Kanika Henry is a member of NASW-AZ:
ASU
alum helps guide those experiencing traumatic loss
Arizona State College
Arizona State College alum Kanika Henry is aware of all of them. A
senior disaster intervention specialist who has labored on the Chandler Fireplace
Division for 16 years, Henry (’05 BSW, ’07 MSW) mentioned a disaster can occur
lightning quick, anytime and wherever. Intervention specialists might reply to
the identical 911 calls as police and hearth crews, Henry mentioned, or they may enter
the state of affairs later, by officers’ or firefighters’ request. Along with
offering emotional assist within the second, the specialist assesses which different
assets will likely be wanted to look after victims within the speedy and long run,
she mentioned.
Mel Wilson is a member of NASW-DC:
Lancaster
city police looking to hire social worker
Lancaster On-line
Mel Wilson was on workers with the Nationwide Affiliation of Social
Employees for 20 years till he retired about 18 months in the past. He now consults
with the affiliation. For many of his time there, he managed its workplace of
social justice and human rights. He credited Lancaster with including a second
place and in search of to fill it. “For police it must be two issues. One,
actually to answer psychological well being points within the acceptable method and two, to
actually keep away from and avert any sorts of encounters that may flip violent … and we
perceive that these encounters don’t essentially need to occur,” Wilson
mentioned. “And in order that’s why Lancaster,I feel, is shopping for into it. Additionally as a result of
it’s a very good construction mannequin.”
Brent Metcalf is a member of NASW-TN:
Ready
to talk to your kids about drugs? Here’s what experts recommend.
Yahoo
Brent
Metcalf, a licensed scientific social employee specializing in alcohol
and drug habit counseling, specifies that folks ought to speak to their
youngsters about substance abuse no later than age 9, as a result of that’s the age some
youngsters are launched to alcohol and medicines. It’s additionally when the American Academy
of Pediatrics recommends that pediatricians start screening children for substance abuse.
Lori Osachy is a member of NASW-FL:
Doctor
talks about treatment for anxiety in adults
News4Jax
Have you ever ever felt like your coronary heart was beating out of its chest? Or
all of the sudden felt scorching and light-headed? It’s possible you’ll be experiencing anxiousness and it’s
utterly regular, in accordance with License Medical Social Employee Lori Osachy.
“Nervousness is in quite a lot of methods a wholesome emotion. In quite a lot of methods, it alerts
when one thing is unsuitable,” Osachy mentioned. What’s not regular is when that anxiousness
turns into persistent and lingers. That’s an indication of Generalized Nervousness Dysfunction
often known as power anxiousness. The U.S. Preventative Providers Process Pressure is
encouraging adults 64 years previous and youthful – together with pregnant and postpartum
moms – to get examined for it.
NASW-OH chapter is talked about:
Medical,
social work groups file support in Ohio Supreme Court abortion case
Ohio Capitol Journal
The Nationwide Affiliation of Social Employees and its Ohio chapter additionally
stood behind the abortion suppliers and towards the lawsuit. The group and
its native chapter particularly pointed to “pervasive, complicated and interlaced
obstacles that stand in the way in which of sufferers” suing to problem authorities
interference when in search of an abortion. “Merely put, a choice by this court docket to
strip suppliers of their long-recognized standing to problem restrictive
abortion legal guidelines will power many sufferers to make an not possible selection: convey an
particular person lawsuit and threat hurt to their privateness pursuits, security, monetary
stability and psychological and bodily well being, or forgo the power to vindicate
one’s rights by way of a trusted medical supplier,” the NASW wrote in its transient.
Danielle Smith is govt director of NASW-OH:
Social
workers group lodges concerns over Shaker Citizens for Fair Ticketing charter
amendment
Cleveland.com
In a June
9 letter to Mayor David Weiss, the manager director of the Nationwide
Affiliation of Social Employees’ Ohio Chapter (NASW) addressed among the
proposals within the “Constitution Modification to Create a Safer Shaker Heights and
Modernize Public Security.” Merely put, “social employees will not be brokers of regulation
enforcement,” Danielle Smith wrote on behalf of NASW Ohio, referring to
passages within the proposed constitution modification that will put social employees, alongside
with licensed psychological well being clinicians and medics, on a 35-member “Non-violent
Neighborhood Directors Group (NCAT).”
Susan Reay is a member of NASW-NE:
Five
UNO Projects Aim to Boost Behavioral Health Training through $1.7 Million in
BHECN Funding
College of Nebraska Omaha
Mission REST (Mirror and Discover in Supervision Coaching): Led by Susan
Reay, Ed.D., LICSW. in collaboration with Ellen Rice, MS, Katie Robbins
Case, LICSW, and Michelle Nelson, BGS, School of Public Affairs and Neighborhood
Service. This venture, by way of the Grace Abbott Coaching and Supervision
Academy, will assist specialised coaching for supervisors of psychological well being
practitioners throughout the state. Skilled supervisors are crucial to the
steering and growth of future behavioral well being professionals, but few
obtain sufficient coaching or assist.
David Fawcett is a member of NASW-FL:
What Causes a
Fear of HIV Testing, and How Can You Overcome It?
The Physique
Whereas getting examined for HIV and different sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
must be a standard a part of everybody’s sexual wellness routine, it may result in a
lot of hysteria. Why? Nicely, there’s a ton of stigma that also exists round
HIV (and all STIs). Therapist David
Fawcett, Ph.D., LCSW, tells TheBody, “There will be quite a lot of disgrace about
threat behaviors wherein somebody may need engaged. There may be nonetheless worry about
the implications of a optimistic check, each for one’s personal well-being and that of
another person.”
Kim Keyes is a member of NASW-NJ:
Pride
Month: The Importance of Hope
TAP Into South Plainfield
In 2022 a national survey reported 45% of LGBTQ+ youth
critically thought of making an attempt suicide previously 12 months. In keeping with Kim
Keyes, a licensed scientific social employee with the Babs Siperstein Proud Center, this excessive
share, together with excessive charges of despair and anxiousness throughout the LGBTQ+
group, has all the things to do with feeling hopeless. “It’s typically
not the person that has an issue however the implications of how they work together
with the atmosphere and other people round them that causes these emotions of
anxiousness, despair and hopelessness,” Keyes mentioned.
