The Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College mourns the loss of our dear friend and colleague, Dr. Robert Salmon, who passed away on Thursday, May 12, 2016.
Since the start of his career more than fifty years ago, Dr. Salmon has significantly shaped the practice of social work in his roles as teacher, scholar, practitioner, and mentor.
Policy Track students are part of the Community Organizing, Planning & Development (COP & D) method who elect to deepen their policy skills and knowledge by taking additional policy courses and work on a specific policy project in their second year field placement. Interested students please contact Dr. Mimi Abramovitz.
Professor Earner will be presenting at the, “The Dream of America Separation & Sacrifice in the Lives of North Country Latino Immigrants,” event at the Folklife Center in the Crandall Public Library on Saturday April 9, 2016. This event takes us from the milking parlors of surrounding counties to the cinder-block homes of Coyula, Guadalajara, Mexico, and back again. This straightforward perspective asks that we consider without bias or stereotype, the work being done, and the lives and sacrifices of the workers. Hard work and separation are underlying themes of these immigrants’ lives. Click here for more information.
Ford Foundation President Darren Walker and NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray at the Connections to Care launch event.
STRIVE New York is proud to be among 14 New York City nonprofits selected to participate in Connections to Care, a $30 million public-private partnership that aims to expand access to mental health services by integrating evidence-based mental health support into social services programs serving low-income New Yorkers.
Connections to Care is a program of the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City and the federal Social Innovation Fund of the Corporation for National and Community Service.
On March 2, 2016, Professors Terry Mizrahi and Mimi Abramovitz and 60 Silberman School of Social Work Students, half specializing in Clinical Practice and half specializing in Community Organizing Planning and Development (COPD participated in NYS Social Work Student Legislative Action Day (“Lobby Day”) in Albany New York.
The Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, mourns the loss of our friend and colleague, Dr. Carmen Ortiz Hendricks who passed away on Sunday, February 21, 2016.
Since 1974, Dr. Carmen Ortiz Hendricks made significant contributions to the practice of social work in the roles of educator, administrator, and multi-cultural scholar.
Daniel Gardner, Ph.D., Director of Research for Silberman Aging and Associate Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work, was selected to receive an Award of Excellence in Professional Education and Research at the upcoming Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network (SWHPN) General Assembly in Chicago. The Silberman School of Social Work wishes to congratulate our colleague on this recognition of his extraordinary contribution to the area of Hospice and Palliative Care.
Congratulations to the following students for being awarded the Charles A. Frueauff Foundation/The Children’s Village scholarship.
Tatyana Krychkina (upper left)
Madelyn Villar (not pictured)
Kristen Jester (upper middle)
Julieta Ramirez (not pictured)
Stephanie Ferreira (upper right)
Katharine Gange (lower left)
Ebony Brown, and (lower middle)
Arislady Gomez (lower right)
On January 25-26 (overnight), the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) will send thousands of volunteers across the city to count NYC’s unsheltered homeless people. On that same night, Shadow Count decoys will be deployed to designated locations throughout the five boroughs to report how many of them are counted. This project helps assess the accuracy of the DHS street survey and helps our city’s homeless count. Read more…
Mimi Abramovitz, Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy at Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, City University of New York has been elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. The AASWSW is, an honorific society of distinguished scholars and practitioners dedicated to achieving excellence in the field of social work and social welfare. She will be inducted into the Academy on January 15, 2016 in Washington D.C. The ceremony will be held at the annual meeting of Society for Social Work Research ( SSWR)