Pat Myers, LISW, Named Social Worker of the Year
CINCINNATI -- Pat Myers, LISW, director of Social Services at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, has received the 2002 Social Worker of the Year Award from District 6, the Ohio chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
Ms. Myers has been clinical director of social work at Cincinnati Children's since 1977. Under her leadership, the department has grown to include more than 30 professionals who are responsible for social work coverage for families whose children are hospitalized at Cincinnati Children's or who receive care on an outpatient basis.
A nationally recognized expert on child abuse and neglect, Ms. Myers is associate director of the Child Advocacy Center, part of the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children's. The Mayerson Center, established in 2001, aims to enhance the ability of families, organizations, and professionals to provide safe and healthy environments for children, as well as to prevent, identify, and treat child abuse and neglect.
From 1976 to 2001, Ms. Myers was associate director of the Child Abuse Team at Cincinnati Children's which now operates as part of the Child Advocacy Center.
The team is composed of social workers, physicians, nurses, and representatives from public and private child-protection agencies. The team's role is to assure that children who have been abused are identified, reported, and protected.
Ms. Myers has a lengthy history of community service. She currently serves on the Hamilton County Fatality Review Committee, Southwest Ohio Council on Child Abuse Advisory Board, Family Violence Advisory Board, Cincinnati Family Center Advisory Board, and Cincinnati Children's Institutional Review Board.
Ms. Myers also has an extensive history of teaching, having lectured throughout the United States on child abuse. And, in 1985, she was co-author of a seminal study published in Pediatrics that documented the seriousness of head injuries in abuse cases involving infants.
The Social Worker of the Year Award recognizes "personal and professional integration of experience and education to help people." Nominees are considered on the basis of outstanding contributions to the field of social work, risk taking for better social justice/services, enlisting public support for improved social services, and adhering to and representing ideas put forth in the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics.
Contact Information
Jim Feuer, 513-636-4656,
jfeuer@chmcc.org
