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鈥擪atherine Mitchell Ph.D, LCSW, CASAC One of the customs among the Dilley On The Ground (OTG) team is to do what they call 鈥淏ig Table鈥� on Monday and Thursday night each week. This gives the week鈥檚 group of volunteers an opportunity to process some of what they experienced. On Monday night, it was鈥�

鈥擪atherine Mitchell, Ph.D, LCSW, CASAC Today was certainly calmer than the preceding two days. There were fewer women and children coming to the visitor鈥檚 center where the legal staff, law students and social work team have their work space. We have begun to get a rhythm down and have a better ...

鈥擪atherine Mitchell, Ph.D, LCSW, CASAC Day two, incredibly saw more incoming refugees than day one. The legal staff, law school students and social work team worked together efficiently and we were able to respond to a multitude of needs presented by the ladies and their children. Chief among them鈥�

On the Way to the Top - Parshat Terumah Avraham (Allan) Friedman February 28th, 2017 On the Way to the Top - Parshat Terumah " This is the message that we receive from motivational speakers around the world. You can accomplish what you set your mind to. Just set your sights and get moving. And it鈥�

I recently started a nonprofit organization. Not infrequently, I wonder to myself what I could possibly have been thinking that made this seem like a good idea. I currently have three kids, two jobs, and a new house; extra time is not something I have laying around the house these days. On top of鈥�

by Mark Fishman This January I鈥檒l be moving across the country from Los Angeles to New York, where I will begin my pursuit of earning a Masters of Social Work degree at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work. With this change comes many questions, but there is one in particular I can鈥檛 seem to shake鈥�

I鈥檇 never felt like more of a fish out of water (or a Canadian out of her element) than the first day at work in the South Bronx. At the time I had been enrolled in the MSW program approximately three weeks and could not have felt more unprepared for what was about to come. Anxiety filled each of鈥�

We have our own WSSW blog that we are tentatively calling, 鈥淭houghts and Feelings from the Field.鈥� I have three great posts ready to go! If you have some observations from your experience in the field and would like to share, I would love to read it and see if we can post it in our blog-sphere ...

Dean Carmen Ortiz Hendricks Dear Wurzweiler Family: It is with great sadness that we share the news that Dean Carmen Ortiz Hendricks has passed away. We have just been informed by her husband that Dr. Hendricks succumbed to cancer and passed away peacefully with her family at her side. Although we鈥�