Open Mic Night! #MacroSW Chat July 23 at 9pm EST

Update: Chat archive and summer media list now available!

Join host @karenzgoda and the #MacroSW crew on the eve of our annual Summer vacation for an hour of YOUR issues, comments and ideas for future chats onThursday, July 23rd at 9 pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT!

We’ll take a break for the month of August (no chats). Then we return to our regular schedule of chats on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month.

Fall Schedule Highlights:

9/10/2015
Host: Pat Shelly/UB
Topic: Trauma-informed care
What is Trauma-Informed Care and Why is Social Work adopting it as a Best Practice?
@UBSSW faculty Sue Green and Tom Nochajski, Directors of the Institute on Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care ( ITTIC – http://bit.ly/1HJ3356 ) will be the resident experts for this chat, on the eve of the 14th anniversary of 9-11.There has been a great leap forward in the research on trauma, the ubiquity of Adverse Childhood Experiences (…

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