@TexasSteveHicks: Ideas, findings, people

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 

Professors Monica Faulkner, Tina Adkins, Rowena Fong and colleagues reviewed years of research to summarize the risk factors that lead to discontinuity in adoption and guardianship. The purpose of this literature review was to understand the risk factors that lead to post-permanency instability, also termed discontinuity, in adoption and guardianship to… read more 

While sexual harassment is a common experience for college students, we know little about incidences in social work field placements and how prepared students and field instructors are to deal with this issue. In an exploratory survey of 535 students, professor Leila Wood found that only 51 percent of them… read more