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Social worker helps relief staff handle the emotional trauma of Haiti
Baltimore Sun 1/29/2010
Contino, a clinical social worker, was dispatched to Haiti to address the emotional trauma of the Baltimore-based relief agency's large staff, ...

Safe Streets rolling out initiative that will tackle neighborhood problems
TheNewsTribune.com 3/27/2010
Based at the University of Washington School of Social Work, CTC has gathered the soundest national research on social services programs. ...

Walkabout: Grass-roots efforts feel like uphill fight to preserve city
Pittsburgh Post Gazette 9/6/2011
Mr. Cunningham mentored a slew of young people at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Social Work after having spent years as a community organizer in Chicago. One of his students, Rick Swartz, went to work in 1980 as the head of an already solid little organization of volunteers called the Bloomfield-Garfield Corp.

Brown School launches first social work-based social entrepreneurship program
Washington University in St. Louis News 10/10/2011
This fall, the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis will be home to the first social entrepreneurship program based in a social work setting. “There is enormous enthusiasm among our students and recent graduates, many of whom want to apply entrepreneurial thinking to social problems,” says Edward F. Lawlor, PhD, dean of the Brown School and the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor.

The letters that make Obama long for his community-organizing days
The Washington Post 10/14/2011
“Sometimes, what you want to do is just pick up the phone and say, ‘Tell me more about what’s going on, and let me see if I can be your social worker, be your advocate, be your mortgage adviser, be your employment counselor.’ So what I have to constantly reconcile in my mind is that I have a very specific role to play in this office, and I’ve got to make a bunch of big decisions that you hope in the aggregate will end up having a positive effect over this many lives. But you can’t always be certain.”

Program helps make transition from foster more successful
MiamiHerald.com 11/12/2011
Casa Valentina now has a licensed clinical social worker and case manager on staff, and provides a host of support services to its residents, many of whom have never learned the life skills they need to live on their own. “When a new girl moves in, we help her pick out linens and hygiene products, help her get a bank account, show her how to use public transportation, take her to the grocery store,” Executive Director Chelesa Wilkerson said. “We offer incredibly intensive services.”

Victoria Kennedy calls social workers vital in address at BC
Boston.com 9/16/2011
Social workers are an indispensable source of aid and comfort, as they showed in the wake of one of America’s greatest catastrophes β€” the 9/11 terrorist attacks β€” said Victoria Reggie Kennedy in her keynote address for the Graduate School of Social Work’s 75th anniversary celebration on Wednesday. Kennedy, the widow of US Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, told a near-capacity Robsham Theater audience how her late husband, after hearing a 9/11 widow describe her plight in trying to get assistance, declared, “We need social workers β€” now!"

EVERYDAY PEOPLE: Helping to make positive changes
Brainerd Daily Dispatch 9/4/2011
Barb Parks, a clinical social worker based in Brainerd, has worked to help people cope with depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress and domestic abuse among other needs in 25 years with Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota.


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