Assistant Professor Marina Lalayants and Professor Diane DePanfilis of Silberman’s National Center for Child Welfare Excellence have been awarded a three-year grant from the Children’s Bureau of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families to evaluate an intervention designed to support family connections and improve outcomes for children who are in foster care or at risk of entering foster care.
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Can Cops and Community Get Together?
Earlier this month, Associate Professor Michael Lewis moderated a panel discussion at Hunter’s Roosevelt House entitled “Can Cops and Community Get Together?” The session explored enduring issues of race and law enforcement that continue to weigh on the city and nation with gathering force, ranging across the spectrum of criminal justice, from stop and frisk encounters to harsh solitary confinement, and from Ferguson to Baltimore. Other speakers included Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele of Community for Police Reform and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Susan Herman, Deputy Commissioner, Collaborative Policing, New York Police Department. Video of the discussion is available here.
Gelman and Giunta Tapped as GSA Fellows
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) — the nation’s largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging — has named Silberman Professors Caroline Gelman and Nancy Giunta as two of its newest class of fellows.
CWOP Honors Professor Mizrahi
Professor Terry Mizrahi was honored by the Child Welfare Organizing Project (CWOP) at their 20th anniversary celebration held in May at the Museum of the City of New York. Professor Mizrahi, was recognized for her continued contribution in transforming the New York City Child Welfare System. CWOP is a grass roots community organization that advocates for children and families involved with the child welfare system.
Silberman Professor Martha Bragin Addresses UNICEF Symposium on the Impact on Children’s Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-Being
UNICEF and the Government of the Netherlands, the World Health Organization, USAID, along with Silberman School of Social Work and other governmental and non-governmental organizations held a symposium on children’s mental health and well-being in protracted armed conflicts from May 26-28, in The Hague.
Professor Abramovitz on the Settlement House Advantage
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Mimi Abramovitz. Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy at Silberman School of Social Work presented her research on the Settlement House Advantage to an audience of more than 150 members of the non-profit community who gathered at Baruch College on May 27, 2015. Authored by Dr. Abramovitz the informative new report, The Settlement House Advantage: Overcoming the the Odds contains the voices of 3,000 New Yorkers who give the place.-based settlement house service model high marks. The launch was keynoted by Lilliam Barios-Paoli, NYC Deputy Mayor or Health and Human Services. The full report is available here.
Belle and George Strell Executive Leadership Fellows Program Launched
The Belle and George Strell Executive Leadership Fellows program was launched with a breakfast reception at the Silberman School of Social Work on Friday, April 17th. The fellows program, made possible by an endowment from Hunter alumna Joan Depontet and a grant from The New York Community Trust, will identify and prepare promising MSW high level managers with the potential to take on key leadership roles in human service organizations in New York City.
Clinical Practice Students Awarded CSWE-SAMHSA Minority Fellowships
Michael Serrano, and Julia Pichardo, Advanced Standing clinical practice students in the MSW Program, have received Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Recent Events of Concern to All
These are indeed are trying times.
The murder on Monday night of Ana Charle, Director of the Project Renewal Homeless Shelter in the Bronx, is deeply disturbing and sad for all of us, but particularly upsetting to social workers.
Hunter College Community Honors Public Safety Officer Killed Last Year in East Harlem Building Explosion
The Hunter College community celebrated the life of Sgt. Griselde Camacho, a seven-year veteran of the college’s public safety force who was killed in a building explosion in East Harlem on March 12, 2014.
Sgt. Camacho’s mother, Carmen Quinones, and son, Jaser, among others, attended a plaque unveiling ceremony at Hunter College’s East Harlem campus…Read more.