Welcome to the FAU School of Social Work Website. Our motto is, "Empowering People: One Student, One Client, One Community at a Time." We hope this website will answer many of your questions about our programs, mission and goals, news and events, and job postings. We also invite you to email, call, or drop in to meet with us personally. To help you get started, please click on the heading below that relates best to your situation:
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Upcoming Events
- 1/27 Evidenced Based Curriculum training Social Work faculty will be involved in a hands-on full day training session.
- 1/28 Komen Race for the Cure Join Team FAU for the Race for the Cure on Saturday, January 28, 2012 in Downtown West Palm Beach
- 2/1 Presentation: Breast Cancer Coalition Sponsored by Phi Alpha. Please RSVP to Robin Akdeniz at rakdeniz@my.fau.edu.
- 2/3 Field Instructor Training Seminar 16 hours of training for field supervision. This is the 1st session. 16 CEU's awarded along with a certificate. Please contact Tod Marshall for more information at tmarsha5@fau.edu.
November 9, 2011
Homelessness Presentation
November is Homeless Awareness Month. On November 9th, the Phi Alpha Honors Society and the School of Social Work Student Association (SOWSA) sponsored an event on the Boca campus featuring author Steven Sundberg. Professor J.J. Choi invited Steven to the campus and he spoke about his book "Street Logic", a novel about homeless people who live on the streets of Boston and the response of a community to help. There was a good turnout of students and faculty and a lunch was provided. Click here for pictures.
October 15, 2011
FAU Inaugural Football Stadium Tailgating Event
Our SOWSA student organization sponsored a tailgating event to celebrate the opening of our new stadium. Click here for pictures.
Dr. JuYoung Park Awarded Prestigious Hartford Scholars Grant
The prestigious Hartford Faculty Scholars Program has granted 11 geriatric social work researchers a two-year award that will provide career development, mentorship, and support for projects that will improve healthy outcomes for the country's aging population. The program is funded by the John A.
Hartford Foundation and administered by The Gerontological Society of America as a component of the nationwide Geriatric Social Work Initiative, which seeks to expand the training of social workers in order to improve the health and well being of older people and their families. A total of 117 scholars to date have received awards.
"After participating in this program, our hope for our Hartford scholars is that they become exemplars of successful leadership in gerontological social work and applied research, and that they serve as inspirations, guides, and mentors for other social workers interested in similar career trajectories," said National Program Director Barbara Berkman, DSW, PhD.
The 2011 scholars are examining such topics as therapies for post traumatic stress disorder in aging Vietnam War veterans, resident-to-resident aggression in nursing homes, patterns of service use for older adults with mental health disorders, care transition experiences of veterans, and non-drug based approaches for pain management.
The Hartford Faculty Scholars Program provides individualized mentorship from top-tier national researchers who offer comprehensive feedback and guidance, and covers travel expenses and registration fees for several gerontology and social work conferences and professional development institutes. Listed below are the new scholars and their primary research topics. This year, Dr. Juyoung Park, Assistant Professor, FAU School of Social Work, was one of the 11 researchers granted the award. Her research topic is: Utilization of Nonpharmacological Pain Management in Ethnically Diverse Older Adults in South Florida
September, 2011
17th Circuit GAL Community Advocate Award – 2011
The School of Social Work was awarded the 17th Judicial Circuit Guardian ad Litem Community Advocate of the Year Award. The partnership between the School of Social Work and the GAL program began in 2008. Since the initial meetings the partnership has blossomed into the GAL program providing multiple presentations every semester in social work classes and participation in volunteer and career fairs annually. The Field Faculty from the School of Social Work has worked exceptionally hard to partner with the GAL program in order to provide a rich learning environment for undergraduate and graduate social work students completing their field placements. The Guardian ad Litem Program is an approved field placement for BSW and first year MSW interns and serves as a volunteer site for students. In recognizing the value of this partnership, the 17th Circuit GAL Program nominated the FAU School of Social Work as the Statewide Guardian ad Litem Program, Community Advocate of the Year! The Director of the School of Social Work and the Field Faculty attended an awards ceremony in September 2011 in Orlando where they were presented with their award.
September 15, 2011
Welcome New School of Social Work Advisory Committee!
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