Social Work Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

COVID-19 has disproportionally affected people living in poverty; new immigrants; and those living in healthcare settings (hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes), shelters, detention centers, and prisons. A recent article in the journal Social Work , co-published by NASW and Oxford University Press, highlights this issue.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Sharma, professor at the Department of Social Work at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, notes she came from a “humble background in a very small state in northeast India called Sikkim. When Sharma worked for a hospital in Nepal, a tragic event triggered her future path. I was the only social worker working at the hospital.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Everything feels different, like you’ve seen the world and the universe for the first time in your life. It feels like you are one with the universe. Even knowing that I will end up in a hospital probably wouldn’t stop me. The colours of a painting. Every good feeling felt multiplied by 100. I cried my eyes out when I saw it.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed. KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Their father is eager to take them in, but at the time of the removal he’s in the hospital. That’s because after he was hit by a drunk driver and confined to a wheelchair it led to medical complications that sometimes require hospitalization. Here’s the detail: Dad’s mobility isn’t compromised because he’s confined to a wheelchair.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. “To To get this kind of recognition is very gratifying. . ● Some even are celebrated.

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CCRC

APRIL 3, 2025

Through play, children build and strengthen socio-emotional and cognitive skills, according to research from Texas Christian University. Children at play have agency (control over their own actions) and feel socially and emotionally safe. They express themselves freely, trying out different behaviors or ideas, without fear or anxiety.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

There’s more about the failure of the current system, the racial and class bias that are built into it, and the case for abolition in this Youth Today interview with University of Pennsylvania Prof. Unfortunately, odds are all those other CASA chapters weren’t listening either. ? The report was only the beginning of the family’s ordeal.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

I suspect the person who visited the mother in the child’s hospital room was not truly a Social Worker, but a case manager of some sort with probably only a bachelor’s degree. program at Eastern Kentucky University. The same sort of comment appears after publication of any story exposing racial bias in family policing. She’s an M.S.W.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

licensed clinical social worker and Professor and Dean Emeritus at the Florida State University College of Social Work, has been involved in the practice, research, and teaching of poetry therapy for over 50 years. I think story is a word I use a lot, because it’s familiar.” Nicholas Mazza Ph.D.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

In September, Princeton University Press will publish Prof. Jane Spinak’s book, The End of Family Court: How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families on August 1. If you use the code SPINAK30-FM at checkout, you can get 30% off. ● It’s not just books. It’s who you think. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

They believe the hospital called the Allegheny County family police agency, which immediately took away the child. Robyn Powell of the University of Oklahoma School of Law and Prof. That story builds on outstanding reporting by the Associated Press. Here’s where we find out who’s really calling the shots, the humans or the algorithm.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Deadric Williams of the University of Tennessee, showing him during one of his lectures – and one of the slides he uses. In the wake of a scathing report from a county auditor, The Morning Call reports , she was just relieved of her job running the “child advocacy center" at the local hospital.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2023

N: In my first job at the State Hospital in Illinois, the agency director and my supervisor took me under their wing and taught me many things, including how to conduct a social history, interviews with patients, and how to lead group therapy. Cloud State University in Minnesota. S: Have you had mentors throughout your career?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Stateline reports on something some in the medical profession are doing about it: Some states and hospital systems have updated their policies on drug testing for pregnant women and newborns, aiming to better support patients’ treatment and recovery from substance use disorder and combat racial disparities in testing and reporting. ●

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Michigan Social Work

MAY 25, 2023

Nina Jackson Levin, Joint PhD in Social Work and Anthropology, successfully defended her dissertation, "Meta/Static Ethnography of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncofertility Research and Practice at a United States Hospital: Implications for Sexual and Gender Minorities.” Her committee included Bradley J.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Anna Arons of New York University School of Law. In this case the hospital involved got it right – but it didn’t matter, the family police took the child anyway. In another case, also reported by the Tennessee Tribune , the same hospital got it terribly wrong. ? She recently discussed her findings. It’s a Christmas miracle!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As Dean of the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, Alan Detlaff devoted his career to fighting the racism that permeates family policing. From the story: A girl from Bethel had first gone to North Star [hospital] at 12, when she was “feeling sad and irritable, and exhibiting some aggression toward her younger siblings.”

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 9, 2023

Location: Hospitality 2 – Room 444. Author(s): Margaret Lloyd Sieger, PhD , University of Connecticut School of Social Work; Cynthia Nichols, LCSW , University of Connecticut School of Social Work; Melissa Sienna, UConn Health; Marilyn Sanders, MD, UConn School of Medicine. Location: Hospitality 3 – Room 432.

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Relias

MARCH 9, 2025

Why we need better infection and prevention control practices Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), continue to be a challenge in hospitals, impacting patient safety, increasing healthcare costs, and straining resources. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 1 in 31 hospital patients contracts an HAI every day.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

● Law schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University released a joint report on the state’s “central registry” of those whom a caseworker decided were slightly more likely than not to be child abusers. Their conclusion: Do what Georgia did with its registry: Get rid of it. issued a report on one.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2024

The DHSC said it expected the funding would help authorities boost social work capacity to help them tackle waiting lists for assessments, support discharges from hospital and deliver safeguarding enquiries and other complex casework.

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Beautiful Voyager

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It was then, that I realized I needed some true, serious professional help, so I decided to check myself into the local psychiatric hospital. Since I got out of the hospital, I had also checked myself into an outpatient therapy program that I went to every single day for eight weeks straight. Not for one second. You give me purpose.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

For example: In 2023, A Pennsylvania jury awarded $183 million to the family of a boy born with severe brain injuries due to a delayed C-section at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. This case marked the largest award to a single plaintiff in Pennsylvania’s history.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Connect to End COVID-19 Campaign In 2021, NASW and the NASW Foundation partnered with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute (HBRT) at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work on a national $3.3 Safe and effective, COVID-19 vaccines have been shown to prevent severe illness, hospitalization, and death.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I also worked in the mental health field for three years during this time, helping mentally ill patients in hospital settings. I was no longer allowed to take graduate courses at this university. I had memories of being mistreated by hospital staff. I was in a psychosis.

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Relias

MARCH 13, 2025

Their influence extends beyond hospital walls, reaching into public health, education, policy, and the future of healthcare. The development of nurse-led care models, such as the Transitional Care Model , has improved patient outcomes and reduced hospital readmissions.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

One family took their five-month-old to a hospital with what they thought was a rash on his knee, and were told that it was an unexplained bruise. The hospital carried out a full skeletal survey, involving multiple x-rays, along with a CT scan of the child’s head, which found no injuries.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 29, 2024

OHS has a community veterinary hospital and an animal shelter and is the largest facility of its kind in the state.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

While most healthcare organizations have eight-hour shifts, many hospitals have relied on 12-hour shifts since the 1970s. According to recent research, longer shifts for hospital nurses lead to increased errors, burnout, patient dissatisfaction , and can potentially affect nurse well-being.

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Each year, the Joint Commission issues a list of top national patient safety goals for healthcare settings, including hospitals, nursing care centers, behavioral health care and human services, ambulatory healthcare, home care, and more. A hospital should consider its culture when designing processes to meet the Universal Protocol.”

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Children’s Home Society of Washington

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Growing up my mother partnered with a local hospital to develop a therapy program for women and children, and my father received his master’s degree in education, serving as president of his teacher’s union. I eventually received my bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, after stops in Iowa, Thailand, and India.

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Relias

OCTOBER 17, 2022

DiStefano enrolled in an 18-month accelerated nursing program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the same school where she had earned her undergraduate degree in journalism, mass communication, and advertising. A rapid introduction to the NICU. The DiStefanos were terrified about what was to come.

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Community Care

JULY 7, 2023

By Clare Jerrom Some social work students face delays in joining the workforce due to the marking and assessment boycott academics are carrying out at 145 UK universities. This followed several days of strike action across the country, from November 2022 to March 2023, with walkouts also having taken place at specific universities since then.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

demonstrate the ability to match differing therapeutic animal roles and interventions to address the different types of human-health and wellness related needs in different settings (schools, nursing homes, hospitals). identify and examine values, ethics, and risk issues for both humans and animals involved in human-animal interactions.

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