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Things I wish were known before a worldwide pandemic
It’s social work month again, which means the annual ‘list of things’ started of so many years ago. This year I can’t help but feel it is tinged with a sadder view, a look towards the unknown rather than the tongue-in-cheek version I usually produce. This year has been difficult one, yes, I’m in a wonderful CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
How to Best Confront and Combat Prejudice
Prejudice occurs in many forms and can have a significant effect on the well-being of those who experience it—including various aspects of physical and mental health. When this occurs, the ripple effect can reach far beyond those who are directly affected. Although eliminating prejudice entirely may not be p CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
Ways to Reduce Binge Drinking for Partygoers, Event Hosts, and Individuals
Having a few drinks may seem harmless enough. However, for those who consume high amounts of alcohol in a short period of time, the implications of binge drinking could be much more serious. In fact, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes binge drinking as the “most common, c CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
Call For Papers: Financial Capability and Asset Building- Achievements, Challenges, and Next Steps
Call for Papers Financial Capability and Asset Building: Achievements, Challenges, and Next Steps (2020–2025) The 2020 Financial Capability and Asset Building (FCAB) Convening Financial matters have become increasingly complex and pervasive in daily life. Incom CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
Causes of Family Estrangement and How to Reconcile
Though some may be reluctant to talk about it, emerging research about family estrangement suggests this dynamic is more common than many people think. Broadly defined as “one or more relatives intentionally choosing to end contact because of an ongoing negative relationship,” family estrangement is so com CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
To the Place Where Hope Becomes Capacity
As the 86th Texas Legislative Session has come to a close, I have found myself reflecting more and more on all of the hard work that is done over the course of 140 days. The fact that two years of legislating is completed during this short time period, most of the time with no special sessions called in the CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
End of the 86th: Finding Myself at a Loss for Words
It is my understanding that I am writing one of the final blog posts for the session for the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work Austin Legislative Internship Program Blog Series for the 86th Texas Legislative Session. This is unfortunate for you, reader, as I am likely about to end this se CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
Making Change Happen
What is change? Change, a verb meaning to make or become different or a noun meaning the act or instance of making or becoming different is, first of all, subjective. What everyone wants to see change and what change looks like for everyone, is ultimately different. I came into this University of CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
What I’m Taking With Me
Over the past two weeks, I have been responsible for 105 bill analyses on subjects that have been referred to the Texas House of Representatives’State Affairs ,Criminal Jurisprudence, and Natural Resources committees, mostly on topics that I had zero prior knowledge about before my internship began. This wor CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
Personal Privilege Speech
Mr. Speaker – Members, We have entered the last month of the 86thLege! As a social work intern and policy analyst with the Legislative Study Group, a lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into these 119 days of session, and I only need enough energy to get through 21 more days until the legislative se CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
Budget Week: The struggle is real
As a social work intern with the Legislative Study Group (LSG), I am the staffer assigned to the Texas House of Representative’s Appropriations Committee. In this role, I have a front-row seat to the process by which Texas establishes its bi-annual budget. The most surprising thing I have learned is that CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
Defending and Defining Our Place at the Social Work Table
As an aspiring social worker at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, I am no stranger to the stereotypes, assumptions, and misconceptions about social work that exist outside of the profession. “Social workers take kids away from their families.” “Social workers don’t actually car CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
Hand Over Heart, Heart Over Stomach
"People come here to see how the sausage is made, but some of them become vegetarians." – Quoted on Overheard Texas Lege (@overheardtxlege on Instagram) Located in an office across the street from the Capitol, my placement at the Texas Legislative Study Group (LSG) is often blessedly sheltered from th CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
Caucus within a Caucus
As Easter came and went, I was able to go home and see my family and friends for the last time before session ends. Even at 4 months into this University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work internship with the Texas Legislative Study Group (a legislative caucus), and after explaining several times wha CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
The End Looms Near
This is my second of two blogs and I figured this one would prove easier to write than the first. There have been a whole lot of meetings, even more bills, almost as much coffee, and several all-nighters…in a row. There has also been just enough support, encouragement, jokes, pranks and memes to make my e CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
Feelings Schmeelings, Hand Me My Majority
Have you ever done something that was expected of you, but that may not have aligned with what you really felt like doing? Welcome to how you might feel all the time if you ever choose a path in politics. It was said many times to me I must know myself before I was to come into the tumultuous world of the CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE
How Most Successful Businesses Use Digital Marketing for Their Benefit
Digital marketing has become a part of every business in 2019. It’s not just a tool that helps you grow your business. It’s a necessity without which you can’t survive in the market. It’s an effective way of marketing that escalated as technology became a part of our lives. Today every small to global compan CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE