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  • Social Work Alumni Lecture (2025)

    Social Work in a Shifting Landscape: Advocating for Human Rights

    Presenter: Sanjana Ragudaran, Ph.D., MSW

  • Global Solidarity for Justice: Social Work’s Path to Inclusion and Sustainability

    Promotional flyer for a virtual side panel event titled 'Global Solidarity for Justice: Social Work's Path to Inclusion and Sustainability,' hosted by the International Federation of Social Workers. Event details: Friday, February 14, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EST. Features three speakers: Ana Patricia Quintana Ramirez on 'Solidarity and Environmental Communitarianism in the Buen Vivir,' Darja Zaviršek on 'The War in Ukraine and Social Work Transnational Solidarity,' and Mayane Barudin on 'Building Sovereign Energy: Amplifying the Voices of Indigenous Communities.' Includes a registration button and contact details for Anne Deepak at adeepak@monmouth.edu. Logos for the Commission for Social Development, the United Nations, and related organizations are shown at the bottom.

    Please join us for our online side event for the 63rd Session of the Commission for Social Development hosted by the International Federation of Social Workers North America Representation Team to the United Nations.

    This session explores community-driven strategies for advancing social justice and sustainable development grounded in collective care for each other and the planet to promote a sustainable and just future. Guest speakers include Professor Darja Zaviršek, Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Work who will speak on the war in Ukraine and social work transnational solidarity and Dr. Ana Patricia Quintana Ramírez, Profesora Asociada de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia who will speak community-led resource management and Buen Vivir. Finally, we will be joined by guest speaker Mayane Chavez Barudin, a Tribal member of Kewa (Santo Domingo) Pueblo in New Mexico, and founder of the nonprofit Sovereign Energy. Mayane will speak on the topic of enabling economic prosperity and environmental justice for her community and Indigenous peoples by advocating for an inclusive clean energy transition.

  • Empower, Educate, Embrace: Confronting Book Banning in Social Work

    The Social Work Society is proud to sponsor the 18th annual Teach-In, “Empower, Educate, Embrace: Confronting Book Banning in Social Work.” This three-hour event includes three panels discussing the topic of book banning: Panel #1 looks at the impact on libraries; Panel #2 looks at the impact on education and offers an historical perspective; and Panel #3 features social work students who will discuss how book banning impacts the field of social work.

  • Social Work Career Fair

    Career Fair for Social Work Majors

    Contact careerdevelopment@monmouth.edu to register.

  • Spring Festival – Virginia A. Cory Community Garden

    Located on Beechwood Avenue, between Brookwillow and Pinewood Avenues, in West Long Branch, the Garden comprises a group of people working to improve their community. To celebrate Earth Day and the beginning of the 2022 season, we’re hosting a Spring Festival featuring community-based vendors, activities, and live music! Admission for all interested guests is free.

  • Social Work Career Day

    Hosted by the School of Social Work

    Zoom Link: https://monmouth.zoom.us/j/3616277591

    Speakers

    2–2:30 p.m.

    Kristie Tapolow, LSW
    Social Behavioral Support Specialist
    Middletown Township Public School District

    2:30-3 p.m.

    Deidre Stamos Lonza, LCSW, LCADC
    Senior Director of Operations
    New Hope IBHC

    3–3:30 p.m.

    Jonelle Rodriquez, LSW
    Social Worker
    American Friends Service Committee – Immigrant Rights Program

    Katie Meola, LSW
    Social Worker
    American Friends Service Committee – Immigrant Rights Program

    3:30–4 p.m.

    Virgina Kinneman, MSW, LCSW
    Social Work Supervisor
    RWJ Barnabas Health Inpatient
    Behavioral Health

  • 9th Annual Social Work Alumni Lecture: Intergenerational Partnerships with Universities

    Intergenerational Partnerships with Universities: Advancing Age Inclusivity in Higher Education

    Presented by Faculty Lecturer:
    Jeanne M. Koller, Ph.D., MSW, LCSW
    2021 Alumni Award Winner:
    Ekta Shah ’13 ’14

    All Monmouth BSW and MSW alumni are cordially invited to our 9th Annual Alumni Lecture!

    This year’s event celebrates the launch of our new Certificate in Aging, this continuing education certificate is an opportunity to earn CE hours needed for licensure while gaining expertise in the area of gerontological social work. Dr. Jeanne Koller will deliver a lecture on the many options available to institutes of higher education to advance age inclusivity including the development of lifelong learning programs. The CE hours earned during this event will count towards the Certificate in Aging.

    Additionally, we will once again be raising funds for the Louis E. Cimaglia ’08 Memorial Scholarship in Social Work. While the event is free, we are suggesting registrants make a $10 donation to Lou’s scholarship in order to keep his memory alive and support current MSW students in their educational efforts.

    We hope to see you on Zoom for this year’s lecture! Spread the word and register today!

  • The Courage to Love – Cultivating Joy and Peace in a Turbulent World

    In honor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s presentation to the Monmouth University community, the School of Social Work is pleased to host this presentation and meditation in the Virginia A. Cory Community Garden.

  • Seasons in the Soil (Lecture In The Garden Series)

    Rich Mohr is a graduate of FIT (Florida Institute of Technology) where he holds a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology and a Master of Science in Secondary Science Education. He currently works at Sickle’s Market in Little Silver within the agricultural department. Rich has taught courses at Georgian Court University that were focused on environmental sustainability, creating an understanding of the roles people and societies play in sustaining the earth’s resources for future generations. He put stewardship theories into practice by creating, promoting and managing the university’s first community vegetable garden, the Mercy Garden. Rich was instrumental in establishing an experimental improved rain garden design on campus, specifically targeting nitrogen removal from storm water runoff. In the past he’s developed and conducted extension programs with Rutgers Cooperative Extension in Ocean County and developed community garden workshops at Long Branch Covenant Church.

  • Commencement – Bachelor candidates in the School of Nursing and Health Studies and the School of Social Work