Social Work Blog

JULY 17, 2023

Children and their families rely on school social workers (SSWs) to meet increasingly pressing and common mental health needs. In a recent issue of the journal Children & Schools , an article showcases the findings of a study on SSW burnout. The journal Social Work is a benefit of NASW membership.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and rise in racial injustices signaled the need to engage students in macro-level interventions to maximize their contributions to their schools, communities, and society. Through CSL, students cultivate advocacy skills by identifying, investigating, and taking action to address concerns. Chicago, IL.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

The case is a class action on behalf of public school students in South Carolina and the Carolina Youth Action Project, and it challenges South Carolina’s “disturbing schools” and “disorderly conduct” laws as being unconstitutionally vague. Wilson) , No. 2:16-cv-02794-MBS, filed on March 23, 2022, in the Fourth Circuit on appeal.

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Social Work Synergy

APRIL 7, 2020

Before COVID-19 captured all our attention in order to meet the challenges of the changes in our academic, professional and personal lives, the University at Buffalo School of Social Work (UBSSW) traveled to Albany on March 3, 2020 for the annual Legislative Education and Advocacy Day (LEAD).

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

Inquiry into abuse at special schools The panel made its recommendations last year in its second report into abuse at three residential special schools registered as children’s homes run by the Hesley Group. This is currently the subject of a criminal investigation. This is currently the subject of a criminal investigation.

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Beyond Advocacy

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Garland School of Social Work at Baylor University. After a lunch break, we will return to the auditorium for a panel discussion by young social workers—students and recent graduates—moderated by Howard University School of Social Work alum Avah Toomer, National Manager of Policy and Advocacy at LIFT, Inc.

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University of Connecticut

APRIL 23, 2024

On April 17, the University of Connecticut (UConn) Office of the Provost announced awards of promotion and/or tenure to faculty, including the School of Social Work’s Kathryn Libal, Ph.D. Libal’s scholarship has focused on the Middle East and United States.

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Doin' The Work

APRIL 2, 2018

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Nicole Ruggiano, who is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Alabama. Nicole urges listeners to get involved with policy advocacy and provides examples of how to do so. Nicole urges listeners to get involved with policy advocacy and provides examples of how to do so.

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My Brains Not Broken

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

These numbers are higher among high school students — nearly 20% report serious thoughts about suicide and 9% report a suicide attempt. Nearly 20% of high school students report serious thoughts of suicide and 9% have made an attempt to take their lives. Among young adults 15–24 years old in the U.S.,

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Michigan Social Work

JULY 27, 2022

The legislation provides for the creation of a Student Mental Health Apprenticeship Retention and Training grant program (SMART), paying graduate social work students $25 an hour for their field education in public schools settings. We're happy to have worked with the SSW and the NASW-MI on this advocacy effort.

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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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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

After graduating from Boston College, Sobelson attended Columbia University School of Social Work. in 1984 and taught at Connecticut University School of Social Work on the Concord campus while also maintaining a private practice. Her retirement has allowed more time to devote to social work advocacy with the New Hampshire legislature.

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inSocialWork

APRIL 18, 2023

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. Kathryn Franco, LMSW, MPH, is an adjunct professor at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Social workers are using advocacy, empowerment, and resources to help them. Schools of Social Work: The University of New Hampshire, Indiana University, and University of Southern Mississippi schools of social work discuss their initiatives and programs. • Inflation and Social Work.

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Prosper Health Collective

MARCH 27, 2023

They also work in a variety of settings, such as clinics, home, schools and the community, depending on the goals of the person they are working with. These differences can present a number of challenges which affect their ability to work towards and reach their goals at home, school, work and in social settings.

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Born and raised in Brazil, Pinto , a professor and associate dean for research and innovation at the University of Michigan School of Social Work , found a way through the visual and performing arts to confront a painful past, find peace and forgiveness.

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inSocialWork

JULY 12, 2022

She holds a doctorate in clinical social work from the School of Policy and Practices at the University of Pennsylvania and is a licensed clinical social worker. Her scholarship examines young people’s minoritized, racialized, and gendered school experiences, school mental health, and social justice issues.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 6, 2022

In her testimony, Megan said, “I worry about the pipeline into the health and behavioral health professions and whether today’s high school students will continue to choose careers in mental health and behavioral healthcare, with such exorbitant tuition, low salaries and difficult working conditions.”

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 10, 2024

Special guest Dr. Stephanie Boddie, the Associate Professor of Church and Community Ministries at the University of Baylor School of Social Work and the producer of Unfinished Business , an oral history documentary of the Great Migration, will perform a musical selection. Dr. Halaevalu Vakalahi will emcee the program.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The School of Social Work’s Center for International Social Work Studies (CISWS) has received an award to support research on the perceptions and attitudes of young adults toward climate change. The research is supported by UConn Hartford Director’s Office for Student Research. “We

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Prosper Health Collective

MARCH 27, 2023

These difficulties can get in the way of an autistic person’s goals in school, work and building relationships with others. For autistic children it may make it more difficult to play with their friends, get along with their siblings and engage at school. The post How does a speech pathologist work with autism?

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Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 29, 2022

One such social worker is Justin Hodge, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work where he co-leads the Policy and Political Social Work Pathway and is the director of the Online Certificate in Political Social Work. All of this sounds exciting, but Justin’s first order of business is to get reelected.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

With the capable Lead Organizer, Amani Desamours, and her Student Leadership Team handling Thursday’s virtual Student Advocacy Day, I had the privilege of attending the pivotal Children’s Bureau’s National Convening on Kinship Care. Joining her was Aysha E. Schomburg, the associate commissioner of the Children’s Bureau.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Stapleton is a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, class of 2016. Since graduating, Natasha began her employment with CREC – Capitol Region Education Council, where she started her career as a School Social Worker. This passion for advocacy is also seen through her volunteer work.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 31, 2022

No Black history in America or history of children’s advocacy can be complete without the name of Marian Wright Edelman. As a student at Spelman College in Georgia, she earned a scholarship to study abroad at such notable schools as the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 31, 2022

No Black history in America or history of children’s advocacy can be complete without the name of Marian Wright Edelman. As a student at Spelman College in Georgia, she earned a scholarship to study abroad at such notable schools as the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 14, 2023

Moral disengagement can be addressed by meaningful efforts on social workers’ part to engage in self-care, burnout and impairment prevention, organizational reform, and policy advocacy.” Author: Frederic G. The journal Social Work is a benefit of NASW membership. It is available online or, at a member’s request, in print.

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Beyond Advocacy

MAY 30, 2023

According to the Centers for Disease Control’s 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey , 42 percent of high school students reported experiencing persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, up from 37 percent in 2019 and 31 percent in 2017. Others may focus on policy and advocacy and find work with research institutes.

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

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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inSocialWork

APRIL 19, 2022

Stephen Pimpare talks with us about what lessons we can take away from our daily practice and calls us to action in advocacy for social change that improves the well-being of the people and places we serve. So, how can we use those skills to advocate for social change? We are living in an era of extraordinary social and cultural upheaval.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The event was sponsored by The Silver School of Social Work at New York University and the University of Buffalo School of Social Work, in addition to the Crown School. Dr. Guterman is also a former dean of the Crown School.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

The article offers recommendations to ameliorate distress and promote advocacy efforts for readjustment. Children & Schools , Health & Social Work and Social Work Research are available by subscription at a discounted rate for NASW members, either online or in print. managing self-care.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

The Global Agenda, developed by the International Federation of Social Workers, the International Association of Schools of Social Work, and the International Council on Social Welfare, calls for multilevel responses to concerns such as forced migration, air pollution, ecoanxiety, and food and water insecurity.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 14, 2023

Moral disengagement can be addressed by meaningful efforts on social workers’ part to engage in self-care, burnout and impairment prevention, organizational reform, and policy advocacy.” Author: Frederic G. The journal Social Work is a benefit of NASW membership. It is available online or, at a member’s request, in print.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Incorporating advocacy : Recognizing and taking action against sexism in behaviors, beliefs, and policies (e.g., advocating for policies in clients’ schools to reduce sexist harassment and bullying). Price (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at Boston College and director of the Affirm Lab.

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 23, 2023

Social work students celebrate Social Work Advocacy Day at the capitol through Senate Bill advocation Hilltop Views On March 3, St. Edward’s social work students attended the annual Social Work Advocacy Day at the Texas State Capitol. They work in different settings, from community centers and schools to state and federal agencies.

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