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PORTLAND, Maine

91ý Social Work students featured on ‘WCSH 6’ for program with jail inmates

A collaborative program with the 91ý 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 91ý 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 91ý 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.”

About the 91ý

The 91ý is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study-abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of . In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. We are the state’s top provider of health professionals and home to Maine’s only medical and dental colleges, physician assistant program, and pharmacy school, in addition to a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care programs and nationally recognized programs in the marine sciences, the natural and social sciences, business, the humanities, and the arts.