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News Items – July 22, 2021

Social Workers Speak

As LCSW and holistic psychotherapist Alison Stone notes, it may be difficult to truly savor and enjoy your coffee if you’re slugging it down while “doing a million things and running out the door.” Dan Scholz, LCSW, Clinical Director at LifeLine Utah joined us in studio as part of our You Are Not Alone partnership. In These Times.

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News Items – August 12, 2021

Social Workers Speak

New York City’s nonprofit human services workforce – a sector of 200,000 social workers, case managers, and counselors serving the city’s most vulnerable residents – is, itself, in need. We started seeing more people in the ED’s in mid to late May, but we saw the youth trends a couple months after that.

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News Items – December 2, 2021

Social Workers Speak

“We have never done a very good job of taking care of social workers who do that kind of work, for sure, and what we are seeing in Idaho is a lot of burnout that frankly I have not seen,” Stone said. Stone said in the past three months, four case management supervisors in Boise have quit.