December 21, 2020
Project Bread, a nonprofit that works to end hunger in Massachusetts, has served millions of meals to children during the pandemic. Its president, BCSSW graduate Erin McAleer, has been named a Bostonian of the Year by Boston Globe Magazine.
December 14, 2020
Assistant professor Samuel Bradley, Jr. has received a fellowship to study the future of work for marginalized populations. “We need to create programs that anticipate the needs of everyone,” he says.
December 08, 2020
Lisa Smith, who graduated in 2018, is campaigning to become a city councilor in her hometown of Arvada, Colorado. “I want people to be comfortable discussing issues with me and working together toward solutions,” she says.
December 02, 2020
“I want to speak up for them,” says Angela Lopez Luis. “I want to fight with them. I want them to believe that they can do the impossible.”
November 19, 2020
“It’s been pretty cool to hear the congresswoman say things that I’ve written,” says Sianay Chase-Clifford, who received a fellowship from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to work on Pressley’s legislative team for a year. “It’s amazing to have a little bit of a footprint in her work.”
November 13, 2020
Associate professor Scott Easton and student Liana Sandell will present their preliminary findings at the Council of Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting next week.
November 09, 2020
JoAnna Rowe interns at the Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders Center at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, which works to promote the health, independence, and quality of life of veterans.
October 28, 2020
Rosa Rodriguez-Williams, who graduated from the School of Social Work in 1999, plans to reimagine how the MFA welcomes and engages historically underrepresented audiences.
October 19, 2020
The school will continue to provide online classes for the spring semester as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
October 09, 2020
Kirsten Davison, the Donahue and DiFelice Endowed Professor in the School of Social Work, recently received a fellowship from the Institute for Implementation Science Scholars, a program at Washington University in St. Louis that trains researchers to improve the adoption of evidence-based practices that reduce chronic diseases such as obesity.
October 02, 2020
The LLI has been named a 2020 Example of Excelencia by Excelencia in Education, the only national effort to identify and promote evidence-based practices that help accelerate Latinx student success in higher education.
September 17, 2020
Theresa Betancourt, who directs the Research Program on Children and Adversity, recently received a prestigious award for developing programs that improve the mental health of kids and their parents in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and the United States.
September 10, 2020
“We need to start thinking more profoundly about the way we approach every aspect of how we live together as a community in order to root out racism,” Vincent D. Rougeau, dean of the Law School, said in a one-on-one conversation with Gautam N. Yadama, dean of the School of Social Work.
September 02, 2020
The professors bring a combined total of more than 60 years of experience to teaching, research, and clinical practice.
August 28, 2020
“Exposure to violence really puts children at a disadvantage in terms of their ability to be as happy and healthy as they can be as adults,” says newly hired professor Catherine Taylor. “It became clear to me that if we could intervene in early childhood, we could set people up for better health throughout their lives.”
August 17, 2020
Maggi Price, a newly hired assistant professor, has analyzed clinical interviews and survey data to better understand the experiences that transgender youth have had in therapy. Here’s what she found.
August 07, 2020
Jannah Muhammad and Kevin O’Brien, both of whom graduated from the School of Social Work in May, will work approximately 5,000 miles apart from each other. But they’ll share the same goal: to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
August 06, 2020
A joint report by the Boston College School of Social Work and Harvard Global Health Institute describes a serious public health crisis at the United States-Mexico border, where thousands of migrants seeking asylum are vulnerable due to hazardous conditions.
July 30, 2020
Kathleen Flinton, a newly hired assistant professor of practice, provides psychotherapy to political dissidents who have survived torture and struggled to remake their lives in the United States.
July 23, 2020
Newly hired professor Christopher Salas-Wright is working to develop strategies that social workers, civic leaders, and educators can use to help migrants make the most of their new lives in the wake of natural disasters and political crises.
July 15, 2020
For the past few months, recent graduates Kevin O’Brien and Dory Dinoto have helped hundreds of people cope with the effects of the novel coronavirus.
July 14, 2020
The school will host an online forum on Thursday, July 23 to address plans to dismantle white supremacy and anti-Black racism, the structure of the fall semester, and strategies that have been put in place to support domestic and international students.
July 03, 2020
Christina Matz, an associate professor in the School of Social Work, recently urged the state of Massachusetts to require employers to provide reasonable accommodations to older workers to keep them healthy, safe, and productive in the workplace.
June 23, 2020
Rachel DiBella and Brooke Huminski teamed up to create a virtual workshop to teach social workers the principles of cognitive processing therapy. Social workers can use the strategy, they say, to help treat medical professionals who have developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the pandemic.
June 16, 2020
Students and faculty in the School of Social Work have reshaped classes and reimagined assignments to address anti-black racism in the wake of the unjust killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery.
June 05, 2020
Professor Paul Kline, who plans to retire at the end of June, says the lessons he learned early in his career helped him to provide culturally sensitive support to individuals and families struggling to recover from physical and emotional trauma.
June 01, 2020
"I encourage all of us to come together and engage in the mission of creating a community in which our black brothers and sisters can thrive," says Gautam N. Yadama, dean of the School of Social Work. "We should take the opportunity to address racial injustice systemically, at every turn and interaction, in the context of our courses, initiatives, and add new facets to our social work curriculum."
May 28, 2020
Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, a professor in the School of Social Work who plans to retire in June, dedicated her career to examining the factors that affect the employment experiences of older workers.
May 22, 2020
Find a good mentor, ace your job interview, build a support system, take care of yourself, and provide culturally sensitive services to your clients, say four social workers who recently graduated from Boston College.
May 18, 2020
Ten master's students and two doctoral students have received awards for their outstanding contributions to the classroom, the community, and their field of practice during the 2019-2020 academic year.
May 18, 2020
Each student earned a 4.0 GPA as a master's student in the Boston College School of Social Work.
May 18, 2020
“All of us in the social work profession must channel our efforts to secure human dignity with imagination, courage, and grit and make every life meaningful and worth living,” Dean Gautam N. Yadama told the newly minted graduates in a video created to mark the culmination of their academic journey.
May 13, 2020
That question looms over student Noor Ibrahim as she waits to find out if COVID-19 will force her to counsel a new batch of clients online this fall.
May 06, 2020
The Boston College School of Social Work will collaborate with the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley to evaluate the effectiveness of a program designed to prevent homelessness in students in grades K-8.
May 05, 2020
Students, faculty, and alumni have delivered food to older adults who can not leave their homes, provided teletherapy to students whose schools have closed for the rest of the academic year, and tracked down people who have been exposed to COVID-19.
April 28, 2020
Create a flexible schedule, take care of yourself, and loosen the restrictions on screen time, says Carolyn Romano, a part-time faculty member who teaches in the children, youth, and families field of practice.
April 16, 2020
“I’m reminding my clients to use the coping skills they’ve learned to pull them out of an uncertain future and bring them back to the certain present,” says Yvonne Castañeda, a recent graduate who provides mental health care to Latinx patients at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center.
April 08, 2020
The videos, created in part by the Research Program on Children and Adversity, provide tips to prevent COVID-19, dispel myths about the disease, and present strategies for parents to help their children cope with the pandemic.
April 03, 2020
Takia Myers, who graduated earlier this month, recently received a prestigious fellowship to develop policies to promote the equitable treatment of black girls in schools.
April 01, 2020
“All kinds of technological innovation that we’ve been calling for for years to help homebound older adults is suddenly happening quickly,” says Christina Matz, a gerontologist in the School of Social Work.
March 30, 2020
The Equity, Justice, and Inclusion Committee wants to tackle inequalities that contribute to unfair outcomes in the classroom, better prepare students to work with diverse populations around the world, and create a culture steeped in mutual respect and lifelong learning.
March 25, 2020
Samantha Teixeira, an assistant professor, works with teenagers in Boston to examine how the neighborhoods in which they grow up can shape their future.
March 20, 2020
Focus on the daily tasks that you can complete rather than the questions that you cannot answer, says professor Paul Kline. “It is helpful, I think, to live through this season of fear and worry one day at a time.”
March 14, 2020
“The lives of healthcare workers will be profoundly affected by the hours they will need to work and the trauma that they might be experiencing,” says Erika Sabbath, an assistant professor who studies workplace stress.
March 11, 2020
As cases of COVID-19 continue to climb, the School of Social Work is making contingency plans to respond to disruptions caused by the global pandemic. Read notices sent to the Boston College community and explore these resources to stay informed.
March 09, 2020
Members of the BCSSW community must complete a short form to apply to receive the videos and companion guides.
March 06, 2020
Conor McDermott Welch, MSW ’20, shares his experience as a Spier Fellow on Aging pursuing his master’s degree in social work with a clinical specialization focused on Older Adults and Families.
March 03, 2020
Boston College researchers developed Family Strengthening Intervention for Refugees program in partnership with Bhutanese and Somali communities.
February 27, 2020
Praveen Kumar, an assistant professor of global practice, advocates the use of cookstoves powered by liquefied petroleum gas—a smoke-free fuel that releases fewer pollutants than any other fuel except for electricity.
February 25, 2020
Assistant Professor Erika Sabbath (pictured), Associate Professor Summer Sherburne Hawkins, and Economics Professor Christopher Baum report findings in the American Journal of Public Health.
February 19, 2020
Desmond Upton Patton, a visiting scholar, says social workers and mental health practitioners could use the data the algorithms collect to prevent conflicts that take place on Twitter from spilling over into real life.
February 13, 2020
Assistant Director of the Latinx Leadership Initiative, Ximena Soto, MSW ’98, is the 2020 recipient of the Greatest Contribution to Social Work Award given by the National Association of Social Workers, Massachusetts Chapter.
February 07, 2020
Sudders, a visiting scholar at the Boston College School of Social Work, has spent years fighting to curb the opioid epidemic, reform the child welfare system, and eliminate the stigma of mental illness.
February 03, 2020
Nicole Shanelle Haynes, MSW ’20, shares her field education experience at Strategy Matters, located in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
January 23, 2020
This year’s Distinguished Alumni Award Winner is LCDR Monique Worrell-Oriola, BA ’03, MSW ’06 (pictured), and the Distinguished Recent Alumni Award goes to Melanated Social Work.
January 13, 2020
The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) named Piero Goytizolo and William Lopez to its Minority Fellowship Program for doctoral and master’s degree students.
January 03, 2020
Thirty-nine Boston College School of Social Work (BCSSW) faculty, students, and staff will present, or have their work presented, at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, held January 15–19, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
