December 19, 2018
As 2018 draws to a close, I wish you all the best this holiday season and in the new year. During this time of year, many of us are also thinking of those facing challenges in their lives. I am very grateful for all members of the BCSSW community who are dedicated to improving the well-being of individuals, families, and communities here in Boston and around the globe.
December 19, 2018
Associate Professor Rocío Calvo, founding director of the Latinx Leadership Initiative, was elected president of the Association of Latina/o Social Work Educators (ALLSWE) at the organization’s annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, in November.
December 19, 2018
Through field placements, faculty research, and alumni employment, BCSSW students, faculty, and alumni have been on the front lines of Jesuit Refugee Service’s campaign to accompany, serve, and advocate on behalf of the displaced around the world.
December 14, 2018
Six alumni from BCSSW’s Latinx Leadership Initiative are putting their skills to work at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, one of the largest community health centers in the country.
November 27, 2018
Anju Lamichhane, MSW ’19, discusses her field placement experience with the Research Program on Children and Adversity (RPCA) at the Boston College School of Social Work.
November 14, 2018
Assistant Professor Vincent Fusaro is a social worker and public policy expert whose leading-edge research is helping to inform the national dialogue on poverty.
November 09, 2018
Therapy dogs at the School of Social Work Library provide respite during a busy semester.
November 09, 2018
Self-described non-traditional student Sonie Johnson talks about her path to social work, her summer as a Rappaport Institute Public Policy Fellow, and her plans to change how we think about wellness.
November 06, 2018
Doctoral candidate Manuel Cano and MSW students Lisbeth Acosta, Valeria Lazo, Magdalena Lopez, and Olga Paz (pictured) awarded CSWE Minority Fellowships for their work with underrepresented and underserved persons with or at risk for mental health and/or substance abuse disorders.
November 02, 2018
At the first School of Social Work Summit, held at the Walker Center in Newton, MA, students recharge and reflect, while building community, establishing strong connections, and discussing the Jesuit Catholic tradition in the context of Social Work.
October 29, 2018
At the Boston College School of Social Work, we are fortunate to have many partners who share our goal of improving the lives of the most vulnerable. Among the latest: the recently established Boston College Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society. Together with the Schiller Institute, we are exploring innovative ways to solve complex social problems.
October 29, 2018
Fourteen Boston College School of Social Work (BCSSW) faculty, students, and staff will present at the Council on Social Work Education’s Annual Program Meeting, held November 8–11, 2018, at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida.
October 29, 2018
BCSSW, the Boston College Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, and the National Institutes of Health convened system scientists and environmental health experts to use innovative approaches for improving environmental health interventions and their implementation.
October 12, 2018
Professor Pitt-Catsouphes is being recognized for her distinguished accomplishments as a scholar and practitioner. She will be inducted into the Academy at the 2019 Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, at which time she will join BCSSW faculty members and AASWSW Fellows James E. Lubben, Kevin Mahoney, Ruth McRoy, and David Takeuchi. Read more about Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes.
October 11, 2018
Associate Professor Scott Easton and colleagues explore challenging issues of burn-out, secondary trauma, and staffing turnover amplified by political and military conflict.
October 03, 2018
This fall the School of Social Work welcomes four new faculty members: Cal Halvorsen, Tyrone Parchment, María Piñeros-Leaño, and Indrani Saran.
October 02, 2018
Associate Professor Thomas Crea awarded five-year, $2.6 million NIH grant to conduct a first-of-its-kind study of the long-term health effects of children exposed to Ebola in Sierra Leone.
September 24, 2018
Lubben is recognized for his many contributions to the BC School of Social Work and the fields of gerontology and social welfare.
July 25, 2018
In its mission to solve complex problems, the Boston College School of Social Work is increasing its focus on transdisciplinary research.
June 27, 2018
The trauma and vulnerability of detained families and separated children are not as easily undone as a policy change.
June 25, 2018
At the end of the 2017-18 school year, the School of Social Work celebrated the distinguished careers of retiring faculty members Kathleen McInnis-Dittrich, James Lubben, and Ron Ancrum.
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June 13, 2018
Professors Thanh Tran and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to community service and the work-family community, respectively.
May 18, 2018
The MSW Global field of practice has brought students to five different continents to work with a wide range of social service agencies and programs.
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May 02, 2018
Eight MSW candidates are engaged in a novel Community-Based Participatory Research course designed and taught by Assistant Professor Samantha Teixeira that provides hands-on experience in the context of an existing community-engaged research partnership.
April 26, 2018
Researchers from the Center for Social Innovation define "Catholic social innovation" and highlight 64 examples of such work in response to the global refugee and migrant crisis.
April 24, 2018
Doctoral students awarded the Carolyn B. Thomas and Elaine Pinderhughes Fellowships to further their research and work in the field.
March 26, 2018
Associate Professor Susan Tohn and Boston College School of Social Work alumna Suelen Yancor, MSW ’05, will be offering a free two-day training on Solution-Focused Therapy techniques with a focus on Spanish language interventions, a project designed to help practitioners understand some of the unique cultural competencies associated with best serving Latinx populations.
March 19, 2018
The Grand Challenges for Social Work highlight important societal dilemmas that demand innovation and the creation of new knowledge networks.
March 16, 2018
Second-year MSW student Yvonne Castaneda talks about her field placement at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center.
March 12, 2018
Students from both schools conducted community-based fieldwork and visited the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) as the culmination of an independent study on social innovation.
March 07, 2018
The Boston College School of Social Work and its Research Program on Children and Adversity launched a monthly research group/webinar designed to provide a space for investigators to receive constructive feedback from peers on grant proposals
February 13, 2018
Second-year MSW student talks about his field placement at Lahey Health Behavioral Services.
February 08, 2018
In a ceremony this January, Najwa Sado Safadi, PhD ’12, was honored with the Boston College School of Social Work 2018 Distinguished Recent Alumni Award.
January 31, 2018
This month, Oxford University Press released "Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society," a scholarly review of the national initiative from the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. The book is co-edited by Boston College School of Social Work Louise McMahon Ahearn Endowed Professor James Lubben and features the perspectives and research findings of eight BCSSW faculty and staff members.
January 31, 2018
Assistant Professor Praveen Kumar, PhD, who joined the BCSSW faculty this past September, works at the intersection of environmental inequities, poverty, and global health.
January 25, 2018
Mitzi Peterson, (MSW ’97), LICSW, CCHP, is the Massachusetts Department of Correction’s Director of Behavioral Health.
January 09, 2018
Katelyn believes her experience at the Cambridge Health Alliance has helped to shape her future career goals working in behavioral and population health.
December 15, 2017
Laura Connors, MSW ’10, made the transition to social work later in her own life following a career in the financial sector and is now executive director of Beacon Hill Village.
December 01, 2017
Workplace sexual harassment has been all over the news lately, with allegations emerging against politicians, media personalities, and top executives.
November 20, 2017
Boston College School of Social Work Assistant Professor Jessica Shaw has been awarded a $313,558 grant by the United States Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women for her project “Evaluation of a Cross-System Cooperative Response to Adolescent Sexual Assault Victims.”
November 08, 2017
Rosales counts health access and disparities among Latino populations as his research interests.
October 30, 2017
Associate Professor Scott Easton has contributed a chapter to the recently released book "Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys & Men," edited by renowned psychologist and psychoanalyst Richard B. Gartner.
October 20, 2017
The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, of which BCSSW Dean Gautam N. Yadama is a commissioner, has released a report analyzing the scope of the health and economic costs of air, water, soil, and occupational pollution in the world today.
October 13, 2017
Alumni board member Bisrat Abebe, MSW/MA in Pastoral Ministry ’05, LICSW, has spent his career providing crisis intervention and support to individuals and families in communities, behavioral health clinics, and hospital emergency room settings.
October 11, 2017
BCSSW Dean Gautam Yadama and Associate Dean Tom Walsh met with Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker as his administration announces a first-in-the-nation set of educational core principles for social workers designed to address opioid addiction and treatment.
September 28, 2017
Internationally renowned child trauma and human rights scholar Theresa Betancourt joins the Boston College School of Social Work as the inaugural Salem Professor in Global Practice. Her pioneering, long-term study of child soldiers and other war-affected youth in Sierra Leone has set a standard for research and programs in childhood trauma, recovery, and resiliency.
September 15, 2017
Boston College and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have co-signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore partnerships in research, project development, coursework, and the sharing of knowledge and ideas.
August 24, 2017
This summer, 20 students from the Boston College School of Social Work and the Pontifica Universidad Catόlica de Chile (UC) convened in Santiago, Chile for a novel course on community development.
August 01, 2017
Assistant Professor Jessica Shaw examines the vast number of rape kits that have historically gone untested in the city of Detroit, and how this is just one proof point supporting the unfortunate, widespread reality of an American criminal justice system reticent to prosecute sexual assault.
July 20, 2017
A team of researchers led by Professors Margaret Lombe and Samantha Teixeira compiled a comprehensive report assessing outcomes for youth who have participated in the Catholic Charities Teen Center at Saint Peter’s in Dorchester, the largest and most diverse neighborhood of Boston.
July 17, 2017
Ashlen Nimmo ’16 recently completed her 10-month fellowship in Abuja, Nigeria, while Maya Perlmann ’17 will embark upon her work in Cairo, Egypt, this fall.
June 29, 2017
Boston College School of Social Work, the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, and Merrimack Valley presented IF Challenge awards to HomeStart, Children’s HealthWatch, and the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership to identify innovative, cost-effective, and feasible ideas to reduce family homelessness in the state.
June 23, 2017
BCSSW doctoral candidate Victor Figuereo is now in his third year at BCSSW and is part of the LLI’s Latino Research Seminar, a program designed to address the disparity of Latino professors in higher education.
June 02, 2017
Two Boston College School of Social Work MSW students awarded prestigious summer public policy fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Rappaport Institute.
May 26, 2017
MSW student Samantha Williams reflects on her field placement experience at the Universidad Iberomericana in Mexico City.
May 25, 2017
When Associate Professor Jessica Black set out to establish her innovative program merging neuroscience with social work, she knew that, in order for it to be truly successful, it would need to impact the most students as possible.
May 12, 2017
MSW student Skylar Chew reflects on her field placement experience in Mytilini on the island of Lesvos, Greece.
May 10, 2017
Four Boston area influencers headlined BCSSW’s Third Annual Social Innovation Symposium last Friday, weaving together a tapestry of diverse, actionable concepts around the theme of innovative solutions in changemaking.
May 08, 2017
MSW student Krystalbella Murnane-Victorelli reflects on her field placement experience at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
May 05, 2017
Longtime Boston media personality Pam Cross delivered keynote remarks at this year's Pinderhughes Diversity Lecture.
April 26, 2017
Rich Greif, Vice President of Marketing, Communications, and Community Relations at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay, hosts engaging workshop on how employees at all levels can help with an organization’s external communications and social media presence.
April 25, 2017
This is the third post from Skylar Chew, who is working in Mytilini on the island of Lesvos, Greece.
April 10, 2017
MSW student Kit Stebbins offers this blog post from her international field placement at the Jesuit Refugee Service in Nairobi, Kenya.
April 07, 2017
MSW student Skylar Chew provides this blog post from her international field placement in Mytilini on the island of Lesvos, Greece.
April 05, 2017
Two reports from BCSSW faculty members Tiziana Dearing, Summer Hawkins, and David Takeuchi were released during an event on campus that featured speakers from the Obama administration team, as well as leading organizations across Boston.
March 09, 2017
Professor of Macro Practice Tiziana Dearing has teamed with Carroll School of Management Professor Mary Cronin to edit an innovative book designed to provide a paradigm for “socially responsible enterprise management” for those in the fields of academia, social work, nonprofit, government, and business alike.
February 27, 2017
Alumnus Nick Teich, MSW ’09, the founder and CEO of Harbor Camps, was recognized in a ceremony on January 27 in Gasson Hall for his distinguished accomplishments in the field of social work.
February 08, 2017
As the first African American woman to serve in the 106-year history of the Boston City Council, Ayanna Pressley has broken down previously insurmountable walls along the road to success.
March 09, 2016
On March 7, Boston College School of Social Work professors Tiziana Dearing and David Takeuchi met with members of the president’s Office of Science and Technology Partnerships, representing the leadership of a new and exciting initiative at BCSSW called Research and Innovations in Social, Economic, and Environmental Equity (RISE).
February 24, 2016
Boston College Social Work MSW/PhD Student Melissa Bartholomew is a minister, a lawyer, and Harvard Divinity School graduate who is devoted to tackling one of the biggest social ills of our country, racism, and in particular, to developing healing interventions that address the lasting trauma that exists in the descendants of Africans who were enslaved in America and the contemporary racial trauma they continue to endure.
January 08, 2016
Agency partner and BCSSW Field Advisor Brian Gonsalves discusses his role at Boston Green Academy and his relationship with BCSSW.
November 23, 2015
BCSSW Assistant Professor and current U.S. Department of Justice fellow Jessica Shaw was asked to present at a meeting convened by Vice President Joe Biden designed to address domestic violence and sexual assault.
November 16, 2015
Rev. Dr. Gregory Groover, pastor of Boston’s Historic Charles Street A.M.E. Church, spoke at BCSSW to address the shootings that took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
October 15, 2015
The event’s topic, The Brain in a Social Context, drew attendees from across the country, including MIT’s John D.E. Gabrieli, who delivered the keynote address.
June 08, 2015
Sue Chandler, Executive Director of DOVE, Inc., discusses her position at DOVE and the role BCSSW students have a the agency.
March 23, 2015
Professor Jessica Black pursued higher education in hopes of preparing a next generation of collegians to go out and make a difference in the world.
March 03, 2015
Cindy Gordon, Clinical Director of Adult Behavioral Health and Psychiatric Emergency Services at Boston Medical Center, discusses her role supervising BCSSW students.
October 06, 2014
Boston College School of Social Work Assistant Professor Scott Easton has been awarded $156,500 from the National Institute on Aging to study male survivors of child sexual abuse, a vulnerable, often isolated, and vastly underserved population that is in serious need of practical support and interventions.
