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Addressing Access in Ethnoracially Diverse Populations: Lessons from a University-Based Community Mental Health Center

Society of Clinical Psychology

Systemic racism in the economy, the healthcare system, and the field of clinical psychology perpetuates the disparities in access, retention, and effectiveness of mental health services. The FSU Psychology Clinic is a training clinic staffed by doctoral students and housed within the university’s clinical psychology PhD program.

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News Items – January 19, 2023

Social Workers Speak

” The NASW has publicly acknowledged the role the social-worker profession plays in perpetuating racism, citing examples like discrimination in the child welfare system and disparities in health care. Then kudos to that department.” Luke, says it varies by person. Here’s what I say when people offer me drinks at parties.

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News Items – February 16, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Caseworkers or licensed social workers often become conduitsto the wider social welfare system for individuals on the street, too, said Anthony Estreet, chief executive of the National Association of Social Workers. When those caseworkers leave, it often leaves remaining staff members to shoulder more and more homeless clients.

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News Items – December 15, 2022

Social Workers Speak

. “I have seen tremendous suffering because of this,” said Annette Ferrigno, a licensed clinical social worker and Scotch Plains mom, who has been providing services to families for over 20 years. Ferrigno founded Mindfully Aware with the help of fellow clinical social worker and Cranford mom, Jenn Carroll. The Daily Times.

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KVC Health Systems Ranks in Top 1% of Employers Nationwide with 77 Work Wellbeing Score

KVC

This means KVC is outperforming its peers in child welfare and mental health, its peers in healthcare more broadly, and even most for-profit companies across all sectors. Join a values-driven team that is passionate about transforming people’s experience of child welfare and mental health services.

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News Items – November 18, 2021

Social Workers Speak

Michigan agencies seek strategies to address child welfare worker shortage. However, the state is currently facing what one industry leader described as a “critical shortage” of child welfare workers. Micki Grimland is a licensed clinical social worker with Southwest Psychotherapy and Associates. The Pink Report.

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News Items – February 16, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Caseworkers or licensed social workers often become conduitsto the wider social welfare system for individuals on the street, too, said Anthony Estreet, chief executive of the National Association of Social Workers. When those caseworkers leave, it often leaves remaining staff members to shoulder more and more homeless clients.