Tag: Deona Hooper

Some believe Social Work has everything to do with Politics, and some believe social workers should focus on our clients. ...

Independence Day is a day we celebrate being free from tyranny, oppression, and persecution. It's a day we celebrate a ...

Recently, I wrote an article entitled, The Top 5 Reasons Social Work is Failing, which has become one of the ...

Current news events seem to be rife with stories relevant to social work while continuing to highlight our lack of ...

A recent decision sanctioning a social worker for a comment on Facebook by the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC), a United ...

One thing that students and current working social workers are familiar with is the NASW, which has a huge influence over ...

by Deona Hooper, MSW (From left) the Revs. Marti Scott, Chuck Dauhm, Michael Shanahan and C.J. Hawking line up (risking ...

A protester holds a sign at San Francisco International Airport during a demonstration to denounce President Donald Trump’s executive order ...

This past weekend, I had the honor and privilege to attend the 50th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington ...

by Deona Hooper, MSW We all have seen by now the organizing ability of teachers in the Chicago Public School ...

by Deona Hooper, MSW During the 2012 election, I remember riding in my middle class neighborhood seeing all the Mitt ...

by Deona Hooper, MSW Courtesy of ABC News Many people were shocked and appalled when Juror B37 from the George ...

by Deona Hooper, MSW Today, President Obama gave an impromptu speech on his thoughts regarding the George Zimmerman trial and ...

by Deona Hooper, MSW Multi-Millionaire and art collector, Charles Saatchi announced he is filing for divorce after a tabloid newspaper ...

Hollywood actress and celebrity Kiera Knightley, recently released a video called Cut where she is drawing attention to the dangers ...

by Deona Hooper, MSW The latest edition of the Association of Community Organizing and Social Administration (ACOSA) Journal of Community ...

In the wake of austerity, there appears to be a resurgence of a social work movement to address the increasing ...

By Deona Hooper, MSW Memorial Day Weekend has morphed into many meanings over the years. For some, it's the time ...

Angelina Jolie Mega star actress, Angelina Jolie,  sent shock waves through the media when her op-ed disclosing a double mastectomy ...

By Deona Hooper, MSW I had no intentions of doing any writing today, but I came across a video in ...