School of Social Work Associate Professor Kevin Haggerty, director of the Social Development Research Group, has been named the School's new endowed professor in prevention.
Forefront: Leveraging legislative action to save lives
“More states should follow in Washington’s footsteps,” declared a recent Scientific American editorial, citing model legislation which Forefront Suicide Prevention supported during the last six years.
Forefront: All Patient Safe equips health care providers with suicide prevention tools
All Patients Safe—an interactive suicide prevention training program developed for health care professionals by health care professionals—is changing the way health care providers screen patients who may be at risk for suicide.
Forefront: Partnership with Second Amendment Foundation critical to awareness campaign success
The Safer Homes, Suicide Aware campaign—launched in 2017 and co-chaired by Forefront and the Second Amendment Foundation—includes a coalition of more than 40 partners.
School is first institutional social work partner with Gates Foundation to provide student internships
Houa Lee (MSW ‘19) is the inaugural School of Social Work intern at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where she will be assigned to the Community and Civic Engagement team for the summer of 2018.