Feb. 21, 2018 David L. Albright, Hill Crest Foundation Endowed Chair in Mental Health and professor of social work, has been selected as a 2018 Rural Health Fellow by the National Rural Health Association. He is one of 17 fellows selected to participate in a yearlong, intensive program aimed at developing leaders who can articulate a clear…
Dr. Ellen Csikai, professor of social work, received the 2018 Project on Death in America (PDIA) Career Achievement Award from the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network (SWHPN) in March. The prestigious honor recognized Dr. Csikai for her exemplary contributions to the field of social work in palliative and end-of-life care. Dr. Csikai was nominated…
Amy Traylor, associate professor of social work, has been awarded a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Fellowship from the Alcohol and Other Drugs Education Program. The program is housed at the University of Denver’s Butler Institute for Families at the Graduate School of Social Work. With support from the alcohol institute, the…
SSWR 22nd Annual Conference Faculty/Doctoral Presentations The UA School of Social Work is pleased to announce the following faculty and student research presentations for the 2018 Society for Social Work and Research Conference in Washington, D.C. We encourage you to visit our presentations, discussions or workshops and to learn about the innovative research of our…
November 14, 2017 PhD student Taylor Ellis had three minutes to explain his research thesis in UA’s 2017 3MT®, or Three Minute Thesis, competition. UA students competed for the top prize in the competition Monday, Nov. 13. The competition’s judges awarded Ellis second place and the People’s Choice Award for his talk titled “Healing…
November 13, 2017 For a class community service project, UA social work students hosted a Fall Festival at McDonald Hughes Community Center in west Tuscaloosa on Saturday. About 50 people from the Tuscaloosa community attended the come-and-go event, including community leaders and District 2 City Councilwoman Raevan Howard (’14 BSW). The festival was organized by…
In honor of Veterans Day, Governor Kay Ivey has charged the veterans group Alabama Executive Veterans Network (AlaVetNet) to identify issues facing military service members and veterans in the state. David Albright, Hill Crest Foundation Endowed Chair in Mental Health and a professor in The University of Alabama School of Social Work, is chair of…
The University of Alabama’s School of Social Work has been awarded a $1.35 million grant from the United States Department of Justice to improve outcomes of Alabama youths who are victims of human sex trafficking. The Juvenile Victims of Human Trafficking in Alabama Project will help strengthen the state’s working relationships between treatment services, law…
Of Alabama’s 736 reported drug overdose deaths in 2015, 38 percent were caused by opioids, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation review of data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And though the rate of opioid pain reliever prescriptions in Alabama dipped slightly from 1.43 prescriptions per person in 2012 to 1.2…
July 10, 2017 Emma Sophia Kay, a fourth-year PhD student in the UA School of Social Work, was recently selected as a 2017-2018 Social Work Health Care Education and Leadership (HEALS) Doctoral Fellow by the National Association of Social Work and Council on Social Work Education. Kay, of Huntsville, is one of five students nationally…
