Ramapo College rally sheds light on needs of social workers
NorthJersey.com
Assemblywoman Connie Wagner, D-Paramus, and Kendra Hayes, from the New Jersey chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, also attended and spoke.

Ramapo students rally for bill to aid social work field
NorthJersey.com
BY ALLISON PRIES A rally to bring attention to the needs of the social work industry was held Thursday at Ramapo College. Five senior social work majors have undertaken a policy advocacy project to bring attention to the Social Work Reinvestment Act.

Editorial: Baylor’s admirable reach to help ailing soldiers
Baylor University The Lariat Online
For years, Baylor researchers from the psychology and neuroscience department and the School of Social Work have been working toward a cure for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Family Therapy: Actors give social work students a chance to practice counseling
Montana Kaimin
Ann Davis consoles “Kerri,” played my Myra Nurre, after she stormed out of a family counseling session Friday during Catherine O’Day’s social work class.

A conversation on newsroom
Los Angeles Times
Social workers dealing with abused and neglected children labor at one of society’s most difficult jobs, often facing an array of bad choices from which they must try to choose the least bad.

Southeast Tennessee Conference on Social Welfare Puts Spotlight on Poverty
WDEF News 12
Social workers say the number of families and children living in poverty is sky-rocketing. Thursday more than 150 social welfare professionals gathered for the Southeast Tennessee Conference on Social Welfare and talked about fighting the affects of a bad economy.

Randerson Cares Elder Services expands services to LGBT …
PR Web
“We combine both the perspective of social worker and advocate in order to help our clients maneuver complex systems and obtain the best possible care for an optimal quality of life…”

To protect the children
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is easing out Trish Ploehn from her post as director of the Department of Children and Family Services. That’s a welcome development.

Parricide (Part 2): Is Our Detached Society to Blame?
Huffington Post (blog)
Surrounded by a culture of violence, Jo Eekhoff, a licensed clinical social worker in Belen, NM, where the most recent patricide took place, found herself deeply saddened by the situation.

You Should Know: Gale Golden
BurlingtonFreePress.com
I am a clinical social worker and clinical associate professor of psychiatry. I practice general psychotherapy as well as clinical sexology.

 Ada Deer, Native rights pioneer, to launch Mitchell Museum’s …
TribLocal
Deer is on the National Association of Social Workers Foundation’s roster of “Social Work Pioneers.” She created the first program to provide social work training on reservations and co-founded the Indian Community School in Milwaukee.

Blueprint: Levine honored for his longtime service
Online Athens
He served on the board of directors of the Georgia Gerontology Society, as a member of the National Association of Social Workers, and as a participant in White House Conferences on Aging in 1971, 1981, 1995 and 2005.