Hey friends! I re-made my Self-Care Plan (download it here)!

Download it. Fill it out. Be colorful. And if you care to share, I’d be most appreciative to see what you’re doing with them, so if you take a picture and tag it with #SocialWorkSelfCare, that would be awesome!

Please re-blog to your friends and share with colleagues :)

humansofnewyork:

“I’m a Brooklyn Assistant D.A. I work on domestic violence cases— many of them homicides. Some of the crime scenes are just gruesome. It’s the same stuff soldiers see in a war. I see this stuff, I smell this stuff, it’s hard to get out of your mind. And even when I win a case, it’s hard to feel like I’m making a difference. It’s a never-ending cycle of violence. The offenders are so likely to offend again. And the women are likely to go right back to them, or find themselves in a similar relationship. The work is so tough, and it feels like I’m not even making a dent.”

Persevere, fellow human. We are fighting similar fights.

#Evernote Fanboy for life. Learned a few tricks today and am grateful for this awesome tool!

thepeoplesrecord:

pasalubong:

tranqualizer:

[photo: centered in the photo is a Black woman carrying a child in one arm with her other arm and fist raised. she is in the middle of chanting. there are others around her. a protest sign from the fast food strike in the background reads, “we are worth more. strike for 15. D15”

thepeoplesrecord:

Fast food strike wave spreads to Detroit, St. Louis
May 10, 2013

St. Louis, and last month’s in New York and Chicago, today’s work stoppage is backed by a local coalition including the Service Employees International Union, and the participants are demanding a raise to $15 an hour and the chance to form a union without intimidation.

Organizers say that over a hundred workers joined the St. Louis strike between Wednesday and Thursday. That included a group of Jimmy John’s workers who alleged that management humiliated them by requiring them to hold up signs in public with messages including “I made 3 wrong sandwiches today” and “I was more than 13 seconds in the drive thru.”

“Sometimes I walk for more than an hour just to save my train fare so I can spend it on Ramen noodles,” St. Louis Chipotle worker Patrick Leeper said in an e-mailed statement Thursday. “I can’t even think about groceries.”

A spokesperson for Jimmy John’s declined to comment on Thursday’s strike; McDonald’s and Wendy’s did not respond to inquiries last night.

As I’ve written elsewhere, the fate of the fast food strike wave carries far-reaching implications: Fast food jobs are a growing portion of our economy, and fast food-like conditions are proliferating in other sectors as well. Organizers say the fast food industry now employs twice as many Detroit-area workers as the city’s iconic auto industry. These strikes also come at a moment of existential crisis for the labor movement, a sobering reality that was brought into sharp relief in December when Michigan, arguably the birthplace of modern US private sector unionism, became the country’s latest “Right to Work” state.

Along with a shared significant supporter—SEIU—the campaigns in New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit have apparent strategies in common. Rather than waiting until they’ve built support from a majority of a store’s or company’s workers, they stage actions by a minority of the workforce designed to inspire their co-workers. Rather than publicly identifying the campaign and its organizers with a single international union, these union-funded efforts turn to allied community groups to spearhead organizing. Rather than training all their resources on a single company, they organize against all of the industry’s players at once. And—faced with legal and economic assaults that have weakened the strike weapon—these campaigns mount one-day work stoppages that are carefully tailored to maximize attention and minimize, but not eliminate, the risk that workers will lose their jobs.

Whether these strategies can ever compel a fast food giant to negotiate with its employees remains to be seen.

“After what I would consider well over three decades of wage suppression, workers in this particular industry—and then I think it’ll go to others—are realizing that their only way up the wage ladder is through their own organizations,” CUNY labor studies lecturer Ed Ott said Wednesday. Ott, a board member of the community organizing group that spearheaded the New York fast food strike, added, “The only way these workers are going to be able to advance these jobs is through unionization. And I think that idea has finally gotten traction.”

Update (9:15 AM Friday): According to the campaign, a walkout by twenty workers at Detroit’s 10400 Gratiot Avenue McDonald’s prevented the store from operating. Some workers brought in as strikebreakers to replace those striking workers chose to join the strike instead.

Organizers say that by day’s end, today’s strike could be the largest fast food work stoppage yet, topping last month’s 400-strong strike in New York.

Source

If fast food workers make $15 an hour, good on them, but it is crazy to think that they would be making the same amount as me and I have a Master’s degree. We know social work is underpaid and undervalued, but the implications of this would be severe.

Their work, their humanity, their 8 hours are worth just as much as yours. Don’t fool yourself, fool. I don’t care if you have 100 doctorate degrees in social work. You are not entitled to a better life than these other people. You are not entitled.

If you love social work, I’m glad you’re doing it. If you got a master’s degree so that you could pretend you are a more deserving or important person than fast food workers, then you are in the wrong industry.

Iggy Fun Fact: I started my social work/social justice career with SEIU as an intern organizer making home visits.

Good on SEIU.

sjw-proverbs:

amyleona:

Stop Stigma Sacramento
The Mental Illness: It’s not always what you think project was initiated by Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Behavioral Health Services to:
-Reduce stigma and discrimination
-Promote mental health and wellness
-Inspire hope for people and families living with mental illness

Stop Stigma Sacramento is one of the many projects here working to support those with mental illnesses. These are all over the county—on billboards, community boards, and gas pumps.

For mental health resources in the county, visit the NAMI Sacramento website

Some more actual social justice. This is fucking perfect. Can we get these on billboards out here on the East Coast?

I’m overcome with the emotion that happens when someone does a great and righteous campaign.

I saw these a long time ago and San Luis Obispo County is doing the same thing to end stigma. I love these so much. While these might be stock-photo people, I love what they did to normalize these mental health conditions.

adiostoreador:

the-absolute-funniest-posts:

engage-with-zorp:

I majored in gif making.

this is so sad

between the first and last days of college, he lost his sight, his friends, and his smile

GPOY

thefrogman:

He-Dad by Jesse Cline [website | facebook]

[h/t: tastefullyoffensive]

For the Social Worker reference

spamberrie:

sandy6music:

mycroft-queenofcake:

indygogo:

This man is a gift to this world.

i like that the peter pan fandom seemingly came out of nowhere. this man is lovely

This makes me love Peter Pan even more, if that was possible.

This made me cry

When Peter Pan is a better therapist than you

(Source: xxbecstarrittaxx)

Haaaaaaaaa

(Source: notabadday)

raptorific:

I’M SO ANGRY

SOME 16TH CENTURY ASSHOLE WROTE “GOD B W YE” IN A LETTER AS AN ABBREVIATION FOR “GOD BE WITH YE”

AND IT APPEARED AS “GODBWYE”

WHICH WAS THEN READ AS “GOODBYE”

AND THAT’S WHY WE SAY “GOODBYE”

BECAUSE OF 16TH CENTURY CHAT SPEAK

When a job requires a cover letter

reasonswhyidonthaveajob:

Master this art to get you above the crowd. For serious. The book, “What Does Somebody Have to Do to Get a Job Around Here! 44 Insider Secrets and Tips that Will Get You Hired” is golden, worth a read, and applicable to those of us in the 401(c)(3) universe. A someone who has worked in non-profits, let me tell you that they are run exactly and as stringent as a corporation.

I am Iggy and Proud

That is to say that I am not a robot (there is a guy who goes by I Am Robot And Proud).

I’m hyper-critical of the things I write for Social Work Tech and I am damn committed to write in my contemporary voice, as I am not an academic, an elite, or bougouie. I am reading over a draft of a post I’m about to write to social work students and I’m freaking mortified to see that I wrote it like a robot. As if Mittens Romney (R-MONEY) wrote it. It’s not me.

I need to stop being super hypercritical of the stuff I write, write shorter, and write better (for the latter point, see: previous paragraph). I hope I do you proud.

Facebook is the living dead: the most popular, least relevant social network where teenagers and adults alike gather out of fear of missing out on things that don’t even make them happy.

Amanda Hess, Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They’re Not Logging Off

Hess cites new Pew Study, Teens, Social Media, and Privacy by Mary Madden, Amanda Lenhart, Sandra Cortesi, Urs Gasser, Maeve Duggan, Aaron Smith. Facebook has become a social obligation, and has been colonized by disapproving, ever vigilant adults.

(via stoweboyd)

My social media strategy takes into account age of the audience I want to attract:

1. FB = my age and older social workers

2. Tumblr = my age and future social workers

3. Twitter = robots

4. Instagram = everyone

(Source: nathanjurgenson)