More than n thin! of the public assistance ease workers, two-thirds of the child welfare workers, and almost one-half of the director-workers In the. Vir ginia public welfare program have had graduate training in octal work, a recent, survey by the Social Security Administra tion reveals. Workers In local welfare de partments in Virginia stand high in the nation in amount of edu cation. More than twice as many Virginia case workers have had graduate social wotk training than have those m the nation as a whole In the United States, only 14 per cent of the public assistance workers have had any graduate study, the survey re vealed. Only three states Colorado. Utah and North Carolina—and Hawaii and the District of Co lumbia have highei percentages of workers with a year or more of graduate work, the study showed.

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