Call for Nominations: 2022 Inspiring Social Worker of the Year Award
Background: Social work is a discipline and profession that requires practitioners to have a strong commitment to caring and social justice. Despite the tremendous pressure of limited resources and heavy workloads, many dedicated social workers in British Columbia work promote social justice and equity on a regular basis at many levels of practice and policy. […]
A Harm Reduction Approach
Submission to The Social Lens: A Social Work Action Blog by John Segui, SOWK alumnus, BC Children’s Hospital social worker Interventions for Sexualized Drug Use, Chemsex and Methamphetamine Use Among Men Who Have Sex with Men Background on Sexualized Drug Use and Chemsex Sexual drug use is referred to the use of recreational drugs – […]
On being a social worker and a patient: our road to systemic recovery
Submission to The Social Lens: A Social Work Action Blog by John Richmond, MSW, RSW (ON, BC), Coast Care Consulting (Xwesam, BC) Last year, on the morning of December 10, when I was supposed to be getting ready to head home to BC to work on my long-standing project of a co-operative governance model in long […]
What’s In a Name? Naming Discrimination Toward Persons Experiencing Homelessness
Submission to The Social Lens: A Social Work Action Blog by Sarah Canham, University of Utah / Simon Fraser University Early on in my training as a gerontologist, I was introduced to ideas of ageism – discrimination against a person based on their age. As it turns out, the term ageism is not that old. […]
The “stage of suspicion” in my life as a newcomer in Canada and the pressure to “succeed”
Submission to The Social Lens: A Social Work Action Blog by Kristi Pinderi, 3rd Year BSW Student The Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies at UBC asked me last week to share my experience as a refugee in Canada in an event that was meant to be an open discussion about the concept […]
March is Social Work Month
Celebrating Social Work Week Social Work Week in British Columbia celebrates the accomplishments of social workers. The provincial government declared March 13-19, 2022, Social Work Week in British Columbia. Social workers throughout BC plan activities that highlight their essential contribution to the health and well-being of British Columbians. The theme for 2022 is In Critical […]
Christiana Bratiotis on NPR podcast
Dr. Christiana Bratiotis appeared on The People’s Pharmacy Radio Program on NPR to discuss “What you need to need to know about hoarding disorder.” Originally broadcast January 13, 2022. Dr. Bratiotis starts at approximately the 40-minute mark (Show 1286):
How To Survive A Plague. Again.
Submission to The Social Lens: A Social Work Action Blog by MT O’Shaughnessy & Eli Manning, Dalhousie University I’ve had to deal with panic attacks all my life. It’s taken until my 40s to admit that the combo pack I got at birth was depression and anxiety. And it’s been incredibly difficult to explain or […]
Webinar: Moving Forward: The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
For those who missed Marion Buller’s powerful and insightful webinar Moving Forward: The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, The Ubyssey has written a summary piece that outlines the Inquiry, the Calls for Justice and individual steps that we can all take to move forward with allyship and hope. Written by […]
The Impact of One Social Worker in Our Imperfect Mental Health System
Submission to The Social Lens: A Social Work Action Blog by Helena Chen, 4th Year BSW Student. Being accepted into the social work profession has brought me so many emotions. It has given me feelings of empowerment. Other times, it has brought some extreme lows. Social workers bear the role of seeing people at their […]