Adjunct Professor Appointed Provincial Ambassador for Indigenous Centred Healing Journey Workshops
Dr. Paula du Hamel Yellow Horn, Adjunct Professor with the School of Social Work, is one of the two Ontario Provincial Ambassadors for the From Stilettos to Moccasins research Project. Dr. du Hamel Yellow Horn will facilitate Indigenous centred healing journey workshops throughout the Eastern and Southern Ontario area.
Out of Africa
After her family fled the civil war in Somalia when she was two years old, Muno Osman grew up in refugee camps in Kenya. Even so, she says, she was “very, very lucky.” The reason: her parents supported her education. Muno walked a half-hour to school. She ate just two meals a day, on food ... more
Social working social policy
School of Social Work professor Thérèse Jennissen has been interested in developing a course on comparative social policy for a long time. So, when the Centre for European Studies issued a call for proposals to develop courses that would integrate materials on the European Union, Jennissen saw the perfect opportunity for developing such a course ... more
Carleton Professors Publish First Book on the History of Social Work in Canada
(Ottawa) –Carleton professors, Therese Jennissen and Colleen Lundy, recently published the first comprehensive history of social work in Canada, entitled “One Hundred Years of Social Work: A History of the Profession in English Canada, 1900–2000.” The book discusses the long-standing struggle of the Canadian Association of Social Workers and individual social workers to reconcile advancement of ... more