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| From February 2000 NASW NEWS Copyright ©2000, National Association of Social Workers, Inc. |
Lawrence Watkins, father of slain social work student Amy Watkins, speaks with Bogart Leashore, dean of Hunter College's social work school, at memorial's official opening in New York. |
A memorial mural dedicated to the late Amy
Watkins — a Hunter College School of Social Work student who was murdered in March
near her home in Brooklyn, N.Y. — was formally unveiled at the school in October. The mural, according to school officials, is "a form of communal art representing Ms. Watkins' stated desire to use art as a medium to foster human relationships." Students have also established a memorial scholarship fund in Amy Watkins' name to enable a student in financial need to pursue graduate studies in community organizing there. |
Seventy social workers and therapists in Chelsea, Mass., went on strike in November to protest a cut in pay, benefits and in some cases staff at the North Suffolk Mental Health Association. Some of the organization's counseling centers had been converting employees from salaried to fee-for-service and "scrambling for funds," according to NASW member Richard Sherman.
The strike ended after the agency's management agreed not to lay off workers or cut services before March 2000.
According to NASW members involved in the planning of Rescue Health Care Day, a nationwide protest scheduled for April 1, a six-part radio series on crisis in health care is expected to begin airing in mid-February.
According to organizer Betsy Owens, the series, which will be broadcast by National Public Radio, will explore managed care litigation, privacy, aging baby boomers, electronic data accumulation, a single-payer system as an alternative and other topics.
Jean Mangin Aniebona of New York keynoted the 1999 World Congress for Psychotherapy in Vienna, Austria, with an address on "The Situation of American Black Psychotherapy."
Aniebona also led a symposium at the congress on "The State of Psychotherapy in North America."
Samira Kanaan Beckwith |
Samira Kanaan Beckwith, president and chief executive officer of Hope, a hospice and palliative care facility with several offices in Florida, received the 1999 Heart of Hospice Award from the National Hospice Organization. Beckwith has been involved in the hospice movement for more than 19 years. |
Jerry Marx |
Jerry Marx's research on
philanthropy won him an invitation to the White House to participate in the Oct. 22
Conference on Philanthropy. Marx, a professor of social work at the University of New Hampshire, has published several articles in national journals on American charitable giving and volunteerism. He joined other academics, national service leaders and philanthropists at the White House conference, "Gifts to the Future," which explored the American tradition of giving and its potential in the next century. |
Charles Cowger, professor of social work at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is the first non-Russian elected to the Russian Academy of Social Education.
"I feel honored to be elected," said Cowger, director of the School of Social Work in Missouri. "The academy is a reflection of the commitment of a select group of leading Russian scholars and educators to promote quality in research and teaching in academic disciplines and professions that deal with social problems."
Cowger was recently in Cracaw, where he attended the European branch of the Inter-University Consortium for International Social Development. He is president of the organization, which includes representatives from 56 countries who are participating in or researching community-based social development.
Cowger was once a street-gang worker in Chicago and ran an adolescents-on-the-street program through a community mental health center.
NASW members who regularly write about social work issues for newspapers or appear on radio and television: Please e-mail NASW News Editor John O'Neill at joneill@naswdc.org or call (800) 638-8799, ext. 241.
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