On May 9, the Government of Canada announced more than $4.2 million in funding to strengthen access to abortion services. The funding, from the Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Fund, will go to the University of British Columbia’s Contraception and Abortion Research Team (CART) and Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights for projects that will remove barriers to vital abortion services and offer accurate reproductive health information for Canadians.
Youth homelessness is a violation of human rights and impacts approximately 3 million young people under the age of 25 in the United States each year. In addition to facing an array of obstacles in obtaining basic necessities on a daily basis, under-housed youth encounter injustices specifically pertaining to their reproductive and sexual health and rights.
“Is this not a social work topic, or are we just afraid to talk about it?”
Dr. Begun’s passion for reproductive rights started early in her career – before graduate school, she worked with Planned Parenthood in Colorado. She completed her Master of Social Work, then went on to complete her PhD, examining family planning attitudes and social network influences among youth experiencing homelessness.
Grace Yu remembers marvelling at the night sky as a child. Today, that childhood memory lives on as she studies the stars that make up the Milky Way.
Improv comedy is fun to watch – and difficult to do. But simply trying it could have valuable therapeutic effects for marginalized women, according to new research by Stephanie Begun, an assistant professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.
March 28th, 2022 by
The Transit Access Project for Youth (TAP for Youth) is a transit equity research project of the University of Toronto student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB U of T).
The Transit Access Project for Youth (TAP for Youth) is a transit equity research project of the University of Toronto student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB U of T).
Assistant Professor Stephanie Begun | Photo by Harry Choi
Shortly before the pandemic, social work professor Stephanie Begun put up some flyers for a free improv workshop at a Toronto homeless shelter for youth. She was taking a risk on an idea she’d been toying with for years: that participating in improv might benefit vulnerable populations. The exercise was a big success, leading to more workshops and paving the way for research about the potential role of improv in social work interventions.
