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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.

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Media Coverage and Depictions

	Where are Social Workers on Medical TV Shows?
	Filmmaker, TV Producer, Director Ted Bogosian Aims Lens on Social Work
	TV to Watch: Cancer Care Adviser Kathy Gurland to Appear on Lifetime TV
	Cancer Group to Interview Creator of “The Big C”
	Shay Sorrells of “The Biggest Loser” Answers Social Workers’ Questions!
	Social Work Team Pitches Women’s Health Stories in Hollywood

Community Nurse and Hospice Care reaches out to grieving children
Advocate 2/11/2010
Jennifer Marszalek, MSW, LICSW and Bereavement Coordinator at Community Nurse and Hospice Care, explains, "The death of a loved one is a difficult loss for ...

Post-discharge care is key at top 100 US hospitals
Reuters 3/29/2010
In an effort to help patients cope after discharge, 681-bed Rush launched a pilot project in 2007 in which social workers followed up via telephone with ...

Program provides hospice care for sick ND children
Jamestown Sun 9/13/2010
Morgan Kolling received weekly visits from a hospice social worker when she was battling terminal brain cancer. The visits, as well as those from nurses and aides, helped provide a respite for the Davenport, N.D., family.

Hospitals struggle to reduce readmissions for chronically ill
St. Louis Post-Dispatch 12/5/2010
Each patient was assigned a case manager, nurse and/or social worker to talk by phone with a discharged patient and help coordinate care.

Hospitals help employees overcome anger, bitterness
Wrangler News 3/5/2011
In her work as director of clinical social work at Chandler Regional and Mercy Gilbert Medical Centers, Lynda Dallyn often sees the way past hurt and disappointment can leave people filled with anger and bitterness.

In the ER, too many familiar faces
Minneapolis Star Tribune 3/24/2011
That's when social worker Liz Keck was hired to work with those frequent visitors, to see if there was a better way to help them. The result was a program called "In-Reach," which helped save more than $282,000 in one year by reducing needless ER visits.

Got Oncology Social Work?
LiveStrong.org 3/30/2011
Oncology Social Work is shrouded in mystery in many cancer treatment centers. I could have neon posters, flyers and brochures promoting Oncology Social Work (OSW) services and they were too easily passed over for the medical information available in a resource room.

For Cancer Patients, Help Navigating the Maze
Wall Street Journal (blog) 8/16/2011
At Presbyterian Healthcare Services in Albuquerque, where four nurses and a social worker comprise the navigation team, Dava Gerard, a breast surgeon and administrator in the cancer program says patient navigation services need to reflect the needs and  concerns of the community, which can vary greatly.