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Social work education in India has its values and ethics in various capacities, but simultaneously, the standardized values and ethics are entirely Western-centric. The Western-centric social work practice has difficulty in India due to India's socioeconomic , cultural, traditional, and geographical nature. The present paper focused on the social work values and ethics practiced in India, which were not recognized as Western-centric.

This timely Routledge Handbook creates a much-needed space to explore what makes social work uniquely African, as well as shaping, informing, and influencing a new culturally relevant era of social work. The specific focus on social work education offers approaches to transition away from the hegemony of Western literature, knowledge, and practice models underpinning African social work education. The authors identify what is relevant and meaningful to inform, influence, and reconceptualise culturally relevant social work curriculum. 

Since achieving independence, the Government of Timor-Leste has made significant progress toward establishing a comprehensive and functioning child protection system, with considerable assistance from partners like UNICEF. Nevertheless, formal social services designed to support child victims are still scarce and fail to offer uniform and equitable access nationwide. 

In Lithuania, integrating healthcare and social services is a possible solution for the care of the growing number of older people with chronic diseases. When implementing integrated care in Lithuania, the aim is to include social work professionals who have already accumulated experience in organizing and coordinating the provision of social services to the elderly. The article aims to reveal the perspective of social work in integrated care by highlighting social workers’ roles.

This webinar, from the U.S. Office of Victims of Crime Training and technical Assistance Center, focuses on understanding the impact of vicarious trauma on teams and how collaborative partnerships are essential for delivering high quality services to victims and survivors and mitigating the impact of vicarious trauma on individual providers and organizations. Presenters highlight practical strategies for fostering and nurturing resilience collaboratively for individuals, teams, and interdisciplinary, cross-agency community partnerships.

Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support is a joint WHO/UNICEF project to improve the competence of helpers and the consistency and quality of training and service delivery. The EQUIP platform makes freely available competency assessment tools and e-learning courses to support governments, training institutions, and non-governmental organizations, both in humanitarian and development settings, to train and supervise the workforce to deliver effective psychological support to adults and children.

This briefing paper provides context for Advanced Social Work Practice in the area of adult mental health in Ireland and advocates for focused effort to address this issue by providing concrete suggestions for consideration and action. This briefing paper highlights the following in particular:

A key step in the work to improve the financial stability and security of marginalized populations begins with training social work practitioners and other human service professionals for competencies in supporting families to build financial security and freedom. In September 2023, the Department of Social Work at the University of Ghana collaborated with the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to organize a seminar on financial capability and asset building (FCAB) for practitioners in Accra, Ghana.

This Regional Guidance aims to support policymakers and members of the social service workforce and allied sectors in The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Member States  to design and deliver quality social work services for women and children at risk of or who have experienced violence.

This webinar from the Mental Health Innovation Network, takes a deep dive into the World Health Organization's Special Initiative for Mental Health. WHO reflects on implementation learnings on reforming Mental Health Systems and Services. Participants discuss the latest progress reflections and discuss experiences from WHOs Special Initiative for Mental Health countries (Argentina and Bangladesh).

This introductory prevention learning package has been developed by the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. The package is designed to strengthen participants’ overall understanding of primary prevention in Child Protection in Humanitarian Action.

The decision to use this prevention learning package should be based on an analysis of current capacities and the identification of specific learning needs that align with this package’s objectives.

This study aimed to determine factors influencing child protection competence of social workers in social service institutions providing child protection services in Hanoi, Vietnam and measure the influence of these factors on their child protection competence. A field survey was conducted with 249 social workers who are providing child protection services, using a semi-structured questionnaire as a research instrument to collect data, however, there were 242 social workers were qualified for the participation in the research due to their full filling in the questionnaires.

This paper reflects on the impact of The Global Agenda (GA) process and focuses on its relevance for social work practitioners and educators in the United Kingdom (UK). It asks, is there a global social work profession? The paper explores three key elements. Firstly, to what extent is it possible to view the diversity of social work under the differing national frameworks, as a coherent, single professional identity?

The Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development (GA) aims at strengthening the social work profession by building linkages between global challenges and local responses. Against the neoliberal conservative policy transformation in the last two decades, this article focuses on the effects of neoliberal policies on social work education and practice in Turkey and discusses the relevance and operationalisation of the Global Agenda in Turkish context.

Cyprus is a nation of great history, old and new, that makes up a controversial and often stressful environment in which social work is practiced. The intent of this paper is to highlight the Cypriot context and discuss how the Global Agenda is integrated in it.

This article explores the foundation of a joint research project between social work (SW) colleagues at Hope Africa University in Burundi, and Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom (UK). It considers the destructive impact of colonialism on indigenous SW practices in Burundi setting out an argument for decolonisation of the SW curriculum both in Burundi and the UK.

This webinar, jointly hosted by the International Social Service (ISS) and Children and Families Across Borders (CFAB), covered how you can engage services or advocate for policy changes that ensure children's rights are protected. Child protection professionals & policy decision-makers explore key principles about when, why and how to consider cross border family placements as well as practical case examples from ISS' work that illustrate these principles in practice.

In this video from UNICEF Ethiopia for World Social Work Day, social worker Saada Imam talks about her role as an agent of change and improvement in people’s lives. She highlights in particular the push for increasing mental health awareness in her community, telling a story about how helping a child and her family get the psychological support they needed made the child’s home a safe environment again.

Importance  Despite the widespread availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART), people with HIV still experience high mortality after hospital admission.

Objective  To determine whether a linkage case management intervention (named “Daraja” [“bridge” in Kiswahili]) that was designed to address barriers to HIV care engagement could improve posthospital outcomes.

In this video for World Social Work Day, UNICEF Rwanda documents the journey of how in these past few years, social workers are playing a bigger role in child protection. They spotlight several child protection and welfare officers, who speak about how witnessing the resilience and growth of the children they serve inspires them to continue their passion in helping their communities.

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