social welfare

Social workers can be media savvy. We must use appropriate media tools to inform the public, engage new community groups in problem solving, and advance new knowledge on current pressing social issues and on the resources, services, and supports to address them. Through these venues we can contribute to a better understanding of who we are as social workers and what we do as agents of change in society. Joe Bonilla, a leading communications professional, joins us to discuss how we can be media savvy social workers.

Bio:
Joe Bonilla is the managing partner, senior media director, and co-founder of Relentless. Recognized as a leading communications professional in the Northeast, major brands, companies, organizations, and public figures rely on Bonilla’s counsel and insight in moving their message forward with impressive results. From bringing ridesharing to Upstate New York and Long Island, promoting the burgeoning craft beverage industry, working with rising leaders at the local, state, and federal level, and lifting startup thrifts to Fortune 500 companies into the public conversation, Bonilla works tirelessly to enhance and advocate for each Relentless client.

Active within the community, Bonilla also serves as president of the board of directors for Capital CarShare, Inc., managing director of the Knickerbocker Film Festival, and is a board member for the University at Albany Alumni Association, Troy Preparatory Charter School, and Maria College. Bonilla previously served as chairman of the City of Albany’s Public, Educational, and Government Access Oversight Board. Bonilla is also a regular panelist of WAMC Northeast Public Radio’s nationally-syndicated and award-winning news and discussion program The Roundtable.

Bonilla, a graduate of the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at the University at Albany (B.A., Public Policy), has recognized by the Hispanic Coalition of New York (40 Under 40 Latino Rising Stars 2012), the Albany Business Review (40 Under Forty 2014), University at Albany (Thirty Under 30 2014), City & State Magazine (Albany Rising Stars 2017), and Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy (Young Alumnus in Political Science 2017).

Website: http://www.relentlessaware.com
Twitter: @joe_bonilla

Yoga Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Y-CBT): New research based treatment model which blends traditional psychological strategies with yogic practices and philosophies to address symptoms of anxiety and co-occurring symptoms of depression.

www.Y-CBT.com

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/YogaCognitiveBehavioralTherapy

Published workbook based on the Y-CBT treatment model: The Yoga-CBT Workbook for Anxiety

Dr. Manjit Kaur Khalsa Ed.D., co-creator of Yoga - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Y-CBT) is a highly experienced Psychologist, practicing at Riverside Community Care @ Upton, and in Private Practice in Millis MA. She is a long time yoga teacher and President of Sikh Dharma of MA, which houses Yoga at the Ashram in Millis, MA.

Julie Greiner Ferris is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with over 25 years of experience in the treatment of mental health issues. A graduate of Boston College GSSW, she is co-creator of Yoga - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Y-CBT), and is currently the Program Director of Outpatient Services at Riverside Community Care, in Upton Massachusetts.

The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook with Dr. Erlene Grise-Owens and Dr. Justin "Jay” Miller

Dr. Erlene Grise-Owens and Dr. Justin "Jay" Miller spoke with co-hosts Alyssa Lotmore, LMSW and Dr. Eric Hardiman on The Social Workers Radio Talk Show about their book, 'The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals'.
Dr. Grise-Owens, Dr. Miller, and Mindy Eaves are the editors of the book.

Dr. Danna Bodenheimer spoke with co-hosts Alyssa Lotmore, LMSW and Dr. Eric Hardiman on The Social Workers Radio Talk Show about her new book, 'On Clinical Social Work: Meditations and Truths From the Field’.

Sherry Saturno is a national award social worker and dually licensed as a Nursing Home Administrator and Clinical Social Worker. She holds Master's degrees from Columbia and Long Island Universities. Sherry is a Stanford Certified Project Manager and completed a national post graduate fellowship at New York University Silver School of Social Work. She previously wrote and produced a national award winning documentary short film called "Human Investment", and has been published in Social Work Today and The New Social Worker Magazines.

Loretta Pyles, PhD, is Professor at the School of Social Welfare at the University at Albany and also a yoga and meditation teacher, workshop leader, and organizational consultant. Her new book is 'Healing Justice: Holistic Self-Care for Change Makers'. She is also the author of 'Progressive Community Organizing: Reflective Practice in a Globalizing World' and co-editor of 'Holistic Engagement: Transformative Social Work Education in the 21st Century'.

Dr. Mary McCarthy, of UAlbany School of Social Welfare, discusses the importance of college students registering to vote and participating in elections. She speaks about the importance of voting to political action, community power and social justice.

Joe Bonilla, managing partner and co-founder of Relentless Awareness, joined us for an engaging and informative discussion about voting, election polling and how campaigns are evolving.

Ogden Rogers, Ph.D. being interviewed on the SOCIAL WORKERS radio talk show. Originally broadcast on December 11, 2014 on WCDB 90.9 FM at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Dr. Ogden Rogers, author of Beginnings, Middles, and Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work

Our yearning to connect and belong is primal. The force that pushes and pulls one towards another is love. Unhealthy patterns from the past whether due to loss, war, abuse, deprivation or other traumas, can spread across generations and cause the heart to shut down. If left unattended, this disruption in the flow moves into the shadows and echoes through the family landscape often emerging in the present as an illness, emotional difficulties, addictions, anxiety depression, and broken relationships.

With its roots in Family Sculpting, Family Systems Theory and Psychodrama and Gestalt Therapy, Family Constellations is a unique, phenomenological approach to resolving generational trauma. A kind of "living map," it provides a creative and profound way of seeing into the hidden dynamics that shape our lives and the suffering we experience. It has the potential to touch us on a deep energetic level, to find the movements necessary unblock the flow of love, to open the heart, and to reconnect with those we love past and present. This work deepens the respect for the mystery of life and the forces that shape it.

Bill Mannle, LMFT is a Gestalt and Marriage & Family Therapist in private practice in Connecticut, USA. He first trained in Family Constellations between 2003-2005. He has since conducted seminars in Connecticut, New York, California, Germany, Denmark, Australia, Mexico, Spain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, and Croatia. He has led workshops in schools for both adolescents and teachers and is currently exploring Constellations as a method of supervision.
http://billmannle.com

Social issues faced by communities are increasingly complex, transcending the boundaries of any one agency, organization or profession. Across the country and the world, communities are looking for new and innovative ways to leverage existing resources in ways that better meet the needs of marginalized and disadvantaged populations. Though working across boundaries – whether professional or organizational – offer new opportunities to develop strong communities, it also comes with the challenges inherent to group-based work. The collective impact approach provides a framework and best practices for navigating collaborative work and its challenges.

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe, food historians and co-authors of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression.

A Square Meal examines the impact of economic contraction and environmental disaster on how Americans ate then—and the lessons and insights those experiences may hold for us today.