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Bala Ghimire

Bala Ghimire is social worker and philanthropist who received a prestigious award from Barack Obama for his work in social issues in the United States.

Chicago Commons

In his academic career, Taylor specialized in training for social work, founding the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration in 1903.

Clayborne Carson

His daughter Temera, who is employed by the County of Santa Clara, graduated from San Jose State University with a masters degree in social work, and lives with her three children in East Palo Alto, California.

Everett Stonequist

The recipient, whose interest and grades in sociology are among the award criteria, is selected by the faculty of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of National University of Singapore

Within the Social Sciences division, the following subjects are offered: Communications and New Media, Economics, Geography, Political science, Psychology, Social work and Sociology.

Funaadu

Faisal Naseem: Former Member of Parliament for Fuvahmulah (Gnaviyani Atoll) and founder of Faisal Foundation, which is famous for its social work, philanthropic contributions and donations for the development of Fuvahmulah.

Hanna Eady

He earned a B.A. in social work from the University of Haifa, and then worked as the artistic director of a theater.

Kent Family Placement Project

The Kent Family Placement Project (also known as the "Kent Project") was initiated in 1975 by Nancy Hazel, noted author and previous Research Fellow with the University of Kent department of Social Work.

Martha Sharp

She attended Pembroke College, the women's college of Brown University, and later studied in the field of Social Work at Northwestern University’s Recreation Training School centered in Hull House, a Chicago settlement.

Martin Deutsch

In 1939, he married Suzanne Zeitlin, a native Bostonian who had just graduated from Simmons College with a Master's degree in Social Work.

Nancy Hazel

Nancy Hazel was a Research Fellow with the School of Social Work at the University of Kent.

Nancy Kurshan

Along the way, Nancy raised two children, got a master's degree in social work and worked for 20 years as a social worker in the Chicago Public Schools.

Nonviolent self defense

Nonviolent Self Defense is now used by mental health, social service, law enforcement, and education professionals throughout the United States for nonviolent crisis intervention.

Pier Antonio Panzeri

In 1996-2003, he worked with the city authorities of Milan, Barcelona, and Frankfurt, in the context of an international project to compare experiences regarding economic development, immigration and welfare, and to devise a future European municipality model.

Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan

The Center has become increasingly interdisciplinary over time, drawing faculty from Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Natural Resources, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, Public Policy, Social Work, Sociology, and Statistics.

Sapir Academic College

The college awards Bachelor's degrees in 12 areas (Communication, Cinema and TV, Software Systems, Marketing, Administration and Public Policy, Industrial Management, Law, Human Resources Management, Culture Studies, Logistics, Economics, and Social Work), as well as a multidisciplinary BA (in the Humanities and Social Sciences) and a MA in Administration and Public Policy.

The Samaja

Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das, a prominent freedom fighter and social worker started it as a weekly from Satyabadi of Puri district of Odisha to facilitate the freedom struggle and to revive the moribund Oriya language.


see also

ACSW

Academy of Certified Social Workers, one of the credentials in psychology, issued by the National Association of Social Work

Anupam Hazra

A Masters in Social Work from Visva-Bharati University, Anupam Hazra has been associated with the non profit sector since 2005.

ASAPROSAR

Headquartered in Santa Ana, El Salvador, ASAPROSAR has over 200 local employees in the education, health and social work fields.

California Social Work Hall of Distinction

Through 2013, there have been 82 honorees inducted into the California Social Work Hall of Distinction, including Dana W. Bartlett, Emory Bogardus, Barbara Lee, Biddy Mason, Virginia Satir, Judith Wallerstein, and Mariko Yamada.

Cheri Maples

Cheri Maples received an undergraduate degree in Social Welfare & Economics from University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, a Masters degree in Social Work from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a J.D. from University of Wisconsin Law School.

Chris J. Perry

Perry qualified in social work in 1965 and obtained a Master's Degree from Brunel University, the home of "organisational analysis", in 1973.

Christian Heritage Party of Canada candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election

She graduated in Social Work from the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in 1968, and worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Toronto from 1969 to 1973.

Colleen Plimpton

She graduated from Lima High School and received a B.A. in Anthropology from Fordham University and a Master’s in Social Work from Columbia University.

Daphne Phelps

Phelps attended St Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk, and subsequently trained in psychiatric social work at St Anne's College, Oxford, and at the London School of Economics.

DJ Robin Clark

Hartmann finished his Bachelor of Arts Social Work (BA SA) at the University of Vechta in September 2010.

Duluth model

A 2005 study led by Larry Bennett, a professor of social work at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an expert on batterer intervention programs, found that of the 30 batterer intervention programs in Cook County, Illinois, 15 percent of batterers who completed the programs were rearrested for domestic violence, compared with 37 percent of those who dropped out of the programs.

Durham Palestine Educational Trust

Starting in 1984 (initially it was called the Durham Birzeit Studentship Fund), the Trust has brought students from the West Bank and Gaza to study in a wide variety of academic departments, including Archaeology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Durham Business School, Economics, Engineering, English, Mathematics, Modern Languages, Physics and Social Work.

Felicija Bortkevičienė

She married engineer John Bortkevičiaus (1871 -1909) in 1901 and lived at Vilnius, were she became involved in social work and participated in the revival of the Lithuanian language and culture.

Frances Joseph-Gaudet

Widowed early, she dedicated her life to social work and worked with the Prison Reform Association assisting prisoners unjustly accused.

Franz Jalics

While doing social work in 1976 during the Dirty War in a poor neighborhood, Jalics and Orlando Yorio were captured by a death squad, abducted, and held captive for five months.

Gavin Jennings

Jennings studied at Beaufort High School and Monash University, attaining degrees in arts and social work.

George Ridding

He took an active share in its educational and social work, and was materially assisted in these respects by his second wife, Lady Laura Palmer, daughter of the 1st Earl of Selborne.

Hanbury Street

In 1884, Florence Eleanor Soper, the daughter-in-law of General William Booth of The Salvation Army, inaugurated The Women's Social Work, which was run from a small house in Hanbury Street.

Hilton Dawson

He worked as a Social Work Manager from 1983–97, involving Children's Homes, Fostering and Adoption, and Day care.

History of social work

In 1915, at the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, Dr. Abraham Flexner spoke on the topic "Is Social Work a Profession?"

Jack Ohle

Ohle graduated from Ohio Northern University with a bachelor of arts in social work in 1969.

Jayanti Patnaik

She has studied Master of Arts (M.A.) in Social Work from Sailabala Women's College under Utkal University, Cuttak.

Karen Irving

Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Irving was educated at Dalhousie University, the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, where she received her Master's degree in Social Work in 1988.

Les Steckel

Steckel was born in Whitehall, Pennsylvania and attended the University of Kansas, where he was a Golden Gloves boxing champion and graduated in 1968 with a triple degree in social work, human relations, and political science.

Mary Koga

She concentrated on social work, however, and received a BA in 1942 from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master's degree in 1947 from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.

Mary Richmond

In 1888, she applied for a job as Assistant Treasurer with the Charity Organization Society (COS). This organization was in several cities, and was the first organization to develop a structured social work profession which provided services to the poor, disabled, and needy.

Maryann Mahaffey

She was a Professor Emerita at the School of Social Work at Wayne State University in Detroit, where she taught from 1965 to 1990.

Minnijean Brown-Trickey

She lived in Canada for a number of years in the 1980s and 1990s, getting involved in First Nations activism and studying social work at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.

Orya Maqbool Jan

Jan received a Master's degree in social work from Punjab University, Lahore, and LL.B from University of Balochistan, Quetta.

Patricia Morris, Baroness Morris of Bolton

Morris was a member of the Advisory Committee to the Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey from 1998 to 2004, served as deputy chairman of the Salford Royal hospital NHS foundation trust, and as a director of Bolton Lads and Girls Club and was a member of the Conservative Party’s Social Work Commission.

Philip Banchong Chaiyara

1976-78 he worked as parish priest at the Nongkhai Mission, Diocese of Udon Thani; 1979-81 he was rector of the Redemptorist Seminary Minor at Si Racha; 1981-87 parish priest at the Holy Redeemer Church in Bangkok; 1987-92 parish priest at Bannoi, Khonkaen, Udon Thani diocese; 1993-2002 director of Social Work at Pattaya, Diocese of Chanthaburi.

PSWA

Professional Social Workers' Association (India), an association of Indian / Tamil Nadu social work professionals

Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual

The information contained in the PDM was collected by a collaborative task force which includes members of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Psychoanalytical Association, the Division of Psychoanalysis (Division 39) of the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, and the National Membership Committee on Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work.

Raymond D. Tremblay

Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (1971–1976) - Director of Social Work - Northeastern Regional Mental Health Centre

Richard Cloward

Cloward became an assistant professor at Columbia's School of Social Work in 1954, and had visiting posts at the Hebrew University, the University of Amsterdam, the University of California, Santa Barbara and Arizona State University.

Ronald Lewis

Ronald G. Lewis (born 1941), first Native American to receive a Ph.D. in the field of social work

Ruth Manorama

Manorama was awarded a degree in science by Women's Christian College, Chennai, and a masters degree in social work from Stella Maris College.

Saif Ali Naqvi

He did his Bachelor in Arts (Hons) in Social Work from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and did his schooling from Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram.

Sallie Foley

Sallie Foley, LMSW is the director of the University of Michigan Sexual Health Certificate Program for the center for sexual health/University of Michigan Health System/Department of Social Work and the Graduate School of Social Work.

Santosh Koli

Koli was one of the first employees at Parivartan — the NGO that Arvind Kejriwal co-founded in late 2002, marking the entry of Kejriwal, then an Indian Revenue Service officer, into social work.

Serge LeClerc

LeClerc graduated from the University of Waterloo with an honours degree in sociology with a minor in social work, and with a social work diploma.

Shirley Hoy

Her high school was completed at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute, after which she went on to earn a master's degree in public administration from Queen's University, and a Master's Degree in Social Work (Social Policy) from the University of Toronto.

Singapore Children's Society

It was also the pioneer voluntary welfare organisation to provide opportunities for training of social work undergraduates from the then University of Malaya.

Sophonisba Breckinridge

By 1927 the faculty of this new academic unit created the scholarly journal Social Service Review which remains the premier journal in the field of social work.

University of Stavanger

The university offers doctorates in Petroleum Technology, Offshore Technology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Special Needs Education, Literacy and Social Science (with specializations in Medicine and Health, Risk Management and Societal Safety, Management, Economics, Tourism, Sociology, Social Work and Culture & Society).

VCU Massey Cancer Center

1925 – The Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health became the Richmond division of the College of William and Mary.

Viqarunnisa Noon School

The Noons often participated in social work and Viqarunnisa Noon School was one of its projects; there is also a Noon Educational Foundation that funds Pakistani students to study in Oxford and Cambridge, alongside the Viqar un Nisa College for Women, Rawalpindi in Pakistan.

William H. Wiser

During their first term, his wife did teaching, social work, and worked at industrial cooperatives in Kanpur and Allahabad.

Zilpha Drew Smith

She was widely involved in social work in Boston between 1872 and 1918 and lectured on the subject.