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Celebrate Black History Month with NASW Press: 15% Off Select Books and eBooks!

Social Work Blog

Using firsthand accounts from 200 Black adolescents, Black Male Youth Raised in Public Systems: Engagement, Healing, Hope, edited by Sheryl Brissett Chapman, Ralph Belk, Jasilyn Morgan, and Krystal Holland, with Bruce Tyson and Omore Okhomina, validates the fears, anxieties, and complexities of these youth.

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Discriminatory policies targeting LGBTQ+ people are form of political violence

Social Work Blog

Our transgender youth, who already confront disproportionately high rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidality due to systemic discrimination, face intensified mental health risks because of these measures. How can social workers help?

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News Overwhelming? A Social Worker’s Guide to Staying Informed Without Burning Out

Social Work Blog

Sounds to me like a life of grinding anxiety to the point of exhaustion. It helps you get engaged mindfully and meaningfully. In our diversity we can keep track of all the areas important to social workers. The robot story was just nonsense probably intended to distract him and enrage him. And it was working.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2024, part two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

A social worker who doesnt want to report kids in dirty clothes to CPS. More than 600 social workers, nonprofit executives and staff, legal experts and advocates for parents rights have joined the hours-long convenings that began in March. Heres the surprise: The agencies response boiled down to well yes, youre right.

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Do What Makes You Feel Needed in this Time of Uncertainty

Social Work Blog

Policies, Democrat and Republican, were predictable and less anxiety-producingeven though I didnt agree with a certain political partys policies. Banford, LCSW It was before I became a social worker, and I frankly didnt understand the importance of policy back then. Where those circles meet is your place to engage.

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Connect to Your Kid

Gary Direnfeld

It also includes any positive time you can spend together doing something that engages the interest of the kids. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters.

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School Safety: How Social Workers Can be Helpful and Stay Mentally Strong

Social Work Blog

Early in their careers, social workers learn the concepts of burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious traumatization. But how does self-care play out in real-life scenarios, when new social workers might not get the best supervision or insight into how to handle the stressors that come with the job of being a social worker?

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