Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

In a 2021 study, 83 percent of healthcare providers reported positive behavior change in patients after conducting alcohol screening and brief intervention with them. What is alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT)? Government. These conversations can have a major impact.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Social worker Eddie Bocanegra, MSW, a longtime violence prevention advocate in Chicago, has been named senior adviser for community violence intervention in the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Bocanegra served time in prison and earned his master’s degree in social work from the University of Chicago.

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Social Worker Interventional University Government 81

University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The primary goal of the project is to determine whether the “Breakthrough Parenting Curriculum: Navigating Trauma Across Generations (BPC)”— a trauma-informed parenting intervention — is effective at promoting child, parent, and family wellbeing among underserved families at-risk for involvement with the child welfare system. Government.

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Administration Child Welfare Interventional Welfare 52

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Councils’ response to child neglect is “slow and inadequate” due to high thresholds for intervention and a lack of services, the NSPCC has found. However, practitioners who took part in online focus groups for the NSPCC’s study, told the charity that neglect often did not meet the threshold for intervention.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 8, 2023

That’s just one of the findings in the new study we highlighted in yesterday's post to this Blog (a study I first read about on the excellent blog written by Robert Latham, Associate Director of the University of Miami Children and Youth Law Clinic). They break down interventions by race but not by income.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The “full spirit of the Care Act” is not being met, the government has said as it plans to reintroduce performance assessments of council adult services. Government intervention. Councils would have the right to make representations before any statutory intervention was carried out.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

The unprecedented global crisis created the political will to implement long-called-for expansions of government benefits. For the poorest families in the U.S., however, there was a silver lining. Curran co-authored a Center study on children left behind by the child tax credit in 2022.

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Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2024

In addition, the researchers, from Kingston University, Sheffield University, the National Children’s Bureau and Ofsted, identified poor outcomes for children who had suffered neglect, particularly older children on child protection plans. These were often older children and adolescents.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

The legislation mandates early intervention to keep families intact when possible and reduce the need for foster care. This is the process of functional governing.” This is another example of why it is so important for social workers to be engaged in legislative settings at all levels of government,” Dr. Day concluded.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 10, 2023

Of Social Justice and Inclusion, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; President of the European sub-regional Association of Schools of Social Work. darlaspencecoffey@gmail.com Professor Pamela Singla, IASSW Board Member, Professor and Head at Department of Social Work (DSW), University of Delhi (DU), India. tannt@suss.edu.sg

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Brightpoint

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

associate professor and lead researcher, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign September 26th, 2024 Recently, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz joked about objections to a free meal program for schoolchildren he enacted as Governor of Minnesota: “What a monster! The William T.

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Child Welfare Foster Care University Welfare 52

Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This was based on research carried out in collaboration with the Centre for Child and Family Justice Research at Lancaster University. In these cases, safeguarding action wasn’t deemed necessary at the end of proceedings – so could there potentially have been a level of overcautiousness or over-intervention from the local authority?

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Adoption Interventional Social Worker Government 53

Community Care

APRIL 6, 2023

A government asylum age assessment body that the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has urged practitioners not to take jobs with has started work.

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Social Worker Government Interventional University 52

Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The same study, by academics at Lancaster and Swansea universities, found that more than 40% of these mothers were estimated to have been aged between 14 and 19 at the birth of their first child. It also cited previous research that found many such young mothers had been in care themselves.

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Adoption Crisis Intervention Interventional University 57

Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

Decline in provision of statutory placements The SSSC/SWEP-commissioned report – based on written evidence from stakeholders, data analysis and research with councils, universities third sector bodies, practice educators and students – found the relative provision of statutory placements had declined in recent years.

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Administration Mental Health University Social Worker 65

Community Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The government has delayed its response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care until next year. ” After being set out by the care review, the view that university courses were not sufficiently evaluated was rejected by academic leaders. Resource concerns following autumn statement.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

The blueprint for the chief social worker role The recommendation to appoint a chief social worker came from Professor Eileen Munro, in the final report of her landmark review of child protection from the government in 2011. Promoting social work’s role in society and raising public awareness of, and confidence in, the profession.

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Social Worker Government Mental Health University 60

Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The government must invest in specialist placements to reform a care system not working for vulnerable teenagers and protect them from exploitation. As of March 2021, 10- to 15-year-olds accounted for 39% of children in care, and those over 16 23%, according to government statistics. Horror stories’. Photo; motortion/Adobe Stock.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“The government has committed to offer more support for carers through its reform funding and there are new rights for unpaid leave in the new Carer’s Leave Act , but that won’t be enough. These scores will inform the single-word rating. However, overall, the CQC said authorities’ plans were short-term.

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Community Care

MAY 6, 2022

We also recognise that, when a local authority is rated inadequate, and subject to the Department for Education intervention, it can lead to a regional, or sub-regional, challenge as it seeks to draw in staff from stronger surrounding councils to enhance its improvement journey. Care review set to report.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In an interview with Community Care, Jones, who is emeritus professor of social work at Kingston University and St George’s, University of London, said he had recommended that trusts recruit from a wider pool of staff, beyond social workers, and cut administrative burdens for practitioners, and this was now being put into practice.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This would be backed by government funding to finance support services for families identified in the plan. The government should commit to provide the necessary resources to local authorities to enable them to adopt and implement the guidance to the fullest and most effective extent possible. What is the Public Law Working Group?

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Community Care

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Spencer said he has managed to stabilise the council’s workforce somewhat by opening a social work academy, which recruits social workers through fast-track courses Step Up to Social Work and Frontline, as well as through Open University and apprenticeship qualifications. More on Arthur Labinjo-Hughes case.

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Community Care

AUGUST 31, 2022

” “I’d like us to look very differently at our relationships with employers and universities. In terms of what membership of this level could achieve, she sees BASW having better relationships – and, by implication – clout with government, as is the case with professional bodies in areas such as medicine.

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Social Worker Diversity Government Anxiety 49

Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A 2015 study by Oxford Brookes University for the DfE identified 35 consortia or partnerships involved in commissioning care placements, encompassing the majority of councils. It concluded this was unlikely to change without action by central government. However, several reports have found issues with these approaches.

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Adoption University Government Foster Care 46

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“We believe that the powers in the Police Act will reduce opportunity and create further deprivation for some of the most marginalised and vulnerable groups in Britain,” says the guide, written by GRTSWA member Dan Allen, principal lecturer in social work at Liverpool Hope University, with the support of the association. Take-up of guidance.

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Social Worker Welfare Criminal Justice Anxiety 49

Social Work Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Provide Access to CSW Services that Help Medicare Beneficiaries Who are Coping with Physical Health Conditions by reimbursing CSWs for providing Health and Behavior Assessment and Intervention (HBAI) services. Hillary Scholten (D-MI-03) PROVISIONS: » Fund an internship for social work university students in a regional public library.

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Clinical Philosophy

APRIL 13, 2022

And yet when we turn to the advice, instructions, rhetoric and rules of the bodies and bureaucracies which govern psychologists' practices, something rather different sometimes shows its face. You're probably instead in something like an 'intervention'-providing business.) and so I make them.

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Psychotherapy Clinic Psychology Engagement 59

Social Work With Adults

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They also said it should be included in social work courses in colleges and universities. Thanks to these interventions, disabled young people reported their confidence, self-esteem, and sense of power and control over their lives had improved. This was achieved through co-production, which involved widespread collaboration.

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Disability Substance Abuse Social Worker University 23

Social Work Haven

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Some social work degree programs may only be offered through a university, college or higher education institute. Curative interventions such as education/counseling on possible risks, prevention techniques are based on the diagnosis for a specific disorder (Altar et al., Top 9 Social Work Books You Must Have in Your Library.

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Substance Abuse Social Worker Interviewing Counseling 40

Social Work Blog

JANUARY 2, 2025

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the NASW Founda tion are collaborating with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work in a national effort to engage social workers in the prevention of substance-exposed pregnancy. Government.

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Disorder Human Services Social Worker University 126

Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

In a video made by the University of Baltimore’s Merrick School of Business, Ripley explained that “you can make money in this business if you control staffing.” The Committee’s own invited witness, Elizabeth Manley of the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, testified about the need for these programs.

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Foster Care Interventional Child Welfare Medicaid 158

Social Work Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and NASW Foundation are partners with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work in a national initiative to prevent alcohol- and other substance-exposed pregnancy. Government.

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Disorder Human Services University Social Worker 66

Social Work Blog

MAY 8, 2024

Government. Article by Diana Ling, MA, Program Manager; and Anna Mangum, MSW, MPH, Senior Health Strategist; Health Behavior Research and Training Institute, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin. If a client who is pregnant is using alcohol, the safest thing to do is to stop drinking. Every day matters.

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Human Services Social Worker University Schools 130

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Even though the ethics review for that one was co-authored by a faculty colleague of one of the creators of the algorithm, it cautioned that one reason AFST is ethical is that it does not attempt to stamp the scarlet number on every child at birth – something known as “universal-level risk stratification.” One of the ethics reviewers, Prof.

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Child Welfare Welfare Human Services University 142

Community Care

MAY 22, 2022

The government must introduce national pay scales for social workers, tied to a “vastly improved” learning and development offer, to boosts skills, reward expertise and retain staff in practice, the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care said today. By Mithran Samuel and Rob Preston.

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Social Worker Government Case Management Interventional 71

Community Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Over three-quarters of 3,490 respondents to a Community Care poll selected this option over better multi-agency working, lower thresholds for intervention or the creation of a dedicated child protection service. While councils’ spending power is due to rise by 1.8% Being under-resourced puts you under huge pressure’.

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Social Worker Government Interventional University 69