Cassie Brown is govt director of NASW-MO:
Photos:
Activists rally at Missouri Capitol for transgender rights
St Louis At this time
Cassie Brown, Govt Director for the Nationwide Affiliation of
Social Staff’ Missouri Chapter, chants throughout a protest for transgender
rights Wednesday, March 29, 2023, outdoors the Missouri State Capitol in
Jefferson Metropolis.
Fatima Salman is president of NASW-MI; Duane Breijak is
govt director of NASW-MI:
Social
workers recognized for breaking barriers during Social Work Month
WDET
Duane Breijak, govt director for the National Association
of Social Workers’ (NASW) Michigan chapter, says the month is to honor
social staff throughout the nation. “Now we have 30,000 licensed professionals in
Michigan alone, 6,500 college students in social work applications in our state, and about
36 faculties of social work,” says Breijak. Breijak explains social staff are
all over the place — from faculties to working within the state Legislature. … Fatima
Salman, president of NASW Michigan, says social staff have been on the bottom
after the mass taking pictures at Oxford Excessive Faculty in November 2021. “It’s not simply offering
the person degree, but in addition actually from the next degree like what are psychological
well being options for a whole neighborhood,” Salman explains.
Sara Amos is a member of NASW-TN:
[Audio]
Community responds to the Covenant School shooting
WPLN
4 days have handed since six people were killed by a shooter at the Covenant School in
Green Hills. There’s nonetheless a lot we have no idea, and the grieving course of
has actually solely begun. In at the moment’s episode we maintain house for our neighborhood — to
speak about what individuals are feeling on this horrible second and what therapeutic
may seem like going ahead.
Carolyn Wilson is a member of NASW-FL:
Bay
Pines VA social workers break barriers to support Veterans
VA Information
“Most just lately, our social staff helped VA exceed a nationwide objective of
completely housing 38,000 Veterans by working with the Veteran Homeless
Program and HUD-VASH group to exceed Bay Pines VA’s and the VISN 8 targets by
altering the lives of 638 Veterans throughout central and southwest Florida,” mentioned
Alisha Stanton, Bay Pines VA Healthcare System social work chief. Stanton mentioned
three leaders on her group—Lacey Brown, Alicia Dudley, and Carolyn Wilson—are
large examples of social staff who’ve been instrumental in main
others throughout the group to assist Veterans break limitations.
Lynn Osachy is a member of NASW-FL:
[Video] Conversations to
have to prevent bullying
YouTube
Licensed scientific social employee Lori Osachy joins us by way of Zoom to
focus on the Glynn County incident that left a 19-year-old hospitalized and the way
to stop additional bullying.
Sonja Bigalke-Bannan is govt director of NASW-HI:
The
case for attracting more social workers in Hawaiʻi
Hawai’i Public Radio
A brand new report from the College of Hawai‘i discovered the state wants extra
social staff. “Social Work in Hawai‘i: A Workforce Profile” was performed
by the Thompson Faculty of Social Work and Public Well being. Hawai‘i faces a
staffing scarcity of 12% to 16% in the case of social staff, mentioned Sonja
Bigalke-Bannan, the chief director of the Hawai‘i Chapter of the National
Association of Social Workers. The UH research confirmed that larger wages
and legislative options might entice extra folks to the sector.
Marissa Fors is a member of NASW-NYS:
Opinion:
Drama Therapy Can Be a Therapeutic Tool for Helping Patients Cope With Cancer
Oncology Nursing Information
Conventional therapeutic interventions present sufferers identified with
most cancers the instruments to deal with their misery and be taught to handle altering
emotions. Well being care professionals assist the well-being of the affected person and
present methods to enhance coping abilities. For some sufferers, emotional
assist might be complemented with inventive types of self-expression. Drama
remedy is a singular method that has roots in drama, theater, psychology, and
psychotherapy and has been proven to supply many psychological well being advantages.
NYS
Public Social Workers Enduring High Stress, Low Pay
Public Information Service
The pattern of low pay has been occurring throughout the sector of social work.
A report from the Nationwide Affiliation of Social Staff New York State
Chapter famous 34% of social workers surveyed are on the identical wage
once they began their job, which on common started one to 5 years in the past. DiAntonio
described what she hears from social staff concerning the present state of their
discipline. “They’re doing much more with quite a bit much less,” DiAntonio
noticed. “What I imply by that’s that their caseloads, in some situations,
have tripled. Now we have social staff that their caseloads have been capped at 40
that at the moment are at 80. Now we have social staff in corrections which have caseloads
of upwards of 200 folks.”
Will Francis is govt director of NASW-TX:
The
Consequences of Forced Birth
Ladies’s Media Heart
Will Francis, the chief director of the Texas chapter of the
Nationwide Affiliation of Social Staff (NASW), experiences that foster youth in
his state are sleeping in places of work, warehoused in congregate care, or put up in
lodge rooms for lack of accessible placements. He anticipates the scenario
worsening with the fallout from the Dobbs resolution.
Erin Younger is a member of NASW-TX:
East
Texas social worker explains increase in teen girls experiencing sadness
KLTV
New knowledge from the CDC reveals
there’s a psychological well being disaster amongst teenage ladies within the U.S. Teenage ladies
are experiencing file excessive ranges of violence, unhappiness and suicide danger
in keeping with the CDC. “Being a teen lady has at all times been an issue. There’s
a lot rising emotionally, bodily, psychologically that grows and occurs
throughout that point,” a licensed scientific social employee and co-owner of Bridge
Therapeutic Companies in Tyler, Erin Younger, mentioned. In 2021, almost 60% of
teen ladies mentioned they persistently felt unhappy or hopeless over the previous 12 months,
in comparison with 36% a decade in the past. And, almost 1 in 3 severely thought of
making an attempt suicide in keeping with the CDC.
Dave Whipple is a member of NASW-TN:
Please
stop conflating mass shootings with mental health issues
Clarksville Now
In case your response to the shooting in Nashville this week was stuffed with
unhappiness, anger, frustration, being fed up, heartbreak, and many others., you aren’t alone.
This implies you had an acceptable, compassionate and empathic response to a
horrible, horrific tragedy. It is smart to reply that method. I had all of
these feelings in very giant portions and am nonetheless working by way of them. One
of the frustrations I’ve is that I hold seeing folks instantly assuming or
proclaiming that psychological sickness should play a job in these tragedies.
Jude Vereyken is a member of NASW-MI:
Jude
Vereyken: Could alcohol be putting your health at risk?
Holland Sentinel
Do you know that the much less alcohol you drink, the decrease your danger is
for most cancers? Please learn that sentence once more! It slightly made me step again
after I first learn it. Our physique breaks alcohol down right into a chemical known as
acetaldehyde, which damages our DNA and prevents our physique from repairing the
harm. And when our DNA is broken, a cell can start rising uncontrolled
and create a most cancers tumor growing our danger for getting mouth and throat,
voice field, esophagus, colon and rectum, liver, and breast (in girls)
most cancers. According to the CDC, all of those cancers have been linked
to alcohol consumption! Yikes!
