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Dr. Linda Burton was among the speakers at the inaugural Black Men's Brain Health Conference in Los Angeles on February 8-9, 2022. Dr. Burton's talk on "Trauma, Brain Health & Building Social Capital" and her panel discussion on "Why your participation matters! The Benefits of Being Part of...Read more about Video: Dean Linda Burton speaking at Black Men's Brain Health conference

Twelve Berkeley Social Welfare faculty members are included in a listing of the top 2% for scholarly citations worldwide in their respective fields, according to an annual study co-produced by researchers at Stanford. The 2021 report, published by...Read more about Social Welfare faculty members among top 2% in scholarly citations

Professor Julian Chun-Chung Chow is among the experts quoted in the...Read more about Here’s Why Many Asian Americans Don’t Get Mental Health Care—And How to Help

The new "Californians for All" College Corps will allow students to apply for $10,000 fellowships in exchange for 450 hours of public service. Professor Jill Berrick played a role in...Read more about Jill Berrick helps bring "Californians for All" college funding to UC Berkeley

The year 2021 was spectacularly tough: raging COVID-19 variants, extreme weather catastrophes, voter suppression efforts, racial injustice, income inequality, mass homelessness and housing instability, a bleak economic outlook. Yet, UC Berkeley scholars, students and staff recently offered...Read more about Reasons to be hopeful, optimistic and maybe even cheerful in 2022

Good Morning My Dear Haviland Community!

Happy Martin Luther King Day!

As our Haviland Community walked toward this day, I have been reading an insightful book authored by Anna Malaika Tubbs: The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin...Read more about Dean Burton's MLK message: "We are all someone's child"

UC Berkeley has decided to begin the semester with a two-stage process, with most courses being offered fully remote for the first two weeks (Jan. 18-28) and...Read more about UC Berkeley will begin spring semester with mostly remote instruction

New York Mayor Eric Adams has appointed Jess Dannhauser, the former CEO of major child welfare provider Graham Windham, to serve as...Read more about Jess Dannhauser (MSW '03) appointed to lead New York City's child welfare and juvenile justice systems

On December 22, campus leaders provided an update on UC Berkeley's plans for the spring semester, including new booster and testing requirements.

Please note that...Read more about Update on UC Berkeley’s plans for the spring semester

The Editorial Board of Women’s Health Issues announced that the Charles E. Gibbs Leadership Prize for the best paper published in Women's Health Issues in 2021 (Volume 31) has been...Read more about Anu Manchikanti Gómez receives Gibbs Leadership Prize for Best Manuscripts of 2021 in Women’s Health Issues

Congratulations to the Berkeley Social Welfare faculty, students, and researchers presenting at the annual SSWR conference in Washington, DC. Names of presenting authors are in bold.

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Dean Linda Burton has been selected for induction into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. The AASWSW is an honorific society of distinguished scholars and practitioners dedicated to achieving excellence in the field of social work and social welfare through high-impact work...Read more about Dean Linda Burton to be inducted into AASWSW

New research by Jaclyn Chambers, Karin Martin, and Jen Skeem shows that when Alameda County eliminated fees from its juvenile justice system in 2016, it...Read more about Eliminating fees in the Alameda County juvenile justice system meaningfully reduced financial burdens on families

Department Manager Emiko Moran was interviewed by Berkeley News for her volunteer work with ...Read more about As wildfire season advances, so does major DIY air purifier effort

Jocelyn Villalobos is a social welfare major. As we honor Latinx social workers during Latinx Heritage month, the Latinx Center on Excellence in Behavioral Health asked Jocelyn a few questions about her work with Latinx communities and how her identity informs her perspective on social...Read more about Celebrating Latinidad: Jocelyn Villalobos, Social Welfare major

The Netflix series Maid shows the harsh reality of navigating the complex world of public assistance and how devastating poverty in the U.S. can be. BuzzFeed journalist Lara McCaffrey ...Read more about Yu-Ling Chang interviewed by BuzzFeed about poverty and public assistance programs

Sunday, October 17, 2021 marked the induction ceremony for the California Social Work Hall of Distinction, which recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to social work and social welfare in California.

This year's inductees were:

The National Academy of Medicine announced today that UC Berkeley professor and bioethicist...Read more about Professor Osagie Obasogie elected to National Academy of Medicine

This year's Seabury Lecture was delivered by Dr. Sean Joe on October 1, 2021 on the topic of "Advancing community science to improve the economic mobility of Black boys and young men by 2040."

Sean Joe, Ph.D., M.S.W. joined the Brown School at Washington University at St....Read more about "Advancing community science to improve the economic mobility of Black boys and young men by 2040.": Seabury Lecture with Dr. Sean Joe

Jessie García Gutierrez is a second-year student in the joint MSW/MPH program.

I think historically and even to this day we're a really resilient community. I think that sometimes when we go into spaces...Read more about Celebrating Latinidad: Jessie García Gutierrez, MSW student and Latinx Center of Excellence in Behavioral Health scholar