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THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER® Social Work E-News
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Issue #31, June 25, 2003
EDITOR'S EYE

Dear Social Work Colleagues,

Welcome to Issue #31 of the Social Work E-News. This e-mail newsletter is brought to you by the publisher of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine and other social work publications.

Congratulations to all new social work graduates! We have come to the end of another academic year, and I wish all those who have recently graduated the best in your new career.

According to the GradSchools.com Web site, social work is "in"! It was the third most searched subject on that site for the months of January through March, and has had the most significant increase in interest of any profession. The site measured the popularity of various fields by how often they were searched by prospective students during the first quarter of 2003.

Over 1,000 social work job seekers have posted their confidential resumes on our SocialWorkJobBank.com site since we upgraded it at the end of April! The site receives new job listings frequently. If you are a job seeker (new graduate or experienced professional) or a social work employer, please visit the site and see all it has to offer you. If you have a job search story to share, consider writing an article for the site's career center section.

Until next time,
Linda Grobman, ACSW, LSW
Publisher/Editor
THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER®
http://www.socialworker.com
linda.grobman@paonline.com


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IN THIS ISSUE
A Word From Our Sponsor
News
On Our Web Site
In Print
Job Corner
Special Offers for Social Work Employers
Newsletter Necessities

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NEWS

Currents Journal Seeking Writers

Currents (http://fsw.ucalgary.ca/currents) is an online journal committed to the efficient dissemination of new scholarship in the human services, making fresh approaches and innovative ideas freely available. Currents has a special (though not exclusive) interest in providing opportunities to graduate students (and the recently graduated) to see their work published in a peer-reviewed journal without the time lag that is common with more traditional print media.

Currents is well on its way to becoming a place where the innovative work being done in graduate schools can be published and discussed. If you work with graduate students who are doing exemplary work, take a moment to tell them about Currents, and encourage them to start writing.

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NASW Supports Supreme Court Decisions on Affirmative Action

June 23, 2003, Washington, DC-The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) supports the Court's rulings on the University of Michigan's affirmative action admissions policies. NASW and four other social work organizations supported the University of Michigan's positions on affirmative action without endorsing any particular path to the goal of student diversity.

"The Court's decision adopts a position that is fair to applicants, but works to enlarge the pool of applicants for consideration without assigning a specific weight to racial factors. This is consistent with social work values and commitment to advocacy on behalf of historically oppressed people," says Terry Mizrahi, PhD, president of NASW. "The Association is pleased with the Court's clarification that student body diversity is a compelling government interest," she adds.

Social workers have long supported affirmative action as a means of addressing discrimination still prevalent in today's society. While progress has been made as a result of civil rights action and legislation, discriminatory habits, customs, and attitudes do not change easily. Opportunities in education, employment, and housing remain hampered. Affirmative action plans and policies continue to be needed in a variety of contexts to assist women and historically disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups. The intent of affirmative action-to lessen the impact of past discrimination and ensure inclusion in present day opportunities-continues to be a high priority for social workers.

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Uplifting Hearts Open Mike & Light Refreshments-June 29

Social Work E-News reader Sally Rae Rogers invites you to Uplifting Hearts Open Mike night at the Boston Connection Conference Center, 679/681 Main St., near the corner of Main & Moody Streets in Waltham, Massachusetts. Listeners are also welcome. Do you have an uplifting story, song, or poem to share? There will be refreshments and open mike, followed by a short break & video of Prem Rawat speaking about inner peace. Sunday, June 29, 4 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. Storytellers: please limit to 8 minutes maximum. Musicians: one song please. Suggested donation is $6.00.

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P.O.V 's 16th Season Profiles Human Dimensions of Global Issues

P.O.V. (a cinematic term for "point of view") is the award-winning PBS series that brings powerful, thought-provoking and at times controversial independent point-of-view films to a wide national audience. P.O.V. series this year mounts one of its most ambitious and emotionally powerful seasons yet. From villages in Cambodia, Guatemala, the Sudan, and Mexico, to towns and cities across America, P.O.V. 2003 gives dramatic testimony to the global ties that bind human experience in the 21st Century. The series also offers uncommon profiles in courage and imagination in the face of historical tragedy and contemporary injustice. To maximize the impact of P.O.V. programs, Community Engagement and Youth Views outreach campaigns are designed to build audiences, inspire civic dialogue and when possible, foster sustained partnerships and community involvement around issues raised in the programs.

A few examples of the upcoming films are listed below. Check your public TV listings or go to http://www.pbs.org/pov/ for a complete listing of the P.O.V. series and accompanying activities.

The films:

Larry v. Lockney, by Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck
Broadcast: July 1, 2003 at 10:00 on PBS (check local listings)
On, July 1, in time for Independence Day, meet Larry Tannahill. Out of 2,000 residents in the West Texas town of Lockney, he's the only one against the school board's new mandatory drug testing policy. Larry, a third-generation farmer, believes the testing is a violation of his son's Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches. He sues to overturn the policy, forming an unlikely alliance with the American Civil Liberties Union. In the battle over rights, Larry makes headlines around the country, loses his job, and his family receives threats. Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck's Larry v. Lockney dramatically reveals the price of democracy in a small Texas town, when one man stands against the majority. An Independent Television Service (ITVS) co-presentation. Produced in association with KERA.

Discovering Dominga, by Patricia Flynn with Mary Jo McConahay
Broadcast: July 8, 2003 at 10:00 on PBS (check local listings)
When 27-year-old Iowa housewife Denese Becker decides to return to the Guatemalan village where she was born, she begins a journey toward finding her roots, but one filled with harrowing revelations. Denese, born Dominga, was nine when she became her family's sole survivor of a massacre of Maya peasants. Two years later, she was adopted by an American family. In Discovering Dominga, Denese's journey home is both a voyage of self-discovery and a political awakening, bearing searing testimony to a hemispheric tragedy and a shameful political crime. Produced in Association with KQED. An Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) co-presentation. An Active Voice Selection.

The Flute Player, by Jocelyn Glatzer
Broadcast: July 22, 2003 at 10:00 on PBS (check local listings)
Arn Chorn-Pond was only a boy when the brutal Khmer Rouge regime overran Cambodia and turned his country into a ghastly land of "killing fields." While most of Arn's family, and 90% of the country's musicians, were killed, Arn was kept alive to play propaganda songs on the flute for his captors. Now, after living in the U.S. for 20 years, The Flute Player follows Arn's journey back to Cambodia as he seeks out surviving "master musicians" and faces the dark shadows of his war-torn past. An extraordinary story of survival, the film is a testament to one man's ability to transcend tragedy. An Independent Television Service (ITVS) and a National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA) co-presentation.

West 47th Street, by Bill Lichtenstein and June Peoples
Broadcast: August 19, 2003 at 10:00 on PBS (check local listings)
Mental illness is a topic rife with stereotypes and misunderstanding. Made with depth and compassion, West 47th Street is an intimate cinéma vérité portrait of four people struggling to recover from serious mental illness. They've all come to Fountain House, a renowned rehabilitation center in New York City's Hell's Kitchen. Over three years, the film follows its subjects as they deal with drug regimens, health issues, group homes and work programs with courage and humor. Epic in scope, West 47th Street offers an unprecedented window onto the lives of people who are often feared and ignored, but seldom understood. An Active Voice Selection and a PBS Program Club Selection.

Family Fundamentals, by Arthur Dong
Broadcast: August 26, 2003 at 10:00 on PBS (check local listings)
Family Fundamentals is the filmmaker's personal attempt to answer an explosive question: "What happens when conservative Christian families have children who are homosexual?" Armed with a digital camera, Dong takes viewers into the private and public lives of three families where parents actively campaign against gay civil rights, despite having gay offspring themselves. A search for common ground between seemingly diametrically opposed camps, Family Fundamentals is also a battlefield report from America's profound and disquieting culture war over homosexuality.


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ATTENTION EMPLOYERS AND JOB SEEKERS: THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER opened its newly-upgraded version of the online job board and career center at http://www.socialworkjobbank.com on April 30. For details, see http://www.socialworkjobbank.com or contact linda.grobman@paonline.com . Both new grads and experienced social work practitioners are included in our ever-growing candidate profile bank, which now includes over 1,000 confidential profiles/resumes of social work job seekers! SocialWorkJobBank.com is easy to use and affordable for employers, too. All job seeker services are FREE.

SPECIAL OFFER FOR EMPLOYERS: "GRAND OPENING" specials are available for employers who would like to place job listings on the site. The first special is two (2) job postings for the price of one-$75 for two (2) job postings. The second is UNLIMITED job postings for 90 days for $399. Both specials are still available, but only until July 15!

If you or your agency are hiring social workers, take advantage of these offers before they expire. If you know of other agencies that are seeking qualified professional social workers, feel free to pass this offer along to them.

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