Verna Jones: A Journey of Social Work

Story by Jasmine Fain. Photos by Cyndi Brown.

When you hear the words social and worker together, you might envision Cobra Bubbles. Cobra’s character in the movie Lilo and Stitch wore all black like a CIA agent, and threatened to take Lilo from her sister Nani. When our society speaks about social work, this can be the stereotype that comes to the surface, and the word can bring fear into peoples homes. As a community leader and social worker, Verna Jones, is working to embody the opposite, as she sheds more light on the positive impact that social work makes in a community.

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