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International Service Projects

Over the past several years, College of Social Work faculty have engaged in a number of international service projects throughout the Caribbean islands and in India.  Since 1990, through our partnership with the Florida International Volunteer Corps (FAVACA), numerous faculty have conducted various service projects in the following Caribbean islands:  Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada, St. Kitts, St. Vincent, and Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. These initiatives have primarily focused on training and consultation activities relating to the following areas:

  • Training social workers on culturally relevant counseling and intervention strategies in a variety of areas
  • Assessment and intervention strategies in child abuse and neglect in St. Vincent, St. Kitts, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, and Grenada    
  • Consultation with ministries on the development of legislation relating to the mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect
  • Consultation with various NGO’s regarding the development of operational policies and procedures
  • Training school social workers and guidance counselors on the development of a crisis management plan in the schools of Barbados, Trinidad, and St. Kitts
  • Training on conflict resolution and anger management for teachers and school administrators in Trinidad and Barbados
  • Technical assistance and training on HIV/AIDS prevention, intervention and long-term care
  • Development of research projects on HIV/AIDS stigmatization
  • Consultation and technical assistance on the development of a social work program in Grenada
  • Consultation and technical assistance on the development of a graduate social work program in Trinidad & Tobago
  • Development of a research project on homelessness in the Caribbean
  •  Training in children’s homes of Grenada and Trinidad on operating procedures and strategies for working with maltreated children
  • Needs assessments and epidemiological profiles on alcohol abuse in the West Indies
  • Technical assistance in the development of a boys choir in Trinidad & Tobago
  • Consultation with Ministry of Social Welfare on services to the elderly in Grenada

In addition to the above, technical assistance and training is being provided to various NGO’s in India on HIV/AIDS.  Consultation and technical assistance is also being provided to the social work department at a university in New Delhi on the development of their field education program.

Dr. Charles Figley and Elizabeth Donnelly are collaborating with colleagues in Kuwait on a national study of Kuwaiti mental health and coping. They recently returned from a one-week trip to Kuwait to work on the project and present two papers at a conference on the status and welfare of Gulf women. Here Dr. Figley and Elizabeth is photographed with their co-investigator, Dr. Hadi Ridda, the male behind them, and members of the faculty of the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Kuwait University.

A brief slide show of the presentation is available at: http://www.fsu.edu/~trauma/Kuwait07/KuwaitTrip1.ppt

 

 

 
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