Emergency Response

Principles and practices of social service agency response to disasters and emergencies.

How Did Public Institutions Adapt to the COVID-19 Pandemic?

March 1, 2023

In association with the California Social Work Education Center, BASSC has surveyed responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in selected public institutions and published a report entitled "We Couldn’t Keep Doing Things the Way We’d Done Them": University and County Human Service Agency Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Strategies for the Future. Over the last three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has...

“We Couldn’t Keep Doing Things the Way We’d Done Them”: University and County Human Service Agency Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Strategies for the Future

Braddock, Megan
Mayer, Kimberly
Carnochan, Sarah
2023

Over the last three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged universities and county human service agencies in unprecedented ways while magnifying existing inequities across the globe. Students, faculty, staff, and clients experienced profound losses and disruptions to daily life while continuing to provide critical services, care for loved ones, and engage in online and hybrid learning.

Across California and within the Bay Area, university and agency partners involved with the California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC) and the Bay Area Social Services Consortium (BASSC)...