Alyssa Rodriguez, LCSW, CSSW-S is a social worker in Chicago, Illinois.  She is also a Chicago Union Delagate as part of the teachers union.  She describes her day to day as a school social worker in Chicago school district.   She describes the drama the teachers had during the Covid Pandemic including going on strke in the Fall of 2019.  Alyssa discusses the importance of advocacy and learning about policy.  

She adds during this school year, the district had to work with the influx of migrants from Ukraine and from Mexico.    We discuss real estate in Chicago, the importance of learning about redlining.  Chicago has some of the hottest neighborhoods for real estate in America.  At the same time gentrification has taken over these neighborhoods.    

Alyssa can be found on Instagram at www.instagram.com/afabalyslife 

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Elease Cook, LMSW is a licensed social worker in the state of Virgina.  She currently works at the University of Virgina outpatient psychiatric clinic.  She discusses her current role.  She discusses what she has seen in Virginia related to social work.  We discuss tips to look out for related to jobs and working in general as a social worker.  

Also we discuss workplace trauma, issues with the CSWE, licensing exam.    

Elease can be found on Instagram at www.instagram.com/pan_de_replay  

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Portia Rouse is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Baltimore, Maryland aka Charm City. She currently works full time as a field instructor for Masters Level and Macro Level social work students.  She discusses her struggles as a field instructor.  We discuss the housing changes in Baltimore and politics in Baltimore City and Maryland overall. We also discuss the areas of need in Baltimore.  

We also discuss the struggles of entrepreneurship with her business Minds Over Matter LLC.  

Portia can be found on Instagram at @mindsovermatterllc_  #mentalhealth #socialwork #entrepreneurship   

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Budy Whitfield, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York.  She is also a speaker, author, podcaster and coach.  

She is one of the contibuting authors of the Amazon #1 best seller Latinx in Social Work Volume 2.   In her chapter she discusses what she calls thriving in chaos and the loss of her brother from drug use.   She is hosting a virtual summit called Your Year to Break Through on Saturday January 21st from 11am-3pm Eastern.  Register for the event using this link: https://www.youryeartobreakthrough.com 

Budy can be found on Instagram at www.instagram.com/Iambeauteousme  

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Lindsay Malhotra, LMSW, LCDC, PSS is the DIrector of Outpatient Services at Nexus, a substance abuse program in Dallas, Texas.  We discuss her program which only serves females. The program is geared towards pregnant women in need of a drug program and women in recovery.  The program offers a 28 day program, 90 day program, outpatient program and a peer support group.    

We also discuss immigration and the political landscape in Texas.    

Lindsay can be followed on Instagram and Twitter @LindsayMalhotra     

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Is it #grief Is It #burnout Is It #compassionfatigue Chronicles life since 2019 and the transitions and traumatic events that followed. #mentalhealth   Is also important to celebrate your wins.  

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The holidays are not always "the most wonderful time of the year".  Many people are grieving the losses of loved ones.  Luccas Contreras is a MSW graduate student at University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Luccas discusses the loss of his dad 7 years ago.   We discuss normalizing having discussions of grief and loss during the holidays.  

 Luccas can be found on Instagram @dadboots2 

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Elizabeth Conde, LMSW-SIFI  is currently a school social worker.  She currently serves as a volunteer advisory board member for Northen Manhattan  Improvement Corporation.    Elizabeth is a contributing author of the Amazon best seller Latinx in Social Work Volume 2 which is currently available on Amazon in English and Spanish.  We discuss her chapter in the book with relates to fitting in, being bullied, assimilation, things our clients go through in society.    We also talk about her "social work angels".  I love however subconsiously Elizabeth talks about the importance of networking.  

Elizabeth can be followed on Instagram @elizabeth_conde_sw 

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