The Uplevel Your Position Program Career Development Program has been redesigned so social work students and recent grads (within 2 years) can chart a clear path to the career of their dreams. The Uplevel Your Position Program can help avoid pitfalls as you begin your job search, create materials that stand out from the competition, and establish […]
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An internship can be described as a work-related learning experience for persons who wish to gain hands-on experience in a certain industry or occupational field. The U.S. Department of Labor has established 7 criteria to determine whether an intern should be paid or unpaid (there is more leniency for nonprofit organizations). The Department of
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Welcome to April 2023! April is: Internship Awareness Month Stress Awareness Month Financial Literacy Month My birthday Month – It’s Aries season and I am a few days away from a milestone birthday! Social Work Month 2023 has ended and so has quarter 1. This first full week of April and the first full
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I kicked off National Social Work Month and Women’s History Month with a Mind and Manna YouTube channel interview with Sunya Williams Folayan on March 1, 2023. The topic was Choosing You At This Stage of Life. I had a great time returning to the Millennial Social Work Conference, March 3-4, 2023, in Atlanta,
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The question I get asked most often is what else can I do with my social work degree. I don’t want to do therapy, I don’t know how to get into macro social work, I am burned out, and don’t want to work with this population anymore, what else can I do with my
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Who just realized they slipped back into juggling/planning too many things at once?!?! Yep, that’s right! It’s me again! 🤦🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🤷🏽♀️ These deadlines I set were MY deadlines and I could have given myself more time to do ‘all the things’ or not decided to do ‘all the things’ at the same time! #WhewChile I’m
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Question: What Can I Do With A Social Work Degree? Answer: Anything that you want! I am on a mission to eliminate the old, narrow view of social work and promote the expansive diversity, opportunity, and career fields available to those with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work. Social work is more than
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Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being. Social workers practice in a wide variety of settings and work across three scales or levels to create change – macro, mezzo,
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I am on a mission to eliminate the old, narrow view of social work and promote the expansive diversity, opportunity, and career fields available to those with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work. I’m also the professor who assigns group projects. We all love group projects right LOL? The completion of this blog post
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I feel like strong documentation, strong professional boundaries, and strong problem-solving skills are included in social work 101. I am a boundaries girl. Most people who interact with me know that and respect the boundaries I set. Do you know who didn’t honor the boundaries I set? Me! I didn’t honor my own boundaries
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