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Jun 29, 2017

NC State Group Pushing to Help Revamp NC’s Foster Care System

NC State's Center for Family and Community Engagement is helping revamp the state's child welfare system so that recipients of services have a voice. The state is establishing an advisory council of child welfare participants.

Jun 6, 2017

Giving Families a Voice in North Carolina’s Child Welfare System

NC State's Kara Allen-Eckard is helping lead an effort to better serve the most vulnerable among us in North Carolina: at-risk children and their families.

May 18, 2017

First-Generation BSW Graduate Uses Multi-Faceted Lens in Work With Older Adults

Grace Lee, a spring 2017 graduate of the NC State Department of Social Work’s BSW Program was interviewed for our 2017 annual newsletter. Read her interview below to learn more about her study abroad experience in South Korea, life as a first-generation Korean American, and how her heritage affected her field practicum work with older…

May 18, 2017

Social Work Alumni Highlight: Casey Mackey

Casey Mackey, a graduate of the NC State Department of Social Work’s BSW Program (Class of 2015) was interviewed for our 2017 annual newsletter alumni highlight. Mackey, originally from Reidsville, NC, currently resides in Raleigh, NC where he works for the Hope Center at Pullen as a Transition Specialist. There, he provides case management services to assist young adults…

May 10, 2017

Meet Some of Our Outstanding 2017 Graduates

Our army of nearly 38,600 Humanities and Social Sciences alumni will grow even larger this spring, as nearly 1,000 of our undergraduate and graduate students earn NC State diplomas for their hard work. Meet a few of our outstanding graduates and see what's next for them after commencement.

May 3, 2017

PERSONAL #STATEMENT: JENNIFER MATHURIN

Click here to read 2017 Social Work BSW Graduate and women’s basketball player, Jennifer Mathurin’s Personal #Statement

May 2, 2017

College Honors Its Exceptional Faculty

Humanities and Social Sciences faculty were recognized at the college's annual awards reception on April 25, 2017.

Apr 21, 2017

2017 Spring Symposium – Poverty and Advocacy: Intersectionality of Poverty, Race and Gender.

In recognition of Social Work Month, NC State University hosted its Annual Social Work Spring Symposium, funded in part, by a grant from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) to emphasize the theme “Macro Matters.” The symposium began with a team of faculty members that wrote and submitted the grant to CSWE. The grant…

Mar 31, 2017

NC State players use their spring break to do mission work in Kenya

Social Work student Airius Moore visited Kenya during his spring break  do complete mission work with a couple of his fellow student athletes. See the article here! 

Mar 6, 2017

Rising to New Heights – Jennifer Mathurin

The article below is quoted text from the original article written by The Campaign for NC State’s  Lisa Hall.  Use this link to view the original article.  February 13, 2017  |  Lisa Hall When Jennifer Mathurin arrived at NC State in 2013 as a freshman student-athlete, life on the basketball court proved to be a…