Tools for Practice

SSWN Open Access Project: 21 Free Measures of Risk and Protective Factors for Youth

by Natasha Bowen | Nov 3, 2019 | 1 |

To be responsive at SSWN to the comments from our readers, we will be sharing free, brief, accessible assessments for many issues school social workers encounter in their schools. We are starting with 21 assessments for a range of potential intervention targets, such as students’ perceptions of their school experiences, depression, social support, stress, and risky behaviors.

Striking is a Tier 3 Intervention

by Mary Difino | Oct 22, 2019 | 1 |
We’re (kinda) hiring! Apply to join our 2019-21 SSWN editorial team by September 30th

by Michael Kelly | Sep 19, 2019 | 0 |

Research That Matters

SSWN Book Club: The Solutions Are In Our Schools

by Michael Kelly | Oct 29, 2019 | 0 |

Schools can be places of solutions, strengths, and successes. School- based mental health professionals (school social workers, school counselors, and school psychologists) have numerous ways to harness the solutions that are already happening in their schools. This 2nd Edition of SFBT in Schools offers research and how-to examples for the busy school clinician who are trying to make their schools more solution-focused.

SSWN Book Club: Is Chicago Making Urban School Choice Work, Or Is It Creating A Version Of An Academic Hunger Games for 8th Graders?

by Michael Kelly | Oct 7, 2019 | 0 |
Slow Down: What We Don’t Know (Yet) About Trauma-Informed Approaches in Schools

by Michael Kelly | Jul 17, 2019 | 0 |

Interventions
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Letter from Sonoma County, CA: Educators Responding to The Climate Crisis

by Park Guthrie | Nov 4, 2019 | 0 |

I am concerned that this most recent exposure to climate-related disasters combined with education sector silence (or worse) about climate neglect may shake my students' sense of safety in the world and their optimism about the future. Please help us reframe the context by which students experience these disasters.

SSWN Top 5: Mindfulness

by Richard Cleveland | Oct 25, 2019 | 0 |
Promoting Social and Emotional Competencies in Elementary School: A SSWN Research Brief

by Laura Montiel | Jun 27, 2019 | 0 |
(Update with Livestream Recording) SSW Researchers Tackling Gun Violence in Schools

by Michael Kelly | Jun 10, 2019 | 0 |
Moving Forward with Social Emotional Learning: One School’s Continuing Journey

by Dorey Delikowski | Jun 4, 2019 | 0 |

Trauma-Informed Care in Schools: What We Know (And Still Don’t Know), And Why That Matters for Marginalized Youth In K-12

by Michael Kelly | Nov 10, 2019 | 0 |

This year on SSWN (and our sister social media platform SSWNetwork) we're going to delve into a complicated and we believe necessary conversation about trauma-informed care (TIC), racial inequity, and evidence-based practice (EBP). These three concepts, themselves worthy of extensive study and exploration, are coming together in dynamic and powerful ways as school clinicians, researchers, and K-12 schools reckon with how to do trauma-informed care in school contexts.