Projects with Underserved Communities (PUC) is a UT Austin program that pairs engineering and social work students in service-learning collaborations around the world. This past summer, a team went to Thailand to install a filtered water transmission and distribution system for the village of Don Kang, and another team went… read more
Issues
Ties that bind
Professor Elisa Borah argues that we should broaden our understanding of military social work by including not only active duty personnel and veterans abut also their immediate and extended family members. As Borah writes in the Journal of Family Social Work, they all “frequently share in the challenges and sacrifice… read more
Zeroing on homelessness
As director of the National Homelessness Social Work Initiative, professor Heather Larkin Holloway has partnered with CSWE and social work schools across the country to increase homelessness-related curricular content and internships. “Our aim is to strengthen the ability of schools of social work to prepare students to be leaders in… read more
