{"id":1418,"date":"2022-04-06T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2022-04-06T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:01:10","slug":"wsu-in-the-news-social-worker-finds-niche-in-rochester-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/blog\/wsu-in-the-news-social-worker-finds-niche-in-rochester-library\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU in the News: Social Worker Finds Niche in Rochester Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1419\" style=\"width: 809px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1419\" class=\"wp-image-1419\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2022\/04\/Roch-Library-blog-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"532\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Tracy Wescott \/ Post-Bulletin<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8220;[Rochester Public Library staff] are all about connecting people to information and resources. They have kind of gotten some on-the-job training for themselves in connecting people to social services, but they recognized there was a service gap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Allison Carpenter, a Guiding Partners to Solutions (GPS) Social Worker.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Social worker Allison Carpenter sees her work as a natural extension of what was already being done by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rplmn.org\/\">Rochester Public Library<\/a> staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a growing need that they weren\u2019t quite able to fill themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postbulletin.com\/\">Rochester Post-Bulletin<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postbulletin.com\/randy-petersen\">Randy Peterson<\/a> took some time to talk with Carpenter about her career and the work she&#8217;s been doing in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter joined the library team in January through a new partnership between the library and <a href=\"https:\/\/familyservicerochester.org\/\">Family Service Rochester<\/a>. She works for the nonprofit service agency, but is funded by a grant initiated by the library.<\/p>\n<p>The Rochester native and Winona State University grad works 25 to 30 hours a week from the library&#8217;s second-floor wellness corner in an effort to connect a variety of library visitors to a broad range of county-based and community-based programs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postbulletin.com\/news\/local\/social-worker-finds-niche-in-rochester-library?fbclid=IwAR3cOXiauofdqqmxdWCPRzuYA4DXh7JRiplb55SVnfTLhUJxFkNyw4EifAE\">Read the full story in the Rochester Post-Bulletin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rplmn.org\/services\/more-services\/wellness-corner\">Learn more about social worker services at the Rochester Public Library<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/blog\/student-volunteers-and-the-rochester-public-library\/\">Learn more about collaboration between Winona State University and the Rochester Public Library<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partnership between Rochester Public Library and Family Services Rochester provides new community access to social services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":305,"featured_media":1419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2022\/04\/Roch-Library-blog-header.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/rochester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}