Mississippi Valley State University News February 28, 2017 Finland Social Work Educator to Deliver Lecture at MVSU Social workers and social work students will have the opportunity to participate in a lecture from an international teacher in the field. On Monday, March 6, Laura Tiitinen, a social work educator from Finland will be on the Mississippi Valley State campus to deliver a lecture on macro social work practice in her country. The program will be held at 10 a.m. and will be held in Room 103 of the Sutton Administration Building. Tiitinen is a university teacher at the University of Lapland, Finland. As a child her family lived in a farm, in a small village in middle-Finland. She completed her graduate degree in Social Work at University of Lapland, Finland. Before her Social Work degree, she studied tourism and worked for the tourism industry. Laura has been working as a practical social worker at the substance-abuse clinic, youth mental health care center and in the project that helped long term unemployed to find a job. As a professor, Tiitinen teaches University of Lapland, Faculty of social sciences. She has taught courses on structural social work (macro social work), social work practice and use of digital stories in social work. She is also an active lecturer of use of public communication in social work, whistleblowing and media advocacy. In the summer of 2015 she was one of the keynote speakers in the Nordic Social Work Conference in Helsinki. In the U.S., she has given several lectures about the Finnish social welfare system and her research topics. She also visited California State University in Fresno, giving public lectures of child protection failures, as well as Finnish child welfare. Laura has been active in issues regarding social workers freedom of speech and macro social work. She was one of the founders of one of the first Finnish social welfare blogs - The Social Factor. She is also a regular columnist for a national social work union magazine Talentia. SANDRA M. PHOENIX HBCU Library Alliance Executive Director Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library 111 James P. Brawley Drive SW Atlanta, GA 30314 404-978-2118 (office) 404-702-5854 (cell) http://www.hbculibraries.org/ sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org%3cmailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org>> Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ and Twitter https://twitter.com/HBCULibAlliance Check out "PULSE!" The HBCU Library Alliance's News Source! - https://hbculibraryalliance.wordpress.com/