$5 Million Will Put Social Work Interns into Schools in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties
Humboldt State University gate [photo from CalState.edu]
A pair of new grants from the U.S. Department of Education will bring nearly $5 million to Humboldt and Del Norte county schools to train and place Humboldt State Master of Social Work (MSW) students as school social work interns to support youth mental health.
Eureka City Schools and Del Norte County Unified School District will be the direct recipients of the U.S. Department of Education Mental Health Service Professional Development Program funds. They partnered with Humboldt State to write the two mirrored grants.
Local youth experience disproportionate physical and mental health outcomes due to higher than average rates of poverty, substance abuse, and homelessness, that can negatively impact the learning environment. With the new grant local schools hope to continue building support for the community’s most vulnerable students through the training and preparation of school social workers.
Over the next five years, the grants will bring in over $1,000,000 to the University. Yvonne Doble, Director of Field Education at HSU’s Department of Social Work, explains that the majority of the funds received by the Department of Social Work will go towards $10,000-$13,000 stipends to MSW students to complete their required field work in local schools during their advanced year of studies.
A long-term goal of the grant is to have graduates of HSU’s MSW program prepared to apply for their Social Work Pupil Personnel Services Credential and qualified to provide mental health services within the region’s local school systems for years to come.
“With the grant funding, we are excited about the positive impact this grant will have on the socio-emotional well-being of our students through the placement of MSW student interns from HSU,” explains Michael Davies-Hughes, the Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services at Eureka City Schools.
Northern Humboldt Union High School District Grants Administrator Jack Bareilles explains that the need for mental health professionals and social workers in local public schools is significant. “Currently, the ratio of social workers to students is around 1:9,000,” says Bareilles. “This grant will allow us to develop a pool of social workers who are specially trained to work in our public schools.”
In Del Norte County, District Grants Administrator Steve Godla explains, “We have schools that will really benefit from trained on-site social workers.”
HSU’s Department of Social Work anticipates that eight MSW students will receive a stipend in the fall of 2020 with an increase to 13 students by 2023. Students will be selected to receive a stipend based on their commitment to supporting mental health and well-being for local elementary and high school students as their identified career goal.
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Maybe this is the path forward, by no means poetic.
Children once had parents, but now everybody works for money, family is being phased out, and social workers are stepping in.
Yes, social workers are helpful in the fact that they connect need to service, but I still miss the discordant poetry of family structure.
Not all families are healthy and not all needs are met, I get that.
Social workers, hmm, meaning and connectivity.
A growing field for sure, in a world of strangers.
You’re right. Everyone works for money whereas one parent used to be able to support an entire family, even with a pretty average labor job. More social workers=more taxes=more work to pay for “free” government programs. Those very same students will then be indoctrinated by government paid employees (teachers) to believe that government is good (imagine that) and can solve society’s problems with free shit (stuff paid for w taxes). Those student’s will graduate with worthless degrees, depressed that they can’t find a job, and so stupid that they blame capitalism for the problems that socialism created. They will dig their own grave deeper and vote Bernie. Point any of this out and you will be labeled a racist/Nazi because said student never learned how to properly debate in 4 years of college. We are doomed. Liberalism is a mental disorder. Unfortunately the social workers will be liberal too (imagine that).
https://budgetbook.heritage.org/eight-charts-show-growth-government/
Maybe not really such a choice if parents are not able already, no matter for what reasons, this may mean a chance for a small percentage of children. Probably of the same families whose general resistance to common sense makes them already the clients of government systems. At least like school lunches, it stands some chance of reaching a child before their parents screw it up.
Unfortunately, this will go the way of the school nurse if schools no longer have subsidized social workers. And I imagine it will have a pretty high burn out rate. It’s will be a dump off place for some teachers who see problems but haven’t the resources to fix them. I imagine it may even be used as tool to shunt troublemakers away. At least the students from the college will get a real life education is ways the University could never do. Good luck to them all.
The real ‘social justice warriors’.
Fret not. Eventually spiritual healing will take the place of indoctrinations that promote people learning to not only heal themselves but those around them. The education system, imo, needs to teach students how to get a job and essentially help to support the economy starting with family values. The values which they seek to repair via this initiative.
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