School of Social Work News

Kathy Wade,Director of Social Work and Associate Hospital Administrator, U-M Health Operations, and Assistant Dean of Hospital Social Work Services, School of Social Work, was selected as the Ida M. Cannon award recipient for 2016. This award honors a national figure for outstanding contributions to the leadership of social work in a healthcare setting and to the Society for Social Work Leadership in Healthcare. Recipients are widely recognized leaders in the field and demonstrate the qualities that made Ida Cannon successful as the first social work leader in healthcare.

Na Youn Lee successfully defended her dissertation, “Understanding Interracial Closeness, Racial Policy Attitudes, and Children’s Academic Achievement through the Prism of Racial Frameworks” and obtained her PhD in Social Work and Political Science. Professors Andrew Grogan-Kaylor and Kathleen Faller were on her committee. 

John Mathias, PhD candidate in social work and anthropology, has received the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award from the  Association for Community Organization and Social Administration. He is conducting outstanding scholarly work in the area of community organizing as evidenced by his dissertation and his other writing.  His research is focused on community/village political action in India, and has been funded by a Fulbright IE fellowship and a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship.

Professor Emerita Kathleen Coulburn Faller presented “Forty Years of Child Sexual Abuse Assessment: We’ve Come a Long Way” at the 35th Michigan Statewide Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect.

Assistant Professor Mat Despard’s paper, "Do Tax-Time Savings Deposits Reduce Hardship Among Low-Income Filers? A Propensity Score Analysis," was published in the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.

​Professor Lorraine ​Gutiérrez​ ​was selected as a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. The Academy is an honorific society of distinguished scholars and practitioners dedicated to achieving excellence in the field of social work and social welfare through high-impact work that advances social good.​ She will be inducted at the ​Society for Social Work Research conference, January 11-15, 201​7 in ​ New Orleans​.​

Associate Professor Brian Perron had two papers published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence journal:

• “Prevalence and Correlates of Vaping as a Route of Cannabis Administration in Medical Cannabis Patients” and   
• “Changing Perspectives on Marijuana Use During Early Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Evidence from a Panel of Cross-sectional Surveys”
   

Finn Bell and Vincent Fusaro (PhD students) are the co-recipients of the 2016 Henry Meyer Award. Bell's paper, "The Prison within a Prison" and Fusaro's paper, "States and the End of Cash Assistance" made original contributions to empirical or theoretical literature in a manner that integrates social work and social science.