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Social Work: Associations & organizations

Associations & Organizations

Below are links to professional, academic, advocacy and other types of associations.

Research Institutes

Research institutes are organizations that specifically focus on enhancing our knowledge of a given discipline, disorder, or subject through intense research.  These highly specialized institutions may be involved in scientific, data and statistics, or social science research initiatives.

 

  • Centre for Feminist Research
    Comprised of York University faculty, graduate and undergraduate students from the York Women's Studies program, the Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) focuses attention on feminist research, and has sponsored numerous seminars, lectures, and conferences on subjects such as violence against women, gender, migration and health, spirituality, human rights and equity in education. The Centre for Feminist Research also actively collaborates with community organizations and front line workers to investigate areas of common interest.

  • CERIS (Ontario Metropolis Project)
    CERIS was established in March of 1996 as the Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS). The Centre changed its name to CERIS - The Ontario Metropolis Centre in March 2007 to better reflect its province-wide focus and its connection with The Metropolis Project. CERIS is a research knowledge creation and transfer network that focuses on the resettlement and integration of immigrants and refugees in Ontario

  • Centre for Refugee Studies
    The Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) is engaged in researching refugee issues, and also informs public discussion as well as policy development and practice innovation by international, governmental, advocacy and service organizations. The Centre is concerned with the displacement of populations and individuals across and within borders, a displacement resulting from persecution, expulsion, violence, violation of fundamental human rights, and loss of essential human security and livelihood.

  • LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research 
    The LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research is a collaborative group of faculty and students that supports community-engaged interdisciplinary research in health, education, relationships and development of infants, children, adolescents, emerging adults and families everywhere.

  • York Institute for Health Research
    The York Institute for Health Research (YIHR) promotes interdisciplinary health research. Comprised of faculty from law and the social, health, and environmental sciences, YIHR is based upon the assumption that health depends upon many interacting variables — social, political, economic, cultural and historical — and that without attention to these variables, efforts at intervention are likely to fail.