Kent School of Social Work

Kent School of Social Work

Jennifer Middleton, assistant professor of social work, and Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear discuss research about sex trafficking in homeless youth and the need to better identify and provide help for victims.

UofL researchers discover ‘alarming’ sex trafficking trends among homeless youth

University of Louisville researchers found that 40 percent of the homeless youth surveyed in Louisville and southern Indiana reported they had been victims of...

UofL study shows over 40 percent homeless youth are sex-trafficking victims Kentucky Attorney General...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – University of Louisville researchers found that 40 percent of the homeless youth surveyed in Louisville and southern Indiana reported they had...

Brittany Smith – Humans of UofL

School has never came easy for me. I've always barely scraped by, and went on to the next grade, when I started college that...

Signature Partnership Initiative attracts national attention University of West Florida latest school to visit...

On a cold February day, while their colleagues in Pensacola, Florida, enjoyed fair skies and temperatures in the 70s, a group of University of...
The University of Louisville has received a first-of-its-kind federal grant to find out if young children would retain behavior coaching for the rest of their school careers.

Kent School takes the lead on researching behavior coaching for young children

Four-year-old Jas’meir English can act up from time to time and she’s capable of disrupting a classroom. But what if we paired young students, like...
Two youth residential care programs in Louisville have partnered with the Kent School of Social Work to bring KENTucky Kids to life and offer out-of-state prospective Master of Science in Social Work students an opportunity to receive in-state tuition and valuable training as a Youth Care Worker.

Kent School partners with youth care organizations to bring social workers to Kentucky

Two youth residential care programs in Louisville have partnered with the Kent School of Social Work to bring KENTucky Kids to life and offer...
Barbara Gordon

Community-based services topic to kick off Optimal Aging Lecture Series

Meeting the burgeoning need of older adults for community-based support is the focus of the Feb. 8 lecture of the Spring 2017 Optimal Aging...
Barbara Gordon

Community-based services in an uncertain future topic of spring UofL Optimal Aging Lecture, Feb....

Meeting the burgeoning need of older adults for community-based support is the focus of the Feb. 8 lecture of the Spring 2017 Optimal Aging...
2016 Culturally Effective Care Symposium

Culturally Effective Care Symposium empowers future health care providers

As they have done every year for the past 11 years, future providers across health care disciplines dedicated a day to improving their ability...

End Alz: UofL provides funding for Alzheimer’s awareness license plate effort Fees waived for...

Thanks to a donation from the Institute for Sustainable Health & Optimal Aging at the University of Louisville, the $25 application fee for an...