Michelle Sicignano, LMSW Archive
If data can help Target figure out a young girl is pregnant before her parents, or let a a consumer know a particular cut of pants might be more slimming for her body type based on past purchase information and data analysis, then surely it has a place …
by Michelle Sicignano, LMSW, Staff Writer, SJS I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother, by Liza Long is a heart-wrenching first person account that is both scary and true. I urge everyone to read the piece (accessed through this link). This …
by Michelle Sicignano, LMSW, Staff Writer, Social Justice Solutions Most of us by now have heard the news reports of Rhonda Lee, the African American female meteorologist fired for responding to a viewers Facebook criticism of her hair style. These two links relate the details: Meteorologist fired after responding to viewer …
by Michelle Sicignano, LMSW, Staff Writer, Social Justice Solutions The National Child Traumatic Stress Network is a joint project funded by SAMSHA, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, in an effort to gather research, promote awareness, and disseminate information on “one of …
by Michelle Sicignano, LMSW, Staff Writer, Social Justice Solutions I cannot imagine any circumstance in which an infant age one or under would ever be prescribed an anti-anxiety medication, let alone one in the benzodiazepine family. I cannot even imagine …
So, by now many have heard the American Psychological Association has finished it’s current revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM. The DSM, in the US, is the standard by which conditions are coded, and therefor recognized, and approved as reimbursable. Granted, you cannot make …
by Michelle Sicignano, LMSW, Staff Writer, Social Justice Solutions An article today in Business Insider, Women Can Tell If Men Are Cheaters Just From One Look, based on a Dec. 4, entry in the journal Biology Letters suggests yes, in …
Written by Michelle Sicignano, LMSW, Staff Writer, Social Justice Solutions With an innovative 5 year plan to save $500 million, the””Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT) is one of the most innovative organizations using social and mobile technologies in the country. In …
by Michelle Sicignano, LMSW, Staff Writer, Social Justice Solutions An interesting piece from Seth’s Blog Non-profits have a charter to be innovators, made me wonder. Seth Godin says, “The biggest, best-funded non profits have an obligation to be leaders in innovation, but sometimes …
By Michelle Sicignano, LMSW SJS Staff Writer I had an opportunity to interview The President and CEO of Children’s Village, Dr. Jeremy Kohomban, a noted expert in child welfare. He “most recently received the 2011 Samuel Gerson Nordlinger Child Welfare …
