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The @uconnsocialwork @innovations_institute is a founding member of the newly formed Children’s Behavioral Health Collective (CBH) Collective! 🧑‍🦱🧒👧

With approximately one in five children in the U.S. experiencing a mental health condition each year, the need for community- and home-based behavioral health services has never been more urgent. Too often, gaps in care lead children and youth into systems like child welfare and juvenile justice, which can further exacerbate trauma.

No single organization can fix these systemic gaps alone. That is why the CBH Collective brings together extensive national expertise across sectors to transform child-serving systems, advance cross-sector collaboration, and develop solutions grounded in data, evidence, and lived experience.

Learn more at s.uconn.edu/bhcollective ...

Anxiety can profoundly affect children and teens with cancer, influencing not only their emotional well-being but also their medical experiences and quality of life. In a new paper published May 18 in Pediatric Blood & Cancer, researchers including @uconnsocialwork Ph.D. student Laura Moynihan offer a practical guide for pediatric oncology teams to better identify, assess, and support anxiety in young patients throughout diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, recurrence, and end-of-life care.

The article emphasizes that anxiety can appear in many ways—sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle—and highlights the importance of compassionate, interdisciplinary care. 💛

Read more: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/1545-5017.70366 ...

In an editorial published in the May 2026 issue of Families in Society, @uconnsocialwork Professor Cristina Mogro-Wilson explains how mentorship is a cornerstone of the social work profession.

"Behind every published article is a network of scholars—authors, reviewers, mentors, and editors—all who contribute their time and expertise to advancing the social work knowledge base," she writes. "This shared commitment underscores an important truth: The future of social work scholarship depends not only on the research we conduct but also on the scholars we mentor." ✍️

Read more: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10443894261443454 ...

Happy birthday to UConn School of Social Work Professor Emeritus Myron E. Weiner, who turns 100 years young on May 25! 🎉👏💙🎉🎂

Professor Weiner was the founding Chair of the School’s Master of Social Work Administration program, established in 1975. Prior to that, he served as a professor in UConn’s Master of Public Affairs program beginning in 1961. 🎓

A prolific scholar and leader in the field, Myron authored numerous books, monographs, and professional papers on social work administration and nonprofit organizational management. His book, "Human Services Management: Analysis and Applications," was considered one of the leading texts in the field for many years.📚📖

Myron and his wife, Ruth, also served as management consultants through Weiner Associates in Bloomfield, Connecticut, advising public and nonprofit human services organizations for more than three decades.

Please join us in wishing Professor Weiner a very happy 100th birthday! 🎂🎊🎈🎁🎉🎂 ...

On June 3, join @uconnsocialwork’s Sukhmani Singh and fellow panelists for a discussion on “Our Voices, Our Rights: Civic Engagement After Reentry.”

Learn more about the barriers to reentry such as voting, housing, and employment.

Singh’s scholarship examines entrenched and intersecting inequities within the criminal and juvenile legal system(s), with a focus on marginalized youth, and formerly incarcerated people. Her work has informed policy discussions and systems reform across Connecticut—contributing to deliberations of the Juvenile Justice Policy and Oversight Committee, the Connecticut Sentencing Commission, and other state bodies.

The talk takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 3 at Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street at the Travelers Center for Arts and Culture.

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