Are you a social work educator interested in incorporating social media into your social work curriculum? Or are you a social work student or new social worker wondering how you may enhance your social work practice via the use of social media?
Laurel Hitchcock, PhD, MPH, LCSW, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and I created two online kits for this very purpose!
It is through social media that I had the good fortune of meeting Laurel. Laurel employs her Teaching & Learning Social Work blog for the purpose of helping social work educators and students explore news ways to enhance life-long learning for professional practice. She also invites guest authors to share their new approaches/ideas, as well as their success stories (and failures).
A personal learning network (PLN) enables you to stay current and share information about the latest professional news in your field. Please make sure to check out Laurel’s wonderful Online Toolkit for Developing a Personal Learning Network (PLN) with Twitter.
This toolkit provides you with a list of eight posts from Teaching & Learning Social Work providing you with specific guidance on how to make the connections you need to help further your career via twitter, along with some possible classroom assignments/tasks.
We tip our hat to Ellen Belluomini who wrote this blog post; she was our inspiration for creating the exercises to meet the 2015 CSWE Social Work Competencies.
Below is an infographic listing the top 10 posts from this blog that will help prepare current students or new social workers for their social work careers, along with some potential assignments/exercises.
These top 10 posts focus on developing a professional online presence, a professional learning network and employing best practices in your work.
Top 10 Posts for New Social Workers
Below are the links to the 10 posts shown above:
- The ABCs of Getting a Strong Letter of Recommendation
- 40 Interview Questions Every Social Worker Needs to Know
- Ten Tips for Passing the LMSW Exam
- 10 Skills Clinical Social Workers Must Develop
- 7 Career Tips for Macro Social Workers
- How Social Media Sparks Social Work Career Growth
- How to Build Your Online Authority and Make Friends
- 4 First Session Strategies Every Therapist Should Know
- Re-Energize and Provide Best Therapy
- The Art of Self-Disclosure in Therapy
What are your thoughts about this online toolkit for new social workers? Do you have additional tasks and/or posts to propose?
Dorlee,
I commend you and Laurel on creating this valuable resource for Social Work students and those who are new to Social Work, or to technology.
Your assignments are targeted to each of the skill areas, effectively ensuring value for those who choose to do them.
Bravo!
Thanks so much, Marianna, for your kind feedback!
Laurel and I wanted to create helpful online toolkits for educators and new social workers and we had much fun in doing so 🙂
Thanks so much for taking the time to share your thoughtful observations.
Hello Dorlee,
My profession is in direct services for victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. My career is also leaning in the direction of case management. What resources do you have for new case managers?
Hi Katherine,
While I haven’t created a specific category for case management, by going through the various posts/categories, I think you will find some posts that address this topic.
For example, off the top of my head, the following posts come to mind:
Social Workers’ Locator Tool for Services
Dementia Care: Use Mind Mapping to Improve Quality of Life
Battered Women’s Protective Strategies – Book Review
That said, this is an area that could probably use some boosting. Can you give an idea of some of the questions that you’re looking to have answered about case management? Or which topics you’re in need of? I would be happy to add them to my “to do” list 🙂
Dorlee,
Do you have resources for first time case managers. I serve victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Hi Katherine,
I have various resources in my pinterest account that may be of interest to you…
Guide for Engaging and Supporting Parents Affected by Domestic Violence
http://www.nationalcenterdvtraumamh.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/NCDVTMH_GuideEngagingSupportingParents.pdf
http://www.ntw.nhs.uk/pic/leaflets/Domestic%20Violence%20A4%2010pt%20%202015.pdf
This booklet is for anyone who is affected by domestic abuse. It describes what domestic abuse is, how to recgonise it and how to get help.
Trauma-Informed Domestic Violence Services: Understanding the Framework and Approach (Part 1 of 3) < provides an overview of the framework and research supporting trauma-informed approaches to working with survivors and their children. Parts 2 & 3 pertaining to building program capacity and increasing access http://www.vawnet.org/special-collections/DVTraumaInformed-Overview?
https://www.domesticshelters.org
makes finding the right shelter and information about domestic violence easier. [website and mobile resource with searchable data]
Moving Ahead Through Financial Management Curriculum < for working with domestic violence survivors http://www.clicktoempower.org/financial-tools/online-financial-curriculum
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/215821007120017299/
Domestic Violence Safety Plan
My account on pinterest is https://www.pinterest.com/dorleemichaeli/
Feel free to look for others.
Hoping this helps,
Dorlee
1. Case Management 101 for new case managers that serve victims of domestic violence.
2. Could you include webinars that address the basic of case management for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault?
Please look through the list. I always include in my monthly roundups of helpful webinars, ones related to domestic violence.
I can only post ones that I find/run across and yes, if I see any “case management” oriented ones, they too will be included 🙂
You may want to contact some of the regular agencies that put together the domestic violence webinars and indicate your interest in a “case management” oriented webinar… this way, they will plan on putting such a webinar in place.
I don’t recall [ever] seeing such webinars… It’s a great idea!