School of Social Work News

Professor Mieko Yoshihama's PhotoVoice Exhibit is on NHK Japanese TV and is also on the home page of the Center for Japanese Studies. The overall goal of the PhotoVoice project is to strengthen the disaster response policies and practices in Japan (and beyond) by engaging the very women affected by the disasters in the analyses of societal conditions and collective efforts to address them.

Assistant Professor David Cordova, Laura Moynihan (MSW student) and Nicole Waller, (MPH student) published " Preventing Substance Abuse and HIV among Adolescents in a Primary Care Setting" in the Journal of Substance Abuse and Alcoholism.

Assistant Professor Desmond Patton is quoted in "How Do You Tell When a Gang is a Gang?" published in the MetroTimes.

Assistant Professor Emily Nicklett was appointed to the 2014 - 2015 Native Investigator Development Program where she will research psychosocial determinants of diabetes outcomes among native elders.

Assistant Professor Desmond Patton discusses "cyberbanging" in the AP story, "Tweets and Threats: Gangs Find New Home on the Net".

Desmond Patton along with Abigail Williams (PhD student), Bakari Wallace and Sadiq Patel (MSW recent grads), had their paper selected to be presented at the 2014 Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting. The paper/presentation is entitled, “Pivotal moments: Experiences with neighborhood violence altering life trajectories for low-income African American adolescents in Flint, MI.”

Sue Ann Savas received a grant from the New York Community Trust to develop a fellows program in 3 non-profits. This project will innovate the field of social work by building and testing the internal capacity for program evaluation in community-based nonprofits.

Professor Larry Gant's manuscript "Assessment and Treatment of Drug-Using Individuals with HIV/AIDS" was published in the Third edition of Clinical Work with Substance-Abusing Clients.