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For helpful information as well as resources related to COVID-19 and provided by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), take a look at their Information and Resource Guide.

For a searchable website dedicated to connecting you to community resources related to COVID-19, visit One Degree Coronavirus Resource Guide, and explore according to your region.

Racial Justice Resources

For daily newsletters, or a chance to explore publications, with a focus on the dismantling of white supremacy, visit Anti-Racism Daily.

Since the racial justice protests of 2020 and in an effort to benefit the community, Angel City Advisors have been collecting data-sets and mapping them across Los Angeles County. The resulting product is an Equity Mapbook, or collection of 79 maps that visualize injustice and exclusion across the LA County region. Intended for community-members to use, cite, and act upon, please view the Los Angeles Equity Mapbook.

Voting

On the evening of October 14th, 2020, faculty and students of the MSW Department hosted and recorded a community-wide Teach-In. The online session, entitled "Teach-In: You Matter! Your Vote Matters!", focused on the importance of voting and provided an overview of California propositions on this year's ballots. We are now ready to vote, and we hope you are too! Watch the Teach-In video. 

Social Work Celebrates our Students

September 14, 2021

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The Social Work Department is excited to highlight the achievements of our students: Brittany Chenelle and Natalie Villalobos. Both have been accepted to fellowships for the 2021-2022 academic year. Congratulations to Brittany for being selected by the Council of Social Work Education to complete their Minority Fellowship Program and Natalie Villalobos for being selected by the American Psychological Association complete their Interdisciplinary Minority Fellowship. Read more about our fellows.

CSUN Professor’s Testimony Helps Reunite Mother and Daughter, and Win Class-Action Lawsuit for Families Separated at the Border

November 20, 2020

Alejandra Acuña, Ph.D.

Every summer, Dr. Alejandra Acuña, an Associate Professor in the CSBS Department of Social Work, volunteers to help Public Counsel and the advocacy group Human Rights First. Acuña provides psychological evaluations which are typically used in asylum hearings. However, in this case, Dr. Acuña’s evaluation of a mother, seeking asylum from Guatemala, had a ripple effect — impacting the lives of thousands of migrant families by serving as key evidence in a class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the federal government. Continue reading about Dr. Acuña and her volunteer work on this case.

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