School of Social Work News

2013 MSW candidate, Amanda Pratt, received the 2013 NASW-Michigan Chapter Public Awareness of Social Justice Issue Award. She wrote an editorial for her hometown newspaper, regarding the need for drug and alcohol prevention in schools.

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Clinical Assistant Professor Sue Ann Savas conducted a training for 30 community members representing approximately 10 organizations on utilizing logic models for program development through the Washtenaw Alliance for Children and Youth on October 30, 2013.  Participants learned about the benefits of using logicl models in design, evaluation, and grant getting and how to develop a program logic model for a new or existing program.

Lorraine M. Gutiérrez, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor has been appointed to The Special Commission to Advance Macro Practice in Social Work, convened by the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration.

2011 SSW alumni, Amanda Stein, was recently offered the branch editor position at the internet startup The Rooner Post.

Warde Manuel, AD at University of Connecticut is a U-M MSW graduate and was recently interviewed by the Free Press.

Professor Kathleen Coulborn Faller presented "Working with Developmentally Challenged Parents in the Child Welfare System" and "Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse and Divorce at the Mid-Atlantic Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect.

Associate Dean Jorge Delva was a panelist for the screening of the documentary "The Harvest/La Cosecha" hosted by the U-M Hatcher Graduate Library. The panel discussed justice issues affecting migrant workers and child labor in the U.S.