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News Items, May 25, 2010

Karen S. Butler is an active member:
Answering the call
So Md News
By SARA K. TAYLOR There are certain traits a person must have if they are going to become a social worker, be good at it and last.

Victoria Rowell: “I Wish Foster Care Did Not Exist In America”
Celebrity Baby Scoop (blog)
May is Foster Care Awareness Month and we’re shedding light on this important topic with celeb mom Victoria Rowell who grew up in the foster care system.

To fight ‘dropout factories,’ school program starts young
USA Today
Moments later — and armed with a list of 11 chronically absent students — a pair of in-house social workers will climb into a weathered silver Honda Accord and begin driving around the neighborhood, knocking on doors.

8 complete social work program
Variety News Staff
(UOG)– Eight graduate students will be the first to receive their Master of Social Work degrees during the University of Guam’s commencement ceremonies at the UOG Field House which begin at 2 p.m. on May 30.  “This is a collective achievement by the students, the University, the Division of Social Work, and our public and private community partners,” said Gerhard Schwab, professor of Social Work at UOG.

SF library offers social services to homeless
KGO-TV
“It’s open and free to everyone but in some instances when people need help, it’s an opportunity with a social worker to provide that, we feel.”

Bonnie Kohleriter is an active member:
Vista Grande Science Teacher Retires After 22 Years
Patch
She later became executive director of the National Association of Social Workers in Washington DC.
 
Jeannett Takamura is an active member:
Social Work for a Changing World
The Record (Columbia University)
Like many careers viewed in retrospect, Jeanette Takamura’s rise through the social work profession appears to be a straight line, an unbroken trajectory from graduate school to teaching gerontology to state and federal-level jobs and, since 2002, dean of Columbia’s School of Social Work.

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