University of Alabama social worker interns to help prisoners prepare for …
al.com (blog)
BIRMINGHAM – A pilot project in which University of Alabama social worker interns will visit Alabama prisons to help inmates get ready for their release is among the programs the North Alabama Reentry Council will discuss at a Tuesday meeting, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.

Social work student wins MLK service award
Downtown Devil
Social work senior Megan Salisbury won the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Service Leadership Award for her volunteer work. She she was overwhelmed when she heard she had won.

Holiday Networking Tips [Video]
The Wall Street Journal
The holidays provide ample opportunities for advisers to network with prospects. Here are a few tips on how to do so successfully.

Guidance from Wyndmoor social worker – She matches aging parents with ‘elder …
Chestnut Hill Local (blog)
After working for over 20 years as a social worker, Wyndmoor resident Wendy Liebling saw a need to help families find resources for their aging parents and disabled relatives, so two years ago she founded Liebling Elder Care. Liebling, whose last position was as an ombudsman for the Montgomery County Office of Aging, finds her new role “very rewarding when it works.

Social work ‘should be transforming mental health’
Communitycare.co.uk
The mental health group of the British Association of Social Workers is right to warn of the dangers of separating social work from NHS managed integrated mental health services. Service users and families rarely benefit from multiple assessments and transitions between services. We must focus on making integrated services and systems work better. We need to build the voice of social work within integrated services rather than dismantling hard-won interdisciplinary and interagency arrangements.

Frontline social workers in Gaza: ‘We want only peace’
The Guardian
I asked Mohammed what resources he wanted. “We only want peace. I want to live in peace. I want everybody to live in peace. “When the bombing stops, we will rebuild. There are so many people who will need social work to overcome their grief and loss and we will have a lot of work to do.”