~Social Work Students Sierra Aggett & Jason Spiegler:
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Published on: 20 Jan 2021
Humanity is experiencing a unique moment in history, with serious effects for individuals, families and societies. The time ahead will be of major importance to understand better what has been happening to us during the unexpected events following the COVID-19 outbreak. Previous studies have shown that pandemics have adverse effects on peoples’ living situation and well-being. Data on these issues are paramount to develop adequate and efficient measures to deal with the reactions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Published on: 9 Dec 2020
Students of the McGill School of Social Work with access to an iPhone are invited to participate in a research study on increasing resilience to stress. Participants will engage in daily activities to increase healthy stress management skills via an iOS phone application (the JoyPop app). Participation is compensated up to $50 for the full study. This research aims to benefit social work service providers directly, as well as service users, particularly vulnerable youth.
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Published on: 9 Dec 2020
Annual SSHRC Impact Awards celebrate top talent in Canada’s social sciences and humanities research community. Denov is recognized for her research on children and families affected by war.
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Published on: 9 Dec 2020
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Published on: 6 Nov 2020
New study offers families parent training for children affected by neurodevelopmental disorders
The global pandemic has been hard on Canadians, but it has hit families affected by disability disproportionately, particularly young families. School-aged children with disabilities were suddenly without supports of any kind.
Schools were shuttered in March, and while remote learning was put in place, gone were Education Assistants or Special Needs Coordinators. Parents were expected to teach their children alone, many of them still juggling full time work.
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Published on: 23 Oct 2020
The protests over the Mi'kmaw fishery have escalated to indefensible racist acts of intimidation and violence by non-Indigenous community members against the Mi’kmaw fishers. The McGill School of Social Work denounces the racism, vandalism, and violence being used against the Mi’kmaw fishers of the Sipekne'katik First Nation and stands in support of their right to fish without intimidation. The rights of the Mi’kmaq to fish is established in the Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1752 and upheld in the Marshall Decision of 1999.
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Published on: 23 Oct 2020
The tragic news of Joyce Echaquan’s death and the events leading up to this event have profoundly touched the hearts of those within the School of Social Work.
We want to express our outrage at our Quebec Health and Social Service system that when called upon to protect and care for Joyce Echaquan failed her.
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Published on: 12 Oct 2020
Announcement from Dr. Heather MacIntosh Director: MScA Couple and Family Therapy/McGill Couple and Family Therapy Clinic
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Published on: 7 Oct 2020
On September 30th Principal Suzanne Fortier announced the release of McGill's Action Plan to Address Anti-Black Racism.
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Published on: 5 Oct 2020
McGill-led project, COVID-19: Advocating for resiliency through understanding the differential impacts of COVID-19 for Black Montrealers, headed by Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, received funding. In partnership with the Cote-des-Neiges Black Community Association Inc.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2020
In a photo voice study released this month in the International Journal of Child and Adolescent Resilience, Dr. Melanie Doucet worked with eight former youth in care to describe what types relationships they had found most helpful as they left group or foster care. Relationships to culture, spirituality and the land were identified as particularly important for racialized and Indigenous youth. Animal companions also emerged as an important non-human connection.
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Published on: 22 Sep 2020
Provost Manfredi discusses the consultations that have gone into formulating the Action Plan (due to be completed by Sept. 30), the Plan's goals and its eventual implementation.
See McGill Reporter for full details.
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Published on: 21 Sep 2020
In a study published this month in a leading international journal, Professor Alicia Boatswain-Kyte and colleagues tracked child protection services over a ten-year span for a group of close to 16,000 children involved in an urban agency in Quebec. They found that “while representing 9% of the general population in 2011, Black children represented 24% of children receiving child protection services for the corresponding year.
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Published on: 10 Sep 2020
Susan's article regarding the back to school plan in Quebec was recently published in LA PRESSE newspaper.
To read Susan's piece click here.
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Published on: 25 Aug 2020
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