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In a photo voice study released this month in the , Dr. Melanie Doucet worked with eight former youth in care to describe what types relationships they had found most helpful as they left group or foster care. Relationships to culture, spirituality and the land were identified as particularly important for racialized and Indigenous youth. Animal companions also emerged as an important non-human connection.

Published on: 22 Sep 2020

Provost Manfredi discusses the consultations that have gone into formulating the Action Plan (due to be completed by Sept. 30), the Plan's goals and its eventual implementation.

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Published on: 21 Sep 2020

in a leading international journal,Professor Alicia Boatswain-Kyteand colleagues tracked child protection services over a ten-year span for a group of close to 16,000 children involved in an urban agency in Quebec. They found that “while representing 9% of the general population in 2011, Black children represented 24% of children receiving child protection services for the corresponding year.

Published on: 10 Sep 2020

Susan's article regarding the back to school plan in Quebec was recently published in LA PRESSE newspaper.

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Published on: 25 Aug 2020

Sherel is applying her expertise and knowledge of family psychotherapy to strengthen the lives of Black families and build a community network.

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Published on: 27 Jul 2020

In an article in the , Professors Tamara Sussman & Shari Brotman argue that reducing older people to "passive" and "vulnerable" victims reinforces ageist attitudes that contribute to their marginalization.

Published on: 27 Jul 2020

The Regulation, Affect, and Development (RAaD) Lab (Prof. Katherine Maurer) invites all students of the 91˿Ƶ School of Social Work with access to an iPhone to participate in an online research study on increasing resilience to stress. Participants will engage in daily activities to increase healthy stress management skills via an iOS phone application (the JoyPop app).

Participation is compensated up to $50 for the full study. This research aims to benefit social work service providers directly, as well as service users, particularly vulnerable youth.

Published on: 22 Jul 2020

Professor Wanda Gabriel and other community members speak out about the unresolved land dispute at the centre of the Oka Crisis thirty years on.

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Published on: 15 Jul 2020

Delphine Collin-Vézina,Associate Professor in the 91˿Ƶ School of Social Work and the Director of the 91˿Ƶ Centre for Research on Children and Families (CRCF),received COVID-19 research funding.

Published on: 14 Jul 2020

Beginning the week of July 20, 91˿Ƶ students, faculty and staff will be able to take advantage of a Terrace Pickup Service for print books not available electronically or through theHathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS). The initial rollout of this service will provide access to books housed in the McLennan-Redpath Library Complex and the Nahum Gelber Law Library only. Materials from other branches will not be available during the first phase of this service. 91˿Ƶ users will be able to request up to ten items per week using a form.

Published on: 13 Jul 2020

In a 91˿Ƶ Alumni webcast, Professor Karl Moore is joined by Professor Henry Mintzberg and Susan Mintzberg, a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work who studies the role of family caregivers in mental healthcare. The three cast light on how we can build better systems and more balanced societies based on lessons learned from COVID-19.

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Published on: 6 Jul 2020

The Regulation, Affect, and Development (RAaD) Lab (Prof.Katherine Maurer) invites all students of the 91˿Ƶ School of Social Workwith access to an iPhone to participate in an online research study onincreasing resilience to stress. Participants will engage in daily activities
to increase healthy stress management skills via an iOS phone application(the JoyPop app). Participation is compensated up to $50 for the full study.This research aims to benefit social work service providers directly, as wellas service users, particularly vulnerable youth.

Published on: 26 Jun 2020

Space for the broader school community to reflect on social work’s complicity in structural violence and oppression led by Kate Maurer and Wanda Gabriel.

Location:Zoom link:

Time: 12 pm to 1pm

Published on: 3 Jun 2020

The Canada Council for the Arts has announced six recipients of the prestigious 2020 Killam Research Fellowship, including 91˿ƵProfessorMyriam Denov.

Professor Myriam Denov, Canada Research Chair in Youth, Gender and Armed Conflict, received a 2020 Killam Research Fellowship to support her work examining the needs of children born of war in northern Uganda.

She is the first social work researcher ever to receive a Killam Research Fellowship in the award’s 50+ year history.

Published on: 27 May 2020

Professor Delphine Collin-Vezina has been Partnership grant over 7 years to support the Canadian Consortium on Child Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care. This Partnership unites 39 co-applicants (including Kate Maurer and Mike MacKenzie from our School), 18 collaborators (including Wanda Gabriel and Ben Geboe from our school), and 43 partner organizations from across Canada.

Published on: 27 May 2020

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