The Graduation exercise for the 42nd Regional Four Month course in the Principles and Practice of Social Work will take place at the Social Welfare Training Centre on Thursday, April 28 beginning at 5.30 p.m. This year, there are some 54 participants from five countries – Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Montserrat and Jamaica. The participants represent a wide range of social services, including persons in the field of health, correctional services, policing, counselling, religion, community development, service clubs and youth work. Guest speaker at the graduation exercise will be Substance Abuse Prevention Officer in the Ministry of Social Transformation in St. John’s Antigua, Mrs. Norma Jeffrey-Dorset.