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Tag Archives: foster care
Research & Evaluations🌱
Student’s description of site-specific activities this quarter: This quarter I conducted two surveys.On the first, with the assistance of my practicum instructor, I developed an Employee and Volunteer Survey. This survey was used to establish a list of volunteer staff … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical Supervision
Tagged advocacy, charity, compassion, Direct Practice, disadvantaged, ethical dilemmas, foster care, homelessness, How did you get here, Inequality, inspiration, learning, LICSW, lifestyle, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, mentor, opportunity, outreach, poverty, problem solving, purpose, research, research studies, social worker, speak up, staffing issues, Technology
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Restructuring🌱
Description of learning this quarter _ is still in the process of re-negotiating its contract, by not renewing its foster care beds. The agency is contemplating replacing this contract with a federal contract that will provide safe beds for _ … Continue reading
Poverty Inequality 🌱
The activity that stands out most for me happened fall quarter after a house meeting. A staff member pulled the two foster youth aside and informed them that their case managers had gotten them backpacks and school supplies. I later … Continue reading
Posted in Career Journal, Charity, Clinical Supervision
Tagged advocacy, backpack program, charity, Childhood memories, compassion, disadvantaged, ethical dilemmas, foster care, homelessness, How did you get here, Inequality, inspiration, learning, LICSW, lifestyle, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, mentor, opportunity, outreach, poverty, problem solving, purpose, social worker, speak up, staffing issues
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Neighbors Helping Neighbors: Host Homes Articles of a Career Journal
Originally posted on Real Life of an MSW:
“We’re clearly filling a role. Let’s not make this more complicated than it needs to be.” -Kim Reinhardt of Mason County Host Rereading this article and this article, I find myself still…
Posted in Reading
Tagged adoption, bureaucracy, community, couch surfing, Empathy, family, foster care, homeless, host homes, idealist, kindness, love, neighbors, poltics, redtape, youth
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Benefits of Exercise in Parkinson’s Treatment
I am a naturally quiet observer- it comes with the title of being a clinical social worker. For the last several weeks, I have walked across the hospital campus observing a group of adults doing everything from Thai Chi, lunges, … Continue reading
Posted in Career Journal, Reading
Tagged boundaries, case management, CASE MANAGER, cognitive difficulties, employment opportunities, fatigue, foster care, health and wellness, inspiration, life lessons, mindfulness, New Diagnosis’, opportunity, parkinson, Pilates, promotion, quality of life, Rehabilitation Medicine, research study, self care, social worker, success, Thai Chi, therapy, transformation, treadmill
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