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Alicia Boatswain-Kyte receives SSHRC funds for work with the Cote-des-Neiges Black Community Association on the differential impact of COVID-19 for Black Montrealers
-led project, COVID-19: Advocating for resiliency through understanding the differential impacts of COVID-19 for Black Montrealers,headed byAlicia Boatswain-Kyte, Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, received funding. In partnership with theCote-des-Neiges Black Community Association Inc.
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PhD Grad and Course Lecturer Melanie Doucet publishes study on supportive relationships for youth leaving care
In a photo voice study released this month in the International Journal of Child and Adolescent Resilience, Dr. Melanie Doucet worked with eight former youth in care to describe what types relationships they had found most helpful as they left group or foster care. Relationships to culture, spirituality and the land were identified as particularly important for racialized and Indigenous youth.
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Provost gives update on ’s Action Plan to Address Anti-Black Racism
Provost Manfredi discusses the consultations that have gone into formulating the Action Plan (due to be completed by Sept. 30), the Plan's goals and its eventual implementation.
See Reporter for full details.
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Professor Boatswain-Kyte: Black children five times more likely than White children to be placed in out-of-home care
Ina study published this monthin a leading international journal,Professor Alicia Boatswain-Kyteand colleagues tracked child protection services over a ten-year span for a group of close to 16,000 children involved in an urban agency in Quebec.
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Susan Mintzberg, Social Work PhD Candidate Published Article: "Back to School: between the tree and the bark
Susan's article regarding the back to school plan in Quebec was recently published in LA PRESSE newspaper.
To read Susan's piece clickhere.
Sherel Griffith - Recent Graduate of M.Sc (A) Couple and Family Therapy Program Featured in Community Newspaper
Sherel is applying her expertise and knowledge of family psychotherapy to strengthen the lives of Black families and build a community network.
Read the article here.
Professors Tamara Sussman and Shari Brotman on Combatting Ageism
In an article in the July 22nd edition of the Montreal Gazette, Professors Tamara Sussman & Shari Brotman argue that reducing older people to "passive" and "vulnerable" victims reinforces ageist attitudes that contribute to their marginalization.
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Invitation for Social Work Students to Participate in Resilience App Study
The Regulation, Affect, and Development (RAaD) Lab (Prof. Katherine Maurer) invites all students of the School of Social Work with access to an iPhone to participate in an online research study on increasing resilience to stress. Participants will engage in daily activities to increase healthy stress management skills via an iOS phone application (the JoyPop app).
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Oka Crisis Land Dispute - City News Interview Featuring Professor Wanda Gabriel
Professor Wanda Gabriel and other community members speak out about the unresolved land dispute at the centre of the Oka Crisis thirty years on.
To watch the full interview clickhere.
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Delphine Collin-Vézina - Responding to Child Protection-Involved Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Delphine Collin-Vézina,Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and the Director of the Centre for Research on Children and Families (CRCF),received COVID-19 research funding.
Coming soon! McLennan-Redpath Terrace Pick-Up Service
Beginning the week of July 20, students, faculty and staff will be able to take advantage of a Terrace Pickup Service for print books not available electronically or through theHathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS). The initial rollout of this service will provide access to books housed in the McLennan-Redpath Library Complex and the Nahum Gelber Law Library only. Materials from other branches will not be available during the first phase of this service.
Reflecting on strategy and healthcare in a pandemic with Susan and Henry Mintzberg
In a Alumni webcast, Professor Karl Moore is joined by Professor Henry Mintzberg and Susan Mintzberg, a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work who studies the role of family caregivers in mental healthcare. The three cast light on how we can build better systems and more balanced societies based on lessons learned from COVID-19.
Link to further details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaAzXnqXnAg
Invitation for Social Work Students to Participate in Resilience App Study
The Regulation, Affect, and Development (RAaD) Lab (Prof.Katherine Maurer) invites all students of the School of Social Workwith access to an iPhone to participate in an online research study onincreasing resilience to stress. Participants will engage in daily activities
School of Social Work Equity Committee Virtual Collective Reflection on Police Brutality and Racialized Structural Violence
Space for the broader school community to reflect on social work’s complicity in structural violence and oppression led by Kate Maurer and Wanda Gabriel.
Location:Zoom link:https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/92809355405
Time: 12 pm to 1pm
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Congratulations to Myriam Denov recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts’ 2020 Killam Research Fellowship
The Canada Council for the Arts has announced six recipients of the prestigious 2020 Killam Research Fellowship, including ProfessorMyriam Denov.
Professor Myriam Denov, Canada Research Chair in Youth, Gender and Armed Conflict, received a 2020 Killam Research Fellowship to support her work examining the needs of children born of war in northern Uganda.