Sunggeun (Ethan) Park
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Park is an organizational scholar with an overarching research question, "how can health and social service organizations provide more responsive and effective services?" He is deeply interested in (1) how to ensure user's meaningful representation opportunities in service and policy decision-making processes, and (2) how intra/inter-organizational collaborations and macro-level measures influence organizational behaviors and shape the experience of vulnerable service users. As a scholar using organization as a main unit of analysis, Park's study spans across multiple fields, including but not limited to substance use disorder treatment centers, community-based organizations in South Side Chicago, child and youth serving organizations, homeless-serving regional networks and HIV prevention service providers.
Research Interests/Focus
Human service organization, Nonprofit Strategy and Management, Client Engagement in Services, Empowerment Practice, Health Care Politics and Policy, Child Welfare Policy and Practices, Health Services and Access and Public-Private Collaboration
Contact Information
| Phone | Room | Address | |
|---|---|---|---|
| (734) 615-2916 | sunggeun@umich.edu | 3810 SSWB | University of Michigan School of Social Work 1080 S. University Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
Education
| Year | Degree | School | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | PhD | Social Service Administration | University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 2012 | MBA | Business Administration | Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
| 2010 | MSW | Social Work | Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
| 2008 | BS | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Gyeongbuk Province, SOUTH KOREA |
| 2008 | BA | Social Welfare | Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Gyeongbuk Province, SOUTH KOREA |
Websites
| https://icigroup.ssw.umich.edu/ |
| https://voices.uchicago.edu/calyouth/ |
Park, S. (in press). Co-production in the treatment of substance use disorder and its relationship to clinics’ service output patterns. Social Service Review.
Mosley, J. E., Park, S., Deng, S., & Sakrani, M. (2019). Changing roles and relationships between NGOs and the state in shaping and responding to social exclusion. In R. Chaskin, B. J. Lee, S. Jaswal, & Y. Xiong (Eds.), Social Exclusion in Cross National Perspective: Actors, Actions, and Impacts from Above and Below. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
Courtney, M E., Okpych, N. J., & Park, S. (2018). Report from CalYOUTH: Findings on the relationship between extended foster care and youth’s outcomes at age 21. Chicago, IL: Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.
Park, S. (2018). Mi-guk bi-young-ri sa-hae-sa-up-boun-ya-ui bal-dal-gua-jung-gua moon-jae-jum. [Development and challenges of nonprofit social service organizations in the United States]. In H. T. Chae (Ed.), Re-Establishing Identities of Daegu Social Welfare Corporations. Daegu Social Welfare Corporation Association: Daegu, Korea.
Park, S. (2018). The role of staff with lived experience in the co-production of substance use disorder treatment services. In T. Brandson, B. Verschuere, & T. Steen (Eds.), Co-production and Co-creation: Engaging Citizens in Public Service Delivery (96-98). Routledge: Oxon, UK.
Park, S. (2017). [Review of the book The Third Sector: Community Organizations, NGOs, and Nonprofits by Mephan E. Kallman and Terry N. Clark]. Social Service Review, 91(3), 579-582.