UP Tops Social Work Board Exams

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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…
Colleagues from various social work organizations have appealed to the incoming president “to appoint a professional social worker for the secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) or within the qualifications of an experienced development worker, exposed and familiar to the wide range of welfare issues and social protection programs.” The collective…
The CSWCD community congratulates Prof. Sylvia E. Claudio, MD, PhD. for her reappointment as Dean of the College of Social Work and Community Development as approved by the UP Board of Regents. Prof. Claudio’s second term as CSWCD Dean is effective from the 26th of November 2020 to 25th of November 2023. Dean Claudio started her first…
DSW Faculty Members Speak at the Biennial Convention for Social Work Educators Sue Magalona-Nazal The National Association for Social Work Education, or NASWEI, held its 49TH biennial convention on November 29-30, 2021 & December 1-3, using online platforms. The theme of the conference was: “Philippine Social work Education Amidst the Pandemic: “Challenges, Innovations and Trajectories”….
Ms. Carmel A. Eubra, a municipal social welfare and development officer (MSWDO) of Viga, Catanduanes was killed by riding in tandem in Virac, Catanduanes last May 24, 2022. She was shot twice while driving her car inside a subdivision. It is obvious that her killers had subjected our colleague to a surveillance and decided that…