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I recently started a nonprofit organization. Not infrequently, I wonder to myself what I could possibly have been thinking that made this seem like a good idea. I currently have three kids, two jobs, and a new house; extra time is not something I have laying around the house these days. On top of鈥�

by Mark Fishman This January I鈥檒l be moving across the country from Los Angeles to New York, where I will begin my pursuit of earning a Masters of Social Work degree at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work. With this change comes many questions, but there is one in particular I can鈥檛 seem to shake鈥�

I鈥檇 never felt like more of a fish out of water (or a Canadian out of her element) than the first day at work in the South Bronx. At the time I had been enrolled in the MSW program approximately three weeks and could not have felt more unprepared for what was about to come. Anxiety filled each of鈥�

We have our own WSSW blog that we are tentatively calling, 鈥淭houghts and Feelings from the Field.鈥� I have three great posts ready to go! If you have some observations from your experience in the field and would like to share, I would love to read it and see if we can post it in our blog-sphere ...

Dean Carmen Ortiz Hendricks Dear Wurzweiler Family: It is with great sadness that we share the news that Dean Carmen Ortiz Hendricks has passed away. We have just been informed by her husband that Dr. Hendricks succumbed to cancer and passed away peacefully with her family at her side. Although we鈥�

Wurzweiler welcomed new students to the School January 27th, 2016 for orientation, led by Dean Carmen Ortiz Hendricks. The faculty, administration and staff are thrilled to have each student start their education towards their MSW!

Professor Daniel Pollack Congratulations to Jonathan Lerner (class of '15) and Professor Daniel Pollack on their recent law review article, "Where have all the developmental centers gone? The federal push for community-based services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.鈥� The鈥�

In the January, 2016 issue of "Journal of Teaching in Social Work", the Second Edition of "Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: A Guide for Social Work Field Education" (2nd ed.)., by Wurzweiler School of Social Work's Dean Carmen Ortiz Hendricks, along with co-authors Jeanne Bertrand Finch and ...

A recent article in Jewish Link mentions some recent technology on diagnosing individuals with mental illness using a program called the Diagnostic and Symptom Calculator [DSC]. The program was developed by Wurzweiler School of Social Work MSW graduate and PhD student Stephanie Shapiro. For more on鈥�

Dr. Jill Becker-Feigeles (L), Michelle Florence (Ctr.), Dr. Jade Docherty (R) Wurzweiler School of Social Work student Michelle Florence received the "2015 Diana List Cullen Memorial Award - First Year MSW Student Writing Scholarship" from the Metropolitan Chapter of the New York State Society of鈥�