In a Boston Globe op-ed, Emy Takinami (SSW’20), BU School of Social Work alum and Liberation Health steering committee member, and Husain Rizvi from the City School support a budget plan investing in a non police, community-based mental health crisis response. They call for the Boston City Council to override Mayor Michelle Wu’s veto of […]
Prof. Dawn Belkin Martinez from BU School of Social Work recently traveled to Greece to teach the Liberation Health Model, an innovative process she co-created, to more than 400 professionals and social work students. This holistic approach to mental health includes a person’s experiences within a cultural, political, and historical context. “Many social workers don’t […]
In a recent podcast, Prof. Dawn Belkin Martinez from BU School of Social Work discussed the Liberation Health Model she co-created to better address patients’ mental health. In addition to explaining the Brazilian, Black feminism, and Marxist inspirations for the approach, she discusses the transformative effect it has had on patients, their families, and activism […]
Clinical Professor Dawn Belkin Martinez, PhD, of Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) joins a panel of BU faculty at the College of Arts & Sciences’ in-person Activism in Academia event. Panelists will share their approaches to integrating activism into their academic work and answer questions about how to be an activist from within […]