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  Social Work Month 2011
  Social Workers Change Futures - Targeted outreach and promotional ideas, including tips for securing endorsements, hosting events, publishing articles and marketing your private practice.

  Social Work Month 2010
  Social Workers Inspire Community Action - Visual guides to three social work public education websites, profiles of inspiring social workers, and tips for promoting the profession.

  Social Work Month 2009
  Social Work: Purpose and Possibility - Information and tools for social work student recruitment, sample consumer radio PSAs, and specific tips for working with the media.

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Media Coverage and Depictions

Social Worker Hopes “60 Minutes” Reports will Generate Wider Response to Homelessness

Social Workers Review “Prostitution: Leaving the Life”

Social work class gives back
Central Florida Future 6/28/2010
It's one thing for a social work professor to lecture students on the importance of helping those stricken with poverty. It's another thing entirely for a professor to actually provide students with some real-life experience assisting the less fortunate.

School of Social Work Brings Financial Literacy Concepts to Baltimore Classrooms
UMB News 8/31/2011
The University of Maryland School of Social Work (SSW) has given middle-school students at three Baltimore City schools an introduction to financial literacy as part of the School's Financial Social Work Initiative.

New campaign aims to end hunger in Minnesota
Minnesota Public Radio 9/27/2010
Clinical social worker Cheryl Champion sees the toll of hunger on children every day. And it extends far beyond tummy aches.

New 'Bridges Out of Poverty' program to help Poconos poor
Pocono Record 5/13/2011
Keith R. Stevenson/Pocono Record Monroe County social workers hope a new program will help the area's poor cross over to a better lifestyle. "Bridges Out of Poverty," part one of a three-part workshop that studies the effects of poverty and how to deal with them, was held for the first time in Monroe County on Thursday.

Occupy LA to bring social workers to aid homeless
San Jose Mercury News 11/14/2011
By CHRISTINA HOAG AP LOS ANGELES—Social workers will be visiting the Occupy Los Angeles camp this week in an effort to provide services to the influx of homeless people who have moved into the tent village surrounding City Hall.

Bleak Portrait of Poverty Is Off the Mark, Experts Say
The New York Times 11/3/2011
“The official measure no longer corresponds to reality,” said Jane Waldfogel, a professor of social work at Columbia University. “It doesn’t get either side of the equation right — how much the poor have or how much they need. No one really trusts the data.”

Celebrating Jane Addams
The Daily Kos 9/6/2011
Happy Birthday, Jane Addams.  Addams was recognized around the world as a person who dedicated her life to social justice.  In 1931, Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.