News Category: Alumni + Friends

Kennes Lin receives the 2021 OASW Beverley Antle Leadership Award from the Ontario Association of Social Workers

Posted on May 26, 2021

Categories: Alumni + Friends

FIFSW alumna Kennes Lin was awarded the 2021 OASW Beverley Antle Leadership Award from the Ontario Association […]

Now on YouTube: How the Social Work Profession has Promoted Racism without Racists — Real Talk about Anti-Black Racism

Posted on April 23, 2021

Categories: Alumni + Friends, Dexter Voisin, Keith Adamson, Tanya Sharpe

Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for the event “How the Social Work […]

Alumna Rosemary Sadlier advocated for Black History Month to be recognized across Canada, but her efforts to uplift Black history didn’t end there

Posted on February 11, 2021

Categories: Alumni + Friends

Master of Social Work graduate Rosemary Sadlier has dedicated her life’s work to elevating and celebrating Black History […]

Q & A: Rebecca Schuss (MSW 2020) shares how her experience studying Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty led to law school

Posted on January 20, 2021

Categories: Alumni + Friends, Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency field of study, Q & A

  When Rebecca Schuss began the Factor-Inwentash Faculty’s Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency (ITR) program, she wasn’t sure […]

Maclean’s magazine lists alumna Cindy Blackstock among Canada’s most influential people

Posted on January 18, 2021

Categories: Alumni + Friends

Cindy Blackstock, who received her PhD from Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work in 2009, is on this […]

The art of virtual connection: Emma Silver (MSW 2015) reflects on the challenges and benefits of online care

Posted on January 12, 2021

Categories: Alumni + Friends

During my first year of graduate studies at the University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, […]

Alumna Leeann Trevors is featured on Global News for her work with the PEACH (Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless) program

Posted on December 4, 2020

Categories: Alumni + Friends

Recent Factor-Inwentash Faculty graduate Leeann Trevors was featured in a Global News segment on the PEACH (Palliative […]

Alumni Fundraising Committee engages new donors

Posted on December 2, 2020

Categories: Alumni + Friends

When the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work proposed developing a free online counselling clinic operated by rigorously […]

A letter to graduates from the President of the FIFSW Alumni Association

Posted on November 20, 2020

Categories: Alumni + Friends

(Above: some of the members of the FIFSW Alumni Association, including (L-R): President Andria Allen, First Vice […]

19 pieces of advice from alumni for the Class of 2020

Posted on November 20, 2020

Categories: Alumni + Friends

With your degree in social work now in hand, you are ready to head out into the […]