Promotion? New Grandchild? Published a book? Honored with an award? You can share your news and updates with fellow alumni in the Class Notes section of the SSW website.
Alumni Updates
Danielle Swick
Dr. Danielle Swick, MSW 2002 has received promotion to the rank of Associate Professor with permanent tenure at UNC-Greensboro.
Sadhu Khalsa
I am the owner of Total Health Recovery, LLC. We provide counseling to mothers suffering from addictions and their families. I also am a certified wellness coach. See my website www.totalhealthrecoveryprogram.com.
Guillermo Sanhueza
Guillermo E. Sanhueza, PhD ’14 Social Work and Sociology has been appointed Chief of the Division of Rehabilitative Programs for Chile by the Minister of Justice. His main responsibility will be the promotion and monitoring of successful, effective rehabilitative and decarceration programs for both adults and juvenile inmates in the country.
Michelle Feige
Michelle Feige is the Executive Vice President of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc., a global non-profit that promotes high-quality research through an accreditation process that helps organizations worldwide strengthen their human research protection programs (HRPPs). Michelle is proud to report that the University of Michigan is one of 8 AAHRPP accredited organizations in Michigan.
Meaghan McMahon
Meaghan McMahon began MBM Consulting, her social impact consulting practice in July 2015. Since that time, she has worked with local government agencies, for-profit, not-for-profit and start-up organizations in both the Washington D.C. metro area and San Francisco. Learn more at meaghanmcmahon.com
Samuel Felton
Samuel Felton, MSW 2015 worked as a Medical Social Worker at Lakeland Hospital for two years, becoming a licensed clinical social worker. In December of 2017, he was hired into a new position at Lakeland Health Care System as a project coordinator, working to improve inpatient and outpatient experiences of Heart Failure patients.
Andrea Schneider
Andrea Schneider, MSW, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in the Greater Los Angeles area with specialties in women's reproductive mental health and trauma and loss. She writes for Psych Central, goodtherapy.org, The Minds Journal and The Thought Catalogue. Her website is: andreaschneiderlcsw.com She also has a podcast entitled The Savvy Shrink at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thesavvyshrink . She is EMDR trained and working on certification.
Bryan Joyce
Bryan C. Joyce, MSW '09, accepted a position as a Clinical Consultant providing psychotherapy to long-term care geriatric psychiatric patients. In addition, Bryan continues to work fulltime as a Clinical Social Worker with the Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
Garrett Raubolt
Garrett Raubolt, LCSW (SSW 05) has been recognized in the Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) employee magazine Connections for his work developing and instituting the health systems first Collaborative Care, Integrated Behavioral Health Program in Primary Care. While working in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at NMH, Garrett is embedded in a primary care clinic to identify and treat patients who are experiencing depression.
Joanne Waszczak
While attending the School of Social Work and working with Professor Barry Checkoway and Roger Fisher (Co-Associate Director of Intergroup Relations) on a UM-Skillman-funded program called Youth Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity in Metropolitan Detroit, Joanne Waszczak realized that *transportation policy is social policy!* Young people pointed out that safe, reliable, equitable access to transportation can challenge segregation and create community change. In 2007, Joanne accepted a Presidential Management Fellowship at the US Department of Transportation, where she has focused on building the capacity of people and groups who want to get involved in the transportation decisions that affect their communities. Last year, Joanne led a multidisciplinary team that published a plain-language guide for folks who want to engage in the transportation decision-making process at the local, regional, state and federal levels. The Transportation Toolkit (https://www.transportation.gov/policy-initiatives/leadership-academy/tr…) demystifies the decision-making process by defining key terms and acronyms, and by explaining that transportation projects go through a predictable lifecycle (i.e., plan, fund, design, build and maintain). Using both text and graphics, the Toolkit highlights public involvement opportunities created by civil rights laws and public involvement regulations. This document is an excellent tool to share with community organizers, transportation advocates, officials at all levels of government, family, friends and neighbors.