Dedicated Social Worker Makes a Difference.

The article features Jodi Cain, a social worker at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center (EHCC) in Louisiana. Cain serves as the clinical supervisor of the acute care inpatient mental health unit (HUNT Special Unit) and the intermediate mental health unit. It notes that Cain played a key role in the development of the hospice program of the EHCC in 1999. It relates how Cain saved the life of a mentally ill inmate with a history of self-harm. She received the Distinguished Service Award for that event.