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  Social Work Month 2011
  Social Workers Change Futures - Targeted outreach and promotional ideas, including tips for securing endorsements, hosting events, publishing articles and marketing your private practice.

  Social Work Month 2010
  Social Workers Inspire Community Action - Visual guides to three social work public education websites, profiles of inspiring social workers, and tips for promoting the profession.

  Social Work Month 2009
  Social Work: Purpose and Possibility - Information and tools for social work student recruitment, sample consumer radio PSAs, and specific tips for working with the media.

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Media Coverage and Depictions

	Margaret Humphreys Hopes Film will Educate Public, Inspire Social Workers
	Executive Producer: Social Worker Character has Vital Role on “Touch”
	Actor Blair Underwood to Pitch TV Show on Foster Kids, Social Workers
	Exclusive: Interview with Author Sapphire
	Video: NASW Member Talks to “Precious” Director Lee Daniels!
	Irena Sendler Documentary Heartrending but Shows Heroism of Social Workers
	Film on Aged Out Foster Children Completed
	“Law and Order” Actress Says Social Workers Unsung Heroes

Troubled system works, and three kids get a new dad
Los Angeles Times 5/8/10
For two years, social workers from the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services guided the family toward stability. Social workers arranged counseling, helped transfer the children to smaller schools and assisted in moving the family from a Panorama City enclave so dangerous, caseworkers were scared to park on visits.

More refugees en route to Grand Forks
Grand Forks Herald 8/12/10 (subscription)
Dupper, who holds a master's degree in social work, previously worked with refugee programs in Alaska and Colorado. She said the office had to scramble this spring and early summer but will be fully staffed by the start of the new fiscal year in October.

'Economic Control' Up 40 Percent As Local Domestic Violence Cause
Falls Church News Press 9/22/10
Eighty percent of domestic violence victims using the Women’s Center in Vienna are now citing “financial changes” during as a key issue between them and their abuser, a number that's risen from 40 percent in the last 18 months, said Women's Center Psychotherapist Susan Folwell, LCSW.

Batterer program seeks to change abusers' thinking
Newton Kansan 10/1/10
However, only about 5 percent of the offenders who are court ordered to participate in the program have a diagnosable mental illness, program director and licensed clinical social worker Evelyn Stabler said.

Social workers are doing their part for reform
LATimes.com 11/25/10
As a result, social workers are now part of three high-level project teams convened by the CEO office and meeting weekly. We are working together to reform the emergency response system, streamline and improve policies and address training.

Taking up for children
Laurel Leader Call 4/9/11
Rosie Donaldson, area social worker supervisor for the local Department of Human Services, said it's important to spread awareness about the issue of child abuse. “Parents cannot treat their children as personal property as they did in the '70s,” she said. “We now have laws that protect children against abuse.”

The Innocent Victims of the Recession
MyFox Phoenix 4/12/11
"We are seeing a higher number of children that have more severity in their injuries," says Nicole Schuren, a hospital social worker. "I think that the children suffered paid the price for that," says Dr. Jennifer Geyer. And they're sometimes paying with their lives.

Governor Extols State Partnership with IU School of Social Work
IUPUI Newscenter
The Indiana University School of Social Work and the Indiana Department of Child Services have created an extraordinary partnership with incalculable benefits in the life and death mission of protecting the state’s most vulnerable children, Gov. Mitch Daniels said at the IUPUI Spirit of Philanthropy ceremony on Tuesday.

Foster Care Gets an Overhaul
Wall Street Journal 6/9/11
On the heels of hiring about 50 social workers and opening a new community center last month, Alameda is preparing a job-placement program for some of its foster-care kids who have become too old for the system. The new program is part of an expansion that began in 2007 when the county started to overhaul the operation by questioning established ways foster care operates.