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Social Workers in the DRC Building Community Centre

International Federation of Social Workers

Social Workers in the DRC Building Community Centre Colleagues from the DRC are working on building a community centre, named Centre Mwanga, at Uvira town in Eastern Congo.

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Turkish Social Workers Association Addresses Ongoing Psychosocial Challenges One Year After Earthquakes: Join Them in the Continuing Effort!

International Federation of Social Workers

February 6, 2023- February 6, 2024 The earthquake on February 6, 2023, marked the deadliest seismic event in Turkey since the 2010 Haiti earthquake. With magnitudes of 7.7 and 7.6 […]

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The Evolution of Library Social Work

Social Work Blog

They are living, breathing community centers, filled with people who have psychosocial needs – people who could benefit from the support of a social worker. MSW, a consultant who runs Social Work Consulting Services for Libraries. Then, in 2020, the libraries shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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National Report Addresses Nursing Home Quality & Promotes Value of Social Work

Social Work Blog

The report includes several recommendations supportive of social work , including the recommendation that every nursing home—regardless of size—employ a. collaboration with social workers, other disciplines, and like-minded organizations to advocate for implementation of various report recommendations. NASEM report , p.

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Empowerment Starts Here Project supports refugees, vulnerable local people and communities, frontline practitioners and local decision makers in Bulgaria

International Federation of Social Workers

The Bulgarian Association of Social Workers (BASW) and ANGELA WING have developed a web platform that aims to improve the psychosocial support landscape for refugees and vulnerable locals in Bulgaria. […]

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September is National Recovery Month: Supporting the Journey to Recovery 

Social Work Blog

Social workers provide counseling and psychotherapy services to patients in recovery. Social workers help patients eliminate psychosocial stressors such as homelessness, loss of job, divorce, and loneliness that may have led to their use of substances.

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Unprecedented Experiment: Pandemic Initiatives Provide Roadmap to Ending U.S. Child Poverty

Social Work Blog

The current child poverty and related figures are undoubtedly alarming, but the stark contrast between the data from 2021 and 2022 provides hard evidence for social workers and others who work to end child poverty about what is possible and what interventions actually work—from financial to psychosocial supports.