Faculty News

Clinical Assistant Professor Deb Mattison received a 2017 Demonstration Model Award from the Midwest Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Research Center, a multi-institution coalition dedicated to incorporating interprofessional health practice with education in the Midwest region. She created the IPE Course Adapter Toolkit, a web-based resource that serves as a “one-stop shop” for instructors interested in converting their existing courses to interprofessional offerings.

Sara Stein (PhD student) and Associate Professor Andy Grogan-Kaylor’s article, “Profiles of Children's Thinking About Violence in Families Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence” was published in the Journal of Child and Family Studies.

LEO Lecturer Tony Alvarez was selected to give the Kurt Hahn Address at the 2017 Association for Experiential Education Conference this November in Montreal.

Professor William Elliott III and Assistant Professor Kristin Seefeldt received a grant from the John T. Gorman Foundation via the Alfond Scholarship Foundation to provide a systematic and objective evaluation of its Children's Savings Account CSAs program, called the Harold Alfond College Challenge ("HACC"). As the first CSA to shift to opt-out enrollment for a universal, statewide 529 college savings plan, this research will evaluate whether or not HACC is having a positive effect on children, families, and the communities.

Joyce Lee (PhD student) and Associate Professor Shawna Lee presented, "Child emotional insecurity mediates the longitudinal relations between intimate partner violence, destructive parental conflict, and children's behavior problems." at the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research National Conference.

Associate Professor Luke Shaefer was cited in the Vox article, "The latest Obamacare repeal bill is modeled after welfare reform. That was a failure."

Associate Professor Beth Glover Reed is serving on a 7 person Editorial Review Board for a Technical Assistance Publication, being prepared by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Its working title is “Addressing Domestic Violence in the Behavioral Health Services Setting.”

Associate Dean for Educational Programs and Professor Mary Ruffolo and her team: Assistant Professor David Córdova, Professor Jorge Delva, Assistant Dean of Field Education and Clinical Assistant Professor Dan Fischer, Associate Dean for Research and Professor Joe Himle, LEO Adjunct Lecturer Adrienne Lapidos, Clinical Assistant Professor Deb Mattison, Assistant Professor Jamie Mitchell, Associate Professor Sandra Momper, LEO Lecturer Daicia Price and Associate Professor Trina Shanks were awarded a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to provide inter-professional training opportunities for MSW students with the Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority (DWMHA). This project expands field placements that link behavioral health and primary care systems within the DWMHA network. The DWMHA field placements prepare MSW students to work with low resourced racial and ethnic minority children, adolescents, and transitional age youth living with behavioral health conditions and adults with psychiatric disabilities in the Detroit community.