The effects of the oil spill on human health
Atlanta Journal Constitution
“We know that public health nurses, doctors and social workers are strapped for resources under normal circumstances. The current manpower is simply not up to the task.”

Rutgers professor studies ‘economic abuse’ as tactic to control women in relationship
myCentralJersy.com
The study by Postmus, conducted with Sara Plummer, an instructor at the Rutgers University School of Social Work, measured the success of the foundation’s curriculum.

NJ pays $70K to settle Ancora Psychiatric Hospital worker’s lawsuit alleging …
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
Social worker, Frances Vadas, 50, of Tuckerton, was suspended from her job in June 2009 and the state began proceedings to fire her, the report said, citing New Jersey officials who declined to identify the reason for the suspension.

In Gulf oil disaster, cameras can’t capture the human toll
CNN.com
It is the emotional and social toll on individuals, the price families may pay and how communities are bound to suffer if residents don’t take care of each other.

Boy hanged self after visit from LA County workers
Mohave Valley News
But the social worker who visited him with police officers did not have all of that information. “This was a very difficult case, and we’re still trying to determine what happened,” Supervisor Gloria Molina said.

9 of the 10 worst states for children are Southern Republican states
Examiner.com
Southern Republican states are 9 of the 10 worst states for childhood well-being, according to The Annie E. Casey Foundation recently released 2010 Kids Count Data Book.

Anti-gay EMU social-work student loses appeal
Detroit Free Press
BY DAVID ASHENFELTER Lawyers for a national religious liberty group said they plan to appeal a federal judge’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a former Eastern Michigan University graduate student who said she was kicked out of a master’s program because she refused on religious grounds to counsel a homosexual client.

Open A World Of Opportunities With a Degree In Social Work
Online PR News (press release)
SocialWorkPrograms.org was designed to support those who are seeking a social work career and want to learn more about the education programs as well as continuing education requirements, courses plus gain insights into mental health issues.

Mental health coverage progresses
Chicago Tribune
“Getting people help will make the workplace a better environment,” said Chet Taranowski, employee assistance coordinator at Aon Corp. in Chicago.

Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?
The New Yorker — Atul Gawande on hospice care
Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions—and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on improving the days that terminal patients have left.

Social work class gives back
Central Florida Future
It’s one thing for a social work professor to lecture students on the importance of helping those stricken with poverty. It’s another thing entirely for a professor to actually provide students with some real-life experience assisting the less fortunate.

Gulf spill aftermath: ‘It was mayhem’
Seattle Post Intelligencer
A social worker was handing out 20 food vouchers, each worth $100 for a week of groceries. It wasn’t nearly enough to support the crowd of Vietnamese commercial fishermen, who’d been forced to stop work as millions of barrels of oil poisoned the Gulf of Mexico.

‘Housing first,’ help that lasts
Chicago Tribune
“A lot of what we do is just old-fashioned Jane Addams social work,” she said, citing the pioneering 19th century social services advocate.