Sheila Hammer, LCSW, MSW, is currently working on two separate grants. She and her Co-PI, Dr. Timian Godfrey from the University of Arizona, have a 3-year $120k p/year grant funded from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) via the Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention where they are creating a culturally tailored approach to provide support and health education to Pascua Yaqui tribal members who have both a diabetes and cancer diagnosis.
Her… Read more
Our very own Social Work Professor Dr. Mike McCarthy delivered his research at the 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in Austin, TX. The Gerontological Society of America’s mission is to further the study of aging and to promote human welfare throughout all of gerontology. The aim of McCarthy’s study, which has been funded by the American… Read more
Social Work major and senior Trisha Droubie has received a 2019-2020 Hooper Undergraduate Research Award (HURA) for the project Police Social Work: Potential Collaborative Response to Crisis Situations. Law enforcement and social work professionals frequently work with overlapping populations experiencing a variety of crises. This proposed study will aim to identify the overlapping… Read more
For the second year in a row, an NAU student has received the prestigious… Read more
Professor Mary Damskey and Professor Emeritus David McKell have been recognized for their contributions to the field of Social Work in Arizona. Awards were presented to five leaders in social work in Northern Arizona on March 15th, at a celebration of National Social Work Month co-hosted by NAU and the National Association of Social Workers Arizona Branch 3.
Profiles on all awardees can be found below. One hundred and twenty students… Read more
Each fall semester, senior social work students enrolled in SW 423 are asked to partner with a community organization to create a project that impacts a minimum of 25 clients. Students address client needs identified by both the student group and the professional representative from the organization. This semester’s cohort completed 15 projects, and secured donated services or monetary donations exceeding $18,000 in support of their work.
They engaged the students in an interactive fashion and kept the energy… Read more