Sentences with phrase «being a social worker means»

Being a social worker means you are someone who is tough but fair, committed to getting things done, and able to remain professional even with the most difficult or challenging situations.

Not exact matches

Possible reforms could include raising the full retirement age for Social Security to 70 for workers who are currently under age 40; cutting benefits; increasing payroll taxes on workers; increasing Medicare premiums; and making Social Security benefits more progressive — meaning cutting benefits for high - income workers, while preserving payouts for low - income earners.

Before long she told me she wanted to be a social worker, and not just any, but in a branch that needed a law degree, meaning law school (hence the desire for the high grade).

Hiring a twenty - something worker doesn't necessarily mean you're hiring a social media guru who can solve your wireless connectivity problems.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Just because one may commend one life choice over another — being a social worker over being a stock broker — does not mean the preference needs to be legally enforced (there is no law against being a stock broker).

Little not - Cyanide's brother was meant to be named Preacher, and the judge and social workers all said that was unconventional but not nearly as bad as Cyanide.

By working closely in a team of compassionate caregivers including Pediatric Cardiology, Child Life Specialists and Social Workers, we are able to provide you and your family the resources and expertise you need to understand this disease and what it means for your child.

In this two - hour webinar, licensed clinical social worker, parenting coach, expert, speaker, and author, Mercedes Samudio, LCSW, will be focusing on what it means to work effectively with challenging parents so that you can create a collaborative team and keep them engaged during the healing journey.

Even well - meaning social workers and investigators, believing Orlando beat her and she retaliated given the bruises on his body when he was admitted to the hospital, misgender her at times, the stammering inadequacies of traditional language around gender doing both parties a disservice.

The average full - career state employee pension, combined with Social Security where it's offered, provides an 87 percent replacement rate, meaning these workers can expect to receive $.87 in retirement for every $ 1 they were earning pre-retirement.

Just because one has been trained and hired as a school social worker or instructional coach, that doesn't mean one will actually spend the bulk of one's time doing that job.

Firstly, the school is fully serviced — meaning it has a wide - ranging staff of teachers, therapists, specialists, a social worker, psychologists, and other experts all available under one roof.

The nation's economic downturn has added to the fragility of Medicare and Social Security because worsening unemployment means that fewer workers are contributing to the two trust funds through payroll taxes.

A wave of retiring Baby Boomers means there will be fewer workers to foot the bill for each person receiving Social Security benefits.

To be eligible for Social Security retirement benefits, American workers need 40 «credits,» which essentially means 10 years of work at Social Security - covered employers.

Alderman James Cappleman (46th Ward) is a licensed social worker, and he told a touching story of how much dogs can mean.

It is the means for pursuing ecological economic growth, building locally owned assets in the renewably powered economy and for the pursuit of social and ecological justice manifested in concrete plans and to take action as consumers, workers, business people, investors, neighbors.

I mean you know firsthand how emotional divorces can get and how often — and you've spoken of this several times — you're really called upon to be a bit of a social worker in terms of how you and other family lawyers have to deal with cases.

He has emphasised that in his view «social workers are experts... they may not be experts for the purpose of Part 25 of the FPR but that does not mean that they are not experts in every other sense of the word.»

As reported in a 2014 study on the health impacts of such work on racialized, immigrant women in the Greater Toronto Area, «temporary and on - call agency work seemed to be the new norm in both the private and non-profit health and social services agencies... Working precariously meant not just fewer hours and lower wages, but included the quality of work, the differential treatment being an agency worker; and the «invisible» and «unpaid» time and energy spent in - between and in getting from one job site to another...»

The Court relied heavily on guidelines given by the Family Division in Coventry City Council v C [2013] EWHC 2190 (Fam), where the Court stated that every social worker must be satisfied that the person giving consent has capacity to do so, and that even if the person does not lack capacity that the social worker must be satisfied that the consent is fully informed (meaning that the parent must understand the consequences of giving consent, the range of choices available, the consequences of refusal and of giving consent, and must be in possession of all the facts and issues material to the giving of consent), fair and proportionate, and where possible parents must obtain legal advice before consenting.

The police's duty was to investigate fearlessly, to robustly apprehend criminals, and to preserve / uphold the law — like social workers protecting children from suspected abuse from parents — the end justifies the means, albeit that the enormous collateral damage to victims / witnesses, or here parents, is disregarded and downplayed.

The lump sum death benefit is payable as long as the deceased worker was considered to be currently insured, which means they had at least 6 quarters of earnings covered by Social Security withholding during the full 13 - quarter period prior to their death.

The increasing practice of recruiting via LinkedIn or other social channels and the availability of job alerts means that every worker is also a passive candidate waiting to be poached by a better offer.

My social worker told me: «It's all means tested so don't worry».

43 Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professions and businesses, 44 is amended in Code Section 43 - 10A - 3, relating to definitions relative to professional 45 counselors, social workers, and others, by adding a new paragraph and by revising paragraph 46 (10) to read as follows: 47» (4.1) «Diagnose» means the use, administration, or application of any criteria contained 48 within standard classification or diagnostic systems for mental disorders and that are 49 related to the scope of practice as provided pursuant to this chapter.

Supervised visitation means that contact with the child is done in the presence of another adult, such as a social worker or court officer.

Clause 6 means social workers will be able to put the name of the child for whom they are considering adoption on the national adoption register, and place the child out of their local area..

In this two - hour webinar, licensed clinical social worker, parenting coach, expert, speaker, and author, Mercedes Samudio, LCSW, will be focusing on what it means to work effectively with challenging parents so that you can create a collaborative team and keep them engaged during the healing journey.

Originally founded in 1998 by Dr. Patrick Williams, MCC, to train counselors, psychologists, social workers, The Institute for Life Coach Training continues to be a leading international provider of coach training for those coming from the helping professions, providing a proven means to quickly transition their skills into coaching.

Though a social worker may be able to offer help and resources to some children, heavy caseloads often mean that social workers do not have enough time to spend with each child under their care, and children who have been failed by a system multiple times may be less likely to place their trust in the system once again.

«MHP» mostly means «mental health professional» — primarily psychologists — but includes where applicable, lay, lawyer, and social worker evaluators, GALs, and parenting coordinators and anyone else who is working in a similar role within the rubric of «therapeutic jurisprudence».

This can be distressing for foster carers who take this lack of contact to mean that their social worker doesn't believe them.

The mean age was 40.6 years, and the mean number of years of clinical experience was 7.6; 40 % were social workers, 24 % were psychologists, and 36 % were classified as «other» (eg, licensed mental health counselor).

That means a social worker is going to come over and tell us if our home if fit for a child to live in.