News

We are proud to announce that Dean Linda Burton has been appointed by Mayor Jesse Arreguín to the City of Berkeley's Commission on the Status of Women effective February 18, 2020.

The commission seeks to improve the conditions of all women and advocates to the Berkeley City Council on...Read more about Dean Burton Appointed to Berkeley Commission on the Status of Women

Last week, the Latinx Center of Excellence offered a two-day Solution-Focused Brief Therapy training in Spanish, led by Training Consultant for the LCOE and Lecturer Luna Calderón.

Solution-Focused...Read more about LCOE offers Solution-Focused Brief Therapy workshop in Spanish

Peter Radu (MSW/MPP '16), who previously served as Homeless Services Coordinator for the City of Berkeley, has been named Homeless Policy Director for the City of Oakland. Radu will serve as Mayor Libby Schaaf's chief policy advisor to address the city's homeless crisis. He will also serve...Read more about Alumnus Peter Radu (MSW/MPP '16) named Oakland's new Homeless Policy Director

Two Berkeley Social Welfare faculty members and one recent graduate will be honored at the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) conference in Washington D.C. this week.

Assistant Professor Tina Sacks's book, Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the...Read more about Berkeley Social Welfare Faculty and Alumni Honored at SSWR 2020 Conference

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.

...Read more about Berkeley Social Welfare faculty, students and researchers presenting at SSWR conference

Professor Jill Duerr Berrick's newest book, The Impossible Imperative: Navigating the Competing Principles of Child Protection (Oxford University Press), has received an honorable mention for the 2019 Outstanding Social Work Book Award. Conferred by the Society for Social Work and Research, the...Read more about Recognition for Professor Jill Duerr Berrick's New Book

Professor Susan Stone, the Catherine Mary and Eileen Clare Hutto Chair for Social Services in Public Education, has been selected for induction into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. The AASWSW is an honorific society...Read more about Professor Susan Stone to be inducted into AASWSW

Mu Sochua (MSW '81), one of the most prominent women in Cambodian national politics, returns to Cambodia despite probable imprisonment as the Vice President of the outlawed Cambodia National Rescue Party.Read more about Alumni in the News: Mu Sochua (MSW '81), VP of outlawed opposition party, returns to Cambodia

Ratu Orisi Lalabalavu, a senior with a double major in social welfare and anthropology, is one of hundreds of UC Berkeley students living in limbo as the future of DACA is decided in the courts.Read more about How one DACA student found his community — and voice — at Berkeley

Sunday, November 3, 2019 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.

It is a testament to the reach of our program that each of this...Read more about Congratulations to 2019 Inductees to California Social Work Hall of Distinction

Veronica Alexander, Director of External Relations at Berkeley Social Welfare, was honored this week with a campus-wide award from Berkeley's Office of Gift Planning for initiating the most joint proposals for gifts to Berkeley Social Welfare as part of an estate plan. ...Read more about Veronica Alexander wins campus-wide fundraising award

“Ending violence from the mentally ill would still leave 96 percent of violent incidents.” Professor Jennifer Skeem and other researchers explain that policies focused on the general population — like red flag laws and universal background checks — will be more effective than policies that...Read more about Jennifer Skeem on the intersection between mental illness and gun violence

During the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans to the English colonies, Berkeley News is highlighting members of the campus community whose personal stories, often marked by racism and discrimination, inform their life’s work. Assistant professor Tina Sacks is the first person...Read more about Tina Sacks profiled in Berkeley News: "From Mississippi to Chicago to Belarus, ancestors guide her way"

Professor Jennifer Skeem was invited to participate in a congressional briefing to bring the most up-to-date research on countering mass shootings to the U.S. Capitol. The briefing was organized by George Mason University’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy and Carnegie Mellon...Read more about Prof. Jennifer Skeem at Congressional Briefing on Countering Mass Shootings

Professor Jennifer Skeem's in-press study of the impact of risk assessment information on judges' sentencing of relatively rich vs. poor defendants was featured in WIRED magazine. Read more about Algorithms Should’ve Made Courts More Fair. What Went Wrong?