In this episode, Catherine interviews Ilana Marcucci-Morris, a licensed clinical social worker, about her involvement in a 10-week strike at Kaiser. The strike resulted in significant gains, including better wages, improved benefits, and expanded mental health programming. Ilana encourages other mental health professionals to join a union and provides resources for organizing. She also discusses two patient advocacy bills sponsored by NUHW that aim to enforce parity laws and improve access to care. NUHW's Behavioral Health Associate Membership Program. This is a program for private practice providers who can't unionize to join NUHW as associate members to participate in NUHW's work to advance parity bham.nuhw.org ____________________________________ ⁠Tap Here to Subscribe⁠ to the Social Workers, Rise! Email Resource List ⁠Tap Here⁠ to shop career courses for Social Workers. ____________________________________ Thank you to our SPONSORS ⁠RISE Directory⁠ - A national directory of Clinical Supervisors who are looking to help the next generation of Clinical Social Workers GROW. ⁠Therapist Development Center (TDC) Homepage⁠ ⁠TDC Continuing Education Courses⁠ ⁠On The Edge of Life: An Introduction to Treating Suicidality ⁠ Use the code SWRISE10 at checkout to receive 10% off --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/socialwork/support