Decathexis - Audio Excerpt on End of Life from Beginnings, Middles, & Ends
Decathexis is a short story about a moment between a social worker and a client at the end of life. Audio excerpt from Beginnings, Middles, & Ends, read by author Ogden Rogers.
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Blood donation saves lives. January is National Blood Donor Month.
View ArticleThe Staggering Talents of Bayard Rustin: Lessons From Backstage
Bayard Rustin's skills as an organizer, planner, and leader were highly valued by prominent leaders in the Civil Rights Movement; yet, Rustin was relegated to the background during the Movement. He was...
View ArticleCase Scenario Index
This is an index to the case scenarios included in the book, "Ethics in Nonprofit Organizations: Theory and Practice" authored by Gary M. Grobman and published by White Hat Communications
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Ira Glass on the creative process and becoming the best you can be.
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This page contains links to nonprofit ethics Web resources on the Web.
View ArticleVideo: Social Work Is...
"Social work is..." video about the social work profession, by social work students from Northern Arizona University.
View ArticleClosing the Circle: A Memorable Moment in Social Work
Linda, the associate director, was working on completing a newly found grant. Eligibility meant driving it to FedEx by midnight. At 11:00 p.m., she drove to a large business park in the area. The...
View ArticleBecoming a Social Worker - A Bridge From My Past to My Future
When asked, “Why did you become a social worker?” these days, I smile and say, “So I could become a hospice social worker.” Then I laugh, as people look at me confused. Because as so often happens, the...
View ArticleRemembering Frances Perkins: An Interview with Dr. Christopher N. Breiseth...
If the aim of social work is to alleviate human suffering, there are few whose reach has been as wide as Frances Perkins’. Perkins was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor and an...
View ArticleA Love Letter to Social Work
Susan Mankita, LCSW, writes a love letter to social work, a career rich in meaning, and filled with challenges and possibilities.
View ArticleThe Hard Question: How I Got Started in Social Work
Sometimes, it’s something that somebody says that can be so powerfully inspiring it changes your life forever. And sometimes, it’s the look in someone’s eyes that does the same thing. That’s what...
View ArticleChestnuts
There are these chestnuts, which we have in social work, that are so cliché, and yet invite us into considerations of great depth. “Begin where the client is,” “go with the defense,” “content and...
View ArticleThe MSW Changed My Life
The MSW program has been the life skills training in my life and has molded a better human being out of me.
View ArticleVideo: Post Traumatic Growth
Spoken word poetry that takes viewer on the emotional roller coaster that veterans with PTSD go through. 1 in 5 veterans suffer from PTSD and 23+ a day commit suicide. Something needs to change;...
View ArticleIf Steve Jobs Had Been a Social Worker
Let us think for a moment what the world would be like if Jobs had been a social worker instead of a technology entrepreneur. Would hundreds of millions of people now have access to necessary social...
View ArticleVideo: Find Your Voice, Connect Micro and Macro on Lobby Day
Passion. Inspiration. Voice. This video was created in an effort to have social work students understand the power in connecting social work to the legislative process. The video is aimed at tapping...
View ArticleTemporary Placements (Poetry)
The poem, Temporary Placements, is meant to be jarring to those who hear it and hopefully incite an attitude of motivation, transformation, and self-worth in its listeners/readers. The poem is to...
View ArticleConnecting With Hull House
I’ve had the privilege of escorting groups of social work students to visit the Hull House museum in Chicago, home to Jane Addams and other social reformers. Many don’t realize that Hull House was...
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