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Member Voices: Be Wary of Mental Health ‘Experts’ on Social Media

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Monteiro, LCSW The past two years were filled with fear and uncertainty, exacerbating a mental health crisis with an increase in anxiety, depression, suicide rates, and substance abuse. I have a master’s degree in Social Work and am a Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW). By Carla B.

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News Items – July 29, 2022

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Clinicians of Color is a community of mental health professionals whose mission is to connect BIPOC mental health communities to services. Clinicians of Color was founded by Lisa Savage, LCSW (licensed clinical social worker) , and Kim L. Knight five years ago. Yahoo News. The bigger the mess, the more despair we experience.

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The Impact of Collective Trauma and How Behavioral Health Organizations Can Help

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Leia Salzman, PhD, LCSW, from the Tulane University School of Social Work, describes collective trauma as “an event, or series of events that shatters the experience of safety for a group, or groups, of people.” Collective trauma occurs when this type of event happens to an entire community.

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News Items – November 18, 2021

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Charles Palmer was a member: Charles Palmer, who led Iowa Department of Human Services for 16 years, dies at age 82. Charles “Chuck” Palmer, who was director of Iowa’s Department of Human Services for 16 years, died Sunday. Des Moines Register. He was 82 and lived in Des Moines.

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News Items – August 18, 2022

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Sonyia Richardson , a licensed clinical social worker who owns a counseling agency that serves mostly Black and brown clients in Charlotte, N.C. Even though she’s a member of her state’s 988 planning committee, she said she needed time to develop trust in the service herself. What is your best-selling product/service?

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News Items – September 30, 2021

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Victor Armstrong is the first chief health equity officer at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Four University of North Texas professors hope to use federal dollars to provide counseling for bilingual Americans who have experienced trauma. The Charlotte Observer. Denton Record-Chronicle (TX).

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News Items – August 12, 2021

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City Funding Inadequate For Human Service Workers To Meet Basic Needs, Report Says. 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 Gotham Gazette.