Social Workers Speak » Boston http://www.socialworkersspeak.org NASW Communications Network - Social Workers speak out on television, movies and other media Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:07:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 NASW Member Named to Presidential AIDS Council http://www.socialworkersspeak.org/media/nasw-member-named-to-presidential-aids-council.html http://www.socialworkersspeak.org/media/nasw-member-named-to-presidential-aids-council.html#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:01:21 +0000 GWright http://www.socialworkersspeak.org/?p=2074 National Association of Social Workers member Douglas Brooks has been named to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.

Brooks, who is vice president of the Justice Resource Institute in Boston, is a well known activist who has been HIV positive for 20 years. As a member of the council Brooks will give President Obama advice and recomendations to reduce the HIV infection rate and increase access to care.

Click here to read the full Boston Globe article on Brooks.

To learn more about how social workers help people living with HIV/AIDS click here to visit NASW’s “Help Starts Here” HIV/AIDS Web page.

]]> http://www.socialworkersspeak.org/media/nasw-member-named-to-presidential-aids-council.html/feed 0 Social Work Scenes Cut From “Amelia” DVD http://www.socialworkersspeak.org/hollywood-connection/social-work-scenes-cut-from-amelia-dvd.html http://www.socialworkersspeak.org/hollywood-connection/social-work-scenes-cut-from-amelia-dvd.html#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:21:58 +0000 GWright http://www.socialworkersspeak.org/?p=2055 Before she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, trailblazing aviator Amelia Earhart was a social worker at Boston’s Denison House.

The 2009 movie “Amelia” starring Hilary Swank included some scenes depicting Earhart’s social work career. But those scenes were deleted from the DVD version released this month, according to this item on the Hollywood Oubreak Web site and this movie review in the California Chronicle.

All the deleted scenes, including the social worker ones, make the DVD version appear “chopped up,” the review in the California Chronicle said.

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