Gary Direnfeld
JULY 28, 2022
I posted about the Papal visit and hoping well for Indigenous Peoples on another Facebook page – a community page. It drew a racist comment in response to my use of the word genocide. The person wanted me to prove it. It was presented as a demand and insinuated I didn’t know what I was talking about. It felt provocative and bullying in style. I checked out the person’s own Facebook page.
My Brains Not Broken
JULY 28, 2022
I don’t know about y’all, but I feel like this summer is flying by. Even though this is what happens almost every summer of my life, the strangeness of the summers of 2020 and 2021 have made this summer feel very foreign and unlike any other one I’ve experienced. It’s been years since I’ve been this busy, and expending that amount of social energy is taxing.
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The New Social Worker
JULY 26, 2022
As a social worker, you have a powerful toolkit of skills to confront practices leading to race-based trauma. Take an inventory of your self-awareness, workplace, and geographic location to determine what steps you can take to promote social justice.
Nnatasha Tracy
JULY 28, 2022
This week, Snap Out of It! The Mental Illness in the Workplace Podcast with Natasha Tracy is talking to Gary Koplin , Founder, and President at HealthyPlace.com , a large consumer mental health site. Gary has a unique perspective as he specifically hires and manages people with mental illness. He's worked with people who have had disorders from social phobia to bipolar disorder, from depression to dissociative identity disorder, and everything in between.
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Michigan Social Work
JULY 27, 2022
Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed Michigan Senate Bill 1012 into law. The legislation provides for the creation of a Student Mental Health Apprenticeship Retention and Training grant program (SMART), paying graduate social work students $25 an hour for their field education in public schools settings. The legislation was supported by The School’s Joint Task Force on Stipends and the social work student campaign Payments for Placements in partnership with the Michigan Chapter of the National
My Brains Not Broken
JULY 26, 2022
There’s a phrase I see a lot when I am scrolling through social media or finding mental health resources on the Internet that always gets me thinking. The concept behind them all is that you (or I, or anyone) is “more than” their mental illness. So for instance, I am more than my depression; I am more than my anxiety; I deserve to be known for more than experiencing mental illness.
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Social Work Blog
JULY 27, 2022
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), as part of an initiative to promote licensure portability for military spouses, in 2021 awarded a $500,000 grant for the development of an interstate licensure compact for social workers. The compact would give social workers to practice in two or more states, giving the profession much needed license mobility.
International Federation of Social Workers
JULY 26, 2022
International Exchange Webinar: IFSW Europe NEW SOCIAL WORKERS Project Maria Pérez Bandera – Spain Friday 29th July 2022 at 5pm CEST THIS REGISTRATION FORM Please join us for a meeting of New Social Workers from IFSW Europe. It is one of a series of webinars presented by New Social Workers from different European Countries. They will […].
National Casa Gal
JULY 25, 2022
The BBRF board approved an initial “learning grant” to provide unrestricted funding to advance the work of National CASA/GAL’s mission, with the possibility of future support. Read More. The post Theta connects CASA/GAL mission to London-based foundation appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 27, 2022
? The Columbia Journal of Race and Law is out with a second set of papers from the Strengthened Bonds symposium. I’ve only begun reading them, but I particularly want to call attention to this groundbreaking paper by Ashley Albert and Amy Mulzer. But read it only if you are ready to reconsider everything you think you know about adoption. ? NPR and The Marshall Project have a follow-up to their groundbreaking stories about family policing agencies swiping foster youth’s Social Security benefits.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
The New Social Worker
JULY 27, 2022
Book review of Things I Got Wrong So You Don’t Have To: 48 Lessons To Banish Burnout and Avoid Anxiety for Those Who Put Others First, by Pooky Knightsmith, reviewed by Rhonda Peterson Dealey
Brightpoint
JULY 28, 2022
This month, Children’s Home & Aid launched our newest program model – AKIN: Achieving Permanency through Kinship placement Investing in co-parenting with Natural parents. AKIN strives to bring our Blueprint for Impact to life by evolving and expanding our Caregiver Support Team to work alongside families as they navigate the child welfare system.
Nicole Clark Consulting
JULY 26, 2022
I’m partnering with a health policy research firm on a multiyear contract to support a philanthropic foundation’s work in increasing its ability to thoughtfully invest in community-driven birth equity solutions. A month ago, while administering a pre-assessment in preparation for a staff training, my project partners and I noticed how staff were responding to the [.].
Clinical Philosophy
JULY 26, 2022
The question answers itself. a pedant may think. Well, of course. If what it is to compute is to enable us to answer our computational questions without ourselves having to perform the computation, then yes, they do. But in themselves? Is there a fact of the matter, independent of our relationship with the device itself, a fact about the inner workings of a computer, that make it apt to say of it that it is right now computing this rather than another sum?
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Michigan Social Work
JULY 26, 2022
DEI Program Manager Dillon Cathro has been elected to the U-M Police Department Oversight Committee, which receives and makes recommendations regarding grievances against any police officers deputized by the university. “Social Workers have a responsibility to tackle difficult issues that impact our most vulnerable and marginalized community members, both on and off campus, and police conduct is one such issue,” said Cathro.
National Casa Gal
JULY 25, 2022
Angela*, a CASA volunteer from CASA of Sedgwick County located in Wichita, KS, was appointed to advocate for Courtney*, a 13-year-old female who had been in the foster care system for 2.5 years. Read More. The post CASA of Sedgwick County volunteer reunites teen with siblings appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.
University of Connecticut
JULY 28, 2022
2 Day Training. Thomas Broffman, PhD, LICSW, CAADAC, CCS, CEAP. Thursdays, October 20 and 27, 2022. 9:00 am – 12:00 pm. 6 CECs. Participants must attend both days to receive CECs. $120 – UConn SSW Alumni and Current Field Instructors. $150 – All Others. Webinar link will be emailed when your registration is complete. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a form of collaborative conversation for strengthening a person’s own motivation and commitment to change.
American Board of Clinical Social Work
JULY 24, 2022
For several years, during annual strategic plan meetings, our ABCSW Board of Directors, brought up the idea of hosting an annual conference for our members. Our goal was to establish a conference where our members, board, and other clinicians could come together to meet, learn, network, re-energize, share ideas and form new friendships, collaborations, and foster professional growth.
Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.
You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media. In this webinar, Gary Direnfeld will discuss how social media marketing can help you build your private practice and grow your client base.
Social Care
JULY 28, 2022
"Homeshare is a simple concept, it brings together people with a spare room with people who are happy to chat and lend a hand.". “It’s been life-changing having my homesharer living here, especially in the dark winter evenings. It really has made a positive change in my life having someone so kind and friendly around and knowing that I am not alone.
The Guardian
JULY 24, 2022
Poet Lemn Sissay, with the help of London’s Foundling Museum, has gathered 59 athletes, artists, CEOs and others who, like him, spent part of their childhoods in care. The result is an inspiring photograph for young people in care today Introduction by Claire Armitstead. Interviews by Killian Fox “I once was Christopher Goldsmith,” reads a poem, neatly typed out on one side of a piece of A4 paper.
Gary Direnfeld
JULY 24, 2022
Parenting the infant, preschooler, school age child, the grown up is the boss. We set the rules, structure, expectations. While there may be some room for negotiation, ultimately it is the parent who determines what is eaten and when, bathing and bedtime and activities. All that changes come adolescence. While the parent likes to think themself in charge, the developing teen confronts those notions.
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The Guardian
JULY 23, 2022
Amid staffing crisis and warnings that system is ‘deeply flawed’ companies caring for elderly and disabled enjoyed financial success The UK’s biggest care home chains saw their profit margins jump by 18% on average during the pandemic, new research shows, while the highest paid director’s salary surged to £2.3m. Amid a social care staffing crisis, and warnings from medical leaders that the system is “deeply flawed” and in need of urgent reform, analysis seen by the Observer lays bare the financi
The Guardian
JULY 29, 2022
Tory leadership candidates have clashed bitterly but many pressing matters have been overlooked Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have clashed vehemently over tax and spending, immigration and the UK’s stance on China in their acrimonious battle to become prime minister – but have had little to say about many other pressing issues. Here are some largely overlooked key issues of the contest so far.
The Guardian
JULY 28, 2022
Leiland-James Corkill might not have died had agencies collaborated better, investigation concludes Information about drinking, debts and mental health that could have prevented a baby boy being placed with an adopting mother who went on to murder him was not shared between agencies, an investigation has concluded. It also found that when the mother told social workers she was struggling to bond with the child, not enough support for the family was put in place.
The Guardian
JULY 25, 2022
Sunak and Truss have little to say to voters about the colossal staff shortages revealed in a new Commons report The sound and fury of the squalid scramble to lead the nasty party ignores all the real crises. The burning planet is nowhere on the agenda, bar locking up climate protesters. As the pay crunch heads for almighty strikes due to the public sector falling even further behind private pay, their remedies are agency strike-breakers and tax cuts that reward better-off people most.
The Guardian
JULY 26, 2022
In the late 1950s a deep strain of community activism took root in North Kensington, west London. Many of the grassroots campaigns there over the next six decades – including notable battles against racism and for better housing – could be mapped through the life of Eddie Adams, who has died aged 85. Eddie , whom I first met while doing research for a TV documentary, was born in London, the son of an Italian mother, Maria Agostinelli.
Gary Direnfeld
JULY 24, 2022
Six weeks ago I had open heart bypass surgery. Although I keep referring to it as a triple bypass, while on the table, it turned into a quadruple. It doesn’t really matter to me one way or the other. There was also an event during surgery. The best guess is that an air bubble entered the heart giving rise to a minor heart attack while on the table.
Gary Direnfeld
JULY 28, 2022
Then there was the time when a guy came into the store wanting rubber over-shoes. You don’t seem to see these much anymore. They were a black rubber boot that fit over the shoe with a zipper up the center. Great for rain or snow. I was 17 at the time and had been working in the shoe store part-time about a year. It was late in the day and the smell of alcohol was more than this guy’s perfume.
Gary Direnfeld
JULY 28, 2022
Personally, I don’t subscribe to any organized religion. Indeed, I don’t even think about a god and I don’t fret about death particularly, even with what I went through recently. (I am not fond of pain.). I don’t pray whatsoever. I do not practice the faith in which I was raised although I do identify as Jewish from a cultural perspective as that was my upbringing.
Gary Direnfeld
JULY 28, 2022
I was a teen at the time. Selling shoes. It was my part time job. The store was upscale, the shoes expensive, women’s and men’s. The store was located on the corner of an open air mall near Yonge and Finch, in Willowdale, Ontario. Murray’s Highgrade Footwear. It was late on a Saturday afternoon. It must have been towards November. It was getting dark outside.
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