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By Allysha Bryant Care Café Intern Dr. Erik Pollak The Care Café team, in partnership with Nevut Lone Soldier, a nonprofit organization focused on providing supportive services to Israeli Veterans transitioning to civilian life, sponsored a Psychological First Aid training taught by Dr. Erik Pollak…

Care Cafe staff, DRIP SWEAT instructors , and guests By Kimberly Moore Director, Care Café On May 23, 2022, Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work Care Café joined Kilsy Hidalgo of Long Live Our Butterfly (LLOB), a domestic violence prevention organization, to celebrate Mental Health…

Dr. Lisa Henshaw Dr. Lisa Henshaw, assistant professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has published “ Trauma-informed group work in social work academia: responding to students’ indirect trauma” in Social Work with Groups (Nov. 25, 2021). Here is the abstract: Indirect trauma and its ...

Prof. Gary Stein At the recent Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network 2022 General Assembly, held in person from Sunday, April 24, through Tuesday, April 26, 2022, Prof. Gary Stein, professor and director of the Gerontology & Palliative Care program at Wurzweiler School of Social Work…

Dr. Hanni Flaherty Dr. Hanni Flaherty, assistant professor and associate director of curricular and pedagogical innovation at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, published “T eaching Note—Using Technology to Enhance Experiential Learning Through Simulated Role Plays” in Journal of Social Work ...

On Monday, April 25, 2022, Wurzweiler School of Social Work inducted 32 new members, across cohorts, into the Tau Epsilon chapter of Phi Alpha, the Social Work National Honors Society. Those being honored were surrounded by faculty, administration, staff, peers and family during an interactive ...

By Clinical Associate Professor Tim Conley, Ph.D., LCSW Certified Addiction Specialist My brother could use a little mercy now He’s a stranger to freedom, he's shackled to his fear and his doubt The pain that he lives in, it’s almost more than living will allow I love my brother, he could use some…

By Kimberly Moore Director, Care Café On behalf of Care Café, Happy Purim! On Monday, March 14, 2022, Care Café and Nachas Health of Borough Park Brooklyn, welcomed more than 150 Holocaust survivors to Schick’s Manor for a wonderful celebration. Families gathered to celebrate life and love with ...

By Kimberly Moore Director, Care Café We thrive in the spirit of giving! On the crisp morning of March 11, 2022, Wurzweiler’s Care Café and Breaking Ground, a community-based program, partnered to create and deliver “Welcome Home Kits ” for formerly homeless persons. Keona Serrano, assistant vice…