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Social work graduates fill behavioral health specialist positions in People’s Community Clinic
Read moreCongratulations 2016 fall graduates!
The School of Social Work 2016 fall commencement ceremony took place in the LBJ auditorium on Saturday, December 3.
Read moreNominations for Alumni of the Year Award are open!
The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work is requesting nominations for the 2017 Charles I. Wright Distinguished...
Read morePatient navigators help increase cancer screening among Texas women
AUSTIN, Texas – Patient navigators who were deployed as part of a state program have proved to be effective in...
Read moreChild Welfare Conference recap
Over a hundred social workers, case managers, CASA volunteers, probation officers, and child welfare advocates attended the 4th Annual Child...
Read moreMuch work ahead on HIV
By Michele Rountree and Twenty-five years ago this month Magic Johnson, the professional basketball player, first publicly disclosed his positive HIV...
Read moreMake CPS a better place for social workers
The majority of Texas’ Child Protective Services workers are not social workers. Instead, Texas employs people with degrees in math, history, science, art...
Read moreHolleran Steiker on teen addiction and recovery schools
Lori Holleran Steiker was a guest in “All sides with Ann Fisher” (WOSU Public Media) talking about teen addiction and...
Read moreWe must focus efforts on the mental health of female veterans
The election of the highest number of women into the U.S. Senate is a harbinger of change to come in...
Read moreZayas is finalist for Hamilton Book Author Awards
Dean Luis H. Zayas’s book, Forgotten Citizens. Deportation, Children, and the Making of American Exiles and Orphans, is one of...
Read moreStudent poster receives "Outstanding" recognition at NASW-Texas
The poster “Mezzo Level Interventions for the School-to-Prison Pipeline,” co-authored by master’s students Samantha Guz and Maya Williams, received the “Outstanding”...
Read moreTexas Child Care Market Rate Survey
The Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing has released the final report of the 2016 Texas Child Care Market...
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