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Blogposts on Ontario's 2018 Provincial Elections by York Students

Blogposts on Ontario's 2018 Provincial Elections by York Students

Ontario votes on June 07! What issues matter to York students and what do they think about the candidates? On May 7, 2018, four YouthREX Youth Research Assistants who are all undergraduate students at York (three LAPS students - two of who are BSW students) attended a youth-focused town hall hosted by Laidlaw Foundation, TVO, For Youth […]

Adam Duncan - Nominee for the Gary Brewer Emerging Leader Award

Adam Duncan - Nominee for the Gary Brewer Emerging Leader Award

The Gary Brewer Emerging Leader Award This award is presented annually to a non-academic employee of York University who has shown tremendous promise for assuming a leadership role at the University, is known for their innovative and meaningful contributions to the effectiveness of their unit and has significantly contributed to the University’s commitment to excellence. […]

Feature Profile - MSW Alumni Elene Lam

Feature Profile - MSW Alumni Elene Lam

This month our Feature Profile is of Elene Lam   Elene Lam is the founder and Executive Director of Butterfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network) and the Migrant Sex Workers Project.  She has been involved in both the gender and sex work movements, as well as migrant and labour activism for almost 20 […]

Social Work Students Association (SWSA) Host Third Annual Toronto Social Work Networking Gala!

Social Work Students Association (SWSA) Host Third Annual Toronto Social Work Networking Gala!

The BSW Social Work Students Association are honoured to have been able to host the third annual Toronto Social Work Networking Gala in partnership between York University, Ryerson University, and The University of Toronto. This Gala was a student run event connecting the three social work programs in Toronto, bringing us together to celebrate our […]

Solidarity with Colten Boushie, his family, friends, and Indigenous communities

Solidarity with Colten Boushie, his family, friends, and Indigenous communities

The School of Social Work is greatly saddened over the recent court decision to acquit Gerald Stanley in the murder of Colten Boushie. The court decision is a grave injustice to Colten, his family, his friends, the Red Pheasant Cree Nation, and all Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. We recognize that the court decision is […]

One Year Today: School of Social Work Remembers Mass Shooting at the Quebec Mosque

One Year Today: School of Social Work Remembers Mass Shooting at the Quebec Mosque

January 29, 2018, marks the one year anniversary of the mass shooting at the Quebec Mosque that took the lives of Azzeddine Soufiane, Mamadou Tanou Barry, Khaled Belkacemi, Aboubaker Thabti, Ibrahima Barry and Abdelkrim Hassane. A young white man emboldened by the rise of Islamophobia in this country and the decades of wars against Muslim majority countries […]

Feature Profile - Field Instructor Michelle Del Carmen

Feature Profile - Field Instructor Michelle Del Carmen

  This month our Feature Profile is of Michelle Del Carmen, the President of The Centre for Dreams.   The Centre for Dreams is a Markham day program that provides services for adults living with a developmental disability from across York and Durham Region.  The Centre for Dreams provides special individuals with educational programs and […]

11th Annual Social Work Research Symposium Call for Abstracts

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 […]