The Curtis Center Program Evaluation Group (CC-PEG) received a grant from the New York Community Trust to improve the macro social work profesion. The awarded Place-Based Evaluation (PBE) Fellowship project was developed to better understand the needs and challenges related to building internal evaluation capacity within non-profit organizations. The project will place three (3) PBE Fellows into community-based non-profit organizations in southeast Michigan for 20 hours per week for a period of eight (8) months.
The aims of the PBE Fellowship are to: (1) provide recent MSW graduates with the skills and experience necessary to work as professional evaluators in the field of social work; (2) provide communtiy-based non-profit organizations with quality evaluation services at a reduced cost; and (3) build and test the internal capacity for evaluation at each organization.
CC-PEG is happy to announce the selection of the PBE Fellows and non-profit organizations they will be placed in:
For more information on the PBE Fellowship project, contact programevalgroup@umich.edu.
Assistant Professor Desmond Patton will contribute an article "Gangs in Schools" to the Encyclopedia of Human Services and Diversity.
Assistant Professor David Cordova received a grant from the Detroit Community Academic Urban Research Center to support the Preventing Substance Abuse and Mental Health Problems among Detroit Hispanic Youth project. He will work with the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation to eliminate substance use and mental health disparities experienced by Latino youth residing in southwest Detroit.
Professor John Tropman has been selected to speak at ZingTrain on the topic of "Making Meetings Work," and will be discussing what you can do to make meetings great.
Professor Richard Tolman has received a grant from the U-M Center for Human Growth & Development to conduct a qualitative study of expectant fathers. This study will explore how ultrasound attendance engages and motivates expectant fathers to prepare for their transition to fatherhood.
Assistant Professor Shawna Lee received an award from the U-M Center for Human Growth & Development.
The objective of this proposal is to conduct a process study of Mobile Dad, a smartphone app that delivers parenting information to fathers of new babies. This study will collect pilot data from users and service providers to establish implementation feasibility in community settings in Southeast Michigan.
Associate Professor Brad Zebrack was quoted in a Reuters story, "Making Music Videos Helps Young Cancer Patients Connect".
Assistant Professor Michael Woodford has been appointed for a three-year term as a consulting editor with the NASW journal, Social Work Research.
Desmond Patton was awarded a grant, from the Office of Research through it's Faculty Grants and Awards Program, to conduct research on the causality between gang violence and social media. His project is entitled "Internet Banging: Exploring Social Media Behaviors and Gang Violence among Black and Latino Males in Chicago".
Assistant Professor Desmond Patton was awarded a grant from the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research to conduct research for his project, "Violence Prevention Evaluation".
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