Latino Health Paradox: Latinos Boast Low Infant Mortality, Long Lives Despite …
Huffington Post
Jonah Garcia is a social worker with what may be one of the toughest gigs in the country. Garcia is a program director at La Clinica de Familia Doña Ana Healthy Start in the US-Mexico border community of Las Cruces, NM, where she helps mothers deliver healthy babies.

County mental health center to get interns
Auburn Citizen
AUBURN — Nursing and social work students are set to rotate through the Cayuga County Community Mental Health Center once more after a vote of approval Thursday from the county Legislature’s Health and Human Services committee.

Change upsets providers of mental health care
Tampabay.com
“It really looks like a lose-lose type of proposition for the clinicians,” said Jim Akin, executive director of the National Association of Social Workers Florida Chapter.

Dogs help veterans with PTSD cope, improve
York Daily Record
Little study exists on the effectiveness of dog training in treating PTSD, because “it’s still too new,” said Tom Murray, a readjustment counseling therapist and a licensed clinical social worker with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

A Transgender Man of Color Shares his Story
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
James Newton, 29, of Norcross, Ga., a suburban community near Atlanta, got a rude awakening into what it sometimes means to be a black man in America. Moments after officially getting his name changed from his female birth name at the county courthouse, he noticed a woman looking back at him in the parking lot.