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Family and community central to recovery among Sierra Leone's former child soldiers

June 20, 2019

Salem Professor in Global Practice Theresa Betancourt, and colleagues, publish an unprecedented 15-year, four-wave study of children involved in Sierra Leone’s civil war, investigating the associations of war and post-conflict factors with mental health among the former child soldiers.
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Boston College School of Social Work and Jesuit Refugee Service Sign Memorandum of Understanding

June 04, 2019

The two institutions formalize a long-standing collaboration to advance projects and research aimed at improving refugees’ prospects throughout the world.
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BCSSW, BC Law, and BC Continuing Education host inaugural Global Migration Conference

May 31, 2019

Leading experts and stakeholders gather to address global migratory trends and the inherent tensions between inclusion and exclusion.
 
“To solve the most intractable problems of our day—and of tomorrow—we must draw upon a diversity of disciplines and partner with those who actually experience the problems. Only then can we create and scale up appropriate evidence-based interventions.”
Gautam N. Yadama, Dean of Boston College School of Social Work

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