School of Social Work News

Associate Professor Julie Ribaudo delivered peer reviewed presentations in Rome, Italy for the congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health. She also participated on an international panel discussion, Bridging Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Training, Competency and Professional Development, and presented a Master Class on Reflective Supervision.

Letha Chadiha, Rose C. Gibson Collegiate Emerita Professor was recently honored at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, E. Aracelis Francis Lecture Series. Associate Deans Sean Joe and Tonya Edmond honored Chadiha as a faculty vanguard who injected new meaning and diversity of thought into the professoriate.  She was recognized with a certificate, "The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis hereby honors the new meaning and diversity of thought injected into the professoriate by Letha A. Chadiha, PhD March 20, 2018.”

Professor Berit Ingersoll-Dayton was recognized with the School of Social Work 2018 Distinguished Faculty Award. The Distinguished Faculty Award honors a current governing faculty member at the School of Social Work who has achieved national recognition in scholarship, demonstrated excellence in teaching and mentoring, provided outstanding service to the School and the University, and contributed significantly to the professional community.

Congratulations ​to ​Beth Sherman promoted to clinical associate professor at the May U-M Regents meeting.

Congratulations to David Córdova, Cristina Bares and Kristin Seefeldt promoted to associate professor with tenure at the May U-M Regents meeting.

Congratulations to Joe Ryan, Lydia Li and Rogério Pinto who were promoted to full professor at the May U-M Regents meeting.

Mary Ellen Heisler and Adrienne Lapidos (co-PIs), Edith Kieffer, and colleagues received a sponsored project award from the Ralph Wilson Foundation. The project, conducted in collaboration with 3 health plans in Detroit, focuses on the use of Community Health Workers (CHWs) to reach marginalized underserved groups who may have reason to mistrust formalized systems of care and to generate jobs in low-resource communities.  

Postdoctoral Fellow Shanna Kattari received a Sponsored Project Award from the Michigan Institute For Clinical & Health Research (MICHR). The project, titled ''Michigan Trans Health Research Advisory Board," will allow members of the transgender and non-binary community to offer their own input on how research with and about this community should be conducted.