Mar 19, 2021

Your invite to SSW Tools 2.0 is here!

By Scott Carchedi • Issue #11 • View online

Hey School Social Workers -

📢 Exciting news!

The next version of our free time study tool, SSW Tools 2.0, is ready for beta testing and we’re giving our newsletter subscribers first access. 😊

While we’re in beta, we’ll be collecting feedback 💬 and squashing any bugs 🐞 with the goal of officially launching at the start of next school year.

Take SSW Tools 2.0 for a spin, and let us know if you hit any bumps along the way.

Ready to get started?

👉🏼 Register here (it’s free)

Overview of SSW Tools 2.0:

SSW Tools Beta 2.0 - Video Sneak Peek

What’s new in version 2.0?

Google Calendar integration to copy events into the system
Ability to tailor the app to your needs by creating custom work types and turning off system work types you don’t need
User profile area to manage your account information

What SSW Tools is for?

SSW Tools helps school social workers and other school-based mental health professionals with:

Communicating what you do with administrators and stakeholders by tracking your work tasks and generating reports.
Advocating for your workload and role through showing how your time is spent, demonstrating the need for additional resources, or advocating for a better alignment of your role and assigned duties.
Reflecting on your practice by understanding how your time is spent and gain insight into changes you can make to become more efficient, effective and less overwhelmed.

What SSW Tools is NOT for?

SSW’s are busy people and we don’t want to waste your time, so here are a few things that SSW Tools is NOT designed for:

Storing sensitive student information in the form of session notes, progress notes, assessments, etc. While SSW Tools is fully encrypted, it is not HIPPA compliant.
Monitoring activities of SSW’s by administrators. SSW Tools was designed to be used by individual practitioners and not as a compliance or monitoring tool for administrators.

👉🏼 Register Here For SSW Tools 2.0 Access

Want to learn more about how collecting information about your work tasks can help your practice:

Here are a handful of articles from the SSWN Blog that we’ve published about this topic:

How Data Became An Essential Part Of My SSW Self-Care Plan

“It wasn’t politicking, petitions, or a serious legal issue that moved the hand of the district- it was data on my SSW practice. Using a well thought-data collection system that was matched by the visual representations extracted-turned advocacy into action, and eventually results.”

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How School Social Workers Can Use A Time Study To Enhance Their Effectiveness

By following the steps we outline in this post, you’ll learn how to conduct a time study of your work tasks that will help you better advocate for your workload and gain useful insights into how you spend your time.

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SSWN Open Access 2020: It’s About Time--Initial Findings From a Feasibility Study of a Time-Study Tool for School Social Workers in Michigan | SSWN

This article talks about the development of a workload time study tool, a community of practice that tested the tool, the results from the time studies with this group, and the insights we gleaned from the participants.

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Workload Versus Caseload: Changing the Conversation | SSWN

“I am a school social work consultant in Michigan responsible for the professional development of roughly 300 school social workers in one county. About once every few months, I receive an […]”

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