Sherel is applying her expertise and knowledge of family psychotherapy to strengthen the lives of Black families and build a community network.
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Published on: 27 Jul 2020
In an article in the July 22nd edition of the Montreal Gazette, Professors Tamara Sussman & Shari Brotman argue that reducing older people to "passive" and "vulnerable" victims reinforces ageist attitudes that contribute to their marginalization.
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Published on: 27 Jul 2020
The Regulation, Affect, and Development (RAaD) Lab (Prof. Katherine Maurer) invites all students of the McGill School of Social Work with access to an iPhone to participate in an online research study on increasing resilience to stress. Participants will engage in daily activities to increase healthy stress management skills via an iOS phone application (the JoyPop app).
Participation is compensated up to $50 for the full study. This research aims to benefit social work service providers directly, as well as service users, particularly vulnerable youth.
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Published on: 22 Jul 2020
Professor Wanda Gabriel and other community members speak out about the unresolved land dispute at the centre of the Oka Crisis thirty years on.
To watch the full interview click here.
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Published on: 15 Jul 2020
Delphine Collin-Vézina, Associate Professor in the McGill School of Social Work and the Director of the McGill Centre for Research on Children and Families (CRCF), received COVID-19 research funding.
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Published on: 14 Jul 2020
Beginning the week of July 20, McGill students, faculty and staff will be able to take advantage of a Terrace Pickup Service for print books not available electronically or through the HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS). The initial rollout of this service will provide access to books housed in the McLennan-Redpath Library Complex and the Nahum Gelber Law Library only. Materials from other branches will not be available during the first phase of this service. McGill users will be able to request up to ten items per week using a form.
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Published on: 13 Jul 2020
In a McGill Alumni webcast, Professor Karl Moore is joined by Professor Henry Mintzberg and Susan Mintzberg, a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work who studies the role of family caregivers in mental healthcare. The three cast light on how we can build better systems and more balanced societies based on lessons learned from COVID-19.
Link to further details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaAzXnqXnAg
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Published on: 6 Jul 2020
The Regulation, Affect, and Development (RAaD) Lab (Prof. Katherine Maurer) invites all students of the McGill School of Social Work with access to an iPhone to participate in an online research study on increasing resilience to stress. Participants will engage in daily activities
to increase healthy stress management skills via an iOS phone application (the JoyPop app). Participation is compensated up to $50 for the full study. This research aims to benefit social work service providers directly, as well as service users, particularly vulnerable youth.
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Published on: 26 Jun 2020
Space for the broader school community to reflect on social work’s complicity in structural violence and oppression led by Kate Maurer and Wanda Gabriel.
Location: Zoom link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/92809355405
Time: 12 pm to 1pm
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Published on: 3 Jun 2020
The Canada Council for the Arts has announced six recipients of the prestigious 2020 Killam Research Fellowship, including McGill Professor Myriam Denov.
Professor Myriam Denov, Canada Research Chair in Youth, Gender and Armed Conflict, received a 2020 Killam Research Fellowship to support her work examining the needs of children born of war in northern Uganda.
She is the first social work researcher ever to receive a Killam Research Fellowship in the award’s 50+ year history.
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Published on: 27 May 2020
Professor Delphine Collin-Vezina has been awarded a $2.5 million SSHRC Partnership grant over 7 years to support the Canadian Consortium on Child Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care. This Partnership unites 39 co-applicants (including Kate Maurer and Mike MacKenzie from our School), 18 collaborators (including Wanda Gabriel and Ben Geboe from our school), and 43 partner organizations from across Canada.
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Published on: 27 May 2020
Tomas Jirousek’s courageous and respectful leadership to change the Redmen name and efforts to educate and engage students in active reconciliation impressed Indigenous Access McGill (IAM) and by unanimous agreement of their awards committee, Tomas was named the inaugural recipient of the Moral Courage in Reconciliation Award. Future recipients of the Award will be proud to stand in his company and IAM is hoping his example inspires others to take courageous, dignified, and effective action to implement the TRC’s Calls to Action.
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Published on: 11 May 2020
Four priorities are suggested in this brief article for planning schools’ re-opening in order for schools to step up to play a significant role in the lives of vulnerable children and youth.
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Published on: 5 May 2020
MONTREAL - The major award nominees have been announced for McGill University's 43rd annual athletics gala, an event scheduled to be held on April 19, via a virtual online Facebook Premiere broadcast, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Published on: 15 Apr 2020
Dr. Amal Elsana Alhjooj, McGill MSW and PhD alumna, and currently the Executive Director of McGill’s International Community Action Network (ICAN), has been the focus of a feature article in the Times of Israel: Far from her village, rare Bedouin feminist fights for Israeli women and peace.
See here for full details.
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Published on: 2 Mar 2020
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