SOCIAL WORK AND POLICING

Read Dean Eddie Uehara’s Seattle Times op-ed on getting policing reform right—by empowering communities, not enlisting social workers as a stopgap resource.

2020 Impact Report

Learn how alum Michael Light is delivering end-of-life care to Seattle's homeless population in our 2020 Impact Report: Making Social Work Central to Health Care.

COVID-19 Information

Visit our COVID-19 page for the latest School updates and resources plus links to the UW Back to School and Back to Work pages.

Tribal Rights Affirmed

Indigenous health scholar and Choctaw Nation member Karina Walters discusses the Supreme Court decision affirming tribal rights in Oklahoma.

Taking a stand

In an open letter to our social work community, the School’s leadership team calls for solidarity in the face of unrelenting racial injustice.

Population Health

Health disparities in a pandemic

Two research teams that include social work associate professors Megan Moore and Amelia Gavin were recently awarded COVID-19 health equity research grants to study health disparities exacerbated by the pandemic.

World Suicide Prevention Day

Back-to-school mental health

Sept. 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day and UW researchers, including School of Social Work Associate Professor Jennifer Stuber, are racing to understand the mental health ramifications of prolonged isolation for school-age children.

Groundbreaking ceremony

Health Sciences Education Bldg.

Last week, Dean Eddie Uehara (far left) joined with four other deans of the UW Health Sciences schools to celebrate construction of an innovative new building designed to promote collaborative learning among the health sciences professions.

FAST FACTS

Fact Fact: $5 Million Awarded Annually in Student Support

Fact Fact: #1 In the World, Social Work Schools, (Center for World University Rankings 2017)

Fact Fact: #3 In the Nation, Best Graduate Schools, (U.S. news & World Report 2020)

Fact Fact: #1 Faculty Scholarship, (Scientometrics Impact And Productivity Study 2018)

Fact Fact: 600+ Field Sites for BASW and MSW Students