UP Tops Social Work Board Exams

For two consecutive years, graduates from the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) have led the successful examinees of the Social Worker Licensure Examination administered by the Board for Social Workers.

Alain Matteo Ferrer Meneses topped this year’s examination with an 85.60% rating. Sofia Clare Parcon Silva-llana joins Meneses in the top ten by placing sixth with a score of 83.80% Both Meneses and Silva-llana graduated with latin honors from the College of Social Work and Community Development in 2020. For many years, UPD has maintained a 100% board exam passing rate.

According to the Professional Regulation Commission, 533 out of 1,211 passed the examination, which was  held in Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi, Lucena, Pagadian, Pampanga, Rosales, Tacloban, Tuguegarao, and Zamboanga in February 2022.

UP CSWCD 7th Placer of the Social Worker Licensure Examination 2021

Leanne Feliz O. Pastorpide, UP CSWCD alumna lands 7th place in Social Worker Licensure Examination 2021
UP CSWCD alumna Leanne Feliz O. Pastorpide places 7th in the Social Worker Licensure Examination 2021

Leanne Feliz Ordillano Pastorpide entered UP Diliman with the course of BA Comparative Literature (Major in European Literature). In search for a course more focused on the development sector, she found BS Social Work through the help of her friends, and shifted in 2016. Together with her research partner, her undergraduate research entitled “A Study on the Congruity of Mental Health Services in the University of the Philippines Diliman with Undergraduate Students’ Concern” won Best Research in the Social Work Department in 2018, and was presented at the Asia-Pacific Joint Regional Social Work Conference in 2019. She graduated BS Social Work in July 2020, and worked as a researcher in several mental health, public health, and development researches prior to acing the board exam.

UP Tops Social Worker Licensure Examination 2021

UP CSWCD congratulates its topnotchers and passers of the Social Worker Licensure Examination 2021

The UP CSWCD family congratulates our alumnae for topping the August 2021 Social Worker Licensure Examination and for achieving a 100% passing rate.

Digna Millondaga de Guzman led the list of successful examinees with a rating of 83%. Leanne Feliz Ordillano Pastorpide placed 7th with a rating of 81%. Less than half, or 612 out of 1,621 individuals passed the examination, which was held on August 24, 25, and 26, 2021.

UP CSWCD Alumna Tops August 2021 Social Worker Licensure Exam

CSWCD congratulates its alumna, Digna Millondaga-De Guzman, for being the top notcher of the August 2021 Social Worker Licensure Examination.

Digna Millondaga-De Guzman is a wife and mother of two kids (an eleven-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl) and is residing in her home province of Bataan.

She is an alumna of the University of the Philippines-Diliman College of Social Work and Community Development, who graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Community Development (cum laude) in 2002 and last February 2021 for her Master of Social Work degree. She also has a Master’s degree in Public Administration (graduated in 2006) from Bataan Peninsula State University (BPSU) where she eventually became a faculty member (Assistant Professor IV). She is also a licensed professional teacher when she passed the licensure examination for teachers in March 2016.

Her goal is to establish a BS Social Work program in BPSU that will produce graduates who will enable individuals to achieve their full potential as a person with worth and dignity and to advocate for social justice and human rights in our society.

With her success at this August 2021’s Board Examination for Social Workers, she hopes that her goal will become a reality.