每日大瓜

Four-Year Training Grant From U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Will Support Student Work With High-Risk NYC Adolescents  Faculty at 每日大瓜鈥檚 recently received a four-year $1.9 million training grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services 鈥� Human Resources Service Administration (HRSA). The grant, which continues a previous three-year $1.4 million grant, supports the school鈥檚 training of second-year master鈥檚 degree students to work with high-risk adolescents and transitional-age youth in New York City.

Dr. Ronnie Glassman, director of field instruction at Wurzweiler

鈥淲e are grateful to be honored with this opportunity to serve the youth of New York City, and to sponsor and teach our fine students who daily do their utmost to make a difference,鈥� said Dr. Ronnie Glassman, director of field instruction at Wurzweiler and the grant鈥檚 principal investigator. Other faculty who will assist with the grant include Dr. Charles Auerbach, professor of social work; Dr. Jill Becker Feigeles, assistant professor of social work; Dr. Nancy Beckerman, professor of social work; Dr. Matthew Cuellar, assistant professor of social work; Dr. Susan Mason, professor of social work; Dr. Sari Skolnik, assistant professor of social work; and Dr. Jay Sweifach, associate professor of social work. The grant focuses on providing students with social work skills in trauma-informed therapy and group work, and will support the training of 140 students. It also provides clinical supervision for students, which increases the number of field placements and allows partner agencies to expand their services to vulnerable urban youth. 鈥淚n the last three years through the current grant, we have graduated 85 MSW students who we have trained to provide clinical service to the adolescent population, and who have committed to work with teens upon graduation,鈥� said Glassman. 鈥淭hrough internships in clinics, schools and child welfare settings, social work students have worked therapeutically with adolescent clients individually and in groups to prevent school dropout and teen pregnancy, and to provide clinical interventions focused on overcoming obstacles to emotional health and positive forward movement. For example, in one year of the grant, over 250 group sessions with teens were conducted by grant students.鈥� 鈥淒r. Glassman typifies the hard work, dedication and incisive focus of Wurzweiler faculty and staff on our students鈥� education and training,鈥� said Dr. Danielle Wozniak, the Dorothy and David Schachne Dean of Wurzweiler. 鈥淭his HRSA grant will enable us to support more students with stipends as they work with adolescents in schools, and child welfare and mental health settings. This work is critical to healthy adults and a healthy society.鈥�