Listen to the podcast here: Episode 210 – Karen Zgoda, Rachel L. West, and Patricia Shelly: Promoting Macro Social Work Through Social Media/Twitter Chats In this episode, our guests Karen Zgoda, Rachel L. West, and Patricia Shelly describe how they are using macro social work Twitter chats to promote support for and education about all forms …
#PulseOrlandoSyllabus, #PulseOrlando & #MacroSW
This post created by Karen Zgoda, Patricia Shelly, MSW, @UBSSW, Â and one of my former students Sheri LaBree, MSW. It is cross-posted to reach as many as possible. Resources: (another resource list - an Orlando Syllabus for Social Workers - is posted below ) #PulseOrlandoSyllabus - Extensive resources crowdsourced and collected by librarians Park, H. …
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Let’s Celebrate #SWMonth Heroes! #MacroSW 3/3 at 9pm EST
In the 116th year of our profession, there are more than 600,000 social workers in the United States that likely passed through one of our 235 schools of social work. In fact, CSWE accredits close to 800 social work programs and many schools have both BSW and MSW accreditations. One of the reasons why social work has been called …
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Grand Accomplishments in #SocialWork: #MacroSW Chat 2/4 at 9pm EST
Update: Chat archive now available! Source: Grand Accomplishments in #SocialWork: #MacroSW Chat 2/4 at 9pm EST According to lead author Michael Sherraden at Washington University of St. Louis, Grand Accomplishments in Social Work describes a number of achievements during the last century including protection and deinstitutionalization of dependent children, the expansion of foster care and adoption, reductions in …
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Documentary Movie Night 1/28/16 – Growing up Trans
Source: Documentary Movie Night 1/28/16 - Growing up Trans For our first Documentary Movie Night, we will be watching Growing Up Trans produced by the PBS’s Frontline.  Here is the description of the movie from Frontline: Just a generation ago, it was adults, not kids, who changed genders. But today, many children are transitioning, too — with new …
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