July 16, 2008
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Blagojevich Vetoes $1.4 Billion in Budget from the Chicago Tribune Gov. Rod Blagojevich unilaterally cut $1.4 billion from Illinois' new state budget — including hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for social services, education and health care — because the Legislature has failed to approve enough revenue to cover those expenses. More Please Call your Illinois State Representative and Illinois State Senator to Override Governor Blagojevich’s Vetoes from the NASW IL NASW IL Chapter members are urged to contact their representatives and senators to urge them to override the Governor Rod Blagojevich’s line item vetoes and reductions in the FY09 State of Illinois Budget. These vetoes and reductions which will have a tremendous adverse impact on communities and citizens throughout Illinois. More Australia, NASW IL International Delegation from the NASW IL I recently returned from a visit to Melbourne, Australia. Despite the local Aussies struggling to understand my Chicago accented English, it is always fascinating to be outside of the United States to hear the perceptions of American culture, politics and society. More New State Law Addresses End-Of-Life Care in Emergencies from the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle In New York, a new state law helps ensure that a person’s end-of-life wishes will be followed by paramedics and other emergency responders at home, in a nursing home or other non-hospital setting. More Mass. Governor Signs Law Aimed at Improving Child Welfare from the Boston Globe Gov. Deval Patrick says that when it comes time to assess the effectiveness of a new child welfare law, he hopes no news will be good news. That's because horrific child abuse cases make the headlines, but not the thousands more that are handled successfully. More Some Therapists Say Face Tme is Essential from the Evanston Review Some skeptics of on-line therapy point to the primacy of face-to-face interaction in the psychotherapeutic process. Daniel M. Potter, a Skokie licensed clinical social worker, said that he favored on-line therapy only when the client had absolutely no other way of getting access to help. More Hallucinogen Test is Praised from the Baltimore Sun More than a year after they took the hallucinogen found in "magic mushrooms," volunteers in a Johns Hopkins study rated the experience as one of the most meaningful and spiritually important of their lives, researchers reported. The results suggest that hallucinogenic compounds, long considered taboo after widespread abuse in the late 1960s, represent both an untapped resource to help people cope with trauma, and a scientific tool for exploring human spirituality, the authors said. More	Upcoming Events NASWIL International Activities Event (River Forest: 8/1/08) Ethics Workshop (Chicago: 8/22/08) LSW/LCSW Review Course (Urbana/Champaign: 9/18/08) Statewide Symposium (Urbana Champaign: 9/19/08) LSW/LCSW Review Course (Chicago: 9/26/08) Ethics Workshop (Chicago: 10/10/08)

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