Magazine 2022

We began this year excited to welcome students back in person and reconnect with each other. We navigated a few twists and turns in the road — omicron! changing public health guidance! — but we came through together as a community.

This May, we are proud to celebrate the Latinx...Read more about A message from the Dean

The Latinx Center of Excellence in Behavioral Health (LCOEBH) was launched in 2017 thanks to a Centers of Excellence grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in the amount of $3,398,332.

The Center’s unique programs include outreach, recruitment...Read more about Grounded in Community: Celebrating 5 years of the LCOEBH

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted inequity on many levels, and came as a stark reminder that economic vulnerability is a structural problem rather than an individual one.

The scholarship of assistant professor Yu-Ling Chang and associate professor and Mack Center...Read more about Systems of Care: Yu-Ling Chang and Emmeline Chuang analyze the social safety net

“I knew I was going to be advocating for unpopular causes and disenfranchised communities,” explains Dylan de Kervor (MSW/JD ‘09), “so I wanted a law degree for the teeth and a social welfare degree for the heart.”

She attributes this commitment...Read more about Situated social work: Dylan Nicole de Kervor (MSW/JD ‘09) at the intersection of social work and federal legislation

Over the last few months, news coverage has shown refugees from Ukraine being welcomed — sometimes with literal open arms — as they arrived in Europe. If we can view refugees from Ukraine as "people like us" who have to flee hardship and dangerous circumstances, why not view other...Read more about Toward a better future: Douglas Epps examines alternatives to othering and immigrant detention

Tina McClain, who recently won the Chancellor's Award for Public Service, is profiled by Berkeley News. McClain will be the student speaker at Berkeley Social Welfare's BASW commencement ceremony on Tuesday, May 17.Read more about Social workers were her ‘saving grace.’ Now, she’s going to be one.

First-year MSW student Molly Nantongo was recently awarded a $10,000 Davis Projects for Peace grant for her project, Ntongo Skills4Peace.

In this 15-week...Read more about Giving back: Molly Nantongo (MSW '23) and Ntongo Skills4Peace

We sat down with the School of Social Welfare's Chief Diversity Officer and Director of Strategic Initiatives Katrina Koski to learn more about these initiatives, the way they intersect, and how they foster equity within our school.

...Read more about Youth Equity Initiative: Berkeley Discovery and College Corps