Dr. Amy Baker, a 2014 graduate of the Silberman/CUNY social welfare doctoral program, received the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Society for Social Work Research at its annual meeting held in New Orleans in mid-January. The title of her dissertation is Women in Foreclosure: Social Reproduction And Mortgage Strain in the Subprime Era. Dr. Baker also received the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education Student Award for Social Work Research, in recognition of an article published in Social Service Review based on her dissertation research.
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Silberman’s Response to Recent Grand Jury Decisions
All of us have been saddened but not surprised by the recent grand jury decisions, first in Ferguson Missouri, and today in New York City. The issues of social injustice and racism are persistent, pervasive, and permeate our major societal institutions, including education, health care, economic development, and of course, the criminal justice system. Read more …
Respecting Faiths, Avoiding Harm
Second-year policy student Maryam Zoma published , Respecting Faiths, Avoiding Harm: Psychosocial Assistance in Jordan and the United States in Forced Migration Review Online, a publication of Oxford University.
Shadow Count 2015–Registration to become a decoy is now OPEN!
On January 26th – 27th (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 count, and helps our city’s homeless count.
Silberman Student Works to Reform Hasidic Education
The New York Times profiled second year student Naftuli Moster’s efforts to improve the teaching of secular curriculum material in New York City’s Hasidic day schools.
Inequality Inaugural Lecture
On November 13, well over two hundred students, faculty and community practitioners attended the first annual Inequality Lecture at Silberman. The series, curated by Professor Michael Fabricant, addresses the alarming growth of inequality over the past generation and its implications for the delivery of social services, education, health care and criminal justice in the city and the nation.
MSW Student Antonia Maeck Wins Award
MSW student Antonia Maeck was awarded the prestigious Diana List Cullen Memorial Scholarship by the Metropolitan Chapter of the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work. Ms. Maeck’s paper entitled, Listening to Just Jacob: Challenges in School-Based Treatment, describes the work she carried out during her first-year field placement with a young boy struggling with disruptive behavior problems at a charter school in Brooklyn. She will receive a $500 award and a one-year student membership in the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work.
Faculty Members Tapped for National Recognition
Professor Gary Mallon and Visiting Lecturer Diane DePanfilis (who will join our faculty fulltime next year) were among twelve notable social workers inducted into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare on October 25 at the annual program meeting of the Council on Social Work Education in Tampa.
Inequality Lecture Series Kicks Off in November
The first annual inequality lecture will take place at the Silberman School of Social Work on November 13, 2014. The planned series, curated by Professor Michael Fabricant, will address the alarming growth of inequality in the city and the nation.
Professor Irene Chung to be Honored by NYU’s Silver School of Social Work
Professor Irene Chung will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from New York University’s Silver School of Social Work at its annual alumni day celebration on November 8th. Professor Chung will be recognized for her many contributions to improving mental health services in the Asian community as well as for her research and publications on suicide among Asian immigrants.