By Kathy Quirk The UWM Alumni Association is honoring Chantell Jewell, a graduate of the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare’s Criminal Justice program, with its Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. Jewell, who earned her B.S. in 2000, is the superintendent …
By Kathy QuirkPhoto by Elora Hennessey Crystal Carter, a former clinical associate professor/field liaison in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, is one of 13 women chosen as Outstanding Women of Color in Education. The Outstanding Women of Color …
The Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGESW) selected Colleen Galambos for the 2023 AGESW Leadership Award. This award recognizes a faculty member who has made significant contributions in aging research, teaching and scholarship and who has demonstrated outstanding …
By Kathy QuirkPhotos by Elora Hennessey More than 53 million people in the U.S. are taking care of aging family members, a number that ballooned by 10 million between 2014 and 2020, according to Caregiving in the U.S., the National …
Assistant Professor Ted Lentz was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio about the new federal Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
An estimated 53 million Americans are caregivers for older adults, according to the National Alliance for Caregiving. Wisconsin alone has approximately 580,000 family caregivers. An Oct. 9 event is bringing together health professionals to talk about the needs of these …
by Kathy Quirk Preventing substance abuse among teens is a continuing concern. UWM researcher, Ai Bo, assistant professor of social work, has focused her research on how programs can be most effective, especially among Black, Hispanic and Native American adolescents. …
By Kathy Quirk Why do women engage in street-level sex trading and how can they successfully transition out of it? How does policing impact them, both while involved in sex trading and exiting? Those were the challenging questions Daria Mueller, who …
Amillia Heredia chose UWM out of the five colleges she applied to because she felt it had the most potential for acknowledging and seeing her identity as a Black woman and first-generation student. Heredia, who graduated from Helen Bader School …
Story and photo by Devin Blake / Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service A new data project about the criminal legal system in Milwaukee County is underway, and those working on it would like input from the community. The goal of the …
