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BSW & MSW Scholarship Recipients 2022-2023

University of Connecticut

My future plans include advocating for restorative justice within the juvenile justice system so my social work education will help me with these endeavors. I am a second-year student and expect to graduate in May with a focused area of study in Intersectionality, Human Agency, and Social Justice.

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Values-based practice - Using the book, He Died Waiting, as a learning tool

Learning Social Worker

Evidences: PCF – 4 (rights, justice and economic wellbeing), 7 (skills and interventions). Instead, my attitudes reflected the prevailing social construction of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. One puff and you are an addict. How could you do more? NMC code- 3.4 (act Mental health was not talked about openly. Drugs kill you.

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The Illinois “Public Guardian’s” big little lie

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It would never be tolerated in a story about criminal justice. A question for any journalists reading this: Suppose you were working on a story about the criminal justice system, and a prosecutor said: “ By definition , anyone in jail is a criminal – they’re rapists and torturers and all sorts of other crooks.”