Sherry Saturno gets fellowship at NYU School of Social Work
Times Herald-Record
TARRYTOWN — Sherry Saturno of Goshen has been awarded the national Social Work Leadership in Palliative and End of Life Care Fellowship at New York University Silver School of Social Work. Saturno, who is a New York program director for Beacon Health Strategies in Tarrytown, will be researching health-care solutions and services for the elderly and chronically ill through 2015. She is a Stanford University Certified Project Manager and holds master’s degrees from Columbia and Long Island Universities.

Prof named to state board of Volunteers of America
Pocono Record
Margaret Rapp, M.S.W., Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Social Work at Misericordia University, has been elected to the Volunteers of America of Pennsylvania board of directors. Rapp will serve on the Volunteers of America’s development and marketing committee.

Klamath County mental health clients, employees watch and wait for outcome
Herald and News
Stan Gilbert, executive director of Klamath Youth Development Center, and Chris Eddy, licensed clinical social worker with Phoenix Place, the county’s only respite and residential mental health care facility, provide a tour of the facility. In July, Phoenix Place residents were threatened with being removed from the facility during a transition of mental health care from the County to KYDC control.

Therapist aids abused children with recovery
Houston Chronicle
Ana Dlouhy loves languages and helping others, so it’s really no surprise that she became a bilingual registered play therapist. For the past three years, the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work graduate has worked with children at Child Advocates of Fort Bend County, a nonprofit organization that advocates on behalf of abused and neglected children.

[Audio] Neighbors in Action: Teens aging out of foster care face many challenges
WKAR
Tamra Johnson, St. Vincent’s community relations and marketing director, and Dr. John Seita, a professor in Michigan State University’s Department of Social Work and a former foster care child, talked with Current State about aging out of foster care in Michigan.

Diane W. Mufson: Public needs to support CPS workers
Huntington Herald Dispatch
My understanding and appreciation of CPS workers grew during my three decades of psychology practice here in Huntington. CPS workers often have training as social workers but they find that CPS work is far from theoretical social work.

The Social Work Reinvestment Act is Waiting on Social Workers
Social Justice Solutions
I would venture to say most social workers have little or no knowledge about the Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young Social Work Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1466) that has been sitting dormant in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce since it was reintroduced April 10 this year by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, the chair of the Congressional Social Work Caucus.  A companion bill, S.997, was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland.  Both Lee and Mikulski are social workers.