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The program prepares students to work in aid and development sectors, helping the world’s most vulnerable populations.
Dozens of undergrads at BC have conducted research with faculty in the School of Social Work over the past few years. What they have learned, they say, has given them a leg up in class, reconfigured their career paths, and shaped their perspectives of pressing social problems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).