Katrina Boone, the director of field education for the FSU College of Social Work, has been appointed to a three-year term with the Council on Field Education, a group within the national Council of Social Work Education (CSWE).
American Addictions Center (AAC) announced the recipients of its 2016 Behavioral Health Academic Scholarship Program. Among the winners was FSU College of Social Work BSW student Samantha Ferrara (third place). Ferrara and second place winner, Patricia Francois an MSW student at Columbia University, will each receive $2,500. First place winner Rhonda Kelly, a master’s student in clinical mental health counseling at University of Colorado at Denver will receive $5,000.
Through the Fulbright Scholar Program and a partnership with Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, Associate Professor Dr. Jean Munn will take her research in in geronotolgical and aging studies to a whole new level during the spring 2016 semester. “This opportunity is going to allow me to forge a new collaboration in the Czech Republic with people with similar research interests” Dr. Munn explained.
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
Derrika Hunt, MSW graduate
Current Ph.D. student at University of California, Berkeley
Guwahati, India; Summer 2012
Jane McPherson, LCSW
Ph.D. Candidate
Brazil: Summer 2011
Jacy Mesch, MSW
Chisinau and surrounding area, Moldova: May 22, 2013 – August 12, 2013
Lindsay Greene, BSW student
Peru: May 13-July 25, 2014
The summer of 2014, as a result of the Social Work Undergraduate Research and Creativity Award, Florida States’s Global Scholars program, and support from the College of Social Work, I was fortunate to be able to travel to Huancayo, Peru for two months to both volunteer at and conduct research on a government child care program which targets impoverished areas of Peru.
The Florida Institute for Child Welfare (FICW, Institute) was created in June 2014 to conduct research, policy analysis, and program evaluation of child protection and child welfare services. In November 2016, the FICW introduced its new website, http://ficw.fsu.edu/, to assist child welfare policymakers and stakeholders access current research.
Recent doctoral program alumna Dr. Leah Cheatham, along with FSU College of Social Work Professor Neil Abell, and fellow doctoral program alumna Hyejin Kim will be honored at the Council on Social Work Education’s 2016 Annual Program Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Drs.
