Fellowship For Social Worker

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31540, 30 November 1967, Page 2

Fellowship For Social Worker

Miss Rona Frame, formerly of Christchurch and now of Auckland, has been awarded a 1968 Winston Churchill fellowship to study emotionally disturbed children. She is a social worker at the Department of Health’s child health clinic in Auckland.

Miss Frame was born in Christchurch and attended Avonside Girls’ High School. She trained as a nurse in Wellington and Greymouth. Before going to Fiji and Britain to nurse she was on the staff of the Coronation Hospital, Christchurch. In 1956 she did her midwifery training in Hobart theh returned to the Wellington School of Nursing for post-graduate study in 1960. A year later she did a training course in psychiatry at Oakley Hospital, won a State Services Commission study award, and gained a Diploma of Social Science at Victoria University, Wellington. She attended the recent International Federation of Social Workers’ conference in Bangkok. Miss Frame is a vice-presi-dent of the New Zealand Association of Social Workers, a committee member of the recently formed Laura Fergusson Trust for Social Work and an executive member of the Auckland Marriage Guidance Council.

For her fellowship Miss Frame will study in Britain and some European countries.