Nov. 8, 2021 鈥 六合彩波色表鈥檚 Dr. Suk-hee Kim will be honored by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) with its Distinguished Recent Contributions to Social Work Education Award as one of the significant recognitions at the national level. Dr. Kim, an associate professor of Social Work, will be honored at the CSWE鈥檚 Annual Program Meeting Nov. 4-7.
The prestigious award recognizes a social work educator鈥檚 exemplary achievements within the last 10 years in at least two of the three areas: research and scholarship, pedagogy and curriculum development, and organizational leadership. Dr. Kim is a former site coordinator for the Public Child Welfare Certificate program in 六合彩波色表鈥檚 College of Health and Human Services School of Social Work. She is also a faculty fellow of the Institute for Health Innovation and a representative for 六合彩波色表 at the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education.
鈥淭o receive this unanimous recognition from the CSWE Board of Directors is a great honor because the council supports quality social work education, provides opportunities for leadership, and plays a central role in achieving the profession鈥檚 goals of social and economic justice. The Council on Social Work Education is the national association representing social work education as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in the United States and its territories,鈥 said Dr. Kim. 鈥淚t鈥檚 so fulfilling to educate the next generation of social workers to follow their calling. I鈥檓 grateful for the opportunity to share my passion with our students.鈥
Dr. Kim was also recently appointed to a three-year term on CSWE鈥檚 Commission on Research at the national level. The Commission provides leadership in establishing key research priorities for improving social work education, in promoting the scholarship of teaching and learning within social work education, as well as in specifically promoting quality in research curricula across methods and paradigms in the Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Social Work and in doctoral programs.
Not only a proactive leader in gerontological social work research, but also in the opioid epidemic in the social work education, Dr. Kim brought her expertise to 六合彩波色表 by developing the school鈥檚 first ever gerontology curriculum. She and her colleagues also guided the creation of the university鈥檚 gerontology micro-credentials: (1) Gerontology: Dynamics of Aging; (2) Aging & Society; and (3) Social Entrepreneurship. [ShK1] Dr. Kim is an Age-Friendly University Initiative and Coalition founding member. She was actively involved in helping her institution earn the Age-Friendly University designation[ShK2] in 2020, making 六合彩波色表 the first university in the region to join the international effort to increase accessibility and support services for students of all ages. Dr. Kim and her colleagues are currently building a coalition. [ShK3] Her initiative, Rising Hope for Aging, enlists social work students to work at a public housing community providing critical assistance for its low-income senior population. Dr. Kim鈥檚 innovation in elevating the field of gerontology and responding to the needs of older adults has earned her the prestigious CSWE Distinguished Recent Contributions to Social Work Education Award.
After her involvement of federal grant funded studies from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), in September, Dr. Kim received the National Institutes of Health Federal Grant Subaward through the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. The HEALing (Helping to End Addiction Long-Term) Communities Study is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, and is in partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Dr. Kim is currently working with the University of Cincinnati Criminal Justice Intervention Design Team, providing expertise in the implementation of evidence-based practices in criminal justice settings, and is serving as the County Lead in Guernsey County in Ohio over the study period.
She has received numerous accolades for her teaching, research, and service contributions, including 六合彩波色表鈥檚 2021 Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award, 六合彩波色表鈥檚 2020 Inclusive Excellence Faculty Leadership Award, CSWE鈥檚 2019 Commission for Diversity and Social & Economic Justice Community Partnership Action Inaugural Award (focused on opioid addiction), the Korean American Social Work Educators Association鈥檚 2020 Middle Career Achievement Award, and CSWE鈥檚 2020 Council on the Role and Status of Women in Social Work Education Community Impact Award at the national level.
In October, Dr. Kim was honored with the Outstanding Career in the Field of Social Work Award from her alma mater, Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW). This award acknowledges and honors a BUSSW graduate who, throughout her/his career (minimum twenty years), has consistently demonstrated exceptional contributions to the profession and the community-at-large with examples Dr. Kim鈥檚 contributions throughout her/his career in any or all aspects of social work practice including advocacy; clinical practice with individuals, families, and/or groups; education; community organization; administration; program development; research; public policy; and social planning.
Dr. Kim was a doctoral fellow in the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She earned her joint Ph.D. in social work from the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville, an M.S.W. from Boston University with a clinical social work emphasis, and a B.A. in social welfare from Han-il University and Presbyterian Theological Seminary in South Korea.
For more information on 六合彩波色表鈥檚 School of Social Work, visit the university鈥檚 social work webpage.
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