Lauren Snedeker is an Assistant Professor of Teaching, Director of the Aging & Health MSW Certificate Program, and Core Member of the Hub for Aging Collaboration at Rutgers School of Social Work. Dr. Snedeker explains the significance of World Ageism Day, which is observed on October 9, and shares ways social workers and allied professionals can recognize this day.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month takes place every October. Simone Snyder, Senior Program Coordinator at Rutgers School of Social Work’s Center for Research on Ending Violence, discusses the importance of recognizing Domestic Violence Awareness Month and shares ways social workers can recognize it this month and beyond.
E. Goldblatt Hyatt is DSW Program Director and Associate Professor of Professional Practice for Reproductive Justice at Rutgers School of Social Work. We spoke to them about the significance of LGBT History Month and ways social workers can commemorate it in October and beyond.
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.
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.