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June 2015 - Three Rivers District Update
Happy June! Summer is coming fast and for some, that means information technology'south time to air current downwardly and tiresome down for a while. For others, it's a bustling time with kids at home and trying to balance domicile and work life. Whatever information technology is for you, I hope you take a take chances to savour the warmer atmospheric condition and work some relaxation into your schedule.
As I contemplate planning district events for the autumn, I'm interested in hearing from you regarding what topics you would like to learn more than nigh. One case might be the DSM-5 changes. If you are an expert on a specific subject and would like to share your noesis, I'd also similar to hear from yous.
Welcome to the following new members:
Samantha Diane Walls, MSW
Madeleine Havey
Delinda Dunlap-Ryan, MSW, LSW
Corsina Deanna Perez
Samantha Ritacco
Raquel Rocha, MSW
Amanda C Southwell, LCSW CADC
Tom Douglas, LCSW
Amanda Nicole Harrah
Amanda Lee Huggins, MSW
Hector Angel Cano, Type 73
Brianna Glossett
Dolores Larkin, LCSW, Caadc, MBA
Fraeda Rebecca Friedman
David A Hipes
Yesenia Rodriguez, BSW
Elizabeth Grand Willis, LCSW
Elizabeth Danielle Manczko, LSW
AJ Madonia
Tamika Hall
Sara Fifty Primus
Rachel Neftzer Snavely
Maggie Beacon, MSW
Take a great summer!
June 2015 - Southern District Update
I would like to beginning off this update by welcoming all of our newest members - Tabetha Viers-Farley, Lauren Henderson, Jonetta Clark, Eric Eblin, Paige Brandon, Peyton Skees, and Jane Stilwell. Welcome all of you to this wonderful arrangement!
2015 Affiliate Election
Results from the April ballot were posted earlier this month. Please assistance us welcome all of our new officials! http://www.naswil.org/news/chapter-news/featured/2015-nasw-illinois-chapter-election-results/
2015 Statewide Awards
The 2015 NASW Illinois Chapter Statewide Awards have been appear! Congrats to this year'southward winners: Lifetime Achievement Awardee Barry Ackerson; Social Worker of the Year Jeff Zacharias; Emerging Leader Edna Flowers; and Public Citizen of the Year Elizabeth Robb. Read more almost the awardees here: http://www.naswil.org/news/chapter-news/featured/2015-nasw-illinois-chapter-statewide-awards/. They will be presented with their awards later on this twelvemonth at the statewide conference.
Earn 20 CEUs at the 2015 Statewide Conference
Online registration is now open up for the 2015 NASW Illinois Chapter Statewide Conference: A Coming together of the Professions. This year's conference will be taking place at The Westin Chicago Due north Shore in Wheeling, IL. Up to 20 CEUs will be provided to attendees! Sign up today for early on bird savings at http://naswilmeets.org/.
Upcoming Networking Outcome
Come join united states of america at Joe's Crab Shack in Fairview Heights on Thursday, June 18th at 5:00pm. It will be a not bad time to see fellow Social Workers in our area and discuss what's going on in our area. It's always an enjoyable evening!
This is the beginning of my last year as your Southern District Chair. My how time flies! I accept thoroughly enjoyed my time thus far, but am also set up to brand this year the all-time yet!
New Medicare Payment System Includes Raises for Clinical Social Workers
Medicare Fee for Services is existence replaced with payment increases for clinical social workers and other Medicare providers over the adjacent v years.
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2015 NASW Illinois Chapter Statewide Conference
Online registration now open. Earn upwards to 20 CEUs including ideals and cultural competency!
A Coming together of the Profession
2015 NASW Illinois Affiliate Statewide Conference
Mon, October nineteen through Wednesday, Oct 21, 2015
Annals HERE: http://naswilmeets.org/
This yr's 2015 NASW Illinois Chapter Statewide Briefing: A Meeting of the Profession is the largest gathering of social work professionals in the state, bringing together over 800 social work leaders, practitioners, educators, and more. Taking place this year in Wheeling, IL, the 2015 NASW Illinois Chapter Statewide Conference is a rare opportunity to network with other social workers. Come meet the best and the brightest of Illinois social workers! This year's conference offers upwards to 20 CEUs to attendees including workshops in cultural competency and ideals. With more than 75 educational sessions and over 125 speakers, the 2015 NASW Illinois Chapter Statewide Conference connects you to the newest trends, innovations, and practices that tin can assistance y'all strengthen and improve your social work skills. And with our workshops qualifying for LSWs, LCSWs, LPCs, LCPCs, LMFTs, LPNs, APNs, LCPs, and CADCs*, there's no reason non to attend. Register today!
*This conference is currently existence submitted for CADC approval.
Conference Location
The Westin Chicago N Shore
601 N. Milwaukee Artery
Wheeling IL 60090
The Westin Chicago North Shore is situated only sixteen miles due north of O'Hare International Drome in the prestigious North Shore district. The Wheeling hotel location blends style and elegance with the convenience of a total-service hotel. For further accommodation information, go to: http://naswilmeets.org/hotel-information/.
PROTECT: Modernize Our Taxation Codes to Avoid Cuts
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As advocates for good for you children, families, and communities, social workers empathize that choosing to invest in children, families, and communities is the best matter we tin do to propel our state toward economic prosperity. Only when lawmakers chose to let the income tax scroll dorsum in January, they created an over $half dozen billion budget hole in next yr's budget, leaving a huge gap in the funding available for vital programs in the communities social workers serve.
That means that unless lawmakers and the governor enact reforms to modernize Illinois' tax code and increase our country'due south revenue base, deep cuts that hurt children, families, and communities are coming.
We know that cuts accept consequences and that we tin't cut our mode to prosperity. The path to prosperity lies in investing in Illinois families and communities, not cutting services that are central to a stronger economic system and a brighter futurity for children and families. This twelvemonth lawmakers have ample choices when it comes to modernizing and reforming our tax code in order to avoid destabilizing cuts to families and communities.
Families and communities thrive when the state invests in quality didactics and homo service programs that create opportunities for all Illinoisans to reach their full potential. Research has repeatedly proven that making minor investments up forepart saves taxpayers money by preventing much more costly problems afterwards on. For example providing mental health care in communities helps prevent loftier-cost hospitalization and institutionalization (or even incarceration), and allows those who receive assistance to be more productive members of society.
Businesses thrive when Illinois invests in our people and so that they have the skills necessary to assist businesses compete in a global economy. Businesses as well thrive when our state invests in our roads, bridges, and airports then that they tin can apace and cheaply become their appurtenances to marketplace.
Businesses desire to locate where they have easy access to markets, a large supply of well-educated employees, and a stable environment. One affair businesses don't want is the instability and doubtfulness that comes from abiding land budget crises brought on by inadequate revenue. Far down businesses' listing of concerns are land tax rates since corporate income taxes make upwards merely about one-quarter of a percent of corporate expenses.
The proficient news is that lawmakers and the governor have many options when it comes to modernizing our tax code. For instance they can augment our sales tax past including more services. Our electric current sales tax is a remnant of an earlier era where most of the things that people bought were goods. Just equally our economy has changed and people purchase more services, our sales revenue enhancement has not kept upwards. Past only taxing the same services as Iowa, Illinois could enhance over $4 billion a year in urgently needed revenue to avoid harmful cuts.
Another place to modernize our tax code is to end Illinois' status as the only midwest state that provides a blanket exemption for taxing retirement income, regardless of the corporeality. This ways that someone with a $ane million a year alimony pays no state income taxation. Taxing seniors' retirement income over $l,000 a year, non counting Social Security, could raise $1 billion a twelvemonth or more.
Illinois faces a critical choice. If nosotros cull a race-to-the-bottom approach by insisting on low taxes and no new acquirement, we face up a time to come with decreasing investments in public schools and universities, crumbling road and bridges, and increasing costs to address social ills such as offense and untreated mental affliction that could have been prevented with a much smaller upfront investment.
If we cull revenue, we tin can invest in our residents and improve the infrastructure that drives businesses forward to create a more prosperous state that people are proud to call home.
That'due south why lawmakers and the governor must choose to develop new revenue instead of cutting the services that make Illinois families and communities strong.
Emily Miller is policy and advocacy director at Voices for Illinois Children.
From the Pen of the President: June 2015
Equally I write this, my final "From the Pen of the President," I can still feel the excitement of condign president of this extraordinary chapter and retrieve how humbling it was to be elected to such a position representing the thousands of members in our state association. So now, to write nearly my experience every bit president in a brusk article is to attempt the impossible. What I want to tell you honestly is that one of the best decisions I ever made was to accept the challenge and get involved in leadership opportunities with our NASW Illinois Chapter. I can also tell you that this journey is goose egg similar I envisioned it would exist—it has been invigorating, impelling,and I take learned and gained so much in the process. This journey's been priceless!
I experience blessed for the collegial relationships and meaningful friendships that I have made with so many around the state and country. I accept been inspired by members of our NASW Illinois Chapter staff, our board of directors, committee chairs, interns, and volunteers, every bit well as those of you I have worked and networked with that share my passion and pride for our profession and who collectively experience an obligation to membership needs and who promote the profession wherever the opportunity presents.
Special thanks and appreciation to our NASW Illinois Chapter Executive Director Joel Rubin and professional staff for the work you do on behalf of all social workers in our state. I take valued my fourth dimension partnering with each of yous and regard you as an exceptional—or ameliorate withal—a phenomenal team of innovative leaders who work tirelessly to deliver quality services, programming, and advocacy for the members in our land and our association. I am grateful to all the members of the NASW Illinois Affiliate Board of Directors that I have worked with over the years for your commitment, gift of time and talent, vision, and courage in making decisions relating to the mission and strategic priorities for NASW. I want to also express my sincere gratitude to each one of y'all, our members, for the work you practise in your areas of social piece of work exercise. I hope y'all believe that you are making a divergence in others' lives. And I wish each of you volition find ways to take skillful care of yourselves as you do for others every day!
So onward I volition remain a steadfast supporter of the NASW Illinois Chapter. I wish to welcome Don Phelps, our incoming NASW Illinois Chapter President, and I look forward to his good leadership as he guides us and moves our clan into the future. He is a respected, knowledgeable, and dedicated leader who volition exist responsive to the needs of our membership in this ever-changing environment. I am confident that Don and Joel Rubin will be a strong force and vox of leadership for our profession and our association.
We are a slap-up profession and association. Information technology has been an accolade serving NASW and representing our members. I regardit a privilege having served in this role, and I thank yous for trusting me in it!
Candi Gray, MSW, LCSW, OSW-C, is a licensed clinical social worker and fellow member of NASW and AOSW (Association of Oncology Social Work). Candi has worked in a diverseness of healthcare settings, helping those impacted by diverse health-related problems and illnesses. Beginning her career at the City/County of San Francisco Wellness Department in San Francisco's Tenderloin commune, Candi went on to work in the areas of elderliness, substance abuse, medical example direction, HIV/AIDS, and oncology. Currently, she works as an oncology social worker at the Community Cancer Middle in Normal, IL, a comprehensive, community -based cancer care provider serving persons in Central Illinois. Additionally, she has been a field supervisor for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Illinois State Academy's social work programs and Illinois Country University's Child Life program.
June 2015 - Chicago District Update
As we transition into summer, we may consider trips to the beach, parks, patios and events. Don't merely imagine. Engage in your favorite summer activities. The longer days could be what's needed to disrupt monotonous routines that we may have inadvertently created and that at times leave us feeling exhausted. Re-energize this summer!
I'chiliad pleased to announce that two Chicago Commune members take been selected as this year'southward NASW Illinois Affiliate Statewide awardees. Jeff Zacharias, LCSW, CSAT, CAADC (Social Worker of the Year) and Edna Flores, MSW (Emerging Leader) volition receive this recognition during an awards ceremony at the 2015 NASW Illinois Chapter Statewide Conference. For more information about the 2015 NASW Illinois Affiliate Statewide Conference: Coming together of the Profession, please visit our website.
Allow's make sure social work students and recent graduates know almost Kickstart Your Career: A Panel on Finding Your First Job in the Field. This one.5-hour event will have place on Tuesday, June 16 at v:30pm. More information is bachelor hither.
Two continuing education events will be offered this month at the NASW IL Chapter offices, in downtown Chicago. On June 11, Building a Pattern for Success: Using a Logic Model to Drive an Organization'southward Mission will offer 3 CEUs. While 4 CEUs can be obtained atFundamentals of Being a Clinical Supervisor; which will take place on June 26, 2015. Call back that the adjacent deadline for licensure renewal is Nov thirty, 2015.
Welcome the newest members to the NASW and the Chicago Commune:
Anastasia Scangas, Andria Linn Goss, Anthony Tharpe, Bethany Dahlen Relyea, Brittany Austin, Brooke Laskin, Caitlin Rose Cubbon, Christina Richards, Christine Leak, Cory Grapenthien, Cynthia Gisel Zepeda, Eddie Shafer, Elizabeth Reinecke, Grace Olivia Dickman, Harper Essenfeld, Heather Lopez, Hillary Thousand. Gimpel, Jazmin Lopez Solis, Jennifer Durand, Jill Leanne Ruegg, Jim Searing, Kaitlyn M. Peterson, Kelly Ray Allen, Kenya Butts, Kristal King, Lauren Bassler, Lauren Finnegan, Liam T. Brown, Liliana Gomez, Lina Costelloe, Lisa Rosemarie Campagna, Louis Diamond, Lynne Kavin, Marcella K. Oglesby, Marie Ann Woods, Marie Ellen Gorman, Mark Antonio Dupree, Meagan Marsh, Michelle Ann Behrens, Michelle Henderson Bonaparte, Michelle Negrillo, Mio Nomura, Mirtha Williams, Mladenka Kovacevic Totonchi, Molly M. Watson, Monica Ortiz, Nicole Schalinske, Nicole Wells, Patrick Curran, Poonam Sahasrabudhe, Rachel Clarke, Rachel Emily Foster, Rachel I. Minzer, Rachel Pastermak, Rebecca Waite-Marin, Robin D. Petchenik, Saul Perez, Shannon Skahan, Shaquita D. Chocolate-brown, Shelly Roy, Shital A. Patel, Stacey Jo Mattingly, Stephanie Amila Estrada-Martinez, Stephen J. Stocker, Steven Scheuer, Taylor Madinger, and Verbei Jones
2015 NASW Illinois Chapter Election Results
Congratulations to the newest members of the NASW Illinois Chapter Board of Directors! All new board members will brainstorm their term on July 1, 2015. Thank y'all to all of those who participated in this year'due south election!
TREASURER
Cheri Sinnott(MSW, Washington Academy; LCSW) has been a member of NASW for over thirty years. She is manager of a statewide bureau that provides behavioral support for students who are deaf and hard of hearing. Additionally she is adjunct faculty at College of Lake County and maintains a private practice. She has served on the NASW Illinois Chapter Board of Directors every bit Northeastern District Chair and secretary. She is author of the interactive text, Introduction to Social Work: Macro, Mezzo, Micro Perspectives.
CALUMET DISTRICT CHAIR
Monica Guilhot-Chartrand(MSW, Academy of Minnesota; LCSW) is a bilingual clinical social worker, originally from Uruguay, who has served the customs as a licensed professional in the states of Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. She has practiced in the fields of behavioral health and social service with a specialization in clinical social work. She currently provides direct services through her work at Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Services, including interventions focused on interpersonal interactions, intrapsychic dynamics, and life-management bug. She as well has training and experience in multicultural settings. She has skilful both in administrative and clinical capacities, ranging from plan director to clinician, providing direct services to families and individuals. She has also been community faculty for the Social Work Department at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota. Monica also enjoys working with older adults, peculiarly on themes related to unresolved grief and loss. Other areas of expertise include blended families and cantankerous-cultural matters.
EAST Primal Commune CHAIR
Kenna Dunlap Johnson(MSW, Academy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; LCSW) is director of behavioral wellness for a critical admission hospital in Illinois. She has been in this position since Oct 2011. Since starting this position she has assisted the hospital in opening a geriatric intensive outpatient psychiatric programme equally well as started an outpatient behavioral wellness section including tele-psychiatry services. She previously worked for an inpatient psychiatric facility as mental health tech and after completing her undergraduate education, she was given a position to manage the Adolescent Partial Hospital programme at the aforementioned facility. Later on completing a graduate internship in social piece of work, she was offered a job equally clinical instance manager on a youth inpatient psychiatric unit of measurement. During her time as case director, she worked aslope others in the field of mental health to provide psychotherapeutic services for patients and families. Later receiving her clinical license in 2010, Kenna was promoted to atomic number 82 clinical example manager for the youth unit within the inpatient psychiatric facility. Kenna and then served equally interim managing director of social services for a short time earlier accepting the position that she currently holds. Kenna briefly worked function-time for a small-scale private practice providing psychotherapeutic services to clients of all ages.
NORTHEASTERN District CHAIR
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Robert Smith(MSW, Washington University; LCSW) has 30-seven years of clinical and managerial experience. He is a well-rounded clinician who has combined clinical, supervisory, management, and business organisation skills to provide the best clinical and collaborative services. He has been in individual practice since 1999 providing psychotherapy to people of all ages with mental health, alcohol/substance corruption, trauma, and medical conditions. Robert specializes in providing marital and family therapy. He is on the Allied Health Staff at Abet Lutheran Full general Hospital Section of Psychiatry where he has taught marriage and family therapy and clinical hypnotherapy to psychiatry residents. Robert worked at Lutheran General Hospital Department of Psychiatry from 1989 to 1999 as Adult Partial Hospital Director and Outpatient Coordinator. He provided psychotherapy and managed behavioral health insurance authorizations for the medical staff. His previous ten years were spent hospital and residential-based psychiatric and alcohol/substance abuse handling settings and residential handling for abused children and adolescents. He completed a ane-yr MSW practicum at Barnes Hospital Department of Psychiatric Social Work in St. Louis. He was also intern at the Peoria YMCA Youth Service Bureau in collaboration with the Peoria Police Department youth partitioning providing crisis intervention. Robert has 2 years of post-masters training in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and two years of post-masters training in Gestalt Therapy. In add-on he has participated in numerous preparation opportunities with leading family and marital therapists studying structural/strategic, Gestalt, and solution-oriented therapies.
W CENTRAL DISTRICT CHAIR
Nancy Egger(MSW, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; LCSW) has a individual counseling practice where she specializes in individual, family, and grouping counseling for adults, children, and adolescents. She has over 30 years' experience in providing mental wellness services for the families of the Peoria expanse in a wide multifariousness of settings, from community-based, in-home crisis intervention and follow-up, to hospital inpatient and outpatient services. She has provided educational and clinical supervision for staff in various inpatient, outpatient, and clinical education settings, and has been an adjunct professor for the University of Illinois' School of Social Piece of work. For the past two years she has been involved in international humanitarian social piece of work past providing mental health training for volunteers providing support to Syrian refugees in Jordan through the Mutual Bond Constitute. In 2013 she was a presenter for the third annual International Conference on Transgenerational Trauma in Amman, Jordan.
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Mary Garrison(MSW, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; LCSW; ACSW), is associate professor of social piece of work at Millikin University. Additionally Mary is adjunct kinesthesia at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign education generalist practise and mental health policy courses. Mary has all-encompassing do experience in the social work field with over xv years of practice in mental health services. Throughout her career Mary has served every bit therapist, clinical supervisor, director, clinical consultant, child development specialist, and victim/witness advocate. Mary has been active in providing continuing education opportunities for colleagues through professional workshops, presentations, and trainings domestically and internationally. Mary serves as advisor to multiple committees, is a member of the governing board of the Macon County Homeless Council, and serves every bit the PIT Homeless Count Coordinator for Macon Canton. Mary is a statewide NASW Awards Commission Member, Delegate Assembly Member, and has previously served as East Central District Nomination Committee Chair and immediate past chair of the Eastward Fundamental District. Mary is a past recipient of the NASW Illinois Affiliate Social Worker of the Twelvemonth Award and the Cesar Chavez Social Justice Accolade.
GRADUATE Pupil REPRESENTATIVE
Jay Jayswal is a electric current MSW student at Loyola University Chicago specializing in mental health and sub-specializing in forensic mental health. He became an NASW member in 2014 after being enrolled at Loyola Academy. Jayswal became interested in working with clients in the mental health field his freshmen yr of loftier schoolhouse and went into social work because there was an assortment of work he could practise at the individual level as well as the macro. Jayswal went to The Ohio Country Academy to written report psychology and was research assistant working in an attitudes lab. After being admitted to Loyola, Jayswal wanted to become more involved in policy and became a office of the Schoolhouse of Social Work Student Organization (SSWO) and was elected as inferior chair for the advancement commission which focuses their efforts on preparation for Advancement Day. Her currently works at Northwest Compass, Inc., in his field placement where he meets with a wide range of clients, helping with child care assist, career coaching, and the nutrient pantry. Jayswal believes in an open door policy and will always welcome any innovative ideas and programs that NASW and their members can benefit from; he has programs he wants to implement that will assist MSW students network out and larn about the unlike roles and aspects of an upcoming social worker. Along with this, he wants more students to play a bigger part in the association.
UNDERGRADUATE Pupil REPRESENTATIVE
Daniel Berkielis a electric current BSW student at Olivet Nazarene Academy. Growing upwards in Massachusetts his parents fostered a beloved for people less fortunate than himself. He has spent most of his life in service of others including volunteer work at a Windsor Hills Campground every summer from twelve to eighteen; at Army camp Hope, a campground for children with mental disabilities; and numerous other volunteer opportunities. His family currently houses two foster children, 1 from a foreign country and another with Angelman's Syndrome. In addition to his all-encompassing volunteer work Daniel would describe himself as a leader. From a young age he has searched for opportunities to serve by leading. In college he has applied to become a resident assistant twice, ran for student council, ran for a vice-president educatee council position, and plans on running for class president commencement next month. Although he did not become all of those positions, he shows resiliency in his willingness to go on trying. Furthermore others have seen leadership qualities in Daniel. He was nominated past his district church building to be the high schoolhouse representative and was nominated by a professor to be a leader in the Olivet social work club. Daniel'south willingness to volunteer his fourth dimension and want to seek out leadership are what make him a great choice for the BSW representative position.
2017 NASW DELEGATE ASSEMBLY
Members of the 2017 NASW Delegate Assembly will exist notified in the coming months.
New Medicare Payment System Includes Raises for Clinical Social Workers
Medicare Fee for Services is being replaced with payment increases for clinical social workers and other Medicare providers over the next five years.
To read this article in full, click here. (Annotation: Login to national NASW website required, not the state chapter.)
From the Pen of the President: June 2015
Equally I write this, my last "From the Pen of the President," I tin nonetheless experience the excitement of becoming president of this extraordinary chapter and retrieve how humbling it was to be elected to such a position representing the thousands of members in our state clan. So now, to write near my feel as president in a short commodity is to attempt the impossible. What I want to tell you honestly is that i of the best decisions I always made was to take the claiming and go involved in leadership opportunities with our NASW Illinois Chapter. I tin as well tell y'all that this journeying is nothing like I envisioned it would be—information technology has been invigorating, impelling,and I have learned and gained so much in the process. This journey's been priceless!
I experience blessed for the collegial relationships and meaningful friendships that I accept made with so many around the state and country. I have been inspired by members of our NASW Illinois Affiliate staff, our lath of directors, commission chairs, interns, and volunteers, as well as those of you I take worked and networked with that share my passion and pride for our profession and who collectively experience an obligation to membership needs and who promote the profession wherever the opportunity presents.
Special thank you and appreciation to our NASW Illinois Chapter Executive Director Joel Rubin and professional staff for the work you do on behalf of all social workers in our state. I have valued my time partnering with each of y'all and regard you as an exceptional—or better yet—a astounding team of innovative leaders who work tirelessly to deliver quality services, programming, and advocacy for the members in our country and our association. I am grateful to all the members of the NASW Illinois Chapter Board of Directors that I take worked with over the years for your commitment, gift of time and talent, vision, and courage in making decisions relating to the mission and strategic priorities for NASW. I want to too express my sincere gratitude to each one of you, our members, for the piece of work you do in your areas of social work do. I promise you believe that you are making a difference in others' lives. And I wish each of you lot will notice ways to take good care of yourselves every bit you lot practice for others every day!
So onward I will remain a steadfast supporter of the NASW Illinois Chapter. I wish to welcome Don Phelps, our incoming NASW Illinois Chapter President, and I look frontwards to his skillful leadership every bit he guides the states and moves our association into the futurity. He is a respected, knowledgeable, and dedicated leader who will be responsive to the needs of our membership in this ever-changing environment. I am confident that Don and Joel Rubin will be a strong force and voice of leadership for our profession and our association.
Nosotros are a keen profession and clan. It has been an honor serving NASW and representing our members. I regardit a privilege having served in this role, and I thank you for trusting me in information technology!
Candi Gray, MSW, LCSW, OSW-C, is a licensed clinical social worker and fellow member of NASW and AOSW (Clan of Oncology Social Work). Candi has worked in a variety of healthcare settings, helping those impacted by diverse health-related problems and illnesses. Beginning her career at the City/Canton of San Francisco Health Department in San Francisco'due south Tenderloin commune, Candi went on to piece of work in the areas of geriatrics, substance abuse, medical case direction, HIV/AIDS, and oncology. Currently, she works every bit an oncology social worker at the Community Cancer Eye in Normal, IL, a comprehensive, community -based cancer care provider serving persons in Primal Illinois. Additionally, she has been a field supervisor for the Academy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Illinois State University's social work programs and Illinois State Academy's Child Life plan.
ADVANCE: Discovering Your Sense of Meaning
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Work gives meaning to people'southward lives. Many different kinds of work provide this significant, each according to one'southward own affinities. Social work aligns with my values regarding service and advocacy for the vulnerable. I've had the privilege of facilitating back up for the elderly as a intendance coordinator to help them stay in the customs on Chicago'southward west side.
There accept been many changes and challenges in my career over the years, and two approaches to this work have ever sustained me. Ane has been the satisfaction that comes from helping someone, a sense of meaning. The other is how I framed those changes and challenges in my mind. When the documentation requirements increased, I focused on how it's simply what's necessary to get my clients what they need. When the productivity requirements increased, I thought that this would enable me to help even more than clients.
Sustaining such an approach to work requires that you are getting what you need, that y'all have balance in your life (i.e., love, friends, practice, hobbies, rest, relaxation), and something to look forward to. I am fortunate to have these in my life.
I have worked very hard as a care coordinator, working long hours from early on morn into late at nighttime. I have fabricated sacrifices. My attitude has always been to exercise whatever information technology takes. This has brought me success in that part and many elderly and their families have been helped every bit a consequence. More recently I accept been promoted to the part of supervisor.
As supervisor I am tasked with holding my intendance coordinators accountable to documentation and productivity standards that I previously had to achieve. Having been a care coordinator helps with my brownie in that job. And I am still applying these approaches to new and different responsibilities.
Merely yous know what brought you to social work. There is no dubiousness you will accept to piece of work hard. Through that piece of work I wish you success in finding balance, positively framing demands, and discovering your sense of pregnant.
Jay E. Miller, MSW, LSW, is supervisor of medical social services at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Central West Care Coordination Unit of measurement (CCU) where he manages 6 care coordinators and three care coordinator assistants to provide community Care Program - In Home, Developed Day and Emergency Dwelling Response Services, every bit well every bit Championship III - Home Delivered Meals and Heavy Duty Job Services to the elderly on the westward side of Chicago. He is also president of the Kott Gerontology Institute (KGI) Board. KGI provides paid internships to graduate social piece of work, elderberry law, and dance therapy students to encourage continued work with the elderly population after graduation.
From the Pen of the Executive Managing director: May 2015
I am composing my "From the Pen" article from Washington, DC, as the Annual Leadership Meeting (ALM) of Chapter Presidents and Executive Directors and the National NASW Board of Directors wraps up. This has been a historic coming together. As NASW celebrates it's sixtieth altogether, a national NASW–deputed task strength has proposed a "modernization" program that is looking at a major restructuring of the association which that will have implications for our chapter and our membership. We recognize that it is vitally important to constantly review the systems that make our association piece of work; in Illinois, your affiliate leadership does this on a regular basis. However this current proposed national modernization program needs to be considerably revised to ensure that chapters like ours are able to truly represent our membership and maintain the same level of exemplary services. Leadership in our state and other chapters have been working hard to ensure this consequence, and they volition continue to do then in the coming months. I will too write updates as they occur on the chapter website.
While in Washington, DC, chapter president Candi Grayness and I met with several members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation including Representative Bill Foster, Representative Rodney Davis, Representative Bobby Rush, and Representative Jan Schakowsky, and several members of their staff. (Photos of these meetings tin can be found on our Twitter feed @naswil.) Nosotros discussed many issues: Medicare beneficiaries' access to clinical social work services (specifically seeking a national coverage decision/federal policy to allow clinical social workers to use Health and Beliefs and Assessment Intervention Codes); reauthorization of the Older Americans Act (s. 192); and support for loan forgiveness for social work students and graduates, with an emphasis on reauthorizing the Higher Didactics Act loan forgiveness plan and support for the recently reintroduced Dorothy I. Height and Whitney Thousand. Young Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Deed (H.R. 1378/South. 789). We also discussed with these members of the delegation the adverse bear on of the proposed FY16 country budget proposed by Illinois Governor Rauner equally these cuts will touch citizens in each of their congressional districts.
A major highlight of ALM was on Thursday night when NASW Illinois Affiliate member Phyllis Mitzen received the National Lifetime Achievement award.
April was an extremely busy month in the chapter. A record number of attendees participated in Social Work Advocacy Day in Springfield on April 14, 2015 (LINK), and there were numerous trainings and networking events around the state. The month of May will include more than quality CEU training opportunities both at the NASW Illinois Chapter part and in other parts of the state. We volition once again exist hosting a training on the NASW Balls Services EAPrefer plan on May xiii, 2015, which matches qualified social workers with the employees who need them (LINK).
Y'all tin can now also registered at the discounted early bird rate for the 2015 NASW Illinois Statewide Conference. This year's conference volition take identify on October 19–21, 2015, at The Westin North Shore in Wheeling, IL, and will offering up to 20 CEUs including workshops on cultural competency and ethics. Annals here: www.naswilmeets.org.
The stretch run of the Illinois General Assembly will also be happening in May. Please stay tuned for legislative alerts in which we will need your urgent support (LINK).
Bask the emerging spring weather!
Joel L. Rubin, MSW, ACSW, CAE, has served as executive director of the 7,000 fellow member Illinois Chapter of the National Clan of Social Workers (NASW) since October 1999. He has over twenty-5 years of nonprofit management and fundraising experience including all-encompassing work with boards of directors, committees and volunteers, and advancement around a wide variety of social work, human service, and international political issues. Joel is a graduate of the Wexner Heritage Fellowship Leadership Plan and a current offshoot professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago Jane Addams College of Social Work likewise as Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work.
2015 NASW Illinois Affiliate Statewide Awards
Congratulations to this year'due south 2015 NASW Illinois Chapter Statewide Honor winners! This year's awardees were selected from the puddle of nominees received for the chapter district awards (View district honour winners here) The individuals below were selected by the NASW Illinios Chapter Statewide Awards Committee as people whose work in their professional and personal lives has upheld basic tenets of the social work profession—giving vox to those who are without voices. An awards ceremony will be held afterwards this autumn at the 2015 NASW Illinois Chapter Statewide Conference to honour this yr'due south statewide honour winners.
Congratulations to this year'southward winners!
Lifetime Achievement Award: Barry Ackerson (East Central District)
Barry J. Ackerson ( PhD, Academy of Alabama; LCSW ) began his career in 1975 as psychiatric social worker. Prior to his academic career he was clinician and ambassador in Alabama for twenty-three years, condign involved in mental health system reform for the country. His practise background is reflected in his research on mental health services. He serves on the boards for the NASW Illinois Chapter and Customs Elements. He presents at national conferences and publishes in a diverseness of social work and mental health journals. He has been at UIUC since 1998, associate dean since 2002, and has directed the MSW and PhD programs during that time.
Social Worker of the Year: Jeff Zacharias (Chicago District)
Jeff Zacharias ( MSW, Loyola University Chicago; LCSW; CSAT; CAADC ) is clinical director of New Hope Recovery Heart Chicago and maintains a individual exercise. His areas of involvement include working within the LGBTQI customs, all forms of addiction both individually and with partners, severe and persistent mental wellness, personality disorders, and trauma and its impact on recovery. He is a member of NASW, serves on the board of directors for NALGAP, NAADAC, and Alexian Brothers/Bonaventure House—a home for people living with HIV/AIDS. He's had numerous articles published besides equally spoken extensively as conferences including NCAD, NAADAC, NASW Illinois, NASW Nations, NAMI National, and IITAP, focusing on problems inside the LGBTQI community.
Emerging Leader: Edna Flowers (Chicago Commune)
Edna Flowers ( MSW, Loyola University Chicago ) has over 5 years of feel working with diverse populations in nonprofit and education settings. She is career specialist at Inspiration Corporation and assists participants in reaching cocky-sufficiency through employment training and back up. She currently serves every bit a member of the NASW Illinois Chapter Diversity and Cultural Competence Commission.
Public Citizen of the Year: Elizabeth A. Robb (Eastward Key District)
Honorable Elizabeth A. Robb ( JD, Loyola University Chicago ) has served for twenty-ii years as judge in McLean Canton, Illinois, retiring in December 2014. In 2005 she was elected every bit the first woman chief judge of the 11th Judicial Circuit and served in that capacity for ten years. She was elected vice chair of the statewide Conference of Chief Judges in 2008 and elected equally chair of the conference in 2014. As Chief Judge she worked collaboratively with criminal justice and community organizations to establish the McLean County Drug Court and Recovery Court (mental health), a Pro Se Small Claims Mediation program, the McLean County Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation programme, and numerous juvenile justice/child welfare programs.
ADVANCE: Discovering Your Sense of Meaning
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Work gives significant to people's lives. Many dissimilar kinds of work provide this significant, each according to one'due south own affinities. Social work aligns with my values regarding service and advocacy for the vulnerable. I've had the privilege of facilitating back up for the elderly as a care coordinator to assist them stay in the community on Chicago'south west side.
There have been many changes and challenges in my career over the years, and two approaches to this piece of work have always sustained me. One has been the satisfaction that comes from helping someone, a sense of meaning. The other is how I framed those changes and challenges in my mind. When the documentation requirements increased, I focused on how it's merely what'southward necessary to get my clients what they demand. When the productivity requirements increased, I idea that this would enable me to assistance even more than clients.
Sustaining such an approach to work requires that you are getting what you need, that you lot accept remainder in your life (i.e., love, friends, practise, hobbies, rest, relaxation), and something to look forward to. I am fortunate to have these in my life.
I accept worked very hard every bit a care coordinator, working long hours from early morning into late at night. I have fabricated sacrifices. My attitude has ever been to exercise whatever it takes. This has brought me success in that function and many elderly and their families have been helped as a consequence. More recently I have been promoted to the role of supervisor.
As supervisor I am tasked with holding my care coordinators accountable to documentation and productivity standards that I previously had to achieve. Having been a care coordinator helps with my credibility in that task. And I am however applying these approaches to new and different responsibilities.
Merely y'all know what brought you to social work. There is no doubt you will take to piece of work difficult. Through that piece of work I wish you success in finding balance, positively framing demands, and discovering your sense of meaning.
Jay E. Miller, MSW, LSW, is supervisor of medical social services at Academy of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Central West Intendance Coordination Unit (CCU) where he manages six intendance coordinators and three care coordinator assistants to provide customs Care Program - In Home, Developed Mean solar day and Emergency Abode Response Services, also every bit Title Three - Home Delivered Meals and Heavy Duty Chore Services to the elderly on the west side of Chicago. He is besides president of the Kott Gerontology Institute (KGI) Board. KGI provides paid internships to graduate social work, elder law, and dance therapy students to encourage connected work with the elderly population after graduation.
Grow: Creating Your Ain Business organisation
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When I graduated with my master'southward caste in social work, I had no intentions on starting my ain concern. I was quite content with my work in in-patient psychiatry and community mental health. Within these environments I was able to hone my clinical skills working with all different walks of life, and I was able conceptualize the spectrum of mental wellness from the start of handling to continued care. On the scale of professional journeys, I envisioned myself happily sitting in an airport learning from watching people come and go.
It wasn't until 18 years later on (and one year into my PhD program) that I had the opportunity to create something that fulfilled a demand not only within my community but within me. Life happens along the way in our academic and professional journey, and I have learned that allowing life to marinate gives us then much more experience to expand upon when creating our own business. Maybe it was that Socratic method used in my classes that allowed me to plough the questions on myself. What could I do that could benefit the people in my customs? How could I create a job that could allow me to continue my passion in social work while helping others but likewise have enough freedom to continue having a personal life?
Don't get me incorrect—starting a business concern is an arduous task! But if y'all accept the passion and the drive to see it through, you lot will exist showered with many rewards. In improver to passion and bulldoze, having certain other skills will help in making the building of your ain business an easier road to follow, such every bit networking. This is then of import in business. Knowing who to contact to denote the beginning of your business likewise as who tin can aid to support your business with referrals is a fundamental factor in keeping your business running steadily and smoothly. Depending on your clientele, target contacts with those that would most likely be referred to your business. Ever comport a business card with y'all because yous never know who y'all might run into at the local coffee shop. You tin make connections with other local concern owners in order to filter clients to each other as well as raise your community's commerce.
Another important skill is having the ability to get out your work at work. In our business of social piece of work, we are helping others every day. In guild for us to exist a more compassionate and empathetic worker, nosotros need to compartmentalize and allow ourselves time for our own self-care. Regular exercise, proficient nutrition, a healthy social life, and family time are a must! Are yous thinking "exercise what nosotros preach" notwithstanding? Excellent! Running a concern takes a lot of energy and brain power. The healthier that y'all keep your trunk, the easier your twenty-four hours-to-day tasks will be. An added bonus related to your own cocky care is being a healthy part model from whom your clients may learn.
Along with cocky care, I have personally had to learn how to delegate since I've endemic my own business. I've tended to be 1 who thinks that I can do it all myself, just this simply leads to frustration as well as compassion fatigue. Creating and organizing a solid squad that tin can assist me in non-clinical tasks gives me that time to breathe and focus on my primary business organisation: my clients.
So what does a successful business organisation really mean? What we all define every bit "success" is and then different and dependent upon our own life experiences. Although I feel that there is some mutual ground, success is being happy with and proud of what you do. Creating your own business concern gives a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. When you possess those feelings, y'all will most definitely emit positivity which your clients can pick up from you. This is a wonderful gift to give to your clients that is not but free but ethical every bit well!
My job never feels like work, considering I have created information technology that style. Every time I walk into my role I cannot believe how lucky I am that I get the opportunity to aid people every day make positive changes in their lives. This keeps me motivated and excited to go on on my professional journey, open up to wherever it may take me next. I've got my boarding pass in hand. Do you lot?
Melissa Bercier, PhD, LCSW, is CEO and owner of Walk and Talk Therapy & Life Consulting, PC, in Elmhurst, IL. Her second location in Villa Park will be opening in August 2015. She is a private practitioner specializing in private, couples, and family therapy. She received her principal'south and doctoral degrees in social work from Loyola University Chicago. She plans to franchise her concept in the well-nigh future under a service marking different from Walk and Talk.
Download the 2015 NASW IL Statewide Conference App!
It's almost time for the 2015 NASW Illinois Chapter Statewide Briefing! Nosotros are making it even easier for yous to learn more about the 3-day mental health professionals conference with the NASW Illinois Chapter Education App!
Our mobile app has includes a full briefing schedule, floor maps of the venue, speaker profiles, attendee profiles, exhibitor profiles, and an NASW Illinois Chapter news feed. Even better, y'all tin annals for the twenty CEU event inside the app by clicking the in-app annals button. Download the app and beginning exploring now!
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PROTECT: Advocating for a Ban on Conversion Therapy (HB 217)
This article is intended to help yous better understand how to Protect the Profession. If you have insight on legislation and advancement that supports the social piece of work profession, please consider contributing an article! Submit your article proposal online here.
Thanks to your advocacy efforts and the NASW Illinois Chapter's strength in Springfield, the Illinois Full general Assembly took a historic stand confronting subjecting Illinois children to harmful mental health practices called conversion therapy.
"This archaic class of so-called treatment is based on an outdated and flawed philosophy that profoundly increases the risk of suicide and mental ache to the children who are forced to participate," State Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) said. "I join a coalition of professional mental health organizations in applauding the passage of the pecker."
To eradicate this practice and protect our immature people, Senator Daniel Biss (D – Evanston) joined Rep. Cassidy to pass legislation through the general assembly that prohibited licensed mental health professionals from providing such therapies.
The legislation states that no ane under 18 should be given therapy or referred to therapy that has a goal of changing his or her sexual orientation. Mental health providers that practise then will be considered to have unprofessional conduct and will be disciplined appropriately.
"We must confront the reality that conversion therapy can cause anxiety, mental affliction, trauma and tin can increase the risk of suicide," said Senator Biss. "I will continue to fight for the rights and health of the LGBTQ customs in Illinois, and to keep our children safe, just the way they are. I am proud that our country at present stands with President Obama and leaders and experts from across the country and finish putting our children directly in harms' mode."
NASW has long been an abet for eliminating this abuse under the guise of licensed professionals; however we would not have been able to go this legislation passed in both chambers without our members and allies who made calls, sent e-mails, or attended the NASW Illinois Chapter Advancement Day this by April
The legislation, House Neb 217, at present goes to the governor'due south desk for final approval. Yous can still help get this beak signed into constabulary past contacting the governor. (Select 'Conversion Therapy Ban' from the subject options.)
When speaking of membership dues, it is often in terms of what you get for the dollars spent. Advocacy is one of the harder areas of membership to quantify, notwithstanding it is 1 of the greatest benefits received from your membership dues. Whether it is protecting the integrity of the profession like HB 217, lowering the cost of business for private practitioners, or increasing reimbursement rates and opportunities for employment, YOUR association is working to protect YOU. None of these things would be possible without membership support. Thank you again.
When social workers advocate, they change the world.
NASW Statement on mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Due south Carolina
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) offers its condolences to the families and friends of the nine people who lost their lives in the June 17 mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, Southward.C.
This senseless tragedy has shaken the nation and is an example of the mortiferous consequences of racial hatred and unfettered access to guns.
NASW realizes at that place are no quick fixes that will forbid mass shootings, including those motivated by racial, ethnic or religious hatred, but true to our history of supporting civil and human rights nosotros remain committed to joining other organizations in supporting legislation that would enact sensible gun control, end racial profiling and increase funding for mental health services.
That these tragic deaths occurred in a blackness church is not lost upon us. It conjures up images of 1963 when 4 little blackness girls died when racists bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.
Since that time, this nation has made tremendous strides to terminate racial strife and ameliorate mental wellness treatment, but non enough. NASW remains defended to addressing the underlying social issues that cause such incidents to occur and will piece of work with lawmakers, other organizations, and our communities to bring about needed reform.
Examples of our ongoing efforts include being an agile member of The Justice Roundtable which supports the Mental Health Reform Act sponsored past Senators Bill Cassidy, Yard.D. (R-La.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).
In add-on, NASW is a member of the End Racial Profiling Working Group, which is a national commission that is sponsored past the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights (LCCR). Finally, NASW has submitted testimony to Congress on gun violence and has developed Social Justice Briefs on the topic of mass murders as a outcome of the proliferation of firearms in this country.
Reprinted from the NASW Social Work Blog .
July 2015 - Calumet Commune Update
Welcome to our new members! I would love to receive your feedback in planning events this year! Given Calumet's membership feedback so far, this year we take many different points of interest to develop events in the commune. Some of what has been shared so far includes CEU's events around the topics of mediation, cultural competency, and older adults. Also interest has been expressed around organizing networking events, especially in the the soutwest suburbs. If you take whatsoever specific interest, idea, or resources to share, delight let us know. Looking forward to hearing from you. You lot can contact your district chair straight at calumet [at] naswil [dot] org.
July 2015 - Northeastern Commune Update
Constructive July 1, 2015, I am taking on the responsibility of being the Northeastern District Chair and a Board Member of the NASW Illinois Chapter. I want to share my views on what I hope to achieve in the adjacent ii years of my service to social workers in n Cook, Lake, and McHenry counties.
The first thing that I would like to do is to obtain an agreement of what your needs are, and how I can assist you vis-a-vis the NASW Illinois Chapter. I would like to further build a sense of association with the members in our District. Although I take been a member of NASW since 1977, I take attended CEU events, but have been more on the periphery for a good part of those years focusing on my work. Until 1999, I worked more often than not in hospital behavioral health settings where I had social piece of work colleagues readily bachelor to me. Since then, I take had less frequent contact with colleagues as individual practice can be isolating. I have had considerable collaboration with psychiatrists and master intendance physicians about patients whom we both treat. I realize that I accept missed social work collaboration, and I believe that we accept much to share to help 1 another at both micro and macro levels of practice.
I invite those of you in the District to remember about what types of preparation CEU programs and networking events y'all would similar to have. These would be in addition to the October 2015 State Conference that will take place in Wheeling, Illinois. I am aware that there have been a number of CEU, networking, and dark-brown purse dejeuner events. What I don't know is, how benign they were to you. I would like to go on what has been useful, and improve upon the events and activities that have not been so helpful.
I can apply your help to make our 1,400+ commune members go better associated, and aid one some other in providing clinical and concern training, and all-time practices to our client'southward. Your input is necessary. Better yet, volunteering to do a presentation, having your agency or organization hold a NASW sponsored CEU training, and helping me to coordinate programs would be much appreciated! We can help one another by improving training initiatives, increasing visibility of your agency, arrangement, or individual practice, and ultimately helping better the value of what NASW Illinois has to offering. Two years from now, I would similar to be able to say that I have accomplished these goals WITH YOUR HELP!
*Please check your email in the next few days for a brusque survey I am sending you to obtain feedback.
Please feel free to contact me at northeastern [at] naswil [dot] org or Cell # (847) 363-5845.
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