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MSW students: Are you looking to lighten your course load next year? ☀️
@uconnsocialwork is offering flexible, fully online summer courses to help you stay on track—or get ahead!

📅 Registration opens March 23

Courses are asynchronous and run from May 26 – Aug 3:
✨ Research Methods (SSW 5006)
✨ Advanced Research: Program Evaluation (SSW 5006)
✨ Clinical Conditions: Children and Adolescents (SSW 5204)

Ready to register? Connect with OSAS at sswstudentservices@uconn.edu
More info: https://summersession.uconn.edu/dates-fees/ ...

We`re now halfway through March—National Social Work Month—recognizing more than 8,800 @uconnsocialwork alumni worldwide 💙 !

The National Association of Social Workers-Connecticut (NASW/CT) 2026 theme, "Social Workers: Uplift. Defend. Transform" honors the prime mission of the profession—to enhance human well-being, meet the basic human needs of all people, and put special attention on the needs and empowerment of people are vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty.

Social Work is one of the fastest growing professions in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Our alumni are among more than 810,000 social workers in the United States.

Learn more about the Social Work 2026 campaign: https://www.socialworkers.org/News/Social-Work-Month/Theme-and-Rationale-2026 ...

In a recent Mindfulness Voyage podcast, UConn School of Social Work faculty Caitlin Elsaesser, Gio Iocano, Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, and Ph.D. student Vivien Roman-Hampton speak about the importance of teaching mindfulness as part of a social work education. 🧘🏼🧘🏽‍♀️🧘🏼‍♂️

“We`re wanting to train our social workers that mindfulness isn`t just what you do sitting on the cushion, it`s, it`s what we bring to life," Elsaesser says. "We include solo silent contemplative practice, but also a lot of deep listening. And just to see the power of the collective emerge over the course of the 8 weeks is so moving."

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80pEn7Jm_Mg ...

🌞The April 1 deadline is approaching! Ranked among the top 9% of all Master of Social Work programs nationwide, the UConn School of Social Work trains our students for clinical social work and to advocate for improved social policies and services.

Attend an upcoming virtual information session to learn more: https://connect.grad.uconn.edu/portal/msw_infosessions ...

UConn School of Social Work Associate Professor Caitlin Elsaesser and Ph.D. student Vivien Roman-Hampton are co-authors on a new article in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry:

“Codesigning a mindfulness-based intervention with community violence intervention workers and youth: The power of participatory research.”

This study highlights how youth affected by gun violence, community violence intervention (CVI) workers, and researchers collaborated to co-create a culturally grounded, multigenerational mindfulness-based intervention to support coping and well-being. The work demonstrates the power of participatory research and community partnership in addressing stress and trauma in marginalized communities.

🔗 https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/ort0000916 ...

Please join us in welcoming Kelly English, Ph.D., MSW, who has joined the UConn School of Social Work’s Innovations Institute as Senior Advisor for Behavioral Health Policy and Assistant Extension Professor.

Dr. English brings more than 25 years of experience designing and implementing public and private child- and family-serving agencies. Her work focuses on translating policy into practice, strengthening workforce capacity, and advancing large-scale behavioral health system reform.

Dr. English continues to provide expert technical assistance and consultation to government agencies and private organizations nationwide on managed care, sustainable financing, and system-wide quality improvement. ...