UNC School of Social Work Alumnus Named State Social Worker of the YearLarry Sharpe, MSW '82, has been named the 2003 Social Worker of the Year by the North Carolina Chapter of the National Association of Social Work (NASW). Sharpe is the Director of Early Intervention & Prevention Services at the Children's Home, Inc. in Winston-Salem, N.C., where he provides LCSW and LMFT supervision, and is one of the few AAMFT Approved Supervisors in the state's child care field. Sharpe also provides field instruction for social work master's students, mentoring for fellow social workers, and has served as an
adjunct professor at the School of Social Work. In his 25 years of practicing social work, Sharpe has developed programs, concepts and trainings that reach the core of treatment
for at-risk families. The Early Intervention and Prevention Program at the Children's Home, Inc. and the concepts of family-centered and community-based
programming that Sharpe has developed there is one of the first in NC and the Southeast. "I have been very fortunate to be a part of a growing focus on the importance of family centered work in the residential field,"
said Sharpe. "It is my hope that we can continue to provide resources to the provision of prevention and early intervention services so families do not
have to be fragmented," he said. Sharpe has been a leader in the early intervention, prevention, and day treatment movements within North Carolina.
His work for clients is the true embodiment of social work practice as he has always seen the client as part of the family, the community, and the society. |
