Associate Professor and Director of the MSW Certificate in Promoting Child and Adolescent Well-Being, shares her thoughts on the importance of observing this month and how people can learn more about this issue. 

MSW student Hannah Loffman recently had the opportunity to speak with Associate Professor Edward Alessi about Pride Month, which is observed in June.

Rutgers School of Social Work Distinguished Research Professor Stephen Crystal was named one of the most influential contemporary social work faculty in an analysis published in the Journal of Social Service Research. According to The 100 Most Influential Contemporary Social Work Faculty as Assessed by the H-Index, Crystal was listed as one of the top 25 faculty members. Also on the list was David Mechanic, who taught courses in social work and sociology at Rutgers University. 

At the School of Social Work, the impact of research extends beyond academia. This is the power of community-engaged research.

The grants were awarded to five Rutgers faculty members who are conducting research and developing education, training, and capacity-building initiatives in collaborative, interdisciplinary ways.

Victoria Banyard, Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, and Associate Director of the Center for Research on Ending Violence, received this year’s Chancellor-Provost’s Award for Pioneering Research.

As part of our field education program, Rutgers School of Social Work offers an online seminar in field instruction, also known as SIFI, that teaches field supervisors how to best engage with our students and be a supportive mentor.

Professor Lia Nower and Assistant Professor Qiana L. Brown have been selected for the leadership team of the new Rutgers Addiction Research Center (RARC).

Rutgers School of Social Work faculty members share recommendations to add to your list.

As a social work professor who researches homeless services, I am often asked what can be done to help individuals who are living on the streets and have a mental illness. Witnessing someone who appears to be homeless talking to themselves, pacing, and acting strangely in public, can be a disturbing sight that invokes fear in the observer. Yet, it is this fear itself that may be hindering the effectiveness of our public response to addressing mental illness in homeless populations.

Younger mothers with children by multiple fathers are more likely to experience psychological or physical harassment, economic abuse and sexual violence than younger mothers who have children with only one partner, a new Rutgers study finds.

Dr. Moore-Bembry gives a glimpse into some of the work relating to Inclusion, Intersectionality, Diversity, Equity and Advancement (IIDEA) that she's recently conducted.