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I was tired and weary. Bright fall days turned to bitter rainy ones that pushed beads of cold water down my neck and into the seams of my shoes. Every day I commuted on a crowded train under bright fluorescent lights that made my inevitable headache worse. On top of having a demanding job, the ...
Wurzweiler is hosting a Campaign School for Social Workers in collaboration with The Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work. Join us on Thursday and Friday, November 2-3 at the Weissberg Commons in Belfer Hall. Learn more & register> The Campaign School is open to anyone who wants to…
—Katherine Mitchell Ph.D, LCSW, CASAC One of the customs among the Dilley On The Ground (OTG) team is to do what they call “Big Table” on Monday and Thursday night each week. This gives the week’s group of volunteers an opportunity to process some of what they experienced. On Monday night, it was…
—Katherine Mitchell, Ph.D, LCSW, CASAC Today was certainly calmer than the preceding two days. There were fewer women and children coming to the visitor’s center where the legal staff, law students and social work team have their work space. We have begun to get a rhythm down and have a better ...
—Katherine Mitchell, Ph.D, LCSW, CASAC Day two, incredibly saw more incoming refugees than day one. The legal staff, law school students and social work team worked together efficiently and we were able to respond to a multitude of needs presented by the ladies and their children. Chief among them…
—Katherine Mitchell, Ph.D, LCSW, CASAC Domenica's doing great. Because she doesn't speak Spanish she spent a lot of yesterday with me helping with the psych evaluations doing some really vital administrative work for the law staff. Most of the ladies here (all 1500 of them) are here with small ...
On the Way to the Top - Parshat Terumah Avraham (Allan) Friedman February 28th, 2017 On the Way to the Top - Parshat Terumah " This is the message that we receive from motivational speakers around the world. You can accomplish what you set your mind to. Just set your sights and get moving. And it…
I recently started a nonprofit organization. Not infrequently, I wonder to myself what I could possibly have been thinking that made this seem like a good idea. I currently have three kids, two jobs, and a new house; extra time is not something I have laying around the house these days. On top of…
by Mark Fishman This January I’ll be moving across the country from Los Angeles to New York, where I will begin my pursuit of earning a Masters of Social Work degree at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work. With this change comes many questions, but there is one in particular I can’t seem to shake…
I’d never felt like more of a fish out of water (or a Canadian out of her element) than the first day at work in the South Bronx. At the time I had been enrolled in the MSW program approximately three weeks and could not have felt more unprepared for what was about to come. Anxiety filled each of…