Two volunteers race against the clock to stack red Solo cups into the highest tower they can manage. Queenie Smith keeps knocking them down. After the one-minute exercise, Smith, 16, who is leading this hour-long training on trauma and resilience …
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Today, Tuesday, September 27 is National Voter Registration Day and social workers are joining celebrities, volunteers and civic-minded Americans across the country in various efforts to encourage citizens to register and exercise their right to vote.
Like many people, I have a favorite book. Cultural conventions would have me say that it is something by the likes of Dostoevsky, Voltaire, Shakespeare or another world-renowned writer or philosopher. In reality, the book I like the most is …
Puberty is no picnic, even in the best of circumstances. Once the sex hormones estrogen or testosterone kick in, there’s no turning back: Here come breasts and periods, Adam’s apples and acne.
You’re going about forging your career path and personal reputation in one of two ways; by design or by happenstance. Which is it? If you go about your career and building your personal reputation by happenstance you get points for …
This election has been dominated by fear ― fear of the state of the country and world as well as fear of the candidates themselves. Unfortunately, all three nominees for president are capitalizing on that fear, spreading misinformation in the …
Lao wedding in the U.S. Making do with what you’ve got There are a lot of stories about refugees in the news. Some years ago, I helped resettle refugees from the Vietnam War. Trauma and resilience define what it means …
In the wake of a very fruitful and energizing conference on 12 Grand Challenges that social workers are tackling in order to promote a more just and equitable society, our sensibilities are jolted by two fatal and questionable police shootings …
The Supporting Youth Opportunity and Preventing Delinquency Act has passed the House of Representatives, setting up the potential for the first reauthorization in more than a decade of the nation’s central federal juvenile justice legislation. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, …
