News Category: Alumni + Friends
Sunnybrook celebrates Social Work Week with help from FIFSW students
Categories: Alumni + Friends, StudentsEach year social work students completing their practicum at Sunnybrook Hospital are tasked with planning and […]
New report on anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the experiences of members of Toronto’s Chinese Canadian community
Categories: Alumni + Friends, Izumi Sakamoto, ResearchAs we approach the third anniversary of the lockdown in Toronto — and the second anniversary […]
A bitter truth: 30 years of child welfare data collection reveals deep systemic inequities, racism and harm
Categories: Alumni + Friends, Barbara Fallon, Faculty, ResearchIn 2007, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada (the Caring Society) and […]
Q & A: Jheanelle Anderson (MSW 2020) on realizing structural changes and forming community at the intersection of Blackness and disability
Categories: Alumni + Friends, Leadership, Q & A, ResearchIf you were to ask Jheanelle Anderson (MSW 2020) to share the key to her success, she’d […]
Anti-Black racism in policing: Notisha Massaquoi talks to Metro Morning about the impact of Tyre Nichols’ murder
Categories: Alumni + Friends, Faculty, Notisha MassaquoiAs so many morn the loss of Tyre Nichols, who died January 10 after a brutal beating […]
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Donald E. Meeks
Categories: Alumni + Friends, Faculty, LeadershipDonald Meeks — a Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work — […]
The Fu Hui Education Foundation and students from the Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency field of study gather in person for dinner
Categories: Alumni + Friends, StudentsThe Fu Hui Education Foundation — a dedicated and generous supporter of the unique Indigenous Trauma and […]
How Alumna Kaitlin Schwan became a leading researcher on homelessness and a national advocate for the right to housing
Categories: Alumni + Friends, Faculty, Kaitlin Schwan, LeadershipWhen Kaitlin Schwan was about six years old, she secretly gave her mother’s credit cards to people […]
Celebrating our 2020 and 2021 graduates
Categories: Alumni + Friends, StudentsOn December 7, FIFSW students who graduated virtually in 2020 and 2021 had the opportunity to walk […]
In Memoriam: Winnifred Anne Herington
Categories: Alumni + Friends, FacultyWinnifred Anne Herington, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Social Work Faculty from 1965 to 1989, […]