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Social Work Month Event Highlights UNH Interns' Service to the CommunityBy Sharon KeelerUNH News Bureau (603) 862-1566 March 4, 2003 DURHAM, N.H. -- The University of New Hampshire Department of Social Work is planning an event in recognition of March as National Professional Social Work Month. The program to be held at UNH's Gables Community Room Wednesday, March 26, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., will highlight the contribution UNH students make to local communities and nonprofit organizations. During the current 2002-2003 academic year, UNH undergraduate and graduate interns contributed 59,000 hours of unreimbursed services at more than 100 local internship sites, including the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Manchester, FamilyStrengths in Keene and Dover, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, Frisbee Memorial Hospital in Rochester, Council on Senior Citizens in Portsmouth, Seacoast Mental Health Center, N.H. Association for the Blind in Concord, Head Start in Manchester, N.H. Public Defenders Office in Stratham and Timberlane High School. Keynote speakers are David Lynde from the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Charlene Thayer from the Visiting Nurse Association Home & Hospice, and Marci Morris from the N.H. State Division of Children, Youth & Families. Their talks will address this year's national social work theme: The Power of Social Work -- Preserving Rights and Strengthening Voices. The event also will honor 15 local professionals who have volunteered their time to supervise UNH's interns for five years or longer. Refreshments will be prepared by the UNH Department of Social Work faculty. These "culinary treats" will represent the faculty's diverse ethnic and\or geographic backgrounds. Students, faculty, alumni, internship supervisors and representative from the local nonprofit community are expected to attend. For further information contact: Sharyn Zunz, (603) 862-1785, sjz@cisunix.unh.edu.
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