Bridget Nash, Rutgers School of Social Work lecturer since 2014, graduate of the Rutgers DSW and MSW programs, and a social worker who has been in clinical private practice for over 15 years, discusses how social workers can commemorate Suicide Prevention Week, which takes place Sunday, September 8th through Saturday, September 14th. She shares her own experience as both a teacher, clinician, and sister of someone who lost her battle with mental illness.

Dr. Kristen Gilmore Powell (PI/PD), along with Drs. N. Andrew Peterson (Co-PI/Co-PD), and Cory Morton (Co-I), were awarded $739,529 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) through a five-year grant (total award amount $3,697,645) for their project, Continuing Prevention Workforce Development through the Northeast and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center.

Rutgers School of Social Work professor Edward J. Alessi and Gabriel Robles, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, received a $431,750 grant (total award) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities for their project, “A Mixed-Methods Study of the Social Ecological and Integration Factors Associated with HIV Prevention Behaviors Among Latino/x Sexual Minority Migrant Men in the U.S.”

Rutgers School of Social Work faculty members Drs. Ashley Jackson, Lenna Nepomnyaschy, and Emmy Tiderington authored policy briefs addressing three Grand Challenges for Social Work.

Dual J.D. and M.S.W. graduate is developing her path for bringing legal and social services to those in need.

Associate Professor Emmy Tiderington, who shared research and recommendations with the court in an amicus brief, unpacks the ruling.

Dr. Sandra Edmonds Crewe, Professor and Dean Emerita at Howard University School of Social Work in Washington, D.C., was named the 2024-25 Rutgers School of Social Work Sojourner Truth Social & Racial Justice Visiting Professor.

For more than a decade, members of the School of Social Work’s Alumni Council have served as ambassadors that interface between the School, the thousands of alumni who earned a social work degree from Rutgers, and the broader social work community. The Alumni Council, which is comprised of alumni who serve in a volunteer capacity, supports future generations of social workers, enhances the professional portfolios of alumni, and keeps graduates connected with their classmates.

Dr. Laurie L. Mulvey, who graduated from Rutgers School of Social Work with an MSW degree in 1989, considers her education at Rutgers to be the most valuable part of her entire educational experience. Now a clinical professor in sociology/criminology at The Pennsylvania State University, Dr. Mulvey developed and directs the university’s World in Conversation Center, a university hub since 2002 for training students to become conflict facilitators. The mission of "conflict facilitators" is to deploy Mulvey’s dialogue method to help small groups build solutions around contentious social problems. 

Dr. Richard Edwards, Interim Dean of Rutgers School of Social Work, Chancellor Emeritus, and Distinguished Professor, for receiving the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW).

Juneteenth is one of the most culturally important days in American history, and there are many of us who are just learning the historical significance of this day. The origins of Juneteenth have increasingly been recognized and celebrated nationally, so how did Juneteenth come about, and why are we celebrating it now?