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Aging Across the LGBT Community: Growing Old and Glamorous
May 2020: The annual summer institute on aging is a week long course and continuing education program that focuses on aging, intergenerational study, and practice. Topics to be examined during this course relate to health, mental health, social determinants of health, practice, policy, research, services, and programs that impact the lives of older adults. Intersectionality topics related to gender, age cohort, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, spirituality, and faith, among others will be discussed. The 2020 institute will examine the aforementioned topics with a focus on the lived experiences and needs of older LGBT adults.
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Perspectives of Social Work in Spain with an Innovative Approach
Gracias a los q nos acompañaron durante la video conferencia en español: “PERSPECTIVAS DEL TRABAJO SOCIAL EN ESPAÑA CON UN ENFOQUE INNOVADOR” Nuestros invitados especiales de la Universidad de Alicante, Dr. Raul Ruiz Callado y el profesor Francisco Javier Mira Grau nos dierón una lección de como la colaboración interdisciplinar puede ayudar a fomentar la innovación social! Encontra copia de sus diapositivas al darle click al enlace:
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Partnerships for Social Justice: The Empowering Counseling Program
The ECP serves as a training opportunity for our LUC School of Social Work students to apply social justice values on-the-ground and help the local communities in the Chicagoland area.
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Apply to be the Commencement Speaker for the SSW 2020 Graduation Ceremony!
Let your voice be heard! Submit a cover letter discussing your interest in becoming the Commencement Speaker & a draft of the speech. All entries should be submitted in a sealed envelope and placed in Doris Hernandez’s mailbox located in Room 561, Maguire Hall. Submissions due no later than Monday, February 3, 2020 at noon! Guidelines available through Doris Hernandez, dhernandez10@luc.edu
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INQYR and the International Student Training Network
During the end of October and early November 2019, LUC SSW dual degree (MSW/MA) student Aces Lira attended a series of week-long meetings and training for the International Partnership for Queer Youth Resilience (INQYR) in Mexico City. Aces presented on his current work as part of the U.S. region of INQYR and the International Student ...
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Social Work student President’s Medallion 2019 winner
Congratulations to MSW student, Daniela Barrios Morello, recipient of the 2019 Presidents Medallion! Daniela is known as a leader and a scholar with a commitment to service. A native of Venezuela who came to the United States as an adult with limited English, Daniela has shown great resilience, ability, and decisiveness in overcoming any limitations she faced as a nontraditional student in a master’s program in English.
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The Pathways to Academic, Career, and Employment Success (PACES) Scholarship awarded to MSW students for the 2019-2020 academic year
PACES recipients receive $25,000 for one to two years, support from a faculty mentor and hands-on experience working in a Medically Underserved Community (UMC). Recipients are full-time MSW students who come from economically, academically, ethnically, and/or environmentally disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Learn about our programs from a student's perspective
Current MSW student reflects on her first year in the program.
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Loyola Social Work students licensing exam pass rates well above national average.
The Association of Social Work Boards reports all licensing exam passing rates for social work schools.
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Voting is Social Work
The Campaign seeks to: Raise awareness of the importance of voting to social work practice and impact; Integrate voter engagement activities into class and field education for all social work students (micro and macro); Provide information about voter mobilization skills and strategies to field instructors, students and faculty for use in agencies and the classroom; and Ensure that all the people served by social workers have access to the vote.
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Study Abroad: Rome 2019
During the 2019 summer session, twelve MSW students participated a study abroad course in Loyola University Chicago’s John Felice Rome Center from 6/14 to 6/29. Lead by Professors Caleb Kim and Ivan Medina, participating students learned about Italian social work practices, social policies for migrants and refugees, and cultural diversity by visiting diverse social service ...
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Innovating Hope.
Welcome to a new academic year at Loyola University Chicago and your journey through the School of Social Work to be this generation’s Innovators of Hope. Innovation is not limited to the apples’, googles’, and the amazons’ of the world. The spirit of innovation is within each and every one of us. The ability to ...
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Congratulations to Dean Goutham Menon
He was awarded the James Billups International Social Development Leadership Award at the 21st Annual International Consortium for Social Development (ICSD) Annual Conference. Dean Menon received this honor for representing the ICSD values of commitment to peace, social justice, inclusiveness, and the transgression of national boundaries. -
Congratulations to the Class of 2019!
Here is a preview of special moments from the 2019 School of Social Work—View photos and watch the video of the Commencement ceremony.
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SBIRT at LUC Training Program
For the past three years, Loyola University Chicago’s School of Social Work, The Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, and the Stritch School of Medicine have been training students, faculty and community members through the SBIRT@LUC Training Program.
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Loyola at UN Social Work Day 2019
Social Work Day at the United Nations is an annual programme of the International Federation of Social Workers and the International Association of Schools of Social Work. The theme of this thirty-sixth annual programme is child protection. (Watch Recorded Video of the Session). Students and recent alums experienced the event and the preceding Student Conference ...
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