Bridget Nash, Rutgers School of Social Work lecturer since 2014, graduate of the Rutgers DSW and MSW programs, and a social worker who has been in clinical private practice for over 15 years, discusses how social workers can commemorate Suicide Prevention Week, which takes place Sunday, September 8th through Saturday, September 14th. She shares her own experience as both a teacher, clinician, and sister of someone who lost her battle with mental illness.
Dr. Kristen Gilmore Powell (PI/PD), along with Drs. N. Andrew Peterson (Co-PI/Co-PD), and Cory Morton (Co-I), were awarded $739,529 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) through a five-year grant (total award amount $3,697,645) for their project, Continuing Prevention Workforce Development through the Northeast and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center.
Rutgers School of Social Work professor Edward J. Alessi and Gabriel Robles, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, received a $431,750 grant (total award) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities for their project, “A Mixed-Methods Study of the Social Ecological and Integration Factors Associated with HIV Prevention Behaviors Among Latino/x Sexual Minority Migrant Men in the U.S.”
Rutgers School of Social Work faculty members Drs. Ashley Jackson, Lenna Nepomnyaschy, and Emmy Tiderington authored policy briefs addressing three Grand Challenges for Social Work.
Associate Professor Emmy Tiderington, who shared research and recommendations with the court in an amicus brief, unpacks the ruling.
The IIDEA Committee, comprised of faculty, students, and staff, is hitting its stride and meeting many of its goals as it approaches five years of advocacy and action.