The San Diego State University School of Social Work was founded in 1963. It was born out of the need for a professionally educated social workers in the public welfare sector in the state of California. Today, the School has over 600 students and has graduated over 7,000 social workers wh...
I am a licensed social worker who specializes in working with kids who present with social learning challenges related to ADHD, Asperger's and higher-verbal autism. There are few books I recommend to parents because this generation of kids prefers watching things on YouTube to reading. Smile &...
In Russia, the persons with a title ‘social worker’ stated on a badge, first became known to the public duringperestroika, in late 1980s. It was a time of total shortage of food and goods, when people had been standing in huge queues in the shops in order to buy simple products. ...
As the first-ever Director of Financial Justice for the city and county of San Francisco, she oversaw the work of an exploratory task force of community groups, local government and the courts to identify fine and fees “pain points.” The taskforce identified a wide range of problems relate...
clinician competency in CBT), and he is the first clinical social worker in the state of New York to become an Academy-certified Trainer Consultant. He is on the Academy’s Membership Committee and the Credentialing Committee, evaluating the work samples of therapists applying for certification in...
This process is grounded in a fundamental realization (and acceptance) that I don’t have the skills and assets that are most needed right now. I’m not a health care provider, or a farmer, or a social worker. If I worked in health care or social service, right now I’d value exped...
In November 2023, our offices in Southern California held food drives collecting donations of food items on behalf of The San Diego Food Bank and South County Outreach to support families in need during the Thanksgiving holiday season. Annually in December, we organize a donation, toys and ...
myrmepropagandistThis is Tulip, the median carpenter ant worker. Today she enjoyed some wet cat food. I can’t seem to find Pepper, the ant with the green spot, I think she might have cleaned the paint off (she was very dusty) — stay tuned for more important Tulip updates. #tulip ...
The Seattle-King County Healthy Homes Project: a randomized, controlled trial of a community health worker intervention to decrease exposure to indoor asthma triggers. Am J Public Health. 2005;95(4):652-659. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2004.042994PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 29. Mendelsohn AL, ...
as he walked out of his home and joined the rest of his family to work their tobacco fields. While driving his pickup truck in the fields, he noticed a taxi coming down the road and the man riding in the backseat was a man he knew as “Richard Lopez,” a migrant farm worker. ...