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Discussion on Research Projects within Social Work with Prof. Tamara Sussman, and MSW student Diandra Serrano, and MSW graduate Bianca Tétrault
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Discussion on Research Projects within Social Work with Prof. Tamara Sussman, and MSW student Diandra Serrano, and MSW graduate Bianca Tétrault
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Discussion about the PhD program with Tamara Sussman, Oluwagbemiga Oyinlola and Marsha Ma
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Discussion with Nico Trocmé, Director of the School of Social Work
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Episode #2
Discussion with the MSW Program Team: Nicole Ives, Nicole Mitchell, Carmela Sciandra
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Episode #1 - Discussion with the Student Support Team: Nicole Mitchell and Matthew Coutu-Moya
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Cindy Blackstock, the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and a professor at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ's School of Social Work, has made it her mission to make sure First Nations kids get the care that matches up with care received by other kids in Canada.
She talks about the long fight for this agreement, and why she’s still waiting to celebrate. (Front Burner, CBC News)
Front Burner:Â The 15-year fight to treat Indigenous children as equals
Opinion piece in the Toronto Star addressing Bill 21, secularism, and the holidays in Quebec.
My colleagues at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ are working on a project called: Young People, Well-being, and Connectedness in the Time of Distancing (funded by Quebec’s Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux (MSSS). They are currently recruiting youth participants (16-24 years old) from diverse communities and looking for support to spread the word!
#we.are.socialwork is an initiative of the McGill School of Social Work that will serve to highlight the work and the people within our school community through podcasting and social media engagement.
We will chat about our profession, the social work programs offered at McGill, and showcase faculty, staff, and most especially students in our community.
Stay tuned for these important conversations!!
Professors Nicole Ives and Wanda Gabriel have been selected as the 2021 recipients of McGill’s Award for Equity and Community Building. Their pioneering work with Indigenous Access McGill, the Field Studies course, Indigenous initiatives at McGill, and most recently the BSW program to be delivered in Nunavik are some of the outstanding contributions that are being recognized by McGill for this award.
A recent CTV News article including input from M.Sc.(A) CFT alumni, Mylene Choquette, has been published discussing the need for TCF's to be integrated into the public network to curb domestic violence.
"The cohorts trained at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, which offers the only master's program in marital and family therapy in Quebec, are only making up for the retirements"Â
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The School of Social Work is delighted to congratulate Susan Mintzberg PhD Candidate, who was selected as the Graduate Student winner of the Principal's' Prize for Public Engagement for 2021. Since the onset of the pandemic Susan has been actively speaking out about myriad of social issues closely tied to her own doctoral work such as our continued failure to recognize families as experts in the health of their relatives, and the problematic results of top down decision making .
Susan Mintzberg, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Social Work, was interviewed on CBC radio The Current on April 1st, where she discussed the importance of taking mental health into consideration when policy decisions are made about protecting seniors (and others) during the pandemic.
This topic relates to her research which looks at the role of families in mental healthcare.
Monica Batac is a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work, a dedicated and inspiring leader whose initiative has had a direct and positive impact on undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff at McGill. More specifically, through her lived experience, she has envisioned new ways of building community for and with racialized students at the university. This has included a dynamic vision for creating the types of spaces that nourish and sustain racialized students on campus and across the larger Montreal community.
Congratulations to Katja Terxeira, social worker on the surgical unit at the Jewish general Hospital and recent MSW graduate for receiving the Caring Beyond Award. Katja was merited this award through the Jewish General Hospital for the compassionate efforts she made to help a patient nearing end of life plan a wedding at the hospital so he could fulfill his wish of marrying his life long partner before his death.