News Items – November 14, 2018
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11/14/18
“Instant Family” is a powerful movie that shows challenges and joys of foster care, adoption
11/14/18 •
Octavia Spencer and Tig Notaro steal the spotlight as social workers Karen and Sharon
adoption, foster care, Help Starts Here, Instant Family, Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, social workers
The Miseducation of Cameron Post is must-see film for social workers
8/30/18 •
Film dramatizes what it is like for youth to experience emotionally damaging gay conversion therapy
Alan P. Gross, Chloë Grace Moretz, conversion therapy, Desiree Akhavan, LGBT, National Association of Social Workers, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Priest Sex Scandal: Social Work Experts Urge Patience with Survivors of Abuse
8/23/18 •
Each of these victims is going to be looking at their own recovery – Social Work Professor Dan Pollack
Dan Pollack, Katherine van Wormer, priests, sexual abuse, SNAP
2018 Voice Awards put a special emphasis on suicide addiction, addiction treatment
8/09/18 •
Best-selling author and Pastor Rick Warren and wife, Kay, co-host ceremonies
Kay Warren, mental illness, National Association of Social Workers, Rick Warren, SAMHSA, social workers, substance use disorders, Suzanne Dworak-Peck, Voice AwardsRecent Features
Watch “The Tale” on HBO on May 26
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The film, which covers sexual exploitation, has several ties to NASW
Watch “I Am Evidence” on HBO on April 16
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Documentary puts spotlight on alarming number of untested rape kits
Social worker, author using science fiction, satire to raise awareness about child abuse and neglect
4/04/18 •
Proceeds from “Rarity from the Hollow” will benefit Children’s Home Society of West Virginia
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News Items – November 7, 2018
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News Items – October 24, 2018
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10/24/18
Expert Interviews
What should you do if a child is in danger?
NASW Arizona Chapter member Timothy Schmaltz offers advice
Someone to Talk to Upon Returning from War
Atlantic Magazine talks to Social Worker of the Year John Cowart
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