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Latest Issue – Canadian Review of Social Policy

Here is our latest issue of the Canadian Review of Social Policy. https://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/issue/view/2314

11th Annual Social Work Research Symposium Call for Abstracts

Call for Abstracts (CFP details) REGISTER HERE: The 11th Annual Research Symposium: Are We There Yet? Engaging Migration/Mobility, Transnationalism and Diasporic Formations in Social Work Research, Education and Practice. Call for Abstracts: Immigration was pivotal to the emergence of social work as a profession at the turn of the last century. The Settlement Houses were […]

The School of Social Work is excited to feature Profiles of Part-Time Faculty, Field Instructors and Alumni

Every month we will post a profile recognizing and celebrating the work of committed and passionate social workers who have graduated from our program or have enriched the learning environment of our school. Our first profile is with Part-Time Professor Peter Joseph Smyth. Peter Smyth has been an part-time professor with the School of Social Work […]

Candies Kotchapaw’s Published PRP-Global Labour Research Centre’s Student Conference Proceedings

.attach_div {float:left;margin:3px;} .attach_content_div {font-size:14px; text-align:center;} Candies Kotchapaw graduated from the Master of Social Work program from York University in 2016. While at York, Candies’ Master research study was focused on pursuing public policy development as a non-traditional practice space for achieving social justice. Candies presented a pre-curser to her Practice Research Paper, “The Politics of […]

CASWE-ACFTS Board of Directors Endorses a Statement of Complicity and Commits to Change

The Board of Directors of CASWE-ACFTS has committed to ensuring that social work education in Canada contributes to transforming Canada’s colonial reality Ottawa. June 26th, 2017. “This is an important step in engaging social work education in the reconciliation process and supporting the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action” affirms CASWE-ACFTS President, Dr. Susan Cadell […]

York University’s Hart House renamed to create safe space for Indigenous peoples

At a ceremony during National Aboriginal Day at York University on June 21, Hart House was renamed Skennen’kó:wa Gamig, the House of Great Peace. To read more about the ceremony please visit the following link: York University’s Hart House renamed to create safe space for Indigenous peoples To hear more about Skennen’kó:wa Gamig from Professor […]

Wanda MacNevin, Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws Social Worker, Activist, Author

Wanda MacNevin − Social Worker, Activist, Author – Will Receive Honorary Doctor of Laws at Spring Convocation Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies II – Tuesday, June 20, 10:30am For over 40 years Wanda MacNevin has been a leader, activist and author in the Jane-Finch community and has built crucial collaborations with York University. […]

Social Work Professor Launches Two New Books at Humanities and Social Sciences Congress

York University social work Professor Nick Mulé will launch books that address LGBTQ issues and public policy advocacy at the 2017 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The annual congress attracts leading experts from across Canada. Mulé is co-editor of both books, Queering Social Work Education and The Shifting Terrain: Nonprofit Policy Advocacy in […]

Walls to Bridges Course Embraces the Transformative Power of Experiential Learning

Walls to Bridges Course Embraces the Transformative Power of Experiential Learning May 26, 2017Experiential Education, Social Work The transformative power of experiential education to change lives is at the heart of a course offered by the School of Social Work in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University. Andrea Daley The […]

CRSP new issue: Canadian Review of Social Policy / Revue Canadienne De Politique Sociale Issue 76

Canadian Review of Social Policy / Revue Canadienne De Politique Sociale Issue 76 Editorial by Wendy McKeen. Articles: Motherhood and Unemployment: Intersectional Experiences from Canada, by Dr. Leslie J. Nichols Limited and Limiting Conversations about the Poor: Elizabethan Prescriptions to Poverty in the Canadian Press, by Dr. Robert Harding, University of the Fraser Valley L’engagement […]