Non-traditional Students Require Non-traditional Policies for Field Placements
I am only six weeks away from completing my BSW degree; a degree that has taken nearly twenty years to ...
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Disruptive Leadership: Maximizing Inclusion, Invention, and Innovation in Human Services
“Disruptive leadership” is an approach to management that entails new ways of thinking, creative problem-solving, and utilizing innovative techniques to ...
How to Support Foster Children
When you choose to become a foster carer the rewards can be great. Supporting a child through a difficult period ...
Systems Perspective and the Myth of the Self-Made Man
As a social worker, we spend a good deal of time looking at systems, and systems work means we can’t ...
A Student Perspective: Social Work and First Responders
It may be rare for a social work student to reflect on an assignment as something inspirational rather than a ...
Moving Beyond “Fixing” People: Social Work Practice with People with Disabilities
Working on a boarding high-school campus, I have the opportunity to be exposed to different students. During my first year, ...
Transformational Leadership in the Context of Social Work
Social work leadership has transformed into actual practice from research. While the primary definition of transformational leadership remains the same, ...
UMSSW’s Financial Social Work Initiative Celebrates 10 Years
The University of Maryland School of Social Work (UMSSW) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Financial Social Work Initiative (FSWI) during the 2017-2018 ...
Rescue to Recovery Stages in a Red Cross Disaster Deployment
Roy was my partner for most of our deployment with Red Cross on the Disaster Mental Health Team in Texas. ...
How Disability Culture Can Inform Mentoring Girls with Disabilities
Photo Credit: Big Sister Association I am a social work intern at the Big Sister Association of Boston. This is ...
Change Never Ages
As the second-oldest state in the nation, West Virginia is in dire need for professionals who can work with its ...
Social For Social: 5 Professional Ways For Social Workers to Effectively Use Social Media
Whenever you hear the context of social work in social media, it primarily generates unlikely images of disciplinary hearings and ...
Hurricane Irma: Two Things Helping Professionals Need to Know About People with Disabilities
Photo: AP The state of Florida has called for 17,000 volunteers to help out with the post-Irma recovery process, but ...
Passion Through Lived Experience: Krystal’s Journey to Her MSW
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with Krystal Reddick who is a blogger, a social work ...
I Don’t Think I Am Racist
Donald Trump during the 2016 Presidential Campaign I can’t be a racist. Some of my best friends are African American. ...
To Counter Child Abuse, Administrators and Case Workers Need Support to Implement Evidence-Based Improvements
In 2015, more than 425,000 children were placed in foster care due to incidents of abuse and neglect. But many ...
What White Nationalist Christopher Cantwell Can Remind Us About Social Work Practice
Christopher Cantwell Over the past 10 days, Christopher Cantwell’s face has become synonymous with the White nationalist protesters in Charlottesville, ...
Child Protection in Ireland Post McCabe
Sgt. Maurice McCabe The controversy surrounding the treatment of Sgt. Maurice McCabe by various State agencies has raised significant issues ...
Social Work Degree: To Be or Not To Be
There are many benefits of being a social worker, and this article is going to focus on how and why ...
5 Ways White Social Workers Can Respond to the Charlottesville Aftermath
Charlottesville Unite White Supremacists Rally In the past 48 hours, we have witnessed the President of the United States make ...
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