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MSW Information Sessions

MSW Information Sessions for

Temple Main Campus, Center City and Ambler:

Scheduled by Appointment till Fall

Group Sessions are available at your work location!

 

       Contact Marie Leonard, MBA            215-204-1832

   marie.leonard@temple.edu  Assistant Director, Recruitment 

   

 

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Posted: February 2, 2012

Alumni: Request for Participants in Multicultural Research

Dear Colleague,

For many years mental health professionals have debated the relative merits of multicultural training for practitioners. My co-investigators and I want to invite you to participate in our research project designed to create a standardized measure of multicultural competence. It is our hope that such an instrument will aid in training and evaluating multiculturally competent practitioners and contribute concrete data to the ongoing discourse.

We are seeking licensed mental health professionals at the masters and doctoral levels in the fields of psychology, counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy. When you click the link below, you will be asked to complete a short Experience and Demographic Survey in which you will be directed to indicate demographic information and answer questions about aspects of your professional experience. Then you will be asked to answer 50 multiple choice and true-false questions (constituting the Multicultural Counseling and Psychotherapy Test - MCPT) relating to the ways in which race and ethnicity might impact a counselor’s ability to engage with racially and culturally different clients. [This study has been approved by the Arcadia University Institutional Review Board (IRB).]

If you would like to participate in this study, please follow this link to the survey:  

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MCPT

Please forward this email request as widely as you can.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration.

 

Angela R. Gillem, PhD, Professor of Psychology

Arcadia University

215-572-2184

gillem@arcadia.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted: January 23, 2012

SSW Search for Tenure-Track Assistant or Associate Professor

Situated within the College of Health Professions and Social Work, the School of Social Work has 27 full-time faculty members, over 860 students, and offers BSW and MSW degrees. The School is dedicated to effecting societal transformations that will eliminate social, political, and economic injustices for poor and oppressed populations and advance the quality of life for all through research, education, and service.


The School of Social Work invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, beginning in Fall 2012. The position will be located in Philadelphia—a city known for its arts and culture. The School seeks applicants who have demonstrated capacity for excellent teaching and for high-impact research and scholarship in areas of specialization related to social work and the School’s social justice mission. Individuals with a program of research related to intervention and services at the family and community levels, aging, community organization and development, program/agency management, social policy, multicultural proficiency, and international social work are particularly encouraged to apply. Ideal candidates will hold a master’s degree in social work, a doctorate in social work or a related field and current research funding or a demonstrated capacity to secure external funding for research. Salary will be commensurate with experience. Review of applications begins immediately and continues until the position is filled.


Temple University is the 28th largest school of higher education in the United States, with over 37,000 students. Temple’s main campus is located in North Philadelphia, and satellite campuses reach across the state of Pennsylvania. The University possesses a mission of research, teaching, and service to enhance the city, region, nation, and global communities. The University offers 300 academic degree programs, including 121 master’s programs and 56 doctoral programs. Temple has one of the most diverse student populations in the nation.


In keeping with Temple University's commitment to building a culturally diverse community, nominations of and applications from underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged. Temple University provides comprehensive benefits including partner benefits and is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.
Applicants should send a cover letter detailing demonstrated capacity for impact in teaching and research, a curriculum vitae, and the names, addresses, and phone numbers of three references to the chair of the search committee:


Karin M. Eyrich-Garg, PhD, MPE, LCSW
Temple University School of Social Work
1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave., Ritter Annex, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6091
EMAIL: kgarg@temple.edu

Posted: October 25, 2011

Social work professor awarded nearly $1.5 Million

Grant to fund four-year study exploring relationships between social support
and workforce success

Cheryl Hyde, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Work, was awarded nearly $1.5 million by the Administration for Children and Families/DHHS for her project:  Building Capacities/Making Connections: A Multi-Year Study of Human and Social Capital Development through the HIP Career Pathways Initiative. 
 
Dr. Hyde and Karin Garg, Ph.D., LCSW, Associate Professor of Social Work will partner with CHPSW’s Center for Social Policy & Community Development in the four-year study of the Center’s “HIP Career Pathways Initiative.” 
 
The HIP Career Pathways Initiative, a joint effort between the Center and CHPSW’s Health Information Management Department, is a workforce development program that offers five tiers of education and training opportunities — from entry level and advanced certification programs to Associate, Baccalaureate and Master level degrees — to prepare students for careers in health information technology – an area of increasing demand and job growth.
 
Dr. Hyde’s study will focus on how the relationships between individual capacity building, or human capital, and access to positive network options, or social capital, is important because the kind and quality of resources and support provided by these networks can influence an individual’s success in workforce development programs such as HIP. Understanding community factors provides critical information about how an individual’s broader environment can help or hinder success.
 
“This research will underscore the importance of incorporating community and social network factors into workforce development and similar initiatives for economically disadvantaged individuals,” said Dr. Hyde. “This is a great opportunity to influence anti-poverty programs and policies.”
 
The project also includes CHPSW’s Mark Salzer, Ph.D., Marsha Zibalese-Crawford, D.S.W, Cindy Marselis, MBA, M.S., RHIA, and Eugene Brusilovskiy, M.U.S.A.
Posted: October 12, 2011

Jeffrey Draine, MSW, Ph.D. Selected as New Chair of the School of Social Work


Message from the Dean


August 1, 2011

I am pleased to welcome Jeffrey Draine, MSW, Ph.D., in his new role as Chair of the School of Social Work. 

He joins us from the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as Professor of Social Work in the School of Social Policy and Practice, as Senior Fellow, at the Center for Public Health Initiatives, and as Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics.
 
Dr. Draine’s more than 20 years in the Social Work arena will offer a great deal of perspective and experience to his new role. He has an extensive academic and research history that includes a focus on behavioral health and its intersection with the criminal justice system, examining how policy and practice impact community inclusion of people with mental illnesses, substance use disorders, and HIV who come in contact with the law.
 
He has been the principal investigator on numerous federally-funded research grants, and his published articles, book chapters, and presentations address a range of social welfare issues including the criminalization of mental illness and HIV risk behavior, police and behavioral health, structural and psychosocial intervention, and prison and jail re-entry for people with mental illness, substance abuse, and HIV.
 
Dr. Draine has an accomplished academic career and received the excellence in teaching award at the School of Social Policy and Practice in 2006. He has taught courses on a number of topics including Action and Efficacy in Non Profit Leadership, Issues of Crime and Justice (taught in prison with a combined class of Penn grad students and prisoners) and American Racism.
 
Dr. Draine earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Rehabilitation and Urban Affairs from Virginia Commonwealth University, an M.S.W. in Social Planning from Temple University, and a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of Pennsylvania. He began his career doing organizing for housing and homelessness issues in Richmond Virginia.
 
Dr. Draine’s strong academic background, accomplishment of research and commitment to serving constituencies in need complement and align with the mission of the School of Social Work.  We look forward to an exciting new chapter.
 
All the best,
 
Michael Sitler, EdD
Interim Dean, College of Health Professions and Social Work
 
Posted: August 1, 2011