In the Field - News & Events
2009 Field Instructor Reception
Field Instructor of the Year Nominees
2009 MSW Field Instructor of the Year Award nominees included (from left) Nancie McAnaugh, Department of Health and Senior Services; Carmen Vroman and Lori Spry, Harry S Truman Memorial Veteran’s Hospital; Kathy Payne, University Hospital; Julie Nance, Children’s Division. Also nominated and not pictured are Angie Azzanni, Shannon Einspahr, Candace Hawkes and Mary Kay Kreider.
2009 Field Instructor of the Year - Julie Nance
Suzanne Cary (pictured on the left), Director of Field Education, presenting Julie Nance (pictured on the right) with the 2009 Field Instructor of the Year Award.
Phi Alpha Fundraising Event-Housing and Urban Development-Veterans Affairs Supported Housing
Phi Alpha, the University of Missouri social work honor society, held a fundraiser in April at Wal-Mart to gather supplies for Veterans served by the local Housing and Urban Development/Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD/VASH) Program. The HUD/VASH program allows homeless Veterans the opportunity to secure long-term, independent housing. It was established nationally in 1992 to help stop the cycle of chronic homelessness for Veterans and their families and has been available to Veterans served by the Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital in Columbia since 2008.
Funding for HUD/VASH comes from collaboration between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans receive intensive case management services designed to resolve current homelessness and prevent future episodes of homelessness. In addition, Veterans receive access to a housing choice voucher, which can subsidize housing rental costs. Eligible Veterans must be homeless and have the ability to live independently.
Over the three-day event, twenty members of Phi Alpha helped raise $4,000 worth of supplies and cash donations from the community. Wal-Mart shoppers were asked to add an additional item to their cart and donate it on the way out of the store. Many donors supported the effort with bags of supplies and words of encouragement. The donated products and money will be used to assist the 35 local Veterans that currently have HUD/VASH housing vouchers. Sarah Froese LCSW, program director at Truman VA and alumnae of the MU School of Social Work, hopes that Columbia will receive additional vouchers and begin to house even more homeless Veterans.