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DE-PROFESSIONALIZATION OF CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKERS

In the first wave of incendiary downsizing in 2010 Broome County clinical social workers were encouraged to take a $10,000 pay cut and go work for a private non-profit agency who had just been anointed as a certified OMH outpatient clinic. Our local senator approved of this as two clinicians would also move to the state GBHC Children’s Clinic at higher pay. There was a delay in service since the building and psychiatrist were not ready. Three years later OMH proposes to close inpatient children’s services that are a critical continuum of services and waste your tax dollars spent on that refurbished building. There continue to be wait times at the other agencies. There was never a wait at the Clinic.

Clinicians were not involved in any of the planning. There was not a ‘plan on paper’, nor public hearings, nor consultant study, rather there were a lot of smoke and mirrors and vagueness. Is this the way most men seek employment? There is an underlying gender effect since most social workers are women. The new mantra is that a clinician should be able to ‘pay for their position’. Do you hear others with higher salaries being told that? Or to give up their benefits? And to have a defunk union is a worse slap in the face.

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IMMIGRATION As A Moral Issue
A UUCB Social Justice Sunday

On Sunday, April 7, 2013, from 1:00-3:30pm
FREE
183 Riverside Dr., Binghamton, NY 13905

Following our Sunday worship service entitled “Neighbors at an Unseen Border: Immigration as a Local Issue” we offer an exciting panel of speakers to talk on the subject of immigration, an informative movie, a discussion on the topic, and a meal.

HAVE YOU EVER PONDERED?

Do undocumented workers pay taxes?
Is immigration a criminal or civil issue?
How long do immigrants wait for a green card?
Is immigration the 21st century slavery?

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Rachel Light

Member of UUCB

Rachel will tell a poignant story of friendship with an undocumented immigrant and the trials he endured in an effort to remain in this country.

Diana Reyes

Immigration Organizer for Citizen Action of NY of the Southern Tier

Diana organizes community members to advocate for immigration reform at the local legislative level.

Andrew Baranosky

Exec. Director of ACA

The American Civic Association serves as our local support center, providing immigration services and refugee resettlement assistance.

Sick Around the World
At Unitarian Universalist Congregation
183 Riverside Dr
Friday, Oct. 12 – 7 pm, socialize 6:30

In the documentary Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies — the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland — deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures. Have things changed since 2008 viewing?