Louisiana State University (LSU) alumna Monique Morrison has optioned both the book rights and the story rights related to a death penalty mitigation case researched by LSU Professor of Research and Director Emerita of the LSU Social Research and Evaluation Center Cecile Guin in the late ’90s. Morrison now has plans for a TV series called The Farm to be centered around Angola Prison, the former slave plantation turned Louisiana State Penitentiary, where Feltus Taylor spent the last nine years of his life before his execution by lethal injection.

LSU School of Social Work (SSW) has been awarded a 5-year, $2.5 million grant from the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) to expand and strengthen the state’s school-based mental health workforce. The Louisiana School Social Work Expansion Project (LaSSWx), a partnership between LSU SSW and LDOE, will provide enhanced mental health services to students in high-need K-12 schools, help build the school-based mental health workforce to provide students with multi-tiered systems of support, and improve school culture and climate to better prepare students for employment, responsible citizenship, and fulfilling lives.

Our team of graduate students at Louisiana State University's School of Social Work want to provide you the opportunity to tell your stories as healthcare workers during COVID-19. Whatever you may wish to share about your firsthand experiences, we want to hear it, while both protecting your anonymity and preserving the authenticity of your story.

How a pandemic, an assignment deadline and a community's generosity provided much more than lunch for under-appreciated local healthcare heroes

School of Social Work Director's Statement In Response to the murder of George Floyd

LSU School of Social Work Professor Scott E. Wilks has been awarded a $90,625 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, or HRSA. The project will address the impact of COVID-19 on Louisiana residents who care at home for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, or ADRD.

Keighley Kelley of Mandeville, LA is a senior in the School of Education pursuing a major of Child and Family Studies.

Study in Dublin, Belfast, and London summer 2021

BATON ROUGE – Given the increasing attention to unarmed African Americans who have lost their lives at the hands of police, LSU School of Social Work Professor of Child and Family Studies Cassandra Chaney examined community sentiment regarding police in her new book titled “Police Use of Excessive Force against African Americans: Historical Antecedents and Community Perceptions.” The book delves into how the early antecedents of police brutality like plantation overseers, the lynching of African American males, early race riots, the Rodney King incident and the Los Angeles Rampart Scandal have directly impacted the current relationship between communities of color and police.