School of Social Work News

Proffesor Lorraine Gutiérrez participated in an interdisciplinary workgroup for community-focused, ecologically-minded and social justice-oriented research, which was sponsored by the Michigan Community Research and Action Workgroup.

Brandy Sinco received an award from "Peers for Progress" to travel to Washington, DC to attend the meeting of National Peer Support Collaborative Learning Network. Brandy is active in the quality improvement work group.

Abigail Williams, PhD student, was awarded the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis Endowed Scholarship.  The scholarship supports doctoral students whose research focuses on minority populations with low income and education, with a preference for research on issues faced by African American males. 

Rhett Reader, a U.S. Air Force veteran who served from 1991-1993 in the first Gulf War and a MSW student is the Veteran Mentor Coordinator for the Waterford Township Veterans' Treatment Court..  The newly established court was featured in Spinal Colunm, West Oakland's Newsweekly.  

Reader attended the the annual Veterans Court Forum at the State of Michigan Supreme Court and was able to speak about the program's success.

Clinical Associate Professor Betsy Voshel recently had an article "Reflections of a Field Director: An Opportunity to Look Into the Past and See the Future" published in The Special Issue on Field Education.

Assistant Professor David Cordova co-authored a manuscript "The Role of Perceived Peer Prejudice and Teacher Discrimination on Adolescent Substance Use: A Social Determinants Approach," published in the Journal of Ethnicity and Substance Abuse.

Associate Professor Joseph Ryan has just received an award from the State of Illinois Department of Human Services to continue evaluation activities for the State of Illinois's Alcohol and Drug Abuse program.  

Katherine Mitchell presented "How Public Health Social Workers and Schools of Social Work can be Influential in Sustaining CHWs and Community Alliances at a State Level," emphasizing the importance of collaboration at the American Public Health Association annual meeting in Boston, MA. Edie Kieffer and Mike Spencer, Nick Yankey, Elizabeth Grim, and Hannah Roberts were co-authors on this presentation.