Sasha Kondrashov, Manu Sharma and Jane Gingrich This winter households in Kamloops had an opportunity to participate in the inaugural cohort of the Cooking Online Together program. Hills of Peace has received a generous City of Kamloops grant to launch a new program to encourage community building in times of pandemic. Cooking Together Online program…

Oleksandr (Sasha) Kondrashov We are starting building Ukrainian-Canadian Cuisine Map. Our first feature province is BC, featuring places where you can find food from Ukraine and local Ukrainian-Canadian eatery. If you are in Vernon, Chilliwack, Smithers, Kelowna, Vancouver, Victoria, or Nanaimo you will find your local favourite Ukrainian-Canadian Cuisine. Let me know what is your…

Final reminder to register for the Empower Social Worker podcast event that we will have tomorrow (May 1st) at 11:00 a.m. PT. Link for more information and register: https://krasun.ca/empower-social-worker/ Here are some of the amazing podcasters who agreed to record their presentations. You will meet more live on Zoom and get inspired to practice social…

On Saturday May 1st at 11:00 a.m. PT social workers will share their stories on using podcast to inspire virtual chat attendees to explore the power of voice in promoting social work policy, advocacy, education and research. Please register on Zoom https://bit.ly/31Qjf5n to watch live presentations, ask podcast creators questions and learn about the power of…

Dr. Oleksandr (Sasha) Kondrashov A self-paced course on Ukrainians in Canada: An introduction become possible as part of Thompson Rivers University (TRU) – Bohdan Khmelnytskyi National University (BKNU) Partnership. Community members worldwide were able to join students and faculty from BKNU and TRU and learn about the 130th years’ history of Ukrainian immigration to Canada. This…

Kayla Rosette & Maddison Harris Mental Wellness Thompson Okanagan is a website developed by two third year practicum students in the Bachelor of Social Work at TRU. We identified a gap in resources and knowledge within mental wellness and worked to fill that gap by creating this one stop shop website. In this process we…

Dear Social Work Community Member, As the 2020-2021 academic year comes to a completion, I invite you all to share your end-of-year wishes to the 2021 graduating class of social work students. These messages will be collated into a document and shared with the global social work community members before May-June Virtual Convocation Ceremonies in…

Dr. Oleksandr (Sasha) Kondrashov Recently I have been encouraged at the CASWE-ACFTS Social Policy and Advocacy Committee meeting to find some Canadian podcasts that can be useful for social policy and advocacy work. Thank you, Dr Victoria F. Burns, PhD  @betesandbites, for starting the list with The Evidence podcast. Please check some other podcasts that…

Dr. Oleksandr (Sasha) Kondrashov The initial podcast link we developed with Ani (access here: https://krasun.ca/2021/04/05/social-work-podcasts/ ) allowed me to do more research and highlight a few additional social work connected podcasts. The next challenge will be to highlight Canadian social work podcasts; we already shared some in both lists. If you know any, let me…

Sasha Kondrashov and Ani Dingamtar Podcasting is an emerging area of social work practice. During April 2021 we will explore how social workers use podcasting in their social work practice and will have #EMPRSOCIALWORK 2.5 years celebration event on May 1st at 11:00 a.m. PT to share with global social work community some tools on…

Please consider submitting your abstract to be part of the Social Policy and Advocacy Roundtable at the Major Social Work Educators Conference in Canada. Deadline has been extended until Friday March 26th. More information about the conference https://conference.caswe-acfts.ca/ and to download the call for abstracts: https://caswe-acfts.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/SPAC-Roundtable-2021-Call-for-Abstracts_LL-1.pdf SPAC-RECI: Racial Equity Driven Social Policy, Social Work Education…

Dr. Oleksandr (Sasha) Kondrashov #TheSWEducator #EMPRSocialWork March is a celebration of the social work profession. March is also the beginning of spring. In March 2020 global pandemic was declared.  Social workers work every month, every day, every minute and every second of the year. Social work practice is evolving to address all concerns humanity is…