@TexasSteveHicks: Ideas, findings, people

Texas families who receive child maltreatment prevention services do not have a subsequent child protective services case, according to a new report from the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing. It is the first report to show that receiving services from Texas child maltreatment prevention programs prevents child abuse… read more 

Spending a week crammed in a small house in East Austin with eight other people may not be an ideal Spring Break for most UT students. And yet, this was the choice of social work undergraduates Cassandara Najera, Sarah Hudson, and Renee Palma.  This spring, the three of them signed up for… read more 

Professor Cossy Hough has partnered with alumni Will Francis (MSSW ’10) and Anna Stelter (MSSW ’16) to launch 70% (socialworkershealthpolicy.com), a blog about health policy, the social determinants of health, and social workers’ commitment to advance good health in their places of practice. Why 70%? That’s the estimated influence of… read more