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Incarceration, Reentry, Prevention, Criminal Justice Reform - Dante Barber

Doin' The Work

Episode 4 Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW Guest: Dante Barber. We talk about Dante’s prevention work of speaking to youth about his own experience in the criminal justice system, prisoner reentry, and the campaign to close Rikers Island. Episode 4 Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW Guest: Dante Barber. www.dointhework.com.

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Stop Whitewashing Social Work History: Tell the Truth - Kelechi Wright, LCPC & Kortney Carr, LCSW

Doin' The Work

Episode 49 Guests: Kelechi Wright, LCPC, LPC; Kortney Carr, LCSW, LSCSW Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW. Her research focuses on immigration, criminal justice and the criminalization of immigrants. Episode 49 Guests: Kelechi Wright, LCPC, LPC; Kortney Carr, LCSW, LSCSW Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW.

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?NASW Member Voices: Supreme Courts Ends Affirmative Action. What are the Implications?

Social Work Blog

By Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA The U.S. Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA, is a former senior policy advisor who continues to be active on a range social policy area including youth justice, immigration, criminal justice, and drug policy. He is a co-chairperson on the Justice Roundtable’s Drug Policy Reform Working Group.

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Social Workers: The Backbone of Reimagined 988 Emergency Crisis Services

Social Work Blog

By Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA. Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA, is the retired Senior Policy Advisor for the National Association of Social Workers. Prior to retiring, Mr. Wilson served for close to 20 years as NASW’s lead staffer on social justice policies and legislation, and related matters. Legislation. About The Author.

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Overturning Roe v. Wade will disproportionately affect people of color; Here is what social workers should know

Social Work Blog

By Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA. While most reproductive health and other social justice advocates expected the conservative-leaning court would “gut” Roe v. Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA, is the retired Senior Policy Advisor for the National Association of Social Workers. Getty Images. Wade sent shockwaves throughout the country.

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NASW Member Voices: The Democracy Restoration Act is a Civil and Voting Rights Imperative

Social Work Blog

About The Author Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA, is the retired Senior Policy Advisor for the National Association of Social Workers. He continues to be active on a range social policy area including youth justice, immigration, criminal justice, and drug policy.

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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.