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The Wurzweiler Community Partnership Committee (WCPC) held its second successful community meeting breakfast this past February 29 th at Yeshiva University. Dr. Carmen Ortiz Hendricks, Dean of Wurzweiler School of Social Work and Dr. Dolly Sacristan, Co-Chair of the Committee, welcomed ...

In a recent article in NASW news, Keith Liederman, an alum of Wurzweiler and currently executive director of the Kingsley House in New Orleans (seen in this Wurzweiler about students on a service project to the area), shared a story about his father’s impact on his future as a social worker. Click…

Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work has announced its 2012 Spring Conference Series. Addressing topics as varied as the composition of North American Jewish family and what professionals can do to combat poverty, the series will convene educators and social work professionals on…

Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work is teaming up with the Peace Corps to help returning volunteers do even more good back home. Wurzweiler was recently approved to join the Corps’s Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program. Through the program, participating graduate schools across the…

One of the foremost humanitarian organizations brought some of its experience to the social work classroom this week. Ms. Catherine Lague and Dr. Georgine Gorra of The American Red Cross met with Wurzweiler School of Social Work students on February 8th. The women were invited as guest presenters…

A seminar guided by Dr. Saul Andron, Associate Professor at Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and Rebecca Grabiner, Director of the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) Graduate School’s Jewish Professional Leadership Program led 10 US Social Work students on an expedition ...

On Monday January 23, Wurzweiler Associate Professor Dr. Rozetta Wilmore Schaeffer spoke with 23 staff members at Jewish Family Services in Teaneck about vicarious traumatization, the difficulties associated with working with clients who have experienced traumatic events. Dr. Schaeffer, who teaches…

The Spring 2012 semester kicked off at Wurzweiler School of Social Work with the orientation of incoming students. Included in the incoming class were the first students in the new Accelerated Program. The Administration, Faculty and staff welcome the newest Wurzweiler students!

The handiest commodity among academics at Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work may be a passport. Since 2008, eight members of the school’s faculty have been named Fulbright Specialists. The highly acclaimed program grants awards to U.S. faculty and professionals in select ...

Dr. Joanna Mellor, a highly respected and beloved professor of Wurzweiler who passed away earlier in 2011, was featured in a video this week appearing on Yahoo.com’s 2011 “Year in Review” Blog. The video, entitled “Farewell to Those We Lost in 2011,” pays tribute to celebrities such as Steve Jobbs…