
Tamika D. Williams, ’97 (MSW), details her journey as a social worker across the state.
An emerging draft charter, the Social Work Coalition on NC Workforce Development, has been established with the mission to diversify and expand the mental and behavioral health and child welfare workforce to not only tackle staffing shortages, but also develop more social work education programs and take part in legislative advocacy to bolster the social work system.
More than 500 licensed social workers, parents, advocates and community leaders joined virtually and in person at the Friday Conference Center on March 8, with the shared goal of finding ways to empower individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities as part of the Legacy Speakers Series.
Although Interim Director of Practicum Education Amy Levine first worked with SaySo North Carolina as a social worker for public child welfare in Orange County, it was when she began teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work that the relationship truly began to blossom.