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Amanda Zaidman is a member:
Parents: Put Down the Digital Device
Charlotte Parent (NC)
This lack of attachment, however, isn’t just relegated to babies. It’s relevant to children of all ages. “It’s about checking in with your children,” says Amanda Zaidman, licensed clinical social worker and owner of Constructive Parenting. “‘What are you excited about today? What are you nervous about?’ You can’t talk about these things when you’re consumed by your phone.”

Cinthia Osorio is a member:
A ‘Dreamer’s’ cancer battle influences her DACA activism
northjersey.com
For the better part of two years, Cinthia Osorio was on the front lines in New Jersey of a nationwide effort to preserve a federal program that protects her and hundreds of thousands of young immigrants like her from deportation. The stakes were raised a year ago when President Donald Trump announced on Sept. 5, 2017, that he would end the program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, by March 5. A pair of judges ordered the administration to keep the program going, but then Osorio learned on March 19 that she had stage 2 Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer that develops in the lymph nodes.

Dawn Darling is a member:
Kearney Pride 2018 supporters walk through Kearney
Nebraska.tv
“We have experienced some more openness in this community,” said mental health therapist LICSW and Kearney Pride 2018 co-organizer Dawn Darling. “I work very specifically with the Transgender community here and I know that medical professionals and other employment professionals are beginning to be more open to the Trans community and so we’re able to provide better care for those folks.”

Lynn Zakeri is a member:
School shootings: How parents can cope with their own fears and anxieties
NBC News
Last February, Lynn R. Zakeri, a licensed clinical social worker, checked her phone during a break between clients as she normally does. She had a string of text messages from her son, then a freshman in high school, reading: “I’m ok. We are evacuating. I love you.” Her son’s school was on lockdown, and there were no immediate answers as to why. Zakeri soon learned that there had been a bomb threat (fortunately a false one), but at the time, parents rushing to the school assumed an active shooter was involved. The Parkland shooting had happened just a week prior.

Lynda Woods is a member:
Are you suicidal? – Simple question could save a life
Keys Weekly
A tragic wave of recent suicides in the Florida Keys have shellshocked our “one human family.” All too often families and friends are left with more questions than answers in the wake of suicides — often questioning what, if anything, could have been done differently. But Lynda Woods, a licensed clinical social worker who is a counselor with Keys Strong, said asking the simple question, “Are you suicidal?” can open the door for help. “It’s hard to bring up the word suicide,” said Woods. “The topic needs to have less of a stigma attached to it so that if you see a friend or family member acting differently or isolating themselves, you can just ask the question directly.”

John C. Carr is a member:
John C. Carr: Emotion Coaching for Dads
The Good Men Project
With fathers more involved in parenting, it is truly a great time to be a dad in our nation’s history. One of the natural surprises and challenges that comes with more time in the trenches means that dads often have to deal with the complicated terrain of emotions. Here are a few tips to help you work them through.

Sienna Fontaine is a member:
Collaborative eight-part opioid series explores substance use disorder in Vermont
Vermont Biz
“Understanding Vermont’s Opioid Crisis” is an eight-part series highlighting the science of addiction as well as the cultural, social and economic challenges associated with addiction. Pat McDonald and Ben Kinsley, hosts of Vote for Vermont on ORCA Media, Montpelier, and Ed Baker, host of the Addiction Recovery Channel on Channel 17, Town Meeting TV, Burlington developed the series in cooperation with the Vermont Opioid Coordination Council. It features experts in the field of substance use disorder, state and local health, education and public safety officials, and members of community-based organizations, all focused on addressing and preventing addiction. [Guests include] Sienna Fontaine, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Howard Mental Health.

Social workers delivering new, needed care in schools
Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, WV)
There’s no typical day for Sloane, or any of Cabell County Schools’ four social workers — up from just one last school year. One of the three new hires for the 2018-19 school year, Sloane covers Huntington High and Huntington East and Huntington middle schools through a Title I grant, which is federal funding allocated to individual schools serving a high number of students from low-income backgrounds. The scope of the issues school-based social workers are tasked with alleviating is already well apparent in the first month-and-a-half at her new job, Sloane said, as a huge portion of the student population is currently dealing with some degree of trauma, many at-home byproducts of the far-reaching opioid epidemic.