Social Work Futures: Beyond Virtual Reality
Virtual reality (VR) has garnered attention over the past several years within the social work field as a way of connecting students with experiences that they may not be able…
Category: Journey
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Sample Blog Post for My UB SW150 Students
Hello SW150 students! This is a sample of a full credit blog post for Blog #1. Please let me know if you have any questions. – Matt Beacon The art…
The Social Work Future is Agency Based & Collaborative (or the End of Private Practice As We Know It)
In looking at #SocialWorkFutures, of one thing I am sure: the future of our profession is agency based and collaborative. In what I am sure will rankle some private practice…
Yes, I’m using my phone during this meeting.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1339411/8423095-yes-i-m-using-my-phone-during-this-meeting.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-8423095&player=small Transcript: Yes, I’m using my phone during this meeting. A question I’ve found myself asked at more than one meeting (work, committee, community, or otherwise) is “are you really…
Explaining Short Sales, GameStop, and Reddit
In case anyone wants to understand what’s going on with the stock market and Reddit and GameStop I wrote an explainer. Feel free to use: So short selling is betting…
The Solution Focused Podcast: Updated Guests, Schedule & Sign Up Form :-)
I am so excited to have the next five guests lined up for The Solution Focused Podcast! (iTunes, Spotify)! I am looking for more guests! To answer your first question:…
A Different Kind of Open Letter to the Board
Image from [zotpressInText item=”{6833765:QNB8VQ2C}”] David Goldberg and I had an incredibly productive discussion on Thursday. It lasted an hour and ten minutes. It was filled with nothing but mutual respect…
Inclusion and Equity through Universal Design vs. Ableism and Inequality Through Accommodations
I am a certified ESL teacher. I set up the IDF Ground Forces Command’s first-ever English as a Second Language instruction and evaluation program (which I ran until I left…
A Solution Focused Brief Therapy Note (Update to the Update)
This is an updated entry from my previous discussions on the topic, which can be found here, and here. The genesis of this is that I was discussing at with…
Writing a Paragraph (Creating my Research Statement for my Clinical Director & Program Director)
“Utilizing Implementation Science I will endeavor to translate the work of the Center for Financial Social Work for implementation and use at our Behavioral Health Clinic. This work will be…