UNE Social Work students featured on ‘WCSH 6’ for program with jail inmates
A collaborative program with the University of New England and the Cumberland County Jail was highlighted in an August 12, 2015 story on WCSH 6 and WLBZ 2. “Crime and Communities” is a 12-week course where CCJ inmates and UNE Master of Social Work students take a class together taught by Kerry Dunn, Ph.D., J.D., assistant professor in the School of Social Work.
Incarcerated students and UNE students were featured in the story, explaining what they learned from the course. "It was something that was very distant and foreign to me,” said Abigail Chance, MSW ’15. “So it kind of broke down that barrier and I saw I can work with a variety of people, all walks of life.”