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Supporting Students Experiencing Homelessness
The Key to Safety and Trauma-sensitive Care
I work at a school for elementary- and middle-school kids in New York City. Counseling children and families affected by homelessness is a rapidly expanding segment of my work. Providing trauma-sensitive care for them has become a cornerstone of my approach, but I’ve learned that it doesn’t take fancy interventions to help displaced families feel better.
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Against the Odds
On the Front Lines of Inner City Social Work
By Howard Honigsfeld - As a school social worker in a South Bronx elementary school, the kids I see have a vast range of personal, social, economic, and medical issues. With so much stacked against these children, what can a school counselor do? The rewards of time, dogged persistence, and ordinary kindness in a supportive school environment can work their own kind of wonders.
Daily Blog
A Week in the Life of a School Social Worker
Rapid-Fire Therapy, Creative Strategies, and Building Trust in an Instant
By Howard Honigsfeld - Public School 48, where I’m on staff as a social worker, sits on a block between a juvenile detention center and a strip club. A week of work can be exciting, frustrating, and often hair-raising—anything but boring.
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A Suicide Note In Crayon
Expecting the Unexpected at PS 48
To work as a school social worker in the Bronx’s high-crime, low-income Hunt’s Point neighborhood is to become an expert at expecting the unexpected.
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Supporting Students Experiencing Homelessness
The Key to Safety and Trauma-sensitive Care
I work at a school for elementary- and middle-school kids in New York City. Counseling children and families affected by homelessness is a rapidly expanding segment of my work. Providing trauma-sensitive care for them has become a cornerstone of my approach, but I’ve learned that it doesn’t take fancy interventions to help displaced families feel better.
Daily Blog
Against the Odds
On the Front Lines of Inner City Social Work
By Howard Honigsfeld - As a school social worker in a South Bronx elementary school, the kids I see have a vast range of personal, social, economic, and medical issues. With so much stacked against these children, what can a school counselor do? The rewards of time, dogged persistence, and ordinary kindness in a supportive school environment can work their own kind of wonders.
Daily Blog
A Week in the Life of a School Social Worker
Rapid-Fire Therapy, Creative Strategies, and Building Trust in an Instant
By Howard Honigsfeld - Public School 48, where I’m on staff as a social worker, sits on a block between a juvenile detention center and a strip club. A week of work can be exciting, frustrating, and often hair-raising—anything but boring.
Daily Blog
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A Suicide Note In Crayon
Expecting the Unexpected at PS 48
To work as a school social worker in the Bronx’s high-crime, low-income Hunt’s Point neighborhood is to become an expert at expecting the unexpected.
Magazine Article
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Howard Honigsfeld, M.S.W., is a school social worker and a former teacher. He is in practice in North Bellmore, New York, and specializes in counseling children and families.
