorities is likely to increase over the coming decade, the Department for Education has said. It also came despite the number of permanently employed social workers reaching a record high.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 1, 2024

An analogy to potty training can show children and their caregivers that emotions can also be felt in the body, and addressing these emotions early on can help with early management to lessen the risk of a crisis.

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Community Care

MAY 8, 2024

Hundreds of social workers in England are being “left in limbo”, often unable to work, because of long and increasing delays in fitness to practise (FTP) cases. Information that could clear the social worker was “not considered or overlooked” even when drawn to the attention of investigators, the bodies added.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Rules curbing councils’ use of agency social workers in children’s services will start coming into force next month, the Department for Education (DfE) has announced. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. of full-time equivalent (FTE) positions.

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