By Ashley Gebb, Photo: Jason Halley/CSU Chico, Chico State Today, November 9, 2021
What will it take to shape the next generation of social workers, individuals poised to support communities who have experienced unimaginable disaster and trauma?
Perhaps there is no university better suited to address this challenge than Chico State—or at least, that’s the premise of a new course in the School of Social Work. This summer, three professionals and educators came together to teach “Contemporary Issues in Social Work Practice and Research.”
Using the Camp Fire both as a lens and a shared experience among the students, social work professor Molly Calhoun, alumna Kate Scowsmith (MSW, ’17) of the Camp Fire Collaborative, and psychologist Juni Banerjee-Stevens, who formerly served as the clinical director of the WellCat Counseling Center, united to provide an immersive and research-driven course. The vision is that graduates of the University’s MSW program will become mentors who inform future disaster education and response at all cycles and all levels.
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