Dr. Tyreasa Washington is an expert panelist for an Invited Symposium hosted by the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Board. The panel is “Driving Social Change: Developing, Navigating, and Promoting a Public Impact Agenda,” and is scheduled for Friday– January 22, 2021, 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm Presenters: Tyreasa Washington,… Continue reading…
We are delighted to share the news that Dr. Judith Leitch has been added as a Diversity Scholar through the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan! The Diversity Scholars Network (DSN) is an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional community of scholars committed to advancing understandings of historical and contemporary social issues related to… Continue reading…
The CSWE Board of Directors voted unanimously to award Dr. Yarneccia Dyson the prestigious CSWE Early Career Faculty Service and Leadership in Social Work Education Award. The award recognizes a social work educator with fewer than 10 years of service who has advanced and promoted social work education and provided… Continue reading…
Dr. Rebecca Adams has been selected as the faculty recipient of the 2021 Gladys Strawn Bullard Award. The Bullard Award is given annually to a faculty member who has shown commendable initiative and perseverance in their leadership and/or service role at the University. See more details on the announcement here. Plans… Continue reading…
Dr. Meredith Powers’ article “Degrowth for Transformational Alternatives as Radical Social Work Practice” was one of the most downloaded articles published in Critical and Radical Social Work in 2020. It has been included in their ‘most read collection’. You can find the full list of most read articles here.
Embracing an Ecosocial Worldview for Climate Justice and Collective Healing by Sandra Engstrom and Meredith C. F. Powers It was published in the Journal of Transdisciplinary Peace Praxis’s fifth issue (Vol. 3, No. 1) which deals with the complex interplay between healing and justice, especially addressing the relationship between achieving justice while… Continue reading…
Dr. Yarneccia Dyson was invited by our (Council on Social Work Education/CSWE) accrediting body to join the newly formed Task Force to Advance Anti-Racism in Social Work Education, and was asked to Co-Lead the Curriculum Development Work Group. Watch below as she presents key recommendations from the Work Group during the Membership Meeting at the Virtual Conference…. Continue reading…
Chase Holleman had been pursuing the man for weeks with phone calls and texts. “We’re just here to talk and help however we can,” he said. “Dave” (a pseudonym) needed help. Just a few weeks earlier, in the spring of 2018, he had overdosed on opioids. Paramedics had saved Dave’s… Continue reading…
When Dr. Tyreasa Washington was a practicing social worker, she dealt with many children who didn’t live with their parents. Sometimes they had been placed by the state into traditional foster care. Sometimes they were living with a relative or perhaps a godparent who had a family connection, an arrangement… Continue reading…
The “Service and Bravery Commemorative Garden” (SBC Garden) will be established in Greensboro to honor military service members and veterans who are transgender, gender non-conforming and non-binary. We expect that establishing the SBC Garden will foster opportunities for individual and collective contemplation, reflection, healing, care, and growth as community members are… Continue reading…
