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Associate Professor Luke Shaefer and Professor Kathryn J.

Two CASC (Community Action and Social Change Underagraduate Minor) students were recognized for major awards at the University:

The School of Social Work’s environmental justice conference was featured in The Michigan Daily article, “Environmental justice conference highlights Flint water crisis”.

Associate Professor Leslie Hollingsworth was presented the Distinguished Individual Service Award at the 48th Annual Conference of the National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW), held in New Orleans March 23-26th.&nb

Associate Professor Daphne Watkins, Assistant Professor Reuben Miller, and Desmond Patton (formerly U-M SSW and now Columbia) are the Guest Editors of a Special Issue titled, "The intersections of race, gender, and class in the wake of a national crisis: The state of Black boys and men post-Fergu

Assistant Professor Mathieu Despard’s dissertation, “Challenges in Implementing Evidence-Based Practices and Programs in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations" was published in the Journal of

Associate Professor Andrew Grogan-Kaylor’s article, “PTSD Symptoms in Young Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence from Four Ethno-racial Groups” was published in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma.

Professor and Associate Dean Jorge Delva is a member of a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee (Health and Medicine Division), involved with

Robert Joesph Taylor was installed as the Harold R. Johnson Professor of Social Work on March 6.

Associate Professor Luke Shaefer's book, “$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America” is referenced in The Washington Post article, “Bernie Sanders is right: Bill Clinton’s welfare law doubled extreme poverty”.