{"id":758,"date":"2008-04-23T11:08:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T11:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2008\/04\/23\/delta-state-department-of-social-work-unveils-debbie-simmons-awards-program\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:55:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:55:43","slug":"delta-state-department-of-social-work-unveils-debbie-simmons-awards-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2008\/04\/delta-state-department-of-social-work-unveils-debbie-simmons-awards-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State Department of Social Work unveils Debbie Simmons Awards Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"216\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/01Simmons.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Calvin Simmons addresses the audience at the recent Social Work Workshop about the program he established in memory of his wife, Debbie Simmons. Debbie Simmons was a 1990 graduate of DSU, receiving a Bachelor of Social Work degree. She died in February of 2007.<\/font> <\/p>\n<div><span>Calvin Simmons set up a new program to honor his wife&rsquo;s caring nature. The goal is to highlight excellence in social work, increase community recognition and promote the ideals and passion that Debbie Simmons had for the social work profession.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>The Debbie Simmons Awards Program includes the Debbie Simmons Social Work Scholarship Award, The Debbie Simmons &ldquo;I Care&rdquo; Social Work Recognition Award, and the Debbie Simmons Social Work Mini-Grants Awards. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin Simmons addresses the audience at the recent Social Work Workshop about the program he established in memory of his wife, Debbie Simmons. Debbie Simmons was a 1990 graduate of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41875,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/41875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}