Black History Month 2020: Community partners making an impact
Categories: Alumni + FriendsFIFSW’s community partners not only provide valuable practicums for our students, they also make a huge difference […]
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Read our news stories, below, and view our 2025-2030 Academic Plan to learn how FIFSW researchers, students, alumni and partners are working to create a more just, equitable and compassionate world.
‘Show up for people’: Associate Professor Carmen Logie on what’s fueling xenophobia amid the coronavirus outbreak
Categories: Carmen Logie, FacultyThe risk of catching the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Canada many other countries remains low, but […]
News release: Nutrition a key ingredient for psychological health in Canadian adults
Categories: Esme Fuller-Thomson, FacultyChronic pain, physical illness, poverty and immigrant status were also found to be strongly associated with psychological […]
Black History Month at FIFSW
Categories: Faculty, StudentsIn honour of Black History Month, the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work’s Black History Month Committee — […]
Watch Associate Professor Rupaleem Bhuyan’s keynote address at the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women event at Hart House
Categories: Faculty, Rupaleem BhuyanDecember 6, 2019, marked the 30th anniversary of the 1989 École Polytechnique Massacre. In commemoration of this […]
Kennes Lin (MSW 2019) speaks to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health about racism and the Coronavirus
Categories: Alumni + FriendsKennes Lin (MSW 2019), a recent Master of Social Work graduate from the Social Justice & […]
Strengthening community, communication and research through art
Categories: Faculty, Izumi Sakamoto, Ramona Alaggia, StudentsIn 2010, after 12 years of teaching the course Violence Against Women and Children: Multi-Disciplinary Responses […]
Dean Dexter Voisin talks to PBS Chicago about his new book: America the Beautiful and Violent
Categories: Dexter Voisin, FacultyIn his new book America the Beautiful and Violent: Black Youth & Neighbourhood Trauma in Chicago, Dean […]
Dean Dexter Voisin talks to Perri Small at WVON
Categories: Dexter Voisin, FacultyDean Dexter Voisin was in Chicago last week promoting his new book: America the Beautiful and Violent: […]
Toronto Star article cites research by Professor David Hulchanski on the link between race and social inequality in Toronto
Categories: David Hulchanski, FacultyThe City of Toronto has launched a campaign to address the effect that anti-Black racism has on […]