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Issue #63, February 14, 2006
EDITOR'S EYE
Dear Social Work Colleagues,
Welcome to Issue #63 of the Social Work E-News. This e-mail newsletter is brought to you by the publisher of THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine, SocialWorker.com, SocialWorkJobBank.com, and other social work publications.
THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER will have a booth in the exhibit hall of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Annual Program Meeting (APM), to be held later this week in Chicago. If you are attending this conference, please stop by booth #311 to visit with our staff and see all the publications and services we offer. I will not be at the conference personally this year, but a representative from our office will be there!
Today is Valentine's Day, a holiday that is associated with "the heart." This is also Heart Month, Cardiac Rehabilitation Week, and Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week. And National Women's Heart Day will be observed this Friday. Social workers help people in both their emotional and physical relationships with "the heart" every day.
Black History Month is also celebrated during the month of February. InfoPlease has a comprehensive list of features, quizzes, and resources at http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html . One item of interest is the article on the Tuskegee Experiment (see http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmtuskegee1.html). THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER published an ethics article on this a couple of years ago. Read this article on our Web site at http://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/Ethics/The_Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study_and_Its_Implications_for_the_21st_Century/
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IN THIS ISSUE
Words From Our Sponsors
Features
Job Corner/Current Job Openings
News
On Our Web Site
In Print
Newsletter Necessities
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WORDS FROM OUR SPONSORS
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"Joining Together: Conducting Forensic Investigations on Behalf of the Young Abused Child" is an international conference sponsored by the Canadian Society for the Investigation of Child Abuse, May 3-5, 2006, at the Westin Hotel in Calgary, Alberta. We will be welcoming keynote speakers Stephen Lewis, Christie Blatchford, Dr. Karen Saywitz, Dr. Marcella Mian, Dr. Kathleen Coulborn Faller, Peter Dudding, Richard Klassen, and Honorable Harvey Cenaiko. There are many additional concurrent workshops being offered by experts and researchers from across Canada and the United States in the field of child abuse and forensic investigations. Twelve Category A credits will be awarded to social workers attending the entire conference.
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FEATURES
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Home Teleassistance Service in Lugo Province (Spain)
By Ana Fernandez Sangil, Health and Social Coordinator for a Euxa Servicios Sociosanitarios S.L. in Lugo Province (Spanish Company)
Lugo is a Spanish province located in the northwest of Spain. The population is 91,426 in 2005, of which 23,770 are older than 65 years.
Dealing with the Spanish Goverment survey about disabilities, deficiencies, and health conditions, in Spain there are more than 967,000 people, older than 65 years of age, who have a serious dependence. In Spain, the social services development level, specially in dependence situations, is below the European average. The United Nations, in its population studies, predicts that Spain will have one of the largest elderly populations over the age of 65 by 2050, so the number of dependent people will increase.
Elderly care is assumed by the family in 76.6% of the cases and by the social services in only 2.6%.
The Home Teleassistance Service is a free service to the users because it is subsidized by the Spanish government to the whole nation. In Lugo Province, 1,636 of our users are women and 449 are men.
Home Teleassistance is a permanent home assistance multi-service (24 hours a day, 365 days a year), which provides personal attention for the whole family, the elderly, the disabled, people who live alone, high-risk patients, and so forth. The service acts immediately, at the push of a button, on any type of need or eventuality that may arise in the user's home, mobilizing the human or material resources necessary for dealing with it.
Teleassistance allows us to provide the best possible service for any eventuality, without the user having to lift the telephone receiver, or remember policy numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, and other details.
Via the system, the user can have "hands free" communication with a permanent service centre, by just pressing the portable button and requesting the help they require.
To make the call, users must press the button on a device (the Teleassistance Unit) which they always have on them in the form of a medallion or a watch.
The signal emitted by this device is received by the Teleassistance Unit, which is installed in the user's home and has a very sensitive microphone and a wide range (around 40 metres). The microphone detects and transmits the signal to the Permanent Service Centre.
The call is received and the conversation begins. All of the information necessary for dealing with the situation is displayed on the computer screen: personal details, relatives, doctors, contacts... which makes the professional's job easier. The necessary human or material resources are then mobilized and contact is maintained with the user until the situation is under control.
This way, the user feels safety, quietness, and support rather than fear, loneliness, and social isolation. Another aim of Home Teleassistance is the fact that this service avoids unnecessary hospital admissions, allowing the continuance in the home environment.
Ana Fernandez Sangil studied social work at the University of Santiago de Compostela, completing her studies and getting a degree in 1998. In 2000, she studied to be a Leisure Counsellor to children and teenagers. Since March 2000, she has been the Social and Health Services Coordinator in Lugo Province for Euxa Servicios Sociosanitarios S.L., coordinating two programs for the elderly: Home Teleassistance Service and Home Care Service. She has taught courses dealing with home care service in many towns of Lugo Province and lectured on the Home Teleassistance Service. In September 2005, she and a group of Spanish social workers founded AXETRA, a social work association dealing with elderly needs.
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NATIONAL HEART DEFECT AWARENESS DAY AIMS TO GIVE VALENTINE'S DAY A NEW TAKE ON LOVE
Valentine's Day and hearts are eternally linked. A group of dedicated parents, patients, family members, and friends, along with doctors, nurses, and social workers is hoping an annual "heart" holiday will help them raise awareness about the most common birth defect in the United States--congenital heart defects.
State and local government officials have proclaimed February 7-14, 2006, as "Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week."
Jeanne Imperati of Connecticut, herself the mother of a child with a congenital heart defect, in 1999 conceived the idea for an annual awareness day to reduce childhood deaths and increase funding to support congenital heart defect related causes and cures.
An estimated one in every 100 children born in the United States each year has a malformed heart, making this the most common birth defect. "Few people realize more babies are born with congenital heart defects -- approximately 40,000 -- than with Spina Bifida, Down syndrome, and hearing loss. Yet, heart defects are sometimes overlooked and not routinely diagnosed in newborns."
"An untold number of children and young adults are put at risk each year due to a lack of early screening for heart defects and childhood onset heart disease," said Mona Barmash of Yardley, PA, the founder of the Congenital Heart Information Network (CHIN), which sponsors the national awareness day.
C.H.I.N. (tchin.org) was launched in 1996 as an international non-profit organization that provides reliable information, support services, and resources to families of children with congenital and acquired heart disease, adults with congenital heart defects, and the professionals who work with them. The all-volunteer member-supported organization publishes http://www.tchin.org, which receives thousands of visitors from throughout the world every day.
"Valentine's Day is the perfect time to bring families, health professionals, and local organizations together, and to draw attention to the needs of the congenital heart community," said Barmash, who is the mother of a young adult with complex CHD. "For parents and families of kids and adults with heart defects, February 14th means hope and remembrance."
For more information, visit www.tchin.org/aware, or call (215) 493-3068.
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Gulf Coast Disaster Policy Contest 2006
http://www.statepolicy.org/contest/igcdpc.html
Since the devastation caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf Coast area in 2005, many states are reviewing their preparedness status and developing policies to address future disasters. Influencing State Policy (http://www.statepolicy.org) is sponsoring a new contest for Gulf Coast social work students-- the Gulf Coast Disaster Policy Contest-2006.
Full-time or part-time BSW and MSW social work students and full-time and part-time/adjunct faculty in accredited or in-candidacy social work educational programs in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida are eligible to submit entries.
"The seeds for the contest were planted during the first week of the last semester of my graduate education in September 2005," says Desaray Smith Dione, a December 2005 MSW graduate of Barry University in Miami, FL. "My enrollment in an advanced social welfare policy class coincided with the aftermath of the worst natural and social disaster in our nation's history. My entire school of social work was still breathless, not only from our own experience of Hurricane Katrina, but by what we saw unfolding in New Orleans. On the first day of class, my policy professor, Dr. Linda Cummins, announced that she revised the entire syllabus to focus on FEMA policy as it related to the housing, mental health, and public health needs of the residents of New Orleans before, during, and after the hurricane. She also explained an advocacy component of the course."
As part of the advocacy requirement for the course, Dione read about ISP's existing national policy contest, and then proposed the idea of a Disaster Policy Contest to ISP's chair, Dr. Robert Schneider of Virginia Commonwealth University. By December, the contest rules and FAQ were finalized and posted on the ISP Web site.
Entries should describe a project in which the students are participating or planning to impact disaster legislation, regulations, or policy at the state or local level. The project must benefit a community or a group particularly vulnerable to disaster. Entries should address: 1) the vulnerable community, 2) the purpose of the project, 3) the outcome(s), and 4) the student's professional learning.
Influencing State Policy understands that student projects will be in varying stages of development, implementation, and evaluation because of the nature of this year's hurricane season. No stage of project development will be favored over another in the judging of submissions.
A committee of social work professionals will review all entries and determine the winner. The committee will be composed of social work faculty. The decision of the committee will be final.
Complete contest guidelines can be found online at http://www.statepolicy.org/contest/igcdpc.html and should be read before submitting entries. Entries are to be submitted via e-mail to influencinggulfcoast@yahoo.com. All entries must be received via e-mail by May 5, 2006.
One award of $1,000 and an engraved plaque will be presented to a student as an individual or to a group of students. Group winners will share the award. One award of $500 will be made to the faculty member advising the winning student(s). An awards ceremony will take place during the Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. in June 2006. Unfortunately, ISP cannot pay travel or lodging expenses.
All entries will be featured on the ISP Web site by Fall 2006. The ISP monthly electronic newsletter, UPDATE, will provide a direct link to these entries.
Dione points out the uniqueness of this contest: "Changing policy and legislation seems like such a huge task, but social workers confront big things on a daily basis -- racism, homophobia, bureacracy, poverty -- surely we can talk to a couple of state legislators! Second, the contest requires students to focus on a vulnerable community. Every human being is at risk when a hurricane is headed for their front door, but the elderly, the homeless, undocumented workers, people with mental illness, foster children, people living with HIV, the working poor and transgender women -- just to name a few -- face more complex challenges that can be aggravated by bad or non-existent policy. Third, every student who enters the contest is also a survivor of the 2005 hurricane season."
As part of her commitment to the contest, Desaray Smith Dione has agreed to raise the $1,500 to be awarded to the winners of the contest. The first fundraiser was her 28th birthday party in October. She will be visiting policy classrooms in Louisiana, Texas, and Florida to tell students about the contest.
Readers can send an e-mail to influencinggulfcoast@yahoo.com to find out where to send donations. Dione also suggests that students talk to their professors about creating a fundraising effort for advocacy credit in their policy class, and adds, "Readers can also do their part to convince a Gulf Coast social work student to enter the contest! If a reader knows a Gulf Coast social work student studying outside of his or her home state, let that student know they are eligible to enter, too. If you're a Gulf Coast student of social work, be aware that entries describing projects of all shapes and sizes and in all phases of development are welcome."
Desaray Smith Dione, like many social work students, didn't have much background in social welfare policy or hurricanes. Her experience ranges from direct practice with people living with HIV to work with women facing unplanned pregnancy and gay youth. "Getting my MSW, though, really opened my eyes to the role that policy and research play in our profession," she says.
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JOB CORNER
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Renal Care Group is one of the largest outpatient care providers to patients with acute and chronic kidney diseases. We offer the staff the opportunity to play a more direct role in their patients' lives, working within comfortable, state-of-the-art facilities in 34 states.
We are currently seeking a part time Social Worker to cover our facility in Venice, Florida. Responsibilities include providing direct social service care to patients who have been diagnosed with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Must have MSW from an accredited program and a Florida Social Worker's license. Previous experience preferred. To apply, fax cover letter and resume to Rosa Anderson at (941) 493-0537 or e-mail to randerson@renalcaregroup.com. Questions? Call (941) 493-5969.
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HHS TO MAKE AVAILABLE FEDERAL SURPLUS PROPERTY FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING TO ASSIST THE HOMELESS
HHS Deputy Secretary Alex Azar on January 26 announced that local governments and community groups will soon be able to use federal surplus property for permanent, supportive housing. This housing is to be provided in conjunction with other services that address mental and physical disabilities, substance use problems, and co-occurring mental and substance use disorders of individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness.
The key element to this initiative is the linkage between appropriate supportive health and social services to a stable housing environment, the combination of which can assist homeless individuals and families to achieve increased stability within the community.
"This proposed policy change, once finalized, will go a long way in continuing the administration's compassionate efforts to provide supportive housing for some of our most vulnerable populations," Deputy Secretary Azar said during a plenary session of the U.S. Conference of Mayors 2006 Winter Meeting.
This type of housing is aimed at individuals with mental or physical disabilities or substance use problems requiring health, case management, or other supportive services. Until now, the use of federal surplus property was restricted to homeless shelters or transitional housing for up to, and not exceeding, 24 months.
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act allows HHS to transfer identified federal surplus real estate to eligible non-federal applicants for purposes of homeless assistance. Applicants for federal surplus property identify how they intend to utilize the property based on the needs of their communities.
Until now, eligible programs included emergency shelters, transitional housing, mental and medical health screening facilities, food banks, and job training programs.
The policy change, published January 26 in the Federal Register, will expand the options available to communities. This housing is a service model that links housing and services together, without the 24-month time limit traditionally imposed by the current transitional housing program. Public comments on the notice will be accepted for 30 days.
"This policy change is representative of the President's strong commitment to end chronic homelessness through better and more coordinated community services," said Acting Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Donald Young, M.D.
Current research identifies the effectiveness of supportive housing to end the cycle of homelessness, particularly for individuals with disabilities and those who are chronically homeless. It has been found to reduce the use of costly public health services, such as emergency health care, psychiatric and detoxification programs, and inpatient care.
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OBITUARY: BERNARD M. PLAWSKY
Bernard M. Plawsky, 79, of Harrisburg, PA, passed away on Tuesday, January 17, 2006.
He received a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from City College of New York, a Master's Degree in Sociology from New York University, and a Master's Degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work.
He was the first Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers and served in this position for 10 years. He was influential in securing licensure for social workers in Pennsylvania. He was the Director of Case Management for Children & Family Services in Harrisburg and was the Executive Director of The Rutherford House Senior Center for 11 years until his retirement. He also taught Sociology/Anthropology at Harrisburg Area Community College.
Surviving are his wife Jean Plotkin Plawsky, formerly of Philadelphia; a son, Joel L. Plawsky, and his wife Gail of Albany, New York; a niece, Carol Ann Fitzsimmons, of Georgia; and a nephew, David A. Plawsky, of St. Louis, Missouri. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Cheryl F. Plawsky, and a brother, Seymour Plawsky.
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