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Professor of Social Work Dan Meyer has been selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

The AASWSW describes itself as “an honorific society of distinguished scholars and practitioners dedicated to achieving excellence in the field of social work and social welfare through high-impact work that advances social good.” It was established in 2009.

Meyer is the second University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty member to garner selection as an AASWSW Fellow, joining Waisman Center Director Marsha Mailick.

Meyer has been a UW-Madison faculty member since finishing his Ph.D. in Social Welfare at the University in 1990. He has been the Mary C. Jacoby Distinguished Professor of Social Work since 2009.

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Congratulations to Jenny Braunginn, field instructor for the Part-Time M.S.W. Program's Child, Youth, and Family Wwelfare field unit. Braunginn has been chosen to receive the Dane County Department of Human Services (DHCS)-Joining Forces for Families "2012 Jesse Sprague Social Worker of the Year" award next month at the annual Joining Forces for Families event.

This award was created in memory of Jesse Sprague, a former DCHS social worker, and "acknowledges outstanding leadership and compassion for social work in community settings".  We are so proud of Jenny and feel very fortunate to have her teaching in our School of Social Work!

After 24 years working with families facing the end of a loved one's life, Kevin Corrado now works with them after a death.

Corrado was a clinical social worker in hospitals for 30 years, 24 of them in the Trauma and Life Support Center at UW Hospital. There, he helped people who had a family member facing death, or who had suffered traumatic injuries or a suicide attempt.

"My job was to help families navigate the system and coordinate a family meeting," Corrado said.

He also would advocate for the patient even though often the patient was too ill to interact with him. His advocacy included ensuring patients had power of attorney and knew their rights as a patient, and help ahead of their release from the hospital....

Read the full article from the Wisconsin State Journal.