NOW ONLINE: BRIDGES WINTER 2023 Issue

The Winter 2023 issue of Bridges Magazine is now available online. Read more about social work alumni in the health care space, the new Library Social Work Fellowship at the School, an interview with Dr. Mary Beth Rauktis, and more! Read on the Bridges website.

Ohmer leads conversation on violence reduction

West End P.O.W.E.R.and the The H.O.O.P. Alliance are partnering with the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work to prevent community and youth violence and promote community wellbeing in the West Side city of Pittsburgh neighborhoods and in the 15104-zip code (Braddock, North Braddock, and Rankin) area.

The intervention was developed by Dr. Mary Ohmer and has also been implemented in Atlanta, GA and in the Perry Hilltop and Fineview neighborhoods in Pittsburgh.

Read more and learn how you can join the final April 13th session.

New report looks at Trans and Gender Diverse Students’ Perspectives on Campus Climate and Sexual Violence

A new report "Trans and Gender Diverse Students’ Perspectives on Campus Climate and Sexual Violence: Report and Recommendations" authored by Rachel E. Gartner, MSW, PhD, Adrian J. Ballard, MSW, LCSW, Emil Smith, MSW, LCSW, Lauren R. Risser, MPH, CHES, Carla D. Chugani, PhD, LPC, and Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD was recently released.

The overarching purpose of this report is to present the findings of a 2-year, multi-faceted study on the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) to identify needs and propose action steps to improve sexual violence (SV) and broader campus climate for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) students. Read full report here.

This week: RACE + IP ’23 Conference

The University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Center on Race and Social Problems, and our generous co-sponsors are thrilled to invite you to the fourth biennial conference on race and intellectual property!

Race + IP is dedicated to cultivating community and collaboration around the study of race, coloniality, and intellectual properties. 

April 13-15, 2023

Registration and more information.

Two more PhD students honored with CCRRJ Student Scholar Awards

Doctoral students Amanda Cruce and Sommer Blair were selected as part of the inaugural cohort of Student Scholars for the Center for Civil Rights and Racial Justice. Amanda will use these funds to examine the intersectionality of minority youth in the child welfare system and how federal laws either support or oppress them. 

BASW Student wins poster award

BASW student Priya Gupta won the Health Disparities Poster Award Competition for her work on the Stier Award pilot project on mobile crisis. Her poster was titled: "Assessing bias in mobile crisis intervention: An experimental pilot study." She is pictured here with faculty member and project lead Dr. Leah Jacobs.

How I Became Ensnared in the Pittsburgh Web

MSW alumnus Dave Feehan writes about his time as a VISTA Volunteer to the community action program in McKeesport’s Third Ward in the new issue of the Pittsburgh Quarterly.