MARCH IS SOCIAL WORK MONTH!

SSW Students Attend

Thought Provoking Talk by

Inspirational Leader in Social Justice, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 

BSW students from Dr. Suzanne Velazquez and Leah Topek-Walker’s, Practice Process classes attended the SBU Presidential Lecture featuring celebrated author and scholar Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr., who challenged students, faculty, and other members of the Stony Brook University community to engage with the complexities of history, truth, and democracy. Glaude, a distinguished professor at Princeton University, engaged the audience with his insights on American democracy and social justice. His latest book, We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For, a New York Times bestseller based on his Du Bois Lectures at Harvard, calls on ordinary Black Americans to embrace self-cultivation and grassroots activism to create a more just society. 

Building Capacity to Serve Traumatized Youth and Their Families

Dr. Kathleen Monahan’s Wednesday section of HWC 589, Therapeutic Interventions with Trauma, now in its third year is being taught on a national level through a HRSA grant titled “National Initiative in Trauma Education and Workforce Development.” The course, also taught by Dr. Robin DeLuca-Acconi and Dr. Kathy Rogers, is child focused, and is one of the four courses offered by SSW that emphasizes trauma informed and responsive treatment with children and adults. Dr. Monahan worked with a national group and CSWE to develop the Trauma Competencies (published in 2015) and then The Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Trauma-Informed Practice, published in 2018 by the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE) and Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service.