June 23-29, 2025

Social work faculty share strategies to address chronic absenteeism at Hillsborough County Public Schools symposium

Jamie M. Clem, PhD, MSW, assistant professor of instruction, and Jennifer Roth, MSW, LCSW, assistant instructor, both from the School of Social Work, facilitated a training session on using motivational interviewing to address chronic absenteeism at the Attendance Symposium for Hillsborough County Public Schools social workers. Read more.

Ciara Spivey, Britani Holland and Pedro Serrano-Mejia

CBCS experts present at Florida social work conference

Students, faculty, staff, and an alumna from the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences recently shared their work at the National Association of Social Workers Florida Annual Conference. Read more.

Publications

Bilali, K. & Santos, M. R. (2025). How sweet is the deal? The effect of incentives on college students’ willingness to sugar date. Criminal Justice and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548251343821

Defense of a Doctoral Dissertation

Title: Conflicting Social Information and Its Impact on Sentence Comprehension in Young Adults With DLD: An Eye-Tracking Study

Student: Ansley Davis

Program: Communication Sciences and Disorders

Date: Friday, June 27

Time: 8 a.m.

Location: Microsoft Teams (Meeting ID: 211 009 537 813 0 | Passcode: : b7oW2no9)

Upcoming Events & Deadlines

Mental Health & Wellness in the Workplace Course

Learn to attract and retain talent by creating a workplace culture that fosters wellness and allows for the free expression of issues related to employee mental health, behavioral health, and addiction. Start the course today.

Project MABAS 2025 Virtual Summer Institute

Strategies to Support and Enhance the Promotion of Mental Health Wellbeing of Children and Youth in High Need Schools

June 27 | 9 a.m. -noon

July 11 | 9 a.m.-noon

The Project MABAS 2025 Summer Institute will be divided into four parts, offered on four different days. Register here.

Project iSED 2025 Virtual Summer Institute

Strategies to Support School-Aged Children with Severe Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

June 27 | 9 a.m.-noon

The Project iSED 2025 Summer Institute will be divided into three parts, offered on three different days. Register here.

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Info sessions: Institute for Translational Research Education in Adolescent Substance Use (ITRE)

July 25 | 12:30-1:30 p.m.

September 5 | 12-1 p.m.

October 3 | 12-1 p.m.

The Institute for Translational Research Education in Adolescent Substance Use (ITRE) is accepting applications for its next cohort! The program prepares scholars to conduct community-based research using implementation science and translational research techniques. Graduate students and working professionals are eligible to apply.

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