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Mary Anne Poe, Department Chair
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Spring 2008 | Summer 2008 | Fall 2008
Winter 2009 (tentative)


Department of Social Work
 
Social Work is about helping people-children, families, older adults, and whole communities. The social work program prepares students for entry level professional positions in a diversity of public and private settings, including child advocacy and welfare, children and youth counseling, school social work, medical social work, church social work, missions, foster care and adoptions, geriatric social work, and mental health. The program prepares students to empower people, particularly those who are vulnerable, to achieve a better "fit" with their world and to help the world to be more responsive to the needs of people. The program emphasizes the importance of a liberal arts foundation and of Christian and social work values that promote social and economic justice. (READ MORE)
 
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Rhonda Hudson presented her research entitled, “Adult romantic attachment, perceived HIV stigma, shame-proneness, psychological distress and disclosure responses among HIV-seropositive urban-dwelling African American women” at the 19th Annual symposium of Doctoral Research in Social Work at Ohio State University on April 21.
 
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Union announces new MSW director
3/14/08 - Union University has named Janet E. Furness as the director of its new Master of Social Work program, which will begin in the fall of 2008 and is now accepting applications.  Furness is currently the MSW program director at Roberts Wesleyan University in Rochester, N.Y.  “We are not just e... - (READ MORE)

 
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11/5/07 - Lori Nolen (foreground), assistant professor of art, and Kay Montgomery (center), social work's DCS project coordinator, survey the progress of Miller Tower constructed of cans.  These cans will later be given to R.I.F.A. - Kristi McMurry
11/5/07 - Lori Nolen (foreground), assistant professor of art, and Kay Montgomery (center), social work's DCS project coordinator, survey the progress of Miller Tower constructed of cans. These cans will later be given to R.I.F.A. (ID: 9055) - Kristi McMurry
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5/19/07 - Social Work graduates Elisabeth Berry and Leah Booth file onto the Great Lawn for the spring 2007 graduation. - Morris Abernathy
5/19/07 - Social Work graduates Elisabeth Berry and Leah Booth file onto the Great Lawn for the spring 2007 graduation. (ID: 7379) - Morris Abernathy
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4/30/07 - Junior Social Work Majors Julie Mitchel and Amanda Pennington pose in front of their poster presentation entitled <em>Monsters in the Bed, Not Under It: Fighting Child Sex Servitude in Tennessee</em> at the 2007 Scholarship Symposium. - Morris Abernathy
4/30/07 - Junior Social Work Majors Julie Mitchel and Amanda Pennington pose in front of their poster presentation entitled Monsters in the Bed, Not Under It: Fighting Child Sex Servitude in Tennessee at the 2007 Scholarship Symposium. (ID: 7414) - Morris Abernathy
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