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Members in the Media – June 1, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Kara Carter and Mercedes Bern-Klug are members of NASW-IA: A new mindset on mental health University of Iowa When Kara Carter started out as a practitioner of social work in southern Colorado , she quickly found that her expertise in mental health was badly needed—not just by the hospice agency that hired her, but by the community she lived in. “I

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News Items – March 9, 2023

Social Workers Speak

States put social workers to task in comp Business Insurance Several states are taking steps to address shortages of qualified mental health professionals in workers compensation by making it simpler for licensed clinical social workers to help injured workers. Help them to prepare and sustain and maintain themselves on college campuses.

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News Items – May 20, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Jeff Feldman, is director of Advocacy & Communications for NASW-NJ: Bill to ban adult conversion therapy moves forward in Senate. With that said, it’s far more likely that you’ll experience fatigue once the manic episode is over, says Sonia Martin , a licensed clinical social worker in Brooklyn, New York. New Jersey Globe.

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Members in the Media – June 1, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Kara Carter and Mercedes Bern-Klug are members of NASW-IA: A new mindset on mental health University of Iowa When Kara Carter started out as a practitioner of social work in southern Colorado , she quickly found that her expertise in mental health was badly needed—not just by the hospice agency that hired her, but by the community she lived in. “I

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News Items – March 9, 2023

Social Workers Speak

States put social workers to task in comp Business Insurance Several states are taking steps to address shortages of qualified mental health professionals in workers compensation by making it simpler for licensed clinical social workers to help injured workers. Help them to prepare and sustain and maintain themselves on college campuses.

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News Items – July 15, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Social Workers Leaving Hospice, Health Care in Record Numbers. Hospice News. Hospices have lost social worker employees at a faster rate than any health care setting in the care continuum. News4JAX asked Licensed Clinical Social Worker Lori Osachy how the pandemic could affect the way a child behaves in the classroom.

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News Items – August 12, 2021

Social Workers Speak

Samuel Hickman was the moderator for the round table which included Smith, Cevallos, Dijon Stokes, an Advocacy Specialist for ACLU WV, Bill Kuhn, a Huntington resident and veteran, Chelsea Hornyak the Director of Accounts for 84 Agency, and Greg Whittington, the Criminal Law Reform Campaign Director for ACLU WV. West Virginia Metro News.