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By Kimberly Moore Director, Care Café On behalf of Care Café, Happy Social Work Month! On Thursday, March 17, 2022, Care Café celebrated Social Work Month with CUNY Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY at their 15th Annual Social Work Conference. The theme of this year’s conference was “The Time Is…
By Kimberly Moore Director, Care Café We thrive in the spirit of giving! On the crisp morning of March 11, 2022, Wurzweiler’s Care Café and Breaking Ground, a community-based program, partnered to create and deliver “Welcome Home Kits ” for formerly homeless persons. Keona Serrano, assistant vice…
By Kimberly Moore Director, Care Café On Friday, March 11, 2022, Care Café partnered with a wonderful youth social justice organization in Harlem, Brotherhood Sister Sol (Bro Sis), to support their efforts with creating wellness programming at their institution. With their growing concerns around…
By Kimberly Moore Director, Care Café Care Café partnered with the faith-based coalition of the National Black Leadership Commission on Health to recognize National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on Feb. 9, 2022. We were honored to have three dynamic guest speakers for this occasion. Dr. Alvin Ponder…
By Kimberly Moore Director, Care Café On Sunday, February 27, 2022, Care Café joined our community partners to lift the voices of domestic violence survivors and to continue to bring awareness to our community about the availability of support and resources to those who seek it. Located at the Juan…
In 2021, WSSW received funding to research the ways criminal justice social workers (CJSW) talk with their clients/communities about voting. CJSW interact with those engaged with and returning from the criminal justice system through roles in correctional facilities; jails; parole and probation ...
Dr. Shannon Lane Dr. Shannon Lane, assistant professor of social work at Wurzweiler School of Social Work co-published “ Political Efficacy in Social Workers Before and After 2016” in Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (2021) with Dr. Katharine M. Hill (University of St. Thomas, Minnesota),…
By Joyce Roberson-Steele, LMSW, Ph.D. Candidate Black Social Workers have played a significant role in addressing social problems that affect underserved and marginalized populations from the beginning development of social work practices. While micro-level social work is very important to ...
The Wurzweiler School of Social Work has announced a new Clinical Doctorate in Social Work (DSW). The 45-credit program, designed to be completed within three years, is tailored for experienced post-MSW clinicians who are either currently in direct practice with a client base or are administrators…
Annette Clarke-Jones, MS, MSW, Ph.D. Candidate Adjunct Field Liaison, Wurzweiler School of Social Work Cheryl McKissack Although the construction business is often seen as a male-dominated sector and most definitely not one controlled by African Americans, I was pleasantly delighted to learn that…