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School of Social Work professor and homelessness expert Lori Thomas recently joined other advocates in Burlington, NC for “Students Facing Homelessness,” a workshop to educate the community on what Alamance and other counties are doing to end chronic homelessness. Thomas touted the “Housing First” model, for which her reserach has demonstrated success in the Charlotte. […]

UNC Charlotte social work professor Annelise Mennicke is a sexual assault prevention researcher and advocate. Dr. Mennicke sat down with NBC News to discuss how new technology is helping to make a difference. WATCH

Charlotte is a hot spot for human trafficking. North Carolina is a top-ten state for the practice and because of its geography, Charlotte is the number one city for human trafficking in the state. Young people are particularly vulnerable to this and some groups are jumping in to respond. Master of Social Work alumna Shawna […]

School of Social Work professor Roger Suclupe has received the 2017 Accessibility Excellence Award for Outstanding Faculty/Staff, presented by the UNC Charlotte Office of Disability Services. The award is presented in recognition staff or faculty with a strong commitment to accessibility and disability-related issues. Recipients were chosen through student submissions that detailed the nominee’s extraordinary […]

Professor Annelise Mennicke researches how systems respond to domestic violence and sexual assault. She spoke with Fusion News about how rollbacks of federal oversight of local law enforcement could effect the investigation and prosecution of sexual assaults. by: Katie McDonough “Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in April that he had ordered a sweeping review of […]

A group of UNC Charlotte students took part in a spring break to write home about this year, but not for the reasons you might expect. The 30 students from degree programs across campus eschewed familiar vacation destinations to travel to Nicaragua on a volunteer medical mission trip. The group, hailing from pre-health, pre-business, international […]

School of Social Work professor Annelise Mennicke presented “Mothering as a Key Facet of Resilence for Incarcerated Women” at ResilenceCon 2017 in Nashville, TN.

Sexual assault on college campuses is a national epidemic; 1 in 4 women report being assaulted during their time in college, impacting their emotional and physical health and academic success. Along with a myriad of other prevention efforts, the federal and state governments have prioritized the implementation of campus safety surveys to get an accurate […]

In response to Charlotte’s increasingly diverse and rapidly growing Latino population, School of Social Work lecturer Roger Suclupe is bridging the gap between advocacy, outreach, and critical perspectives on social work policy through a new graduate course, Social Work Practice with Latino Communities. From 2010 to 2015, the Hispanic population in Mecklenburg County grew 14.8 […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Present Age Ministries receives $4,000 from Students4GivingSM UNC Charlotte students selected the Urban Ministry Center as the seventh annual Students4GivingSM recipient – directing $4,000 to the agency’s Housing Works program.