The School of Social Work Beyond Borders: Global Mental Health Research and Services Conference is now accepting proposals! You’re invited to submit original and creative proposals that help improve the ways that we think about global mental health and community wellbeing. A wide range of submissions are welcomed, including traditional scholarly abstracts as well as […]
A new article co-authored by Dr. Flávia Andrade, PhD Program Director and Professor, has been published in Social Science & Medicine. Close kin availability and mortality among older adults in Brazil discusses how Brazil is struggling with limited welfare infrastructure to support healthy aging, making spouses and adult children among the primary sources of support […]
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 […]
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 […]
