Job Skills
To be a family social worker, you’ll need to be trustworthy, stable, and mature to deal calmly and responsibly with people and families in crisis. You should be able to work independently or as a team member, and to get along with a variety of people.

Income
In 2008, the median annual salary for child, family, and school workers was $39,530. The median earnings of the lowest 10 percent of workers were $25,870, and the top 10 percent’s median earnings were $66,430. The highest numbers of child, school, and family social workers were employed by elementary and secondary schools (mean annual salary $56,570) and local government agencies (mean annual salary $48,440).

Training and Education
There are three levels of social work training and education: the bachelor’s degree in social work (BSW), the master’s degree (MSW), and the doctorate (DSW or PhD).
• BSW. To be a family social worker, you’ll need at least a BSW, which requires at least 400 hours of supervised fieldwork in addition to 4 years of classroom courses.
• MSW. You’ll need an MSW to work in health settings or to do clinical or private work. An MSW takes about 2 years of classes beyond your BSW and requires at least 900 hours of supervised internship.
• DSW or PhD. To teach social work in a college or university, you’ll need a DSW or PhD in social work. A DSW of PhD also allows you conduct research into problems or questions relating to family social work.
All states have license, certificate, or registration requirements, although requirements vary from state to state. As of 2006, there were 458 BSW and 181 MSW programs in the U.S. accredited by the Council on Social Work Education. There were also 74 doctoral programs accredited by the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education.

Employment
Child, school, and family social workers held about 282,000 jobs in 2006.

Job Outlook
Between 2006 and 2016, the number of jobs for child, school, and family social workers is predicted to increase by 19 percent, which is higher than the average growth for all jobs. Your opportunities will be greatest in rural areas, where it’s often difficult to attract and retain qualified social workers. Social workers who specialize in helping those with disabilities or want to work in public schools may have the best employment opportunities.
With the right education and certification, you can become a supervisor, manage a program, or direct a family social work agency or department.

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Nursing World

There mottos is “Caring for Those Who Care” and they mean it. This web site belongs to the American Nurses Association. They represent more than 3 million nurses, and are actively seeking to purse the best interests of all nurses. There’s lot of information that covers a broad spectrum of issue when it comes to nursing, and there are lots of resources as well.

Nurse.com

This web site belongs to the Gannett Healthcare Group. The site is a gold mine of information that ranges from regional news, events, education and nursing specialties all the way to finding a job in the nursing field. They’re a community of professionals whose aim is to enrich the lives of nurse, and celebrate the unique contributions they make to society. Check out the community area of the site that includes a blog where you can glean eons of knowledge from.

School Nurse News

Thinking about becoming a school nurse? Even if you aren’t, this is an excellent site to learn what it’s like to serve children, and adolescents. You can bet that at one point or another you will be caring for people in these age groups. Check out this site, and read about the experiences of a host of nurses who have cared for children and young adults in a school setting. Whether you’re planning on working in a school or not, there’s lots of good information when it comes to hands-on caring for these young ones.

Student Aid

Embarking on a nursing career can be costly. For some students it can seem almost impossible for them to become a nurse because of the cost involved with the schooling. Student Aid is a site where you can find all sorts of information on financial aid from the federal government. Don’t let money, or rather the lack of it, prevent you from perusing your dreams.

Medi-Smart

This site is packed with all sorts of different information and resources that any nursing student can benefit from. Find out about nursing degrees, check out the blog, learn about the different types of nurses, check out nursing school by state, or ask a nurse anything you want. This is an excellent web site.

ERNursey

If you want to know what it will be like to work in an emergency room after you become a nurse, then check out this blog that details the experiences of nurses in the emergency room setting. Gain valuable insight into a piece of the nursing world that almost every nurse will surely experience.

With many American military servicemen residing in Japan to help rebuild the country, unwanted pregnancies between American men and Japanese women were not unusual. However, racially mixed children, particularly of American decent, were viewed as shameful. A culture of shame created an extraordinary influence on Japanese society to marginalize these orphans.
Miki Sawada, having the Japanese Zaibatsu (Big Business Conglomerates) family background (Mitsubishi), used her accumulated resources to provide a safe home for the orphans. She would trade her clothes to obtain food and lost much sleep in order to change countless diapers. Sawada received the Elizabeth Blackwell Award for her outstanding dedication to humanity in 1960.

Ambassador’s Wife
At age 20, Sawada married a Japanese ambassador and converted to Christianity (her husband was Christian). She traveled to several foreign countries with her husband where she met influential people who would affect her later life. One of them was Josephine Baker, an African American entertainer and political activist, who later adopted a dozen orphans from a mixture of racial backgrounds; Baker later adopted two of Sawada’s children. Sawada also befriended a French painter, Marie Laurencin, and an American Nobel Prize novelist, Pearl Buck, who took care of several orphans.

Sawada’s Mission
The war had caused countless families to face death of their love ones, Sawada also had lost one of her youngest sons in the war.
By 1947, her children already being grown adults, her life takes a turn towards a mission she dedicated the rest of her life to. A coincidental incident has changed her life forever – she was accused of abandoning a racially mixed infant on a train; the curly-haired infant was found dead.

Instead of feeling relieved that she was able to prove her innocence, Sawada felt strong mission to save as many innocent lives as she could. Soon after that she convinced herself that it was her mission to raise these children. Many Japanese and Americans viewed her negatively. Some said that it was going to be just a fickle activity by a woman from a wealthy family. However, Sawada kept taking on child after child; she was determined to become a mother to them all. Sawada became a mother for a total of two thousand children

Establishment of Elizabeth Thunders Home
Since the Japanese government was not supportive of Sawada, she used her own resources and solicited for donations overseas. Due to Zaibatsu kaitai (order to dissolve Zaibatsu under the U.S. command), her father was not able to offer her full support. However, in 1948, she was able to gather enough support to buy back one of the family properties and was able to build a school for the orphans. She named the school, “Elizabeth Thunder’s Home”, which was named after a British woman who was the first significant donor for the school.

Moving to Brazil
Sawada spent all her time trying to nurture and protect children from the harsh realities of prejudice in society. However, she realized that as her children grew older, that Japanese society would not accept them as member of society when they matured to adults. Moreover, after leaving her home, some of them would get into trouble and Sawada was often asked to pick them up from police custody.
Realizing that the obstacles her children would face seem indefinite in Japan, she decided to purchase land in Brazil and went with her children to establish a farm and independence. While some had rebelled against her and left, others stayed. Without much success, the farm was finally shut down after 16 years.

Sawada’s Death in Spain
Sawada had always tried to make sure that she remained available to support her children even after they left her home; she kept in contact with as many of them as possible. Although she started out as the mother for the children, she faced many separations as many were adopted out overseas. Sawada often traveled outside Japan to see her children, and dedicated herself to continue her social work for children’s’ welfare.

At age 78, Sawada suffered a heart attack while visiting Spain, and left her legacy behind as a mother of two thousand children.
Look up and Keep Walking

Sawada had often encouraged her children to “look up and keep walking”. She was not only kind but also strict towards her children because she thought it was important for them to be strong to stand against social prejudice. One of her children who was interviewed after her death commented that he was not angry at his birth parents because after all, it was his responsibility to keep walking on his own, regardless of his birth parents. Not all Sawada’s children led a stereotypical happy life, however, they were blessed enough to have Sawada in their life telling them to be proud and keep walking.

It’s a difficult challenge, and one few of us might face in a lifetime. Yet the referral and assessment team in Coventry gets around 40 calls every day about children reported to be at risk. Each one needs to be explored and evaluated, and a decision taken about whether to intervene. Strangely, many of the calls prove to be malicious hoaxes.

But to find out, the social workers must go to a house of strangers likely to be most unhappy about being visited with a view to losing their children. That house, as we saw, may be beyond most people’s imaginations – such as one where an anonymous fax reported faeces smeared on the window. The social workers found the children were playing with it in their catastrophic bedroom. Yet the hapless mother agreed she could not cope, and the social workers eventually persuaded the grandmother to house the children temporarily. Removal into care was not needed – yet.

We went behind the screaming headlines to see how social workers cope with the pressures – the huge caseloads, the paperwork that keeps them office-bound, the lack of staff to whom to pass on emergency cases. It means, as both social workers and clients told us, that only visiting some families once a month means the truth is easy to conceal. All this risk management is in the shadow of hostile media that spread paranoia through the ranks.

And yet many of them are proud of what they do. When they recognised that we play straight with difficult subjects, several councils agreed to let us film. We chose Coventry because of its commitment to openness, tested in many challenging meetings. We came to admire how well it manages, despite the shortcomings. As one of the social workers said, “I don’t know how long people can go on working like this. There’s no lull. It’s just 100mph all the time.” She loves her job, as others we met obviously do, but as she said: “You just would not do this job if you thought about what could actually happen.”

She means another Baby Peter case. Even the supervisors are aware it could happen to any of them. A child dies at the hands of an adult – not a social worker – in their home every six days. That is the national scandal. And we ask these underpaid, unsung people to deal with it as best they can. It’s an emotional and professional marathon. They deserve much more than simple opprobrium when things go wrong.