Andrew W. Safyer, associate professor of social work, has been named interim dean of the School of Social Work. He succeeds Lawrence Shulman, who stepped down as dean on Aug. 30 to return to the faculty.
The University at Buffalo School of Social Work will offer two new, intensive training programs for mental-health and human-services professionals during the 2003-04 academic year.
The School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo will sponsor the 18th annual Summer Institute for Advanced Social Work Practice and Addiction Studies from June 23 through July 28.
Claudine Sikorski, a master of social work candidate at the University at Buffalo, has been selected as one of two recipients of the Student of the Year award presented by the New York State Social Work Education Association.
The School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo has been selected by the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) to work with mental-health professionals to provide better care to residents -- particularly children -- of the 19 counties that make up the OMH Western Region.
The School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo has been selected as the new home of The Clinical Supervisor, a journal that looks at aspects of supervision in the fields of psychotherapy and mental health.
The School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo will offer its first online graduate-level course, Behavior Disorders of Childhood (SW 992), beginning with the Spring 2003 semester.
A social work researcher at the University at Buffalo has received a prestigious award to explore, in collaboration with Hospice Buffalo, the psychosocial factors that contribute to delayed hospice care for terminally ill older adults.
Alcohol consumption is predictive of workplace absenteeism on a day-to-day basis, with employees nearly two times more likely than normal to call in sick the day after alcohol is consumed, according to a study conducted at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA).
The University at Buffalo School of Social Work is taking a pivotal role in a collaborative, community-based program aimed at reducing youth violence in one of the most distressed neighborhoods in Buffalo.
Researchers from the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo are conducting a study to learn what is preventing teen-age girls in Buffalo -- which has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in New York State and one of the highest in the nation -- from taking advantage of area reproductive health services.
One of Buffalo's most distressed and physically degraded inner city neighborhoods is the target of a new "healthy homes" demonstration project to be administered and operated by the University at Buffalo.
