Leymah Gbowee is “impolitely angry:” Social worker & Nobel Peace Prize winner tells us to transform our anger for social change
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
“It’s time to stop being politely angry,” said Leymah Gbowee, the Liberian social worker and peace activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
Posted Under: Alumni & Friends, Doctoral Program, CSW General, International Programs
Alumna strives to assist individuals and organizations with support for surrogates
Monday, April 07, 2014
For the first two decades of her career, alumna Dr. Julie Buckey worked as a social worker at various levels. Receiving her MSW (1996) from the FSU College of Social Work’s Part-Time Program in Jacksonville, Julie worked in both supervisory and administrative roles in child welfare, health and mental health. It was not until she returned to the College in 1999 for her doctoral degree and began her dissertation that her focus would change, setting the course for the next stage of her life’s work.
Posted Under: Alumni & Friends, Doctoral Program
FSU’s Great Give 2014: Social Work focuses on local youths
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
This year’s FSU Great Give runs from Thursday, April 17 through Friday, April 18, 2014 and the College of Social Work focuses its efforts on raising funds to sustain its annual Arts & Athletics Summer Camp! 2014 marks the third summer the camp will run on Florida State’s campus, allowing under-resourced middle school youths to experience college life.
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Social Work Month celebrated with community action and outreach
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
Annually the College of Social Work joins NASW to celebrate March as Social Work Month and strives in acknowledge the occasion and the importance of social workers and their profession in several ways throughout the month.
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Alumna Maxine Thurston-Fischer’s legacy lives on at FSU
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
Dr. Maxine Thurston Fischer quietly made history at FSU in 1964 when she became the first African-American student to receive a degree from the University, graduating with her Master’s in Social Work. But her contributions to the University and the College of Social Work didn’t stop there. Her degree was a catalyst for a lifetime dedication to social work and social activism.
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Karen Keroack honored for more than 28 years as a social work educator
Monday, March 31, 2014
At the conclusion of the spring 2014 semester the College of Social Work will bid farewell to long-time faculty member Karen Keroack. For over 28 years Karen has served as an invaluable member of the faculty, acting as an instructor and area coordinator for the Gainesville Part-Time MSW Program.
Posted Under: Alumni & Friends, CSW General, Faculty & Research
Building creative communities: Creative connections
Friday, March 28, 2014
On January 31st I turned twenty years old, and on that same day I left the comfort of Tallahassee for the experience of Colquitt, Georgia. Colquitt, Georgia, is a small town in the southwestern part of Georgia, and it has quite the story to tell. A lot of people assume that for a community to be lively and exciting it must be in a large city, or other urban area. Colquitt, Georgia disproves that assumption with simply its murals alone.
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Domestic violence resources made available to Puerto Rico’s law enforcement
Friday, March 21, 2014
The Institute for Family Violence Studies in Florida State University’s College of Social Work has partnered with the Center for Public Safety Innovation at St. Petersburg College to create a Spanish-language version of an online training program to prevent domestic violence in the homes of law enforcement officers.
The Spanish-language online training went live March 17 and is free to all law enforcement agencies in Puerto Rico.
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Rushing to prescribe: Antidepressants and grieving parents
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Some doctors are too quick to prescribe antidepressants to parents who have suffered the death of a child either during pregnancy or within the first month of life, according to a study conducted by Florida State University researcher Jeffrey R. Lacasse.
In a study of 235 bereaved parents participating in an online support community, Lacasse found that 88 — or 37.4 percent — of them were prescribed a psychiatric medication to help them cope. Some women received prescriptions within a week of losing their children.
Posted Under: CSW General, Faculty & Research
Doctoral student’s Three Minute Thesis wins People’s Choice Award
Saturday, March 01, 2014
Florida State’s Graduate School held its first Three Minute Thesis competition on February 25th in front of a live audience on the main Tallahassee campus. Developed by The University of Queensland in Australia, this research communication competition challenges doctoral student competitors to present a comprehensive and captivating oration on their dissertation topic and its significance in three minutes or less. Popularity for the competition has spread acros