Newsletter Highlights and Links

°  From the Director

°  WANTED: Ideas from Clinicians

°  News from the UVM Department of Social Work -

° The month's "Items of General Interest"
  click here for what's up

° NASW-VT Offers Great Educational Programs in FY2011

°  New Practice Update: Part II: Advocating for Change in Home Health Care

° LEADERS WANTED:
We have two director-at-large positions open that can be appointed by the president for the one year remaining in the terms. Any member of NASW-VT may be a candidate. We also have positions on the Chapter Committee on Nominations and Leadership Identification (CCNLI) which can be appointed until the next election. If you or someone you know might be interested in one of these position, please contact the Chapter Office.

° Loan Forgiveness for Social Workers

° NASW Member Insurance Programs & Services

° Alerts for Clinicians

° ASWB completes social work practice analysis

° Updates form National     NASW:
  National Call for Nominations – Elected and Appointed

Impact of Health Care Reform

Advisory Committee to Help Raise Public Awareness of Social Work

° LOTS AND LOTS of CEU opportunities this summer and fall. Click here for NASW-VT approved ones.

° NEW Job listings. Click here

NASW-VT 2010 Annual Conference

Friday, October 29, 2010
College of Saint Joseph, Rutland, VT
Registration at 9:00, closing by 4:00

5 CEUs total 2.5 ETHICS

Sustaining Compassion and Hope in Challenging Times

Featuring Keynote and workshop with

Paul Fulton, Ed.D.

Director of Mental Health, Tufts Health Plan

and Founding Member, Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy
Boston, Massachusetts

“Teach us to care and not to care.  Teach us to sit still.”

Mindfulness, compassion, and compassion fatigue

We are continually called upon to witness seemingly endless human suffering, and our efforts on behalf of our clients or ourselves can seem hopelessly inadequate.  How are we to remain helpful to others when we are faced with our own uncertainties and the simple exhaustion of compassion?  Dr. Fulton will speak to the contribution mindfulness may make to the heart of the caregiver through a reconceptualization of the nature of suffering, the cultivation of compassion for ourselves and others, and a changed relationship to difficult experience itself.         

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