CFWB Fellowship
About The Fellowship
The CFWB Junior Fellowship is designed to explore the integration of practice, research, and policy as a way of deepening students’ capacity to work effectively with children and families across the life cycle. The CFWB integrative seminar meets five times during the academic year. Each of the integrative seminars is two hours and is held online on Saturdays. The integrative seminar is an activity offered by the CFWB and not a course offered for credit as part of the MSS curriculum.
students are required to participate in the CFWB Junior Fellowship. Students who complete two years as a Junior Fellow will have this milestone noted on their academic transcript. Advanced Standing students who participate for one year must complete a special integrative paper. Click to complete the Junior Fellow application.
2025-2026 Fellowship Topic
This year the topic is "Intersection of Trauma-Informed Social Work and the Law."
The seminar series will focus on the complex intersections between law and social work through
the lens of trauma informed care with children, adolescents and their families. Through lectures,
discussion, case studies, and guest speakers, students will develop knowledge and skills
necessary for interprofessional work at the intersection of law and social work. The seminar
emphasizes critical analysis of how these disciplines can work together to advance social justice
while addressing ethical tensions that may arise in interprofessional contexts.
Each seminar session will focus on a variety of topics including trauma informed approaches,
skills relating to testifying in court and interprofessional work with lawyers, diverse cisgender
women who are systems-identified as offenders and the unintended consequences of their
probation and child protection contact, an exploration into the interdisciplinary relationship
between social work and the law as it affects immigrant communities throughout the United
States, and the effect of national social policy on the experiences of undocumented people,
specifically unaccompanied immigrant youth. Each topic will be led by a faculty member with
specific professional expertise in those topics. During the first part of the class, content will be
presented followed by a Q&A session. Students will be encouraged to discuss their own practice
experiences and to think about how this interprofessional perspective is important for advocacy
work with children, adolescents and their families.
Dates for AY 25/26
5 Saturdays, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m., online
- September 20, 2025
- November 1, 2025
- December 6, 2025
- February 21, 2026
- March 21, 2026
- April 18, 2026 (Makeup class if needed)
Past Fellowship Topics
2023-2024: Children and Family Wellbeing: Critical Perspectives on Risk and Resilience
2022-2023: The Impact of War and Political Violence on Children and Families with Special Focus on Factors Associated with Risk and Resilience.
2021-2022: An Exploration of Child/Adolescent Trauma Across Service Systems (e.g. Education, Mental Health, Health, Parental Health and Mental Health)
2020-2021: The Intersection of Child and Family Wellbeing, COVID-19 and Social/Health Disparities Associated with Structural Inequity and Racism
2019-2020: The Intersection of Trauma, Education, and Juvenile Justice
2018-2019: Trauma Informed Social Work and Child Wellbeing: Global Perspectives
2017-2018: ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences Studies)
2016-2017: Trauma Informed Practice with children, adolescents, and families
2015-2016: Juvenile Justice
Child and Family Wellbeing
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