School of Social Work

An initiative of the University of New England in collaboration with the University of Maine to improve the health and well-being of Maine’s older adults through enhanced practitioner training has received a five-year award of nearly $3.75 million from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under its Geriatrics […]

Dr. Elizabeth Armstrong’ s research project, “Building Bridges: Organizational efforts to address partner violence and substance use disorders”, was highlighted in the November UMaine Research News. For more information about Dr. Armstrong’s research: Dr. Elizabeth Armstrong Research on Intimate Partner Violence.

School of Social Work faculty organized a two-day workshop on Intimate Partner Violence, held at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast on May 21-22.  Representatives from over 16 agencies presented on topics related to Intimate Partner Violence.  Faculty presenters included: Dr. Elizabeth Armstrong, Dr. Judith Josiah-Martin, and Dr. Robin Russel.  Nancy Kelly, Field Education Director, provided […]

The School of Social Work is pleased to announce that two Summer 2018 Faculty Research Grants have been awarded to social work faculty members: Dr. Elizabeth Armstrong and Dr. Elizabeth DePoy.  This was a highly competitive review with 21 proposals received and only six funded.  The title of Dr. Armstrong’s research is: Building Bridges: Organizational Efforts […]

Dr. Sandy Butler’s work on Maine families in poverty was cited by the Bangor Daily News OPED this past weekend: http://bangordailynews.com/2018/01/05/opinion/editorials/lepage-administration-tries-to-show-its-doing-some-good-with-welfare-funds-it-isnt-working/  

A community/academic collaborative that brings together the University of Maine Center on Aging (Dr. Len Kaye, Director and Ms. Jennifer Crittenden, MSW, Assistant Director), School of Social Work faculty member (Dr. Sandy Butler, Professor), and community partners including the Eastern Area Agency on Aging (Ms. Dyan Walsh, MSW, Executive Director), Acadia Hospital/Eastern Maine Health Care, […]

Deirdre Boylan (LCSW and Hutchinson Center Site Coordinator), Leah Maxwell (LCSW and Distance MSW Coordinator), and Katrina Duncan (MSW Student and Graduate Assistant) provided a continuing education ethics workshop at the Hutchinson Center on December 1st.  Ms. Boylan, Maxwell, and Duncan, along with Nancy Kelly (MSW and Field Education Director), responded to the National Association […]

Drs. Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen Gilson have been invited by Cara McCarty, curator at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York, to include AFARI, their mobility invention, in the upcoming exhibit “Access+ Ability” (https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/1141959921/). Drs. DePoy and Gilson have been working with Dr. Vince Caccese and engineer Ryan Beaumont to develop, test, and commercialize […]

Dr. Elizabeth Armstrong, new Assistant Professor of Social Work, was selected to receive a Faculty Development Award from the Bangor Savings Bank Faculty Development Support Competition.  Congratulations!

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Elizabeth Armstrong as our new assistant professor of social work. Dr. Armstrong will teach courses on social work research and human behavior in the social environment. She will also be a MSW field seminar instructor. Dr. Armstrong graduated from the University of Michigan School of Social Work with a […]