School of Social Work Brings Financial Literacy Concepts to Baltimore Classrooms
UMB News
The University of Maryland School of Social Work (SSW) has given middle-school students at three Baltimore City schools an introduction to financial literacy as part of the School’s Financial Social Work Initiative.

Q&A: Silence the office tattletale
The Republic
Mark Gorkin, a licensed clinical social worker and founder of StressDoc.com, said an employee being pestered by a tattletale can’t be shy about bringing the problem to a manager. But the employee should make it clear that they just want to have an open discussion about what’s happening.

Harrison Youth Council Names New Executive Director
Patch.com
Scott Altabet, LCSW, comes to the Harrison Youth Council with a mission of ensuring that young people have the resources they need to avoid addictions and fulfill their potential.

Please consider a career in social work
Idaho Press-Tribune
There is one profession, in particular, that I’d like high school students to consider and their career counselors to help me promote: social work. Even though Idaho’s governor and legislature are dismantling our state’s social safety net, the profession of social work faces a major shortage and we urgently need to recruit more young leaders to fill the massive need.

University Honors Social Work Dean Barbara W. White
University of Texas School of Social Work
The Tower will be lighted orange Friday evening, August 26,  from 8:30 p.m.-11:30 p.m. in honor of School of Social Work Dean Barbara W. White, who has led the school for 18 years and is completing her deanship this month.

Gay Ugandan refugee finds home in Bay Area
San Jose Mercury News
Dyson, who has changed his last name, in part because his family disowned him, befriended an American social worker from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society while he was living in Kenya. She connected him with Grungras, who encouraged him to move to California.

A woman’s makeup can make a big difference
Kansas City Star
By ERIN HILL PERRY “The message, in general, from the cosmetics industry is that you’ve got to look beautiful, you have to be thin, you have to have this body type and that body type,” says Joyce Pearlman, a clinical social worker and therapist based in Huntington Woods, Mich.

N.C. ranked 12th in stress; y’all calm down
Winston-Salem Journal
Stress can lead to, among other things, depression, hypertension, headaches, muscle aches, marital strife, isolation from friends and job loss, said John Hart, a licensed clinical social worker at Winston Psychiatric Associates.

Interactive: See how long it will take California college graduates to break …
Sacramento Bee
With the exception of drama and social work majors, UC and CSU graduates in every discipline will, on average, recoup their college costs within 20 years, according to a Sacramento Bee analysis of census data. The amount of time it takes to pay off the investment, however, varies greatly by chosen discipline.