The School of Social Work recently hosted the inaugural Beyond Borders: Global Mental Health Research and Services Conference. Coinciding with World Mental Health Day, the conference sought to bring together leaders, researchers, practitioners and people with lived experience from the local Champaign-Urbana community and around the world. Spanning two days, the event included speaker sessions […]
Beth Shelton, a PhD student at the University of Illinois School of Social Work and the first certified perinatal mental health specialist in Memphis, Tennessee, and the Mid-South region, recognized early on the profound impact that a lack of trauma-focused care can have on the mental well-being of families who have experienced the loss of […]
This November, the Second World Summit for Social Development (WSSD2) will convene in Doha, Qatar, nearly thirty years after the landmark 1995 Copenhagen Summit. The first summit produced the Copenhagen Declaration, which committed governments to three foundational pillars: poverty eradication, full and productive employment, and social integration. Since then, progress has been slow and uneven […]
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Karen Tabb Dina has been selected as the inaugural Mark Brandt Faculty Scholar in the School of Social Work. The Brandt Faculty Scholar was established to honor scholarship and leadership of the highest distinction in research, mentorship, and professional service. Following an open call for nominations among eligible […]
When University of Illinois School of Social Work PhD student Erika La Frano began her career as a clinician, she witnessed firsthand the struggles immigrant women face when seeking help after intimate partner violence (IPV). Her clients encountered barriers that extended far beyond the violence itself, including language differences, cultural stigma, lack of legal knowledge, […]
The School of Social Work received the Illinois Global Institute (IGI) New Approaches to International Area and Global Studies Grant and has, in partnership with other units at the University if Illinois Urbana-Champaign, created “Leveraging the Arts for Global Dialogue”. This initiative aims to explore racial and social transnational justice through creative expression. Gianna Camacho […]
The “long arm of childhood” on mortality in older adulthood in the United States and Brazil: examining the role of educational attainment and differences by gender, a paper co-authored by Social Work professor Dr. Flávia Andrade, University of Texas professor Mateo Farina, and Eric Klopack (postdoctoral researcher, University of Southern California at time of writing) has […]
The Children and Family Research Center (CFRC) has published a new study, “Child Maltreatment Re-port, Substantiation and Foster Care Placement: A Latent Class Analysis of Child, Caregiver, and Household Risk Factors Across Screened-In and Screened-Out Cases“. This study by Dr. Yuerong Liu and colleagues combined qualitative coding of CPS intake reports with latent class analyses […]
Social Work professor Dr. Flávia Andrade, doctoral student Ting Hu, and University of Rhode Island professor Dr. Nekehia Quashie were recently awarded a grant from the World Health Organization (WHO) to focus on the unmet needs of older adults in the Americas. The project, Quantifying unmet need for social care among older persons globally with […]
The 2024 Bias-Free Child Removal Pilot Program Evaluation Report, developed by the Children and Family Research Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, examines the early implementation of a new initiative to reduce racial bias in child removal decisions by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). This pilot was launched in three […]