In the fall of 2017, Hoda Shalash joined the ranks of powerful women in her family to pursue a UK degree.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 11, 2021) Words matter we’ve heard this time and time again. As human beings, we use words to create labels it’s our way of understanding people and things.
We often apply labels to those we barely know, and the same is done to us. For good or bad, these assumptions influence our identity.
Just ask Hoda Shalash she is no stranger to labels.
“I’m a first-generation Palestinian-American Muslim woman,” she said. “Growing up as a minority kid in a majority white city and country, I very quickly learned the importance of community and the power that lies within it.”
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 5, 2021) 2020 was a difficult year for mental health. Feelings of anxiety, sadness and loss were common for many. The global pandemic has led to suffering, death and grieving. Lockdown measures led to job loss and social isolation and the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and other unarmed Black Americans has led to social unrest.
Adrianna Fisher-Willis, staff psychologist at the University of Kentucky Counseling Center (UKCC), says the events happening around us, even when the impact is not direct, have an immense effect on our mental health.
“We live in a world heavily covered by the media,” Fisher-Willis said. “Social media has provided everyone with a front row seat to images of racial injustice. Additionally, Americans everywhere became thrown into the devastation of COVID-19. When you combine this with the very normal impact of day-to-day stress of home, work and pre-existing mental health condition
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 18, 2020) For over 80 years, the University of Kentucky College of Social Work (CoSW) has been a leader in social work education. Through rigorous research, excellence in instruction and steadfast service, the CoSW works to improve the human condition. Always, in all ways, according to their mission.
In addition to the main campus in Lexington, the college has satellite campuses at the Center of Excellence in Rural Health in Hazard, Kentucky, and Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. The college offers four academic programs, including a Bachelors of Arts in Social Work, Master of Social Work, Doctor of Social Work, and Doctorate of Philosophy in Social Work.