Last month we brought you a repeat of our earlier conversation with Rosalie Pockett AM.  Just as we were planning to re-broadcast the follow up episode with her research partner, Kim Hobbs, Kim was named Allied Health professional of 2023 by Western Sydney, LHD.  When you listen to this conversation with her, you’ll understand why. Congratulations Kim! Kim’s award: https://thepulse.org.au/2023/11/23/since-1994-social-worker-kim-hobbs-has-been-dedicated-to-westmead-hospitals-gyaecological-cancer-patients-and-their-families/ Special Issue Australian Social Work Social Work and Cancer. Editorial by Rosalie Pockett and Kim Hobbs   Free Access.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0312407X.2021.1988664?src= AASW Members: Australian Social Work Special Issue Social Work and Cancer Volume 75, Issue 2, 2022. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rasw20/current Prof Irwin Epstein on Clinical Data Mining:  https://www.routledge.com/Clinical-Data-Mining-in-Practice-Based-Research-Social-Work-in-Hospital/Epstein-Blumenfield/p/book/9780789017093 Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners The Australian Association of Social Workers respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the lands on which this podcast is being recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and their families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

This month we bring you an encore release of our conversation with Rosalie Pocket AM who has spent years overturning the inequities and injustices built into our health system.  In this conversation, Rosalie describes her abiding interests in the social and community based factors that influence people’s health.  Next month we will follow this up with her research partner, Kim Hobbs, who will describe how to broaden the partnerships that research those factors  If you want to follow up this conversation and hear about the newest practice frameworks in healthcare, learn about effective advocacy for the health sector, or build your professional networks, join us at the AASW’s Online Health Symposium  “Practice Innovations, Challenges and Leadership  Register here! Mentioned in this Episode Dr Rosalie Pockett AM University of Sydney  https://fdp.edsw.usyd.edu.au/users/197 Social Work Health Inequalities Network SWHIN  https://blogs.coventry.ac.uk/swhin/swhin/= Mt Sinai Hospital Social Work Department New York – Social Work Leadership Enhancement Program  https://www.mountsinai.org/locations/mount-sinai/about/health-professionals/social-work-services/professional-development https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00981389.2018.1439134?journalCode=wshc20 Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners The Australian Association of Social Workers respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the lands on which this podcast is being recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and their families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

For many people who see a social worker, it is because they are already involved in our health or community services system, and they are referred by another professional.  This means they have to make contact with our formal service system, and this is something that doesn’t suit everyone.  What if it was possible to walk into a public place like a library, and see a social worker? Even if you didn’t live in that local area?  Who would fund a program like that? Is there a sufficient level of need for a library social worker?  What difference does it make to the community?  Erin McKeegan has the answers. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:  https://news.melbourne.vic.gov.au/libraries-offer-a-safe-haven-for-melburnians-in-need/ Launch housing  https://www.launchhousing.org.au/ City of Melbourne’s initiatives to prevent and end homelessness:  https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/homes-melbourne/ending-homelessness/Pages/ending-homelessness.aspx Review of the trial project:  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01616846.2020.1825917 FURTHER READING An international perspective:  https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/01/03/1063985757/why-your-local-library-might-be-hiring-a-social-worker#:~:text=Art%20%26%20Design-,When%20the%20answers%20are%20not%20in%20books%2C%20some%20libraries%20hire,finding%20mental%20health%20and%20more. For a contrast to this inclusive approach, see this example of a policing and security-based approach: In the Library with the Lead Pipe: https://apo.org.au/node/271231

When young people walk through Alex Wilson’s door, they are already carrying the stigma from their long involvement in our mental health system.  They know they have been called ‘Frequent Flyers’ or ‘treatment resistant’.  Alex’s aim for her work with these young people is that they will feel appreciated, validated and empowered.  Alex knows that this work involves risks.  But Alex is not cavalier about these risks.  Her rigorous approach to risk is where the conversation starts. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy:  https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/cognitive-behaviour-therapy Dialectical Behaviour Therapy:  https://www.sane.org/information-and-resources/facts-and-guides/dialectical-behaviour-therapy-dbt Continuing Professional Development available from the AASW CBT: https://my.aasw.asn.au/s/event-information?EventID=a2Y9g0000002KEBEA2 DBT: https://my.aasw.asn.au/s/event-information?EventID=a2Y9g0000002KEaEAM Related articles from Australian Social Work: YOUNG PEOPLE DESCRIBE WHAT THEY WANT FROM THEIR WORKERS: Zuchowski I, Braidwood L, d’Emden C, Gair S, The Voices of ‘At-Risk Young People About Services They Received: A systematic literature review, Australian Social Work, vol 75 (1) 2022,  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0312407X.2020.1776742 ASSESSING RISK IN YOUNG PEOPLE: Lemon G, Stanford S, Sawyer AM Trust and the Dilemmas of Suicide Risk Assessment in Non-government Mental Health Services, Australian Social Work, vol 69 (2) 2016, 145-157  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0312407X.2015.1131843 DBT AND SOCIAL WORK Cooper B, & Parsons J. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: A social work intervention?. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 21(4), 83–93.  https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol21iss4id264 Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners The Australian Association of Social Workers respectfully acknowledges the past and present Traditional Owners and ongoing Custodians of the land on which this podcast is being recorded. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and their families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening

Back in 2021, we talked to Ellen Beaumont about her experiences representing Australia as one of the Young Matildas, and her life afterwards.  Back then we had just learned that Australia would be hosting the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.  Now that we know how well the Matildas have played in that tournament, we are bringing you this replay of that conversation as a bonus episode. When Ellen Beaumont was in the Young Matildas, she trained every minute that she wasn’t working, eating or sleeping.  She put her education and career on hold, she missed family events and had no social life.  All the while she knew that if she’d been a man she would have been well paid and sponsored, whereas Ellen was paid nothing to work this hard and represent her country.  But for Ellen this was a life of privilege.  So when her sporting career had come to its end, how did Ellen make the transition out of this privilege?  How did she end up in social work?  And which aspects of her former life help her now as a social worker? SHOWNOTES: “Young Matildas Selected” SBS: ‘The World Game”, 30/04/2014 Wikipedia summary of 2004 FIFA U-19 Women’s World Championship Crawford F, and McGowan L, Never Say Die: The Hundred Year Overnight Success of Australian Women’s Football, New South Press, 2019 Beaumont E, Chester P, and Rideout H, ‘Navigating Ethical Challenges in Social Media: Social Work Student and Practitioner Perspectives’, Australian Social Work, Vol 70, 2017 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0312407X.2016.1274416?journalCode=rasw20& ‘You Can’t Ask That: Ex footballers, ABC iview  05/05/2021 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the lands on which this podcast was recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

Jane Sullivan OAM’s career has spanned paid and unpaid work, community services and the health system, social work and psychology, church organisations and the public sector.  As she looks back over her career, it is her conversations with one group of people that stay with her.  These were the people who wanted to make the decision that no-one wants to have to make. Jane Sullivan’s OAM Citation https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-01/20230126%20-%20Media%20notes%20-%20OAM%20%28S-Z%29.pdf Jane’s resource for parents of children with life limiting conditions: Caring decisions: A Handbook for parents facing end-of-life decisions for their child, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne https://www.rch.org.au/uploadedFiles/Main/Content/caringdecisions/130890%20Caring%20Decisions%20book_v1.pdf Articles: After an end-of-life decision: Parents’ reflections on living with an end-of-life decision for their child Jane E Sullivan Lynn H Gillam, Paul T Monagle Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health / Vol 56, Issue 7, pp 1060-1065 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpc.14816 Ethics at the end of life: who should make decisions about treatment limitation for young children with life threatening or life limiting conditions? Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health / Vol 57, Issue 9, pp 594-598 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1440-1754.2011.02177.x

Professor Tom Calma AO is one of Australia’s most respected human rights and social justice campaigners.  He is Senior Australian of the Year 2023, and he is a social work graduate. Prof Calma AO is a- Kungarakan Elder and has worked for more than 45 years at local, community, state and international levels championing the rights, responsibilities and welfare of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.  He co-led the co-design of a Voice to Parliament initiative. His call for Australia to address the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples was the catalyst for the Close the Gap Campaign.  He was instrumental in establishing the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples; has led the Tackling Indigenous Smoking program; and has co-chaired Reconciliation Australia for over a decade. For NAIDOC Week in early July 2023, the AASW invited Prof Calma AO to present a Webinar for our members about the approaching Referendum to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the Australian Constitution and to enable them to advise Parliament and the government, through a Voice to Parliament. The Webinar was facilitated by Linda Ford, a Director of the AASW PROFILES PROFESSOR TOM CALMA AO https://australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/professor-tom-calma-ao LINDA FORD https://www.aasw.asn.au/about-aasw/board-of-directors/ MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE INFORMATION ABOUT THE REFERENDUM: ‘Referendums. It’s been a while’, Australian Electoral Commission:  https://www.aec.gov.au/referendums/ Information about the Voice:  https://voice.gov.au/ The Uluru Statement from the Heart:  https://ulurustatement.org/ YES23 Community Based Campaign:  https://yes23.com.au/ Allies for Uluru:  https://alliesforuluru.antar.org.au/ Victorian Women’s Trust Resources:  https://www.vwt.org.au/watch-together-yes-how-we-can-work-together-to-enshrine-a-first-nations-voice-in-our-national-constitution/ Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners The Australian Association of Social Workers respectfully acknowledges the past and present Traditional Owners and ongoing Custodians of the land on which this podcast is being recorded. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and their families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

Michelle Moriarty has won an award for establishing groups for widowed people in rural Australia to support each other.  But Michelle is not going to stop there, because she would like us all to be able to support young people who have been widowed.  Reflecting on her own experience, Michelle realised that the reason she didn’t receive the help she needed was not that people didn’t want to help.  It was a language problem.  Michelle wants us all to be fluent in talking about grief. Michelle’s award: https://agrifutures.com.au/news/grief-advocate-takes-home-top-honour-2023-wa-agrifutures-rural-womens-award-winner-announced/ https://agrifutures.com.au/opportunities/rural-womens-award/ The themes in this episode are also discussed in other episodes: Women ‘s contribution to rural Australia is discussed by Prof Margaret Alston OAM: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0dtb0G1LB1QBfkku1LkrxH?si=33b7a82101ea43e4 Bereavement is discussed by Julie Kulikoski OAM: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ZigGWtr0sk9zk19vDVQBP?si=03167b20491d4d8e Other Resources Any ordinary Day: Leigh Sales, Penguin Books Till Death Do Us Part: Fenella Souter, The Age Good Weekend, 20/05/23 Online version; https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/it-takes-two-years-to-rewire-the-brain-remaking-life-as-a-widow-20230405-p5cyfr.html?collection=p5cyg3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the land on which this podcast was recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to Elders of other communities who may be listening.

When a technology company invited a social worker to join their digital literacy project, it was because they hoped her social work skills would be “nice-to-have” additions to their “need-to-have” skills for teaching people how to use their digital devices.  But Anna Morgan had already been contemplating digital inclusion for a long time.  Anna brought her social work mindset to the project, called on her community development experience and aimed for social inclusion.   Mentioned in this episode: InfoXchange: Connected Communities:  https://www.infoxchange.org/au/community-programs/connected-communities Definition of ‘Digital Inclusion’ from the Center for Digital Equity: https://thecenterfordigitalequity.org/digital-inclusion-and-digital-equity/ Asset Based Community Development: https://www.jeder.com.au/what-we-offer/asset-based-community-development-participatory-community-building/ Human Centred Design: https://www.vic.gov.au/introduction-human-centred-design Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners The Australian Association of Social Workers respectfully acknowledges the past and present Traditional Owners and ongoing Custodians of the land on which this podcast is being recorded. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and their families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

Harm reduction is an approach to drug policy which promotes health, dignity and rights for everyone, regardless of which drugs they happen to be using.  Although it is part of Australia’s National Drug Strategy, the principles of Harm Reduction aren’t always obvious to those of us in the service system.  Chloe Span and the other members of Students for Sensible Drug Policy are working on changing that. LINKS Students for Sensible Drug Policy https://www.ssdp.org.au Harm Reduction: “Harm reduction is grounded in justice and human rights. It focusses on positive change and on working with people without judgement, co-ercion, discrimination, or requiring that people stop using drugs as a condition of support.” -    Harm Reduction International: https://hri.global/ Australia’s National Drug Strategy: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/national-drug-strategy-2017-2026 Bob Hawke’s endorsement of his daughter: https://www.facebook.com/news.com.au/videos/bob-hawke-tears-up-talking-about-his-daughter/1945347788910102/ Johann Hari: Chasing the Scream, Bloomsbury, UK, 2019 https://www.readings.com.au/product/9781526608369/9781526608369

AJ Williams-Tchen provides Mental Health First Aid training to groups and organisations; and cultural awareness training to health professionals.  Throughout all this work, AJ makes sure participants spend time listening to each other’s stories.  AJ believes in the power of storytelling as our most powerful tool to drive social change.  He practices this himself and describes his experience as a member of the Stolen Generation.  When you hear his story, you realise that, in AJ’s words: “History is so recent”. Note: This episode was prepared before the announcement of the details of the Australian referendum about a First Nations Voice to Parliament.  You can read more about the background to this referendum here: https://ulurustatement.org/ LINKS 26 January is a day to reflect on our nation’s true history:  Watch AJ Williams-Tchen describe what January 26 means to him: https://www.aasw.asn.au/social-policy-advocacy/reconciliation AASW 2004 statement of apology to the Stolen Generation:  https://www.aasw.asn.au/document/item/618 Mental Health First Aid: https://mhfa.com.au/ Girrraway Gangi consultancy:  https://www.girrawayganyi.com.au/ ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the land on which this podcast was recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to Elders of other communities who may be listening.

Social workers draw on knowledge, skills and experiences from their professional and personal lives in all sorts of ways, to bring about changes they want to see in their world.  While some of us choose to specialise in a particular field of social work practice, others take on roles in leadership, management or governance.  Knowing the importance of good plan, Cindy Smith has been able to do all these things; because her plans combine her love of learning, her dedication to excellence and her values. LINKS Cindy Smith biography on the AASW webpage: https://www.aasw.asn.au/about-aasw/key-staff ORGANISATIONS Australasian College of Health Services Management: https://www.achsm.org.au/ Australian Institute of Company Directors: https://www.aicd.com.au/ Chief Executive Women: https://cew.org.au/ SOCIAL WORK, LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE: Defining Social Work Leadership: a theoretical and conceptual review and analysis: Colby Peters ,Journal of Social Work Practice, Vol 32, pp31-44, 2017 Available through Tandfonline: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02650533.2017.1300877 The Emerging Significance of Values Based Leadership: A Literature Review: M.K. Copeland, St John Fisher University, 2014 Available through the university: https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/business_facpub/5/ THE AICD have published a set of Not-for-Profit Governance Principles:  https://www.aicd.com.au/tools-and-resources/not-for-profit-governance-principles.html

When Anne-Maree Newbold OAM commenced her career, the residents of the large stand-alone psychiatric hospital in which she worked slept in dormitories with a shared clothing cupboard.  Since then Anne-Maree’s career has been dedicated to reforming the way people experience our mental health and disability systems. Combining her experiences as a carer and her dedication to human rights, she tells us how we can be allies of the people who use our services, in their advocacy for change. LINKS AASW symposium: Mental health, Social Work and Contemporary Practice https://aasw.eventsair.com/the-aasw-mental-health-symposium-2022/registration Independent Mental Health Advocacy; https://www.imha.vic.gov.au/ North West Mental Health Services; https://www.nwmh.org.au/ Anne-Maree’s resources on rights: https://www.nwmh.org.au/about/policies-publications/your-rights-responsibilities

For Mark Silver, improving the mental health of older people starts when we all respect their story of their lives.  He has pioneered intergenerational programs which bring people together across the generations to share stories and build that respect.  When it comes to Mark’s own story, it’s in the badges on his cap. Further Information about Mark and his work (including portrait with cap): Social Work Focus, November 2021 https://www.aasw.asn.au/document/item/13650 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-silver-66609524/ Swinburne Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults https://www.swinburne.edu.au/research/centres-groups-clinics/wellbeing-clinic/ Australian Institute for Intergenerational Practice https://aiip.net.au/ Intergenerational Practice on Free-to-air Television Old People’s Home for 4 year olds https://iview.abc.net.au/show/old-people-s-home-for-4-year-olds Old people’s Home for Teenagers https://iview.abc.net.au/show/old-people-s-home-for-teenagers Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners The Australian Association of Social Workers respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the lands on which this podcast is being recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and their families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

This episode follows from our previous episode with Rosalie Pockett AM. Like Rosalie, Kim Hobbs didn’t intend to make her career in hospital social work, but has ended up doing exactly that.  Kim is the other half of the productive partnership between a hospital and university researching inequity in healthcare, and Kim agrees about how powerful these partnerships are in overturning inequality.  She has observed that the ground-breaking research happens when social workers are the researchers. Further Information about Kim Hobbs https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kim-Hobbs https://www.oswanz.com/kim-hobbs/ Special Issue Australian Social Work Social Work and Cancer. Editorial by Rosalie Pockett and Kim Hobbs   Free Access https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0312407X.2021.1988664?src= AASW Members: Australian Social Work Special Issue Social Work and Cancer Volume 75, Issue 2, 2022. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rasw20/current Prof Irwin Epstein on Clinical Data Mining: https://www.routledge.com/Clinical-Data-Mining-in-Practice-Based-Research-Social-Work-in-Hospital/Epstein-Blumenfield/p/book/9780789017093 Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners The Australian Association of Social Workers respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the lands on which this podcast is being recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and their families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

Rosalie Pockett AM never intended to stay in hospital social work.  At first its scope was too narrow, but once she ‘widened the lens’ she was using to look at it, she saw how to achieve the two things she was most interested in doing: overturning the inequities in people’s access to healthcare; and building partnerships between social workers and researchers.  These are what she describes as the two strands of her career interest. The way she weaves the strands together has led to her receiving an Order of Australia. This is the first of two episodes discussing these topics. Mentioned in this Episode Dr Rosalie Pockett AM University of Sydney https://fdp.edsw.usyd.edu.au/users/197 Special Issue Australian Social Work Social Work and Cancer. Editorial by Rosalie Pockett and Kim Hobbs   Free Access https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0312407X.2021.1988664?src= AASW Members: Australian Social Work Special Issue Social Work and Cancer Volume 75, Issue 2, 2022. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rasw20/current Social Work Health Inequalities Network SWHIN https://blogs.coventry.ac.uk/swhin/swhin/ Mt Sinai Hospital Social Work Department New York – Social Work Leadership Enhancement Program https://www.mountsinai.org/locations/mount-sinai/about/health-professionals/social-work-services/professional-development https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00981389.2018.1439134?journalCode=wshc20 Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners The Australian Association of Social Workers respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the lands on which this podcast is being recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and their families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

The work and life of Max Cornwell OAM have been guided by a humanistic impulse; a preference for the democratic and emancipatory.  He joined the protests against restrictions to civil liberties in Queensland in the 1970’s, he started theatre groups in Queensland prisons, and he has always been suspicious of grand theories.  Even after decades as a family therapist, his advice to other practitioners is: ‘Don’t fall in love with your theory’.  It is part of his hatred of fundamentalism.  For Max, there is still plenty to fight for… LINKS: Hazel Smith obituary https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03124077008549308 The history of the Australian Association of Family Therapy in New South Wales: https://www.aaft.asn.au/branches/nsw/ The Milan Approach: Centro Milanese di Terapia della Famiglia: (CMTF) https://www.cmtf.it/en/ Mentioned in this episode: Theatre: Arthur Miller, The Crucible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucible Brendan Behan, The Hostage; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hostage_(play) For a summary of the Bjelke-Petersen government’s restrictions on civil liberties: Nothing Has Changed: Why Queensland’s protest battle has raised Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s ghost https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/sep/01/nothing-has-changed-why-queenslands-protest-battle-has-raised-joh-bjelke-petersens-ghost Quote “The past is another country. They do things differently there”. from L.P. Hartley: The Go-Between, Penguin Books, 1953 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/258079.The_Go_Between Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners The Australian Association of Social Workers respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the lands on which this podcast is being recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and their families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening. Link to recording of intro: https://sqdc.st/studio/FBsp

Julie Kulikowski OAM has received an Order of Australia for her work in haematology, palliative care and bereavement counselling.  She has sat beside people facing the terror of oblivion.  She has been the light on the wharf, while their family was being tossed around in the stormy seas that follow a sudden terminal diagnosis and death.  It’s a time a time when only everything changes; and it was one of these families who nominated Julie for her award. This episode comes with a Content Warning! For an alternative to this, or afterwards, check out this guided breathing exercise or take a music break .   LINKS For Grief and Bereavement -  1. The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement,  grief .org 2. The Bereavement Care Centre, and the National Centre for Childhood Grief.   References for  Julie’s work in psycho-neuro-immunology: 1. Herbert Benson and Eileen Stuart, "The Wellness Book", Simon and Schuster, 1992 "Neuropeptides and their receptors - a Psychosomatic network ", in The Journal of Immunology, Vol 135, No 2, August 1985 2. Candice Pert, "Molecules of Emotion", Scribner, 1997 3. David Spiegel and Catherine Classen, "Group Therapy for Cancer Patients"  Perseus, 2000   Another social worker talks about  forensic counselling, grief and bereavement Healing the Grieving Heart Wendy Liu is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker who is featured in an Episode of ABC RN’s Conversations.   Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners The Australian Association of Social Workers respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the lands on which this podcast is being recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and their families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

For Pamela Cohen, it wasn’t enough that the cardiac patients in the hospital where she worked received the best care.  Pamela wanted that level of care to be available to every cardiac patient, throughout Australia and overseas.  She received good advice on what she needed to do to influence this field of medical practice, and she followed it. In fact, good advice from influential women is what led Pamela to a career in social work in the first place.  And that story connects her to the most tumultuous events in our political history.   PROFILE: St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney Cardiac Rehabilitation program, featuring a presentation from Pamela  on the psycho-social aspects of rehabilitation: https://www.svhhearthealth.com.au/rehabilitation/overview-rehabilitation (Pamela’s is the 8th of the presentations)   Mentioned in this episode Professor Tony Vinson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Vinson   Margaret Whitlam AO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Whitlam   General introductions to the dismissal of the Whitlam Government can be found at the Australian National Museum and the National Film and Sound Archive: https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/whitlam-dismissalhttps://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/dismissal   Detailed analysis of the events leading up to the Dismissal are contained in The Eleventh  podcast: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/the-eleventh/ start at episode 4   Jenny Hocking, The Dismissal Dossier: Everything You Were Never Meant to Know About November 1975, Melbourne University Press, 2017 https://www.mup.com.au/books/the-dismissal-dossier-electronic-book-text     Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners The Australian Association of Social Workers respectfully acknowledges the past and present Traditional Owners and ongoing Custodians of the land on which this podcast is being recorded. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and their families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening

What kind of world do we want? The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals describe one vision of a world which respects rights, shares prosperity and protects the planet: a world in which no-one has been left behind.  Every member state of the UN has endorsed that vision. That vision is also endorsed by the International Federation of Social Workers, who have made it their theme for World Social Work Day 2022.  To celebrate WSWD 2022, the AASW conducted a webinar for its members.  It discussed the SDG’s and the theme  of “Leaving no-one behind”; and what both of these mean for us in Australia. This is an edited recording of that webinar, so you will hear references to slides and written questions submitted by the audience. (At the time of the webinar we were anticipating that a Federal Election will be called soon in Australia).  The webinar started with an introduction of our guest, Linda Ford.   LINKS IFSW World Social Work Day 2022: “Leaving no-one behind”: https://www.ifsw.org/social-work-action/world-social-work-day/world-social-work-day-2022/  SDG’s https://sdgs.un.org/goals  The People’s Summit: Co Building A New Eco-Social World: www.newecosocialworld.com    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the lands on which this podcast was recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

Since Dr Robyn Miller started working with isolated, vulnerable families 40 years ago, she has seen enormous changes in the way that children’s needs are understood and responded to.  When the Victorian child protection system was overhauled to enshrine the rights of the child as its guiding principle, Robyn became its inaugural Principal Practitioner.  In that role she translated the rights of the child into child protection practice.  Robyn is still advancing the rights of young people in the child protection system, but now it is in her role as the CEO of a large Community Sector Organisation.   LINKS Are We Caring for Everyone? AASW symposium United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child   For information about children’s rights and child protection legislation in Australia see Australian Human Rights Commission: Children’s Rights in Australia Australian Institute of Family Studies: Child Family Community Australia Australian child protectionlegislation, CFCA Resource sheet , March 2018   Also mentioned Miller, R. The Best Interests Principles –  A Conceptual Overview, Office for Children, Department of Human Services, Victoria, 2007 Humphreys C, Holzer P, Scott D, Arney F, Bromfield L, Higgins D, The Planets Aligned: Is Child protection Policy Reform Good Luck or Good Management?  Australian Social Work, Vol63, No2, June 2010. pp145-163 A history of income support payments for  low income parents can be found at: https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BN/0809/children#:~:text=The%20Whitlam%20Government%20introduced%20the,the%20name%20it%20was%20given Respecting Sexual Safety: A Program to Prevent Sexual Exploitation and Harmful Sexual Behaviour in Out-of-Home Care Australian social work https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0312407X.2019.1597910 Mackillop.org.au   For a contrast (albeit fictional) Dervla McTiernan: The Ruin   ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the lands on which this podcast was recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

Since March 2018, Bronwyn Dendle and Angela Fredericks have been campaigning for the Murugappan family to be released from detention and returned to their home in Biloela.  The story of the family is complicated.  It spans continents, decades, and multiple changes in Australia’s immigration laws.  The facts of this story can become lost, hidden behind divisive, politically motivated expression of opinions.  Before listening to this episode, you can refresh your understanding of the facts here. In June 2021, 4 year old Tharnicaa required urgent medical treatment for a disease that had been untreated in detention, creating publicity round the world about her family’s treatment, and the #HomeToBilo campaign to end their enforced detention.  The campaign has been described by one newspaper as having changed Australia’s national conversation on refugees. Bronwyn and Angela are both AASW members and in this episode we discuss how they have focussed the world’s attention on Australia’s treatment of people seeking asylum.   LINKS The Campaign:  https://www.hometobilo.com/ https://www.theage.com.au/national/we-had-to-speak-up-for-our-friends-the-little-town-that-roared-for-a-desperate-family-20210804-p58ftq.html https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-20/no-place-like-home-for-biloela-asylum-seeker-family/100450688 https://www.abc.net.au/austory/statement-immigration-minister-alex-hawke/13549722 https://www.marieclaire.com.au/2021-marie-claire-women-of-the-year Marie-Claire’s Women of the Year:   Pryia Murugappan; The Women of Biloela Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals https://www.openculture.com/2017/02/13-rules-for-radicals.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly From Little Things, Big Things Grow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAONlfoNVuY   ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the lands on which this podcast was recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

Dr Ann O’Neill AM has survived the unimaginable.  In fact she has done more than survive: Ann has used her experience as the basis for further research, from which she has created her own model of recovery.  And to make sure that other people have the best opportunity to recover as well, she has established an organisation specifically to do this work. For this work, Ann has received an Order of Australia. This episode comes with a Content Warning.  For an alternative or antidote go to:  https://www.abc.net.au/classic/events/music-for-wellbeing/   PROFILE Ann’s story: https://www.abc.net.au/austory/hells-angel/10545386 Ann’s model and work: https://annoneill.com/ https://angelhands.org.au/   MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE; Taylor’s concept of the milking stool: Taylor, A.J.W. Justice as a Basic Human Need, New Zealand Journal of Psychology, vol 38, No2, 2009 For a similar account of a woman who supports women and girls after sexual assault: https://www.abc.net.au/7.30/tarana-burke---the-woman-behind-metoo/13593580   ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the lands on which this podcast was recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

Australia’s first Professor of Pasifika heritage, Jioji Ravulo, is the Chair of Social Work and Policy Studies at the University of Sydney.  His story starts at a barbeque in Western Sydney in the 1970’s.  His work combines the perspectives of both his Western and his Pasifika heritages and it shows how, instead of competing against each other, different world views can be blended into holistic and inclusive visions for the future.   PROFILE: https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/jioji-ravulo.html  ‘It’s Been A Journey’: Meet Australia’s First Pasifika Professor https://www.smh.com.au/national/it-s-been-a-journey-meet-australia-s-first-pasifika-professor-   PROF RAVULO’S PUBLICATIONS Ravulo, J., Mafile'o, T., Yeates, D. Pacific Social Work: Navigating practice, policy and research. New York, Routledge, 2019. Social Policy and Social Change: Popular culture, new media, and social work https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329816261_Social_policy_and_social_change_popular_culture_new_media_and_social_work Connecting and Collaborating across Oceania and its Diaspora: A shared approach to meaningful development and engagement https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331669751_Connecting_and_collaborating_across_Oceania_and_its_diaspora_A_shared_approach_to_meaningful_development_and_engagement   MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals The 26th Asia-Pacific Regional Social Work Conference – Social Work and the Sustainable Development Goals  Conference Website The Redfern Speech:  Prime Minister, The Hon Paul Keating’s speech to launch International Year for the World’s Indigenous Peoples, given in Redfern, NSW, 10 December 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6dnDkvdTXA   ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the lands on which this podcast was recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

Imelda Dodds was in her first job as a social worker when she came across Michael who needed to be protected from his ‘fair-weather friends’.  At that time the only way to protect Michael was to place limitations on him, rather than the people who were attempting to exploit him.  Now this is a challenge that has run through political and social reform from the earliest days of welfare state, and that resonates today. That is: in attempting to protect vulnerable people from harm, policies and programs control them, instead of controlling the people who can do them harm.  Imelda has been working through many  of the world’s most intractable problems since then, and this challenge is one of them.  Along the way she has observed instances when protecting vulnerable people means controlling the professionals who are meant to be helping them.   IMELDA’S PUBLICATIONS: Beyond Welfare: In search of citizenship, ACOSS Congress 1995 Norma Parker Address  1997, delivered at the AASW National Conference, Canberra https://www.aasw.asn.au/document/item/7635 Time to move to a more equitable and peaceful solution,  IFSW News, 3 /2001 http://cdn.ifsw.org/assets/ifsw_32522-9.pdf   Engagement in international practice and policy development in Bywaters, P, McLeod, E, Napier L   Social work and Global Health Inequalities, The Policy Press Bristol, UK 2009 IFSW Past President And Social Worker Imelda Dodds, Appointed New Chief Executive Officer Of The New South Wales(NSW) Trustee And Guardian https://www.ifsw.org/ifsw-past-president-and-social-worker-imelda-dodds-appointed-new-chief-executive-officer-of-the-new-south-walesnsw-trustee-and-guardian/   MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: The proposition that the welfare state is a mechanism for controlling the lives of people in poverty was outlined in: Regulating the Poor: The Functions of public welfare, Piven F. F. and Cloward R. A., Vintage, 1st edition 1971, 2nd edition:1993.   Biography of Dorothea Dix https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/dorothea-dix Professor Maria Harries AM profile; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria-Harries Recognising qualified social workers: https://www.aasw.asn.au/information-for-the-community/recognising-qualified-social-workers Regulation of the social work profession in Australia https://www.aasw.asn.au/social-policy-advocacy/regulation-of-social-work-in-australia AASW Code of Ethics: AASW Code of Ethics The UN’s Millennium Goals https://www.un.org/millenniumgoals have now been replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals: https://sdgs.un.org/goals    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the lands on which this podcast was recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

For Margarita Frederico, AM the core of social work is its drive for social justice and its respect for human rights; and its richness comes from the way it is constantly evolving.  Social work has taken her from seminars with Anna Freud, to anti-Vietnam war protests; from The Royal Children’s Hospital to Myanmar; from childhood trauma to environmental rights.  Through a lifetime of change she has held onto the values, the rigour and the knowledge at the core of social work. SHOWNOTES A more detailed version of Margarita’s story was published in Social Work Focus, Autumn 2021 Take Two, Berry Street https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/mmfrederico Margarita’s writing: Margarita Frederico, Maureen Long, Nadine Cameron, Leadership in Child and Family Practice, Routledge, United kingdom, 2018 Margarita Frederico, Maureen Long, Janelle Young,Educating Social Workers for Leadership in a Highly Differentiated Society, International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change, Vol 3 issue 4, pp61-72,  2018 Evaluations of therapeutic foster care programs: Margarita Frederico, Maureen Long, Patricia McNamara , Lynne McPherson, Richard Rose, Improving Outcomes For Children In Out-Of-Home Care: The role of therapeutic foster care,Child and Family Social Work, Vol 22 Issue 2, 2016, pp1064-1074 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cfs.12326 Margarita Frederico, Annette Jackson, Carlina black, Ric Pawsey, Allison Cox, Take Two- Implementing A Therapeutic Service for Children who have Experienced Abuse and Neglect: Beyond Evidence Informed Practice, Child Abuse Review, Volume 28, Issue 3, 2019, pp225-239 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/car.2563 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the lands on which this podcast was recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

When Norma Tracey AM started working in Sydney’s Children’s Hospital, the children were tied to their beds and their parents were allowed to visit for an hour in the evening.  Norma was already drawing on the psychotherapeutic insights of John Bowlby and attempting to make changes to the way that the children were cared for.  So she was excited and honoured to be given the opportunity to meet him and to discuss her plans to reform the whole hospital. The discussion did not go as Norma had planned.  Instead of encouraging her, he told her that the most that anyone could hope to achieve was to add one good brick into the edifice of life. That was more than 50 years ago, and Norma has been applying her understanding of attachment theory ever since.  She is currently the CEO of “Strong Mothers”, an organisation supporting marginalized women and their children.  Now that she has been recognized with an Order of Australia, we can ask whether Bowlby was right, or did he underestimate her?   SHOWNOTES A more detailed version of Norma’s story was published in Social Work Focus, Autumn 2021 Strong Mothers website   ATTACHMENT THEORY: The original text: Bowlby J., 1965 Child Care and the Growth of Love , London, Penguin Books   A general introduction: The School of Life: Psychotherapy,& John Bowlby https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/the-great-psychoanalysts-john-bowlby/   How it applies to social work education and practice: Harlow, E. 2021 Attachment theory: developments, debates and recent applications in social work, social care and education, Journal of Social Work Practice, 35:1, 79-91 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02650533.2019.1700493   ALSO MENTIONED BY NORMA: Dr T. B. Brazelton Phenylketonuria Coeliac disease   ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the lands on which this podcast was recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

When Ellen Beaumont was in the Young Matildas, she trained every minute that she wasn’t working, eating or sleeping.  She put her education and career on hold, she missed family events and had no social life.  All the while she knew that if she’d been a man she would have been well paid and sponsored, whereas Ellen was paid nothing to work this hard and represent her country.  But for Ellen this was a life of privilege.  So when her sporting career had come to its end, how did Ellen make the transition out of this privilege?  How did she end up in social work?  And which aspects of her former life help her now as a social worker?   SHOWNOTES: “Young Matildas Selected” SBS: ‘The World Game”, 30/04/2014 Wikipedia summary of 2004 FIFA U-19 Women’s World Championship Crawford F, and McGowan L, Never Say Die: The Hundred Year Overnight Success of Australian Women’s Football, New South Press, 2019 Beaumont E, Chester P, and Rideout H, ‘Navigating Ethical Challenges in Social Media: Social Work Student and Practitioner Perspectives’, Australian Social Work, Vol 70, 2017 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0312407X.2016.1274416?journalCode=rasw20& ‘You Can’t Ask That: Ex footballers, ABC iview  05/05/2021   ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the lands on which this podcast was recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

The theme for National Reconciliation Week 2021 is ’More than a word, Reconciliation takes action’.  It recognises that many of us are aware of the issues, but that is not enough.  For Reconciliation, we need to take brave and impactful action. To help us understand what that action might be, today we bring you a conversation with Ms Pat Turner AM.  Her long and distinguished career  in public and community service includes the renegotiation of the Closing the Gap initiative which resulted in the National Agreement on Closing the Gap. For Pat, understanding the difference between the two is the key to understanding the brave and impactful action that Reconciliation requires.  Pat is currently the CEO of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, and the Lead Convenor of the Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Peak Organisations.   SHOWNOTES Biography of Pat Turner AM (from The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth Century Australia). https://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0239b.htm Reconciliation Australia website https://www.reconciliation.org.au/ AASW reconciliation page https://www.aasw.asn.au/social-policy-advocacy/reconciliation AASW’s 2004 Statement Of Apology https://www.aasw.asn.au/document/item/618 AASW Media Release “Reconciliation: A time to move forward together. https://www.aasw.asn.au/news-media/2021 2020 “Australia and the World Annual Lecture: The Long Cry of Indigenous Peoples to be heard – a defining moment in Australia”. Ms Pat Turner’s address to the National Press Club, 30 September, 2020. https://www.npc.org.au/speaker/2020/722-pat-turner-am Learn more about the Coalition of Peaks and the new National Agreement on Closing the Gap. https://coalitionofpeaks.org.au/our-story/   ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the lands on which this podcast was recorded.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to the Elders of other communities who may be listening.

From the day she graduated from Queens University Belfast, Mary Jo McVeigh OAM has maintained her absolute faith in her social work profession. She established Cara Care and Cara house where she has been working with children who have been recovering from trauma. For that work, she has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia.  For Mary Jo, our imagination is the storehouse of our wisdom, and she learns as much from her conversations with her ‘wee half-pinters’ as she does from her anti-oppressive social work textbooks. SHOW NOTES https://www.carahouse.com.au Anam Cara Wikipedia entry:wikipedia.org/wiki/Anam_Cara John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World, Bantam Books, London,1997 Convention on the Rights of the child: https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/convention-text Mary Jo Mc Veigh, Are We there Yet? Children Australia, Vol 42,Issue 3 (Sep2017) https://search.proquest.com/openview/ee1ebf5b5b52549b0547c8777542186f/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1586358 Mary Jo’s most recent publication is a literature review of group work with children over the internet: Beyond the Dawn: A literature review on technology assisted therapeutic group work interventions for children and young people who experienced maltreatment, Social Work With Groups, March 2021 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01609513.2021.1892564   ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the land on which we meet.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to Elders of other communities who may be present.

As she was observing the consequences of the millennium drought on her rural community, Margaret Alston realised that there was hardly any discussion of the social consequences of the drought and almost nothing that examined the experiences of rural women.  For Margaret, a focus on social justice means that you can see what is in other people’s blindspots, and this points the way to a new area of social work practice.   SHOW NOTES Margaret’s career summary is on the University of Newcastle website: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/margaret-alston#career   Publications: Rural Women and Leadership, Breaking through the Grass Ceiling, Harwood Publishers, UK, 2000. Innovative Human Services Practice: Changing Landscapes, Pan Macmillan, 2009. Social Work: Fields of Practice, Oxford University Press, (3rd edition) 2018 and  Research for Social Workers, Allen & Unwin (4th edition) 2018. Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate, Springer Books, 2012 Women and Climate Change in Bangladesh Routledge  2015 Women, political struggles and gender equality in South Asia , Pan Macmillan, 2016 Ecological Social Work: Towards Sustainability , Pan Macmillan 2016 Social Science Research Ethics for a Globalizing World: Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives Routledge Advances in Research Methods, 2016 Social Work in Post-Disaster Sites, to be published by Routledge in 2018   ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the land on which we meet.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to Elders of other communities who may be present.

Although she has two Ph D's, Dr Lorraine Muller considers herself only one among many knowledge holders.  Her book proposes a process for decolonising our work in the human services and contains many messages for social workers.  In this conversation,  she describes why and how we can all commence this journey with hope and respect.   SHOW NOTES Muller, L. A Theory for Indigenous Health and Human Service work: Connecting Indigenous Knowledge and Practice, Routledge (2014 AASW : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Actions AASW: Acknowledgement Statement Aboriginal and Torres Islander People AASW Preparing for Culturally Responsive and Inclusive Social Work Practice in Australia: Working with Aboriginal and Torres Islander People AASW Reconciliation week 2020 interview with Linda Ford  Archie Roach: Took the children away Archie Roach’s’ Took the Children Away’: How one song galvanized a nation. The Guardian, November 12 2020   ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the land on which we meet.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to Elders of other communities who may be present.

Like many people we at the AASW watched the January 2020 bushfires with horror. In late January 2020, host Angela Scarfe contacted a member, Jo, who was living and working in one of the areas that was badly burnt, and they talked about what Jo thought her community needed. They have kept in touch throughout the year, and it is fair to say that they didn’t anticipate some of the events that 2020 had delivered.  This episode was recorded at the end of 2020, as the weather was warming and the Royal Commission into Natural Disaster Arrangements had released its report including a section on Mental Health. It was a good time to check in with Jo about what she had noticed since they first spoke. More information Social Work Focus Autumn / Winter 2020 Phoenix Australia’s Guide for Treating PTSD; Chapter 9 deals with stress caused by Natural Disasters (NB the guidelines include material that relates to the needs of people who volunteered.) Report of the Royal Commission into Natural Disaster Arrangements. Mental Health is discussed in chapter 15 Solastalgia: Social Work’s Role in Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrvJ2jouKoM&feature=youtu.be  

When members of the public complain about homeless people in their local park to Kate Incerti she thanks them.  It’s her way of demonstrating what it means to take a human rights approach to homelessness.  In this episode she tells us what human rights mean for homelessness, how it connects with our colonial history and what COVID-19 has shown us about providing more housing. Leonard Cohen helps us make sense of it all. RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Victorian Charter of Rights and Responsibilities AASW policy position on Housing and Homelessness The Scope of Social Work Practice: Social Work in Homelessness Social Work Focus Winter Spring 2018 containing several articles on social workers in housing and homelessness Council to Homeless persons Everybody’s home campaign The Right to Housing in Australia Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Leonard Cohen: There is a Crack in Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In

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