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Share Clear Messaging During Birth Defect Awareness Month to Help Prevent Lifelong Effects

Social Work Blog

January is Birth Defects Awareness Month, a call to action for social workers to share a key message: for a healthy pregnancy, it is safest to avoid alcohol, smoking, and other recreational drugs. Substance use during pregnancy can lead to poor outcomes. The safest pathway is to avoid any type of substance use during pregnancy.

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No progress on child protection reforms in Utah halfway through the legislative session

Child Welfare Monitor

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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Number of agency social workers falls for first time in seven years in children’s services

Community Care

The number of agency children’s social workers in English local authorities has fallen for the first time in seven years, official figures show. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. to 11.6%, followed by the West Midlands, where it fell from 16.6% from 2023-24.

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Black, male and 40-plus social workers still overrepresented in fitness to practise cases

Community Care

Black, male and 40-plus social workers remain disproportionately represented in fitness to practise (FtP) cases, Social Work England data has confirmed. Unsurprisingly, the overrepresentation of black and male social workers and those aged over 40 remains, at multiple points of the FtP process.

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Monthly Series Engages Students, New Social Workers

Social Work Blog

To do things like this engages students with the association, and they get a better understanding about it as well.”. And, Riggs said, they get to engage with other students from a variety of schools, backgrounds and states, “all on the same webinar.”. We need social workers so badly.”. It’s a pipeline issue, really.

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Fatima Salman Appointed Vice President of the National Association of Social Workers

Michigan Social Work

ENGAGE Program Manager Fatima Salman, MSW ’15, has been appointed Vice President of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). 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. “I

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NASW Combats Troubling Business Practice Harming Social Workers and their Clients

Social Work Blog

In July, many NASW members alerted their state chapters to a disturbing and potentially deceptive marketing practice impacting social workers nationwide — involving CareDash, a healthcare review and referral website for a wide variety of healthcare providers, including clinical social workers.