By Howard Parad (’48) Among others, there were two memorable army experiences that prompted me to apply to BUSSW in 1945 or 1946. While assigned as a corporal , intelligence technician(Technician/5th grade) at a prisoner of war camp (KRIEGS GEFANGERER LAGER, if I remember my then fluency in German), I overheard two prisoners trying to […]
By Mary Moore (’18) In 2008, I met a 14-year old boy. He was living as a 22-year old and was being trafficked in every sense of the word. He had been sold by his parents, both drug addicts, at age 10 for $3,000 to a man who was in charge of a human trafficking […]
By Linda Riesenberg Rakoff It was winter 1972, in my second year BUSSW placement, as part of a UAF training program at Children’s Hospital in Boston, I participated in a community project at the Fernald State School as deinstitutionalization was underway. My task was to assist the social worker in preparing women who spent decades unjustly […]
By Norma Wigutoff (’76) A long time ago my first real social work job after graduating from BUSSW was with Child Protective Services at Catholic Charities In Brockton, MA where I was lucky enough to have weekly supervision with a supervisor I still keep in touch with after all these years! I was in my […]