News Category: Students
How Factor-Inwentash Faculty students harnessed their counselling and leadership skills to help develop a new Peer Support Service at U of T
Categories: StudentsA new mental health service, launched this fall by Health & Wellness, provides University of Toronto students […]
Manaal Syed receives the GADE Student Award for Leadership and Service
Categories: StudentsThe Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work would like to congratulate PhD Candidate Manaal Syed, who is this […]
Fall 2020 graduate Virginia Isaac is “proud to be among those making a difference in people’s lives during the pandemic”
Categories: StudentsVirginia Isaac (MSW 2020) is a community social worker with the Government of Nunavut, but these days she […]
Health & Wellness at U of T launches a new peer support service — with help from social work students
Categories: StudentsCross-posted from University of Toronto Student Life Health & Wellness peer support is a new drop-in mental […]
Alona Amurao’s award-winning article on Medical Assistance in Dying is published in Canadian Social Work Review
Categories: Alumni + Friends, StudentsRecent FIFSW graduate Alona Amurao (MSW 2018) received first place in the Student Article Competition hosted […]
PhD student Gerardo Betancourt explores how an HIV program for Spanish-speaking communities is applying lessons learned to help communities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Categories: StudentsA new article, by FIFSW PhD Candidate, Gerardo Betancourt, explores how the organization Community Without Borders has […]
Intergenerational support provided by Toronto’s HomeShare program reduces social isolation among older adults and students during the COVID-19 pandemic
Categories: Alumni + Friends, Faculty, StudentsWhen first-year University of Toronto student Lee Chang opted to stay with her roommate in the city […]
Lessons from the front lines: Master of Social Work student Mariah Douglas applies foundational skills developed at FIFSW to her work at CAMH
Categories: StudentsOn any given day during the pandemic, the news is full of stories about how the crisis […]
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 — […]
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 […]