News & Events for April 2003

There will be two MANDATORY field information sessions for students who plan on completing their field placement in the Fall, 2003. It is required that all students attend one of these sessions prior to applying for field placement. For student convenience there will be sessions centrally offered on the Boca campus only.

When: May 28, 2003, Wednesday, 10am – 12pm and May 30, 2003, Friday, 4pm - 6pm

Where: Boca campus, Room SO 285, Social Science Building

The School of Social Work is developing a certificate on "Social Work with Elders". Contact Dr. Michael Kane for more details.

Recently retired professor Dr. Wilma Greenfield reports that all is going well with her new position at the Family Advocacy Center at Yokota Air Base, Japan where she is working a Family Advocacy Outreach Manager. We wish Wilma and her partner Ken Moore well.

On May 28, 2003, Dr. Allan Barsky's will be presenting an institute at Association of Family Courts Conference in Ottawa on " Life Cycle Issues for Families with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgender Members: What Family Court Professionals Need to Know" with Canadian Supreme Court Justice Claire L'Hereaux Dubé, Tampa GLBT rights lawyer Karen Doering, and others.

Dr. Velmarie Albertini's research on “ Racial Mistrust Among Immigrant Minority Students" will be published in Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal in August 2004.