I was a stay-at-home mom for the most part.All across Metro Detroit, in the unsettling, hectic days of the onset of COVID-19, social workers encountered similar opportunities and seized them, The Detroit News reported. The social work background is really helpful to try to understand a predicament in a specific social context, said Emily Fagre, a social worker for Michigan Medicine at University Hospital in Ann Arbor. But as social workers, their training is to make life bearable for those in need. There was lots of coordination that goes on with that.Coordination came at a premium, especially early on, social workers say. Audrey Houttekier, a social work manager for Michigan Medicine, said that while disaster mental health is something in which social workers are widely trained, not all workers have the same abilities or preparation.