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NIA-Funded Study Explores Re-Engagement of Black Older Adults After COVID-19

University of Connecticut

Preliminary findings are based on focus group interviews with leaders, staff and volunteers at churches and senior centers in the Greater Hartford area. The interviews explored engagement and disengagement among the older adults who had largely stopped going to church and senior centers during the height of the pandemic.

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Sensitivity to ‘bruised’ staff needed for effective DfE intervention in ‘inadequate’ services, finds study

Community Care

Government intervention in children’s services must be sensitive to the ‘bruising’ impact on staff of working in an ‘inadequate’ authority, in order to succeed. Clarity of roles in the context of there being multiple people involved with authorities in intervention. ” Senior management departures.

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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

The report describes a pattern of poor conditions and abusive practices that the SFC staff observed by reviewing media articles and company documents, supplemented by interviews with senior leaders in the four companies and visits to several facilities not operated by these companies.

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“Es Como Que no los Conociera”: Reunification of Unaccompanied Migrant Youth with Their U.S. Families

Social Work Blog

A recent issue of the journal Social Work Research , co-published by NASW and Oxford University Press, showcases a study of family reunification experiences. Data were collected from 30 youth, six parents, and four school administrators via focus groups and semi-structured interviews. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis.

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‘Impossible’ to assess effectiveness of child in need plans, warns watchdog

Community Care

Social workers interviewed for the study also reported that families were staying too long on CIN plans because of the lack of early help provision to refer them on to. In just over half of cases, the family was closed to the local authority entirely, while in 35% of cases they were stepped down to universal services.

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Social Work on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Look Back, A Look Ahead (Part Three)

Social Work Blog

Since July of 2021, NASW and the NASW Foundation have partnered in this initiative with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work to provide national and state chapter-level training, tools, and information that promote COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake.

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Definition of safer staffing levels in social work proposed to inform legislation

Community Care

The research team carried out 10 focus groups with social work teams from all five health and social care (HSC) trusts, interviewed over 20 practitioners and analysed time diaries that they provided. of posts in family intervention teams being unfilled at the time.