Sarah Bishop, a student at the University of Maine who will graduate in May with a master’s degree in social work, wrote an opinion piece for the Sun Journal about why social work loan forgiveness makes sense for Maine. “Without loans, earning my degree would have been unobtainable, but I fear that repaying those loans […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Mount Desert Islander and WMTW-TV (Channel 8 in Portland) featured a new University of Maine-led study that shows that parents raising children with serious mental illness and violent tendencies experience and express grief similar to those of children who have died, which informs how practitioners can help these caregivers cope with the […]
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Lenard Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging and professor at the University of Maine School of Social Work, was featured as an expert for a WalletHub ranking of the best states to retire based on three key dimensions: affordability, quality of life and health care. “Age-friendly states and communities have easy […]
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In a segment about the opioid crisis in Maine, WMTW-TV (Channel 8 in Portland) highlighted the University of Maine’s Professional Opioid Workforce Response Program, which has been training students to take on jobs in substance use treatment and prevention since 2019. Elizabeth Armstrong, assistant professor of social work and the program’s director, told WMTW that […]
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This week, Gov. Janet Mills announced an award of $475,000 to the University of Maine System to support the placement of students pursuing Masters in Social Work (MSW) degrees in rural health care sites. In addition to placing students in these areas of high need, the funding will be used to increase the number of […]
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News Center Maine reported on University of Maine associate professor Jennifer Crittenden’s three-year study through the University of Maine Center on Aging and School of Social Work to learn more about how virtual volunteering is changing today’s social landscape. Crittenden will work with a team of graduate students and others to learn why virtual volunteering […]
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Lenard Kaye, director of the University of Maine’s Center on Aging and professor at the School of Social Work, spoke to The Maine Monitor about Homeward Bound, a program which helps seniors and adults with disabilities transition from nursing homes and hospitals back to community-based care settings. Kaye said that programs like Homeward Bound offer […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Medical Xpress and Public News Time reported on a University of Maine study that shows organizations attempting to address trauma in order to care for those experiencing both intimate partner violence, substance use disorders or both need more support and clearer definitions of “trauma” in order to implement effective frameworks. “It […]
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Organizations attempting to address trauma in order to care for those experiencing both intimate partner violence, substance use disorders or both need more support and clearer definitions of “trauma” in order to implement effective frameworks, according to a University of Maine study. Intimate partner violence and substance use disorder frequently co-occur, but are rarely addressed […]
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The University of Maine has achieved full, endorsed membership in the Age-Friendly University (AFU) Global Network. The AFU Global Network, led by Dublin City University, is supported in the United States by the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. The AFU initiative promotes maximizing the intergenerational appeal of higher education programming through a 10-principle framework, […]
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