Episodes
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Mark Epstein, M.D. presented the 2015 Ikuo Yamaguchi Memorial Seminar at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration on March 9, 2015. If there is one thing Buddhism and psychoanalysis can agree upon, it is this: Trauma does not just happen to a few unlucky people, it happens to everyone. Many in Western...
Published 07/01/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The 2014 Rhoda G. Sarnat Lecture, “Neuroscience, Therapeutic Action, and Clinical Pragmatism: Experiments in Adapting to Need,” was given on October 24, 2014, at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. The speaker was William Borden, PhD, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Service Administration. In...
Published 12/23/14
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. SSA faculty and staff discuss the impact that Ricardo Estrada, AM '93 makes on the city of Chicago as the president and CEO of the human services agency Metropolitan Family Services, which serves more than 53,000 people annually in and around Chicago with programs that range from job training to mental health services. Estrada...
Published 11/14/14
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. SSA faculty and staff discuss the impact that Michael Rodriguez, AM ’07 has had on the Little Village community in Chicago and at Enlace, a human services agency where he is the executive director. Rodriguez received the Elizabeth Butler Award for 2014 from the UChicago School of Social Service Administration during the “A Night...
Published 11/14/14
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The UChicago School of Social Service Administration Dean of Students Celia Bergman, master’s students and scholarship recipients JoLynn Cunningham, Leah Eggers, Floyd Stafford, and alumnus Ricardo Estrada, AM ’93 discuss the importance of scholarships, thank donors for their scholarships, and ask future donors to make a gift to...
Published 11/14/14
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This is the eighth of 15 videos of this conference, which was held on May 13, 2014, at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA). It was a first-of-its-kind forum for innovative economic strengthening research dedicated to improving health, education, and well-being outcomes of vulnerable children,...
Published 10/13/14
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. William R. Miller, PhD, the Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico presented the 2014 Ruth Knee Lecture on Spirituality and Social Work at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Miller wove together two major themes from his research career that...
Published 09/24/14
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Students at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration conduct fieldwork and attend classes at the same time, experiencing constant interplay between theory and practice while they develop their professional social work identity. This video features Connor Williams, AM '14. His second-year Clinical Practice...
Published 04/16/14
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The heart of learning to become a social worker involves field education. The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA) continues to improve an intensive field education model that began taking shape a decade ago. Learn more about SSA excellence in field education and how you can donate at...
Published 01/03/13
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The 2012 Pastora San Juan Cafferty Lecture on Race and Ethnicity in American Life featured William Schneider, the Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. It was held on October 18, 2012, at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago. Schneider is a foremost authority on...
Published 11/05/12
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Evelyn Brodkin, associate professor at the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration, leads a discussion on the politics, practices, and possibilities of the government's involvement and impact on poverty and inequality.
Published 05/16/12
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Rubén G. Rumbaut, professor of sociology, law and society, and Chicano-Latino Studies at UC Irvine, describes how generation, national origin, and the contexts in which young adults who are either foreign born or of foreign parentage are coming of age in America shape the experiences of these newcomers as they become adults.
Published 03/29/12
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Ann Marie Lipinski, Vice President for Civic Engagement at the University of Chicago, leads the second Community Summit, which featured roundtable discussions among many community activists and organizers on the South Side of Chicago. The summit was held in the University's School of Social Service Administration, and discussions...
Published 02/21/12
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. School of Social Service Administration Fireside Chat 2010. Dean and Mose & Sylvia Firestone Professor Neil Guterman presented his vision for the School of Social Service Administration and took questions from alumni. Facilitated by Ricardo Estrada, A.M. '93, First Deputy Commissioner City of Chicago Department of Family and...
Published 11/17/10
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. To be successful, urban schools must attend to the developmental and social needs of children from vulnerable and disadvantaged families. From the unique and successful Community Schools Program and preparing the next generation of school social workers, to scholarship in the areas of practice, policy and research informing...
Published 08/09/10
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. To be successful, urban schools must attend to the developmental and social needs of children from vulnerable and disadvantaged families. From the unique and successful Community Schools Program and preparing the next generation of school social workers, to scholarship in the areas of practice, policy and research informing...
Published 08/09/10
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. To be successful, urban schools must attend to the developmental and social needs of children from vulnerable and disadvantaged families. From the unique and successful Community Schools Program and preparing the next generation of school social workers, to scholarship in the areas of practice, policy and research informing...
Published 08/09/10
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This conference, hosted by the School of Social Service Administration, brought together population researchers, community leaders, and policymakers to discuss population trends over the past 10 years and their implications for policy in the next 10 years. Bookended by recession, the last decade has seen dramatic shifts in...
Published 06/15/10
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This conference, hosted by the School of Social Service Administration, brought together population researchers, community leaders, and policymakers to discuss population trends over the past 10 years and their implications for policy in the next 10 years. Bookended by recession, the last decade has seen dramatic shifts in...
Published 06/15/10
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This conference, hosted by the School of Social Service Administration, brought together population researchers, community leaders, and policymakers to discuss population trends over the past 10 years and their implications for policy in the next 10 years. Bookended by recession, the last decade has seen dramatic shifts in...
Published 06/15/10
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This conference, hosted by the School of Social Service Administration, brought together population researchers, community leaders, and policymakers to discuss population trends over the past 10 years and their implications for policy in the next 10 years. Bookended by recession, the last decade has seen dramatic shifts in...
Published 06/15/10
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This conference, hosted by the School of Social Service Administration, brought together population researchers, community leaders, and policymakers to discuss population trends over the past 10 years and their implications for policy in the next 10 years. Bookended by recession, the last decade has seen dramatic shifts in...
Published 06/15/10
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. At the turn of the last century, Edith Abbott and the Great Ladies of Halsted Street conducted research on job conditions in the major industrial sectors of the time. Their careful empirical analysis of the employment circumstances of low-wage workers many of whom were low-income mothers provided a foundation for employer reforms...
Published 08/25/09
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. At the turn of the last century, Edith Abbott and the Great Ladies of Halsted Street conducted research on job conditions in the major industrial sectors of the time. Their careful empirical analysis of the employment circumstances of low-wage workers many of whom were low-income mothers provided a foundation for employer reforms...
Published 08/24/09