November-December 2021 Newsletter

OU offices will
be closed
December 23 and reopen
January 3, 2022.

Happy Holidays !
CSWE Conference Presentations

Several OU Social Work faculty presented at the CSWE Annual Program meeting, November 4-7
in Orlando, Florida.
For a complete list of OU Social Work presenters and workshop topics
please click on the
link below.
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Activating HOPE Summit
Dr. Chan Hellman
Nearly 1 million people attended the virtual Activating Hope Summit in November, at which Dr. Chan Hellman spoke. The Hope Research Center team believes in the science and power of hope as a psychological strength especially among those experiencing trauma and adversity.

*BASW applications for admission and scholarships are due by June 30 to begin coursework in fall 2022.


The BASW is offered in both Norman and Tulsa.
Do you know that TCC and the University of Oklahoma now have transfer maps for students to complete the second half of a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work BASW at the Tulsa campus? Students have a clear path to earn their Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts or Sociology and transfer to OU-Tulsa and complete the BASW. AA in Psychology transfer map is coming soon. Click on the link below and scroll down to the TCC to OU Transfer Maps section.
Congratulations to our first graduating class from the MSW Online program! December 2021
Spotlights from the Field
Ayana Blackey is a 3rd year MSW student, Graduate Assistant for the Tulsa Field Education Office, and OU-Tulsa Student Government Association Treasurer. She recently was honored to travel to the CSWE conference with the Field Office to present about ways to support practicum students during the pandemic and beyond. Ayana's Foundation Year practicum was with OKDHS' Family-Centered Services program. For Concentration Year she is excited to start with Family & Children's Services' new Maternal Mental Health program. Wherever she goes, working with parents to strengthen families is her passion!
 
Sonrisa Nowicki works with Oklahoma City's most vulnerable population at Homeless Alliance, committed to end homelessness by working with both families and single adults who have experienced homelessness and faced some tough barriers in their lifetime. The program first offers a home and safety, then some wraparound services with the goal of self-sufficiency. 

Even though Sonrisa has been the field for more than six years, she says it is new and exciting to view the experiences through a social work lens. She believes her practicum has allowed her to understand the broad scope and diversity of the areas of social work and seeing the different career options of an LCSW has given her something to look forward to.
Han Pham is a second year student in OU's Online MSW degree program and a Graduate Research Assistant with the Online Field Team. She recently finished her Foundation Year practicum at a private practice and hopes to engage in more macro level learning in her Concentration Year.

With a background in International Studies, Han hopes to pursue a career in International Social Work in order to work with those abroad.
 
Read more about what the professionals in the Haruv USA center at OU-Tulsa are doing to help with the identification, prevention, and treatment of child abuse and neglect, with an emphasis on underserved children and families.
MSW Application Deadline February 1, 2022

Join us for an
Admissions and Enrollment Q&A on Zoom January 13 at 5:30 p.m.
Farewell to 2021 - Looking forward to a 2022 full of peace, happiness, health and bright promise!