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12 Things I Learned from Teaching a New Class: Disaster Social Work – An Anti-Racist Lens

Social Work Futures

Content centers a strength-based lens, including emerging voices focused on “decolonizing disaster” practice and the roles of both professional systems/structures as well as mutual aid in unexpected events. This topic felt “beyond” anything that is typically covered in social work education…but perhaps should be more so.

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Notes from the Future – March 14, 2023

Social Work Futures

As a social worker…what I’m most interested in are the following questions: Can Chat GPT help busy professionals manage unwieldy tasks lists in ethical ways? Here’s a talk sponsored by the Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights where the author chats along with a selection of other distinguished panelists on similar topics.

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A review of Teaching & Learning in Social Work for 2020

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Professional Collaboration Networks: Twitter for your Professional Collaboration Network (PCN) (1/31/20) How do you do relational Twitter?: The series of posts about professional collaboration networks is especially meaningful to me as it came out of a Think Tank I attended back in 2019, and resulted in this article.

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The Fatal Five in IDD: How Constipation Impacts Health

Relias

Providing support, companionship, and dedicated, compassionate care can go a long way. To that end, let’s review how you as direct support professional (DSP) can work to prevent constipation among persons served. However, it can be difficult to tell if someone you support is constipated.

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Notes from the Future – February 17, 2023

Social Work Futures

Special edition of JS/Journal for Body and Gender Research on “Anticolonial Feminist Imaginaries” with 17 articles from global scholars on this broad and engaging topic. Critique and imagination applied to the topic of the Ph.D. ” (Note: Exploration of topics DOES NOT EQUAL ENDORSEMENT).

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Using Assessments for Hiring and Retention in IDD Organizations

Relias

As a result, some IDD providers have had trouble picturing how to use assessments for hiring, training, and professional development. A validated assessment has statistical rigor behind it, which provides support that the assessment actually measures what it claims to measure. We know how hard it is to find direct support staff.

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Pinterest Assignment for the Social Work Classroom

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Integrate and develop a professional use of self in a public environment. Develop a professional repository of resources and information that could bridge content across the curriculum and into field education. Having Pinterest Boards can be one part of a larger professional knowledge management system.

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