Retiring New Haven social worker helped transform lives
New Haven Register (subscription)
In her 35 years of service, she has been a licensed clinical social worker, a community activist, and an alderwoman in New Haven. Born in Puerto Rico, Rodriguez has 12 siblings and came here when she was a teenager with the dream of helping others.

Suzette Martinez Standring: Adoption’s rarely revealed wounds
Lincoln Courier
Yet there are unspoken wounds for adoptees, adoptive parents and birth mothers, according to Joe Soll, LCSW, DAPA, who is a New York psychotherapist and adoption expert with more than 25 years experience.

Postpartum psychosis can be tragic when untreated
Denver Post
Postpartum depression is caused by dramatic hormonal changes after childbirth sometimes compounded by a personal or family history of depression or anxiety, said Joan Getz-Heller, a licensed clinical social worker in Denver.