Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Social workers can use the printed word, books, and poetry to empower clients, promote social justice, and offer hope By Heather Rose Artushin, LISW-CP People have long understood the healing power of words. Scherlong, LCSW-R, CHHC, SEP, PTR/CJT-CM is a licensed clinical social worker and the current president of the IFBPT.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Meyer, PhD, LCSW, assistant professor of nonprofit studies and public administration at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Pace “Right now, the LGBTQIA+ community is under attack,” says Seth J. Threats to libraries, education, LGBTQIA+ books, and learning about or discussing queerness is taking place across the U.S.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Meyer, PhD, LCSW, assistant professor of nonprofit studies and public administration at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Pace “Right now, the LGBTQIA+ community is under attack,” says Seth J. Threats to libraries, education, LGBTQIA+ books, and learning about or discussing queerness is taking place across the U.S.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 5, 2022

Tanya Bulls, DSW, LCSW. Christine Limone, PhD, LCSW. School social workers don’t always receive discipline-specific clinical supervision in their school setting. The lack of supervision is inconsistent with known best practices of the social work profession. Monday, February 21, 2022. 2 pm – 4 pm. 50 – All Others.

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tanya Bulls, DSW, LCSW. Limone, PhD, LCSW. School social workers don’t always receive discipline-specific clinical supervision in their school setting. The lack of supervision is inconsistent with known best practices of the social work profession. Christine L. Thurs, September 8, 2022. 2 pm – 4 pm.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Social workers are helping these men and women while they are incarcerated. It often takes time, it takes effort, it takes enough social workers to do it — and enough social workers in prisons so we can help prepare and have a good handoff.”. Right Help, Right Time. It may not be like that.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

By Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA The U.S. President and Fellows of Harvard College that race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violate the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection. The ruling could spur more Black students to attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 7, 2022

School social workers are uniquely positioned to elevate student voices, hone their critical thinking skills, and capitalize on their strengths and assets. In a recent issue of the journal Children & Social Work , co-published by NASW and Oxford University Press, an article addresses these concerns. Chicago, IL.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

A school social worker meets with a student. Join us for a Congressional briefing on the School Social Workers Improving Student Success Act (H.R. The legislation recognizes the critical need for more school social workers to help improve student success. Getty Images. WHERE: Registration Link.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He would share with members of the board what he had read,” said Locklear, a professor and assistant chairperson of the Social Work Department at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. “He For board colleague Michelle Pliske, DSW, LCSW, RPT-S™, Bibus will be remembered for his deep compassion and kindness. “I

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 11, 2022

Organized by the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), Rutgers University School of Social Work (USA), and Studio Samuel (Ethiopia). Speakers: Janis Rodgers, MSW Students, Rutgers University School of Social Work, New Jersey, USA. LCSW, Rutgers University School of Social Work.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 30, 2022

How Social Workers Can Make a Difference. Social workers can make a difference by sharing this key message with clients—and by screening all adults for risky alcohol use. September 2022. Preventive Services Task Force recommends the use of alcohol SBI for all adults in primary healthcare settings. Ingersoll, K.,

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

By Diana Ling, MA and Leslie Sirrianni, LCSW. April is Alcohol Awareness Month, an opportunity for social workers to make alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) part of routine care. There is no known safe amount, no safe time, and no safe type of alcohol use during pregnancy.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

April Ferguson LCSW-C Senior Practice Associate Children and Adolescents April 2024 The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) acknowledges April as Child Abuse Prevention Month.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 14, 2023

Dr. Mary McKay sees libraries as an opportunity to place social workers with a full range of skills in proximity to communities in need of social services. “A Libraries and social workers are “just a wonderful fit,” said Will Francis, LMSW, executive director of the NASW’s Texas and Louisiana chapters.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 14, 2023

Dr. Mary McKay sees libraries as an opportunity to place social workers with a full range of skills in proximity to communities in need of social services. “A Libraries and social workers are “just a wonderful fit,” said Will Francis, LMSW, executive director of the NASW’s Texas and Louisiana chapters.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 17, 2022

Editor’s Note: Dr. Amy Werman, DSW, LCSW , is a lecturer at the Columbia School of Social Work , with over 20 years of teaching experience in social work education. After understanding how universities became ivory towers of knowledge creation, students are well-situated to explore other ways of knowing. Bloomsbury.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

By Sue Coyle, MSW In October 2022, NASW published “Undoing Racism Through Social Work Vol. This report serves not only as a launching pad for the profession to build awareness and take meaningful action, but also as a foundation for individual social workers and social work organizations. This isn’t in my wheelhouse.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2023

Easing that transition often falls to social workers and social work organizations. After all, says Judith Schagrin, LCSW-C, a public policy analyst in Baltimore, “These are our children.” It is a task these professionals do not and should not take lightly.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He would share with members of the board what he had read,” said Locklear, a professor and assistant chairperson of the Social Work Department at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. “He For board colleague Michelle Pliske, DSW, LCSW, RPT-S™, Bibus will be remembered for his deep compassion and kindness. “I

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Social Work Blog

JULY 17, 2023

The effects of burnout on client service provision, organizational health, and individual well-being are increasingly a focus of social work research, particularly against the societal backdrop of the post-COVID-19 era. The journal Social Work is a benefit of NASW membership. Author: Stephanie L.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 17, 2023

The effects of burnout on client service provision, organizational health, and individual well-being are increasingly a focus of social work research, particularly against the societal backdrop of the post-COVID-19 era. The journal Social Work is a benefit of NASW membership. Author: Stephanie L.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That encouraged me to go into social work.” Bautista-Thomas, PhD, LCSW, is a doctoral lecturer at Lehman College, Department of Social Work, at City University of New York. And sometimes, people need someone else to help guide them in identifying those things.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It feels like it’s never ending,” says Emily Kenney, LCSW, systems change director at Impact in Milwaukee. For social workers, effecting change in the housing crisis requires an understanding of the systems at play and the ways in which they need to evolve to help the individual.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

JANUARY 24, 2022

As social workers, we have been challenged with personal health and financial concerns, feelings of loss, guilt, and have at times felt ill equipped by our training to navigate the unprecedented changes which have been required. The impact of the covid-19 pandemic on social workers on the frontline: a survey of canadian social workers.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 12, 2023

Ruth Pearlman, LCSW, LICSW, M.ED. As social workers, we tend to have limited training in the grief of children. Wed, March 29, 2023. 10 am – 12 pm (ET). 40 – UConn SSW Alumni and Current Field Instructors. $50 50 – All Others. Webinar link will be emailed when your registration is complete.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

BSW Award Raymond and Mary Borecki Buck Endowed Scholarship Fund Mary Borecki Buck is an UConn School of Social Work alumna committed to supporting the education of future generations of social workers. Kinlock Endowment Fund in Social Work Established by Charlotte M. Charlotte M.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

April Ferguson LCSW-C, Senior Practice Associate, Children and Adolescents On September 28, 2023, the U.S. What does This Mean for Child Welfare Social Workers? Social workers should continue to place children with relatives and fictive kin whenever possible, given that research indicates better outcomes for children.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By Mel Wilson, MBA, LCSW – NASW Senior Policy Adviser Lewiston, Maine has become the latest city to capture the nation’s attention when 18 people were killed and more than a dozen injured in shootings at multiple locations in this town of less than 40,000 people. This tragedy followed a depressingly familiar pattern.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

Mary Borecki Buck is an UConn School of Social Work alumna committed to supporting the education of future generations of social workers. This scholarship, created by Mary and her late husband, Raymond, will provide financial support to a student enrolled in the Bachelor of Social Work program.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 21, 2023

Wilcox, LCSW Friday, April 28, 2023 In-person 9:30 am – 12:30 pm 3 CECs $60 – UConn SSW Alumni and Current Field Instructors $48 – All Others Social workers are often leaders in implementing practice changes within their programs. Patricia D.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Social Work leaders gather for photo in front of the U.S. Kastner, MSS, MLSP, Senior Field Organizer Nearly 100 social workers from 44 states and two U.S. House and Senate on June 28, 2023, to build bipartisan support for key federal legislation that will assist the social work workforce, our clients, and communities.

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