Evolution of intervention
Helena Independent Record
“She’s been extraordinarily committed and very innovative in her practice. She’s a delight to be with,” said John Wilkinson, executive director of the Montana chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. “She really collaborates well and tried to work as effectively as possible with other professionals.”

Mariah Carey talks fertility treatment, social worker visit on ’20/20′ (Video)
Washington Post (blog)
As for the allegations that Carey drank beer after giving birth to stimulate lactation, which led to a visit from a social worker, she said, “It just doesn’t make any sense. … I didn’t even drink the beer.” The full interview, which includes Roc and Roe’s TV debut, airs Friday on “20/20” at 10 p.m.

‘Oranges And Sunshine,’ But Both Of Them Lies
NPR
by Jeannette Catsoulis Covert Operations: A British social worker (Emily Watson) discovers a centuries-old shame: the forcible, secret deportation of children to Australia. If anyone could be expected to stake out the angels’ side of a social issue, it would be a son of Ken Loach, so it’s no surprise that Jim Loach’s first feature tackles one of the biggest social scandals of the past century. Oranges and Sunshine, based on the 1994 book Empty Cradles by Nottingham social worker Margaret Humphreys, deals with the fallout from the forced — and largely secret — migration of English children to Australia beginning in the 17th century and lasting, astonishingly, until the 1970s.

Fitzgerald names new social services administrator
WKYC-TV
Last year, Dr. Jones was one of a select group of delegates to participate in the Congress on Social Work and in 2010 and 2011 he served as a co-leader of a delegation of social workers studying the social service system in Russia and Brazil.

New blog puts focus on Appalachia
Gainesville Times
In launching a social work program at the university, which is located in the heart of Appalachia, Lewis discovered that few of her students knew much about the region and its people. “As a part of the social work program, I created a course on Appalachian studies,” said Lewis, who grew up in Nicholson and Cumming