Archive for January 15th, 2008

Social Work in the News – January 15, 2008

‘Rooting for the underdog’ — InnerView: Greg Lavin brings social
Enterprise-Record, CA
Greg Lavin’s career as a social worker has shown him people care passionately when children are in need. Now that he is executive director at Butte Humane

An opportunity to erase AIDS stigma
Hindu, India
On the campus of the Madras School of Social Work at Egmore, there were plantain festoons, freshly painted pots in which rice gurgled energetically,

Breaking the cycle of poverty through financial education
News from Washington University in St. Louis, MO
“SBSSW is truly excited about our 2nd Annual Financial Freedom Seminar,” says Michele Fontaine, SBSSW co-chair and second-year social-work student.

Fort Drum-area educators, counselors cope with deployment issues
NYSUT.org, NY
Donald Mott of Fort Drum with, from left, school counselor Melissa Jones and social worker Jennifer Bryant-Ulrich, both from Indian River.

VIEWING THE FOSTER CHILD POPULATION, IN PROPORTION
CityLimits.org
But it seems like that elephant is invisible to fewer people all the time, notes Gayle Samuels, a social worker at the Center for the Study of Social Policy


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