Monday profile: World citizen Sandra McCormick has reputation for getting things done
lacrossetribune.com
Sandra McCormick has traveled the world, and she knows there’s no place like home. “I have been to 50 countries, including China, India and Israel. And it was great to see where the Hmong came from,” she said.

Foster Kids Ask For More Encouragement To Go To College
Hartford Courant
Alixes Rosado, who has been in and out of the state’s foster care system since he was 6 and is now a senior at the University of New Haven, credits his success in part to his social worker. “The kids [who] have somebody there caring for them and wanting them to succeed are going to do it,” Rosado, 22, said Monday at a forum for legislators and state officials. “We all need a little push.”

Lincoln Elementary School targets bullying
Wellington Daily News
According to Kirsten Lyman Roberson, Social Worker at Lincoln, a Federal Counseling Grant provided funds to begin the anti-bullying programs in local schools. Goals of the program are to reduce existing bullying problems among students, to prevent the development of new bullying problems, and to achieve better peer relations at school.  All students participate.

John Avalos: An Interview With the San Francisco Mayoral Candidate
The Epoch Times
He has a background in social work with degrees from UC Santa Barbara and San Francisco State University. After first serving as a legislative aide to Supervisor Chris Daly in 2005, he was elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2008 where he served as Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee.

New poll shows Latino parents still hesitant to have “THE sex talk” with their kids
Latina Lista
LatinaLista — A new poll released by New York University’s Silver School of Social Work’s Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH) and Planned Parenthood shows that 82 percent of parents are having a “sex talk” with their children.

UGA website helps fight addiction
Online Athens
By JOE VANHOOSE – joe.vanhoose@onlineathens.com Students in the University of Georgia’s School of Social Work are helping drug and alcohol addicts all over the state on the road to recovery. What started as an Athens website for those who battle addiction now has expanded to Savannah, Atlanta, Macon and Augusta.

Why More Americans Suffer From Mental Disorders Than Anyone Else
The Atlantic Monthly
But how does the U.S. compare to other nations? The World Health Organization (WHO) has spent a good amount of time and resources determining how rates of mental health disorders fluctuate across the globe. It is no small task.

Insight: Proponents of AB 499 / Keep Your Home California / Simon Rowe / Sound Advice: Classical
Capitol Public Radio
Proponents of a bill that would that would allow teenage girls to vaccinate themselves against HPV explain their case; A program that keeps struggling Californians in their homes; The new director of the Brubeck Institute; Classical Sound Advice.

Hostages of child prostitution
Los Angeles Times
Las Vegas social worker Marisela Quintero tries to help girls who have all but sold their souls to pimps. Some run even when offered a way out. Others wind up dead.

University of Montana Gets Federal Grant to Treat Child Abuse in Indian Country
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
For this major project, NNCTC also has partnered with the Butler Institute for Children and Families at the University of Denver’s School of Social Work and has assembled an advisory council of national experts to support implementation and oversight of the project.

Immigrants fearing deportation make plans for kids
Sacramento Bee
Social worker Jazmin Rivera says she helps dozens of Spanish-speaking immigrants fill out paperwork each week. Many immigrants sign power of attorney forms that allow someone else to care for their children if needed. Rivera says people are scared.

Brown School launches first social work-based social entrepreneurship program
Washington University in St. Louis News
This fall, the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis will be home to the first social entrepreneurship program based in a social work setting. “There is enormous enthusiasm among our students and recent graduates, many of whom want to apply entrepreneurial thinking to social problems,” says Edward F. Lawlor, PhD, dean of the Brown School and the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor.

Q&A: ARC director’s job challenges, inspires
The Daily News Online
She majored in social work at the University at Buffalo and later got her master’s degree from the same university. Last week, the Darien Center resident was making final preparations for her daughter Karen’s wedding in Buffalo.

The Age of “Coming Out” Is Now Dramatically Younger
HealthCanal.com
The number of LGB teens who “come out” to family and friends has grown dramatically in the past two decades, says Dr. Guy Shilo of TAU’s Bob Shapell School of Social Work. In 1991, the average coming-out age was 25. But as of 2010, he notes, it is 16 years old — a dramatic shift.

OPINION: Dependency: An ideology chasing its tail
Basic Income News
I graduated in Social Work in 1964 and back then, in Australia, we were three quarters of the way through the 23 years of unbroken conservative rule. The prevailing welfare ideology of the time was heavily influenced by the combination of providing assistance to those ‘in need’ whilst sifting out ‘malingers’ and others who could but wouldn’t work.

Occupy Wall Street protests are fighting for all of us
Idaho Press-Tribune
If it succeeds like the civil rights movement of the 60s, we’ll all be better off. of the National Association of Social Workers.

Local View: Supercommittee must protect kids
Lincoln Journal Star
Becky Gould is the Executive Director of Nebraska Appleseed, and writes on behalf of the Nebraska Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, Voices for Children Nebraska, and NAMI Nebraska – all co-sponsors of the Step Up for Kids rally.

Cuomo Says He Will Reform Agencies Serving Disabled
By DANNY HAKIM (NYT)
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday vowed reforms at six agencies that provide residential care for the disabled, the elderly, children and the mentally ill.

Beyond The Battlefield: How To Help
The Huffington Post
“We wouldn’t be where we are today without the nonprofits,” said Cheryl Gansner, whose husband Bryan was badly injured by an IED in Iraq in 2006. Currently, she works as a program coordinator for Wounded Warrior Wives. When the VA was too backed up to provide mental health counseling, the Gasners got free counseling through Give an Hour, which links up mental health professionals who donate their time with military service members and their families.

Giffords and slain staffer to be honored
KOLD-TV
Friday, the National Association of Social Workers-Arizona Chapter will name Giffords its Public Elected Official of the Year.

National Organization of Forensic Social Work taps award’s namesake as first recipient
www.nola.com › … ›
May 19, 2011 — “Sol Gothard is the first recipient of this award which the organization has named after him,” said Paul Brady, executive director of NOFSW.