BUSSW Co-Hosts Cape Cod Symposium on Treating Teens with Eating Disorders
The Cape and Islands Family Support Network is hosting a symposium for clinicians and students who work with adolescents struggling with eating concerns. The symposium, “Working Collaboratively to Assess, Intervene and Treat the Adolescent and Young Adult Client with an Eating Disorder,” is co-hosted by BU School of Social Work and supported by BUSSW’s Cape […]
BUSSW Seeking Candidates for Assistant Dean of Field Education
Boston University’s School of Social Work is seeking candidates for the Assistant Dean of Field Education position. With over 100 years of social work education experience, BUSSW offers programs and platforms to meet the needs of our students. The School’s mission is to develop dynamic and diverse social work practitioners, leaders, and scholars through rigorous teaching, […]
Strengthening Public Health Social Work: New Resources for Schools and Practitioners
The Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH) at BUSSW released several new resources to help advance the field of public health social work (PHSW) as part of the Boston University Advancing Leadership in Public Health Social Work (BU-ALPS) project — focused on strengthening the public health social work field both at Boston […]
BUSSW Alum Develops Family Separation Plans to Prepare Immigrant Patients for the Unthinkable
Resources for healthcare providers addressing the fear and trauma of family separation August 15, 2019 | By Nilagia McCoy Attachment and relationships are crucial for a child’s brain and emotional development. There is a body of evidence supporting the notion that one of the worst possible traumatic events that can happen to a young child […]
Treating Opioid Use Disorder Isn’t “One-Size-Fits-All” Says BUSSW Professor
“It takes a village.” The phrase may sound familiar but it rings particularly true as BUSSW associate professor Dr. Linda Sprague Martinez joins a massive research initiative with an ambitious goal: to reduce opioid use disorder in Massachusetts by 40 percent. Researchers and practitioners from state agencies and institutions will leverage their diverse expertise and […]
New BUSSW Fund to Support Field Education Established in Memory of Beloved Colleague Judith Perlstein
BU School of Social Work is pleased to announce the opening of the Judith Perlstein Field Education Fund, created in memory of our friend and former Field Education Associate Director, Judith Perlstein. Initiated by The Welcome Project, an organization in Somerville, Mass. that offers civic engagement opportunities for immigrants, the fund will provide annual field […]
MSW/EdM Student Selected for Public Policy Fellowship
June 13, 2019 Emy Takinami, a dual degree student studying social work at BUSSW and educational leadership and policy at BU Wheelock, was accepted to the Rappaport Public Policy Summer Fellowship program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston for the summer of 2019. She will be the first BUSSW student to […]
CADER’s Keefe Offers Expertise on Resources for Older Adults’ Behavioral Health
The Boston Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) will bring together local aging, behavioral health, and homeless services providers for a meeting to address behavioral health among older adults in Boston. Bronwyn Keefe from BUSSW’s Center for Aging & Disability Education & Research (CADER) will join experts from over a dozen organizations to discuss resources […]
Gerontology Prizes Awarded to MSW Students in Aging Specialization
June 11, 2019 MSW students Rose Kamsler (SSW’19, SPH’21) and Molly Saldo (SSW’19), both enrolled in BUSSW’s Lowy-GEM Program in Aging, received top prizes based on their capstone projects at the Massachusetts Gerontology Association’s Annual Spring Forum on Aging. Kamsler, a dual degree candidate in social work and public health, has worked in social and […]
BUSSW Makes Strong Showing at the International Symposium for Social Work with Groups
Get the latest details on BUSSW faculty, students, alumni and course facilitators presenting at the 2019 IASWG Symposium Eleven students, faculty, recent graduates and online course facilitators from Boston University School of Social Work were selected to present at the 2019 Symposium for the International Association for Social Work with Groups (IASWG), June 5-9 in New […]