Class Notes

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 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 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, 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, 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 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, 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.

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.

Gayle Shier Kricke received her doctorate in June from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety. Gayle is the second person in the nation to hold PhD-level training specific to healthcare quality and patient safety. Gayle works at Northwestern Medicine as a Clinical Quality Leader for the healthcare system where she focuses on establishing an integrated quality program across a multi-hospital system.

Melissa Mendez has worked to build Wheeler Clinic's early childhood programs that serve very young children with trauma and their families. She administers the Birth to Three early intervention services at Wheeler and serves as President of Connecticut's Infant Mental Health Association. She serves on a number of advisory boards and work groups aimed at improving the early childhood system in Connecticut including the CT Home Visiting Consortium, the CT Help Me Grow Advisory Board and the CT Early Childhood Trauma Collaborative. Melissa is a trained Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) therapist and a trainer for home visitors on culturally responsive practice in infant and early childhood mental health and working with families in intergenerational poverty.