Do it at Home Coping Skills and Activities

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Author: Dr. Chana Frumet Yaroslawitz, PhD, LCSW Activities to help children, teens, adults, and grandparents deal with feelings and changes during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Over 200 games and fun ideas for interactive activities while social distancing. No computer required. Special sections on support for families of first responders, healthcare workers, and essential workers, Self-care for all ages, coping skills and grounding exercises, mindfulness tips, parenting during this difficult time, games to promote social and emotional health and much more. Covid-19 Family Guidebook: Download here  ...
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Urgent: Digital Social Work Opportunity

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COVID-Response-Tech Digital Social Work  Summary: We are looking for a social work student to work with us as part of the design research process for a tool we are working on to help volunteers at frontlinefoods.org plan meal deliveries to hospitals nationally in the USA (currently in 47 cities).The role would include: * meeting with users of our tool and with members of our engineering team * understanding the communities impacted by our users' use of the tool * assessing needs of the impacted communities (in this case likely healthcare workers and restaurant workers) * identifying risks * helping our users incorporate an understanding of those risks into their use of the tool * helping bocoup incorporate an understanding of risks into usability findings to direct changes to the tool Timeline * Bocoup was brought onto this project last Wednesday, April 15th and are being asked to pilot this week. * We have a usability test and potential pilot this week with our first user of the tool (a planner in Portland...
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