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News Items – April 25, 2014

Appalachia-articleLarge50 Years Into the War on Poverty, Hardship Hits Back
The New York Times
Another group, the West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition, is working to create a home visitation service to teach new parents the skills of child-rearing. Sabrina Shrader, the former neighbor of Marie Bolden in Twin Branch, has spoken on behalf of the group to the State Legislature and appeared before a United States Senate committee last year. Ms. Shrader, who spent part of her youth in a battered women’s shelter with her mother, earned a college degree in social work. “It’s important we care about places like this,” she said. “There are kids and families who want to succeed. They want life to be better, but they don’t know how.”

Social workers are respectful of gay rights
The Columbus Dispatch
In reply to Donald Hodgson’s April 12 letter, “Same-sex marriage poses problems,” the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Ohio chapter would like to clarify that the retired social worker’s perspective on same-sex marriage is not the stance of NASW nor is it representative of the whole of licensed social workers in the state of Ohio. Throughout the association’s long history, it always has been a priority to establish and protect the equal rights of all people, without regard to sexual orientation.

UTSA social work students help homeless women gain control of their lives
UTSAToday
Graduate students in the UTSA College of Public Policy Department of Social Work are facilitating a series of events to empower former homeless women as part of a semester-long service-learning project, Positive Development: Reframing the Future. The events are organized in cooperation with Haven for Hope and the Center for Health Care Services (CHCS).

New study shows majority of Knoxville’s homeless suffer mental disorder
Local8Now.com [WVLT]
Most of us have a safe place to call home, but a new study shows more 1,500 in Knox County are homeless and most of them are battling mental illness. “There are approximately 9,000 different individuals that will be homeless sometime during the year. if we broke that down on any given month, the number would be closer to 1900 during a month’s time,” Dr. Roger Nooe of UT’s College of Social Work. Dr. Nooe headed up a study released Tuesday by the Knoxville Coalition for the Homeless.

Student-debt forgiveness plans skyrocket
MSNMoney
Dorie Nolt, a spokeswoman for Education Secretary Arne Duncan, said the proposals are meant to ensure the “neediest borrowers” benefit and to protect the program from “institutional practices that may further increase student indebtedness.” Supporters of the forgiveness program say it is working largely as designed. “Given the increasing cost of college, the need to borrow money to cover tuition payments can price students out of socially important but historically low-paying jobs, like teaching and social work,” said Rep. George Miller of California, the senior Democrat on the House education committee.

Getting social workers out of the closet
Social Work Helper
License or no license, we know that many social workers are “hiding” in non-clinical environments where it doesn’t seem much social work is happening in places like Congress, the World Bank and federal agencies such as the departments of Labor, Housing, Education and Health and Human Services (HHS). In many of these settings, social workers operate under cover. They often do not identify themselves as social workers and they have little or no connection to professional social work organizations. Yet, they are trained social workers with a B.S.W, a M.S.W., or a Ph.D. from an accredited social work school, but you would never know.

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