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Show Dean named to U.S. lobbj for social work education meeting, Secretary Richardson discussed primarily efforts to integrate in-tegrate social work services in order to remove duplication and waste there. Integrating Services The integrating of social work services would be divided into two main parts. The first part would be to train the social worker so that he will be able to handle all three of the types of social work, the case, group and community worker. The secretary also discussed dis-cussed with the committee the advantages of integrate work with other omi. , such as law, medicine, d , and nursing. ; Dr. Skidmore cited the :r ' expand the number o(: i social workers. This andi' i for more competent p: work witli the problers i creasing social senices.SK: . lation and social problem' juvenile delinquency, fc. and crime, will require graduates from social : cation. Dr. Rex A. Skidmore, dean of the Graduate School of Social Work, has been named a member of the Deans' Liaison Committee with Federal Agencies, a lobby of the Council on Social Work Education. Edu-cation. This committee has the purpose of maintaining and increasing in-creasing federal support needed to improve and expand social work education. The duties of the Deans' Liaison Liai-son Committee, said Dr. Skidmore, Skid-more, are "to keep tuned in to . what's going on in Washington D.C." concerning social education. Communicate Social Work Needs He said the committee would also "help key leaders in the capitol city to understand what the needs of social work are" and it would "help maintain training grants for social work organizations, organi-zations, such as OEO, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Office of Education and the Family Assistance Plan." The nine members of the Liaison Liai-son Committee meet three times with Elliot Richardson, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary, this year. The first of their meetings meet-ings took place Jan. 18. In that |