Social Workers, Rise!

In this episode I talk about our human need for relationships and physical touch, why hugs make up healthy, and powerful ways to increase our connection without actually touching each other.

What are you doing to increase your relationships?

Tell me on Instagram @SocialWorkersRise

Links referenced in show:

Benefits of Hugs

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unified-theory-happiness/201406/4-benefits-hugs-mind-and-body

Loneliness epidemic in America

https://www.cigna.com/about-us/newsroom/studies-and-reports/loneliness-epidemic-america

The world is really struggling right now, in every system- health, mental, emotional, financial.

I talk about my own struggles through uncertainty and how I overcame this A-hole called Anxiety.

We need to remember,

What makes social workers made for time like these?

What skills do we already have that can help so many people?

How can we use this challenge to be better and maximize our strengths?

I’d love to hear from you! Find me on Instagram @SocialWorkersRise

How is Coronavirus making us better? What CAN we control when we may feel so out of control?

During this episode I look at Coronavirus from a macro perspective, how it’s impacting our society, and 5 actionable steps we can do today to manage fear for our clients as well as ourselves.

Mental Health and Coping During COVID-19 (CDC)

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/coping.html

NASW

https://www.socialworkers.org/practice/infectious-diseases/coronavirus

Taking Care of your Behavioral Health: Tips for Social Distancing, Quarantine, and Isolation during an infectious disease outbreak (SAMHSA)

https://store.samhsa.gov/system/files/sma14-4894.pdf

Helping Children Cope During and After a Disaster

https://www.cdc.gov/childrenindisasters/helping-children-cope.html

Stay Connected with me on Instagram @SocialWorkersRise

This week we talk with Shauntia White, founder of YSocialWork. She puts a giant mirror to the face of the industry and talks about how YSocialWork intends to create social, racial, and environmental change in social work, one county/city at a time.

We love social work and talk about so many areas of opportunities to improve! She shares her true personal story about the inspiration for YSocialWork and lastly her tips for entrepreneurship as a social worker.

So much valuable information in 60 minutes!

Find Shauntia at: www.YSocialWork.org

Instagram: @IGYSocialWork

@SocialWorkersRise

This week we inspire and explore what’s on the horizon for social work as an industry.

What specific areas are growing the fastest?

What are the strengths and challenges of social work in the coming years?

We talk Grand Challenges for Social Work and why we all need a world wide community of social workers.

Info referenced in the podcast:

Bureau of Labor and Statistics: www.bls.gov/ooh/community-and-social-service/mobile/social-workers.htm

Social Work salaries in cities: www.glassdoor.com/salaries

Grand Challenges of Social Work

Grandchallengesofsocialwork.org

Find me on Instagram @SocialWorkersRise

This week we talk with Jacque Ruddy, professional speaker and mindfulness leader. She is also the founder of Wholeself Wellness and Coaching.

She gives insightful tips on how to take the fear out of cancer, how she became an expert in this area, changing behaviors and still finding fulfillment, and how mentors were so important in her life.

She teaches us grounding to reduce anxiety and increase focus, her very personal journey through breast cancer as a single mother and why she feels “breast cancer was the best thing that happened to me”.

This was just the beginning to her life-changing work teaching Yoga for cancer recovery and trauma and walks us though her “7-4-9 breathing technique” for reducing anxiety and increased focus. I was instantly relaxed and focused, this is now a skill I will use everyday.

Article referenced:

https://medium.com/@biobeats/how-unprocessed-trauma-is-stored-in-the-body-10222a76cbad

Get connected with Jacque!

Website: https://www.jacqueruddy.com/

Facebook: Jacque Ruddy Professional Speaker and Mindfulness Leader

IG: @JacqueRuddy

This week we talk with Christa Tipton about the benefits of being a generalist social worker, investigating elder abuse, and most notably, her work in the NASW Tech Council! She is changing the tech world by bringing the social worker perspective to apps, participating in “hack-a-thons” and providing the human perspective to make a huge impact! If you have thought about ways to use technology in social work then this episode is for you!

Learn more about NASW Tech Council: NASWCATech.org

Grand Challenges for Social Work; Harness Technology for Good: https://grandchallengesforsocialwork.org/harness-technology-for-social-good/

Sustainable Development Goals: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/

Some of the books Christa references are:

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals by Rachel Hollis

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman

Books by Jane Adams: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/76640.Jane_Addams

Listen in to hear what it’s like working as a school social worker in Los Angeles, CA; considered to be one of the most diverse populations in the world!

Susana Zoeckler, LCSW drops some serious knowledge about her work with children and youth with special emotional and learning needs.

We talk all about youth: anger management, increasing emotional awareness, motivational interviewing, loneliness, grief, when a youth is so unsafe the entire class needs to be evacuated, what’s changing in our school systems and how we all can help youth we know or encounter.

Connect with Susie on Linked In at https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanna-zoeckler-lcsw-ppsc-573848a4

Cigna Loneliness Study

https://www.cigna.com/about-us/newsroom/studies-and-reports/loneliness-epidemic-america

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When Social Workers grieve a celebrity loss we are often asked to put our grief aside and be an emotional support for others going through the same loss. This can impact our emotions on different levels. Let’s talk about this! In this episode I break it down:

What you need to know when a celebrity dies and how it impacts us and the community we work in.

How to reduce feelings of overwhelm and increase your coping.

Healthy boundaries in grief while social working.

You can follow me on Instagram @_catmoore_

Correction- the name of Kobe Bryant’s Basketball school is Mamba Sports Academy

This episode we talk all about my most awkward party line... what I do for a living; social work in hospice!! Technically I’m in Palliative care now, yes, there’s a difference! We also talk job growth in Social Work and the healthcare field in 2020.

Link to Social Work stats https://www.bls.gov/ooh/community-and-social-service/mobile/social-workers.htm

Find me on IG @_catmoore_