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Reinstate hospital social workers to improve discharge outcomes, PSWs urge Barclay

Community Care

Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. Managing chaos, doing our best for patients and supporting each other: hospital social work under Covid.

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World Mental Health Day- 10th October 2022

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

The Department of Psychiatry, Nair Hospital, Mumbai, with support from the Pirojsha Godrej Foundation, has made an effort to develop two short videos (enclosed) for creating awareness on two major mental health issues in adults and children – Mental Depression, and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) respectively.

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Federal Grants Available to Promote Elder Justice

Social Work Blog

Purpose: Assess and understand community services that produce better outcomes for people transitioning from short-term Adult Protective Services interventions to broader community-based programs that remediate and prevent recurrence of abuse over the longer term. Applications due: May 6. Applications due: May 3. Funding source: ACL.

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DHSC rejects experts’ plan to curb ‘inhumane’ solitary confinement of disabled people in hospital

Community Care

The government has rejected an expert panel’s proposal to “severely curtail” the “inhumane” solitary confinement of people with learning disabilities and autistic people in mental health hospitals. Families and friends were too often denied access to their loved-one and excluded from treatment and care decisions.

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Safeguarding teams took no action on ‘serious’ concerns regarding people segregated in hospitals

Community Care

Safeguarding teams took no action in response “serious” concerns about the care of disabled people segregated in mental health hospitals, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said. In hospital for between 10 and 30 years. Almost half did not have an exit strategy from long-term segregation or a robust discharge plan.

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Mental Health Organizations Decry Supreme Court Decision Upholding the Criminalization People who are Unhoused

Social Work Blog

As we described in our amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief , community-based housing and mental health services are a more effective and less expensive way to address homelessness than incarceration or hospitalization.

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How Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) Can Use Crisis Prevention and Intervention

Relias

In fact, the work of direct support professionals (DSPs) is often tied directly to crisis prevention and intervention. The outbreak of COVID-19 underscored how the need for DSPs to understand and practice crisis prevention and intervention techniques has grown. Provide DSPs With Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training.