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Erin Kerrison and Jennifer Skeem Address one of the Grand Challenges of Social Work
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. In 2016, over 6.6 million adults were under correctional supervision, and an additional 975,000 youths under 18 had cases pass through the juvenile court system. The impacts of justice system involvement are disproportionately...Read more about Erin Kerrison and Jennifer Skeem Address one of the Grand Challenges of Social Work
Law in Service to the Public Good: Greg Evans (MSW '86)
Meeting Greg Evans (MSW '86) in the high-rise office of the McGuireWoods law firm in downtown San Francisco, you wouldn't guess that he opened his first law office in a homeless shelter. As a law student in South Bend, Indiana, he had worked with the school's Dean and the community to open a...Read more about Law in Service to the Public Good: Greg Evans (MSW '86)
Begonia Herbert-Ramirez: Finding a Home in Haviland Hall
The journey to success is rarely a smooth and linear path. For UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare undergraduate Begonia Herbert-Ramirez, the path to becoming a University Medal nominee with a 4.0 GPA was particularly trying. Through the ups and downs, however, were two things that kept her...Read more about Begonia Herbert-Ramirez: Finding a Home in Haviland Hall
Commencement Speaker Ella Callow (BA '97)
Ella Callow, this year's commencement speaker for Berkeley Social Welfare, has spent her career tackling one of the central questions of inclusion. "How do barriers impact the well-being of individuals with disabilities? And how can the system better serve these families so that we're being...Read more about Commencement Speaker Ella Callow (BA '97)
Building a “Prison-to-School” Pipeline: Sammie Gilmore Flips the Narrative
"I'll admit it — I had preconceived notions about Sammie when I first met her."
Jill Duerr-Berrick, School of Social Welfare faculty and Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor, recalls the first time she saw Sammie Gilmore seated toward the front of her classroom...Read more about Building a “Prison-to-School” Pipeline: Sammie Gilmore Flips the Narrative
Conference: Coercive Treatment — Moving Beyond "For your Own Good"
The Berkeley Social Welfare community is invited to participate in the Coercive Treatment – Moving Beyond “for Your Own Good" Conference. The...Read more about Conference: Coercive Treatment — Moving Beyond "For your Own Good"
Freidlander Lecture: Dr Birgit Pfau-Effinger
Passing of Tumanako Wereta, Chair of Tuaropaki Trust
We were saddened to learn of the passing of Tumanako Wereta, the long-time Chair of the Tuaropaki Trust, a pioneering Maori trust in the North Island of New Zealand. In recent years, Berkeley Social Welfare and the Goldman School of Public Policy have developed a close...Read more about Passing of Tumanako Wereta, Chair of Tuaropaki Trust
Social Welfare PhD student involved in organizing for disability cultural center
Social Welfare doctoral Student Katie Savin has been the grad student rep in organizing for a disability community center on the Cal Campus.
“A lot of people don’t consider disability as a social-cultural identity; they consider it as something unfortunate that happens...Read more about Social Welfare PhD student involved in organizing for disability cultural center
Dr. Reuben Miller: "The Afterlife of Incarceration"
Tripodi Lecture on Research Methodology
Dr. Miller will spend some time on methods, specifically the practice of ethnographic research, the debates on positionality and reflexivity and what we can learn by getting close to our work. He will draw from his field notes to...Read more about Dr. Reuben Miller: "The Afterlife of Incarceration"
Berkeley Social Welfare MSW Program Ranked #3 in Nation
In US News and World Report's latest rankings of the country's best universities in academic quality, Berkeley Social Welfare has placed in the top...Read more about Berkeley Social Welfare MSW Program Ranked #3 in Nation
Our Founding Mother: Jessica Blanche Peixotto
Jessica Blanche Peixotto is credited with being the founder of social welfare studies at Berkeley. Her family’s story can be traced back to the time when Christopher Columbus was setting off for the New World. On the Iberian Peninsula in the late 1400s the Inquisition was in full swing. One...Read more about Our Founding Mother: Jessica Blanche Peixotto
Tina Sacks on Racism in American Medicine
America’s healthcare system is considered by many the finest in the world, and the symbol of what America can achieve combining science and service. It’s also true that we spend 1/5 of our nation’s resources funding healthcare, so it’s certainly an institution that all Americans are deeply...Read more about Tina Sacks on Racism in American Medicine
Assistant Professor Tina Sacks featured on Berkeley Talks
What are some of the current challenges to maintaining social welfare programs for the nation’s most vulnerable people in the Trump era? Assistant Professor Tina Sacks explores this issue in the latest podcast in the Berkeley Talks series. Her lecture gives an overview of the incidence and...Read more about Assistant Professor Tina Sacks featured on Berkeley Talks
Veteran Students Honored for Service
Dean's Reflections on Hate-driven Incidents
Dear Social Welfare Community,
We are living through a period of widening hate driven violence across our country and in many communities. Some communities have long been on the receiving end of such violence but it is clearly accelerating, whether the target is a Black church, a group...Read more about Dean's Reflections on Hate-driven Incidents
Dean's Reflections on Recent Senate Hearings
Dear Social Welfare Community,
I write to reflect on the events in Washington DC and elsewhere in our country last week. On Thursday we witnessed two starkly different testimonies before the Senate Judiciary Committee about events decades in the past. Dr. Ford offered a humble account of...Read more about Dean's Reflections on Recent Senate Hearings
Child Welfare Podcast Features MSW Alums
Serena Redux: On the US Open, Race, Gender + Public Health
By now, much has been written about the Serena Williams-Naomi Osaka-Carlos Ramos fiasco at the 2018 US Open. The debate has fallen along ...Read more about Serena Redux: On the US Open, Race, Gender + Public Health
Professor Tina Sacks Named CRSC Chair
In acknowledgment of a recent board appointment, Assistant Professor Tina Sacksis the new chair at the Institute...Read more about Professor Tina Sacks Named CRSC Chair
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