Category: Community Engagement

CISWH News: Partnership with Vot-ER Promotes Civic Health

This Civic Health Month, the Center for Innovation for Social Work and Health (CISWH) at BUSSW has partnered with Vot-ER in a nationwide effort to promote civic engagement – an essential component of individual and community health. Excerpt from “CISWH Promotes Civic Health with Vot-ER” (CISWH News): The COVID-19 pandemic bared the ugly truth about the […]

From left to right: Consuelo J. Pérez with her daughter, Tatiana Thomas; Catalina Tang Yan; and Angélica Bachour with her two sons, Gabriel Bachour and Simon Bachour

Doctoral Candidate Catalina Tang Yan and Grassroots Parent Advocates Receive ARDRAW Grant

BUSSW doctoral candidate Catalina Tang Yan, in collaboration with parent advocates Angélica Bachour and Consuelo J. Pérez, received the Social Security Administration’s Analyzing Relationships between Disability, Rehabilitation, and Work (ARDRAW) grant, a one-year program that awards a $10,000 stipend to graduate-level students to foster new analysis of work, rehabilitation, and disability issues. Tang Yan, whose […]

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NIH: Prof. Sprague Martinez’s Work is Highlighted in Story on Academic-Community Partnerships

The NIH/National Institute on Environment Health Sciences showcased the work of Professor Linda Sprague Martinez and partners in “Academic-Community Partnership Informs Policy and Practice to Reduce Air Pollution Exposure,” a story highlighting the Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health Study (CAFEH) partnership. Excerpt from “Academic-Community Partnership Informs Policy and Practice to Reduce Air Pollution […]

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Prof. Augsberger & MSW Student Gloria Ng Part of BU Team to Receive Research Award Examining Youth Emergency Mental Health Response

A multidisciplinary team including BU School of Social Work Assistant Professor Astraea Augsberger and MSW/MPH dual degree student Gloria Ng received a 2021 Early Stage Urban Research Award from BU Initiative on Cities (IOC). The team will research youth emergency mental health response in Boston.  The team’s primary goal is to create a compendium of […]