School of Social Work News

Randy Goon (MSW'68) has retired. Following graduation, he embarked upon a career in hospital psychiatric social work in Ontario and B.C.  He organized a patient self-government program on a psychiatric ward, a cognitive-behavioral and supportive outpatient treatment program, headed an outpatient clinic, taught social welfare policy, and was the social worker on an interdisciplinary team in a special short stay psychiatric assessment program.

Amanda Tillotson (PhD student) received the Race, Law and History Fellowship from the U-M Law School.

Amy Krings (PhD student) is the recipient of the Association for Community Organization & School Administration 2014 Emerging Scholar Award.

Amy Ellwood (MSW'83) was a recent participant at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science Summer Institute at Stony Brook University in NY. The faculty development program teaches faculty from various disciplines in science, social science and journalism to distill information about their research and work so that it is easily understood by the general public.

Christine Sauve (MSW'11) attended the first White House National Convening on Immigrant and Refugee Integration in July. She joined leaders from across the country to put forth recommendations for a national immigrant integration plan.

Assistant Professor David Cordova co-authored a paper, "Developmental trajectories of acculturation: Links with family functioning and mental health in recent-immigrant Hispanic adolescents," which has been accepted for publication in Child Development journal.

Elizabeth Rhodes (PhD student), along with mentor Associate Professor Trina Shanks, received an award from the U-M Rackham Graduate School to conduct fieldwork for her PhD dissertation.

The dissertation aims to determine what factors (e.g. income, ethnicity, political affiliation, community involvement, etc.) affect access to health and education services and satisfaction with the quantity and quality of services utilized.

Assistant Professor Shawna Lee was awarded a grant for her project, “Building Community Capacity to Implement Multilevel Parenting Support for Fathers", funded by the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research's Community University Research Partnership Award.

This project will investigate ways to support fathers' engagement with service providers in the Cody Rouge neighborhood of Detroit.