University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: April 2023

Students for Social Welfare Have Been Busy

The Students for Social Welfare (SFSW) are a student organization associated with the UW-Madison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work.  They are a service-learning organization with a desire to spread social awareness on campus.  Over the past few months, the organization has been putting on some great events:  In November they hosted an event in …

Dr. Gassman-Pines on “Helping Low Wage Workers and Families Recover from the Pandemic”

Lecture honored the 50th anniversary of Roberta Gassman Earning her MSSW at UW-Madison New policies established during the pandemic to aid low wage workers and families helped reduce material hardship and mental health problems, according to research by Dr. Anna Gassman-Pines from Duke University. However, structural challenges made accessing the new support systems uneven. Additionally, …

For Recent Grad Haley Ingersoll (MSW ’20), “Social Workers Can Do It All.” 

While most of the school’s alums move into traditional social work careers following graduation, Haley Ingersoll found that her education and experience is useful in different venues. Haley valued her education at the school explaining, “My fieldwork faculty Ron Chance and Laura Dresser had a profound impact on me and my social work career.” Only …