Remembering Esther Williams: medical social worker at Harrisburg Hospital
PennLive.com
Esther L. Williams worked as a medical social worker at Harrisburg Hospital for more than 20 years. In addition, she also taught at Shippensburg University, Penn State Harrisburg and provided counseling services for Tressler Lutheran Social Services.

May proclaimed Foster Care Month – Greene County Democrat
Greene County Democrat
DHR staff not pictured are: Eula Morton, Supervisor; Carmesha Gibson, Social Worker; Latonya Wooley, Social Worker. According to the Greene County Department of Human Resources, there are currently 11 children in foster care in the custody of DHR.

Sarah Elizabeth Hancock, UM student
Baltimore Sun
Sarah Elizabeth Hancock, an effervescent and outgoing college junior whose lifelong ambition was to become a social worker so she could help others, was remembered Thursday by family and friends as a thoughtful and caring individual.

Rachel Lloyd, Tina Brown and Leymah Gbowee Honored at The New York …
Huffington Post
A lot has happened since 2008 when a Sunday night premiere screening and dinner co-hosted by Gloria Steinem honored Leymah Gbowee, a charismatic social worker turned activist who, in the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell, tells her compelling story about how women banded together to protest violence in Liberia, set their hideous dictator Charles Taylor on a journey of exile, to be put on trial for war crimes, and enabled a democratically elected woman to govern their country.

New generation of American Indians challenges Redskins – USA Today
USA TODAY
Blackhorse is Navajo and a psychiatric social worker and the named plaintiff in Blackhorse et al v. Pro-Football Inc., a federal suit in which a group of five American Indians seek to strip the federal trademark rights from the football team Snyder owns.

Cruise Control: Understanding Sex Addiction In Gay Men
EDGEOnTheNet
Social worker Robert Weiss brings the issue to light in a helpful guide, “Cruise Control: Understanding Sex Addiction in Gay Men.” He not only offers insight into sex addiction in gay men but also helps provide treatment options.

Scathing Social Services report prompts retirement, resignation
wtvr.com
The industry standard for the appropriate number of active cases one social worker should have ranges between 10 and 12 cases a month. At DSS on average social workers were managing four times that amount. Each social worker was managing around forty-six active cases a month.

Sparks of Hope for Preventing WV Teen Pregnancies – Public News Service
Public News Service
Social worker Steve Tuck, chief executive of the Children’s Home Society of West Virginia, said they imported a successful teen pregnancy prevention program from New York and started versions of it in the two West Virginia cities three years ago.

Overcoming Addiction, Professor Tackles Perils American Indians Face
New York Times
His American name is David A. Patterson, his Cherokee name Adelv unegv Waya, or Silver Wolf. He is a tenure-track assistant professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis.

Raffkind: Teen pregnancy is down, but work remains
Amarillo.com
To address these issues, Amarillo College is introducing students to on-line curricula that provide information necessary for avoiding unwanted pregnancies. In addition, Dr. Darla Beaty, Social Work Professor at West Texas A&M, with the support of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Coalition, is in the process of administering a survey to pregnant and parenting teens in order to learn more about the risk factors associated with pregnancy. Results of this survey will, for the first time, provide important local data.