Clinical Professor Lenette Azzi-Lessing has been named a Senior Fellow at the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), where she has worked with 30 years. As a Senior Fellow, Azzi-Lessing will have the opportunity to use her extensive experience in child welfare to further the mission of CWLA. The organization’s mission is to convene a […]
Professor Hyeouk Chris Hahm was a featured expert at the Society for Social Work Research’s 2022 Annual Conference for the symposium From Exclusion to Inclusion: Un-erasing Asian identities and dismantling systemic racism through Praxis. Prof Hahm shared her research and experience on Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) populations including AAPI researchers who have suffered from […]
Professor Hyeouk (Chris) Hahm will share her expertise at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Listening Session during a Town Hall to be held on January 21, 2022. During the sessions, panelists will share their experiences, observations, opinions, and feelings about the facilitators and barriers to funding success for minoritized NIMH grant applicants, including […]
How can a youth of color’s phenotype–or skin color–affect the messages they receive about their place in an ethnic-racial group? How can those signals affect their development? In a recent study led by Prof. Judith Scott at BU School of Social Work, researchers are expanding the understanding of Ethnic-Racial Socialization (ERS) to explore just that. […]