9 Mobile Apps for Social Workers
Add digital skills to the many skill sets we wear as social workers. Our clients are carrying around devices that ...
Tag: Child Welfare
Innovating Social Work Practice for the Future
Dr. Richard Barth Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Richard Barth at the Society for Social ...
Self Care: Placing An Oxygen Mask On Yourself Prior To Assisting Others
Traveling with friends and family to events is something I like to do for two reasons. One is the fact ...
ReMoved: A Poignant Short Film on Foster Care
“It’s natural for you to think about how fostering will affect your life. About how hard it will be or ...
Understanding Foster Care Youth With The Help of the Documentary Foster Care Film
When I tell people I am a former foster youth they usually have a similar response (something along the lines ...
Protecting Young People Online: Negative Practices Parents, Carers and Professionals Should Know
Just like there are laws we have to abide and adhere to everyday, it is also a similar set of ...
Preserving the Therapeutic Relationship as a Mandated Reporter
If you find yourself a mandated reporter of child abuse and neglect and have ever had to report a client ...
How Do You Assess Online Risks For Youth Without Being Digitally Competent
Time to get digitally competent In an age where information technology is growing rapidly in our everyday personal and professional ...
New Field Placement Model With Crittenton Earns Award from CSU Fullerton for its “Teaching and Mentorship” Culture
Fullerton, Calif. – Crittenton Services for Children and Families (CSCF) is proud to announce the agency’s nomination and selection as ...
SASW Weighs in on the Children and Young People Act of 2014 (Scotland)
The Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW) have commented on the proposed guidance to the Children and Young People Act ...
Social Workers Must Speak Against Austerity Says BASW UK Chair
BASW AGM via Twitter @SimonHadelyPix Today, the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) is holding a members conference in order ...
Why We Should Care About Adoption Rehoming
“A sick thing”. “Human trafficking in children”. “A gaping loophole with life threatening outcomes”. These are just few of the ...
Not an Average Day in the Office: Social Workers from the US to Madrid Come to UK Workplaces for a Day of Unique Learning
Social workers from across the world will be turning up at workplaces in the UK for a series of seminars ...
As Arkansas Outlaws Re-homing, Other States Might Follow Suit
Re-homing, a practice which consists in transferring a child’s custody to non-family members without the oversight of child welfare or ...
Foster Care Youth Trapped in the School to Prison Pipeline
Foster care alumni abandoned by the educational system often become the inmates at youth detention centers and adult prisons across ...
Paving the Way for Change is #YSocialWork
A social worker to my core, I love this year’s theme for Social Work Month, “Social Work Paves the Way ...
When Someone Asks #YSocialWork Does It Feel Like An Insult
Social Work is a tough profession even under the best of circumstances, but the impact social workers have on the ...
96 Percent of Social Workers Want Mobile Technology
How important is mobile technology in social work? We wanted to learn more so we surveyed members of the National ...
Peace And Love Movement Brings Awareness to Foster Care Normalcy Law
In 2013, Florida lawmakers chose to implement the Normalcy Act; a law that requires their state government to allow foster ...
Translating Neuroscience into Policy and Practice for At-Risk Children, with Dr. Jack Shonkoff
Neuroscience has yielded new understandings of how the brain can affect mental illness, addiction, reaction to trauma, and other psychosocial ...
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