Social Work Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

By Maren Dale Jennifer Pelham, MSW, is a self-defined corporate social worker from Albany, N.Y., and currently serves as a senior IT consultant and change management specialist for a major health care provider. Other social workers often ask her about her work and wonder if social workers are needed in the corporate sector.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 3, 2024

They are living, breathing community centers, filled with people who have psychosocial needs – people who could benefit from the support of a social worker. MSW, a consultant who runs Social Work Consulting Services for Libraries. Then, in 2020, the libraries shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 11, 2022

Let not your zealous advocacy on behalf of your client create the conditions and impacts your client would prefer to avoid once understanding these linkages. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Be there as an advocate for reason, judgment and peace.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

But we are social workers, and we labor in a world of brokenness. When I first entered the field about three decades ago, there was a new debate brewing over whether we were neglecting advocacy in social work. There are enough pauper-to-prosperity stories to lend support and credence to this tale.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I am also a school social worker for Hartford Public Schools and I run a small business, ‘Ends2meet LLC’, which creates awareness on poverty and provides people with basic needs including counseling. I am proud to serve my community and give back to the very agency that I once resided in.

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Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Happily they also have support of the family doctor who did a bit of advocacy to shorten the reporting time of one of the professionals. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. With that, there is somewhat of a case management role, shared and implemented by the parents.

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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 10, 2022

The association offers resources to help social workers engage with clients, colleagues, family, and friends about COVID-19 vaccination. Social Work Role in Reducing COVID-19 Transmission. Social workers who visit family or friends in nursing homes can encourage these residents to get vaccinated.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

The association offers resources to help social workers engage with clients, colleagues, family, and friends about COVID-19 vaccination. Social Work Role in Reducing COVID-19 Transmission. Social workers who visit family or friends in nursing homes can encourage these residents to get vaccinated.

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Michigan Girl's Café

MAY 26, 2021

101 Careers in Social Work - Third Edition (2019) by Jessica Ritter, Ann Obermann and Kirstin Lindsay Danhoff, is an expanded career guidebook that addresses the breath of the social work profession and the different career options available with a social work degree.

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Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In this episode, we talk with Unified School District of De Pere School Social Worker (and UW-Green Bay Psychology alum) Melanie Brick about the many ways she and her fellow school social workers bring hope to students so they can thrive at school. That’s why some are hiring social workers.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Clinicians, counselors, social workers, and others within your organization need to receive training on how to properly screen for these stressors. A basic screening for social determinants of suicide should include questions such as : Do you worry that you will run out of food?

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Social Work Blog

MAY 25, 2022

1 Although PTSD has commonly been associated with the military and veteran populations, it affects people of all ages, communities, gender, and social economic background. Social workers are the largest group of mental health providers in the United States and treatment of PTSD is one of their specialty areas.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Dr. Glasgow was a founding member of the National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) and was vice president of the Washington, DC operations of the National Urban League, working closely with John Mack and Vernon Jordan. Bush, consulting on public policy impacting Black America.

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Irish Socail Worker

JULY 12, 2021

The survey was designed in consultation with a panel comprised of members of One in Four , the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre , and the Rape Crisis Network Ireland and sincere thanks goes to each organisation for their support and advice. We still require a legal underpinning for social workers to do their jobs in this area.

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Social Workers Speak

JULY 28, 2023

Diane Elze honored as an NASW Social Work Pioneer University of Buffalo The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) has named Diane E. Elze, PhD, associate professor emeritus in the University at Buffalo School of Social Work, a “Social Work Pioneer,” one of the profession’s highest honors.

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Social Workers Speak

APRIL 22, 2022

[Audio] Texas welfare workers are resigning over orders to investigate trans kids’ families. You know, most of them are social workers. The main character in it is a school social worker named Ms. Columnist Sara Weinberger: A diminishing social worker supply chain. Baltimore Sun.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. Oh honey, that’s not how it works,” the social worker told Janell. But then … Three weeks later, her social worker surprised Lacie when she announced DCFS would be taking her children, after all. But she did not see her mother.

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