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Care Cafe 2-20-18. By Gabrielle Mason Master creative arts therapist Heidi Landis’ warmth and wit turned our quiet Riverside Memorial Chapel space into an oasis of friendly play and connection for the Care Cafe: “Rewriting Your Story: The Art of Resilience and Moving Forward.” Heidi gently ...

By Danielle Wozniak, Dean of the Wurzweiler School of Social Work The storm blew in on Friday morning and by afternoon we were without power. We have a well, so no power means no running water, no heat, no electricity, no showers, no toilets. No fun. We filled the bath tubs with water so we could…

Care Cafe 2/12 By Michelle Bialeck Dr. Sari Skolnik, Assistant Professor at Wurzweiler School of Social work, brought her twenty years of clinical experience to Forest Hills Library for a Care Cafe presentation: “GPS for Passion: Finding Your Way to The Life You Want to Live.” From the start, Dr ...

Care Cafe 1/23 By Michelle Bialeck Wurzweiler School of Social Work PhD candidate, addiction recovery specialist, and founder of the New Jersey non-profit Balm In Gilead, Viva White visited Riverside Memorial Chapel to kick off the second of a series of Wurzweiler Care Cafes around New York City ...

Care Cafe 1/17 By Michelle Bialeck Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University was proud to present its first ever Wurzweiler Care Cafe at the Bronx Vet Center. Patrick Donohue, an Afghanistan Veteran, opened the event by describing Project 9 Line, a program he founded that strives to ...

by Dr. Katherine Mitchell I first heard about the concept that has become “Care Cafe” in an early discussion with Dean Wozniak when I met her last summer. She told me about an article she’d read in the New York Times about something called “Repair Cafe”. It’s an innovative idea about community ...

Wurzweiler is hosting a Campaign School for Social Workers in collaboration with The Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work. Join us on Thursday and Friday, November 2-3 at the Weissberg Commons in Belfer Hall. Learn more & register> The Campaign School is open to anyone who wants to…

—Katherine Mitchell Ph.D, LCSW, CASAC One of the customs among the Dilley On The Ground (OTG) team is to do what they call “Big Table” on Monday and Thursday night each week. This gives the week’s group of volunteers an opportunity to process some of what they experienced. On Monday night, it was…

—Katherine Mitchell, Ph.D, LCSW, CASAC Today was certainly calmer than the preceding two days. There were fewer women and children coming to the visitor’s 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 ...