Japanese visitors discuss social work partnership

Two professors and 10 social work and physical therapy students from Niigata University of Health and Welfare in Japan visited Fresno State’s Department of Social Work Education.

Escorted by Dr. Debra Harris, the social work students also visited several Fresno-area social service venues: the new Juvenile Justice Campus, Valley Adult Day Health Care Center, Community Medical Center and San Joaquin Valley Rehabilitation. Fresno County Supervisor Susan Anderson provided information to the group prior to the visit to the Juvenile Justice Campus. 
The physical therapy students spent time also at Pacific Gardens Nursing and Rehab Center and at Community Medical Center’s Outpatient Sport and Rehab Center in addition the all the other venues except the Juvenile Justice Campus. Those visits were coordinated by Dr. Marilyn Miller.

The group also discussed with Dr. E. Jane Middleton, the Fresno State department chair, the possibility of a partnership with Fresno State in research and scholarship.

Several students from Japan who are majoring in Social Work at Fresno State joined the group.