UNC School of Social Work Professor Paul Lanier joined WUNC on Thursday, April 4, for an in-depth discussion on North Carolina’s youth mental health and Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities. You can listen here.
One year after receiving a $4.5 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and Health Resources Services Administration to establish a new Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center (BHWRC), the UNC BHWRC is launching a new slate of initiatives to research and address behavioral health needs in the United States workforce.
A paper published in Adolescent Research Review by UNC School of Social Work Associate Professor Melissa Lippold examines the effect of parenting on LGBTQ youth.
A group representing UNC School of Social Work visits Solwezi, Zambia, with longtime collaborators from Rising Fountains Development Program (RFDP), a Zambian nonprofit organization founded in 2000, to learn more about local women’s savings and credit groups.
We spoke with Director of Digital Learning and Instruction Tina Souders to learn more about the online MSW program’s conception, the important needs it will address around the state, and more.
Advanced Research Scientist and Jordan Institute for Families Equity Lead Allison De Marco is working to infuse more equitable methods in research practices.
Former native rights attorney Elder W. Richard West Jr. visited with Clinical Assistant Professor April Parker’s “Cultural Sensitivity: Ways of Knowing, Being, Healing and Honoring Youth and Their Families” class on Tuesday, Feb. 20, at 5:30 p.m. to share his life story, answer questions and discuss the importance of cultural humility.
To celebrate more than 30 years of excellence and helping to bring about social change, we spoke with current and former students and faculty members who shared their memories of the doctoral program, its impact and the connections it helped them build and maintain throughout the profession.
