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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 β€œan 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 – February 2, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Juliana Palyok is executive director of NASW-SC: Bill harms workers The Post and Courier The National Association of Social Workers South Carolina Chapter is strongly against the proposed House bill H.3515 However, it would harm thousands of South Carolina residents who use the services of social workers each day.

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News Items – February 2, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Juliana Palyok is executive director of NASW-SC: Bill harms workers The Post and Courier The National Association of Social Workers South Carolina Chapter is strongly against the proposed House bill H.3515 However, it would harm thousands of South Carolina residents who use the services of social workers each day.

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News Items – October 7, 2021

Social Workers Speak

New prisons study confirms harmful impacts of solitary confinement, value of mental health treatment and care. Jack Haden is a member: Pandemic Mental Health: Self-Diagnosing, Disparities and U Resources. Daniel Nuss, MD, will lead Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Institute and Linda Lee, LCSW, will serve as administrative vice president.

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News Items – September 30, 2021

Social Workers Speak

NASW Foundation Partners with University of Texas-Austin on COVID-19 Vaccination Grant. The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Foundation and the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute (HBRT) at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work have been awarded a $3.3 Social Work Helper.

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News Items – April 1, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Graduate students at the University of Michigan School of Social Work walked out of their classes Monday morning and gathered on the Diag to rally for Payments for Placements (P4P). With some of the clients I see the eating disordered behaviors, the self harming, the obsessive compulsive type of behaviors. The Michigan Daily.

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Scholarship Recipients 2022

University of Connecticut

I plan to pursue a career in social justice which includes advocating and counseling young girls and women who have experienced injustices and trauma. My goal one day is to travel to different countries to support these women with counseling and proper education, and through this, hopefully, to write a book based on my experiences.