As a social worker, Rosenman wonders how such changes will affect the delivery of services to those in need. Though GWB was an excellent springboard for Rosenman's career, there are differences in the Australian approach to social work. It is focused less upon individual problems and on therapy for individuals and more on the personal as political and the social action approach. Rosenman says GWB prepared her to handle the differences. I think that a social work background is excellent training for senior management in any setting.
Social work is a great background for all-even the last.
A former program officer with the Uganda Red Cross, Ssewamala is now in GWB's doctoral program to study international social and economic development with a focus on microenterprise and asset building. AIDS is ravaging sub-Saharan Africa. Sitting by while the disease desecrated her homeland was notan option for Theresa Kaijage, M.S.W. '85, of Tanzania. My goal was to create a model for peer involvement, and I've done that. She found her biggest obstacle to be challenging the attitude that AIDS prevention is an effort separate from providing care and support.