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 […]

10th Annual Critical Social Work Research Symposium -- April 21 -- Subversive Action: Re(Visioning) Social Justice “Work” in Social Work

Organized by the School of Social Work at York University, the Critical Social Work and Social Justice Research Symposium aims to foster critical education, research and practice in relation to critical social work and social transformation in order to promote contemporary, historical, social, political and economical context, both locally and globally. Symposium Date: April 21, […]

School of Social Work collaborates with community to run workshop series

A four-part community conversation series designed to engage the local community on topics of emotional well-being will continue on April 18 with “Moving Towards Resilience: An Interactive Workshop with Les DanceSours.” The series, developed and facilitated by York University’s School of Social Work, Access Alliance, the Black Creek Community Collaborative and the York University TD […]