News Category: Alumni + Friends
A welcome message to the Fall Class of 2022 from the president of FIFSW’s Alumni Association
Categories: Alumni + FriendsDear Graduates, On behalf of the FIFSW Alumni Association, I wish to congratulate you on reaching this […]
Congratulations to FIFSW’s 2022 Arbor Award winners!
Categories: Alumni + FriendsThe Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work is thrilled to announce its 2022 Arbor Award recipients: Reem Abdul […]
New book by alumnus Allan Barsky examines “Essential Ethics for Social Work Practice”
Categories: Alumni + FriendsA new textbook by FIFSW alumnus Allan Barsky provides foundational knowledge on how to identify, analyze and […]
Q&A: Alumna Sajedeh Zahraei on the uprising in Iran
Categories: Alumni + Friends, Q & ASajedeh Zahraei — who completed both her MSW and PhD at FIFSW — has focused much of […]
From clinical social work to organizational and systems-level change: How alumna Sajedeh Zahraei is leading efforts to improve mental health support for immigrant, refugee and racialized women
Categories: Alumni + Friends, LeadershipWhen Sajedeh Zahraei arrived in Canada as a refugee claimant from Iran via Kuwait at 19 years […]
Social work students inspire much needed research on the social services needs of Ontario’s Muslim population
Categories: A. Ka Tat Tsang, Alumni + Friends, Faculty, Research, StudentsAfter the 2019 attacks on two Mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand that killed 51 Muslims, Amina […]
A reading list from Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Chair on Truth and Reconciliation in Canada for Lakehead University
Categories: Alumni + FriendsDr. Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Chair on Truth and Reconciliation in Canada for Lakehead University, presented the talk “Deconstructing […]
Thank you to the alumni who shared their social work journey with new MSW students September 8 & 9
Categories: Alumni + FriendsFIFSW’s Orientation events and Introduction to Social Work Conference for new students in the two-year Master […]
New initiative for Indigenous students and recent graduates aims to build social workers as leaders
Categories: Alumni + Friends, Leadership, Programs + TeachingThe Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work has launched a new initiative to foster and advance the leadership […]
From the archives: New rotational practicum models helps time-strapped field instructors (Reach, Summer 2009)
Categories: Alumni + Friends, Partners, PracticumHow do you convince an already time-strapped social worker to take on the extra responsibility of becoming a […]