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Checking in with Children during COVID
By Shula Levin, LCSW-C
Feeling stressed is not something experienced solely by adults; children have myriad responsibilities, pressures, and expectations that induce stress, and this past year, with the additional challenges of COVID, checking in with your child is more important than ever.
More Than a Team
By Tinu Ogunkoya
To Direct Care professionals, there are no disabilities, just differing abilities. To us, working with this population is our calling. We take the time to build and sustain relationships. We are dedicated to ensuring that our clients have the same opportunities that are open to other community members; that is, the ability and support to live a dignified lifestyle, with opportunities for growth, friendship, recreation, and choice.
Let’s Talk About Money – A Partnership
By Benjamin Temin
Discussing money and budgeting does not have to be a sore subject for you and your significant other. Here are tips on productive money talk and building trust and intimacy in your relationship.
Returning to Life After COVID
By Mimi Kraus, LCSW-C
Even with an end in sight, COVID has taken a toll on many of us. We have all experienced some degree of anxiety and some of us have been traumatized by the constant warnings of risk to life. How do we now begin to return to our lives and do the things we were warned to forego for so long?
Drugs and Alcohol: What Our Children Need To Know
By Susan Kurlander, M.Ed.
Society must start educating children as to the realities, effects, and impacts of drug and alcohol use when they are young — as early as preschool age. Here are some suggestions for helping children, age appropriately, gain that healthy respect to make less risky choices, especially those involving alcohol. It’s time to talk to YOUR kids.
Thunder Does Not Grow Flowers
By Brittni Barcase
Well, surprise, surprise. I’m human. Today he (my son) wanted to play with something that is not a toy, and I did a “no” sandwich … a few times. His feelings got bigger, I lost my patience and I yelled. And you know what he did? HE YELLED BACK AT ME.