Johanna G. Byrd is government director of NASW-PA:
First, do no harm: Pennsylvania youth deserve protection from conversion therapy | Opinion
Penn Stay
Each main medical and schooling affiliation strongly opposes the follow of conversion remedy on minors. The follow lacks scientific credibility, is unethical, and operates beneath the misguided perception that being LGBTQ is a dysfunction that requires remedy. These organizations embrace however should not restricted to the American Medical Affiliation, the American Psychological Affiliation, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Nationwide Training Affiliation, and the Nationwide Affiliation of Social Staff.
Jeff Feldman, is director of Advocacy & Communications for NASW-NJ:
Bill to ban adult conversion therapy moves forward in Senate
New Jersey Globe
Jeff Feldman, representing the Nationwide Affiliation of Social Staff New Jersey, testified on the committee assembly that his group helps banning grownup conversion remedy. “Sexual orientation efforts have been discredited or extremely criticized by all main medical, psychiatric, psychological, {and professional} psychological well being organizations,” Feldman mentioned. “NASW New Jersey helps skilled interventions on the particular person stage that assist the individual searching for remedy to realize self-actualization.”
Elizabeth Wooden is a member:
Mother sues TikTok after daughter dies following ‘Blackout Challenge’
NBC Information
Talking with TODAY Parents, Elizabeth Wooden, a licensed medical social employee at Nemours Youngsters’s Hospital, Delaware, the place Nylah was handled, mentioned the kid “had a historical past of viewing these movies on social media.” Wooden, who supplied help to Nylah’s household whereas she was being handled, mentioned the lady’s mom needed her daughter’s story to be instructed “in order that no different mother and father, no different mom has to undergo what she goes by way of.”
Sonia Martin is a member:
Is There Such a Thing as ‘Bipolar Fatigue’?
PsychCentral
Mania typically causes insomnia, which might drain a few of your power the following day. With that mentioned, it’s way more seemingly that you simply’ll expertise fatigue as soon as the manic episode is over, says Sonia Martin, a licensed medical social employee in Brooklyn, New York. “Through the manic state, regardless of not sleeping as a lot, you could have loads of adrenaline-fueled power,” she explains. “If you crash, it’s possible you’ll expertise the affect of days, typically weeks, with out sleep.”
Nandranie Busjit-Bhalai is a member:
Abraham Lincoln DRC visits Mobile Bay Sailors
DVIDS
The Deployed Resiliency Counselor (DRC) contracted to the Nimitz-class plane service USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) visited the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Cell Bay (CG 53), April 6. Nandranie “Nan” Busjit-Bhalai, a licensed medical social employee, licensed in Florida, supplied non-medical particular person counseling classes, remedy, psychoeducational and help teams, workshops and coaching to the crew.
Green Party Nominates Gubernatorial Candidate
CT Information Junkie
[Michelle Louise] Bicking, a licensed medical social employee, former foster father or mother, and delivery doula with two masters levels, mentioned common well being care is on the prime of her record. “There could be a security internet for everybody,” Bicking mentioned. “And insurance coverage could be bundled not offered individually in your eyes and ears.” She mentioned well being care ought to embrace the entire physique, together with entry to dental care. She mentioned she sees her hospice shoppers, even those thought-about rich, wrestle to afford the well being care everybody deserves.
What abortion rights advocates are planning if Roe falls
Politico
The ACLU and Democracy Ahead teamed up earlier this month to sue Lebanon, Ohio — inhabitants simply over 20,000 — for declaring itself an abortion-free zone and threatening prices in opposition to anybody who helps an individual searching for an abortion, even a process outdoors metropolis limits. Their plaintiff was an ordinary one — the Ohio chapter of the Nationwide Affiliation of Social Staff. As a result of social employees can counsel shoppers about being pregnant choices and sources, the group argues its members could possibly be criminalized for “merely doing their jobs.”
Melina Brann is director of Coverage & Advocacy for NASW-MI:
‘Defend Roe’ rally sees hundreds of supporters at Michigan State Capitol
WKAR
Melina Brann was one of many audio system. She works for the Nationwide Affiliation of Social Staff. The potential overturning of Roe v. Wade impacts everybody, she mentioned, together with these in her occupation. “We, as social employees and healthcare professionals, may be prosecuted if we assist folks get the sources of what they will do, so we’re having conversations about: Can we proceed to inform our shoppers about what’s on the market even whether it is unlawful? So, that’s what we’re grappling with.”
