In This Issue

Social Work Students in Action
With a focus on mass incarceration and the War on Drugs, Salisbury
University Department of Social Work BASW and MSW students
and faculty visited Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA, the
first prison built in the U.S. The adventures continued with an engaging
poverty tour of the Kensington neighborhood by the Poor People’s
Economic Human Rights Campaign, where students learned firsthand
about the devastating effect of the War on Drugs and the loss of
industry. Photo Credit: Jennifer R. Jewell.
University of Portland Social Work Students stand up for racial,
economic, and gender justice at the Oregon Health Equity Alliance
(OHEA)/Fair Shot for All Coalition launch of their 2017 legislative
agenda, which includes bills to fund health insurance for all
Oregon’s children, end racial profiling by Oregon law enforcement,
and address issues for renters that will increase housing stability
and prevent homelessness. In addition to supporting the broader
goals of these coalitions, UP students are involved in policy research
and advocacy to secure paid family and medical leave as part of the
CSWE/Policy Practice in Field Education Initiative sponsored by
the Fund for Social Policy Education and Practice. Photo credit:
Alice Gates.
Tianca Crocker, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin
whose research focuses on digital inclusion for economic opportunity, is
serving as a NTEN/Google Fiber Digital Inclusion Fellow to supplement
her research with practice. In this photo, she is shown teaching a
group of AARP clients at her host organization, Austin Free-Net, about
computers and the Internet to help them use these newly-acquired skills
to transition in the workforce.
Ramapo College students staffed a table for World
AIDS Day, December 1, 2016. They sold t-shirts and
contributed to the NJ AIDS Services. The students
were raising awareness of AIDS/HIV on the Ramapo
campus in Mahwah, NJ.
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