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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Dr. Ruth McRoy has been named the new GSSW Donahue and DiFelice Endowed Professor. Her work encompasses groundbreaking and innovative research in the areas of child welfare, adoption, and diversity. Dr. McRoy will join the BCGSSW faculty in September 2009.
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Director of Sloan Center on Aging and Work appears on CBS evening news. Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, GSSW Associate Professor and Director of the Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College appeared recently on the CBS evening news. She commented on the advantage older workers bring to businesses, particularly now: "a sense of maturity and experience can make a difference, particularly when there are unexpected situations."

See CBS news broadcast here.

GSSW student, Deng Nyuon, who was reunited with his Sudanese family members three years ago, was instrumental in helping his friend Kuol Acuek, a refugee from Sudan, find his brother.

See story at Boston.com.

Congratulations to the following MSW students of the Class of 2009 who were honored at the Graduate Student Association Awards banquet held April 22, 2009
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The Boston College Graduate School of Social Work today launched a new technical assistance center that offers states the tools they need to implement a wide variety of participant-directed long-term care programs. The National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services is the only national center of its kind and is available to assist states and other entities that want to offer, or already offer, participant-directed services to people with disabilities.
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Obama campaign worker Young Moon '09 of the Arts & Sciences Honors Program and Franklin Ollivierre of the Graduate School of Social Work faculty were among those asked to discuss the new president on WGBH-TV's 'Greater Boston' (click on 'The Obama Impact' or go direct to the video).

Boston College has been awarded a $3.5 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to assist GSSW faculty Kevin Mahoney in the establishment of a technical assistance center for consumer direction.
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GSSW Assistant Professor Stephanie Berzin, Chair of the CYF concentration, has been selected to receive the prestigious 2009 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize. The prize is awarded annually to the best article published in Social Service Review. Read article »
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Cash & Counseling, a health care choice program for the elderly and people with disabilities, headed by GSSW professor Kevin Mahoney, has been awarded a $4.75 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Professor James Lubben, the Louise McMahon Ahearn Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work has been appointed Director of the new Institute on Aging at Boston College.
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Professor and former Dean of the Graduate School of School Work, Edmund "Ed" Burke, died Monday, November 3 after a brief illness.
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Erin Mone BC MSW '99, deputy director for Cost Rican, US Peace Corps, was cited by this year's Graduate Education and the Public Good Report for her activities focused on the prevention of child sexual exploitation.
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The Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College has received its second major grant in the amount of $3.5 Million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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GSSW Dean Alberto Godenzi was interviewed in the BC Chronicle (PDF) where he discussed the recent successes and future goals of the school.
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GSSW Dean Alberto Godenzi was elected president of the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work (NADD)
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