Communities That Care: Building Community Engagement and Capacity to Prevent Youth Behavior Problems, a new publication by Oxford University Press, is the first comprehensive description of Communities That Care, a community-based prevention system pioneered at the School's Social Development Research Group.
December 4, 2018
School prevention experts Hawkins and Catalano release new book and receive distinguished career achievement award
December 3, 2018
School alumni spearhead project to help Thai villagers build a new preschool
Last summer, Victor Crouch (MSW '97), who currently lives and works in Okinawa, traveled to northeast Thailand, home of the Isaan culture. There, in the province of Ubon Ratchathani, Crouch learned about a preschool built in a lowlands area that flooded every time it rained.
November 29, 2018
Ruth Kagi Scholarship announced at School of Social Work recognition event
Dean Eddie Uehara announced that the School of Social Work has created a scholarship to honor Representative Ruth Kagi, who served nearly two decades in the Washington state legislature.
October 30, 2018
A call to end hate crimes in our communities and our nation
Read this open letter from the UW School of Social Work Leadership Team and the Faculty Council regarding the deadly anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Penn.
October 26, 2018
Guela Gayton Johnson, former School of Social Work librarian and community leader, dies
Guela Gayton Johnson, a distinguished librarian, influential community leader and matriarch of one of Seattle’s prominent African American families, passed away on Oct. 8, 2018, at age 91.