News & Events for March 2004

For people interested in learning more about our MSW program and how to apply, please join us for one of the upcoming MSW Information Sessions:

Davie Campus - February 17 - 7 to 9 p.m. Room ES 121

Jupiter Campus - February 24 - 7 to 9 p.m. Room LB 272

Boca Campus - March 20 - 10 a.m. to Noon Room SO 207

For further information contact MSW Coordinator Dr. Woody Hamlin at ehamlin@fau.edu . Thank you.

Hello Fellow NASW members,
Our next meeting will feature our very own Meena Rao as the speaker.

PLACE: Sunrise Atrium of Boca Raton
                 1080 NW 15th Street
Directions: Glades Road. Go east. Pass FAU on the left.  On the right is 10th Ave. On 10th Ave, make a right. The road  curves around becoming 15th Street. Follow the road.  Sunrise Atrium is on the left.
DATE: Monday, March 15, 2004   6 -8 pm
DINNER: Provided by Sunrise Atrium
SPEAKER: Meena Rao, LCSW
TOPIC: The Changing Face of the Immigrant Family: Implications  for Social Work
1 CEU will be provided
RSVP: EveJoh10@aol.com

See you all then,

Evelyn Bohm, Chair
South Palm Beach NASW Sub-Unit

Congratulations to Dr. E. Ryan, Dr. M. Hawkins, Dr. W. Hawkins, and Dr. M. Parker on their most recent publication - Perceptions of Access to U.S. Health Care of Haitian Immigrants in South Florida: A Qualitative Study. Florida Public Health Review. (In Press).

Congratulations to Debra Lacey on her most recent publication, a very interesting critique of language used by professional Alzheimer's care providers:

Lacey, D. (May/June, 2004). Life-sustaining treatment and tube-feeding in advanced Alzheimer's: When language misleads. American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias.