Professor López in BU Diversity & Inclusion’s “Thriving in Boston”
Get to know Luz Marilis López: BUSSW clinical professor, director of the Global Health Core at the Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH), and associate director of the Dual Degree Program in Social Work & Public Health. In BU Diversity & Inclusion‘s video spotlight, López explains how Boston University’s culture of acceptance and […]
Professor Wilkinson: Community Supersedes Learning in Virtual Classrooms
In BU Digital Learning & Innovation’s new Voices & Reflections series, BUSSW professor Geoff Wilkinson shares his experience with remote teaching amid the coronavirus crisis. Excerpted from BU Digital Learning & Innovation: As someone with online teaching experience, I was familiar with working with Zoom. For many of my students enrolled on the Charles River Campus and […]
Byrne and Colleagues Develop Web App to Help Local Communities Estimate COVID-19 Needs for Homeless Population
Following his recent report on the impact of COVID-19 on the homeless population, BUSSW professor Tom Byrne and co-authors Dennis P. Culhane, Dan Treglia, & Ken Steif from the University of Pennsylvania, and Randall Kuhn from UCLA, have developed a web application based on their model to allow local communities to estimate need based on their particular local circumstances. According to the report, which […]
Project IMPACT Helps Parents with Intellectual Disabilities Develop Skills to Keep Children Out of Foster Care
Article by Maura King Scully, originally published in BU School of Social Work’s IMPACT Magazine (Winter/Spring 2020) A small percentage of parents in the U.S.—an estimated 2.3% —have intellectual disabilities, yet their children are disproportionately represented in the child welfare system. While child removal and placement in foster care is sometimes necessary to ensure children’s […]
Spencer and Salas-Wright Inducted as Society for Social Work and Research Fellows
The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) recently named BU School of Social Work faculty members Renée Spencer and Christopher Salas-Wright SSWR Fellows of 2020, a recognition of their contributions to scientific social work research and dedication to SSWR’s mission. Spencer and Salas-Wright will maintain the honorary designation throughout the duration of their SSWR […]
Professor Sprague Martinez Shares Expertise at Invitation-Only Event Commemorating Aspen Institute Report
A Nation at Hope, released in January 2019 by the Aspen Institute’s National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, spurred a national conversation about how young people learn. The central idea of the Commission’s work deeply resonated with the experience of families, educators, and community leaders alike: that children learn best when they are […]
Researchers Examine Benefits of Informal Mentoring for Young People
BUSSW doctoral program graduate Grace Gowdy (SSW’19) and professors Renée Spencer and Daniel P. Miller lead new research on characteristics associated with informal mentorship By Maura King Scully “It takes a village to raise a child.” The African proverb, connoting the importance of adult involvement beyond parents for children’s healthy growth, is well known. What is lesser known is […]
Associate Dean Judith Gonyea and Alumna Marylou Sudders SSW’78 Inducted into American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare
Judith Gonyea, professor and associate dean for faculty affairs at BUSSW, and Marylou Sudders (SSW’78), secretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health & Human Services (EOHHS), were recently inducted as Fellows into The American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), joining a prestigious group of social work scholars and practitioners. The awards […]
Professor Spencer Delivers Keynote at Netherlands Mentoring Conference
Professor Renée Spencer shared her presentation, Mentoring in the Real World: How Social Ecologies Influence Mentor-Youth Relationships, as a keynote address at the Mentoring Short Course Conference, hosted by the European Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, October 7-8. The conference connects state-of-the-art research results and mentoring practices with this year’s theme of innovations […]
Tel Aviv Officials Seek Out BUSSW Faculty for Expertise on Homelessness and Substance Use
A global social work perspective Delegates from Israel working on behalf of the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality recently met with BUSSW faculty to learn about effective program models and intervention strategies for addressing homelessness and addiction in urban areas. The delegates are currently working on an initiative that will address a growing reality of substance use […]