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Social Work History Month 2021: Social Workers are Essential

Michigan Girl's Café

March is National Social Work History Month. The 2021 theme is " Social Workers are Essential.” From the NASW website : Social workers are essential to community well-being. As practitioners, social workers are trained to help people address personal and systemic barriers to optimal living.

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Ed Town Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Beyond Advocacy

Congresswoman Barbara Lee, a beacon of social work in Congress, was voted this year’s Outstanding Congressional Social Worker. Special guest Dr. Dearman is a CRISP Fellow and assisted in organizing and managing the 2024 Student Advocacy Day events. Jones provided leadership for the Coalition for Social Work and Health.

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News Items – March 3, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Social workers are the unsung heroes of the pandemic. Should social workers work with police? Across the state, law enforcement departments take varying approaches to integrating social workers into policing, but Goetz and other experts express concerns that it’s being done too hastily. The Washington Post.

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Planning for Medicaid Unwinding in 2023

Social Work Blog

Department of Health and Human Services first declared a 90-day public health emergency (PHE). A concern of advocates, including NASW, is that individuals and families will lose coverage because of lack of communication with recipients to verify income. Social Work Advocacy. By Carrie Dorn, MPA, LMSW.

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Reflections and Takeaways from reading Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel’s book, The Genesis Machine

Social Work Futures

All of them stretched my sensibilities about “what is here” and “what is coming” by way of synthetic biology and the potential impact on things social workers care about: well-being, equity, human rights and more. First, this is from the front cover – what is synthetic biology?

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Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care for Juvenile Offenders

Relias

family history information, sources of stress or trauma) Testing of cognitive and behavioral process, intelligence, and personality Gathering input from individuals who have seen how the juveniles behave, such as youth workers and other staff as well as family members, guardians, teachers, social workers, etc.

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Social Work Quotes To Uplift You Now

Social Work Haven

SOCIAL WORK QUOTES TO UPLIFT YOU Manage expectations -Cyndie Spiegel As a social worker, be careful of expectations that you set for others, but more importantly, be careful of the ones you set for yourself. Social workers value interpersonal relationships, teamwork, and trust. To become this super human!

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