Sun.Mar 13, 2022

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‘People think it’s all in the past’: push to reform system taking Aboriginal kids from families

The Guardian

Indigenous children make up 41% of all kids in out-of-home care in NSW, while changes recommended three years ago have been ignored Get our free news app ; get our morning email briefing When Lizzie Jarrett was 12 years old, she walked into her grandmother’s home and met a man she didn’t recognise. “I thought, ‘Who’s this muscly, baldy-headed, strapping Aboriginal man?

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Sobriety chat: Suzy

Living Sober

Suzy Morrison is a addiction specialist, peer advocate, educator, mother, grandmother, and she is sober. Click below to watch or listen to my Sobriety Chat with Suzy. We talk about how low she felt at the end of her drinking days, the shame and isolation of living in active addiction, the pain of blackouts, the huge growth that happens in […].

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The next MQ Data Science meeting, in collaboration with DATAMIND

MQ Mental Health

MQ Data Science meeting: Suicidality. The next #MQDataScience meeting is on Wednesday the 23rd of March and for the first time we are collaborating with DATAMIND , the HDR UK’s new hub that enables researchers to use and find the UK’s rich datasets. This meeting will be focusing on a pressing issue of today's society: Suicidality. MQ’s data science meetings are held virtually, and are free to attend, meaning anyone can access the ground-breaking research that will be presented.

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A Global Social Work Internship During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The New Social Worker

by Shenae Osborn, LMSW, MA

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Adopting a cloud-based case management platform is essential for nonprofits and government agencies to operate more efficiently and make better use of their funding and budget.

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it didn't hurt before, yet was so much less painful when it was fixed

Clinical Philosophy

A while ago a friend told me that, before he had his hip replaced, he wasn't experiencing discomfort - yet that, after he'd had the replacement, he was so much more comfortable! This, from a philosophical point of view, is an interesting experience. We typically use here phrases like 'aware of', or 'habituate to', (the pain) here to try to explain what was going on, to make good an apparent contradiction, but it's not obvious that they get us very far.

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Guided Imagery_ What it is and How to do it

Counselor Toolbox podcast

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