March is Social Work Month, and the National Association of Social Workers’ theme for Social Work Month 2024 is “empowering social workers.” Thomas Benjamin, senior project coordinator and member of the Inclusion, Intersectionality, Diversity, Equity, and Advancement (IIDEA) Committee at Rutgers University School of Social Work, spoke with Rutgers University Associate Professor of Social Work Dr. Joy Jeounghee Kim about her research on social work licensure, earnings, and gender disparity within the social work profession.

Dr. George Leibowitz will assume the role of Dean of the School of Social Work on July 1, 2024.

The mother-daughter duo plans to enter the master of social work program at Rutgers this fall

Rutgers School of Social Work will be represented at the National Association for Social Workers New Jersey (NASW-NJ) Annual Conference from April 14-16, 2024 by a number of presentations and learning opportunities being hosted by our faculty and alumni. 

The Social Work Policy Network sends weekly resources regarding national & local legislature, events, as well as media.

The Social Work Policy Network sends weekly resources regarding national & local legislature, events, as well as media.

Loyola University Chicago announced today that Patricia A. Findley, DrPH, LCSW, has been appointed as Dean of the School of Social Work, effective July 1, 2024. 

Assistance programs may help reduce depression among low-income mothers of young children, Rutgers researchers find.

The Social Work Policy Network sends weekly resources regarding national & local legislature, events, as well as media.

A dual Master of Social Work/Master of Public Affairs and Politics candidate, Taylor Pickett-Stokes will be taking the stage at Mercer County Community College’s (MCCC) Kelsey Theatre March 1-3 with Virginia-based Underground Performing Arts Collective (UPAC) and their presentation of “Black Girl Magic.”

Rutgers alumna Dr. Susan Parish, President of Mercy University, will deliver the Rutgers School of Social Work convocation address on May 13, 2024. Dr. Parish earned her baccalaureate degree from Rutgers University in 1988 and her MSW from Rutgers School of Social Work in 1994. 

When Sofia Lorraine Mico learned that she would be assigned to the Edison Public Library for her senior internship, she didn’t understand why a library would need a student majoring in social work.

Yet within a few weeks, the Rutgers senior found herself helping a woman who walked into the library looking for a homeless shelter. A deaf man living in a hotel asked where he could find an apartment that accepted federal housing vouchers. And a woman who is not a native English speaker couldn’t fill out an application for benefits.