Medium: Professor Collins on COVID-19’s Impact on Youth in Foster Care and How You Can Help
BUSSW professor and department chair Mary Collins and Rise Above Foundation executive director Sarah Baldiga co-author an op-ed on the particular effects of the COVID crisis on young people in foster care. Originally published by BU Experts in Medium: “Aiming for Normalcy in Abnormal Times,” by Mary Elizabeth Collins and Sarah Baldiga Think about how […]
Professor Augsberger & Sprague Martinez Land Funding for Youth-Led Health Promotion Project with BU School of Medicine
BU’s Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has awarded a research grant to professors Astraea Augsberger (BUSSW), Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett (BU School of Medicine) and Linda Sprague Martinez (BUSSW) for their project, “Data-Driven, Youth-Led Health Promotion Strategy for a Safety Net Accountable Care Organization.” The aim of the project, devised within a “participatory action research” […]
Making Measurable, Meaningful Change
After a wide-ranging career, André Guillemin found purpose in social work, bringing lived experience to BUSSW’s online MSW program.
Staking a Claim in Worcester
BUSSW launches new hybrid MSW program in response to community need Who better understands the needs of a community than social workers trained in that community? This is the premise behind BUSSW’s first-ever hybrid program launched in Worcester in fall 2019. An innovative part-time offering, it combines the best of classroom, field, and online learning […]
Get Involved at BUSSW
Hi all! I’m Shawn (he/him/his pronouns) and I am a second-year Clinical Practice major at BUSSW. As many of you know, it can be quite daunting to start graduate school and adapt to a new way of life. The adjustment can also be challenging as you try to make new connections at a new school […]
The Conversation: Professor Collins Proposes 3 Virtues Necessary for an Ethical Pandemic Response
BUSSW social welfare policy professor Mary Collins makes the case for ‘virtue ethics’ in The Conversation. Excerpted from “3 moral virtues necessary for an ethical pandemic response and reopening” by Mary E. Collins and Sarah B. Garlington: The health and economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic are not equally felt. From the United States to Brazil and the United Kingdom, low-wage workers […]
Three BUSSW Students Awarded Harvard Rappaport Fellowship
BUSSW students Florence Glynn, Greer Hamilton and Noor Toraif will each lead Boston-based civil service projects as part of the Rappaport Institute’s 2020 Public Policy Fellowship. Three students from Boston University School of Social Work have been selected for the competitive Public Policy Summer Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston: […]
Professor Collins Awarded Funding to Address Workforce Needs for Youth
BU Initiative on Cities (IOC) has awarded BUSSW faculty member Mary E. Collins an Early Stage Urban Research Award as part of its annual effort to provide seed funding to BU researchers focused on solving urban challenges. Collins, an internationally recognized expert on child welfare, will use the funding to study how local workforce development […]
MinnPost: Saida Abdi (SSW’19) Co-Authors ‘Race, Resistance, and Rage in the Midst of COVID-19’
In an op-ed for Minneapolis Post, BUSSW alum Saida M. Abdi, PhD (SSW’19) and her sister, Cawo M. Abdi, both professors at the University of Minnesota, explore their communities’ experiences following the murder of George Floyd. By Saida Abdi and Cawo Abdi | June 4, 2020Originally published by MinnPost Minneapolis-St. Paul is burning with rage while demonstrations continue around […]
Social Work in the COVID Era
If the COVID-19 pandemic has made one thing clear, it’s the reality that social workers are on the frontlines of healthcare—no less than doctors and nurses. Rather than treating medical symptoms, however, social workers are mitigating barriers to health, from housing to poverty to access to testing. As colleagues at the Rush University Medical Center […]