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COVID-19 Resources

For more information on how to succeed at CSUN as the campus responds to the pandemic as well as university updates, visit CSUN as One.

For available resources from the community, inside and outside of CSUN, visit the Office of Community Engagement's Connect with Community page.

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. 

Letter of Solidarity

December 19, 2014

The University Library

We are posting the CSUN MSW Department Letter of Solidarity. Our attempt was to adequately capture the feelings of outrage, frustration, humiliation, shame and pain experienced by so many communities for so many generations without access to true justice or healing.  Our letter builds from the work of Portland State University, Simmons College, and Smith College; joins the growing number of schools/departments that have made a public statement; and upholds our obligation as social workers to speak out against social injustices.

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CSUN students on path to legislative bill

June 10, 2013

Advocates

Inspired by one member’s personal struggle, a group of CSUN social work graduate students introduced a legislative bill to help mend the issue of juvenile solitary confinement.

The students, who will graduate this May, aimed to expand on Senator Leland Yee’s 2012 bill, SB 1363, which did not pass, to lower the hours allowed for juvenile solitary confinement. Read more

Hard Work, Determination Pay Off as Students Prepare for Graduation

June 10, 2012

Terriel Cox

Terriel Cox lived in 11 different foster care homes and attended five different elementary schools by the time she was 11-years-old. Her father was not in her life and her mother was an alcoholic who struggled with substance abuse.

The native of San Diego said she could have been one of the hundreds of youth in California’s foster care system that never go to college but a social worker changed her life. When Cox first arrived at Cal State Northridge in 1998, she began a mission to help young people like herself who have been raised in the foster care system. Read more

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