COVID-19: Social Work Responds

When you first meet someone, you introduce yourself. I am Melissa Thompson, Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work at Dominican University. I am delighted you found this blog. Why?

Because it's important and it has the goal of adding important knowledge to social work at a perilous time. Graduate students taking Social Work and Health will be researching and writing for this blog throughout the semester. We agreed that during times of crisis, the United States has a history of amplifying discrimination against marginalized, vulnerable and oppressed groups and we are seeing so many examples of this each day.

The purpose of this blog it to raise awareness of the impact OVID-19 has had on the groups and communities social workers serve and the role social work can play in mitigating the impacts of this global pandemic. Using technology for health outcomes is nothing new, but for many students, onsite field placements are a challenge to find. Since the pandemic limits social workers abilities to reach decision makers and clients alike, we wondered, "How do we get important information like this out to those who need it?"

And that is how the COVID-19: Social Work Responds blog was born.

We appreciate any comments you'd like to share with our authors and would be so humbled if you could share this important information with others.

Many thanks!

Professor Melissa Thompson

School of Social Work

Dominican University

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