{"id":666,"date":"2021-04-13T16:01:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T16:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/?p=666"},"modified":"2021-05-13T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T16:07:11","slug":"russ-uhing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/2021\/04\/13\/russ-uhing\/","title":{"rendered":"Russ Uhing \u2014 School Social Work Association of Nebraska Friend of School Social Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Friend of School Social Work award honors a professional or volunteer in Nebraska who has made a significant impact supporting the field of school social work, specifically in the areas of family and children\u2019s services, education, community support\/outreach and advocacy. The School Social Work Association of Nebraska is dedicated to promoting the profession of School Social Work and the professional development of school social workers in order to enhance the educational experience of students and their families.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The School Social Work Association of Nebraska has honored Lincoln Public Schools Director of Student Services Russ Uhing with its Friend of School Social Work award.<\/p>

Here\u2019s what LPS school social workers Whitney Brown and Carrie Erks said in their nomination letter for both Uhing and LPS Supervisor of Counseling and School Social Work Brenda Leggiadro, who also won the award:<\/p>

\u201cUnder their leadership, the number of school social workers in our district has doubled. They have advanced many of our ideas through their advocacy, planning, collaboration with district administrators and community stakeholders as well as their search to secure funding for these ideas. These efforts include the district\u2019s adoption of a social emotional learning curriculum, increasing the district\u2019s expertise in the area of substance use screening, referral and coordination of treatment via the adding of a school social worker specifically for this purpose, and adding a school social worker to the district\u2019s threat assessment team. Under their leadership, social workers have been charged with increasing services provided to students who have experienced trauma through the facilitation of trauma therapy groups and trauma walkthroughs in each building within the district.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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That the Lincoln Board of Education adopt the following resolution:\u00a0<\/p>

WHEREAS, Russ Uhing understands the importance of school social workers; and<\/p>

WHEREAS,; Russ Uhing has been a strong advocate for the increased role of school social workers; and<\/p>

WHEREAS, Russ Uhing has a deep appreciation for the impact that school social workers can have on students and families; and<\/p>

WHEREAS, Russ Uhing has earned the respect and admiration of colleagues;<\/p>

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Lincoln Board of Education<\/p>

does hereby congratulate Russ Uhing for winning the Friend of School Social Work award from the School Social Work Association of Nebraska.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Background The Friend of School Social Work award honors a professional or volunteer in Nebraska who has made a significant impact supporting the field of school social work, specifically in the areas of family and children\u2019s services, education, community support\/outreach and advocacy. The School Social Work Association of Nebraska is dedicated to promoting the profession […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resolutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}