UConn School of Social Work

Congrats to Chanee Fabius, PhD, the Judith M. Zachs Family Professor in Aging, Associate Professor in the UConn School of Social Work! Dr. Fabius is the author of two recently-published papers in the journal Health Affairs. 👏⭐📚👏 “High Intensity, Persistent Burden: Family Caregiving Across the Long-term Care Continuum and Policy Implications” appears in Health Affairs Scholar (https://lnkd.in/e_hXYsji) and “To Break Down the Silos of LTSS, Build the Infrastructure for Shared Care” is published in Health Affairs Forefront (https://lnkd.in/ef2fCTYa). 📚👩🦳👴👩🎓

Join the UConn School of Social Work at the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)'s 72nd Annual Conference Oct. 22-25 in Atlanta, Georgia! The conference will represent the work of 15 faculty, 11 Ph.D. students, and 1 postdoctoral fellow! View the UConn presentations here: https://lnkd.in/e-nuSmHs

What do we need to unlearn to better support queer and trans youth? UConn School of Social Work faculty Sukhmani Singh, Ph.D., Gio Iacono, and Megan Paceley join colleagues in exploring this question in a new article published Oct. 15 in the Journal of Social Issues. Their article, “Fragmentation and manufactured ambivalence: Necessary unlearnings for intersectional critical action with queer and trans youth,” invites deeper reflection on how we understand and advance social change. 📖 Read the article: https://lnkd.in/e34vEUE6

The Nancy A. Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work at UConn School of Social Work encourages you to vote! 🗳☑️⭐👏 If you’re eligible to vote in the State of Connecticut, you have more options than ever to make your voice heard: on Election Day, (Nov. 3), during in-person Early Voting (Starting TODAY!, Oct. 19 to Nov. 1), or by absentee ballot — now with no excuse required! Learn more on the Humphreys Institute's Voting is Social Work website: https://lnkd.in/efQvnKAS Shannon Lane

As the entire country and social work profession gear up for the 2026 midterm elections, the UConn School of Social Work's Nancy A. Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work offers valuable resources in its latest newsletter: https://lnkd.in/epCN4MbK Also, listen in to the NASW New York Chapter C.A.R.E.S. Election Series presentation "Advocacy to Action: Social Workers, Voting, and Civic Engagement" at 6 p.m. tonight, featuring Humphreys Institute Director Shannon Lane! https://lnkd.in/e-uecgHK

📚🎒⭐ Attention undergrads! The UConn School of Social Work is offering three electives next spring for majors and non-social work majors. Make social change part of your class schedule by enrolling in Engaged Mindfulness for Social Change (Hartford campus), Human Rights and Social Work (Storrs campus), or Social Justice for the Social Work Profession (Storrs, Hartford and Stamford). Registration opens Oct. 26. Learn more about the classes in the flyers below. #uconnssw

On Oct. 3, more than 20 University of Connecticut students became certified Election Moderators for the State of Connecticut! 🇺🇲 📚 ✅ As part of the UConn Hartford NextGen Elections Program, participants completed 10 hours of training through a combination of asynchronous and in-person sessions, including training with the Office of the Connecticut Secretary of the State. Following training, students will be connected with local election officials and assigned to polling locations, where they will work for at least two days during the 2026 election period. Connecticut’s 2026 general election early voting period is Oct. 19 through Nov. 1, with Election Day on Nov. 3. The program, spearheaded by the UConn School of Social Work’s Nancy A. Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work and funded through a grant from Campus Compact, provided participants with a $125 program stipend and compensation for their election work at the rate established by their assigned election office. 🇺🇲 📚 ✅ 🇺🇲 📚 ✅ 🇺🇲 📚 ✅ “It’s important to get younger people interested and involved in the political process, and becoming a poll worker embeds them in elections in their own communities,” says Shannon Lane, director of the Humphreys Institute and professor-in-residence. “Being a poll worker is a very tangible form of civic engagement.” The training took place in the Hartford Times Building on the UConn Hartford campus. Dr. Lane and Sue Larsen, the democratic registrar of voters, conducted the training. Learn more about the UConn Hartford NextGen Elections Program in this UConn Today article: https://lnkd.in/dr4jwgis

Chanee Fabius, PhD, the Judith M. Zachs Family Professor in Aging, associate professor in the UConn School of Social Work, presented her study titled “Family and Paid Care Coordination in Home Care for Older Adults With and Without Dementia” during a breakout session on Workforce Needs: Coordination, Training and Education at the 4th Biennial Conference on Caregiving Research hosted by the Family Caregiving Collaborative at the University of Utah School of Nursing on Sept. 24. 🎓 (https://lnkd.in/guSYFciz) Her study is co-authored by faculty at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and University of Michigan. Dr. Fabius is an expert on how policies, health systems, and community-based services can better support older adults living with disabilities, family caregivers, and the workforce responsible for providing long-term services and supports. Learn more about Dr. Fabius! https://lnkd.in/exw6zcFG

Next month, Jie Zhao, a second-year Ph.D. student in the UConn School of Social Work, will give her first oral conference presentations—three at once!—at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. 👏 As lead author, she'll present a study using a dataset from Malaysia examining sex work, substance use, and depressive symptoms among 374 cisgender and transgender women who reported recent sex work. Zhao’s UConn dissertation asks how telehealth-related health policy affects substance use care in rural areas, with a focus on federally qualified health centers. These serve low-income and rural populations and are directly shaped by federal policy. Learn more about Jie and her research in this UConn Today article!https://lnkd.in/esy2VDeK

Join us in congratulating UConn School of Social Work Assistant Professor Sukhmani Singh, Ph.D. for receiving a 2026 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Emerging Scholar Research category. 👏 📚 👨🎓 Singh received the Provost’s Award for addressing critical societal challenges through impactful, community-engaged research. Her scholarship examines entrenched and intersecting inequities within the criminal and juvenile legal system(s), with a focus on marginalized youth, and formerly incarcerated people. Her work has informed policy discussions and systems reform across Connecticut—contributing to deliberations of the Juvenile Justice Policy and Oversight Committee, the Connecticut Sentencing Commission, and other state bodies. UConn Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Pamir Alpay presented the award during a ceremony on Sept. 29 in Storrs. School of Social Work Professor and Dean Laura Curran and Professor and Associate Dean for Research Jennifer Manuel also attended the ceremony. Learn more about the award in this UConn Today article: https://lnkd.in/erJrF4Gz