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Reflections on a shattering year for Black people in Buffalo, New York

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Born and raised on Buffalo’s East Side, Brown has worked at the intersection of education and social justice as a general and special education teacher, an advocate for students with disabilities, and a school administrator. Brown’s most notable work involved teaching young children about justice, specifically food apartheid.

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President Biden intends to appoint social worker Mia Ives-Rublee to Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders

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Ives-Rublee is currently director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress. She is a well-known advocate for disability justice and inclusion at nonprofit organizations and businesses in the United States. She earned her master’s in social work at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

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Micro, Mezzo & Macro Social Work

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Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator. Mezzo Social Work. Macro Social Work. Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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Micro, Mezzo & Macro Social Work

Social Work Bubble

Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator Macro Social Work Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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23 interventions to supercharge your social work

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Even though you never needed to, you still served people with disabilities. I started volunteering with a group that served persons with intellectual disabilities. He’s also someone with a learning disability. It’s manned by others with learning disabilities. When I was 17, I wondered if this was all there was to life.

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Update: Nursing Home Visitation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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According to an alert by the Center for Medicare Advocacy (hereafter, the Center)—a national nonprofit organization with which NASW collaborates closely on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries—CMS stated in its December 23 FAQs: “‘The bottom line is visitation must be permitted at all times’” (para. Center for Medicare Advocacy.

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News Items – October 7, 2021

Social Workers Speak

We’ve seen persons with disabilities. The protest was organized by a coalition of local advocacy groups — including the ACLU of North Carolina, El Pueblo Inc., Daniel Nuss, MD, will lead Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Institute and Linda Lee, LCSW, will serve as administrative vice president. This is a crisis.