Social Work Day to involve two states
Alums to sponsor social welfare project
Social workers, social agency heads, faculty and alumni of the Social Welfare School at KU are gathering May 4 for the Social Work Day at KU.
Social Work Day is a traditional project of the alumni of the school with the purpose of pulling together people from Kansas and part of Missouri that are involved in social welfare, whether they be workers, faculty or heads of welfare offices, said Larry Brown assistant professor of Social Welfare.
This year the day consists of a workshop in "inter-communication."
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Brown said there are four basic areas of social work being brought together at the meeting. Each contain different ideas on what the priorities and goals of social welfare should be.
The School of Social Welfare, which was started in 1947, trains students professionally in social work. The instruction of a social worker includes one-half class work and one-half work in the field.
Because there are not enough agencies in Lawrence to offer field positions to the social welfare students, they are scattered across the state and into Missouri. They work at such places as the KU Med Center, Topeka State Mental Hospital, the Men-
ninger Foundation, family service centers and the state welfare departments.
Between some of the students and the heads of agencies there has been a difference of opinion as to the organization of social work. Students are saying that the social agencies are a "band-aid" on society's ills and radical changes are needed. The agencies, on the other hand, are afraid to change too rapidly.
The faculty at the school has had almost a complete turnover in the last few years, Brown said. Most of the members are new to this region and the agencies are questioning whether the students are radical because of the faculty.
The alumni of the school are questioning what is going on in their school, Brown said. They want to keep up with the changes in social welfare and wonder about the changes they hear about, he added.
The gathering, Brown said, will get these people together. What they will probably do, he said, is have each group formulate a list of priorities of what they think is most important in social work and then discuss why each group chose different objectives, if they are different.
One of the moderators of the workshop is to be Merril Raber, an associate at the National Training Laboratory and director of the Community Service
at Prairie View Mental Health Center, Newton, Kansas.
The other moderator is Dr. Dean Kerkman, a clinical psychologist at the KU Health Center.
It is hoped that this workshop will bring the several areas of social work in this region together on their goals and priorities, Brown said.
1969 WEATHER
HONG KONG (UPI)—The weather in Hong Kong in 1969 was warmer, sunnier and drier than usual. The year's rainfall of 74.63 inches was 13 per cent less than normal.
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