The MSSW Final Field Orientation is mandatory for all MSSW students who will be entering their final field placement in spring 2021. The Scholars Program and Early Selection Fair will follow for Sp21 MSSW final field students who are interested in learning more about the early selection process and placements available.
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December 2019
Makeup: Mandatory Spring 2020 MSSW Final Field Orientation
This orientation is mandatory for all students who will be entering MSSW Final Field in Spring 2020 and were unable to attend the previous orientation.
Find out more »Adolescents, young adults and substance use
The 2019 Steve Hicks Lecture on Addictions and Substance Abuse Services present
Sharon Levy, MD, MPH
The changing landscape of adolescents, young adults and substance use
Q&A after the lecture
About the speaker: Sharon Levy, MD, MPH is a board-certified developmental-behavioral pediatrician, an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and the director of the Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program (ASAP) in the Division of Developmental Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Levy has evaluated and treated thousands of adolescents with substance use disorders, and has taught national curricula and published extensively on the outpatient management of substance use disorders in adolescents. Dr. Levy is the past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Substance Use and Prevention, the president of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) and serves on the board of directors of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship Director’s Association.
This lecture is organized by the Steve Hicks School of Social Work and co-sponsored by SHIFT and the Dell Medical School Departments Psychiatry and Health Social Work.
Find out more »January 2020
Makeup: Mandatory Spring 2020 MSSW Final Field Orientation
This orientation is mandatory for all students who will be entering MSSW Final Field in Spring 2020 and were unable to attend the previous orientations.
Find out more »Spring 2020 Field Instructor Development Institute
This event is open to all UT SHSSW Field Instructors. Space is limited and registration is required. Please contact the Office of Field Education for more information: ssw-field@austin.utexas.edu
Find out more »Service Learning Fair
The DiNitto Career Center invites you to meet with a variety of organizations to find out more about their available service-learning opportunities at the Service Learning Fair. The fair will be open to any UT Social Work student interested in finding out about service-learning placements and volunteer opportunities.
Find out more »Service Learning Fair
The DiNitto Career Center invites you to meet with a variety of organizations to find out more about their available service-learning opportunities at the Service Learning Fair. The fair will be open to any UT Social Work student interested in finding out about service-learning placements and volunteer opportunities.
Find out more »February 2020
CPDC Meeting and Potluck
Meeting for the members of The Community Partnership Development Committee
Refugee and the disability experience
The Disability Awareness Speaker Series present
Qusay Hussein
refugee and the disability experience
About the speaker: Qusay Hussein is psychology and social work major at The University of Texas at Austin. He arrived in Austin as a refugee from Iraq, after suffering severe injuries from a suicide bombing in 2006.
This series is sponsored by The University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Center for Disability Studies, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, School of Nursing, LGBTQ Studies in the College of Liberal Arts, Humanities Institute, and the Faculty Innovation Center.
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