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  1. Sue Ann Savas
     
    Sue Ann Savas conducted evaluation training for the Washtenaw Alliance for Children and Youth

    Clinical Assistant Professor Sue Ann Savas conducted a training for 30 community members representing approximately 10 organizations on utilizing logic models for program development through the Washtenaw Alliance for Children and Youth on October 30, 2013.  Participants learned about the benefits of using logicl models in design, evaluation, and grant getting and how to develop a program logic model for a new or existing program.

    • October 31, 2013
  2. Lorraine M. Gutiérrez
     
    Lorraine M. Gutiérrez, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Appointed to Advance Macro Practice Commission

    Lorraine M. Gutiérrez, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor has been appointed to The Special Commission to Advance Macro Practice in Social Work, convened by the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration.

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    SSW Alum Amanda Stein Offered Position at Internet Startup

    2011 SSW alumni, Amanda Stein, was recently offered the branch editor position at the internet startup The Rooner Post.

    • October 26, 2013
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    SSW MSW Graduate Warde Manuel Interviewed by the Free Press

    Warde Manuel, AD at University of Connecticut is a U-M MSW graduate and was recently interviewed by the Free Press.

    • October 26, 2013
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    SSW Alum Whitney Fisch Has a New Blog in the Huffington Post

    • October 25, 2013
  6. Kathleen Coulborn  Faller
     
    Professor Kathleen Faller presented at the Mid-Atlantic Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect

    Professor Kathleen Coulborn Faller presented "Working with Developmentally Challenged Parents in the Child Welfare System" and "Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse and Divorce at the Mid-Atlantic Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect.

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    Associate Dean Jorge Delva Panelist on Farmworker Justice: The Harvest/La Cosecha

    Associate Dean Jorge Delva was a panelist for the screening of the documentary "The Harvest/La Cosecha" hosted by the U-M Hatcher Graduate Library. The panel discussed justice issues affecting migrant workers and child labor in the U.S.

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    Curtis Center Program Evaluation Group Presents at American Evaluation Association Conference

    The Curtis Center Program Evaluation Group presented twice at the American Evaluation Association national conference in Washington, DC on October 16-19.

    Staff member Laura Sundstrom and MSW/MPH student Nick Yankey presented on a panel titled "Creating Infrastructure for Experiential Learning and Practical Skill Development for Novice Evaluators" on the implementation of and experience with the Curtis Center Program Evaluation Group.

    Staff members Jeremy Gaertner and Desiree Liwosz presented a poster titled "Re-tooling Michigan's Child Support Enforcement: Using Predictive Modeling and Supportive Methods in Michigan's Child Support System to Increase the Financial Well-being of Children and Self-Sufficiency of Families" on the progress and preliminary results from the Re-tooling Michigan's Child Support Enforcement Program project through the Curtis Center Program Evaluation Group.

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    PhD Student Guillermo Sanhueza Organized First Conference on Prisoners' Rights in Latin America

    PhD student, Guillermo Sanhueza organized the first conference on prisoners' human rights in Latin America in Santiago, Chile, on October 16-17. The conference brought prison experts from around the world together to promote good practices in penitentiary contexts. Guillermo Sanhueza also presented his evaluation work Results of the First Survey on Inmates’ Perception of Quality of Prison Life.

    • October 21, 2013
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    Assistant Professor Reuben Miller Lectures in Glasgow, Scotland and Bratislava, Slovakia

    Reuben Miller will lecture at the University of Glasgow on Devolving the Carceral State: Race, Reentry and the Micro-politics of Urban Poverty Management.  Later in the month he is in Bratislava, Slovakia presenting at a Desistance Research Work Group.

    • October 18, 2013

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