Wellness Wednesday from the School of Social Work

Janet Hosford-Lamb, MSW ‘00, LCSW-C, LCSW, SAP
Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Focused Solutions, LLC

Janet Hosford-Lamb, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and University of Maryland School of Social Work graduate (2000) is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Focused Solutions; established in 2008, a multi-state workplace consulting and private practice. She focuses on employee, management, team, and worksite consultations. Ms. Hosford-Lamb has supported 3M sites throughout the Washington DC Metropolitan area since 2010. She focuses on the health and wellbeing of employees and consulting with leaders towards creating and maintaining health work climates.

Focused Solutions was recognized in 2021 & 2022 with the Best of Howard-Therapy practice award. She was the clinical instructor for Catholic University’s and Masi Research Consultant’s online International Employee Assistance School. She is also an international EAP auditor, trainer, and consultant with Masi.

Ms. Hosford-Lamb was named Who’s Who in Healthcare Entrepreneurs in 2012. She taught Clinical Work with Addictive Behavior Patterns, at the School of Social Work and received honorable mention for the Teacher Excellence award from the University of Maryland. She was recently appointed as a Board Member of Grassroots Crisis Intervention.

Ms. Hosford-Lamb is a supporter of social work research, and has established the Focused Solutions Endowment Fund to support the Behavioral Health and Well-Being (BHWell) Lab.

"Given the ever-changing global landscape of mental health needs, it’s imperative for Social Workers and other mental health practitioners to work in tandem with researchers to implement effective practice methods. As our clients’ environments are ever-changing, Social Worker-led research is critical to ensuring health and wellbeing for all. Research and practice (both clinical and MACRO) work in partnership with each other. Research informs practice and practice informs research. The BHWell (Behavioral Health and Well-Being) Lab values this partnership."---Janet Hosford-Lamb

Utilizing Student Loan Coaching to Help Clients Reduce Financial Burdens

Location: Virtual
Dates: May 4- 5, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Instructor: Tisa Silver Canady, EdD, MBA

Student loans are one of the largest lifetime debts incurred by individuals and families, thus making loan repayment a central factor in household financial wellbeing. This virtual 2-part course provides intensive training on all aspects of student loan debt, including how to work with students and graduates on strategies to budget and plan for loan repayment, access loan consolidation and forgiveness programs, and prevent student loan defaults. Participants will become familiar with the complex and ever-changing student loan repayment and forgiveness issues and landscape and learn how to incorporate financial coaching techniques and student loan resources into their practice specifically to address student debt burdens with clients.

CEs Available

A SHARPened Approach to Building the Therapeutic Alliance

Location: Virtual
Dates: May 16, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Instructors: Christopher Beegle, PhD, LCSW-C | LaShonda Godwin, LCSW-C | Erika Ford, LCSW-C

Are you ready to take a deeper dive into the SHARP Framework and explore how when paired with narrative therapy techniques, service providers can enhance their therapeutic alliance with individuals and families? The SHARP Framework provides a racial justice lens that supports service providers with viewing structural oppression and racism as socially engineered trauma that severely impacts black and brown communities. When layered with narrative therapy techniques, service providers can deepen the exploration of the humanity of individuals, families, and their communities, while shifting and externalizing the shame and blame of historical and current social injustices. Together, both frameworks in reflective nature, can support the building of the therapeutic alliance.

CEs Available

The School of Social Work is undergoing the construction of a new website which will enhance our ability to share social work jobs within our student and alumni communities.

In the meantime, we are gathering available jobs via the following form: Post Your Social Work Job.

Jobs will be gathered into one email and sent to current students, recent graduates, and members of the alumni association on a bi-weekly basis until the new site is live.

Thank you for your ongoing interest in hiring our MSW graduates!

Center for Violence Protection Operations Director

The University of Maryland, Baltimore’s (UMB) newly formed Center for Violence Prevention is hiring a Center for Violence Protection Operations Director (Director, Center Operations) to oversee all department operations.

The Center’s operational needs include fiscal management, human resources, administration, events, logistics and space. The selected candidate will also manage interactions with other University-wide departments including Human Resources, Community Engagement Center, University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation (UMBF), and Communications, as well as multiple units across the Schools of Law, Medicine, and Social Work. This position is second in the leadership hierarchy and leads the organization in the Executive Director's absence. They have responsibility for preparing contracts and grant reports, ensuring grant and contract compliance, developing, maintaining and tracking budgets, and managing financial and administrative staff.

Program Coordinator Position for the Elijah Cummings
Healing City Act

Are you interested in promoting trauma-informed legislation in Baltimore City? The Baltimore City Health Department is now hiring a Program Coordinator for the Elijah Cummings Healing City Act. Here is the position description:

The Healing City Act (HCA) Program Coordinator will be responsible for planning and coordinating the programmatic activities of the Healing City Act within the Office of Youth and Trauma Services and reports to the Program Director. With a special focus on programmatic activities, training facilitation and team communication, the Program Coordinator builds strong relationships with team members, agency leadership, as well as agency and community partners. The Program Coordinator has lived experience and/or has experience working with youth and families exposed to trauma and violence.

The application closes May 12th