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    Daphne Watkins Appointed to Editorial Board for International Journal of Men's Social and Community Health.

    Daphne Watkins was appointed to the Editorial Board for the new International Journal of Men's Social and Community Health.

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    Daphne Watkins Featured in the Metro Parent

    Associate Professor Daphne Watkins was featured in the Metro Parent’s article on the mental health gender gap.

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    Daphne Watkins will be a featured speaker at Michigan State University’s Making Relationships Work: A Summit on Black Male Academic Success and Inclusion

    Associate Professor Daphne Watkins will be a featured speaker at Michigan State University’s Making Relationships Work: A Summit on Black Male Academic Success and Inclusion.  She will be presenting her work on the YBMen Project, an educational and social support program for young black men which serves as a mechanism through which we can learn about the strategies that influence and shape young black men’s ideas and experiences with mental health.

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    Daphne Watkins’ Social Work Intervention Project Wins Awards

    Associate Professor Daphne Watkins won two of the four awards presented at the University of Michigan Fast Forward Medical Innovations (FFMI) program on November 17, 2017.  

    Watkins, who competed among 15 teams of physicians and medical professionals, is the principal investigator for the YBMen Project, which was created to better understand and address the pressures and needs of young black men using popular social media platforms to provide mental health education and social support.  Watkins won the Health IT category, and the Crowd Favorite category.  

    “The Medical Innovations program is a great way to learn how to grow ideas and make good use of customer discovery,” Watkins said.  “These awards are an acknowledgement that the work we’re doing is useful and important. They are very encouraging.”

    Watkins continues to write grants to evaluate the YBMen Project and make it scalable and sustainable.

     

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    Daphne Watkins Selected to Speak at SSWR Annual Conference's Brief and Brilliant

    Director of Joint PhD Program and Associate Professor Daphne Watkins is one of five social work scholars selected to be featured at the Society for Social Work and Research's (SSWR) Brief and Brilliant TEDx-style session in January. This year’s conference theme is "Achieving Equal Opportunity, Equity and Justice". Related to this theme, each speaker will be asked to complete the statement “I dream a world….”. The Brief and Brilliant session was developed last year with the goal of translating social work research to engage a broad audience and emphasize the public relevance of this work.

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    Daphne Watkins Cited in NBC News Article on Hip Hop and Mental Health in Black Males

    Director of Joint PhD Program and Associate Professor Daphne Watkins was cited in the NBC News article, “Hip-hop works to break down mental health stigma for black men.”

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    Daphne Watkins' Twitter Ranked #4 Must-Follow Social Media Account in Ann Arbor

    Director of Joint Doctoral Program and Associate Professor Daphne Watkins' Twitter account (@WatkinsResearch) was ranked the #4 must-follow social media account in Ann Arbor by Concentrate Ann Arbor

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    Daphne Watkins Appointed to Editorial Board for Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work

    Director of Joint PhD Program and Associate Professor Daphne Watkins was appointed to the Editorial Board for the Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work.

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    Daphne Watkins Selected to Speak at 2017 Institute Science Symposium at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

    Director of the Joint Doctoral Program and Associate Professor Daphne Watkins was selected to be a featured speaker at the 2017 Institute Science Symposium at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on the theme of epidemics. The Symposium is scheduled for October 27, 2017 at 9 AM. The school will livestream the event and create a video link for later viewing.

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    Daphne Watkins Published in Aging and Mental Health

    Joint Doctoral Program Director and Associate Professor Daphne Watkins’ article, “A qualitative comparison of DSM depression criteria to language used by older church-going African-Americans” was published in Aging and Mental Health.

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