A nationally recognized child welfare expert and the architect of innovative reforms in the fields of child protection and foster care is bringing his research and professional leadership expertise to the Tar Heel state.

Mark Testa, Ph.D, a professor and director of the Children and Family Research Center at the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will join UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Social Work in January as the first Sandra Reeves Spears and John B. Turner Distinguished Professor.

Information sessions give potential applicants a chance to meet some of the faculty, staff and students and to ask questions about the School of Social Work. The curriculum, field placements, financial aid, and admissions requirements, are among the topics discussed.

The sessions are 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room 300 of the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building. Please contact Jane Gump at (919) 843-6284 or jgump@email.unc.edu to confirm the date and register for a session.

Information sessions give potential applicants a chance to meet some of the faculty, staff and students and to ask questions about the School of Social Work. The curriculum, field placements, financial aid, and admissions requirements, are among the topics discussed.

The sessions are 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room 300 of the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building. Please contact Jane Gump at (919) 843-6284 or jgump@email.unc.edu to confirm the date and register for a session.

Information sessions give potential applicants a chance to meet some of the faculty, staff and students and to ask questions about the School of Social Work. The curriculum, field placements, financial aid, and admissions requirements, are among the topics discussed.

The sessions are 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room 300 of the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building. Please contact Jane Gump at (919) 843-6284 or jgump@email.unc.edu to confirm the date and register for a session.

Information sessions give potential applicants a chance to meet some of the faculty, staff and students and to ask questions about the School of Social Work. The curriculum, field placements, financial aid, and admissions requirements, are among the topics discussed.

The sessions are 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room 300 of the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building. Please contact Jane Gump at (919) 843-6284 or jgump@email.unc.edu to confirm the date and register for a session.

Information sessions give potential applicants a chance to meet some of the faculty, staff and students and to ask questions about the School of Social Work. The curriculum, field placements, financial aid, and admissions requirements, are among the topics discussed.

The sessions are 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room 300 of the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building. Please contact Jane Gump at (919) 843-6284 or jgump@email.unc.edu to confirm the date and register for a session.

Information sessions give potential applicants a chance to meet some of the faculty, staff and students and to ask questions about the School of Social Work. The curriculum, field placements, financial aid, and admissions requirements, are among the topics discussed.

The sessions are 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room 300 of the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building. Please contact Jane Gump at (919) 843-6284 or jgump@email.unc.edu to confirm the date and register for a session.

Military families struggling to find services for their children with developmental disabilities will soon have a new network of support.

UNC’s School of Social Work and the Family Support Network at the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities are developing a project that aims to connect military families more directly to state and local resources, activities and services using a “one-stop” model. The federal Administration on Developmental Disabilities of the Administration on Children and Families is funding the $1 million project.

Mountain Area Distance Education MSW Program to host grand opening reception Oct. 21

Formerly called the Asheville Distance Education MSW Program, this semester the program moved to Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock, N.C., near Hendersonville, and was renamed the Mountain Area Distance Education MSW Program.