Jack York
Research Area
Education
MSW, University of Toronto, 2010
BA, University of Calgary, 2008
About
Jack York, MSW, RSW, has been an adjunct professor / sessional lecturer at the UBC School of Social Work since 2021, teaching in both the BSW and MSW programs.
Jack is an experienced mental health and substance use clinician, educator and researcher. Jack has over fifteen years of frontline mental health practice and clinical supervision experience, including training and experience in a variety of mental health modalities of practice. He has taught both mental health and substance use courses in the BSW and MSW programs at the UBC School of Social Work, and has conducted research on concurrent mental health and substance use practice, including recent published scholarly work on the topic.
Jack completed the BCCSU Addiction Social Work Fellowship, and is currently a PhD student at the UBC School of Social Work, focused on concurrent mental health and substance use, as well as low-barrier, harm reduction informed supportive housing.
Jack is also the Program Coordinator of the Continuing Education and Certificate Programs at the UBC School of Social Work.
Teaching
Publications
Peer-reviewed Publications
Loyal, J. P., Kaoser, R., York, J., & Norris, C. (2025). “It’s soul destroying to be honest”: A qualitative study of morally uninhabitable working environments and the responsibilization of healthcare professionals working in concurrent disorders. Social Science & Medicine 384(1982),18590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118590
Makolewski, J.*, & Wong, K. L. Y. (2023). The experience of teaching a Bachelor’s level social work practice course for the first time in the context of Covid-19. Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education, 24(1), 57–66. https://journal.anzswwer.org/index.php/advances/article/view/279
Loyal, J., Lavergne, R., Shirmaleki, M.,, Fischer, B., Kaoser, R., Makolewski, J.*, Small, W. (2023). Trends in involuntary psychiatric hospitalization in British Columbia: Descriptive analysis of population-based linked administrative data from 2008 to 2018. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.
**Name prior to marriage