In 2019, the Steve Hicks School’s Institute on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault (IDVSA) offered five expert witness trainings across Texas. These trainings continue IDVSA’s efforts to educate attorneys, law-enforcement officers, and potential expert witnesses such as social workers, advocates, and medical professionals on the role and use of expert testimony… read more
Fall 2019
Creating conversations about mental health
Since 2012, the Steve Hicks School’s Texas Institute for Excellence in Mental Health has helped sponsor the Mental Health Awareness Creative Arts Contest to fight mental health stigma. Each year, children and adults of all ages can submit original artwork, writing, or photography for the opportunity to win prizes and… read more
Health Social Work Department
https://vimeo.com/322890000 The Steve Hicks School and the Dell Medical School are advancing the role of social work as an agent of health care transformation through the creation of the Department of Health Social Work, the first of its kind in the nation to be embedded in a medical school. The… read more
