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Class Year: May 2025 Degree Program: MSW Online Concentration: Children, Youth and Families Field Education Organization: Allwell Behavioral Health Hometown: Zanesville, Ohio Give a brief overview of your field education experience. My field education experience has focused on working with you...

Class Year: May 2025 Degree Program: MSW On-Campus Concentration: Community Practice for Social Change Hometown: Nigeria Field Education Organization: Environmental Health Watch in Cleveland, Ohio Before beginning at Case Western Reserve University, what were you doing? Back in Nigeria after m...

Class Year: May 2025 Degree Program: MSW On-Campus Concentration: Health Field Education Organizations: VA Medical Center & Murtis Taylor Human Services System | Cleveland, Ohio Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria Give a brief overview of your field education experience. Through my transformative journey...

Kamarea Valentine is an undergraduate student majoring in psychology and cognitive science, with minors in social justice and Spanish. They're also getting a head start on their graduate degree by taking part in the Mandel School's 3+2 Social Work program—giving them the unique chance to earn a top-...

Each year on Case Western Reserve’s Day of Giving, the university’s college and seven schools, athletic teams, and student organizations join together to generate financial support for student scholarships through campaign-style, online fundraising. This year, for the first time in CWRU history, th...

Aloen Townsend, the Ralph S. and Dorothy P. Schmitt Professor, was appointed by the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) to serve on a national Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) Gerontology and Geriatrics Education Competencies Workgroup. This workgroup is charged with reviewing ...

ideastream: Mark Joseph, the Leona Bevis and Marguerite Haynam Professor of Community Development, discussed how the Cleveland and Kresge foundations are shaping the future of place-based philanthropy, investing in equitable communities in Cleveland, Detroit and beyond. He recently moderated a conv...

Since 1967, on Hans Christian Andersen's birthday (April 2), International Children's Book Day is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children's books. In honor of the day, we're celebrating our Mandel School faculty members who are also children book authors. 📚 ...

As you know, the Office for Campus Enrichment and Engagement was recently created to maintain alignment with our university’s institutional values. Many of us who focus our work on the diversity of humanity are shifting our work to align with our new titles—I am now the Director of Enrichment and En...

Ndidiamaka Ani’s studies and work in social work are rooted in personal experience. Growing up as one of five children born to a single mother in Nigeria, Ani faced numerous adverse childhood experiences that negatively impacted her mental health. She is determined to make a change for those who fin...