Marylou Sudders, GSSW adjunct faculty member and MSW President and CEO of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children will receive an award from the Massachusetts Health Council.
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We are proud to announce that the new GSSW website has received an Award of Excellence from the University and College Designers Association (UCDA). UCDA exists to promote excellence in visual communications for educational institutions. Electronic Media entries in the UCDA Design Competition were judged for appearance, flexibility, interactivity and suitability for their intended audiences. Creativity in solving the problems of designing for electronic media was primary.

The GSSW website was designed by the GSSW Office of Marketing Communications in collaboration with Boston College Information Technology and an outside consultant.  The site launched in February of 2009.

James Lubben, Louise McMahon Ahearn Professor of Social Work and director of the University's new Institute on Aging (IOA) is featured in the latest issue of the Boston College Light the World Campaign Newsletter talking about the implications of an aging society.
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Boston College Graduate School of Social Work has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to study the negative trajectories of youth with mental health disorders in the juvenile justice system.
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Younger workers are bearing the brunt of the current economic crisis, while older employees show greater resiliency in a recession-battered workplace where employers seek to do more with less.
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