Untangle Your Feelings
As caregivers, it's often hard to find the time to check our own inner workings. But the holidays are fraught with emotional landmines. Earlier this year, JBFCS teamed up with Screening for Mental Health to reach out to people in advance of National Depression Screening Day. Well, the online assessment is still running and accessible for staff or anyone who thinks she might need to do a reality check. Visit www.jbfcs.org
and click on the anonymous self-assessment link. read more...
Proud of Our Own
On December 2, 2010, The New York City Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (www.helpstartshere.org) honored two of JBFCS' own as emerging leaders in the field—Shirley de Peņa, a social work supervisor at Co-op City Family Services, and Jonathan McLean, a social worker at Southern Brooklyn Family Services. Both programs provide a range of preventive/clinical services to families with children at risk of abuse or neglect. To keep the family intact, the programs offer individual, family, couple, and group treatment to family members as well as parent support groups.
Team Leader at the J.M. Goldsmith Center for Adolescent
Treatment Watch him talk about turning kids' lives around and the mental and physical energy he expends working daily with his teens.
Honoring Mary Pender Greene
Since joining JBFCS in 1984, Mary has been instrumental in the development of the agency, of social workers and the work they do, and of diversity and how it's encouraged, viewed, and implemented. Staff and friends gathered on Wednesday, December 15, to honor Mary as she prepares for her retirement and the next leg of her journey in this life. Words, wine, and good food flowed as people expressed their joy of working with Mary and their sadness at seeing her leave the organization.
New York Times Neediest Cases
Gladys Rosario and her family are featured in this NY Times article. Her social worker is Yerelyn Reyes, and her case manager is Maria Reyes [no relation!]. What the article doesn't speak about is the big heart and deep soul that both Yerelyn and Maria apply to their work—out of our counseling center in Pelham. It also doesn't mention that Gladys' daughter, Karen, is receiving therapy from another of our social workers at the Pelham clinic, Jacqueline Finn. Thank you Yerelyn, Maria & Jacqueline!
