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THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER® Social Work E-News
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Issue #22, October 8, 2002
EDITOR'S EYE
Dear Social Work Colleagues,
Welcome to Issue #22 of the Social Work E-News. This e-mail newsletter is brought to you by the publisher of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine and other social work publications.
The response to SocialWorkJobBank.com, announced in the last two issues, has been overwhelming! If you are looking for a social work job, or if you are hiring social workers, please visit the site and register for an account. Please note that there are two kinds of accounts-job seeker and employer. Be sure to sign up for the right one, so you will be able to take full advantage of the services offered for your needs. All services for job seekers are provided at no charge. For a limited time, the first job posting is FREE to employers, so if your agency is hiring, please take advantage of this limited time introductory offer!
This week (October 6-12) is Mental Illness Awareness Week, and this issue of the E-News includes an article about NAMI's activities.
If you're applying to MSW programs, don't miss our upcoming Author Chat on the Social Work Grad School Site! Monday night, October 14, 9-10 p.m. Eastern Time, meet us at http://www.socialworkgradschool.com and click on the chat link. Guest speaker is Jesús Reyes, author of the book THE SOCIAL WORK GRADUATE SCHOOL APPLICANT'S HANDBOOK.
Last week, I attended a local continuing education workshop on ethics and assessment and the use of the PIE (person-in-environment) system. Very interesting topic, and it was great to see "old" colleagues and meet some new ones. I always enjoy the networking and learning aspects of conferences and workshops, and I encourage you to take advantage of continuing education opportunities. There are so many options now-in-person, online, home study. Find those that have something of value to offer you, and go for it!
Speaking of conferences, I look forward to seeing any of you who will be at the BPD (Baccalaureate Program Directors) conference in Pittsburgh later this month. I'll be in the exhibit hall (booth #40), so stop by and say hello!
Until next time,
Linda Grobman, ACSW, LSW
Publisher/Editor
THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER®
http://www.socialworker.com
linda.grobman@paonline.com
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IN THIS ISSUE
News
A Word From Our Sponsor
Feature
Calendar of Events
In Print
Job Corner
Newsletter Necessities
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NEWS
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SOCIAL POLICY JOURNAL SUBMISSIONS NEEDED
Katherine van Wormer and Fred Besthorn are editing an issue on restorative justice for SOCIAL POLICY TIMES (a new refereed electronic journal coming out of Hong Kong) and welcome submissions. Articles can be 700-2000 words or 500-1000 words for shorter ones. Shorter articles will be considered for SOCIAL POLICY TIMES, and longer, APA style articles will be considered for the JOURNAL OF SOCIETAL AND SOCIAL POLICY, a print journal. The deadline is Feb. 1st. The issue is out in June so this is a quick turnaround. Please let Katherine know if you are sending a submission, and e-mail the manuscript to her or mail a copy and disk to her at Social Work Department, 36 Sabin Hall, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614. Her e-mail address is vanwormer@uni.edu
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FEATURE
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NAMI Calls for Political Revolution to End Broken Promises
Presidential Commission's Preliminary Report Due Soon
Arlington, VA-The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) on October 7 announced the launch of the "Campaign for the Mind of America," a multi-year effort on many fronts to promote investment in recovery-and to prevent the abandonment of yet another generation of Americans with mental illnesses to neglect and hopelessness.
Elements of the campaign include:
· Advertisements this week in USA Today promoting education about specific illnesses at www.nami.org and a new state-of-the art Web site that will be on-line by the end of the year.
· A grassroots "I Vote, I Count" education campaign consisting of candidate questionnaires and forums leading into Election Day 2002, followed by meetings with elected officials before the 2003 legislative sessions and extending into the 2004 election cycle.
· Co-sponsorship of the National Forensic League's 2002-2003 Policy Debates involving 15,000 high school students from more than 1,000 schools nationwide, focused on the issue: Resolved that the federal government should substantially increase public health services for mental health care in the United States.
· "Walks for the Mind of America" in 13 communities around the nation in May 2003 in Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and South Carolina.
· Expansion of NAMI's "In Our Own Voice: Living With Mental Illness" antistigma education program in which people with mental illnesses speak directly to community groups about their experiences. The program already has grown from six states in 2001 to 25 by the end of 2002.
· Expansion of NAMI's signature "Family to Family Education" program, which currently graduates approximately 10,000 family members of people with mental illnesses each year in 45 states. During the 12-week course, family members find mutual support, learn about the nature of different mental illnesses and important coping skills-and ultimately learn to be advocates in dealing with medical or government bureaucracies and seeking implementation of state-of-the art services in their communities.
"We have the knowledge and tools to help people recover from mental illnesses," said NAMI executive director Richard C. Birkel, Ph.D. "What we lack as a society is the will to use them. We are living in a scientific revolution that began in the 1970s, but a political revolution is needed as well."
"Many people with mental illnesses were deinstitutionalized in the 1970s, but the federal and state governments broke promises to provide community treatment and supports such as housing and employment opportunities."
"No one is immune. One out of five Americans will experience a mental illness, but no more than a third get the treatment they need. The cost to society of untreated mental illness is more than $100 billion a year. Lives are wasted or lost. The nation experiences 30,000 suicides each year-more than the number of homicides-with suicide also being the third leading cause of death among teenagers and young adults."
"We need to build a comprehensive, efficient system to screen, evaluate, diagnose and treat mental illnesses at every stage of life. We need a system that affirms principles of individual liberty and freedom-which are as old as the values in our nation's Declaration of Independence. We must act now to build a new revolution."
"Our lives and those of our children depend on it."
NAMI's announcement of the new campaign is timed to coincide with Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW), October 6-12, 2002, and to precede release later this month of a preliminary report on the nation's treatment system by President Bush's "New Freedom" Commission on Mental Health.
As a first step toward reform, President Bush pledged in April 2002, while naming the commission, to work to enact legislation "this year" establishing parity for mental health benefits in health insurance plans. With Congress preparing to adjourn this week, however, leaders in the House of Representatives so far have ignored that promise.
Other NAMI initiatives announced earlier this year also will play important roles in the Campaign for the Mind of America:
· Establishment of the NAMI Policy Research Institute (NPRI) for the development of innovative policy and advocacy strategies.
· Establishment of the NAMI Multicultural and International Outreach (MIO) Center, which convened a Latino Leadership Symposium in June 2002 and launched a landmark Global Partnership Initiative (GPI) pairing four NAMI state organizations with similar advocacy groups on four continents.
· Establishment of a Treatment/Recovery Information & Advocacy Database (TRIAD) project to begin tracking state and community investments in the public mental health system, along with evidence-based analysis of successes or failures.
For more information about mental illness and Mental Illness Awareness Week, visit NAMI's web site at http://www.nami.org
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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Stop by THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER's chat room on Sunday evenings at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. Rich Bott, BSW, is doing a great job of hosting the lively discussion of social work issues. Rich has been a regular on our Web site's message board since his BSW student days, and he is a dedicated volunteer chat host! To chat, go to our home page at http://www.socialworker.com and click on the "Chat Now" button.
We have scheduled author chats on our Social Work Grad School site for this fall. Next Monday night, October 14, at 9 p.m. Eastern Time, join Jesús Reyes, author of THE SOCIAL WORK GRADUATE SCHOOL APPLICANT'S HANDBOOK, for an informative discussion. Then, on November 13, Jan Ligon-who wrote several chapters with Jim Ward in THE FIELD PLACEMENT SURVIVAL GUIDE (as well as articles for THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER)-will chat about field placement issues. These chats can be accessed from the main page of the site at http://www.socialworkgradschool.com
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