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Patrick Dunne, APR, has joined CSWE as the vice president of communications and marketing. Dunne brings 15 years of communications, public relations, and association marketing experience to CSWE.

Find highlights from the Council on Social Work Education’s many events, initiatives and achievements in the 2018–2019 Annual Report, available here. Throughout CSWE’s year, a community of social work educators volunteered their time and energy to advance the profession through the board of directors, six commissions or 11 councils, various committees, and task forces.

The Oxford University Press will publish an Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work this year and has extended until February 14, 2020, its call for new topics to be considered for inclusion. Articles written for the Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work should be directly focused on macro social work, defined broadly to include macro practice methods as well as macro theories, concepts, ideologies, problems, and contexts relating to macro social work.

Danielle E. Parrish, PhD, has been named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Social Work Education (JSWE). She takes over from Dr. Joanne Yaffe, whose term ended in December 2019. Parrish will serve a 3-year term, 2020–2022, during which time she also will head the JSWE Editorial Advisory Board and serve as an ex-officio member of the CSWE Council on Publications.

CSWE has been awarded nearly $500,000 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to expand substance use disorder practitioner education in social work. Read more here.

CSWE has been awarded a $150,000 grant from The New York Community Trust for social work field education and community engagement projects that integrate policy practice and knowledge building. Read more here.

CSWE's 65th Annual Program Meeting focused on looking back so that we can move forward. This short video is just a very brief look at a very rich history of Social Work education. View the video here.

Click here to read the 2018 Statistics on Social Work Education in the United States report and learn more about current the status of social work education.

CSWE members are invited to participate in a national task force that will develop competencies and curricular resources on infant and early childhood mental health and developmental neuroscience. Read more here. 

Thanks to a partnership with the National Center for Excellence in Homeless Services and the generous funding provided by the New York Community Trust, the Curricular Guide for Addressing Homelessness is available now. Access the guide here.