Mental health taken seriously
Las Cruces Bulletin
Williams, a clinical social worker, said the Army has learned from the lessons of previous wars and now mental health is a priority. Soldiers receive free care on or off post. In considering the overall health of the soldiers and their families, the Army has made Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury and all battle related conditions a top priority.

Love, Passion Fuel Hope House’s Randall
Memphis Daily News
And it was Randall’s passion for changing lives for the better that led her to a career in social work. “I have always wanted to be a social worker,” she said. “There was never a question in my mind as to what I was going to do.

Robeson center aims to curb youth violence
Fayetteville Observer
The center will work through the combined efforts of researchers from the UNC School of Social Work, the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center and several community organizations in Robeson County, including Robeson County schools, the Health Department, Lumbee tribal government, UNC-Pembroke and the Center for Community Action.

PTSD recovery began when vet hit bottom
San Francisco Chronicle
Hofler got that help from counselors at veterans organizations throughout the Bay Area – and now not only is he sober, he is heading off to Columbia University in the fall to get a master’s degree in social work. The counselors who shepherded him through his recovery and into San Francisco State University – where he graduated May 21 with a bachelor’s degree in social work – are calling him a shining example of recovery.

Hopeville: A home or a waystation for the homeless
St. Louis Beacon
Danny Gladden, a social worker who says he showed up Thursday to “make sure everyone’s voices are heard,” said the city could win over some campers by allowing unmarried heterosexual and homosexual couples to qualify for temporary shelter programs.

Hailey Rochelle Gill, 32, devoted social worker
Atlanta Journal Constitution
She earned a bachelor’s degree in social work and joined the Barrow County Department of Children and Family Services. It was the right fit for the former high school cheerleader, a 1997 Brookwood High School graduate. She never deviated from wanting to help children, even when she was rebellious.

More struggle to attain economic security
Buffalo News
The baffling reality of Peach’s situation is borne out in “The Basic Economic Security Tables for the United States,” a report prepared by Wider Opportunities for Women, a national organization that works to achieve economic independence for women and their families; the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis; and the University at Buffalo’s School of Social Work.

Mean Girls in the Nursing Home
New York Times (blog)
Ms. Frankel and Robin Bonifas, an assistant professor of social work at Arizona State who has begun research on senior bullying, described various situations.

AIDS warrior: Chicagoan Keith Green
Windy City Times
Eventually he began working at TPAN and earned a bachelor’s degree in social work from Northeastern Illinois University while struggling with a bad case of immune reconstitution syndrome. During this time, he even had biopsy wounds open up during a final exam. Green’s reaction was to retreat the wound and finish the test. He aced it.

Social Work Today Article – Building a Practice in a Digital World
ChicagoNow (blog)
Check out the article in Social Work Today – Building a Practice in a Digital World. It highlights how digital media – including blog websites – is being used in social work by clinicians. I was interviewed for it because of my use of blogging for my private child therapy practice, Child Therapy Chicago. I periodically post articles about children, parenting, child development, emotional/mental health, etc. both on my website and here, for ChicagoNow.

She’s 10 and May Be Sold to a Brothel
The New York Times
M. is an ebullient girl, age 10, who ranks near the top of her fourth-grade class and dreams of being a doctor. Yet she, like all of India, is at a turning point, and it looks as if her family may instead sell her to a brothel.