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Teenagers and Mental Health: A Q&A with Tilly’s Life Center

My Brains Not Broken

For today’s post, I was able to talk with Monica Utley, the Executive Director of Tilly’s Life Center. Located in Irvine, California, Tilly’s Life Center teaches life skills to teenagers that build confidence, inspire compassion, and encourages adolescents to pursue their dreams.

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Kinship Care Gets a Boost

Beyond Advocacy

With the capable Lead Organizer, Amani Desamours, and her Student Leadership Team handling Thursday’s virtual Student Advocacy Day, I had the privilege of attending the pivotal Children’s Bureau’s National Convening on Kinship Care. Joining her was Aysha E.

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How to Get Started with Wellbeing

Social Work Haven

Moving more will help relieve your stress, increase your balance, improve your mental health, sleep better, improve your concentration and become fit. Keep in touch with friends and family Staying in touch with friends and family can help improve your overall wellbeing. So what is well being? What are the benefits of moving more?

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An interview with Dr. Marisa Marraccini

MQ Mental Health

CW: This post references suicide The MQ Foundation is very proud to be working with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to support the work of new MQ Fellow and researcher Dr. Marisa Marraccini from the University of North Carolina. We caught up with Marisa to ask her nine questions about her life and work.

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Is Back to School Back to Normal?

Shelter, Inc

More than two years since the pandemic began, students are again heading back to the classroom, and we all want to breathe a sigh of relief that things are back to normal. As one high school student said, “ Too much is going on now. Like so many other locks in life, education is the key. What’s gone wrong?

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Members in the News – June 22, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Mirean Coleman is Director of Clinical Practice for NASW: How the field of social work is adapting to modern technologies like virtual reality, A.I. Cognitive behavioral therapy software can also expand access to at-home treatment, she adds. But all of these things make you wonder: Where are we headed?” She agrees with Schroeder.

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Diversity Spotlight: Dr. Nita Tewari

Society of Clinical Psychology

Dr. Tewari began her professional life at UCI, providing individual and group psychotherapy in the student counseling center and teaching Asian American Psychology. Nita Tewari whose work focuses on Indian American, South Asian, and Asian American mental health. Dr. Tewari received a B.A.