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Episode #5 

Discussion on Research Projects within Social Work with Prof. Tamara Sussman, and MSW student Diandra Serrano, and MSW graduate Bianca Tétrault

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Published on: 1 Feb 2022

Episode #4 

Discussion about the PhD program with Tamara Sussman, Oluwagbemiga Oyinlola and Marsha Ma

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Published on: 1 Feb 2022

Episode #3 

Discussion with Nico Trocmé, Director of the School of Social Work

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Published on: 1 Feb 2022

Episode #2

Discussion with the MSW Program Team: Nicole Ives, Nicole Mitchell, Carmela Sciandra

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Classified as: #we.are.mcgill
Published on: 1 Feb 2022

Episode #1 - Discussion with the Student Support Team: Nicole Mitchell and Matthew Coutu-Moya

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Published on: 1 Feb 2022

Cindy Blackstock, the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and a professor at Â鶹AV's School of Social Work, has made it her mission to make sure First Nations kids get the care that matches up with care received by other kids in Canada.

She talks about the long fight for this agreement, and why she’s still waiting to celebrate. (Front Burner, CBC News)

Front Burner: The 15-year fight to treat Indigenous children as equals

Published on: 7 Jan 2022

Opinion piece in the Toronto Star addressing Bill 21, secularism, and the holidays in Quebec.

Published on: 17 Dec 2021

My colleagues at Â鶹AV are working on a project called: Young People, Well-being, and Connectedness in the Time of Distancing (funded by Quebec’s Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux (MSSS). They are currently recruiting youth participants (16-24 years old) from diverse communities and looking for support to spread the word!

Classified as: Youth, Young, cellphilm, Participatory Visual Methodology, participatory cultures lab
Published on: 10 Nov 2021

#we.are.socialwork is an initiative of the Â鶹AV School of Social Work that will serve to highlight the work and the people within our school community through podcasting and social media engagement.

We will chat about our profession, the social work programs offered at Â鶹AV, and showcase faculty, staff, and most especially students in our community.

Stay tuned for these important conversations!!

Published on: 8 Oct 2021

Professors Nicole Ives and Wanda Gabriel have been selected as the 2021 recipients of Â鶹AV’s Award for Equity and Community Building. Their pioneering work with Indigenous Access Â鶹AV, the Field Studies course, Indigenous initiatives at Â鶹AV, and most recently the BSW program to be delivered in Nunavik are some of the outstanding contributions that are being recognized by Â鶹AV for this award.

Published on: 20 May 2021

A recent CTV News article including input from M.Sc.(A) CFT alumni, Mylene Choquette, has been published discussing the need for TCF's to be integrated into the public network to curb domestic violence.

"The cohorts trained at Â鶹AV, which offers the only master's program in marital and family therapy in Quebec, are only making up for the retirements" 

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Published on: 11 May 2021

The School of Social Work is delighted to congratulate Susan Mintzberg PhD Candidate, who was selected as the Graduate Student winner of the Principal's' Prize for Public Engagement for 2021. Since the onset of the pandemic Susan has been actively speaking out about myriad of social issues closely tied to her own doctoral work such as our continued failure to recognize families as experts in the health of their relatives, and the problematic results of top down decision making .

Published on: 14 Apr 2021

Susan Mintzberg, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Social Work, was interviewed on CBC radio The Current on April 1st, where she discussed the importance of taking mental health into consideration when policy decisions are made about protecting seniors (and others) during the pandemic.

This topic relates to her research which looks at the role of families in mental healthcare.

Published on: 1 Apr 2021

Monica Batac is a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work, a dedicated and inspiring leader whose initiative has had a direct and positive impact on undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff at Â鶹AV. More specifically, through her lived experience, she has envisioned new ways of building community for and with racialized students at the university. This has included a dynamic vision for creating the types of spaces that nourish and sustain racialized students on campus and across the larger Montreal community.

Published on: 31 Mar 2021

Congratulations to Katja Terxeira, social worker on the surgical unit at the Jewish general Hospital and recent MSW graduate for receiving the Caring Beyond Award. Katja was merited this award through the Jewish General Hospital for the compassionate efforts she made to help a patient nearing end of life plan a wedding at the hospital so he could fulfill his wish of marrying his life long partner before his death.

Published on: 8 Mar 2021

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