Caring for patients’ bodies and minds at People’s Community Clinic
Features
Anatomy of a lesson
A peek into how UT Austin is training the next generation of health providers
Planting the seed
Max Elliott (MSSW ’12) creates an urban farm that grows community leaders
Capitol gains
Elliott Naishtat’s legacy
Veterans affairs
Celebrating 90 years of social work
Community Policing in Austin
How community policing is changing a North Austin neighborhood On a bright winter morning, Officer Taber White watches as two squad cars pull up on the opposite side of North Austin’s busy Rundberg Ln., lights flashing and sirens shrieking. The police officers jump out of their cars and move to surround their target: a large black-and-tan […]
What is Kathy Armenta Up To?
“I would like to know about what my clinical professor Kathy Armenta is up to these days!” A few variations of this request came with readers’ responses to The Utopian survey last fall. As a member of the clinical faculty at the School of Social Work for the past 19 years, Armenta has accompanied hundreds […]
ACE-ing It
How does childhood trauma affect health and what can social workers do about it? One evening in the summer of 2006, Seanna Crosbie, MSSW ’00, was sitting in her Austin living room, transfixed by a slideshow playing on her computer screen. “I was so moved that I don’t think I slept for a couple of […]
Cancer care for the whole person
We have come a long way since the 1970s, when the word cancer was not spoken, and patients were not told their diagnosis because it was thought they would give up hope. There is now a firm trend in oncology towards putting the needs of patients and their families at the center and making them […]
From classroom to Capitol
As social work students prepare for advocacy-based careers, faculty members from the School of Social Work develop course assignments to help train their students for real life experiences in the field. Last fall, one professor challenged her students to create legislation that could be file during the 84th session of the Texas Legislature, which convened […]
