{"id":143594,"date":"2018-11-08T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=143594"},"modified":"2018-11-29T11:16:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T16:16:14","slug":"ssw-alumni-notch-wins-ct-legislative-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/11\/ssw-alumni-notch-wins-ct-legislative-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Work Alumni Notch Wins in CT Legislative Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several School of Social Work Alumni notched wins in the 2018 midterm elections across Connecticut this week. The School is thrilled to announce that four UConn Social Work Alumni won their elections. They join two additional social workers serving in the Legislature.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_143593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143593\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-143593 size-full img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Steve-Cassano.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Cassano\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Steve-Cassano.jpg 200w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Steve-Cassano-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Steve-Cassano-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Steve-Cassano-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Steve-Cassano-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Steve-Cassano-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Steve-Cassano-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Steve-Cassano-128x128.jpg 128w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/200;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Cassano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_143591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143591\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-143591 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Pat-Wilson-Pheanious.jpg\" alt=\"Pat Wilson Pheanious\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Pat-Wilson-Pheanious.jpg 240w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Pat-Wilson-Pheanious-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Pat-Wilson-Pheanious-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Pat-Wilson-Pheanious-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Pat-Wilson-Pheanious-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Pat-Wilson-Pheanious-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Pat-Wilson-Pheanious-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Pat-Wilson-Pheanious-128x128.jpg 128w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/200;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pat Wilson Pheanious<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_143592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143592\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-143592 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Rick-Lopes-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rick Lopes\" width=\"200\" height=\"240\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Rick-Lopes-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Rick-Lopes-350x420.jpg 350w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Rick-Lopes.jpg 525w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/240;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Lopes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Please join us in congratulating them:<br \/>\n\u2022 Steve Cassano SSW \u201975 re-elected Senator for the 4th District<br \/>\n\u2022 Jillian Gilchrest CLAS \u201904 SSW \u201908 newly elected Representative for the 18th District<br \/>\n\u2022 Pat Wilson Pheanious CLAS \u201978 LAW \u201981 SSW \u201981 newly elected Representative for the 53rd District<br \/>\n\u2022 Rick Lopes CLAS \u201993 SSW \u201903 re-elected Representative for the 24th District<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several School of Social Work Alumni notched wins in the 2018 midterm elections across Connecticut this week. The School is thrilled to announce that four UConn Social Work Alumni won their elections. They join two additional social workers serving in the Legislature. Please join us in congratulating them: \u2022 Steve Cassano SSW \u201975 re-elected Senator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":143590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1870],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1869],"class_list":["post-143594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ssw"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 05:41:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/143590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143594"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=143594"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=143594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}