For decades, the child welfare system has worked on the assumption that legal permanency (through adoption, reunification or kinship care) was enough to ensure that children in foster care have a successfully transition to adulthood. A new study by Upbring and the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing calls… read more
Fall 2018
Uniting communities in recovery
In organizing the 2018 Austin’s NEDA (National Eating Disorders Association) Walk, master’s student Niki DuBois’s goal was to create a community for people recovering from eating disorders and substance-use disorders. “As someone who struggled with both disorders, I went so many years switching from one to the other because there… read more
Support for military and veteran families
In a joint effort with colleagues in Dell Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry, social work professor Elisa Borah is leading the new Military & Veteran Family Program. Through this program, university researchers and community members collaborate to develop and test interventions for service members, veterans, and their caregivers and families.… read more
