Upcoming CEU Events

Let's Make It a Habit: Train Your Brain to Navigate Negativity

3 CEU's

February 8, 2019
1:00-4:00 pm

Speaker: Gina Johnson, MSW, CTS, LCSW, Pesi Certified Trauma Therapist

Youth Suicide Intervention for Service Providers
3 CEU's

March 1, 2019
1:00-4:00 pm

Speaker: Kim Bryan, Executive Director of Rattle the Stars

$30 to attend for CEU's
$10 to attend without CEU's

More information and registration
*online registration and pre-payment required.
Harnessing Technology for Social Good Lecture Series
 
The School of Social Work is holding a year-long lecture series designed to meet the profession's grand challenge of harnessing technology for social good.
These events are free and open to the public, lunch is provided. Registration is required.
 

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Kim Awarded Campus Research Board Grant
 
Professor Hyunil Kim received an Illinois Campus Research Board grant for his project, Opioid Epidemic and Child Maltreatment in the United States.  In addition, Dr. Kim's project received designation as an Arnold O. Beckman Award, which is a subset of awards considered to be of special distinction or promise. 
Hernandez Named PI for R21 Grant from NIMHD
 
Dr. Rosalba Hernandez has been named Principal Investigator for an R21 grant entitled, Obesity in Hispanic/Latino Youth: Intergenerational Effects of Parents' Stress from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. The grant will allow secondary data analysis of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) Youth Study, a cross-sectional multisite observational study of obesity and cardiometabolic risk among U.S. Hispanic/Latino children and their caregivers.  
SSW South Africa Internships Highlighted in VA Corps Video
 
Since 2014, the School of Social Work is proud to have sent 11 students to complete field internships in Cape Town, South Africa. Watch Illinois students, Jasmine Gaston and Stephanie Johansson discuss their internship experiences.


Annual Poverty Simulation Held as Part of MLK Celebrations on Campus
 
The School of Social Work will be hosting its annual Poverty Simulation on January 25, 2019 as part of the Martin Luther King celebrations that happen across campus annually.  T he purpose of the simulation is to bridge the gap from misconception to understanding in an interactive immersion experience. The goal of the simulation is to promote poverty awareness, increase understanding, and inspire local change by sensitizing participants to the realities of poverty. 
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