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—Katherine Mitchell, Ph.D, LCSW, CASAC Day two, incredibly saw more incoming refugees than day one. The legal staff, law school students and social work team worked together efficiently and we were able to respond to a multitude of needs presented by the ladies and their children. Chief among them…

On the Way to the Top - Parshat Terumah Avraham (Allan) Friedman February 28th, 2017 On the Way to the Top - Parshat Terumah " This is the message that we receive from motivational speakers around the world. You can accomplish what you set your mind to. Just set your sights and get moving. And it…

I recently started a nonprofit organization. Not infrequently, I wonder to myself what I could possibly have been thinking that made this seem like a good idea. I currently have three kids, two jobs, and a new house; extra time is not something I have laying around the house these days. On top of…

by Mark Fishman This January I’ll be moving across the country from Los Angeles to New York, where I will begin my pursuit of earning a Masters of Social Work degree at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work. With this change comes many questions, but there is one in particular I can’t seem to shake…

I’d never felt like more of a fish out of water (or a Canadian out of her element) than the first day at work in the South Bronx. At the time I had been enrolled in the MSW program approximately three weeks and could not have felt more unprepared for what was about to come. Anxiety filled each of…

We have our own WSSW blog that we are tentatively calling, “Thoughts and Feelings from the Field.” I have three great posts ready to go! If you have some observations from your experience in the field and would like to share, I would love to read it and see if we can post it in our blog-sphere ...

Dean Carmen Ortiz Hendricks Dear Wurzweiler Family: It is with great sadness that we share the news that Dean Carmen Ortiz Hendricks has passed away. We have just been informed by her husband that Dr. Hendricks succumbed to cancer and passed away peacefully with her family at her side. Although we…

Wurzweiler welcomed new students to the School January 27th, 2016 for orientation, led by Dean Carmen Ortiz Hendricks. The faculty, administration and staff are thrilled to have each student start their education towards their MSW!

Professor Daniel Pollack Congratulations to Jonathan Lerner (class of '15) and Professor Daniel Pollack on their recent law review article, "Where have all the developmental centers gone? The federal push for community-based services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.” The…