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leahy-lee-introduce-legislation-to-updateelectronic-communications-privacy-act. Ellen M. Belluomini, LCSW, received her MSW from the University of Illinois, Jane Addams School of Social Work and is currently a doctoral student at Walden University. She is an educator at National Louis University and Harper College. She has developed online and blended curricula with an emphasis on integrating technology into human services practice. She writes a blog “Bridging the Digital Divide in Social Work Practice” to increase awareness about technology’s uses. She presents and consults on various issues related to social services. Her clinical work has been in private practice, management of nonprofit agencies, and programming for vulnerable populations.

Accessing Apps: School Social Work
by Ellen Belluomini, LCSW
How can school social workers access technology to help their student populations? Here are a few examples of apps to address different situations confronted by school social workers. Special needs apps will be addressed in the next issue. Access the applications by placing the name of the app in a web browser.

Anti-Bullying Apps

TipSoft This program allows for reporting of bullying to authorities. There is an auto locate feature to access the nearest agencies for reporting. Pictures, video, or texting are the reporting formats. The tips are anonymous. If a school decides to use it, the tips can go directly to administrators. Cost: Free iTunes and Android Bully Stop Stopping bullying through technology, this app allows children and teens to block bullying calls, texts, and pictures from being sent to their phones. A password protected log of the calls is kept for parents, teachers, or law enforcement. The app’s name can also be downloaded as iDecide, so the name “bully” is not on their phone. Cost: $1.29 Android Awesome Upstander Using a more proactive approach, Awesome Upstander is a game to help kids positively address bullying and make a difference in their schools. Appropriate for K-5th graders. Cost: $.99 iTunes and Android

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Anger Management Apps This is a great website listing anger management apps for children. http://appfinder.lisisoft.com/ipad-iphone-apps/anger-management-for-children.html iTunes and Android are featured Birdee’s Sex Ed App An app about sex education that is age specific helps parents address sexual education with their children. Besides free content, there are some in-app purchases available. Body rights and bullying are discussed in the app. Cost: Free iTunes Brrrd Brawl This app approaches the anti-smoking campaign through a game. Developed by the National Institutes of Health. Cost: Free iTunes Count Your Peas This application helps kids learn about food groupings and increases awareness of food choices. There are games to illustrate each point. Appropriate for K-3rd graders. Cost: $.99 iTunes QuitStart If the student is already smoking, QuitStart helps the smoker track cravings, moods, and progress to smoking cessation. Identifying triggers and a plan to stay smoke free, this program may interest teens growing up with smart phones. Cost: Free iTunes Teens in NYC Protection + Although it may be controversial, New York City is addressing STDs and teen pregnancy with a sex education app for teenagers. This app gives information about these services: condoms, birth control, emergency contraception, STD testing and treatment, HIV testing, and pregnancy testing. Videos developed with teenagers are accessible for various issues. Maybe this could be replicated for other cities. Cost: FREE Android

by Gary M. Grobman, Ph.D. The definitive handThe Nonprofit Handbook book on starting and running a nonprofit corporation in the U.S., this is a valuable resource for nonprofit executive staff, nonprofit board members, attorneys who practice nonprofit law, accountants who advise nonprofit organizations, and students in nonprofit management.
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The Nonprofit Handbook is a very practical, comprehensive, succinct, clear, and up-to-date guide on the nitty gritty of administering a nonprofit organization. It also provides the general background one needs to manage wisely in this sector. The book is nicely grounded in practical experience, theory, law, and contemporary sources of data and expertise. A copy belongs on the desk of every nonprofit manager. Dennis Young, Ph.D., President National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise The Nonprofit Handbook is must reading. While it will have value as a reference tool to be consulted when needed, I highly recommend that you read the book cover-to-cover to familiarize yourself with the panoply of issues that face the moder n nonprofit in every state of our United States. Joe Geiger, Executive Director Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations (PANO)

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Gary M. Grobman teaches nonprofit management at the Ph.D. and Master’s level as an adjunct professor at several universities. He received his Ph.D. in Public Administration from Penn State University, his M.P .A.from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and his B.S. from Drexel University. His experience includes 13 years as executive director of a statewide nonprofit in Pennsylvania. For more than a decade, he has been writing about the nonprofit sector for various publications. Among his other books are The Nonprofit Management Casebook, Fundraising Online: Using the Internet to Raise Serious Money for Your Nonprofit Organization (co-authored with Gary Grant), Improving Quality in Your Non-Profit Organization, and the popular textbook Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector.

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Apps to Watch Out For

PBIS Apps PBIS assessment and PBIS evaluation are two applications that will be accessible soon. These apps help implement the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1997. Evidence based practices will also be available on the website associated with these apps. Cost: FREE Android

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