- January 8, 2024
Public hearing held for Montgomery County bill on free menstrual products
- Tue, 09/05/2023 - 12:27
Dr. Jacqueline Guevara is a native of Washington DC, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in both Virginia and DC, and has been in the social work field for over 13 years. She has extensive experience working in various agencies within child welfare (including Child Protective Services, Preservation Services, and Foster Care), school social work, juvenile court, and community mental health. Her areas of research and interest include racial inequity, stigma in the LatinX community including the impact of machismo and marianismo, juvenile justice, trauma/PTSD, and cultural stress.
- August 24, 2023
One in 10 college students experience period poverty, which can lead to increased depression
- April 13, 2023
How Often Should People Get COVID Boosters?
- December 7, 2022
Effective January 1, 2023, Virginia eliminates taxes on personal hygiene products, including menstrual products
- September 19, 2022
Nearly $150,000 partnership-building grant to create collaborative research activities that advance health equity in Virginia schools
- August 12, 2022
Dr. Katherine Scafide, associate professor of Nursing, speaks to NBC Nightly News about her research on Alternate Light Sources (ALS). The research helps identify hard-to-see bruising in darker skin tones, where it may otherwise be difficult or impossible to detect.
- January 18, 2022
Promote the Vote: Positioning Social Workers for Action asserts that supporting political participation is integral to social work practice.
- Wed, 08/11/2021 - 16:18
Drawing on 20 years of practice as a nurse-midwife, Dr. Karen Trister Grace’s research interests are in reproductive coercion, intimate partner violence (IPV), pregnancy intention and health disparities. Dr. Grace recently conducted research addressing solutions to housing instability for IPV survivors, as well as a mixed methods study exploring reproductive coercion in Latina women. She has an interest in birth outcomes related to IPV and reproductive coercion, and the intersection with unintended pregnancy. Dr. Grace is the lead editor of the 3rd edition of the “Prenatal & Postnatal Care: A Person-Centered Approach” textbook.