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November 29, 2016

Child Welfare Conference recap

Over a hundred social workers, case managers, CASA volunteers, probation officers, and child welfare advocates attended the 4th Annual Child...

November 17, 2016

Make CPS a better place for social workers

By Monica Faulkner, Ph.D., LMSW and Will Francis

The majority of Texas’ Child Protective Services workers are not social workers. Instead, Texas employs people with degrees in math, history, science, art...

November 17, 2016

Holleran 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...

November 17, 2016

Much work ahead on HIV

By Michele A. Rountree, Ph.D. and Bart Whittington

By Michele Rountree and Twenty-five years ago this month Magic Johnson, the professional basketball player, first publicly disclosed his positive HIV...

November 15, 2016

We 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...

October 18, 2016

Zayas 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...

October 10, 2016

Texas Child Care Market Rate Survey

The Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing has released the final report of the 2016 Texas Child Care Market...

October 10, 2016

Student 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”...

October 3, 2016