Social workers help those in need

Who do you consider to have strength? Every individual, family and community has strengths that help them face life's difficulties.

Everyone can use help overcoming challenges and that's why many turn to a social worker. Social workers help identify, harness and build upon strengths and abilities to overcome challenges.

At Fox Valley Volunteer Hospice, our social workers assist families in dealing with life threatening illnesses and death, coping with grief and providing connections between the areas from which people draw their strength -- home, health, family, friends and community. Each challenge brings the opportunity for social workers to help families and communities to understand their strengths and to use them to overcome obstacles.

Through individual bereavement support, family counseling and support groups covering an array of losses, our social workers exemplify compassion. Throughout the year and during National Social Work Month, our social workers encourage individuals, families and communities to focus on the strengths and resources they have to solve problems and to achieve their goals. This year's Social Work Month theme -- "Building on Strengths: Help Starts Here" -- highlights the unique education and training of our valued staff.

For more information on support provided by Fox Valley Volunteer Hospice, please visit www.FVVH.org.

Greg Weider

Executive Director

Fox Valley Volunteer Hospice

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