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What nonprofits can learn from Shakespeare | Nonprofit Marketing ...

What nonprofits can learn from Shakespeare | Nonprofit Marketing ... | Social Work | Scoop.it
Take a cue from Shakespeare to write compelling stories for your nonprofit.
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ICPSR News: SAMHSA's Behavioral Health Data Users Conference ...

Interested in learning more about SAMHSA's mental health and substance use data? SAMHSA's Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality is hosting its first Behavioral Health Data Users Conference on August 8-10, ...
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Improve Your Qualifications in Social Work Now | Cover Letter ...

Do you love meeting and helping people? What do you think about having a social work career? Well, even though social work career is seemingly less popular than other careers, this career still has many fans.
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How Civically Engaged Are Millennials? - PBS NewsHour (blog)

How Civically Engaged Are Millennials? - PBS NewsHour (blog) | Social Work | Scoop.it
PBS NewsHour (blog)How Civically Engaged Are Millennials?
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Las Crucen at White House today to receive Cesar Chavez 'Champions of Change ... - Las Cruces Sun-News

Las Crucen at White House today to receive Cesar Chavez 'Champions of Change ...Las Cruces Sun-NewsYet amidst hardship and abuse, Chavez saw the promise of change-the unlimited potential of a community organized around a common purpose.
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Springwise: Facebook Game Enables Real-World Social Good ...

The latest entertainment offering on the social network lets players create their own villages and make real life donations for any virtual in-game purchases.
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CCASA January Webinar on Trauma-Informed Care

CCASA January Webinar on Trauma-Informed Care | Social Work | Scoop.it
“The Practice of Trauma-Informed Care: Developing Support Groups for Sexual Assault Survivors” Thursday, January 19th. Noon-1:30pm Mountain Standard Time Presented by Janine D'Anniballe and Emily Tofte from ...
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University of Southampton to scrap social work courses - The Guardian

University of Southampton to scrap social work courses - The Guardian | Social Work | Scoop.it
The GuardianUniversity of Southampton to scrap social work coursesThe GuardianIn a letter to stakeholders, professor Judith Petts, dean of the faculty of social and human sciences, says that following a three-year review and analysis of the...
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You don't ever retire from social work - The Guardian (blog)

You don't ever retire from social work - The Guardian (blog) | Social Work | Scoop.it
The Guardian (blog)You don't ever retire from social workThe Guardian (blog)Although I retired from my job a year ago I don't think you ever retire from social work.
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Few With Diabetes Risk See Need for Lifestyle Counseling - Doctors Lounge

Few With Diabetes Risk See Need for Lifestyle Counseling - Doctors Lounge | Social Work | Scoop.it
Few With Diabetes Risk See Need for Lifestyle CounselingDoctors LoungeMany patients who are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes do not perceive the need for lifestyle counseling, and even among those who see the need for counseling, less than half...
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Esther Duflo: Social experiments to fight poverty | Video on TED.com

TED Talks Alleviating poverty is more guesswork than science, and lack of data on aid's impact raises questions about how to provide it.
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Headache Common After Kids' Brain Injury - MedPage Today

Headache Common After Kids' Brain Injury - MedPage Today | Social Work | Scoop.it
Headache Common After Kids' Brain InjuryMedPage TodayThese findings suggested that younger children's less developed brains are affected differently by trauma and may recover differently, according to Blume and colleagues.
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What Boards Should Know About Social Media - Boardmember.com

What Boards Should Know About Social Media - Boardmember.com | Social Work | Scoop.it
Marketing PilgrimWhat Boards Should Know About Social MediaBoardmember.comThe board needs to confirm that the organization's social media policy is based on best practices and enforced consistently.
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Empowering Women and Girls – Half the Sky Movement – Mom ...

Empowering Women and Girls – Half the Sky Movement – Mom ... | Social Work | Scoop.it
New Partner Announcement – Vitamin Angels – Mom Bloggers for Social Good on [Infographic] Nourishing 50 Million Moms and Children Around the World · http://www.theworldofbabies.co.uk/compare_maternity.html on ...
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Stemming the Mental Health Crisis in Rural America

Stemming the Mental Health Crisis in Rural America | Social Work | Scoop.it
Newswise — It's estimated that more than half of all U.S. mental health care takes place at the primary care level and that percentage jumps considerably in rural areas where there often are no mental health practitioners for ...
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What Maslow Missed - Forbes

What Maslow Missed - Forbes | Social Work | Scoop.it
ForbesWhat Maslow MissedForbesA fascinating article by Pamela Rutledge in Psychology Today entitled “Social Networks: What Maslow Misses” (November 2011) points out that Maslow's model misses the role of social connection.
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Alcohol images may prompt racial bias - Futurity: Research News

Alcohol images may prompt racial bias - Futurity: Research News | Social Work | Scoop.it
Alcohol images may prompt racial biasFuturity: Research NewsThe recent study, published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, found that participants who had initially viewed a series of magazine ads for alcoholic beverages made more errors...
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Should the Rich Lose Their Social Security Benefits? - DailyFinance

Should the Rich Lose Their Social Security Benefits? - DailyFinance | Social Work | Scoop.it
Should the Rich Lose Their Social Security Benefits?
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Is Social Mobility Overrated? - The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

Is Social Mobility Overrated? - The League of Ordinary Gentlemen | Social Work | Scoop.it
Mother JonesIs Social Mobility Overrated?The League of Ordinary GentlemenMr. Salam recently wrote that relative mobility “is overrated as a social policy goal” compared with raising incomes across the board.
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What is Trauma? | Is it time to dump PTSD as a diagnosis?

What is Trauma? | Is it time to dump PTSD as a diagnosis? | Social Work | Scoop.it
Is it time to dump the diagnosis of PTSD? By Stephen Joseph, Ph.D....
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Recovering from Work Trauma | Ask the Therapist

Recovering from Work Trauma | Ask the Therapist | Social Work | Scoop.it
I work as a youth leader for a residential treatment facility for youths with conduct, psychotic, AOD, or JSO disorders. Recently, I was working one on one.
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Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression - CBS42

Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression - CBS42 | Social Work | Scoop.it
Deep Brain Stimulation for DepressionCBS42Mayberg and her colleagues' hope says Holtzheimer is "to optimize the rate of improvement by using a model of care that provides psychotherapeutic rehabilitation built on evidence-based psychotherapy but...
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What's Needed to Provide Effective Addiction Counseling?

What's Needed to Provide Effective Addiction Counseling? | Social Work | Scoop.it
Let us remember the value of a broad-based approach. As we continue our research and evidence-based practice, as we educate our practitioners, as we insist on the highest ethical standards, let us not forget the lessons we ...
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Social Security State Quick Fact Sheets: 2011 - AARP

Social Security State Quick Fact Sheets: 2011 - AARP | Social Work | Scoop.it
These fact sheets provide one-page overviews on Social Security in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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Nonprofit giving seesaws going into 2012 - Dayton Business Journal

Nonprofit giving seesaws going into 2012 - Dayton Business Journal | Social Work | Scoop.it
Nonprofit giving seesaws going into 2012Dayton Business JournalNationwide, charitable giving increased slightly last year, but Dayton-area groups have seen a mixed bag.
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