News

This week, the Council on Social Work Education is holding its Annual Program Meeting (APM). SSW Program Director (for our Master of Social Work program), Dr. Suzanne Shatila is slated to present twice at the conference. The first is the poster presentation “Feminist Peer Mentoring in Doctoral Programs: Supporting the Next Generation of Students,” on […]

Six members of the research project, Impacts of Neoliberalism on Social Work Practice in Minnesota, have received acceptances from the Society for Social Work Research. All are students or alums of the UMN School of Social Work PhD program.  Dr. Jessica Toft (chair, pictured above), Dr. Molly Calhoun (alum), Dr. Mingyang Zheng (alum), and Ruti Soffer-Elnekave (candidate), […]

Channel Lowery, a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work, was part of the Hennepin-University Partnership Collaborative Research Assistantship (HCRA), Summer 2022 cohort. After conducting research, Lowery recently presented her findings and recommendations to the leadership of Hennepin County. Her research centered on the Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) pilot program for the county. Lowery […]

Andy Le has been named the new Graduate Program Coordinator for the School of Social Work. Andy Le has been at the University of Minnesota since 2004 — when he joined the Graduate School admissions team. He’s since served as Graduate Program Coordinator (GPC) for the Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences unit, and for the UMN School of […]

The Council on Social Work Education, the Society for Social Work and Research, and the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work (GADE) have announced the recipient of their inaugural Social Work Doctoral Student Policy Fellowship as Johara Suleiman. A PhD candidate in the School of Social Work, Johara will work to […]

Faculty and staff joined friends and family in officially welcoming Dr. Joan Blakey as head of the School of Social Work. The event, held on Wednesday, October 12, in downtown St. Paul, featured a live performance by the LoveWorks Academy of Performing and Visual Arts-majorettes. The evening was catered by Soul Bowl Minnesota. Ashley Aguy, […]

Marti DeLiema, PhD, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, has been awarded a two-year federal grant of $200,000 by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living. DeLiema will serve as Principal Investigator on a study titled: “Assessing the implementation and outcomes of temporary account holds on elder financial […]

Dr. Marti DeLiema, of the School of Social Work, shared research with and identified trends for the U.S. Senate Committee on Aging last week. The Committee convened to better understand scams carried out against seniors, and to discuss ways to curb future acts of such fraud. The Hearing, chaired by Senator Bob Casey Jr. of […]

Joan Blakey, PhD, professor in and director of the School of Social Work , was invited into the KSTP news studios this week, to offer her expert opinion on state and national social worker shortages. The segment (Dr. Blakey was the only guest) aired live on Wednesday, September 28, and can be viewed online, here. […]

The School of Social Work’s Center for Practice Transformation (CPT) is pleased to announce it’s been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) to fund supervisor-training for Minnesota’s underrepresented practitioners. According to a 2022 MDH report, 87.2% of social worker and 89.1% of other mental health providers identify as white. Over […]