Teaching & Learning in Social Work

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

On October 25, 2024, during the Annual Program Meeting for the Council on Social Work Education in Kansas City, MO, my UAB colleagues (Colleen Fisher, Mary Jacque Carroll and Ron Pitner) and I presented an assessment tool developed by Melissa Freedman, MSW, to review syllabi and courses as an effort to ensure the integration of antiracism, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI) within our program curricula at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Social Work.

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Center for Child Protection

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This month the Center is celebrating the incredible success of our annual experiential group event, Ironpaws. On November 2nd, the Center’s main campus came alive with the excitement of Ironpaws 2024, bringing together 21 children and 20 parents and caregivers for a day of courage and connection. Divided into three teams, our young participants engaged in the adventure course featuring low ropes elements, ground-level obstacles, tricky balancing exercises, and even a rope swing!

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Michigan Social Work

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Nikole Hannah-Jones was the keynote speaker at the fourth annual Social Justice Changemaker Lecture presented by the School of Social Work at the Michigan Union in October 2024. Hannah-Jones is the Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she founded the Center for Journalism & Democracy. Over the course of her career investigating racial inequality and injustice, she has earned numerous awards including a MacArthur Fellowship.

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Center for Child Protection

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This month the Center is celebrating the incredible success of our annual experiential group event, Iron Paws. On November 2nd, the Center’s main campus came alive with the excitement of Iron Paws 2024, bringing together 21 children and 20 parents and caregivers for a day of courage and connection. Divided into three teams, our young participants engaged in the adventure course featuring low ropes elements, ground-level obstacles, tricky balancing exercises, and even a rope swing!

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Child Care Aware

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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Bipolar Bandit

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Birdie Thorn is an Author and Mental Health Advocate. She is a speaker with the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She has written articles for the International Bipolar Foundation. Birdie has lived experience with Bipolar 2, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and ADHD. Birdie runs an Instagram page @birdies.bipolar.brain that brings awareness to mental health conditions.

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International Federation of Social Workers

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Photo: Members of the Korean Association of Social Workers at the AvenirSocial office in Bern This month the Korean Association of Social Workers met their Swiss and British counterparts for […]

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The government will legislate to create a new type of accommodation for children with complex needs in England who are at risk of being deprived of their liberty. The placement type will be for children who may need to be deprived of their liberty at times, but will provide for restrictions to be increased and decreased according to need.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The government plans to strengthen recently introduced agency social work rules by putting them into law, in a move dubbed “reckless” by recruitment firm leaders. The Department for Education (DfE) also intends to extend the rules to non-social work staff in children’s services, it said in a children’s social care reform policy paper published this week.

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