2021-05-26 12:00
101 Careers in Social Work - Third Edition (2019) by Jessica Ritter, Ann Obermann and Kirstin Lindsay Danhoff, is an expanded career guidebook that addresses the breath of the social wo… Read More
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2021-03-01 12:00
March is National Social Work History Month. The 2021 theme is " Social Workers are Essential.” From the NASW website:Social workers are essential to community well-being.As… Read More
2020-07-16 12:00
The CQ Press' Career Guide for Public Sector Students (2020) by Michelle C. Pantz is an informative book on careers in government and the nonprofit community. Geared towards undergraduate an… Read More
2020-06-24 12:00
It has been nearly four years since I had last taken a personality test. At the time, my results came back as an Advocate (INFJ). However, my employment history changed since that time frame… Read More
2020-06-10 18:47
The Economic Policy Institute, a progressive-leaning research think tank, released a report entitled "Black workers face two of the most lethal preexisting conditions for coronavirus—r… Read More
2020-06-01 12:00
Many countries have temporarily shut down anchor institutions during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The deleterious effects of the pandemic is nowhere more apparent than in the higher educati… Read More
2020-05-21 12:00
Lifelong learning is is important for personal and professional development. First, it enhances our understanding of the world around us. Second, it provides us with more opportunities for c… Read More
2020-04-13 12:00
Social workers and allied professionals need access to best practices on managing public and private service organizations. In 2018, the Network for Social Work Management composed and relea… Read More
2020-04-01 11:00
The United States and the global community are experiencing unpredictable and challenging times to combat the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Also known as novel coronavirus, COVID-19… Read More
2019-10-28 12:00
The Council for Social Work Education (CSWE) presented a webinar on its publication, Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Macro Social Work Practice (2015). The 300-page guide book cate… Read More
2019-10-26 12:00
The Atlantic published a piece about the obstacles in enrolling in doctoral programs in the U.S. The more prestigious Ph.D. programs have more funding, resources, and greater likelihood plac… Read More
2019-05-13 12:00
Toxic Inequality: How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future (2017), by Thomas Shapiro, is a professor at the Heller School for Soc… Read More
2019-04-29 12:00
The Gilded Years (2016), by Karin Tanabe, is a historical fiction novel. It is based on the true story of Anita Florence Hemmings, the first African American woman to attend Vassar College… Read More
2019-04-22 10:00
In April 2019, the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) recently released a report on the careers of social work graduates. The report, From Social Work Education to Social Work Practice:… Read More
2019-04-15 04:01
Careers in Human Services (2015) by Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD is a comprehensive occupational guidebook that contains 25 chapters describing specific fields of interest in the human service… Read More
2019-04-15 03:57
Great Job for Sociology Majors - Third Edition (2008) by Stephen Lambert is a comprehensive career guide book that highlights the myriad of careers that someone can do with a sociology major… Read More
2019-04-15 03:57
SAGE Guide to Social Work Careers: Your Journey to Advocacy (2019) by Melissa Bird, PhD is a career book about macro social work practice. Unlike the other career books, this book does not f… Read More
2019-04-15 03:55
This short film was just released on August 8, 2019!! "Segregated By Design" examines the forgotten history of how our federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated ever… Read More
2019-03-01 11:00
The 2019 theme for Social Work Month is Elevate Social Work. From NASW website: Every day, the nation's 680,000 social workers work to empower and elevate millions of people, including some… Read More
2019-01-26 13:00
The Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) has a very interesting story on the evolving role of public libraries as community centers. As a result, librarians are increasingly finding themselves in the r… Read More
2019-01-19 16:41
Ever wonder how you can find the latest industry news in one place? Smartbrief is an excellent website that brings the most important industry-specific news to you! Smartbrief editors curate… Read More
2019-01-01 20:48
Happy New Year! 2018 was an incredibly busy year for me. It marked a major comeback for me in education. I am looking forward to spending more time building up this blog. I have exciting thi… Read More
2018-09-30 17:22
This is fantastic news for my hometown, Detroit. and Harvard University have formed new partnerships to bring actionable change through research and community engagement. With Harvard's new… Read More
2018-04-01 19:45
The black unemployment rate is still problematic fifty years after both the release of the Kerner Commission Report and Martin Luther King's assassination. In one of his final speeches, King… Read More
2017-12-17 16:12
Greetings. I know that I have not maintained this blog frequently but I still exist! I wanted to share an interesting by Michael HObbes on the financial insecurity of the millennial generati… Read More
2017-07-30 15:03
On July 19, 2017, organizers gathered for the "Ain't I a Woman?" Black Women's March in Sacramento, CA. The name comes from a famous speech by African-American abolitionist and women's right… Read More
2017-07-22 11:45
In March, The Congressional Black Caucus has contacted the Office of the Attorney General and the FBI to help in the search for missing black girls in the Washington, D.C., area, following a… Read More
2017-06-30 16:14
Georgetown Law's Center on Poverty and Inequality released a disturbing report, Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood, which revealed that adults perceive black g… Read More
2017-03-29 11:30
As schools become more diverse, a lingering problem persists that inadvertently creates de facto segregation in the classroom. In a Baltimore Sun article, "Within integrated schools, de fact… Read More
2017-03-08 00:08
The famous landmark case, Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857), declared that people of African descent, whether free or enslaved, were not American citizens and, therefore, had no legal standing to… Read More
2017-03-05 21:30
The 2017 theme for Social Work Month is "Social Workers Stand Up." From the National Association of Social Workers: Social workers stand up for millions of people every day. These include p… Read More
2017-01-29 05:15
In November 2008, I watched the television screen as Barack Obama was elected as the first black president of the United States. His charismatic message of hope and change resonated with man… Read More
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