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Ruth Dunkle Receives Grant from Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan for "Ageless Acts"Associate Dean and Professor Ruth Dunkle’s project, “Ageless Acts” received a grant from the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to combat social isolation and ageism in the metro Detroit area. Ageless Acts, a professionally run theater group comprised entirely of older adults, will use high-quality creative, intergenerational programming to highlight the need to look at aging through a different lens, one that distinguishes between simply growing older and illness/decline.
- August 9, 2017
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Kristin Seefeldt Story on Welfare's Work Requirements Published in The ConversationKristin Seefeldt's article, "How welfare's work requirements can deepen and prolong poverty: Rose's story" was published in The Conversation.
- August 4, 2017
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Robert Joseph Taylor Selected to Give 2017 Carl A. Scott Lecture at Council on Social Work Education Annual MeetingRobert Taylor has been named the CSWE 2017 Carl A. Scott Memorial Lecturer. Read more about Dr. Taylor's talk "Extended Family and Congregational Support Networks Among African Americans"
- July 31, 2017
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Brad Zebrack's Study on Distress Screening Protocol Adherence Featured in Cancer NetworkBrad Zebrack's study, “A Practice-Based Evaluation of Distress Screening Protocol Adherence and Medical Service Utilization” was featured in the Cancer Network article, “Adherence to Distress Screening Protocols Lacking”.
- July 28, 2017
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Edie Kieffer Interviews with U-M Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation on Michigan Community Health Worker AllianceProfessor Edie Kieffer interviewed with the U-M Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation on the Michigan Community Health Worker Alliance’s shift from being hosted at SSW to the Center. Kieffer’s Alliance is an organization that works to advance and train community health workers across the state and achieve policies that lead to sustainable financing of health aide programs.
- July 28, 2017
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Joe Himle and Andy Grogan-Kaylor Published in Journal of the Society for Social Work and ResearchAssociate Dean for Research and Professor Joe Himle and Associate Professor Andy Grogan-Kaylor’s article, “Social Aspects of the Workplace Among Individuals With Bipolar Disorder” was published in the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.
- July 28, 2017
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- Joe Himle Published in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
Associate Dean for Research and Professor Joe Himle’s article, “Quality of life in anxious adolescents” was published in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health.
- July 28, 2017
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Rosemary Sarri Named 2017 Inductee of Michigan Women's Hall of FameProfessor Emerita Rosemary Sarri is a 2017 inductee of the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. She is one of eight women selected from more than 100 nominations to be inducted into the 34th class of the hall of fame, which honors distinguished women, both historical and contemporary, who are associated with the state of Michigan.
- July 28, 2017
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William Elliott III Receives Grant from Charles Stewart Mott Foundation for Research on Children's Savings Account ProgramProfessor William Elliott III received a grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation via the University of Kansas to conduct research on Maine's Harold Alfond College Challenge, one of the oldest and most visible Children's Savings Account (CSA) programs in the country, in pursuit of a deeper and more broadly applicable knowledge base around CSAs.
- July 28, 2017
- Brad Zebrack's Study on Young Adult Cancer Survivors Featured in ScienceDaily
Professor Brad Zebrack’s longitudinal study, “Cancer in adolescents and young adults: Who remains at risk of poor social functioning over time?” was featured in the ScienceDaily article, “Young adult cancer survivors struggle to get back to normal”.
- July 24, 2017
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