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Rochelle Gauthier is a member:
When Schools Meet Trauma With Understanding, Not Discipline
NPR
“I think she’s a really easy kid to just fly under the radar,” says Rochelle Gauthier, one of two full-time staff social workers at the school. “Because she’s not a behavior problem. She’s not causing a lot of disruption.” But Sherlae was hurting. She had to repeat the fourth grade. Her grandmother asked the school for help and Gauthier was assigned. “I went and pulled her from class, introduced myself, brought her to my office,” Gauthier says.

Cathy Beck-Cross is a member:
Allowing anyone to use title of ‘social worker’ does a disservice to professionals
The Des Moines Register
Dr. Cathy Beck-Cross, Des Moines, Letter to the Editor: Like many Iowans, I ache over the deaths of two young women allegedly at the hands of adults chosen to protect the welfare of vulnerable children. Indeed, changes need to be made in how foster homes are vetted and monitored. It is clear the Department of Human Services is taking a deep look at how to ensure the safety of those it is charged with protecting [DHS asks experts how to prevent deaths, May 21].

Marty Lamb and Bristol Bowman are members:
Supporting a village
NC State University Accolades Magazine
Some residents of Raleigh’s historic Cameron Park neighborhood have lived there for 50 years. It’s where they raised their kids. It’s where they met some of their oldest friends. It’s where they plan on living the rest of their lives — and research from NC State graduate students is helping make sure that will be possible. Through a year-long partnership with a Cameron Park steering committee, social work grad students Laura Uribe and Bristol Bowman studied what needs residents must meet to stay in their homes as they age. Their findings are informing community leaders about what services could best support neighbors in the future and point to potential strategies for providing them.

Jesse Bennett is a member:
‘A heroin addict is going to use a needle’: NC program provides clean syringes
The News & Observers (Raleigh, NC)
On a sunny late April afternoon, Ross met with Jesse Bennett, a 39-year-old N.C. State University student who is studying social work, in the offices of Live It Up!, a community service nonprofit on Hillsborough Street. The syringe exchange program has an office at Live It Up! that’s about the size of a walk-in closet to house syringes and other supplies in the outreach kits. Bennett works part-time as the Harm Reduction Coalition’s statewide volunteer coordinator and manages the coalition’s syringe exchange inventory. He also conducts kit-making workshops and does overdose prevention workshops with college student organizations, businesses and community groups across the state.

Social workers ‘were the glue’ that held school together after shock of student’s death
News-Herald (Southgate, MI)
It was an extremely difficult time for students, staff and administrators in Wyandotte Public Schools last week, and School Supt. Catherine Cost said their team of social workers turned out to be the glue that held everything together. After getting word Monday night that 10-year-old Christopher Baltzer, a fourth-grade student at Garfield Elementary School in Wyandotte, had been killed, Cost activated the district’s crisis team of social workers. By 7:30 a.m. Tuesday a group of social workers in the district who are trained to help assist in a time of crisis were at the school.

Laura Lokers is a member:
Feeling anxious? Use this strategy to help you calm down
The Today Show
If you’ve ever dealt with any kind of anxiety, you know how annoying it can feel when someone repeatedly asks you what’s wrong — or worse, instructs you to “just breathe.” If you’re trying to curb your anxiety and calm down your mind, relaxation techniques like slow breathing can be surprisingly unhelpful. “The ironic process of anxiety is the more you try to control it, the more anxious you’re going to feel,” Laura Lokers, a licensed clinical social worker and co-founder of the Anxiety and OCD Treatment Center of Ann Arbor in Michigan, told TODAY.

She grew up hungry. Now she runs the state’s largest anti-poverty organization
The Press of Atlantic City
It’s tough work, but Vizzi loves it, she said. After jumping from place to place growing up, Vizzi met a social worker who helped her grow and develop goals into her adulthood. It was this social worker who inspired Vizzi to put herself through the State University College at Buffalo and Rutgers University to become a clinical social worker. “The troubling thing is that those scars from your past are not visible to the eye,” she said. “You can’t see the residual effects, so one could argue that part of my evolution as CEO has been to be that voice, to make my story useful. It helps make sense out of the chaos and madness.”