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Public interns ask council to fund a full-time licensed social worker at Chattanooga Public Library
Summary
During public comment, a team of social-work interns from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga asked the council to fund a full-time licensed social worker for the Chattanooga Public Library to help clients access housing, medical care, benefits and other services.
During the public comment period at the April city council meeting, Grace Crossett, a social work intern at the Chattanooga Public Library, asked the council to consider adding a full-time licensed social worker to the library’s staff.
Crossett told the council the student interns — three social work interns from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga working at the library — help patrons with housing searches, emergency shelter referrals, assistance applying for benefits, accessing affordable medical care, setting up electronics and applying for…
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