Chapel Hill native with a passion for food system social justice encouraged by School’s emerging macro pathway.
Clinical Assistant Professor Jaylen Cates brings community organizing background to SSW
2023
Positive partnership: Graduate students provide well-being coaching in residence halls
The School of Social Work partnered with Carolina Housing to provide wellness care to residential undergraduate students.
SSW Faculty Promotes New, Flexible Understandings of Families in Multistate Study
Research Assistant Professor Todd Jensen is leading an interview-based study of parents’ and caregivers’ strengths, challenges, transitions, and stages in their experiences raising children from birth through their 18th birthday.
School of Social Work and USFQ deliver social work certification program for Galapagos locals
This summer, the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) debuted a 12-week social work program for Galapagos locals to study and earn a certificate in community development and social work.
April Parker named director of student development and leadership
Parker is using her new role to focus on professional development, growth and expansion for School of Social Work students and recent graduates.
Ngo stresses importance of supporting youth worldwide during lecture at School of Social Work
Thoai D. Ngo, Ph.D., MHS, shared his lecture, “Growing Up in Uncertain Times: Evidence and Action for the World’s 1.8 Billion Youth” on Nov. 13 at UNC.
Associate Dean Travis Albritton receives 2023 Hortense K. McClinton Outstanding Faculty Staff Award
Albritton was honored with the Hortense K. McClinton Outstanding Faculty Staff Award at the 2023 Black Alumni Reunion Light on the Hill Society Awards Gala.
Pan-university efforts bring three rising stars to Carolina
Three celebrated research professors have joined the team of social scientists powering the collaborative research engine behind more than $33.5 million in awards this year (Jan. 1–Oct. 30, 2023) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work.
Army experience strengthened her social work vocation
Graduate student and Golden Policy Fellow Sheree Stewart’s 24-year military career led her to Carolina and a new way of helping others.
Newly minted CEAL@UNC boosts national organization’s ability to champion advancements in assisted living
The Center for Excellence in Assisted Living (CEAL) looks to build its expertise within its new home at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
