Part of the Beyond 2025 Action Hub, the Beyond 2025 Action Toolkit offers practical exercises, tools, and resources to empower social workers and other professionals to take action on the issues that matter most.

The team includes physicians, dentists, nurses, social workers, and psychologists who collaborate to deliver integrated care in underserved communities. During the two-week service trip, the medical brigade provides essential physical and mental health services while training local professionals—nurses, community health workers, and lawyers—on trauma-informed approaches. This collaboration strengthens the capacity…

Adapted from a previous iteration, CoK is specifically tailored to meet the developmental needs of displaced children experiencing heightened vulnerability due to trauma before, during, and after migration. The program delivers 45-minute, play-based sessions in mobile classrooms—buses converted into vibrant preschool environments—which travel to 10 shelter sites in Central Massachusetts,…

The Beyond 2025 Action Hub is a growing movement space for social workers, public health practitioners, and community advocates determined to protect our collective well-being, human rights, and shared humanity in the face of persistent policy threats. Anchored in values of equity, dignity, and care, the Hub provides the knowledge,…

Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) has appointed Dr. Margaret Lombe to its faculty as associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2021. Dr. Lombe will be the school’s first professor of social work and global health equity, a newly created position within the macro practice department.  “I am…

The Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health (CISWH) at BU School of Social Work (BUSSW) recently collaborated with the Amal Alliance to design and perform an evaluation for Colors of Kindness, a mobile trauma-informed social-emotional learning program that helps asylum-seeking children in Massachusetts cope…