UNC School of Social Work shares news and feature stories through its website, social media channels, alumni magazine Contact, and monthly email newsletter. You can scroll through our news releases by date of release, listed below.
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About Mental Health First Aid at Carolina
We spoke with Alicia Freeman about Mental Health First Aid at UNC. Read More
School of Social Work announces inaugural Golden Policy Fellows cohort
The Golden Policy Fellows grant seeks to support future social workers with the tools to implement change for both direct practice care (micro) and community, management, and policy practice (macro) in the current social work system for child and family welfare. Read More
Carolina social work graduate students receive recognition at Duke symposium
Hayden Dawes and Denise “Dee” Yookong Williams, two Ph.D. students in the School of Social Work, were recognized as part of the 2023 Duke Sexual and Gender Minority Wellness Symposium. Read More
All in the Family
Ramona Denby-Brinson has spent the last 30 years keeping children out of the foster system and in the homes of relatives. Read More
CDC award expands child violence researcher’s work
The K01 Grant will enable assistant professor Rebecca Rebbe to expand her research to include multiple forms of violence against children and to learn a new research method. Read More
New online master of social work program addresses critical workforce needs
UNC School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is now accepting applications to a new online... Read More
Meet our new doctoral students
by Susan White The School of Social Work welcomes this year's incoming cohort of doctoral students to the program. We are... Read More
Two incoming MSW students named the School’s first McClinton Legacy Scholars
Mia Concepcion, a student in the School’s 2-Year Full-Time Program in Chapel Hill, and Mercedes Jackson, a student in the 3-Year Program in Winston-Salem, were recently named recipients of the scholarship, which honors social work pioneer Hortense King McClinton. Read More
New faculty, staff, post-doc and visiting scholar join the School of Social Work
by Susan White Over the summer, UNC School of Social Work welcomed the following new members to the School: New... Read More
School raises historic $10 million+ in 2022-2023 fiscal year
by Susan White UNC School of Social Work has more reasons to celebrate. For the first time in the School’s 100+ year... Read More
