Newsletter Highlights and Links

° School Social Work Practice Update: MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF SUPERVISION IN SCHOOL
SOCIAL WORK

°  WANTED: Ideas from Clinicians

°  News from the UVM Department of Social Work

° The month's "Items of General Interest"

 - NASW-VT Donates Office Furniture to Non-Profits CLICK
 
 - State Representative (and NASW-VT Member) Ann Pugh Thanks NASW-VT PACE for Our Endorsement and Contribution to Her Campaign for Re-election
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° NASW-VT Offers Great Educational Programs in FY2011

°  New Practice Update: Part II: Advocating for Change in Home Health Care

° Tidbits From National- September 2010-
NEW NEW NEW

° Loan Forgiveness for Social Workers

° NASW Member Insurance Programs & Services

° Alerts for Clinicians

° ASWB completes social work practice analysis

° Updates form National     NASW:
  National Call for Nominations – Elected and Appointed- NEW NEW NEW

Impact of Health Care Reform

Advisory Committee to Help Raise Public Awareness of Social Work

° LOTS AND LOTS of CEU opportunities this summer and fall. Click here for NASW-VT approved ones.

° NEW Job listings. Click here

NASW-VT 2010 Annual Conference

Friday, October 29, 2010
College of Saint Joseph, Rutland, VT
Registration at 9:00, closing by 4:00

5 CEUs total 2.5 ETHICS

Sustaining Compassion and Hope in Challenging Times

Featuring Keynote and workshop with Paul Fulton, Ed.D.

Director of Mental Health, Tufts Health Plan and Founding Member, Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy
Boston, Massachusetts

“Teach us to care and not to care.  Teach us to sit still.”

Mindfulness, compassion, and compassion fatigue

We are continually called upon to witness seemingly endless human suffering, and our efforts on behalf of our clients or ourselves can seem hopelessly inadequate.  How are we to remain helpful to others when we are faced with our own uncertainties and the simple exhaustion of compassion?  Dr. Fulton will speak to the contribution mindfulness may make to the heart of the caregiver through a reconceptualization of the nature of suffering, the cultivation of compassion for ourselves and others, and a changed relationship to difficult experience itself.         

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We are looking for volunteers for several small tasks during the day. If you could like more information or to sign up to help, click here for email or call: 888-260-7398

Gale Golden and Martha Molpus to be Honored with NASW-VT Awards

The Board of NASW-VT is proud to announce that two long-time members have been selected for recognition at our 2010 Annual Conference. Gale Holtz Golden, Burlington, will receive the NASW-VT Social Worker of the Year Award and Martha Molpus, East Middlebury, is being recognized as the NASW-VT Chapter Volunteer of the Year.

 

Be sure to watch this web site for MORE upcoming CEU events.