-
Top Rated
Archives
TOPICS
- administration
- affordable housing
- assessment
- back to school
- boundaries
- BSW student
- budget
- case management
- case manager
- child abuse
- children
- Coalition for the Homeless
- community
- countertransference
- cultural competence
- cultural competency training
- cultural humility
- disability benefits
- Dr. Angelo McClain
- economy
- education
- ethnicity
- family
- government
- gratitude
- homelessness
- human resources
- humor
- job description
- leadership
- love
- management styles
- mandated reporter
- medicine
- mental health
- MSW
- MSW student
- nasw
- non-profit
- not-for-profit
- not for profit management
- pain
- performance appraisal
- performance evaluation
- positive attitude
- Poverty
- program development
- program management
- program manager
- projection
- racism
- relationship building
- Request for proposal
- resume
- resume writing
- RFP
- self-care
- social service
- social work
- social work clients
- social workers
- social work students
- social work supervisor
- SSI
- staff meetings
- student
- substance abuse
- supervision
- supervisor
- supportive housing
- transference
- trust
- truth
- use of self
- white privilege
Blogs I Follow
The author
Tag Archives: not-for-profit
Cultural Humility, Part II – Promoting Cultural Humility In the Workplace
“Cultural competence means we’ve been educated about other cultures, humility is how we should be practicing that competence in the field.” So writes social worker Sarah Elizabeth, who blogs at RootedInBeing and got this conversation going. I agree, Sarah. As … Continue reading
Cultural Humility, Part I — What Is ‘Cultural Humility’?
A follower of my blog went to the ‘Suggest A Topic’ section of my website and posed this question: “As a program manager, and/or supervisor – how does one promote and enforce cultural humility and an inclusive workplace?” This … Continue reading
Structuring Supervision
An unfortunate reality of the “high volume, high intensity” settings that many social workers work in is that supervision is either sacrificed, or done exclusively on the fly. And while supervision on the fly—as supervisor and supervisee pass each other … Continue reading
Once Upon A Client: Boundaries
Welcome to the first in my new periodic series here at The Social Work Practitioner called Once Upon A Client. Once Upon A Client will explore aspects of social work practice through experiences I’ve had with particular clients. These experiences … Continue reading
Why Social Work?
“Social workers are a depressed bunch.” So said a colleague of mine, a social worker himself. We were on break during a training and a few feet away, sipping coffee and popping Dunkin’ Munchkins, was a group of our fellow … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged case management, countertransference, non-profit, not-for-profit, pain, projection, self-care, social work, supervision, transference
11 Comments
“I’d Like You To Meet Our New Program Manager”
“Hello” was not the first thing I said to the assembled staff when I walked into my first meeting as a Program Manager at a large not-for-profit. When you’re new and people are friendly (or curious, or wary) it can … Continue reading
The Social Work Practitioner 