Social Work Helper
Deona Hooper, MSW is Social Worker in the US. She has created an online magazine and professional network at www.socialworkhelper.com helping professionals and students. We have conducted an interview with her: Your website is very impressive and professional. Can you explain how a social worker came to the idea to start such an IT based project? I consider myself to be a geek with social skills. Life experiences stirred me towards social work. Otherwise, I would have been an engineer or systems designer. Social work is how I choose to exercise my civic duty to advocate for the less fortunate. How would you describe the current situation of social workers in the US? What were the biggest challenges that made you to open an online forum for them? I think social workers in the US are facing many of the same issues social workers around the world are facing. Currently, austerity measures threaten the existence of human services in the majority of our most developed...