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Thompson Center for Autism & Neurodevelopment - Training - Research - Programs

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Thompson Center for Autism & Neurodevelopment - Training - Research - Programs

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Thompson Center for Autism & Neurodevelopment

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Thompson Center for Autism & Neurodevelopment

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Events from September 22, 2016 – January 25, 2017 – Thompson Center for Autism & Neurodevelopment

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The Thompson Center is the premier autism clinical, research, and training center in the Midwest, serving families in Missouri and throughout the U.S.

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Eden II strives to provide the maximum help possible to the autism community through education, adult day programs, residential care, family support, respite, and a number of other services.

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Requesting Donations for Much-Needed PPE Drop-Off Boxes!
Dear Eden II Friends & Family, We are setting up a donation box outside of our 15 Beach Street and Genesis Newbridge locations for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) needed for our residences. Our residential staff are working around the clock to take care of our participants, and are doing an amazing job! We currently have supplies...

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Requesting Donations for Much-Needed PPE Drop-Off Boxes! Dear Eden II Friends & Family, We are setting up a donation box outside of our 15 Beach Street and Genesis Newbridge locations for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) needed for our residences. Our residential staff are working around the clock to take care of our participants, and are doing an amazing job!

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Parent to Parent of New York State builds a supportive network of families to reduce isolation and empower those who care for people with developmental disabilities or special healthcare needs to navigate and influence service systems and make informed decisions.

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Support for Special Needs Caregivers in NY | Parent to Parent

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Connect with other caregivers in NY State who know first-hand about the feelings and realities that come with caring for a family member with a disability or chronic illness.

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The Center for Autism and Related Disabilities: Training & Programs

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The Center for Autism and Related Disabilities: Training & Programs

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The Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at the University at Albany (CARD Albany) is a resource center for families, educators, and community professionals.

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The New York State Regional Centers for Autism Spectrum Disorders (NYSRCASD) are a partnership of six university-affiliated programs across New York State. The partnership has an overarching goal of identifying, disseminating, and assisting in the implementation of evidence-based practices to build capacity to improve services and outcomes for children with autism spectrum disorders.

The University at Albany currently serves as headquarters for the statewide network, with partners at the University of Rochester; The Summit Center; SUNY Old Westbury; Binghamton University, SUNY; and the Child Study Center at NYU Langone Medical Center.

Upcoming NYSRCASD Trainings

Below please find events offered by our Regional Centers. Please click on the training title for additional information.

October 2024:

October 17 - The First 30 Days: Troubleshooting and Overcoming Challenging Behaviors and Its Related Barriers ( WNY Regional Center)

October 23 - Unlocking Potential: Essential Insights for Families of Children with Autism ( RCASD Old Westbury)

NYSRCASD Websites:

WNY Regional Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders (Buffalo)
Rochester Regional Center for Autism Spectrum Disorder
The Binghamton Regional Center For Autism Spectrum Disorders
New York City Regional Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at NYU Grossman School of Medicine The Regional Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Old Westbury
NYSRCASD Flyer:
Download NYSRCASD Flyer

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Global Autism Interactive Network (GAIN)

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Global Autism Interactive Network (GAIN)

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The Global Autism Interactive Network (GAIN) is a professional development program aimed at enhancing skills in assessing Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

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GAIN - Global Autism Interactive Network

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The Nest Support Project provides training, professional development, and on-site consultation for teachers, therapists, and administrators, and workshops and a newsletter for Nest families. Other activities include research, presentations at national professional organizations, and articles and other publications on relevant topics.

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The goal of the Nest Support Project is to partner with public schools to establish inclusive cultures and advance the development and implementation of educational practices for autistic learners.

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SAFE-T Pocket Card: Suicide Assessment Five-Step Evaluation and Triage (SAFE-T) for Clinicians

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SAFE-T Pocket Card: Suicide Assessment Five-Step Evaluation and Triage (SAFE-T) for Clinicians

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SAFE-T Pocket Card: Suicide Assessment Five-Step Evaluation and Triage (SAFE-T) for Clinicians

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Behavioral Health is Essential. Prevention Works. Treatment is Effective. People Recover.

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We help people who want to build more meaningful lives by offering free mental health resources and peer‑led storytelling spaces for connection and coping.

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Suicidal thoughts, substance problems?Problems that feel unsolvable...We’ve been there.NowMattersNow.org hacks suffering Learn More

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NYU Langone: Autism Spectrum Disorder Service - Edu - Serivces

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NYU Langone: Autism Spectrum Disorder Service - Edu - Serivces

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The Autism Spectrum Disorder Service at the Child Study Center is part of Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone. Learn more.

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Contact your Members of Congress and ask them to put pressure on USDA to release the contingency funds. MAZON has a click-to-action

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Contact your Members of Congress and ask them to put pressure on USDA to release the contingency funds. MAZON has a click-to-action

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The Trump Administration Must Fully Fund SNAP Benefits and Avoid Deepening Hunger Crisis

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USDA Commodity Supplemental Food Program

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USDA Commodity Supplemental Food Program

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Serving Older Adults with a Monthly Food Package

The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) works to improve the health of persons with low-income, at least 60 years of age, by supplementing their diets with nutritious USDA Foods. USDA distributes both food and administrative funds to participating states and Indian Tribal Organizations to operate CSFP.

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The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) works to improve the health of low-income persons at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious USDA Foods. USDA distributes both food and administrative funds to participating states and Indian Tribal Organizations to operate CSFP.

Program Fact Sheet

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The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) works to improve the health of low-income persons at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious USDA Foods. USDA distributes both food and administrative funds to participating states and Indian Tribal Organizations to operate CSFP. Program Fact Sheet

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The Regional Food Bank is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. We collect donated food from the food industry and distribute it to nearly 1,000 charitable agencies throughout 23 counties of northeastern New York. This donated food helps feed over 350,000 people each month. The Regional Food Bank is a member of Feeding America and Feeding New York State.

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Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York

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©2018 Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

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Ulster County + Community Foundation of the Hudson Valley launched an Emergency Food Fund 

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Ulster County + Community Foundation of the Hudson Valley launched an Emergency Food Fund 

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With no federal SNAP funding available after Oct. 31 due to the ongoing government shutdown, I have announced emergency measures to help protect food access for vulnerable residents, including redirecting nearly $350,000 in County funding to three major food pantries, based on their wide operating hours and geographic reach: People's Place (Kingston), Rondout Valley Food Pantry (Stone Ridge), and Family of Woodstock (Woodstock, Ellenville, New Paltz).

Yesterday, I sent a letter to Congress urging swift bipartisan action to restore federal funding for SNAP and the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), which helps low-income households afford heating during the winter months. You can read the letter here: https://ulstercountyny.gov/2025-SNAP-HEAP-Letter

Nearly 1 in 10 Ulster County residents - approximately 18,000 people - rely on SNAP to afford enough to eat. Without immediate federal action, these benefits could be cut off as early as November 1, leaving thousands of families at risk of hunger.

I want to thank Deputy County Executive James Amenta, DSS Commissioner Mike Iapoce and his team, the Community Foundation of the Hudson Valley, and all our food pantries and food security organizations for their contributions to this effort. Let's come together to support our neighbors. Donate if you can, or volunteer at your local pantry.

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With no federal SNAP funding available after Oct. 31 due to the ongoing government shutdown, I have announced emergency measures to help protect food access for vulnerable residents, including...

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A list of Food Pantry and Meal Program Resources in Dutchess County

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List of Values (Brene Brown Dare to Lead)

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List of Values (Brene Brown Dare to Lead)

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Living into our values means that we do more than profess our values, we practice them. We walk our talk-we are clear about what we believe and hold important, and we take care that our intentions, words, thoughts, and behaviors align with those beliefs.

This is the list of values that we use in our work. There is also an opportunity for you to write in values that we may not have included. The task is to pick the two that you hold most important. I know this is tough, because almost everyone we've done this work with (including me) wants to pick somewhere between ten and fifteen. I can soften the blow by suggesting that you start by circling those fifteen. But you can't stop until you're down to two core values.

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The daring leaders we've interviewed are never empty-handed in the arena. In addition to rumble skills and tools, they always carry with them clarity of values.

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Dialectical Behavior Treatment (DBT) Tools

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DBT is a treatment program which was designed by Marsha Linehan to help clients who struggle to find reason to continue living. DBT is based on the Biosocial Theory and is intended to help those who are highly sensitive to their environment, are highly reactive to events, and slow to return to calm. Their childhood environment was either invalidating or chaotic. Many of these clients have experienced some form of trauma, and may seek perfectionism.

DBT assumes that clients are doing the best they can and they want to get better. Their lives may seem unbearable. Clients may not have caused all their problems, but they need to learn to solve them anyway. Clients learn that emotions are normal and natural. They learn new skills and learn to apply them in all contexts. Clients cannot fail in DBT.

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Dialectical Behavior Treatment (DBT) Tools

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DBT is a treatment program which was designed by Marsha Linehan to help clients who struggle to find reason to continue living. DBT is based on the Biosocial Theory and is intended to help those who are highly sensitive to their environment, are highly reactive to events, and slow to return to calm.

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Find free groceries, hot meals, and SNAP support near you at 800 NYC pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries across all five boroughs.

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At the Autism Society Western New York,  we create connections, empowering everyone in the Autism community with the resources needed to live fully .  Our goal is to  improve the lives of individuals and families affected by Autism in the Western New York area.  We believe in  meaningful participation and self-determination in all aspects of life for individuals on the Autism spectrum and their families.

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The Autism Society WNY creates connections, empowering everyone in the Autism community with the resources needed to live fully. We exist to improve the lives of individuals and families affected by Autism in the Western New York area. We believe in meaningful participation and self-determination in all aspects of life for individuals on the Autism Spectrum and their families. We promote individual, parental and guardian choice to assure that people with Autism are treated with dignity and respect. We provide information and support through our website, information and referral services, informational meetings, and two half day virtual workshops a year.

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Let’s Help Each Other LinkTree: National Resources

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Let’s Help Each Other LinkTree: National Resources

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letshelpeachother | Instagram | Linktree

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This history of social work has been made possible by:

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Fear Of Flying Clinic - Non-Profit Support Org

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Fear Of Flying Clinic - Non-Profit Support Org

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Fear of flying | United States | Fear of Flying Clinic SF

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Fear of Flying Clinic has helped thousands of fearful fliers by providing education of how flying works and therapy techniques.

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The #JustPay Campaign is fighting to end government-sanctioned poverty wages for human services workers

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The #JustPay Campaign is fighting to end government-sanctioned poverty wages for human services workers

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HOW?

The #JustPay Campaign seeks to implement changes around inequitable pay among human services workers with emphasis on these core reforms:

Establish, fund, and enforce an automatic annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) on all human services contracts.

Pass prevailing wage legislation to lift up human services salaries.

Create, fund, and incorporate a comprehensive wage and benefit schedule for government contracted human services workers comparable to the salaries made by City and State employees in the same field.

Learn more about our campaign demands here.

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HOW? The #JustPay Campaign seeks to implement changes around inequitable pay among human services workers with emphasis on these core reforms: Establish, fund, and enforce an automatic annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) on all human services contracts. Pass prevailing wage legislation to lift up human services salaries.

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Support the mobility of licensed social workers through the development of a new interstate compact. 

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Support the mobility of licensed social workers through the development of a new interstate compact. 

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The Council of State Governments (CSG) is partnering with the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to support the mobility of licensed social workers through the development of a new interstate compact. This additional licensing pathway will facilitate multistate practice among member states and reduce the barriers to license portability.

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As reports of ‘AI psychosis’ spread, clinicians scramble to understand how chatbots can spark delusions

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As reports of ‘AI psychosis’ spread, clinicians scramble to understand how chatbots can spark delusions

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As reports of ‘AI psychosis’ spread, clinicians scramble to understand how chatbots can spark delusions

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Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health providers are scrambling to understand the emerging phenomenon of “AI psychosis.”

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NASW advocacy priorities for the legislative cycle. 

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NASW advocacy priorities for the legislative cycle. 

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NASW advocates for the association to members of Congress and regulatory agencies that often hold the authority to influence policy.

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From day one, City Harvest's focus has been feeding hungry New Yorkers, neighbors helping neighbors.

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ACCESS HRA (NYC Social Service Benefits)

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ACCESS HRA (NYC Social Service Benefits)

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The Human Resources Administration (HRA) ACCESS HRA website and free mobile app allow you to get information, apply for benefit programs, and view case information online.

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Delivering Meals on wheels to seniors in need.

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Gods Love We Deliver: Medically Tailored Meal Delivery NYC or Hudson Co, NJ

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Gods Love We Deliver: Medically Tailored Meal Delivery NYC or Hudson Co, NJ

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If you or someone you care for is living with a life-altering illness that makes it difficult to shop or cook, God’s Love can provide them with nutritious home-delivered meals.

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The NASW Social Work Talks podcast informs, educates and inspires social workers through discussions with social workers on topics that effect the profession.

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Social Sciences Podcast · Updated Monthly · Join your host, Jonathan Singer, Ph.D., LCSW in an exploration of all things social work, including direct practice, human behavior in the social environment, research, policy, field work, social work…

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Social Sciences Podcast · Updated weekly · Social Work Radio brings you interviews and discussions on the issues that matter to social workers in the real world. From politics and policies to dating and ethical dilemmas, there’s something for …

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Mental Health Podcast · Updated Weekly · Podcast host Bas Moreno, LMSW has been in the Social work field for the past 21 years. This social work podcast provides the listeners a dose of the hosts’ world in social work, sharing personal stori…

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Agents of Change Social Work Test Prep • A podcast on Spotify for Creators

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Hi there! I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and founder of Agents of Change. I have provided individualized and group test prep for the ASWB exam for over 10 years. ✅ From my experience helping others pass their exams, I have created a course to help you prepare for the ASWB exam and feel confident on test day: https://www.agentsofchangeprep.com ✅ Even if you don’t purchase my course, I’m more than happy to help you with the questions you have in my Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/aswbtestprep I look forward to working with you!

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Three friends that happen to be social workers discuss current social issues from their front room/studio. Expect debate and hard hitting real talk with a sprinkle of top drawer humour to keep it moving.

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Three friends that happen to be social workers discuss current social issues from their front room/studio. Expect debate and hard hitting real talk with a sprinkle of top drawer humour to keep it moving.

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You already know that there are a bunch of things people talk about in pockets or completely avoid. Things that may be controversial or uncomfortable but we need to get them off our chest. During "Why Don't We Talk About This?", licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist, Paula McMillan-Perez speaks with folks whose learned experiences and/or professions give way to a diverse knowledge of topics that we just aren't talking about...but should be!

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You already know that there are a bunch of things people talk about in pockets or completely avoid. Things that may be controversial or uncomfortable but we need to get them off our chest. During "Why Don't We Talk About This?", licensed clinical ...

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How Fitness Reduces Stress and Boosts Mental Health | Stress Management Tips for Busy Professionals

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Design Your Own Career with Manicka Thomas LISW

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Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements and Mental Health

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Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements and Mental Health

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National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

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Work Reporting Requirements and Mental Health

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This brief, a joint effort from NAMI and the Legal Action Center, provides recommendations to policymakers on strategies to protect individuals with mental health conditions from losing Medicaid coverage under new work reporting requirements.

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Legal Action Center | Breaking Barriers. Defending Dignity.

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LAC uses legal & policy strategies to fight discrimination, build health equity & restore opportunity for people with criminal records, addiction, or HIV.

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Media Resources

"For social work, what's happening with ChatGPT is both frightening and exciting," says Lauri Goldkind, PhD, an associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University and editor in chief of the Journal of Technology in Human Services Data Justice Collective. "Social workers need to engage with it with a critical lens. Be excited, curious - and skeptical."

Tech advancements in social work can better prepare students for the realities they face in the field upon arriving on someone's doorstep, oftentimes acting as the lifeline people desperately need when experiencing a potential crisis in life. In February, for example, the University of Kentucky's College of Social Work began using virtual reality (VR) in child welfare investigation simulations

Karen Magruder, a social work instructor at the University of Texas in Arlington, has adopted ChatGPT to assist her in class preparation. Using ChatGPT, she has generated case studies for discussion in her cognitive behavioral therapy course.Her students analyze responses in small groups. "It's been really helpful for saving me a lot of time and legwork and generating that type of content that then I use with students," Magruder said.

University of Kentucky College of Social Work DSW student Karen Magruder is an active participant in the debate around AI applications and how they will impact social work and the field of higher education. Recently, her article on the topic was published in Social Work Today, and she was accepted to present at the upcoming National DSW Conference on "The Age of Artificial Intelligence has Arrived: Implications for Social Work Education."

FSU psychology researcher Jessica Ribeiro, PhD, feels an urgency to improve suicide prevention. Ribeiro is currently working on a study with the Military Suicide Research Consortium based at FSU that uses machine learning to identify people with an imminent risk of suicide.

Given the increasing number of studies employing the relatively new tools of data-driven technology, it is apparent that many social work researchers believe in its potential benefits. However, there's still a fair amount of concern about these tools, and some social workers are focused on addressing the most disturbing aspects, such as the inherent biases that can be found in Big Data.

To best address AI's many blind spots, the field must include people of all genders, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds. For Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW, that's where social workers need to come in. "As social workers, we understand the need to treat people with respect, to work with communities, and to be able to help people leverage their voice in different spaces. That is our beginning place. Those values and morals are critical in the deployment and integration of AI4ALL."Patton is an associate professor at Columbia School of Social Work and department of sociology, associate dean for curriculum innovation and academic affairs, and director of SAFElab.

In response to growing concerns about the lack of security for the data provided to ChatGPT, OpenAI announced in late April it would allow users to turn off the chat history feature for its chatbot. But the response isn't enough, according to some critics. The "history disabled" feature means that conversations marked as such will not be used to train OpenAI's underlying models and will not be displayed in the history sidebar. They will still be stored on the company's servers but will only be reviewed on an as-needed basis for abuse - and will be deleted after 30 days.

While the use of AI presents numerous opportunities and benefits, there are a number of legal issues that need to be carefully considered before going too far down the AI path. Data privacy, intellectual property, discrimination, tort liability and insurance are top considerations.

Social Work Research

"Social Work in an Online World"

NASW Press: https://naswpress.org/product/53673/social-work-in-an-online-world

SW Advocates: https://www.socialworkers.org/News/Social-Work-Advocates/April-May-2023-Issue/COVID-19-and-Shift-to-Virtual-Services-Inspired-Book-About-Digital-Practice

"Grand Challenges for Social Work"

https://grandchallengesforsocialwork.org/harness-technology-for-social-good/

Social Workers in Technology

Columbia University

Courtney Cogburn, PhD, an associate professor at New York's Columbia School of Social Work

Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW, an associate professor at Columbia School of Social Work and department of sociology, associate dean for curriculum innovation and academic affairs, and director of SAFElab

Silver School of Social Work at New York University

Victoria Stanhope, PhD, MSW, is exploring person-centered care, which ensures that behavioral health care is individualized and service users are active, empowered partners in their treatment.

Doris F. Chang, PhD, is examining Asian American responses to racism in the COVID-19 era, and exploring macro-contextual and individual predictors of discrimination, intergroup attitudes, and collective action to address racial inequality.

Michael Lindsey, PhD, MSW, MPH, has established an AI hub to help researchers investigate how AI-driven systems can be used to equitably address poverty and challenges related to race and public health, and to provide thought leadership on the implications.

University Portland

Laura Burney Nissen, Ph.D., MSW, Portland State University School of Social Work

Chat GPT - Primer for Social Work - Social Work Futures

List of AI Resource - Social Work Futures

University of Texas at Arlington

Karen Magruder, LCSW, a social work instructor at the University of Texas in Arlington

https://www.uta.edu/academics/faculty/profile?username=johnstonmagrk

Fordham University

Lauri Goldkind, PhD, an associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University and editor in chief of the Journal of Technology in Human Services Data Justice Collective.

University of Kentucky

Justin "Jay" Miller, PhD, dean of University of Kentucky College of Social Work

Loyola University

Jonathan Singer, Ph.D., LCSW, Professor and Founder & Host of The Social Work Podcast

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Resources, research, and social workers in technology about Artificial Intelligence and its intersection with social work.

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At CMS, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the power to reshape the way we use data to make decisions. Given CMS’ vast data resources, we have an unprecedented opportunity to drive innovation, boost productivity, and enhance service delivery through AI.

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AMA: Augmented Intelligence Development, Deployment, and Use in Health Care

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AMA: Augmented Intelligence Development, Deployment, and Use in Health Care

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UNESCO Recommendation: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

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UNESCO Recommendation: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

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Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

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ASWB: Model Regulatory Standars for Tech in SW Practice

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ASWB: Model Regulatory Standars for Tech in SW Practice

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eLife | The effects of psychosocial stress on dopaminergic function and the acute stress response

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eLife | The effects of psychosocial stress on dopaminergic function and the acute stress response

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The effects of psychosocial stress on dopaminergic function and the acute stress response

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Imaging and laboratory-induced psychosocial stress showed that exposure to psychosocial adversity was associated with dampened striatal dopaminergic function alongside blunted physiological yet potentiated subjective responses to acute stress.

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NASW 2025 | Virtual Forum - Lauri Goldkind SW & AI Resources Google Drive         

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NASW 2025 | Virtual Forum - Lauri Goldkind SW & AI Resources Google Drive         

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SagePub | Disability Expertise and Large Language Models: A Qualitative Study of Autistic TikTok Creators’ Use of ChatGPT

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SagePub | Disability Expertise and Large Language Models: A Qualitative Study of Autistic TikTok Creators’ Use of ChatGPT

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Springer | Considering a Unified Model of Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Social Work: A Systematic Review

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Springer | Considering a Unified Model of Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Social Work: A Systematic Review

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Considering a Unified Model of Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Social Work: A Systematic Review - Journal of Human Rights and Social Work

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Social work, as a human rights–based profession, is globally recognized as a profession committed to enhancing human well-being and helping meet the basic needs of all people, with a particular focus on those who are marginalized vulnerable, oppressed, or living in poverty. Artificial intelligence (AI), a sub-discipline of computer science, focuses on developing computers with decision-making capacity. The impacts of these two disciplines on each other and the ecosystems that social work is most concerned with have considerable unrealized potential. This systematic review aims to map the research landscape of social work AI scholarship. The authors analyzed the contents of 67 articles and used a qualitative analytic approach to code the literature, exploring how social work researchers investigate AI. We identified themes consistent with Staub-Bernasconi’s triple mandate, covering profession level, social agency (organizations), and clients. The literature has a striking gap or lack of empirical research about AI implementations or using AI strategies as a research method. We present the emergent themes (possibilities and risks) from the analysis as well as recommendations for future social work researchers. We propose an integrated model of Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Social Work (or “Artificial Social Work”), which proposes a marriage of social work practice and artificial intelligence tools. This model is based on our findings and informed by the triple mandate and the human rights framework.

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Therapy notes by AI create false narratives, therapists say

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Therapy notes by AI create false narratives, therapists say

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Therapy notes by AI create false narratives, therapists say - ClearHealthCosts

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Artificial intelligence notetakers for therapists have been found to insert mistakes into therapy notes they produce, therapists and experts said.

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AI Psychotherapy Shutdown: What Woebot’s Exit Signals for Clinicians

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AI Psychotherapy Shutdown: What Woebot’s Exit Signals for Clinicians

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AI Psychotherapy Shutdown | Telehealth.org

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Woebot's shutdown reveals regulatory gaps in AI psychotherapy tools and practice risks for clinicians.

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How to Help Your Clients Understand Their Window of Tolerance

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How to Help Your Clients Understand Their Window of Tolerance

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Our clients are best able to cope with stressors and triggers when they're operating within their window of tolerance.

But a traumatic experience can narrow our clients' window of tolerance, leading to states of either hyper- or hypo-arousal.

So we created this infographic as a tool you can share with your clients. It can help you explain what's going on when they're feeling dysregulated. Plus, this will help to support the exercises and work you do together as an important part of healing.

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How to Help Your Clients Understand Their Window of Tolerance

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Our clients are best able to cope with stressors and triggers when they're operating within their window of tolerance. But a traumatic experience can narrow our clients' window of tolerance, leading to states of either hyper- or hypo-arousal. So we created this infographic as a tool you can share with your clients.

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In this follow-up conversation about Medicaid and mental health advocacy, NAMI’s Chief Advocacy Officer Hannah Wesolowski discusses Medicaid cuts and advocacy opportunities with Jennifer Snow, NAMI’s National Director of Government Relations and Policy. Listeners will hear their expert opinions on how Medicaid cuts just passed by Congress will impact people with mental health conditions and […]

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Call 988

If you or someone you know is in crisis—whether they are considering suicide or not—please call the toll-free Lifeline at 988 to speak with a trained crisis counselor 24/7.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline connects you with a crisis center in the Lifeline network closest to your location. Your call will be answered by a trained crisis worker who will listen empathetically and without judgment. The crisis worker will work to ensure that you feel safe and help identify options and information about mental health services in your area. Your call is confidential and free.

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We can all help prevent suicide. The 988 Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals in the United States.

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The 988 Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the United States. We're committed to improving crisis services and advancing suicide prevention by empowering individuals, advancing professional best practices, and building awareness.

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First, you'll hear an automated message featuring additional options while your call is routed to your local 988 Lifeline network crisis center.

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Whether your suicide loss has been of a patient/client, loved one, student, and/or colleague, we know that the impact of this traumatic loss can be profoundly painful, that it often extends into our professional work and identities. In addition, due to the unfortunate stigma (both around suicide and professional vulnerability) that exists with our field, we know that there are very few "places" to even acknowledge this loss or its impact. We want to welcome you to join the CCS, and hope that this is a site where you can find understanding, validation and support, and to know that you are not alone.

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The Coalition of Clinician Survivors exists to provide support, education, resources and consultation to mental health professionals and other professional caregivers who have experienced suicide losses in personal and/or professional contexts. We recognize that, regardless of whether the loss was of a loved one, a client/patient or a student, the repercussions are profound and are likely to impact a clinician both personally and professionally.

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Note: We recognize that there continues to be significant gaps in clinical training around assessment and intervention with suicidal individuals, and we advocate for trainings that moves beyond simple risk assessment and the medical model. The best trainings incorporate the latest research around suicidal states and their fluctuation, the many variants of "drivers" at different levels of suicide intensity, including psycho-social factors, as well as the crucial importance of the relational factors at play in clinical encounters with potentially suicidal individuals.

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Content warning: this essay contains vivid language about suicide and suicidal thoughts.

I wish there was a nicer way to say this, but I don't always want to be alive. Right now, I don't actively want to kill myself - I don't have a plan, I don't check the majority of the boxes on lists of warning signs of suicide, I have a life I enjoy and I'm curious about the future - but the fact remains, I don't always feel strongly about being alive and sometimes, on particularly bad days, I truly want to die.

It's been a long time since that statement felt anything but mundane. In middle school and high school, there were the morbid poems, the self-harm, the overwhelming emotions that everyone dutifully labeled teen angst. In college, there were nights when I drank too much and the protective barriers keeping my depression at bay faded to nothing and the thought came to me unbidden, as seductive as it was scary. I want to die. Eventually, I finally stumbled my way into treatment. After that, I celebrated each birthday with surprise because each age I hit was one I assumed I wouldn't reach.

At 27, I've settled into a comfortable coexistence with my suicidality. We've made peace, or at least a temporary accord negotiated by therapy and medication. It's still hard sometimes, but not as hard as you might think. What makes it harder is being unable to talk about it freely: the weightiness of the confession, the impossibility of explaining that it both is and isn't as serious as it sounds. I don't always want to be alive. Yes, I mean it. No, you shouldn't be afraid for me. No, I'm not in danger of killing myself right now. Yes, I really mean it.

How do you explain that?

In the United States, nearly 45,000 people die by suicide every year, making it the tenth leading cause of death in the country. On average, there are 123 suicides a day. That's not counting those who survive attempts - estimated to be about 1.4 million in 2017.

And those are just the statistics we can track.

What we don't know is how many people live in the nebulous gray space between fleeting thought and attempt - those dealing with passive, not active, suicidal ideation. "Research on people who endure passive suicidal ideation is limited by this innate stigma that it's a bad, wrong thing, so people are less likely to report it," said Eric Beeson, licensed counselor and faculty member at Northwestern University's Counseling@Northwestern whose research includes attitudes about suicide. Without self-reports, and in the absence of the hospital visits or attempts that help us track active ideation, it's nearly impossible to measure.

Say suicide and people don't imagine your indifference towards life, your passive fantasies.

There's no single cause of suicidality. It's a symptom of borderline personality disorder and is associated with mood disorders like depression and bipolar, though not everyone with those disorders automatically wants to die. But that doesn't begin to cover it - suicidality is also prevalent in those with autistic spectrum disorders, chronic pain conditions, substance abuse issues, and marginalized identities like LGBT youth. And though that accounts for both passive and active ideation, it's the latter that eclipses most conversations on the subject.

Take how we react to suicides in the news, especially of celebrities or public figures. The outpour of shock and devastation is always palpable. We had no idea they were struggling, if only someone had stepped in, you never know what someone is dealing with. There are calls to action: Reach out to someone, get help, call this number. For a few days, we flood Twitter with reminders that no one is immune to suicide, not even celebrities whose lives seem perfect to us.

This is true; no one is immune. At the same time, the sense of alarm and urgency in these sentiments gives the impression that suicidality is solely standing on the brink, inches from death, waiting desperately for someone to notice and intervene. And that's how it is for some people.

But for me, and I suspect for countless others like me, the threat of suicide isn't like being carried over a waterfall - it is like living in the ocean. Not as sea creatures do, native and equipped with feathery gills to dissolve oxygen for my bloodstream, but alone, with an expanse of water at all sides. Some days are unremarkable, floating under clear skies and smooth waters; other days are tumultuous storms you don't know you'll survive, but you're always, always in the ocean.

And when you live in the ocean, treading to stay afloat, you eventually get the feeling that one day, inevitably, there will be nowhere for you to go but down.

I've become adept at treading. I know - or I suspect, or I dread - that my legs will exhaust and I will slip beneath the surface, but I don't want it to be soon. For now, I can and want to keep my head above water. But will is never enough, and so I have learned to surround myself with ways to stay afloat.

Some are like passing driftwood: Living to see the series finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Finishing that book that's been taking up brain real estate for years. The prospect that maybe tonight will be the night I meet someone halfway decent on Tinder. They're shallow motivators, hardly anchors to life, but sometimes you just need something that will get you through the month. Or the week. Or the night.

Others - medication, my crisis safety plan. My cats who depend on me. The awful thought of transferring my suffering to my loved ones - are more sturdy. These are the life preservers.

Chronic suicidal ideation takes so many forms. It can be fantasizing about passing during sleep, developing a terminal disease, dying in a tragic accident. Or it's background noise, a staticky station whispering taunts you can almost, but never entirely, tune out. It hits some people only in the dead of night or when they've been drinking; others completely at random like a flash storm they have to wait out.

"Suicidality exists on a continuum and frankly, we're all on that continuum somewhere," Beeson told me. "Some of us are just closer to an actual suicide death than others. But in many ways, we're all a few life experiences away from a major mental health crisis whether we like to admit it or not."

Besides, that word is loaded in its own way. Say suicide and people don't imagine your indifference towards life, your passive fantasies. There is the alarm and the awkward platitudes, given either too seriously or too lightly. And anyone who's ever broached the topic in therapy might know the ensuing questions of risk evaluation:

"In the past few weeks, have you wished you were dead?"

"Do you wish you didn't have to go on living?"

"Are you having thoughts of hurting yourself?"

"Are you having thoughts of killing yourself?"

Sometimes I worry that's what people around me would do if I were honest with someone other than my therapist and a few close friends, about this lack of attachment to life and the sometimes-desire to be rid of it. After they know my default state, will I be self-conscious? Will I regret it? Will they ever forget it, or will it shadow my every move and our every conversation? Will they become too aware, watch me too closely?

But then I think: Isn't there middle ground between hypervigilance and complete secrecy?

Speaking freely need not solely carry the weight of prevention. It can simply be about the comfort of social connectedness and knowing you're not alone.

What if we acknowledged the possibility of suicidality all around us, normalized asking and checking in? If people talked about feeling suicidal - not joked, as we've all started to do online, but really talked - as much as they talked about feeling depressed or anxious, would we finally be forced to see how common it is and start creating space for these conversations? Would it be the worst thing in the world if we started talking about not wanting to be alive, and what might help keep us here?

Of course, even that doesn't have a straight answer.

"We really don't know [the impact of] having more casual conversation about suicide," April Foreman, licensed psychologist and executive board member at the American Association of Suicidology, told me. "Stigma is lower than it's ever been and suicide rates are as high as they were during the Great Depression. If reducing stigma alone saves lives, the suicide rates should be going down."

But speaking freely need not solely carry the weight of prevention. It can simply be about the comfort of social connectedness and knowing you're not alone. Like Beeson told me, the big picture is not as much about preventing suicide as it is about planning life and fostering social connectedness - which, in and of themselves, are major preventative factors.

As for the inherent awkward corners and sharp edges of talking about suicide, I figure if I can live with the discomfort of wanting to die sometimes, people can live with the discomfort of knowing about it.

If it sounds like I've accepted my fate, resigned myself to the pull of the ocean floor, I haven't. But if I had, it wouldn't be for lack of trying. Outside of anecdotal evidence, scientists just don't know a ton about passive suicidal ideation - which means they also don't know much about how to treat it.

"People think we understand more about suicide than we actually do," said Foreman. "We have invested very, very little into research on suicide, especially on feeling chronically suicidal. But at a certain point, when you're having that mood all the time, something is happening inside your body. Something's wrong, and we don't understand what yet."

There are some more extreme treatments that can be effective - like electroconvulsive therapy and ketamine - but even with those, research is preliminary and scientists don't quite know why they work, just that they sometimes do. There's hope of more effective treatment... just not without money for research or laws that demand a certain standard of care for those enduring suicidal ideation.

Turns out, my method of coping is apparently pretty effective. In the absence of good science, one of the most helpful things you can do for chronic suicidality is curate your collection of flotation devices. According to Foreman, if mental health care can only do so much to reduce our feelings of suicidality and equip us with the tools we need to tread water, then it's crucial to nourish a life full of things we want to stay afloat for.

I thought I wasn't allowed to write about this until I made it to the mythical other side. You hear it all the time: When you write about a personal experience, especially one that is dark and unpalatable, you should be far, far removed from that time in your life to process it in writing. You should have a lesson, a realization, a moral, a triumph. An ending.

But I might want to die forever. That's just how it is. But in the meantime, I need to talk about the treading. Do I hope that one day, I won't feel like this? Of course. But according to Foreman, it may not be the case that we can entirely eliminate suicidal thoughts and feelings - yet or ever - and I'm done pretending that this is a fight I'm guaranteed to win if I only try hard enough instead of something I can, at least, manage.

Because I can manage it, and the ocean is nice sometimes. The sun comes out and the current calms, and I can find peace in the drifting. Maybe there isn't hope of land in the distance; maybe sometimes there is. Maybe that's not the point.

Perhaps what I'm looking for isn't land at all, but other people out here with me. Trying, and treading, and learning to live in the water.

In the meantime, some life preservers, in case you need them:
If you're thinking about suicide or just need someone to talk to right now, you can get support from any of the resources below.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-TALK (8255)

Crisis Text Line
Text HOME to 741-741

International suicide hotlines
A comprehensive resource list for people outside the US.

IMAlive
Click Chat Now to access a live online network of volunteers through instant messaging.

TrevorLifeline, TrevorChat, and TrevorText (LGBTQ+ crisis support)
1-866-488-7386
Text "Trevor" to 1-202-304-1200

Trans Lifeline
US: (877) 565-8860

Anna Borges is a writer, editor, and mental health advocate. Previously, she was a senior editor and writer for BuzzFeed. Her first book, The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care, comes out in October. An Oregon native, she lives in Brooklyn with her two cats. Visit her website annaborgeswrites.com or say hi to @annabroges on Twitter.

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The National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH)

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The National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH)

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The National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH) is a national Indigenous organization established in 2005 by the Government of Canada and funded through the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to support First Nations, Inuit, and Métis public health renewal and health equity through knowledge translation and exchange. The NCCIH is hosted by the University of Northern BC (UNBC) on the traditional territory of the Lheildli T’enneh in Prince George, BC.

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The National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH)

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Toolkit for Reconciliation/Decolonization of Social Work Practice at the Individual, Workplace, and Community Level

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This letter was written by someone in the world that cares. It was delivered to you at random when you opened this page.

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Reasons to Stay - Letters From Strangers

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Reasons to Stay is a suicide prevention project reaching people at difficult moments through anonymous letters written by volunteers. Each letter on this site was written by a real person and delivered to you at random when you visited this page.

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Your guide to understanding the Zero Suicide mission and framework, as well as a road map toward implementation.

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Safer Care for Those at Risk of Suicide

Zero Suicide is a Transformational Framework for Health and Behavioral Health Care Systems

The foundational belief of Zero Suicide is that suicide deaths for individuals under the care of health and behavioral health systems are preventable. For systems dedicated to improving patient safety, Zero Suicide presents an aspirational challenge and practical framework for system-wide transformation toward safer suicide care.

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Safer Care for Those at Risk of Suicide The foundational belief of Zero Suicide is that suicide deaths for individuals under the care of health and behavioral health systems are preventable. For systems dedicated to improving patient safety, Zero Suicide presents an aspirational challenge and practical framework for system-wide transformation toward safer suicide care.