Message from the Chair
Greetings Social Work Section Colleagues,
I hope this newsletter finds you well and that you had an enjoyable summer.
As summer turns to fall it is time to focus on the Annual Meeting, which begins in just a few short weeks. I hope many of you will be able to attend the Annual Meeting in San Diego starting on Oct. 26. As always, there is a full agenda of sessions and activities scheduled. It’s not too late to encourage students and colleagues to join you at the Annual Meeting.
This edition of the Social Work Section Newsletter has a number of announcements related to the Annual Meeting including the schedule of scientific sessions and business meetings. All business meetings are open to the Section’s members, and I encourage everyone to attend and become involved in our Section activities.
Please make special note of the following activities and check out more detailed information in this newsletter about….
· Meet and Greet Our first business meeting on Sunday evening (Oct. 26, 4:30 p.m.) will be devoted to re-connecting with and meeting Section members. Food and beverages will be provided — and a cash bar available. I hope to see you all there!
· The Insley-Evans Social Worker of the Year — Ed Saunders. I hope many of you will be able to attend the Award ceremony and reception to congratulate Ed on Monday evening (Oct. 27) at 6:30 p.m.
· Information/announcements about our Section’s booth at the Annual Meeting.
· The first edition of our new Social Work Section brochure (thanks to Jarmin Yeh for leading this effort!) will be available at the Annual Meeting.
At the Business Meetings on Monday and Tuesday mornings we will be assessing the direction of the Section, reviewing the Section’s mission statement, developing a plan for the coming year and getting updates from our Governing Councilors (featured below) about APHA issues and activities and APHA officer candidates. If you have items you would like to have added to the business meeting agendas, please send them to me at: jeanne-saunders@uiowa.edu.
I look forward to seeing you in San Diego.
Jeanne
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Please Join Us at the Social Work Sessions at Annual Meeting
Sunday, Oct. 26
4:00-5:30 p.m.
282.0 Reception and networking meeting
Monday, Oct. 27
6:30-8:00 a.m.
310.0 Business Meeting
8:30-10:00 a.m.
3066.0 Social Work Advocacy in Public Health
12:30-2:00 p.m.
3252.0 Invited Session: Public Health Social Work in an Asian and African Country
2:30-3:30 p.m.
3284.0 Social Work Poster Session
4:30-6:00 p.m.
3433.0 160 years in the Spirit of 1848: a critical celebration
6:30-8:00 p.m.
336.0 Social Hour and The Insley-Evans Public Social Worker of the Year Award
Tuesday, Oct. 28
7:00-8:00 a.m.
410.0 Business Meeting
12:30-2:00 p.m.
4216.0 Global Politics and International Social Work
4:30-6:00 p.m.
4381.0 Immigrant Health and Health Access for Undocumented Individuals
Wednesday, Oct. 29
8:30-10:00 a.m.
5085.0 New Challenges in Educating Public Health Social Workers
12:30-2:00 p.m.
5193.0 Kinship Care/Relative Caregivers
Click here for a PDF version of this list.
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A Message from the Booth Director
Colleagues,
It’s once again time to think about what you will be bringing for the Social Work Section booth at APHA in San Diego. We encourage you to bring brochures about your educational programs, your agency brochures, or other materials of interest to other social workers or public health professionals interested in public health social work. We have ordered some nice note-stands as a “give away” — with printed APHA Social Work Section identifier — and will have a brochure about the Section to share with interested folks. We will also have a brochure to give away with information about our Section business meetings and scientific sections at the conference, plus our award reception. As usual, we will have a sign-up list at the business meetings in hopes that we can staff the booth as much as possible during times when we are not attending sessions/events. It’s often a nice opportunity to meet colleagues as they stop at the booth, plus we have garnered some new members for the Section by talking with them about the benefits of becoming a Section member. 
It’s been many years since I first began “staffing” the booth — when, as chair of the Section, I had a new banner made for the booth and began bringing it and taking it back home every year. It pretty much guarantees I’m going to show up for APHA — after all, I have the banner! — and it’s always a pleasure meeting old friends and making new friends. I hope to see you at the booth!
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at edward-saunders@uiowa.edu<