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Celebrating Social Work Month 2024: Empowering Social Workers

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Theme for this year’s Social Worth Month is “empowering social workers.” ” Though it’s easy to understand why this is important, I’d like to take the time to innumerate a few of the many ways social workers help our society. This is why I love celebrating social work month.

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Generative AI & Social Work: It’s NOT the End of the World as We Know It

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Lauri Goldkind, PhD, LMSW, is an associate professor at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. Show Notes Goldkind_L_Episode_Transcript Download Cite this podcast – Sobota, P.

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19 Simple Ways to Show Social Worker Empathy

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TRENDING CONTENT ON SOCIAL WORK HAVEN As social workers, empathy is not just important in our professional lives, but in our personal ones as well. It is a skill that is critical to the human services industry and is at the core of the social justice movement. How do social workers demonstrate empathy?

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Social Work History Month 2021: Social Workers are Essential

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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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COVID-19 Three Years Later: A Changing Landscape

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Article by Connect to End COVID-19 Communications Lead, Kim M. Simpson and Connect to End COVID-19 Communications Consultant, Susan Bodiker. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared a 90-day public health emergency (PHE), which has been renewed every 90 days from 2020 to early 2023.

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Ed Town Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

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Congresswoman Barbara Lee, a beacon of social work in Congress, was voted this year’s Outstanding Congressional Social Worker. Special guest Dr. LaCinda Jones, a health system specialist (mental health policy), will receive the Outstanding Social Worker in Government award.

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Building Organizational Resilience for Behavioral Health Providers

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Social worker and best-selling author, Brené Brown, says that resilience is tolerating discomfort and painful emotions. The effects of the mental health crisis can be seen in the following statistics: Master’s level licensed social workers are twice as likely to have PTSD as the general population. Support team building.