Professor
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Lin Fang is a Professor and the endowed Factor-Inwentash Chair in Children’s Mental Health. She is also the Founder and Director of FIFSW’s Talk It Out Counseling Clinic. With a decade of postgraduate clinical experience, Lin’s program of research focuses on advancing the theoretical and empirical knowledge of positive child and youth development through etiology and intervention research as well as community-based research and services. Versed with a range of research methodologies and advanced statistics, Lin has published and presented widely in the areas of adolescent substance use, information and communication technologies (ICTs), and mental health and cross-cultural experiences among immigrant communities.
Coming from a community organizing background, Lin takes pride in advancing social work while doing social work in the community. During the pandemic, Lin conceived and launched the Talk It Out Counseling Clinic, where supervised MSW students at FIFSW provide free short-term counseling services and community-based mental health initiatives to communities that face multiples challenges, as well as those who from Black and other racialized communities. In its first 2.5 years, the Clinic has trained 39 MSW students to provide services to over 450 clients and residents in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today, as we transition through the pandemic, Talk It Out continues to serve and innovate, striving to be a mental health hub that enables trained social work students to work with communities that need them the most.
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