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Alumni February 17, 2025

Staying Connected in 2025: Alumni Happenings

With many changes happening in the world, the SSW Office of Alumni Engagement is excited t…

Three people sitting at a table with white tablecloth and flowers. Behind are more people sitting with a screen in the far background

Ph.D. February 12, 2025

Hannah Biskind: Advancing Immigrant Mental Health from Clinical Practice to Doctoral Research

Hannah Biskind, LICSW, has long believed in the transformative power of social work.

Hannah Biskind wearing glasses and a tan blazer, earrings and necklaces against a white wall

Alumni January 27, 2025

Trailblazer in Education and Equity: Adama Sallu

Last summer, Adama Sallu, M.S.W. ’93, Ph.D., was honored for being an alum “who embodi…

Adama Sallu poses with Director of Development Dawn Faucher during the Alumni Awards Dinner in June 2024.

School January 09, 2025

Reclaiming Clinical Social Work: Expanding Definitions, Access, and Social Justice through Mentorship and Scholarship

Who defines what clinical social work is, and how does the framing effect who has access t…

Photo of the new cover of Studies in Clinical Social Work: Transforming Practice, Education and Research featuring blue lettering on a warm orange background with pale yellow wings overlaid.

School January 05, 2025

SSW Alumni and Student Awarded Grants from Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

SSW is excited to announce that Kristina Domaney, M.S.W. ’24 and current student A…

Kristinay Domaney on left, Antara Anand on right

School December 18, 2024

Advancing Social Work Education: SSW Faculty and Doctoral Students Present at CSWE’s 2024 Annual Program Meeting

This fall, faculty and doctoral students traveled to Kansas City, MO for the Council…

A mic and podium in front of a screen that reads CSWE Council on Social Work Education

School December 16, 2024

Special Issue of Studies in Clinical Social Work: Queering Clinical Social Work Praxis

Studies in Clinical Social Work released its newest special issue, “Queering Clinical Social Work Praxis.”

5 portraits: Upper left, Yuri Shane, Upper right, Mike Carney, Center, Frances Beroset, Lower left, Ford Fishman, Lower right, Chungyun Seo

December 13, 2024

Empowering Mental Health Recovery: Supporting Individuals with Severe Mental Illness

When LaToya Lopez, M.S.W. ’18, LCSW, commutes from Oakland to San Francisco for work eac…

M.S.W. December 12, 2024

Sydney Voelbel: Oncology Social Work and the Power of Psychosocial Support

Sydney Voelbel, M.S.W. ’25, watched multiple people close to her – including her fathe…

Sydney Voelbel works with a client during her second practicum placement.

Alumni December 05, 2024

Striking A Balance: Teaching and Mindfulness

As a senior faculty member in the School of Social Work at Loyola University Chicago and d…