Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Eyitayo Onifade
Monday, July 25, 2011
Dr. Eyitayo Onifade joined the College of Social Work at Florida State University in fall 2010. Dr. Onifade has experience as a victim-witness advocate, juvenile probation officer, and policy analyst/evaluator for child welfare and juvenile justice systems. He earned his MSW from the University of Georgia, where he also worked with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government as an analyst. Dr. Onifade completed his Ph.D. at Michigan State University in the field of Ecological-Community Psychology.
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Student Spotlight: John Sheetz, MSW Program
Thursday, July 21, 2011
John Sheetz first came to FSU to pursue bachelor’s degrees in international affairs and in hospitality administration after receiving the Palm Beach and Martin County Pathfinder Award in Community Involvement in 1999. As an undergraduate, he served as programming chair for the Service Corps Student Government Board. He also raced with the intercollegiate sailing team.
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Student Spotlight: Emily Cunningham, BSW Program
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Emily Cunningham, a junior at FSU’s College of Social Work, has volunteered with several organizations, but she recently had the opportunity to take on a leadership role when a friend asked if she would like to coordinate a volunteer project to raise awareness of homelessness in Tallahassee. In their project, titled “Conversation Pieces: Socially Engaged Art,” they conducted a series of art sessions for the children and adult residents of a local transitional housing community called HOPE.
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CSW Professional Development Program Benefits Students, Alumni and Professionals
Friday, July 15, 2011
The FSU College of Social Work has always been committed to helping students and alumni achieve success, but recently, Dean Nick Mazza decided to do more.
“There was really an opportunity for the College to reach out to students, alumni and community members, and enhance their professional careers in social work,” said Mazza. “We established the Professional Development Program to provide additional resources for these groups that will ultimately help them succeed.”
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Child Welfare in Ukraine
Thursday, June 16, 2011
John Sheetz, MSW
Peace Corps, Youth Development, May 2005 – April 2007
Bortnyky Boys Orphanage ‘Boys Town’, November 2007, January – June 2008, January – April 2009, returning visits in 2012 and 2014
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Rosenthal Named to White House Position
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Lynn Rosenthal, a 1980 alumnae of the FSU College of Social Work, was appointed in June 2009 as the new White House Advisor on Violence Against Women. In this newly created position, she serves as advisor to the president and vice president on domestic violence and sexual assault issues.
CSW professor emerita Sharon Maxwell Ferguson remembers Rosenthal well.
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Gerber leads resettlement efforts for African refugees
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Senegal, Mali, Cote d’Ivoire—these are just a few of the African nations Katie Gerber has traveled to over the past year in her work with refugees. Katie works for a Resettlement Support Center (RSC) in Nairobi, Kenya, to prepare refugees and their families for adjudication by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for resettlement to the United States.