UTSA Department of Social Work

HCAP Cookie Exchange, Downtown Campus 🍪 🌟

🍁🍂 Today we are grateful for a potluck gathering, hosted by our Child Welfare Programs Team! We hope each of you have a restful break. 🍂🍁

Join us in congratulating our Social Work nominees for 2025 HCaP Faculty & Staff Awards: Community Research Excellence (Piel), Teaching Innovation (Johnson), Community Service Excellence (Silva), Exceptional Mentoring (Nicklett), Service to Support the Mission of HCaP (Piel, Saucedo, & Velasquez), Commitment to Care (Velasquez), and Rising Star (Silva).

A big welcome to our newest MSW students! We all begin Fall 2025 semester on Monday with excitement and connection! MSW and BSW students, let’s make it our best year yet. 🧡💙🤍

What a wonderful Last Class Assembly this evening! Thank you to all who helped plan, hold meaningful conversation, and attended. We value our learning community and, community members, and colleagues!

Record attendance today at Social Work Advocacy Day at the Texas Capitol! Learning about legislation and advocacy skills!

Please welcome & congratulate our PEP students and many thanks to Professor Ian Johnson, PhD.

UTSA and the Title IV-E program help bring awareness to the UTSA downtown campus during National Child Abuse Prevention month.

Please join us in celebrating two of our esteemed colleagues 🎉 Amy Chanmugam: Social Worker of the Year, and 🎉Donna Garrett: Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as one of our outstanding MSW students 🎉Lyndsey Ligion: Student of the Year! NASW Alamo Branch Awardees move on as nominees for NASW Texas chapter!!! 👏💙🧡🎉

Please welcome our Spring entry NEW MSW STUDENTS! ✨💙🧡 We are so thankful for the student volunteers and Administrative Associates that make today possible twice a year.

Congratulations December MSW Graduates!!! 🧡💙🤍

Greetings from the HCaP Holiday Cookie Exchange!