Currents (Fall 2016) by Boston University School of Social Work

currents Boston University School of Social Work

Fall 2016

Global Impact In this issue: What Black Lives Matter Means for the Asian American Community Fulbright Specialist Program Brings Professor Ruth Paris to Israel Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health Fosters Student Opportunities Abroad

07 School News

10 Bridging Borders

The latest happenings at BU School of Social Work

Fulbright Specialist Program brings Professor Ruth Paris to Israel

Striving for Wellness

Breaking Barrriers Day in the life of alumna Fung-Yan “Perrie” Mo (’16)

Professor and Center for Promise Research Fellow Linda Sprague Martinez prepares youth to lead community health assessments

D E PA RTM E N TS

01 From the Dean

16 Faculty Highlights

02 School News

25 Alumni Updates

06 Snapshots

30 Honor Roll

07 Student Experience

34 Snapshots

08 Perspectives

36 Alumni Association Message

12 In Research

On the Front Lines

Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health helps students bridge gap between academia and practice

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FROM THE DEAN Boston University School of Social Work Fall 2016 Dean Gail Steketee, PhD Editor Rebecca Grossfield Marketing & Communications Specialist Contributing Writers Shruti Bhiwandiwala (COM‘16) Jasmin Nalim Choi (‘17, SPH‘18) Jamie Ferguson (SED’19) Cilicia Rios (COM'15) Marketing & Communications Coordinator Design Lilly Pereira Kristen Winstead Photography Boston University Photography Cilicia Rios Currents is produced bi-annually for the alumni and friends of Boston University School of Social Work.

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Fall 2016 Greetings from 264 Bay State Road! In the wake of the recent presidential election, I hope you will join me in re-affirming our community’s shared commitment to the core values of our social work profession. As you will find illustrated in this issue of Currents, social workers are called upon to lead in our commitment to economic and social justice. I have no doubt that our work—to champion the rights of all people—is more essential than ever. Appropriately, this issue explores our global impact—across so many cultures and communities, we discover BUSSW change agents making a difference. I invite you to read all about the experiences two of our MSW/ MPH students (Allison Backman and Haley Falkenberry) had in Africa this summer. I am pleased that the CISWH was able to facilitate these on-the-ground experiences for Allison and Haley. On page 14, Perrie Mo discusses her work with the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence and the acute need for Asian language-speaking clinicians here in Boston. I hope you will read about Professor Linda Sprague Martinez’s impressive work in five major US cities this summer empowering youth to lead their own community research (that’s right—research!) efforts on health equity. Recently, we came together for one of my favorite evenings of the year: Our annual Alumni Association Awards ceremony, when we honor several leaders in the field. From Meredith Patterson’s (’82) work on behalf of geriatric care managers to Vicki Ross’s (’96) indelible impact in her local community of Buffalo to Kate Ginnis’s policy advocacy at Boston Children’s Hospital, I am struck and inspired by the directions our alumni take their BUSSW education. We also celebrated Professor Luz Lopez’s impressive contributions to the School over the past decade. I will retire after this academic year once the Provost has selected a new dean for BUSSW. I have truly enjoyed my time in the deanship (12 years by summer 2017) and my over 30 years on the faculty. Our School is home to outstanding faculty scholars, researchers, and educators. Our programs are stronger than ever thanks to our incredible community. Our students are becoming excellent practitioners, researchers, and leaders in the field. Our alumni are wonderful in supporting our programs in so many ways. I am proud of all that we have accomplished together! Gail Steketee, PhD Dean and Professor

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SCHOOL NEWS

By the Numbers $7,500

#12

BU School of Social Work jumped four spots in U.S. News & World Report’s latest ranking of the best social work graduate programs.

Participants in 20 BUSSW on Wheels events held in 13 states between July 1, 2015, and June 30, 2016. This group includes alumni, OLP students, OLP faculty advisors, and prospective students.

Amount of Field Education stipend provided to 20 students this academic year through two initiatives for fall 2016. The first is a partnership with Cathedral High School in Boston’s South End; the second provides stipends for selected incoming full-time and part-time students entering their first placement. 2016 BU School of Social Work Alumni Association awardees. Turn to page 34 for more.

Speaker Series Launches with Visit from UPitt Dean Larry Davis The first speaker in a new series launched by the Academic Affairs Office on race and society was Dr. Larry Davis, Dean of the School of Social Work at University of Pittsburgh, who visited BUSSW on October 24. In addition to his role as dean, Davis is

UPitt Dean Larry Davis speaking on October 24.

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the Donald M. Henderson Professor and director of the Center on Race and Social Problems. He has long been recognized as a leading scholar of the narrative about race in America and its role in social justice.

Cheers! Highlights from the PhD Program Marty Boldin (’18) presented a talk on addiction stigma organized by TEDxAmoskeagMillyard. The talk was published on YouTube in February 2016. Jin A. Chang (’18) successfully defended his dissertation prospectus on February 25, 2016: “Immigrant generational status, family structure, and children’s health, insurance coverage, and utilization of healthcare services.” Maxwell Levis (’17) successfully defended his PhD dissertation on July 21, 2016: “Power management: Evaluating an integrative therapeutic and diagnostic clinical assessment.” Winslow Robinson (’18) successfully defended his dissertation prospectus on June 15, 2016: “Exploring parenting self-efficacy among parents of children in residential treatment: Effectiveness of a combined psychoeducational intervention.” Maggie Thomas (’19) is a fellow working on the Public Health Post project, a new initiative and digital space elevating the conversation on public health, with the BU School of Public Health. Natallie Gentles-Gibbs (’15) is the author of two recent publications: “Child protection and family empowerment: Competing rights or accordant goals?” in Child Care in Practice and “Leadership Development: A pathway to transformation of the public child welfare system” in Families in Society: Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 97(2), 95–101. Alison Drew (’17) and Grace Gowdy (’19) attended the Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring at Portland State University (August 2016) with Professor Spencer to present findings from the STAR project (Study to Analyze Relationships).

SCHOOL NEWS

Q U OTA B L E

“I hope, on the tough days, we will remember that it’s a privilege to do this work and that it’s an honor to be invited into the vulnerable moments of people’s lives.” —ADAM VOSE-O’NEAL (’16), Off-Campus Program (Fall River, 2016 Commencement)

We’ve Moved! The Off-Campus Program’s Fall River Campus relocated to Bristol Community College this fall.

Gerontological Social Work: The Lowy-GEM Program in Aging In 2015–16, the Lowy-GEM Program in Aging completed its 15th year as the field education–based aging specialization within the MSW program. Twenty-five clinical and macro students made up the cohort; 21 participated in the standard Lowy-GEM program. Four students who spent the previous year in the standard Lowy-GEM program chose to do their second year in the advanced program. They each completed major independent projects designed to add to and complement the services provided by their agencies or contribute to the knowledge base of the field of aging. These projects were presented to a panel of judges at the final Lowy-GEM seminar, where they were eligible for the Frances G. Frank prize. The prize was shared between Aida Manduley (’16) (“Viewing Older Adults through the Framework of the 5 Circles of Sexuality”) and Meghna Raj (’16) ("Integrating Palliative Care into a Kidney Transplant Program”).

EDDIE S. GLAUDE JR. DISCUSSES DEMOCRACY IN BLACK: HOW RACE STILL ENSLAVES THE AMERICAN SOUL Eddie S. Glaude Jr., the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University, conducted a lecture and Q&A on his new book, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, on April 14, 2016. The event was hosted by the BU School of Theology, the School of Social Work, the Department of Religion, and the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground. In the book, Glaude argues that there is a “value gap” in our society’s regard for black lives. “What is the ‘value gap’?” Glaude asked attendees. “It is the belief that white people are valued more than others.”

Welcome, Professor Christopher Salas-Wright! Dr. Chris Salas-Wright joined the faculty as assistant professor on July 1, 2016, from his third year as assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. He and his family are happy to make the move to Boston, as he has kept friendships here after receiving his Master in Pastoral Theology degree and his PhD in Social Work from

Boston College. He earned an MSW from the University of Washington in Health/ Mental Health Practice and completed a post-doc at Brown University’s Alcohol Research and Addiction Studies unit. His research focuses on substance use and violence among U.S. immigrant youth and at-risk youth in Latin America.

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SCHOOL NEWS

On the Road! Remaining Fall 2016 BUSSW on Wheels Events November 18: Portland, OR November 20: Seattle December 2: Austin December 3: San Diego

BU School of Social Work Hosts 1st Annual Policy Symposium On May 5, 2016, BUSSW hosted the first annual MSW Policy Symposium, showcasing the Student Task Force work conducted as part of WP701. Faculty, staff, and students gathered for this celebration of student work, with creative presentations and thoughtful policy proposals that addressed a range of important social problems, including poverty and social injustice. Three alumni judges—Erika Gaitan, Nikki Pollard, and Anitza Guadarrama-Tiernan— selected the winning poster, “Poor Health and Poor Access among LowIncome Adults,” by Online Program students Victoria Cox, Allyson Meyer, Ellen Andrews, and Elizabeth Lang.

Students Return from Summer Study Abroad in Puerto Rico This summer, Clinical Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Dual Degree Program in Social Work and Public Heath Luz López and Associate Dean of Public Health Practice and Professor Harold Cox, along with Spanish professor Maribel Tamargo, took eight BU School of Social Work MSW students on a cultural immersion course to Puerto Rico. Over three weeks, students studied the impact of socioeconomic factors in Puerto Rico, circular patterns of migratory experiences, and the differences in public health social work in Puerto Rico and the United States—in addition to enjoying the local culture and cuisine. Students visited substance abuse programs and homeless programs, conducted research with Puerto Rican injection drug users, and visited schools. At night, the group conducted field research with Puerto Rican substance users to explore patterns of drug use, symptoms of trauma and mental health conditions, and the association between the type of drug mix and HIV risk behaviors. The Puerto Rico cultural immersion course was first introduced in 2006 and has since received participation from 104 MSW students and three PhD students. The course was developed with participation from Professor Emeritus Lee Staples, Associate Dean of Public Health Practice/Associate Professor Harold Cox, and BUSSW lecturers Mojdeh Rohani and Rick Cresta.

Professor Maryann Retires After 30 Years at BUSSW

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On May 17, 2016, the BU School of Social Work community came together to celebrate the 30-year career of Professor Maryann Amodeo, who retired this spring. Amodeo joined BUSSW in 1986. Colleagues, friends, and family gathered together in the Trustee Ballroom at BU to honor Amodeo’s many accomplishments. Dean Gail Steketee described Amodeo as having a “special talent for educating social workers.” Steketee said, “You are a consummate advocate for what is right and just.” Additional speakers at the celebration included BU School of Social Work lecturer Rick Cresta, Holly Lockwood (Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence), Joy Connell (MA Department of Mental Health), BU School of Medicine professors Daniel Alford and Jeffrey Samet, BU School of Social Work Dean Emeritus Hubie Jones (’57), and colleagues from Casa Esperanza. In her parting remarks, Amodeo conducted a psychosocial assessment on herself—sharing stories from her childhood and development in the field of social work. Although sad to leave her BUSSW community behind, Amodeo looks forward to the next adventures in her life.

SCHOOL NEWS

Macro Social Work Practice Major Added to Online Program The BU School of Social Work recently added the Macro Social Work Practice major to the Master of Social Work Online Program. The critical social issues at the forefront in this election year demonstrate the continuing need for skilled social workers trained to facilitate change at the larger community and organization systems level. Students now have the option to major in either Clinical or Macro Practice.

Stop the Silence Event Brings Innovative Art/Research Collaboration to BU Stigma surrounding suicide in Ireland was highlighted through a collaboration of socially conscious art and research in Stop the Silence, an interactive exhibit and presentation in the Photonics Center, on March 17, 2016. Psychiatrist Kevin Malone and artist Seamus McGuinness presented their research collaboration under the project Lived Lives to demonstrate the rising suicide rate in Ireland among people under the age of 35.

Dr. Janestic Mwende Twikirize Presents “Perspectives from Uganda” Dr. Janestic Mwende Twikirize of Makarere University in Uganda presented “Gender-Based Violence in a Developing Country Context: Perspectives from Uganda” on May 11, 2016. The event took place in collaboration with the BU School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health’s Global Health Learning Community.

BRIDGE Program Announces New Leadership

Professor Hyeouk "Chris" Hahm facilitated the visit.

This fall, the Building Refugee and Immigrant Degrees for Graduate Education (BRIDGE) Program at the BU School of Social Work announced new leadership. The program, which provides a pathway to graduate education for immigrants and refugees, is now directed by Professor Dawn Belkin Martinez and former Executive Director of the Hyde Square Task Force, Claudio Martinez.

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S N A P S H OT S

On May 13, 2016, faculty, staff, students, friends, and family gathered in the Boston University Fitness and Recreation Center for the School of Social Work Convocation. Five doctor of philosophy degrees, 21 dual-degree master’s degrees, and 228 master’s degrees in social work were awarded. “This year’s graduation included our largest graduating class ever,” Dean Gail Steketee said. “It was a true pleasure to shake the hand of each graduate who has worked so hard and made such sacrifices to complete our rigorous programs.” Professor Gary Eager received this year’s Excellence in Teaching Award. Aida Manduley (’16) of the Charles River Campus served as the student speaker for the class of 2016. Manduley’s message to friends and family centered on the importance of self-care. “At its core, militant selfcare isn’t a race, but if it is a priority then we must act like it,” Manduley reminded the audience. “We [social workers] have inherent worth and dignity.” Paolo del Vecchio, director of the Center for Mental Health Services at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, delivered the convocation address. As a self-identified mental health consumer, trauma survivor, and person in recovery from addictions, del Vecchio’s message to the graduating class was informed by personal experience. “My diagnosis did not have to become my destiny,” he said. “As social workers, when we help others, we also help ourselves." “It is unacceptable that we have politicians today more interested in building walls to separate us than bridges to bring us together,” del Vecchio continued. “As social workers, we will not go silent. We must turn our outrage into action. We will continue to speak up and speak out and start those brush fires of freedom for all.” The celebration continued all weekend. On Sunday, May 15, 2016, the alluniversity commencement took place on Nickerson Field. Congratulations, class of 2016!

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COMMENCEMENT

2016

S T U D E N T S P OT L I G H T

By REBECCA GROSSFIELD

Q&A with Alyssa Hermes (’18) ’ This summer, Currents spoke with Alyssa Hermes (’18), a Master of Social Work student in the Online Program based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Hermes graduates in January 2018. Tell us how you came to social work. I graduated Arizona State University in 2012 with a bachelor’s in psychology and family/human development. I really wanted to be a therapist or a counselor. To be honest, I didn’t think about social work as a career option at the time. Why not? I didn’t know much about the field. After graduation, I took some time off from school to work. I ended up in the social work field at a few agencies focused on families and children involved in the child welfare system. I realized that social work is an umbrella for the entire field I was interested in and started thinking that’s the route to take. I needed to get my Master of Social Work degree. In order to do the kind of work I was interested in, I needed the broad perspective—encompassing the biological, psychological, and social aspects of the human experience that social work provides. What do you love most about the field? I enjoy learning about people’s families and am interested in working with families and children. Family plays a huge role in everyone’s functioning, and it’s so important in understanding people better.

Why pursue your degree online? My boyfriend had moved to Indiana. I was living in Wisconsin and Arizona before relocating. I had waited three years to get my degree. I knew I couldn’t commit to a campus, so I looked for an accredited program with the flexibility I needed. What is the online learning experience like? I took an online course at Arizona State. This is so different. It really doesn’t feel online, and the Live Classroom experience gives you that chance to learn more from your peers. Where did you complete your field experience? I completed my internship at The Villages of Indiana—a large state nonprofit that manages foster care and adoption—where I also work as a therapeutic foster care case manager. As an intern, I performed a variety of tasks, including planning a therapeutic curriculum for foster parents, completing home studies, educating and presenting to clientele, and providing support within the Community Based Services Program. In my next field placement, I will work with biological families involved in the child welfare system, providing therapeutic supervised visitation, supervising individual and family therapy, creating and implementing a therapeutic foster parent support group, and participating in planning and implementing technological changes within the agency that I hope will enhance the overall functioning and efficiency. How were you able to manage your work schedule at The Villages with your internship? It was a really interesting field experience. I was able to add extra time in the evenings and afternoons while working with Community Based Services. It

was nice to spend time processing and reflecting on my work. How do you incorporate your educational experience into your work? Each thing I learn can be Alyssa Hermes ('18) applied somewhere—specifically in relation to interventions and what works best for what personality. Being able to directly apply that knowledge—the combination of learning and doing— has helped me tremendously. We hear a lot about self-care. How do you make time for yourself? It’s a challenge balancing my personal life with work and school. I plan a day every week to take care of myself—I enjoy exercising, the occasional Netflix binge, catching up with friends and family, or going to sporting events. We also travel a lot. What advice would you offer a prospective student? Before coming into this program I didn’t realize I had the capacity to learn like I have. Ironically, one of my most challenging courses, Research 2 with professor Melissa Hirschi, was one of my favorites. Hirschi made the course so applicable and informative. I would say be prepared to work. Come into this program open-minded and open to challenging yourself. In five years, where will you be? I will be a therapist within a child welfare agency or at a private practice. I feel ready to dedicate the time it will take to work toward licensure and independent practice.

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PERSPECTIVES

Speaking Up in Solidarity: Uncovering and Understanding Privilege By JASMIN NALIM CHOI (‘17, SPH‘18)

What Does Black Lives Matter Mean for the Asian American Community? Letters for Black Lives

began as a way for younger Asian Americans to engage in an intergenerational conversation around anti-black racism within our own communities. The letters ask the Asian American community to stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter because, “Black lives matter to us, too.” Since its inception, the letter has been translated into dozens of other languages, including Korean, Chinese, Bengali, and Urdu. I first heard of the Letters for Black Lives movement through my friend Eunice Kwon (’17, SPH’18). Being fluent in both Korean and English, I wanted to utilize my skills to support this movement in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. The Letters for Black Lives began at 3 a.m. on a Sunday, looking over our revisions, wondering how our letter would be received by the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community as a whole. Will they listen? Will they be upset? Will they care? Throughout my own life, I’ve Jasmin Nalim Choi (‘17, SPH‘18) struggled with a myriad of cultural identities. As a first-generation immigrant, I admit that I am often frustrated working within a system that is structurally unwelcoming toward newcomers. Coming from a working class background in central Los Angeles, I struggled to minimize the disparities of community resources. As a person of color, I face casual racism on a daily basis and became an expert at “dealing with it.” As a person with a nontraditional family, I felt helpless against restrictions in policies that weren’t accommodating to my situation.

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“HANDS UP — DON’T SHOOT!” AND “STOP KILLING US”

These powerful words on signs and posters at Black Lives Matter rallies first raised my heartbeat and awareness. When the police wrongfully shot Charly Keunang in February on the same L.A. street I walked by every day, I knew that the movement was about more than the binary issue at hand. In many ways, Black Lives Matter has inspired other groups of color to consider their own colorism, anti-black racism, privileges, and biases. It didn’t take long to realize that talking about anti-black racism is challenging for some in the AAPI community. Together with other volunteers, we acknowledged the

“ When the police wrongfully shot Charly Keunang in February on the same L.A. street I walked by every day, I knew that the movement was about more than the binary issue at hand. ”

PERSPECTIVES

deep tension between the Black and Korean communities from the 4/29 Los Angeles uprising as we began the task of writing. The intergenerational cognitive dissonance around the American dream, cultural identities, and structural racism makes it difficult for families to engage in open dialogue about social injustice. This lack of empathy and awareness is not only prevalent in the Asian American community; across the United States, the social and political divisiveness against the Black Lives Matter movement threatens the very core of social justice and equity.

LETTERS FOR BLACK LIVES Letters for Black Lives is a set of crowdsourced, multilingual, and culturally aware resources aimed at creating a space for open and honest conversations about racial justice, police violence, and anti-Blackness in our families and communities. The project was born out of a tweet by writer and ethnographer Christina Xu. For more information, visit lettersforblacklives.com or twitter.com/lettersforblacklives.

WE NEED TO TALK . . .

They say that silence is deafening. The way I see it, enjoying my freedom as an East Asian American was a deliberate choice. My silence was toxic.

“It should say Umma instead of Uhmuhni to sound less formal.” “We should use a gender-neutral term like Sonja to be more inclusive.” These conversations on language fluidity, deconstructing gender binaries, and analyzing the dynamics of Korean American cultural exchanges move beyond space and time. Thanks to the digital technology of Google Documents and Slack channels, people all over the world were able to join in this crowdsourced project and contribute to the letter. As a social worker in training, this experience highlighted the power of collective social action and organizing through the Internet. As a Korean American, I recognize the need to engage families and communities in a conversation about the social injustice and oppression that Black people face every single day. Black Lives Matter defies singularity. It’s a movement that encompasses all forms of social action; it addresses police brutality, economic justice, mass incarceration, poverty, housing inequality, education inequality, patriarchy, gender and sexual norms, structural racism, and more. As social workers, we must identify and acknowledge the workings of privileges, powers, oppression, and stigmatization. In our current political climate, cultural identity is often used to divide and silence the marginalized group. This is why intersectionality and solidarity works. With intersectionality at play, solidarity binds us and unites us. In this past year, many horrific events have happened targeting multiple oppressed and marginalized communities in the United States. Within these sorrows, we also witnessed solidarity at work. As I look beyond myself and see others facing different forms of oppression and discrimination, I am inspired to speak up and stand with them. Amplifying the Black Lives Matter movement starts by engaging in these dialogues about personal and structural racism, privilege, and oppression within your own family, friends, and community.

Letter courtesy of Letters for Black Lives project.

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Bridging Borders A Fulbright Specialist Program grant brings Ruth Paris to Tel Aviv's Bar Ilan University.

uth Paris, associate professor of clinical practice and director of the Family Therapy Certificate Program at Boston University School of Social Work, completed a Fulbright Specialist Program grant in social work at Bar Ilan University (BIU) in Tel Aviv, Israel, this past spring. Throughout March, Paris partnered with faculty and students at Bar Ilan as part of the Specialist Program, which supports short-term exchanges around the world. Throughout March, Paris worked in collaboration with Dr. Rachel Dekel of BIU to share her expertise in community-based clinical research and family therapy practice. Her work included assisting in the systematic study of the social work interventions currently offered through clinics at BIU’s School of Social Work, providing an overall needs assessment of clinical research capacity, leading seminars, meeting with individual faculty to develop research proposals, and assisting with clinical research training for the doctoral program. Paris described her four weeks in Israel as “jam-packed.” “I met with many individuals—junior faculty, post-docs, and doctoral students,” Paris told Currents. Although her own area of research focuses on families, Paris worked across faculty and students on building capacity around applied clinical research. Paris said this includes closely examining what is being done and asking, “Is this effective?” Paris said she was impressed by the breadth of research taking place at Bar Ilan in many areas, including trauma, military and veterans, and domestic violence. She added that because of the nature of life there, Israeli society is very much “trauma informed,” where people are “living with trauma and its implications all of the time.” In many ways, Paris explained, this experience “may not be so different from certain communities within the United States.” During her month-long visit to Bar Ilan, Paris also hosted workshops focused on developing skills in clinical research as well as evaluating effectiveness of interventions. Topics covered included implementing strategies for quantitative and qualitative clinical research, program evaluation and assessment, data organization, and analysis. In addition to her time at Bar Ilan, Paris traveled around the country speaking about her own research, visiting the University of Haifa, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and

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Sapir College in Sderot, on the border with Gaza. Paris told Currents she came away from her time in Israel with “tremendous respect” for how much the faculty and students at Bar Ilan accomplish with limited resources. Although the Fulbright Specialist Program is designed as a short-term exchange, Paris said occasionally faculty can be awarded a second visit if there is an opportunity to build on work being done. In either case, Paris plans to continue fostering the relationships she made at Bar Ilan and hopes to collaborate on future research projects. CAESAREA Professors Ruth Paris (left) and Rachel Dekel (Director of The Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work) take a trip to Caesarea.

BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY Professors Ruth Paris, Rachel Dekel, and Adi Barak meet to discuss his research.

SDEROT Professor Orit NuttmanSchwartz's class at Sapir College, where some classrooms are configured as bomb shelters so classes can continue during air raids. During periods of escalation, Sderot experiences rockets coming from Gaza.

GOLAN HEIGHTS Haifa

SYRIA

Dates back

to 25 BCE

Nazareth

Caesarea 1 Bar Ilan’s Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social

WEST BANK

Work celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2016!

Tel Aviv-Yafo 2

Ramia

Mediterranean Sea GAZA STRIP

JERUSALEM

Sderot

JORDAN

Beersheba This border

town is home to 24,000 residents

EGYPT

ISRAEL

T HE F U L B R I G H T SP ECI A L I ST P ROG RA M

The Fulbright Specialist Program promotes linkages between U.S. scholars and professionals and their counterparts at host institutions overseas through short-term collaborative projects and is sponsored by the U.S. State Department. For more information, visit www.cies.org.

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IN RESEARCH

Striving for Wellness

By REBECCA GROSSFIELD

A Center for Promise Research Fellow, Professor Linda Sprague Martinez prepares youth in five US cities to lead community health assessments. “This is really about asking the question: ‘To what extent do youth have power and agency to inform the policies impacting them?’” Professor Linda Sprague Martinez told Currents about her new project, “Barriers to Wellness: Voices and Views from Young People in Five Cities.” Sprague Martinez set out to engage youth people in the identification of threats to their health and well-being. Current research shows that young people of color and young people Linda Sprague Martinez from low-income communities are at heightened risk of experiencing poor health throughout their lives, yet policymakers rarely engage with young people in the communities most impacted by these issues. “Young people are often overlooked as potential stakeholders in research and assessment,” Sprague Martinez said. “Given that their interactions with living and social environments are different from those of adults, excluding youth from the decision-making process poses real challenges to improving health outcomes.”

With the goal of conducting research that might meaningfully inform public policy, this project was launched during the summer of 2016 in five major US cities: Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver, and Minneapolis/St. Paul. In May, cities and partnering organizations/grassroots organizers were first identified. At the project’s conclusion in September and throughout October, results and findings were disseminated. LAUNCHING A YOUTH-LED HEALTH ASSESSMENT PROJECT

Each city’s site developed research teams of 6–8 youths largely between the ages of 16 and 25 to engage in this project. “We started with really basic questions like, ‘What is health?’” Sprague Martinez said. Over a period of several days, she, with the support of CfP staff, trained site teams. The training explored a number of topics, including health inequities, determinants of health, methods in community health assessment, and community research ethics. Participants also viewed Unnatural Causes: Place Matters, an episode from a PBS documentary series exploring the socioeconomic and racial inequities in health.

THE CENTER FOR PROMISE, AMERICA'S PROMISE ALLIANCE Launched in 2012, the Center for Promise is the research institute for America’s Promise Alliance. It is housed at the BU School of Education and dedicated to understanding what young people need to thrive and how to create the conditions of success for all young people. America’s Promise Alliance leads more than 400 organizations, communities, and individuals dedicated to making the promise of America real for every child. As its signature effort, the GradNation campaign mobilizes Americans to increase the on-time high school graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020 and prepares young people for postsecondary enrollment and the 21st-century workforce. (For more information, visit americaspromise.org.) Read the report in full at americaspromisealliance.org/barrierstowellness.

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IN RESEARCH

Boston

Are youth impacted by community violence?

15%

YES

85%

Chicago

Most important issues to youth: • Police relations • Impact of community perceptions, fears, and stereotypes Youth present findings in Washington, DC

During the training, youth determined health priority areas and developed assessment protocols for data collection methods in the field, including surveys, observation, and photovoice. From there, the teams set out into the field to collect data in their communities, which they later met with Sprague Martinez to analyze and contextualize. Ultimately, teams developed local dissemination plans and sent representatives to Washington, DC, to present their findings and make recommendations to the project funder. Each site identified different factors influencing health in their own communities, including stress, safety, substance use, and sexual health. Across all five sites, interactions with police and police brutality were identified as threats. “We were really able to create a meaningful youth leadership opportunity for youth people of color,” Sprague Martinez said. “At the same time, these findings actually reflect their lived experience.” Tag your thoughts! #Barriers2Wellness #SafeSpaces

CITY: Boston, MA PARTNER: Youth Organizers

CITY: Denver, CO PARTNER: Youth Organizers

CITY: Chicago, IL PARTNER: Little Black Pearl

CITY: Philadelphia, PA PARTNER: JEVS Human Services

CITY: St. Paul, MN PARTNER: Ujamaa Place

• Community violence and access to programs for support

Philadelphia

60% say drug and alcohol use is

an issue among high school students.

Denver

Gentrification is a major health threat to young people, resulting in: Community Change Loss of Social and Cultural Spaces Increased Surveillance and Strained Policy Relations Stress

Minneapolis/St. Paul

Rate the relationship between government and your community on a scale of 1–5 (1 = worst, 5 = best):

57% Wo rst

36%

Best

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By REBECCA GROSSFIELD

Breaking Barriers Boston is home to a growing Asian population and the thirdlargest Chinatown in the country, but the local Asian population also has the second-highest rate of poverty in the city. It didn’t take long for Fung-Yan “Perrie” Mo (’16), a California transplant, to realize there were not enough Asian language-speaking clinicians in the field of social work. As a domestic violence advocate and case manager at Boston’s Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, Mo kept encountering this issue. “I was finding that I wanted to work for my clients, but it was challenging to refer them to mental health services because there aren’t enough language-proficient service

providers in the area,” Mo told Currents. Mo—who is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, and Thai—moved to Boston in 2011. She now works as a shelter manager at the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence and part-time with the Boston Emergency Services Team (BEST) as a mobile crisis clinician. Last spring, Mo completed her master’s degree in social work at the BU School of Social Work as well as a Family Therapy Certificate.

Fung-Yan “Perrie” Mo (‘16)

Wondering what a day in the life of Perrie Mo is like? Perrie chronicled one very busy day this fall for Currents.

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7:00 a.m. Leave house and meet a shelter client (domestic violence survivor) at a designated T station; head to court with client

9:30 a.m. Arrive at Asian Task Force shelter and check e-mail updates from residential counselors

8:15 a.m. Accompany client and provide emotional support as she completes restraining order renewal

9:45 a.m. Meet with MSW intern to review housing applications, mental health services referrals,

and children’s emotionalregulation behaviors. Help intern identify barriers when working with domestic violence survivors who are also English learners.

10:45 a.m. Contact domestic violence advocates at ATASK community-based

services office to screen and plan a move-in for a new family

11:00 a.m. Conference call with family’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCF) worker to check in on client’s progress

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Mo said she chose BU for her graduate degree for a number reasons, including the diversity of the faculty and the school’s expertise in urban practice and social justice. Mo told Currents she initially planned to pursue a career in law. “I wanted to be a civil rights attorney when I was in undergrad,” she said. “I worked at the Victim Witness Assistance Center of the district attorney’s office for about a year when I was completing my undergrad degree. After I graduated, I worked at a law firm for about seven months. I found it wasn’t the path that I wanted to take. Social work was a better fit for me because it is really all about the human connection.” Mo said her field experiences provided ample opportunity to explore her interest in working with families and children. Initially, Mo served as an intensive-care coordinator at Children’s Services of Roxbury. In her second year, she was a preschool outreach clinician at the Home for Little Wanderers. She was assigned to work with preschoolers in Chinatown, as there was a need for Asian language-speaking social workers and clinicians. “Dr. Dawn Belkin Martinez is amazing,” Mo said. “She taught me about the liberation health model, which I am able to apply and reflect on in my work constantly.” The model highlights the role of the economic, political, cultural, and historical conditions that give rise to individual and family problems. Mo added that the demand for Asian language-speaking clinicians is great in Boston right now. “A lot of survivors [I work with] are millennials,” she said. “Working with people your own age, and being able to support them in their next steps, is very rewarding.”

11:30 a.m. Check in with shelter advocates and review families’ service plans

12:00 p.m. Speak with contractors to review bids on shelter maintenance and repairs and make sure the structure is ready for winter

BALANCING ONE VERY BUSY CAREER

As a shelter manager, Mo is responsible for overseeing day-to-day emergency shelter operations. “My goal for the program at the shelter,” she said, “is to provide a nurturing, safe, and comfortable environment for my clients.” The shelter provides emergency housing for up to 20 families and children. Since traditional group therapy comes with language barriers, Mo has introduced a community-building program at the Asian Task Force to assist immigrant clients in feeling connected to a community. Activities include arts, karaoke, and cooking nights. Mo’s busy days typically begin at 8 a.m. and end around 7 p.m. When she’s not at the shelter, she’s working with the BEST team as a part-time clinician—work she took on to gain more clinical experience. “I really wanted to try to work with different populations and get experience in substance abuse and acute psychological conditions—which I don’t normally find working in the trauma field,” Mo said.

NEXT STEPS In the next few years, Mo plans to complete her social work license and become a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW). After that, she hopes to serve as a guardian ad litem (GAL) in the family court system, working with Asian families impacted by domestic violence and family conflict. “I thought about returning to California,” Mo said. “But there are many more Asian language-speaking clinicians there. I could only name a handful in the Boston area, so I’ll be staying here—the need is too great.”

4:00 p.m. Conduct an evaluation for a teen at Children’s Hospital 1:00 p.m. Finish grant reports and review grant applications with co-executive director of the agency 2:00 p.m. Start shift at BEST team 2:30 p.m. Conduct an evaluation at BEST urgent care center

5:00 p.m. Review case with on-call psychiatrist and finish evaluation report 5:30 p.m. Return to BEST office and conduct insurance authorization

7:30 p.m. Review case and receive feedback from clinical supervisor, finish evaluation report 6:00 p.m. Conduct bed search for client that meets inpatient level of care 6:30 p.m. Conduct a last home visit for an evaluation

8:00 p.m. Arrive at rock-climbing gym for some self-care, my “me” time!

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Faculty Scholarship and Research We’ve been busy this semester! Boston University School of Social Work faculty are dedicated scholars at the forefront of their profession and deeply engaged in innovative research. Below are some examples of recent scholarship. For even more faculty news, visit bu.edu/news. (Note: Select faculty scholarship between January–August 2016.)

SPRING/SUMMER 2016 GRANTS Byrne, T. & Miller, D.P. (2015–2016) Using Data to Inform Policy and Program Responses to Unaccompanied Adult Homelessness. Boston University Initiative on Cities, $10,000. Byrne, T. & Miller, D.P. (2015–2017). A Data-based Re-design of Health Care and Housing for People Who Experience Chronic Homelessness. Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts, $147,363. Collins, M. (2016–2017). Policy Practice in Field Education Initiative. Council on Social Work Education, $20,000. Freeman, E.R. & Sprague Martinez, L.S. (2016–2018). Boston BRI…DGE: Building Research Infrastructure...Developing Genuine Engagement. PCORI, $248,773. Furlong, J. & Miselis, H. (2016–2021). Interprofessional Primary Care Training for Urban Underserved Communities. Health Resources and Services Administration, $130,000. Keefe, B. (2016–2018). Prevention and Identification of Behavioral Health Issues in Older Adults: Skill Development Among Clergy Members. MA Department of Public Health Suicide Prevention Fund, $89,168. López, L.M. & Ruth, B. (2016–2021). The Primary Care Training and Enhancement Program at Boston Medical Center. Health Resources and Services Administration, $337,729. Lundgren, L. & Amodeo, M. (2016). Alcohol and Other Drugs Education Program for Social Work Faculty Nationwide. National Institutes of Health, $240,000. Miller, D.P. (2015–2016). Using Natural Experiments to Identify the Impacts of SNAP on Child and Adult Health. United States Department of Agriculture (via University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research), $75,000. Miller, D.P. & Hefflin. (2015–2016). Community Eligibility and Child Well-Being. RIDGE Center for Targeted Studies, Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State University, $35,000. Miller, D.P. & Waller. (2016). Fathers and Low-Income Children’s Academic and Behavioral

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Outcomes: The Role of Social and Economic Policies. Cornell Institute for Social Sciences, $6,500. Muroff, J. (2016–2019). Smartphone Technology to Enhance Engagement with Behavioral and Primary Care Services Among Latinos with Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders. Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, $840,000. Paris, R. (2016). Fulbright Specialist Grant at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Fulbright Program. Sprague Martinez, L.S. (2016). The Detriments of Health Through the Eyes of Youth: A MultiSite Youth-Led Health Assessment, Center for Promise, America’s Alliance, $26,476. Sprague Martinez, L. & DeVoe, E.R. (2016). Jr. Ball: Collaborative Youth Sport-Based Intervention to Promote Positive Development Among Youth of Color in Boston, MA. Boston University Initiative on Cities, $10,000. Tarullo, A., Paris, R., & Corriveau, K. (2016–2017). Promoting Academic Success in Urban Head Start Children: A Pilot Study to Enhance Cognitive Control Through Metacognitive Monitoring. Boston University Initiatives on Cities. Wilkinson, G. (2016). Developing a National Community Health Workers Organization. Sanofi USA, $125,000. PUBLICATIONS Auerbach, C., Zeitlin, W., Augsberger, A., Lawrence, C.K., & Claiborne, N. (2016). Societal factors impacting child welfare: Re-validating the perceptions of child welfare scale. Children and Youth Services Review, 62, 65–71. doi:10.1016/j. childyouth.2016.01.020 Basualdo-Delmonico, A.M., & Spencer, R. (2016). A parent’s place: Parents’, mentors’ and program staff members’ expectations for and experiences of parental involvement in community-based youth mentoring relationships. Children and Youth Services Review, 61, 6–14. Behnken, M., Vaughn, M.G., Salas-Wright, C.P., & DeLisi, M. (2016). Risky business: Behavioral profiles of sexually-impulsive adults in the United States. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 41(2), 185–201.

Bowling, A.,* Slavet, J., Garcia, J., Wood, B., Miller, D.P., Hermesch, R., Kow, R.,* Newlan, S.,* & Davison, K. (2016). Fidelity of implementation and engagement in an exergaming curriculum for children with complex behavioral health disorders at a therapeutic day school. Translational Journal of the American College of Sports, 1(9), 82–89. Bratiotis, C., Davidow, J., Glossner, K., & Steketee, G. (2016). Requests for help with hoarding: Who needs what from whom? Practice Innovations, 1(1), 82–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pri0000017 Chen, W. Y., Corvo, K., Lee, Y., & Hahm, H.C. (2016). Adolescent exposure to community violence and depressive symptoms among adolescents and young adults: Understanding the effect of mental health service usage. Community Mental Health Journal, 1-14. doi:10.1007/ s10597-016-0031-5 Choi, Y., Tan, K.P.H., Yasui, M., & Hahm, H.C. (2016). Advancing understanding of acculturation for adolescents of Asian immigrants: Person-oriented analysis of acculturation strategy among Korean American youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45(7), 1–16. doi:10.1007/ s10964-016-0496-0 Cohen, M.B., Simon, S., McLaughlin, D., Muskat, B., & White, M. (2016). Challenges and opportunities for applying group work principles to enhance online learning in social work. In Gianino, M. & McLaughlin, D. (eds.), (2016). Revitalizing our social group work heritage: A bridge to the future (IASWG Symposium Proceedings). London: Whiting & Birch, Limited. Collins, M.E., Augsberger, A., and Gecker, W.* (2016). Youth councils in municipal government: Examination of activities, impact and barriers. Children and Youth Services Review, 65, 140–147. Córdova, D., Alers-Rojas, F., Mendoza Lua, F., Baurermeister, J., Nurenberg, R., Ovadje, L., Fessler, K., Delva, J., Salas-Wright, C.P., & Youth Leadership Council (2016). Usability and acceptability of an adolescent mHealth HIV/STI and drug abuse preventive intervention in primary care. Behavioral Medicine. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/08964289.2016.1189396 Córdova, D., Heinze, J., Mistry, R., SalasWright, C.P., & Zimmerman, M.A. (2016). Ecodevelopmental trajectories of family functioning: Links with sexual risk behaviors and sexually transmitted infections among Black adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 52(7), 1115–1127. Córdova, D., Schwartz, S.J., Unger, J., BaezcondeGarbanati, L., Villamar, J.A., Soto, D.W., Des Rosiers, S.E., Cano, M., Lorenzo-Blanco, E., Oshri, A., Salas-Wright, C.P., Piña-Watson, B., & Romero, A.J. (2016). A longitudinal test of the parent–adolescent family functioning discrepancy hypothesis: A trend toward increased HIV risk behaviors among immigrant Hispanic adolescents? Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10964-016-0500-8

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DeVoe, E.R., Dondanville, K., & Blankenship, A. (in press). Military Families. In B. Fiese (ed.), APA Handbook of Contemporary Family Psychology. American Psychological Association. DeVoe, E. R., Paris, R., & Acker, M. (2016). Prevention and treatment for parents of young children. In Gerwirtz, A.H., & Youssef, A.M. (eds.), Parenting and children’s resilience in military families: A twenty-first century perspective. New York: Springer. Diaz-Linhart, Y., Silverstein, M., Grote, N., Cadena, L., Feinberg, E., Ruth, B. J., & Cabral, H. (2016). Patient navigation for mothers with depression who have children in Head Start: A pilot study. Social work in public health, 1–7. Gentles-Gibbs, N. (2016). Child protection and family empowerment: Competing rights or accordant goals? Child Care in Practice. doi: 10.1080/13575279.2016.1188760 Gentles-Gibbs, N. (2016). Leadership development: A pathway to transformation of the public child welfare system. Families in Society: Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 97(2), 95–101. Gonyea, J.G., & Melekis, K. (2016). Older homeless women’s identity negotiation: Agency, resistance, and the construction of a valued self. The Sociological Review. doi: 10.1111/1467-954X.12369 Gonyea, J.G., López, L.M., & Velásquez, E.H. (2016). The effectiveness of a culturally sensitive cognitive behavioral group intervention for Latino Alzheimer’s caregivers. The Gerontologist, 56, 292–302. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnu045 Gonzales, E. (2016). Working longer: A comparative perspective. The Gerontologist. doi: 10.1093/ geront/gnw072 Gianino, M., & McLaughlin, D. (eds.) (2016). Revitalizing our social group work heritage: A bridge to the future (Proceedings of the XXXV International Symposium of the International Association for Social Work with Groups, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, June 6–9, 2013). London: Whiting & Birch, Limited. Gianino, M., Ruth, B.J., & Geron, S.M. (2016): Social work continuing education: A statewide case study. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 1–22. doi: 10.1080/08841233.2016.1206053 Hahm, H.C., Augsberger, A., Feranil, M., Jang, J., & Tagerman, M.D. (2016). The associations between forced sex and severe mental health, substance use, and HIV risk behaviors among Asian American women. Violence Against Women, 1–21. doi:1077801216647797 Hahm, H.C., Lee, J., Cook,. B., Chiao,* C., & Valentine, A. (2016). Use of mental health care and unmet needs for health care among lesbian and bisexual Chinese-, Korean-, and VietnameseAmerican women. Psychiatric Services, 67(7). doi:10.1176/appi.ps.201500356

Hodge, D.R., Salas-Wright, C.P., & Wolosin, R.J. (2016). Addressing spiritual needs and overall satisfaction with service provision among older hospitalized inpatients. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 35(4), 374–400. Hong, J.S., Voisin, D.R., Hahm, H.C., *Feranil, M., & Schafer-Kruman Mountain, S.A. (2016). A review of sexual attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors of South Korean early adolescents: Application of the ecological framework. Journal of Social Science Research. doi:10.1080/01488376.2016.1202879 Hudson, R.B. (2016). It’s about time: Social insurance encounters the Third Age. The Gerontologist, 56(4): 786–89. Hudson, R.B. (2016). Cumulative advantage and disadvantage: Across the life-course, across generations. Public Policy & Aging Report, 26(2): 39–42. Keosaiana, J.E., Lemaster, C.M., Dresner, D., Godersky, M.E., Paris, R., Sherman, K.J., & Saper, R.B. (2016). “We’re all in this together”: A qualitative study of predominantly low income minority participants in a yoga trial for chronic low back pain. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 24, 34–39. Martinez, M.J., Kawam, E., Marsiglia, F.F., SalasWright, C.P., Ayers, S.L., & Porta, M. (2016). School connectedness and Guatemalan youth substance use: Does gender matter? Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 3(4), 185–198. Maynard, B.R., Vaughn, M.G., Salas-Wright, C.P., & Vaughn, S.R. (2016). Bullying victimization among school-aged immigrant youth in the United States. Journal of Adolescent Health, 58, 337–344. Miller, D.P. (2016). Accessibility of summer meals and the food insecurity of low income households with children. Public Health Nutrition, 19(11), 2079–2089. doi: 10.1017/S1368980016000033 Mincy, R.B., Miller, D.P., & De la Cruz, E.* (2016). Child support compliance during economic downturns. Children and Youth Services Review, 65, 127–139. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.03.018 Muroff, J., & Underwood, P. (2016). Treatment of an adult with Hoarding Disorder. In E.A. Storch and A.B. Lewin (eds.), Clinical Handbook of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders: A Case-Based Approach to Treating Pediatric and Adult Populations. New York: Springer. Narendorf, S.C., Santa Maria, D.M., Ha, Y., & Cooper, J. (2016). Counting and surveying homeless youth: Recommendations from YouthCount 2.0!, a community/academic partnership. Journal of Community Health, 1–8. Novelle, M.A., & Gonyea, J.G. (2016). The availability and role of non-parental identity agents for institutionalized male adolescent social orphans in Colombia. Children and Youth Services Review, 61, 51–60. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.11.024

Perron, B.E., Victor, B.G., Hodge, D.G., SalasWright, C.P., Vaughn, M.G., & Taylor, R.J. (2016). Laying the foundations for scientometric research: A data science approach. Research on Social Work Practice. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/1049731515624966 Quinn, A.E., Fernandez, A.C., Rubinsky, A.D., Hahm, H.C., & Samet, J.H. (in press). A research agenda to advance the coordination of medical and substance use disorder care. Psychiatric Services. Reingle Gonzalez, J.M., Salas-Wright, C.P., Connell, N.M., Clipper, S.J., Kassarjian, K., & Businelle, M.S. (2016). The long-term effects of school dropout and GED attainment on substance use disorders. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 158(1), 60–66. Ruth, B.J., Marshall, J.W., & Sisco, S. (2016). Public health social work. In C. Franklin (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Work. New York: National Association of Social Workers, Oxford University Press. Salas-Wright, C.P., & Vaughn, M.G. (2016). The changing landscape of adolescent marijuana use risk. Journal of Adolescent Health. Advance online publication. doi: 0.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.06.018 Salas-Wright, C.P., Vaughn, M.G., & Ugalde, J. (2016). A typology of substance use among pregnant teens in the United States. Maternal and Public Health Journal, 20(3), 646–654. Salas-Wright, C.P., Reingle Gonzalez, J.M., Vaughn, M.G., Schwartz, S.J., Jetelina, K.K. (2016). Age-related changes in the relationship between alcohol use and violence from early adolescence to young adulthood. Addictive Behavior Reports, 4, 13–17. Salas-Wright, C.P., & Vaughn, M.G. (2016). Size matters: Are physically large people more likely to be violent? Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 31(7), 1274–1292. Salas-Wright, C.P., Vaughn, M.G., Schwartz, S.J., & Córdova, D. (2016). An “immigrant paradox” for adolescent externalizing behavior? Evidence from a national sample. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 51(1), 27–37. Salas-Wright, C.P., Olate, R., & Vaughn, M.G. (2016). Preliminary findings on the links between violence, crime, and HIV risk among young adults with substance use disorders in El Salvador. Journal of Substance Use, 21(1), 35–40. Salas-Wright, C.P., Vaughn, M.G., Reingle Gonzalez, J.M., Fu, Q.J., & Clark Goings, T.T. (in press). Attacks intended to seriously harm and co-occurring drug use among youth in the United States. Substance Use and Misuse. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2016.1191516 Saper, R., Lemaster, C., Elwy, A.R., Paris, R., Herman, P., Plumb, D., Lynch, S., Wang, S., Weinberg, J., & Groessl, E. (2016). Yoga versus

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education for veterans with chronic low back pain: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial, Trials, 17:224. doi: 10.1186/s13063-016-1321-5 Sprague Martinez, L.S., Bowers, E., Reich, A.J., Ndulue, U.J., Le, A., & Peréa, F. C. (2016). Engaging youth of color in applied science education and public health promotion. International Journal of Science Education. doi: 10.1080/09500693.2015.1134850 Vaughn, M.G., Salas-Wright, C.P., & Reingle Gonzalez, J.M. (in press). Addiction and crime: The importance of asymmetry in offending and the life-course. Journal of Addictive Diseases. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/10550887.2016.1189658 Vaughn, M.G., Salas-Wright, C.P., Boutwell, B.B., DeLisi, M., & Curtis, M.P. (in press). Handgun carrying among youth in the United States: An analysis of subtypes. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/1541204016629721 Vaughn, M.G., Nelson, E.J., Salas-Wright, C.P., DeLisi, M., & Qian, Z. (2016). Handgun carrying among white youth increasing in the United States: New evidence from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health 2002–2013. Preventive Medicine, 88, 127–133. Vaughn, M.G., Salas-Wright, C.P., DeLisi, M., Naeger, S.R., & Huang, J. (2016). Childhood reports of food neglect and low self-control and violence in adulthood. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(4), 389. Vaughn, M.G., Nelson, E.J., Salas-Wright, C.P., Shootman, M., & Qian, Z. (2016). Racial and ethnic trends and correlates of non-medical use of prescription opioids among adolescents in the United States 2004–2013. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 73, 17–24. Victor, B.G., Hodge, D.R., Perron, B.E., Vaughn, M.G., & Salas-Wright, C.P. (2016). The rise of co-authorship in social work scholarship: A longitudinal study of collaboration and article quality, 1989–2013. British Journal of Social Work. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcw059 Wilkinson, G. (2016). Looking back when reaching forward. Community Newsletter of the Creating Health Collaborative (online). PRESENTATIONS Augsberger, A. (2016, January). The role of perceived trust in establishing positive relationships between foster care youth and child welfare caseworkers. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Society for Social Work and Research Conference, Washington, DC. Basualdo-Delmonico, A. (2016, August). Getting to the end right from the start. Presentation at Portland State University 2016 Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring, Portland, ME.

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Basualdo-Delmonico, A. (2016, August). The invisible hand of parents in youth mentoring relationships. Presentation at Portland State University 2016 Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring, Portland, ME. Beck, D., & Aquinaldo, L. (2016, July). Interdisciplinary postgraduate certificate in the fundamentals of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for social workers: children, adolescents and adults. Course at Annual 2016 Summer Institute, Adelphi University School of Social Work, Garden City, NY. Boldin, M. (2016, February). Talk on addiction stigma, TEDxAmoskeagMillyard, Manchester, NH. *Bowling, A., Wood, B., Miller, D.P., Slavet, J., Hermesch, R., Kow, R., *Newlan, S., & Davison, K. (2016, April). School-based exergame-cycling may improve self-regulation among children with behavioral health disorders. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, DC. Bratiotis, J., & Muroff, J. (2016, July). Taking steps forward: An experiential workshop for managing hoarding and clutter. Workshop presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the International OCD Foundation, Chicago, IL. Bratiotis, C., Baker, J., Edsell-Vetter, J., & Muroff, J. (2016, July). It takes a village: Community response to hoarding disorder. Workshop presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the International OCD Foundation, Chicago, IL. Byrne, T. (2016, June). Homelessness among older veterans: trends, projections and implications. Presentation at the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans Annual Conference, Washington, DC. Byrne, T. (2016, June). Projecting the need for VA homeless services among emerging populations. Presentation at the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans Annual Conference, Washington, DC. Byrne, T., & Culhane, D.P. (2016, May). Medicaid funding for critical time intervention: A scalable solution to crisis homelessness? Presentation at the Reckoning with Homelessness Conference, New York, NY. Byrne, T., Henwood, B., & Scribner, B. (2016, January). Residential moves among Housing first participants. Presentation at the Society for Social Work Research Annual Conference, Washington, DC. Byrne, T., Henwood, B., Wenzel, S., Padgett, D.K., Blasi, G., & Mangano, F. (2016, January). A multisector approach to moving the needle on ending homelessness. Presentation at the Society for Social Work Research Annual Conference, Washington, DC. Cavell, T.A., Spencer, R., Slep, A., *Ocampo, M., Herrera, C., *Gowdy, G., & Heubach, J. (2016, June). Identifying and describing school-based support for military-connected youth: Who and how.

Poster presented at the Society for Prevention Research Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Choi, Y., Tan, K., Yasui, M., & Hahm, H.C. (2016, July). Latent groups of youth cultural orientation strategies: Comparisons of characteristics in peer, parent, and family processes. Poster presented at the 24th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD 2016),Vilnius, Lithuania. Choi, Y., Tan, K., Yasui, M., & Hahm, H.C. (2016, April). Subtypes of youth cultural orientation and their correlates in peer, parent characteristics and family processes. Paper presented at the Paper Symposium “Race, Ethnicity and Culture and their Impact on Youth Development among Asian Americans” (Y. Choi, Chair) at the Biennial Conference for the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), Baltimore, MD. Collins, M.E. (2016). Comparative analysis of state policy-making in child welfare: Differentiating symbolic versus substantive change. Presentation at the Fourteenth International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum. Wellington, New Zealand. Collins, M.E. (2016). New developments in social work education and research. Presentation at the Department of Social Work, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Collins, M.E. (2016). New developments in social work education and research. Presentation at Department of Social Work, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Collins, M.E, Augsberger, A., & *Gecker, W.A (2016, June). Youth Councils and Social Justice: Practice and Potential. Paper session at the Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development, Seoul, Korea. Collins, M., Augsberger, A., & *Gecker, W.A. (2016). Youth civic engagement and social inequality: The potential of municipal youth councils. Paper presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management, London, England. Córdova, D., Schwartz, S.J., Unger, J., BaezcondeGarbanti, L., Villamar, J., Soto, D., Salas-Wright, C.P., Cano, M., Des Rosiers, S., Lorenzo-Blanco, E., Piña-Watson, B., Oshri, A., & Romero, A. (2016, March). Trajectories of parent-adolescent family functioning discrepancies are linked to HIV/STI risk behaviors among Hispanic adolescents. Paper presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Córdova, D., Heinze, J., Mistry, R., Salas-Wright, C.P., & Zimmerman, M. (2016, January). Ecodevelopmental trajectories of parent support and family conflict: Links to HIV/STI risk behaviors and STIs among African American youth. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC.

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Córdova, D., Schwartz, S., Unger, J. B., BaezcondeGarbanati, L., Villamar, J. A., Soto, D. W., Salas-Wright, C. P., Cano, M., Des Rosiers, S. E., Lorenzo-Blanco, E., Piña-Watson, B., Oshri, A., & Romero, A. (2016, January). Trajectories of parent-adolescent family functioning discrepancies: Links to HIV/STI risk behaviors in recent Hispanic immigrant adolescents. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC. DeVoe, E.R., Acker, M.A., Blankenship, A., Dondanville, K., & Jacoby, V. (2016, September). Supporting contemporary military families with very young children: Reflective practice as best practice. Presentations at the 4th Annual Military Social Work Conference, “Supporting Diversity in the Military, Veterans, and their Families: Implications for Practice, Education, and Research,” Austin, TX. DeVoe, E.R., Paris, R., Acker, M.A., & Spencer, R. (2016, June). Co-parenting processes among US National Guard/Reservist parents of very young children. Presentation in symposium, “Family relationships and resilience across deployment and reintegration: A focus on military families with young children,” at the 15th Annual World Association of Infant Mental Health Conference, “Infant Mental Health in a rapidly changing world: Conflict, adversity and resilience.” Prague, Czech Republic.

training presented to Social Work Department, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA.

St. Louis, Friedman Center on Aging, HRS Working Group, St. Louis, MO.

Furlong, J., & Ross, A. (2016, May). Solutionfocused brief therapy and crisis intervention with children, adolescents, and adults, part 2. Half-day training presented to Social Work Department, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA.

Gonzales, E. (2016, July). Health Security. Presentation at AARP, Washington, DC.

Furlong, J. (2016, April). “Who gets to decide if I’m a good enough mother?” Mother-blaming in clinical practice. Paper presented at NASW Symposium, Massachusetts chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, Framingham, MA. Furlong, J. (2016, April). Grading and Student Feedback. Teaching Colloquium presentation for faculty at Boston University School of Social Work, Boston, MA. Furlong, J., & Gianino, M. (2016, January and April). Brief, and not shallow: challenges and strategies in episodic, outcome-informed and client-directed treatment. Presentation at the Fenway Health Center, Boston, MA. Furlong, J., & Gianino, M. (2016, February). Challenges and strategies in episodic, outcome-informed and client-directed treatment, part 2. Lecture presented at the Fenway Health Center, Boston, MA.

Dondanville, K. A., DeVoe, E. R., & Blankenship, A. (2016, September). If you build it, they will come? Presentation at the 4th Annual Military and Veteran Social Work Conference at the University of Texas, Austin, TX.

Gianino, M. (2016). Video entitled “Affirmative clinical practice with lesbian, gay and transgender persons,” produced by UPG Media Group. Invited presentation. Designed and presented video content including lecture, live demonstration and final reflections on LGBT-affirmative practice.

*Drew, A., *Gowdy, G., & Spencer, R. (2016, August). Study to analyze relationships (STAR) findings. Presentation at the Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring, Portland State University, Portland, ME.

Gianino, M., & Shannon, D. (2016, June). Hookups versus cuddling: A gay men’s group navigates young adulthood. Presentation at the International Association of Social Work with Groups Annual Symposium, New York, NY.

Drew, A.L., Keller, T., Spencer, R., Herrera, C., & McBeath, B. (2016, June). Evaluation of the National Quality Mentoring System: Update and preliminary findings. Presentation at the MENTOR State Partnership Annual Caucus, Pittsburgh, PA.

Gianino, M. (2016, April). LGBTQ affirmative practice in behavioral health settings. Presentation at the South Boston Behavioral Health Center, Boston, MA.

Edsell-Vetter, J., & Muroff, J. (2016, July). Paths toward change: Innovative approaches in training, assessment, and interventions for hoarding. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the International OCD Foundation, Chicago, IL. Furlong, J. (2016, June). Trauma-informed care in medical settings. Lecture presented to care coordinators, patient navigators, and social workers in Outpatient Primary Care Department, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA. Furlong, J. (2016, June). DSM 5: Consequences and controversies. Lecture presented to clinical staff at Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center, Boston, MA Furlong, J., & Ross, A. (2016, May). Solutionfocused brief therapy and crisis intervention with children, adolescents, and adults, part 1. Half-day

Gianino, M., & McLaughlin, D. (2016, March and April). Group Work Foundations: Parts 1 and 2. Presentation at the Follen Community Church, Lexington, MA. Gianino, M. (2016, January and April). The good, bad and the ugly: conflict resolution in task groups. Presentation at the Ryan White Planning Council of the Infectious Disease Bureau, Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, MA. Gianino, M. (2016, March). To tell or not to tell: Self-disclosure in clinical practice. Presentation at the Social Work Grand Rounds, Tufts Medical Center, Department of Social Work, Boston, MA. Gonzales, E., Shen, H.W., Perry, T.E., & *Wang, Y. (2016, January). Does volunteering buffer health during the relocation process? And does it vary by race? Presentation at the Washington University in

*Gowdy, G., Spencer, R., Keller, T., *Drew, A., & McCormack, M. (2016, June). Preventing early match closures. Presentation at the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Annual Convention, Orlando, FL. Ha, Y. (2016, June). Child care subsidy use and earnings of TANF participating families. Presentation at the ACF/OPRE Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency, Washington, DC. Hahm, H.C., *Petersen, J., Feranil, M., *Cha, J.W., & Chen, J. (2016, June). HIV testing and HIV knowledge among sexually active young Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese women. Oral presentation at the Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development 2016, Seoul, South Korea. Hahm, H.C., *Lee, S.W., *Maru, M., & *Yoon, B. (2016, June). The prevalence and descriptions of suicidal ideation and intent among young AsianAmerican women: Preliminary data from the AWARE intervention. Oral presentation at the Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development 2016, Seoul, South Korea. Hahm, H.C. (2016, May). Infusion of technology with AWARE intervention. Invited speaker for Round Robin at The State of Asian Women’s Health Conference at the Impact Hub, Boston, MA. Hahm, H.C. (2016, May). Panelist for patient engagement/peer support. The 4th State of Asian Women’s Health in Massachusetts, Boston, MA. Hahm, H.C. (2016, April). Korean American’s menboong (mental destruction): Mental health talk for Korean-American parents. Invited special talk at the Korean-American Math Competition organized by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Hahm, H.C., Lee, G.S., Lee, S.S., Trentadue, M., & Choi, Y.S. (2016, March). Developing Asian Women’s Action for Resilience and Empowerment (AWARE): An intervention to improve the mental and sexual health of Asian-American Women. Poster presented at the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (BU CTSI) 5th Annual Translational Research Symposium, Boston, MA. Hahm, H.C. (2016, March). Difficult conversations: Korean mental health issues for pastors in New England. Invited special talk at Cambridge Korean Church, Cambridge, MA. Hahm, H.C. (2016, February). Suicidal behaviors among Asian American women and the development of the AWARE study. Guest lecturer for Social Epidemiology (EP 775) with Dr. Yvette Cozier at the Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

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Hahm, H.C. (2016, January). HIV testing and HIV knowledge among sexually active young Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese women. Invited presentation at the 20th Annual Conference Anniversary Celebration of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC. Hanbidge, A.S., Gianino, M., & Cohen, C. (2016, June). Integrative problem-based and case-based teaching methods in social group work education. Presentation at the International Association of Social Work with Groups Annual Symposium, New York, NY. *Herriott, A., Paris, R., Spielman, E., & Sommer, A. (2016, June). Substance-dependent mothers’ experiences with care providers: Understanding the impact of the social construction of motherhood. Poster presented at the 15th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, Prague, Czech Republic. Holleran Steiker, L., Salas-Wright, C.P., King, E., & Meyer, E. (2016, April). REAL-SV: Adaptation of the keepin’ it REAL intervention for college student veterans. Poster presented at the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ. Keller, T., *Drew, A., Spencer, R., Herrera, C., & McBeath, B. (2016, January). Research on the National Quality Mentoring System: An investigation of programs and practices. Workshop presented at the National Mentoring Summit, Washington, DC. Kremer, K.P., Vaughn, M.G., Salas-Wright, C.P., & Maynard, B.R. (2016, January). Are homeschooled adolescents less likely to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs? Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC. Lee, J., & Hahm, H.C. (2016, June). Self-harming behaviors among sexual minorities in South Korea. Oral presentation at the Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education, and Social Development 2016, Seoul, South Korea. López, L., Hemanto, J., Chassler, D., & Lundgren, L. (2016). Substance-abuse patterns in Puerto Rico: Lessons from a community-based participatory research experience. APHA. López, L. (2016, August). Panel of Experts Meeting, San Juan. National Hispanic/Latino Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC), San Juan, Puerto Rico. López, L. (2016, February). Latinos, circular migration, addiction & HIV: A participatory research training for public health social work. BU Research on Tap Across Boundaries Research on Migration Across Disciplines, Boston, MA. López, L., Hermanto, J., Chassler, D., & Lundgren, L. (2016, January). Heroin and Xylazine combined: A contributing factor to HIV risk behaviors in Puerto Rican drug users. SSWR, Fairfax, VA.

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Mancini, M., Salas-Wright, C.P., & Vaughn, M.G. (2016, January). Drug use and service utilization among Hispanics in the United States. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC. Martinez, D.B. (2016, June). The liberation health model of social work practice. Seminar at TEI, Faculty of Health & Caring Professions, Department of Social Work, Athens, Greece. Martinez, D.B. (2016, May). Social justice matters: A social justice method of practice for clinical social workers. Keynote Address at Alumni and Friends Day, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY. Martinez, D.B. (2016, April). Taking care of ourselves: Community care and social justice. Community presentation at City Life / Vida Urbana, Boston, MA. Maynard, B.R., Salas-Wright, C.P., & Sacco, P. (2016, January). Social media for social work researchers: What, why and how? Special session presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC. McLaughlin, D. (2016, April). Group work supervision: Mutual aid in action. Workshop presented at NASW, MA Chapter 2016 Symposium, Framingham, MA. Miller, D.P., & *Chang, J. (2016). Longitudinal trajectories of child food insecurity among children of immigrants. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, D.C. Miller, D.P., & Morrissey, T. (2016). Investigating the impacts of SNAP on child and adult health. Presentation to the University of Washington’s West Coast Poverty Center, Poverty and Inequality Research Colloquium, Seattle, WA. Morrissey, T., & Miller, D.P. (2016). Using natural experiment to examine the effects of SNAP on health. Presentation at the Third Annual HELD Conference, George Washington University, Washington, DC. Morrow-Howell, N., Gonzales, E., Matz-Costa, C., & Greenfield, E. (2016, January). Increasing productive aging in later life (Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative Working Paper No. 8). American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, Cleveland, OH, and Society for Social Work Research Annual Conference, Washington, DC. Naeger, S.R., Vaughn, M.G., Salas-Wright, C.P., & DeLisi, M. (2016, January). Hunger matters: Findings on the links between food deprivation and interpersonal violence. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC. Nepomnyaschy, L., & Miller, D.P. (2016). Nonresident father involvement and child obesity. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting

of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC. Paris, R. (2016, July). Evaluation lessons from Project BRIGHT: A therapeutic parenting intervention embedded in SUD treatment. Invited presentation at Pregnant and Postpartum Women Summit, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, SAMHSA, Rockville, MD. Paris, R., DeVoe, E.R., Acker, M., & *Herriott, A. (2016, June). Relationships between military fathers and their young children: Exploring the impact of deployment and trauma. In symposium, “Family relationships and resilience across deployment and reintegration: A focus on military families with young children,” to the 15th Annual World Association of Infant Mental Health Conference, “Infant Mental Health in a rapidly changing world: Conflict, adversity and resilience,” Prague, Czech Republic. Paris, R., & *Herriott, A. (2016, May). Perceived parenting stress and competence in substance-dependent mothers: The importance of trauma and reflective functioning. Presentation at the 15th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, Prague, Czech Republic. Paris, R. (2016, March). Addressing parenting challenges for traumatized mothers of young children in substance-use treatment. Invited presentation at Sapir College, Department of Social Work, Sderot, Israel. Paris, R., & Devoe, E. (2016, March). Strong families strong forces: A randomized clinical trial of a post-deployment parenting intervention for US service members and their families with young children. Invited presentation at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Paris, R. (2016, March). Clinical research and evaluation workshop. Invited presentation to doctoral students and junior faculty at Bar Ilan University, School of Social Work, Tel Aviv, Israel. Paris, R., & Sommer, A. (2016, March). Building a parenting intervention for traumatized substance-dependent mothers and their young children. Invited presentation at Bar Ilan University, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv, Israel. Paris, R., & DeVoe, E. (2016, March). Strong families strong forces: Development of a post-deployment parenting intervention for US service members and their families with young children. Invited presentation at University of Haifa, Department of Psychology, Haifa, Israel. Paris, R., & Sommer, A. (2016, March). Dyadic psychotherapy with traumatized substance-dependent mothers and their young children. Invited presentation at Hebrew University School of Social Work, Jerusalem, Israel. Paris, R., & *Herriott, A. (2016, January). Exploring the impact of substance misuse, trauma and mental health on parenting young children.

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Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC. Pereira, J. (2016, June). Panelist, clinical treatment of men: Mission (im)possible? Presentation at the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI), Dublin, Ireland. Pereira, J. (2016, June). Panelist, Road Rage. Presentation at the 2016 Northeast Transportation Safety Conference, Worcester, MA. Pereira, J. (2016, April). Anger: Effective practical strategies for change. Presentation at Adult Services for the City of Edinburgh, Scotland, In-Service Training, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Richardson, L., Paris, R., Dym Bartlett, J., Sprang, V., & Jump, V. (2016, March). Answering questions that matter: An interactive workshop on evaluation strategies for NCTSN centers. Workshop presentation at the Pre-Meeting Institute of the All Network Conference, National Child Traumatic Stress Network, National Harbor, MD. Robles, E., Maynard, B.R., Salas-Wright, C.P., & Todic, J. (2016, January). Culturally adapted interventions for substance use: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC. Salas-Wright, C.P., Vaughn, M.G., Todic, J., Perron, B.E., & Cordova, D. (2016, January). Trends in the perception and use of cannabis among American youth: 2002–2013. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC. Slep, A., Cavell, T.A., Spencer, R., Heubach, J., *Ocampo, M., & *Gowdy, G. (2016, June). Launching MSM: Year 2 feasibility findings. Poster presented at the Society for Prevention Research Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Spencer, R., Cavell, T.A., Slep, A., *Gowdy, G., *Ocampo, M., Heubach, J., & †Strathdee, R. (2016, June). Keeping it safe and fun: Parent perspectives on school-based mentoring for military-connected youth. Poster presented at the Society for Prevention Research Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Spencer, R., Cavell, T.A., Slep, A., *Gowdy, G., *Ocampo, M., Heubach, J., Herrera, C., & Strathdee, R. (2016, June). Mentoring military-connected youth: A survey of program practices. Poster presented at the Society for Prevention Research Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Spencer, R., *Gowdy, G., *Drew, A., *Abrams, E., & *Rhodes, J E. (2016, March). “Because she understands what I have been through”: Youth and mentor perspectives on youth initiated mentoring. Paper presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Spencer, R., *McCormack, M., *Gowdy, G., *Drew, A., *Abrams, E., & Keller, T. (2016,

January). STAR Study: Investigating matching and the relationship development process. Workshop presented at the National Mentoring Summit, Washington, DC. Sprague Martinez, L.S. (2016). Engaging youth of color in applied science education and public health promotion. Oral presentation at Boston College, Institute for the Study of Race and Culture, Sixteenth Annual Diversity Challenge: “Race, Culture, and Educating Our Youths: Developing Whole People, Not Widgets,” Boston, MA. Sprague Martinez, L.S. (2016). Nuestro Futuro Saludable applied inquiry and action: Engaging middle school youth of color in critical service-learning. Oral presentation at Boston College, Institute for the Study of Race and Culture, Sixteenth Annual Diversity Challenge: “Race, Culture, and Educating Our Youths: Developing Whole People, Not Widgets,” Boston, MA. Sprague Martinez, L.S., Negron, R., Araujo Brinkerhoff, C., & Siqueira, C.E. (2016). A Community-Engaged Transdisciplinary Process to Study Culture in Transnational Immigrant Communities. Oral presentation at the Council of Social Work Education Annual Meetings (CSWE), Atlanta, GA. Sprague Martinez, L.S., Negron, R., Araujo Brinkerhoff, C., Reich, A.J., & Siqueira, C.E. (2016). Project AquiLá: A community engaged transdisciplinary process to study culture in transnational communities in Massachusetts. Poster presentation at the Science of Team Science Conference (SciTS), Phoenix, AZ. Steketee, G., & Whittal, M. (2016, June). Exposure and response prevention—can we do better? Panel session presented at the Melbourne International Forum for Advancing Psychological Treatments for OCD, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. Steketee, G., & Frost, R.O. (2016, June). Buried in treasures: Assessing and treating hoarding disorder. Full-day pre-conference workshop presented at the World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy, Melbourne, Australia. Steketee, G. (2016, June). Responses to Hoarding. Keynote address to the World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy, Melbourne, Australia. Terzis, L., Salas-Wright, C.P., Vaughn, M.G., Schwartz, S.J., & Córdova, D. (2016, January). An “immigrant paradox” for adolescent externalizing behavior? Evidence from a national sample. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC. Ugalde, J., Salas-Wright, C.P., & Vaughn, M.G. (2016, January). A typology of substance use among pregnant teens in the United States. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC.

Vaughn, M.G., Salas-Wright, C.P., Kremer, K.P., & White, N. (2016, January). Poor sleep and reactive aggression: Results from a national sample of African American adults. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC. Walsh, M. (2016, June). Prophetic and pastoral transformation of woundedness, despair, and rage through and embodied and material play. Presentation at the Society for Pastoral Theology Conference, Pasadena, CA. Walsh, M. (2016, June). Urban African-American youth rituals in the aftermath of violent loss. Presentation at the Cultural Studies Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. Walsh, M. (2016, April). Examining whiteness within practical theology. Presentation at the Association of Practical Theology Biennial Conference, New York City, NY. Walsh, M. (2016, March). Material theo/poetics of world making, rupturing, unmaking, and reconstituting. Presentation at Theopoetics: A Transdisciplinary Conference, Boston University, Boston, MA. West, A., Shdaimah, C., Ahn, H., Ha, Y., Houser, L., Kahn, J., & Pilarz, A.R. (2016, January). Research and advocacy in early education and child care: Where is social work? Roundtable presented at the 20th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC. Wilkinson, G., Matos, S., & Holderby-Fox, L. (2016, July). Developing a national community health worker professional association. Presentation at the Unity Conference, Atlanta, GA. Wilkinson, G., & Fox, D. (2016, July). CHWs and social determinants of health: How far upstream are we looking? Presentation at the Unity Conference, Atlanta, GA. Wilkinson, G., Mason, T., & *Rush, C. (2016, June). Certification of community health workers: Issues and options for state health departments. National webinar produced for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Washington, DC. Wilkinson, G., *Rush, C., & *Gallagher, L. (2016, February). Opportunities and challenges for state health departments in community health worker integration and workforce development. National webinar produced for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Washington, DC. Zunz, S.J. (2016, June). Coping with challenges: Building your resiliency. Presentation at Granite State College, Manchester, NH.

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With support from the Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health, two students travel the world bridging the gap between academia and practice.

With support from BU School of Social Work’s new Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health (CISWH), two students earning dual degrees in social work and public health—Haley Falkenberry (’16, SPH’17) and Allison Backman (’17, SPH’18)—were able to take their global health research and experience to the heart of public health social work abroad. Dr. Sally Bachman, the CISWH’s interim director, said she was glad the Center was able to facilitate the summer travel experiences. “The Center functions at the nexus of interprofesSally Bachman sional and transdisciplinary collaboration with public health, medicine, policy, law, and other relevant disciplines,” Bachman told Currents. Launched in 2015, the CISWH’s earliest activities in fulfilling its ambitious mission included the creation of seven Learning Communities. Each Community comprises scholars, practitioners, and policymakers with expertise in social work, public health, medicine, and economics, and

their findings will be used to advance social work research, policy, practice, and education related to health. These Learning Communities are in the process of completing manuscripts for a special issue in the American Journal of Public Health. For students like Falkenberry and Backman, CISWH facilitates key learning opportunities on campus—and well beyond. “The Center has helped me to form my identity as a public health social worker,” said Falkenberry, who is a CISWH graduate research fellow. “It serves as a home for people who are working at the intersection of the two fields.” TACKLING HIV/AIDS PREVENTION IN TANZANIA

Even in Africa, Falkenberry was never far from CISWH expertise and mentorship. After completing her field practicum work in Tanzania in July, she was eager for more experience. CISWH offered support. Falkenberry stayed on and volunteered with MUKIKUTE, a Dar es Salaam– based organization that delivers integrated HIV, TB, and harm-reduction services to people who inject drugs (PWID) and other marginalized populations in the largest city in Tanzania.

ABOUT THE CENTER FOR INNOVATION IN SOCIAL WORK AND HEALTH (CISWH)

Led by Interim Director Dr. Sally Bachman, the CISWH—endowed at $12.5 million—opened in 2015 with the promise of exploring and expanding the role of social work within health, public health, and global health in order to increase efficiency, improve population health outcomes, enhance patient care, and promote health equity nationally and globally. In one of CISWH’s first initiatives, Learning Communities were tasked with researching and writing papers for presentation at the CISWH symposium held last spring. Their research will also be published in a special issue of the American Journal of Public Health in early 2017.

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The experience included needle exchange outreach for people who use drugs as well as research and interviews. It was the perfect fit for Falkenberry, a former graduate intern at AHOPE—the Boston Public Health Commission’s harm reduction and needle exchange program—and an MSW grad and MPH candidate with a focus in working with populations most vulnerable to HIV infection. Falkenberry said she conducted many interviews, speaking with outreach volunteers , Haley Falkenberry ('16, SPH'17) doctors, and participants of the program. “One of the most interesting aspects was assisting with improved data gathering and organization,” Falkenberry said. She told Currents she worked with data about methadone clinic referrals and established a process for reporting and compiling this pivotal information. “There are incredible opportunities for future partnerships and collaborations between organizations working with populations who have a high risk of HIV infections,” Falkenberry said.

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Backman, with a grant from the West African Research Association—a research network with overseas headquarters in Senegal providing a wide range of resources and support for researchers from the US, West Africa, and beyond— worked with several organizations that provide psychosocial support to Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone. Having completed just one year of graduate study, Backman took her academic work on the health of communities impacted by trauma to Sierra Leone. Backman learned firsthand how communities at large impact singular issues. “Sierra Leone faced an enormous public health emergency when Ebola hit, and thousands of individuals have been affected in the aftermath by the losses that it has brought about,” Backman told Currents. “Organizations face the challenge of helping one group without alienating others.” “I realized how complex an issue this is,” Backman said. “I went in thinking there’s a right answer, that you just need X, Y, Z [solutions]. That’s still true, but it’s more nuanced than a black and white answer.” “My professors were teasing me [before I left],” she recalled. “They said, ‘You’re going to be out of your element; most people would do this after another year or two.’” But Backman found a strong support system through her BUSSW mentors and colleagues—people

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like professor, CISWH Learning Community leader, and dual degree in social work and public health program director Betty Ruth. “I would e-mail [Ruth] from Africa, and she would connect me with alums with experience in the issues I was asking about,” she said. “She literally helped me put together an online consultation group of dual degree alums working globally. I’m really lucky at BU. The mentoring is there, and the professors really want you to grow as a professional.” Backman told Currents she had Alison Backman ('17, SPH'18) followed Sierra Leone’s story both after its civil war and more recently after Ebola and was inspired by the country’s ability to come together in such challenging times. “I really wanted to know what social inclusion principles have been successful for traumatized individuals and communities at large,” Backman said. During her three-month stay, Backman investigated just that, interviewing survivors and community leaders such as social workers, community health workers, nonprofit

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directors, and government officials to find out what works and what the needs are. She completed 24 interviews during her first two months abroad and spent her final month transcribing, cleaning up data, analyzing, and writing. Backman worked primarily with the Sierra Leone Association for Ebola Survivors (SLAES), a national network of survivors established in 2015, though she also spent time partnering with the Sierra Leone Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs; Social Workers of Sierra Leone; Sierra Leone Mental Health Steering Committee; and others. ELEVATING SOCIAL WORK AT HOME AND ABROAD

Falkenberry’s Dar es Salaam experience and Backman’s research in Sierra Leone were more than fact-finding missions; each student brought home a newfound appreciation for cross-cultural collaboration and, not coincidentally, the importance of CISWH’s transdisciplinary approach. With its unique partnerships fueling progressive research, CISWH hopes to provide nuanced solutions for years to come—and that’s just fine with Falkenberry and Backman. “You really can’t have social work without public health, and you can’t have public health without social work,” Falkenberry said. “It’s all about collaboration.”

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Howard Parad (’48) of Williamsburg, Mass., shares that he and his wife, Libbie, are snowbirds, spending summer and early fall in Williamsburg and winters in Delray Beach, Florida. Now retired, he has volunteered as an LCSW. He says, “I am grateful for having had a rewarding professional career and wonderful family, with three children, five grandchildren, two lovable great-grandsons, and one future great-granddaughter in the oven. Would be delighted to hear from fellow classmates.”

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Arlene (Kaplan) Hewitt (’54) of Alexandria, Va., received the Flora Krause Casey Public Health Award in 2015 by the City of Alexandria Public Health Advisory Commission for her service to improving community health.

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Carol Klein (’60) of Chapel Hill, N.C., is comfortably living in a CCRC. She is retired and has two children. “We have five grandchildren and manage to keep in touch with modern telephone systems. Phyllis, if you see this, would love to hear from you,” she writes. ¶ Pallassana R. Balgopal (’62) of Urbana, Ill., retired in 2000 after teaching at Tulane, the University of Maryland, the University of Houston, and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he is a professor emeritus. Since then, he has been involved in grassroots social work in South Asian and East Asian countries. In April 2014 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Social Work from the Association of Professional Social Workers of India. Pallassana writes, “[I] would love to hear from fellow alums and friends.” Email him at pbal@illinois.edu. ¶ Kendall Snow (’64) of Manchester, N.H., writes, “Upon my retirement after 50 years in social work, I decided to run for office as a state representative. I was elected and found it to be yet another platform from which I could advocate on key issues.” ¶

Lorna McKenzie-Pollock (’65) of Brookline, Mass., continues to pursue her private practice, international counseling, working with individuals and families coping with life in the United States. Lorna recently completed two terms as president of the New England Society of Clinical Hypnosis and is now on the executive committee of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. “I am going to become a grandmother in November,” she says. ¶ David Wizansky (’67) of Brookline, Mass., has worked with adults who have developmental disabilities since the early 1970s. Along with his wife, Margot (’67), he founded Specialized Housing, Inc., in 1983.

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Patricia Ann Hinckley Reese (’70) of Bethel, Conn., retired from her 30-year career in psychiatric social work at the State of Connecticut Department of Mental Health in 1996. She is now addressing her bucket list. She writes, “I took a class in stand-up comedy at the Ridgefield Playhouse and made my debut in November 2014. I am on YouTube under Patricia Reese.” ¶ Mimi Sohn Licht (’70) of Wayland, Mass., is keeping busy with her premarital counseling service, Wisely Web, in Coolidge Corner. ¶ Ernestine Johnson (’71) of Montclair, N.J., was appointed as a NJ/DOE/Early Childhood Division statewide trainer of trainers in June 2016 to facilitate the training of preschool intervention and referral team specialists. ¶ Sheila Siegel (’71) of Venice, Calif., works with Free the Slaves, following her retirement from 20 years as a school psychologist. She travels the world teaching staff how to deal with the trauma experienced by those they are freeing. ¶ Marjorie Blackwood-Horsey (’72) of Brooklyn, N.Y., retired as a clinical social worker in 2014. She worked in outpatient mental health with children and their families. For the last 15 years, she combined a private practice along with her role as director of medical and mental health services for a New York foster care agency.

She credits BUSSW for her successful career. ¶ Carol Huntington (’73) of Bath, Maine, still works full-time and lives in Maine overlooking the Kennebec River. ¶ Emily Hancock (’74) of Berkeley, Calif., retired from her 30-year career as a children custody mediator three years ago and is now working on a memoir about her father’s life. “I am still a displaced Yankee, yearning for New York City from my quaint Berkeley bungalow. Any New Yorkers out there want to trade?” she writes. ¶ Joan (Peg) Buckman (’75) of South Boston, Mass., has six children, 14 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren. “No social workers yet, but many service-oriented and volunteers,” she writes. ¶ Donna Reilly (’75) of Winthrop, Mass., continues to be active in the Winthrop Democratic Town Committee, recently involved in Senator Joseph Boncore’s campaign. She will participate in Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins’ campaign and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. ¶ Lois Goetz (’75) of Port Washington, N.Y., has worked as a bilingual (Spanish) social worker with the Adelphi Breast Cancer Program for 10 years, providing counseling, patient navigation, and services to underserved women receiving care at Nassau University Medical Center. “Our family welcomed a daughter-in-law and a wonderful granddaughter,” she adds. “We are enjoying the amazing joys of grandparenting.” ¶ Rosemary Ananis (’76) of Wells, Maine, received a master of divinity degree from Bangor Theological School in 2008 and a doctor of divinity in 2014 from the Episcopal Divinity School. She is an ordained Old Catholic priest, the bishop of New England for the Old Catholic Church, Province of the United States, and dean of the Institute of Old Catholic Studies. She practices social work two days a week and has lived in Maine for 30 years with her wife, Janet O’Day (SON’71, MED’79). ¶ Andrew Scharlach (’76) of Alamo, Calif., was awarded the Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Productive Aging. He says, “Louis Lowy continues to inspire me in everything I do.” ¶ James Edwards (’77) of North Ridgeville, Ohio, retired four years ago after serving as a pastor in the United Church of Christ for 31 years. Along with his wife, Deb, he owns

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a 37-foot sailboat and spends summers sailing in the Lake Erie islands. His son, Lanse, is 23 and has a successful business as a welder in Texas. ¶ Joseph Murphy (’77) of Deerfield, N.H., recently ended a 13-year career with the US Department of Veterans Affairs police and returned to social work. He now works at the VA Manchester NH Medical Center in the Veterans Justice Outreach Program. ¶ Brenda Bachman-Streitfield (’78) of Newport, R.I., writes, “The third-generation social work tradition continues with my daughter, Lauren Bachman-Streitfield (’17).” ¶ Lee Ellenberg (’78) of Boston, Mass., was accepted to the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. Lee provided national trainings on motivational interviewing and SBIRT implementation over the last 10 years. He is the training manager of the MASBIRT Training and Technical Assistance Program, overseeing SBIRT trainings throughout Massachusetts. ¶ Norene (Buczynski) Freeman (’78) of Kennebunkport, Maine, became a grandmother to Amelia Rose and is anticipating another grandchild in January 2017. This fall she begins her final year with the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine and looks forward to becoming an ordained interfaith minister. ¶ David Lapensee (’78) of Tampa, Fla., relocated from the Boston area after 38 years. He was a private practitioner for many years and is currently exploring licensure while researching opportunities in Southern California. He continues to pursue outdoor and nature photography. ¶ Marylou Sudders (’78) of Boston, Mass., is expanding access to treatment for substance use disorders and ending the longstanding practice of civilly committing women to MCI Framingham in her role as MA secretary of health and human services. “It is a privilege to use my social work skills

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and commitment to social justice inside [the] government,” she says. ¶ Bruce McWhorter (’79) of Hull, Mass., retired in July 2016.

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Ann Doherty (’80) of Ventura, Calif., is now a writer after being a practicing psychotherapist for several decades. She has twin daughters, age 22, and her husband is a history professor. Ann has been sober and clean since 1979. Her book in progress is called Ain’t Gonna Do That Again—The Unmaking of a Therapist. ¶ Catherine Hess (’80) of Alexandria, Va., now retired from full-time health policy work, continues to pursue her passion for art. She has been juried into Gallery 75 at the Art League in Alexandria. She owns a second home in Wellfleet, Mass., and has become active in the local arts community. She is also an artist member of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, and the Cape Cod Creative Arts Center. ¶ Ann Condon (’81) of Centerville, Mass., is in solo practice on Cape Cod. She was recently recruited to work with some assisted-living resident clients. ¶ Bob Fresen (’81) of Green Bay, Wisc., will retire from social work at the end of 2016 after 28 years with the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin as an EAP counselor/manager. “I plan to live near the beach in Yucatan, Mexico, in the winter and play golf in Wisconsin in the summer. I would love to hear from friends and classmates,” he writes. ¶ Ruth Housman (’82) of Marshfield Hills, Mass., writes, “Once a social worker, always a social worker! I am now writing extensively about words and letters.” ¶ Nancy Sanford (’83) of Waterville, Maine, retired last year following a 30-plus-year social work career. Nancy is enjoying retirement and spending time at her Maine coast cottage. ¶ Richard Whitehill (’83) of Marblehead, Mass., went to law school after graduating SSW and has spent 30 years working with indigent families and their children. His practice is concentrated in the juvenile courts representing parties who cannot afford an attorney. ¶ Ann Chace (’84) of Taunton, Mass., is currently working for the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences as the alumni career advisor. Her primary office is in Boston. ¶ Elizabeth Niedbala Jones (’84) of

Frederick, Md., closed her private practice to move to Maryland. Her oldest child will complete her final year of graduate school at Hofstra University in industrial organizational psychology. Her youngest will attend a new high school. Beth will eventually open a new private practice. ¶ Annita Koni (Verma) (’85) of Nicosia, Cyprus, has worked for the state-run social welfare services in Cyprus since her graduation from BUSSW and was promoted to the position of national supervisor for family and child services. In 2010, she switched to teaching social work at the university level, which she really enjoys. ¶ Patricia “Paki” Wieland (’86) of Northampton, Mass., writes, “A busy year; retirement has meant putting good social work skills into practice. [I have] been working to support whistleblowers, ending wars, justice for the Palestinians, and stopping the gas pipeline in Massachusetts. My primary political affiliations are the Raging Grannies and Code Pink. Protesting is good for the body, mind, and spirit!” ¶ Emma Weiss (’87) of New Orleans, La., became the director of alternative programming for Crescent City Schools in New Orleans. ¶ John Canavan (’87) of South Boston, Mass., was essential in establishing the Employee Assistance Department for the Boston Fire Department, City of Boston, 1983. He retired in 1990. He has authored stories in Parade and Firehouse magazines. ¶ Anne Greenbaum (’88) of Jamaica Plain, Mass., is a consultant with ADG Consulting following 25-plus years in the fields of youth development, school/community partnerships, and sports-based youth development in Boston. “I love learning about the exciting work being done by others and sharing that information,” she writes. “My partner and I enjoy traveling and are looking forward to a trip to Spain in fall 2017,” she writes. ¶ Laura Tennyson (’89) of New Orleans, La., is president of Lura Belle Productions, a marketing and communications firm that specializes in the hospitality, tourism, and entertainment industries. Laura is proud to announce that she is the marketing representative for Grammy Award–winning trumpeter and film composer Terence Blanchard. ¶ Bonnie L. Hennig (’89) of Simsbury, Conn., received her doctorate of social work degree in June 2016. Her dissertation is Developing an Evidenced-Based Role for

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the Social Worker in Addressing Driving Competency in Clients with Dementia. Bonnie is currently director of UConn Health Huntington’s disease program, located in Farmington.

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Kathryn Eden (’90) of Barrington, R.I., works in private practice in Providence and at a local community health center. ¶ Lori Gunar-Felsenstein (’90) of Glen Rock, N.J., is working in the public school system helping emotionally challenged students, following a 22-year career in a similar program at a private high school. She is also taking online courses through the University of North Texas in order to become certified in applied behavior analysis. ¶ Stacy Ross (’90) of Needham, Mass., is a cognitive behavioral therapist at The Trainor Center in Natick. ¶ Andrea Slatopolsky (’90) of Santa Fe, N.M., works with United Way of Santa Fe County as a program manager for the First Born home visiting program. The First Born program serves first-time families with babies ages 0–3. Andrea supervises eight home visitors. “I am excited to do truly preventive work with the potential of great impact—and I get to be around babies and toddlers!” she writes. ¶ Phillip Weichel (’90) of Portland, Ore., was recently named region vice-president for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. ¶ Julia Carlson (’91) of Cambridge, Mass., retired following a 25-year career as a substance-abuse clinician and clinical supervisor. She is now a volunteer tutor for ESL learners through the Cambridge Literacy Project and is working on her next volume of poetry. ¶ Carolyn Frimpter (’91) of Seattle, Wash., is a guardian ad litem for children in the child welfare system and a mother to twin 13-year-old girls. She continues to speak truth to power through her employee union. ¶ Helen Kobek (’91) of Cambridge, Mass., is enjoying her work: Accent-modification instruction and writing. “While I’m no longer in the social work field directly, I’m certainly engaged with people on the social justice issue of the everyday cruelty of our world,” she writes. ¶ Pat McCormick (’91) of North Topsail Beach, N.C., writes, “I am back working with military families at Camp

Lejeune’s New River air station!” ¶ Edwin Wilson (’91) of Charlotte, N.C., works for Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools as a behavioral systems specialist. ¶ Bette Freedson (’92) of South Berwick, Maine, will present Reach Them While They Dream: Brief Therapy that Endures for Kids and Teens at the Milton Erickson Foundation’s Brief Therapy Conference in San Diego, California, this year. In the summer/fall program of Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Bette will co-facilitate a women’s weekend with Michele Tamaren. Visit bettefreedson.com for more. ¶ Tina Karagulian (’92) of San Antonio, Texas, retired from counseling in private practice—which included art

therapy—and began to focus on painting. Through Black Rose Arts and Press, she continues art and healing transformation through paintings. She writes, “My son is graduating high school this year and I am enjoying watching his life take off in a new direction.” Visit tinakaragulian. com. ¶ Kathleen Kelly (’92) of Tabor City, N.C., is a certified social work manager and licensed as a clinical addiction specialist in addition to holding certification in dialectical behavior therapy. In December she opened a professional limited liability company providing mental health, substance abuse, and literacy services to a rural community in North Carolina. She has a new godchild, a Chihuahua/shih tzu mix named Ash. ¶ VaJezatha Payne (’92) of Palmdale, Calif., is the CEO of Getting In Getting Through, Inc., a community-based organization designed to facilitate community recovery

and healing. Married for 15 years, she also has an 11-year-old son, 9-year-old daughter, and eight pets. ¶ Janet Scott-Buckley (’93) of Billerica, Mass., is excited to report that her son, Sean, will attend Boston University as part of the class of 2020! “It was great to be back on campus recently. Sean will be an archaeology major and will live in Classics House on Bay State Road,” she writes. ¶ Sharon Carothers (’93) of Washington, DC. left the Truth Initiative after 12 years, went to Booz Allen Hamilton, and is now leading a behavior change campaign practice at Sensis, a cross-cultural advertising agency. “I welcome students and grads to reach out for networking—especially in the macro/policy track!” she writes. ¶ Sarah Lange (’93) of Worcester, Mass., says that business at her consulting company, New Era for Nonprofits, is booming. “We have a robust client list, and since January have been uploading prerecorded trainings to the Nonprofit U section of our website so that more organizations can tap into our knowledge and expertise,” she writes. In February, Sarah landed a contract with Praeger Publishing for her first book, a field guide to modern fundraising. She has just returned from a trip to Peru. “There are Inca ruins everywhere—it was awe-inspiring!” she writes. ¶ Richard Stuver (’93) of Quincy, Mass., has been a staff clinical social worker in student health services at BU since 2009. He lives with his wife, a professor at BUSPH, and daughter, a student at Johnson and Wales in the baking and pastry chef program. ¶ Larry Kirkpatrick (’94) of Grantham, N.H., is working parttime after all these years at New London Counseling Associates. “I’m working with individual adults and enjoying my work. Would like to hear from classmates who were at Tyngsboro at the time,” he writes. ¶ Kristina Whiton-O’Brien (’95) of Kingston, Mass., says, “I am honored to let you know that I have been selected by the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women as one

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of the commonwealth’s Unsung Heroines of 2016.” ¶ Pamela Messore (’96) of Johnston, R.I., was named CCA behavioral health training coordinator after six years as director of adult outpatient behavioral health at Community Care Alliance in Woonsocket. She is responsible for the Building A Compassionate Community Project in northern Rhode Island. ¶ Vicki Kirsch (’97) of Fairfax, Va., is director of the MSW program in the social work department at George Mason University. She continues in private practice, focusing on trauma and recovery and assisting transgender individuals in their transitioning process. She is a specialist in EMDR and DBT. ¶ Amy Fitzgibbon (’97) of Westborough, Mass., writes, “After time away from my career to raise two wonderful children, Robbie (13) and Alyssa (10), I have returned as a school adjustment counselor in a public elementary school in Massachusetts. My husband, Rob, and I will celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary this November. I have fond memories of attending the part-time MSW program and hope the class of 1997 is doing well!” ¶ Christopher DeIulio (’97) of Salem, Mass., recently relocated back to the Boston area to work at Fenway Community Health Center as a staff therapist after eight years abroad as a contract clinical social work consultant for the Department of Defense. He has “resettled” back in Salem and finds it a “magical city.” His Japanese partner will join him in September to attend school. ¶ Jody Comins (’97) of Framingham, Mass., is a divorce and family mediator. She has a private practice and mediates in the Norfolk probate and family court. Jody teaches the required parenting class for couples getting divorced for the Divorce Center and Mediation Works, Inc. Jody is writing the curriculum for a new class, Honor Thy Children: Jewish Parenting through a Divorced Lens, which she will teach at Hebrew College. She writes, “I was honored last fall by the MetroWest Jewish Day School as a woman of valor for being a founding board member and immediate past president.” She is married to Mike Schnur (COM’07). They live in Framingham with two daughters. ¶ Heath Hightower (’98) of Somerville, Mass., was promoted to associate

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professor of human services and social work studies at Quinebaug Valley Community College. ¶ Priscilla Martinez (’99) of Newington, Conn., has returned to school social work at the CREC Polaris Center after working as New Choices program director for four years.

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Heidi Behr (’00) of Orlando, Fla., volunteers with GiveAnHour.org to provide free therapy and support to the veteran community. She was featured in their Global Giving report for her veteran volunteer work and efforts after the tragic shooting at the Pulse nightclub. “I hope more of my fellow social workers around the country will sign up to GiveAnHour and help our communities heal from trauma,” she says. ¶ Allison Tassie Srinivasan (’00) of Jakarta, Indonesia, recently moved to Jakarta with her husband, Sriram. They previously spent two years in Mumbai, India. This journey has included plenty of travel, cultural insights, and volunteer opportunities in both countries, with biannual visits back to the United States. ¶ Elisabeth Gehl (’01) of Chevy Chase, Md., is the associate director of federal relations with Habitat for Humanity International in Washington, DC. ¶ Daria Smith (’01) of Southington, Conn., is the executive director of the Connecticut State Independent Living Council. On a part-time consulting basis she directs the James H. Napier Foundation, a small, private grant-making foundation serving the Meriden and Wallingford communities. ¶ Sarah Dawgert (’02) of Clarks Summit, Pa., is the co-founder of Woodland Way, an independent publisher of children’s stories that foster kindness, respect, empathy, resilience, and laughter. Visit woodlandway.com for more. ¶ Nikki Pollard (’04) of Boston, Mass., served as the School of Social Work Alumni Association vice-president since September 2015. She says, “I really enjoy working with current and prospective students, alumni, and faculty.” In March 2016, she left her former role as behavioral health care manager at Tufts Health Plan and began a new position as an outpatient therapist at Atrius Health. “I am proud to share that my daughter recently graduated from high school

and will attend Bentley University this fall!” she adds. ¶ Alex Harris (’05) of Tampa, Fla., is completing his doctorate studies in organizational leadership while teaching part-time at the University of South Florida and performing. He has co-founded the Arts Conservatory for Teens, an after-school comprehensive arts magnet program. “This fall I’ll be releasing another single in the soul/R&B genre,” he writes. Check him out at alexthesinger.com. ¶ Elana Premack Sandler (’05, SPH’06) of Chevy Chase, Md., welcomed a daughter, Gabriella, with her husband last May. This year, she presented with Nanci Ginty Butler (‘01) and Carla Naumburg on public self-disclosure as social workers at the NASW Conference in Washington, DC. “I am in my eighth year of blogging about mental health and suicide prevention for Psychology Today,” she writes. ¶ Gregory Strachoff (’06) of Raynham, Mass., is the professional manager of vocational industries compensated work therapy programs at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Boston. He is also an avid cyclist and gardener. ¶ Mary Francis Drake (’08) of Plymouth, N.H., worked at a hospice program on the North Shore during her second-year internship and continued as a hospice social worker. She received an advanced hospice and palliative care social worker certification along with her LICSW license. She was the hospice chaplain, bereavement coordinator, and volunteer coordinator for a small program. Later, she became hospice program manager and VP of the New Hampshire Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Aliza Krevolin (’11) of Kingston, N.Y., is the program and finance associate at the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley. ¶ Bonnie Wennerstrom (’11, SPH’12) of Olympia, Wash., uses both her social work and public health degrees in her current role, working for the State of Washington’s Health Care Authority. As a health policy connector, she works with a cross-functional team to implement innovative policy for meaningful health transformation through the federal State Innovation Model grant program. ¶ Julie Aresco (’12) of Medford, Mass.,

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is a clinician at Harvard University’s Counseling and Mental Health Services, where she does individual and group psychotherapy along with community outreach. She is in her third semester as a course facilitator for BUSSW’s online program. Her dog, Tulip, became a certified therapy dog. She writes, “I started private practice work this summer with Tulip! I will begin the level 1 internal family systems training this fall.” Valerie Tobia (’12, SPH’13) of Attleboro, Mass., celebrated her wedding to longtime partner Isaac in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, on October 24, 2015. They celebrated their marriage with multiple BU friends, including Elizabeth (Gillott) Doneghey (’12), Alicia Ridenour (’13, SPH’14), Nicole (Belanger) Satullo (’12, SPH’14), Katie Gillespie (’12), and Aubrey Fitzpatrick (’12). Valerie is utilizing her degrees in public health and social work as the current manager of integrated behavioral health services at a federally qualified health center in Worcester. ¶ Michaela Cook (’13) of Cranston, R.I., earned her LCSW in fall 2013 and works for the nonprofit, family-run organization Jammat Housing and Community Development Corporation—Turning the Corner Group Homes. “My days are long and sometimes stressful, but I wouldn’t have it any other way!” she says. ¶ Robert Denney (’13) of North Andover, Mass., has taken on the role of area program manager at the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families’ Lawrence-area office. ¶ Erica Farrell (’13) of Seattle, Wash., relocated after five years in Boston and is a clinical manager at the Alzheimer’s Association. ¶ Jennifer Padre (’14) of Gloucester, Mass., began teaching in the Salem State University MSW program as an adjunct professor in January 2016. ¶ Jennifer Theroux (’14) of Derry, N.H., welcomed a baby girl, Lily Charlotte Theroux, with her spouse in January. ¶ Lea Vugic (’14) of

Allston, Mass., began working at Roxbury Community College as an academic counselor. ¶ Ryan Berkshire (’15) of Brighton, Mass., obtained his LCSW and is working as an addiction counselor in St. Elizabeth’s comprehensive addiction parogram. He also oversees the intensive outpatient addiction evening treatment program. ¶ Jennifer Dunn (’15) of Plymouth, Mass., is a supervisor for the protective services department at Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission. ¶ Anna Macgregor Robin (’15) of Providence, R.I., joined East Coast Mental Wellness (ECMW). In addition to providing exceptional integrative care, ECMW is one of the most dedicated and supportive LGBTQ resources in the region. She continues to champion narrative and holistic practices and to marvel at what her clients have to teach her. ¶ Rebecca Moon (’15) of Sandpoint, Idaho, opened a private practice in her hometown. She works with teens. Rebecca will offer traditional counseling, as well as a curriculum-based program. Read more at teenworkscounseling.com. “Thanks, BU, for providing the path and opportunity to get to this exciting moment!” she writes. ¶ Brittni Reilly (’15) of Boston, Mass., moved from her contracted position into a full-time permanent state position with the Department of Public Health—Bureau of Substance Abuse Services as the Opioid Overdose Prevention Program coordinator. ¶ Yuliana Zapata (’15) of St. Johns, Fla., completed her clinical field placement at Flagler Hospital Partial Hospitalization Program and is now a psychotherapist. She is currently registered with the Florida Board as a clinical social work intern. ¶ Maggie Capwell (’16) of Boston, Mass., is now a clinician at St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children after receiving her LCSW. She is working in the residential STARR program with children ages 0–12. ¶ Caitlin LeMay (’16) of Salem, Mass., obtained her LCSW earlier this year. She continues to work in sexual violence prevention in Lowell. ¶ Nicolette Martinez (’16) of Greensboro, N.C., accepted a position as a clinical social worker at Staywell Senior Care. Staywell houses the North Carolina PACE programs for all-inclusive care for the elderly.

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Patrick D. Spearman (ENG’96) and Jane Oldfield-Spearman (SSW’92) ■■ Vita Paladino (SSW’93) ■■■ Roberta M. Polk (SSW’55) ■■ Natalie J. Royster (SSW’63) and Preston M. Royster ■ Alan Stevens ■ Marcia Strean (SSW’54) ■ Elinor B. Tirre (SSW’55) ■■ Geoffrey W. Wilkinson (SSW’85) and Sally E. Johnson (SSW’78) ■■ Kenneth G. Grant (STH’75) and Marie L. Yannaco-Grant (SSW’75) ■■ $500–$999 Maryann Amodeo and Ralph D. Loftin ■ Cynthia D. Choate (SSW’88) Herbert S. Cohen ■ Patricia A. Darcy (CAS’63, SSW’68) ■■ Rosalie B. Epstein (SAR’54, SSW’75) and David M. Epstein ■ Karen A. Gould (SSW’68) ■ Gladys Lambert (SSW’63) ■ David K. Willey (SSW’91, SSW’94) and Lois Levinsky (SSW’74) ■ Jeannette F. McInnes (SSW’88) and Donald K. McInnes ■ Donald E. Messer (STH’66, GRS’69) and Bonnie J. Messer (SSW’66) ■ Evelina F. Sadler (SSW’90) and E. Andres Sadler ■ Deborah A. Sheehan (SSW’78) ■ Ilana H. Shure (SED’07, SSW’08) and Raphael Shure ■ Muriel Bloch Kolner Sieh (CAS’45, SSW’47) Sybil M. Silver (CAS’59, SSW’62) and Daniel B. Silver ■ Jodi B. Sperber (SSW’99, SPH’00, SSW’00) Nancy R. Stone (CFA’74) ■■ Sandra A. Torrielli (SSW’67) ■ Elizabeth Van Ranst (SSW’76) and Gerald E. Zuriff ■ Daniel Velez-Rivera (SSW’05, STH’06) and T. Parker Gallagher ■ Patricia G. Vinter (SSW’89) and Stephen T. Vinter ■ $250–$499 Thomas S. Adamczyk (SSW’74) and Jacqueline M. Adamczyk ■ John E. Trollman (MET’86) and Jerianne P. Alberti (SSW’68) ■ Anonymous ■ Anonymous ■■■ Kathleen M. Bruder (SSW’11) and Christopher E. Babuska ■ Jane C. Bartrum (SSW’75) ■ Christina Bethke (SSW’06) Carol S. Blumental (CAS’63, SSW’65) and George Blumental ■ Christiana Bratiotis (GRS’09) ■

Colleen Burt (SSW’09) ■ Louis D. Carter (SSW’54) ■■■ Catherine Ching (SSW’94, SPH’94) Linda Day-Mackessy (SSW’85) and John T. Mackessy Seth H. Pritikin (MET’06, CAS’99, Questrom’10) and Lawrie E. Donovan (SSW’08, CAS’04) ■ Amy S. Ellentuck (SSW’83) Robert N. Eskow (SDM’69, SDM’69) and Nancy L. Eskow (CAS’68, DGE’66, SSW’71) ■ Joanne R. Fazzano (SSW’00) ■ Martha H. Haskell (SSW’69) and Peter D. Haskell ■ Lianne Hope (SPH’14, SSW’14) ■■ Marjorie A. Horsey (SSW’72) ■ Rollin E. Johnson (STH’61, CGS’55, SED’57) and Carol J. Johnson (SSW’59, MET’77) ■ Alyssa E. Lodewick (STH’13, SSW’13) ■■ Jamie W. Marshall (SSW’05, SPH’06) ■ Catherine L. McCumber (SSW’71) and Donald A. McCumber ■ David A. McGowan (SSW’86) ■ Andrew H. Olney (ENG’90) and Katharine S. Olney (SSW’89) ■ Andrea Slatopolsky (SSW’90) and Morten Olrik ■ Shauna B. Peet (SSW’02) and Karl A. Peet Joan D. Pic (SSW’86) ■ Carol R. Rogers (SSW’95, SED’70) and Martin M. Rogers ■ Gregg A. Rubenstein (LAW’98) and Bonnie G. Rubenstein (SSW’97) ■ Carolyn Russell (SSW’99) ■ Nancy Sheiman (SSW’78) and Jonathan Sheiman ■ Mildred Sklar (SSW’53) ■ Susan G. Snider (SSW’78) and James M. Snider ■ James L. Sparks (SSW’98) ■ $100–$249 Rebeccajo Abelman (SSW’16) ■ Richard M. Aberman (SSW’78) and Nancy S. Aberman ■ Katherine H. Abrams (SSW’97) ■ Cynthia J. Adamski (SSW’78) and Stewart Dalzell ■ Pamela J. Adelman (SSW’85) and Steven A. Adelman Jane D. Adolph (SSW’65) ■ Jennifer G. Ahlijanian (SSW’91) and Paul Ahlijanian ■ Joshua I. Aiello (SED’09) ■■ Leslie M. Akula (SSW’72) and John L. Akula ■ George Young (SSW’05) and Kemi A. Aladesamni ■ Jennifer P. Alexander (SPH’97, COM’91, SSW’96) ■ Dorothy C. Allen (SSW’55) ■

Michael B. Allen (GRS’73, GRS’78) and Leslie G. Feder (SSW’80) ■ Thomas J. Devine (CAS’82) and Kimberly D. Allshouse (SSW’91) Jane S. Anderson (SSW’84) and David Anderson ■ Loretta Andrade (SSW’82) and Michael J. Colby ■ Anonymous ■ Anonymous ■ Anonymous ■ Anonymous ■■ Anonymous ■ Anonymous ■ Anonymous ■ Anonymous ■ Anonymous ■■■ Anonymous ■■ Anonymous ■ Anonymous ■ Anonymous ■ Robert W. Antelman (MED’77) and Berni J. Antelman (SSW’77, CAS’74) ■ Paul A. Arandia (SSW’05, SPH’07) ■■ Brian E. Arnold (STH’90, SSW’90) and Joanne M. Arnold Mark Aron (SSW’82) and Cindy M. Aron Harvey B. Aronson (SSW’84) and Anne Klein Sharon L. Ash Tancredi (SSW’99) Louise A. August (SSW’86) ■ Judith H. Babcock (SSW’84) ■ Sara S. Bachman and John Bachman ■ Maria M. Baeza (SSW’77) and John M. Miller ■ Pallassana R. Balgopal (SSW’62) and Shyamala W. Balgopal ■ Ara Baligian (SSW’62) and Joan C. Baligian ■ Christine Bandoni (SSW’02) ■ Requina M. Barnes (SSW’04) ■ Barbara B. Barrett (SSW’89) and John H. Barrett ■ Barbara D. Barshay (SSW’67) and Jacob Barshay Mildred H. Bauer (SSW’55) ■ Phyllis B. Bausher (SSW’68) and Larry P. Bausher ■ Marcia L. Baxter (SSW’77) and Bruce C. Damon ■ Charles A. Beaverson (SSW’63) ■ Peter C. Holloran (GRS’72, GRS’82) and Kathryn E. Beers (SSW’75) Heidi M. Behr (SSW’00, SPH’01) and Mark Egeland Vasili L. Bellini (SSW’55) and Maria J. Bellini ■ Irene Belozersky (SSW’88) and Alexander Belozersky Paul E. Benedict (SSW’76) and Karen M. Benedict ■ Regina S. Berkowitz (SSW’80) and Daniel Kanstroom Berthlyn M. Bernier (SSW’97, SPH’99) ■ Arthur G. Bernstein (SSW’70) ■ Mary K. Beucler (SSW’16) ■ Suzanne Black (SSW’84) Tamara J. Bliss (SSW’64) and John S. Bliss ■ Chana R. Bogsted (SSW’91) Claudia I. Boldman (SSW’80) ■ Lori Bonsignore (SSW’14) and Frank P. Bonsignore ■

Alvia A. Boone (SSW’60) and John O. Boone Suzanne L. Borenstein (SED’65) and Henry P. Borenstein ■ Michelle N. Bothmann (SSW’16) ■ Susan L. Boudreaux (SSW’86) and Robert Siegwarth ■ Daniel F. Boulger (SSW’93) and Concetta M. Boulger Regina E. Bower (SSW’92) and Robert A. Bower ■ Brian J. Brady (SSW’78) ■ Cynthia C. Bramble Daley (SSW’85) ■■ Jennifer S. Brandel (SSW’98)■ Kelly B. Crowley (SSW’03) and Paul W. Breimyer ■ Leslie J. Brennan (SSW’94) and Ronald N. Brennan ■ Eloise A. Bridges (SSW’54) and Leon Bridges ■ Eleanor M. Brightman (SSW’52) ■ Katherine I. Britton (SSW’03) ■ Sara M. Brockway (SSW’07) ■ Jeffrey A. Brown (LAW’73, LAW’75) and Barbara H. Brown (SSW’71) ■ Deborah L. Brown (SSW’02) and Ronald O. Brown ■ Alice H. Brown (SSW’87) Ann J. Bruhn (SSW’80) ■ Robert T. Bruzzese (SED’64, SSW’71, SED’79) ■ Sukhdeep Bubbra (SSW’97) Paula L. Budnitz (SSW’69) and Mark E. Budnitz ■ George R. Bulger (SSW’67) ■ Elizabeth A. Burden (SSW’91, SPH’92) ■ Barbara L. Burka (SSW’85) and Eliot M. Burka ■ Katherine M. Burner (SSW’15) ■ Virginia Burns (CAS’46, SSW’51) Helena A. Rocha (SSW’75) and Jeffrey A. Bushel ■ Elizabeth W. Buswick (SSW’10) and Geoffrey E. Buswick ■ Nanci Ginty Butler (SSW’01) and Ethan Butler ■ Edward M. Butrick (SSW’85, SED’74) ■ Anne M. Calcaterra (SSW’77) and Peter C. Calcaterra ■ Virginia Candee (SSW’93) and Mark E. Schreiber Rebecca E. Cantor (SSW’12, SPH’12) ■ Patricia M. Cardenas (SSW’82) and Ariosto Cardenas ■■■ Sharon L. Carothers (SSW’93) and Glenn Cocco ■ Lisa T. Carrozza (SSW’97) ■ Elizabeth V. Carruthers (SSW’94) and John B. Pendleton ■ Richard D. Casey (SSW’71) and Linda A. Casey (SED’70) ■ Barbara M. Catalano-Hey (SAR’91, SSW’94) Patrick J. Egan (Questrom’79) and Joanne M. Ceccarelli-Egan (SSW’77, STH’78) ■ Peter K. Chan (SSW’74) and Laura H. Chan ■ Daniel T. Chan (STH’00) and Judy B. Chan ■ Benjamin S. Chanowitz (SSW’77) and Judy Chanowitz Donna E. Chapman (SON’67, SSW’76) ■ Pamela A. Charney (SSW’91) ■ Denise S. Chazin (SSW’12) and Steve M. Chazin ■■

■ President’s Society (AFLGS) member ■ Young Alumni Giving Society member ■ Faculty/Staff member ■ Parent ■ Loyalty Society Member ■ First-time donor ■ Deceased

HONOR ROLL Eleanor I. Nay-Chiles (SSW’68) and W. Scott Chiles ■ Gerald Chuplis (SSW’95) ■ Ruth L. Claire (SSW’45) ■ Stephanie T. Clark (CAS’16) ■ Christopher Cline (SSW’02) ■ Richard S. Corry (SSW’57) and Virginia L. Clower Susan J. Coe (SSW’72) and S. Douglas Coe ■ Robert H. Cohen (SSW’56) and Ruth K. Cohen ■ Louise J. Cohen (SSW’81) Alexander M. Cohen (SSW’10, SPH’11) Cindy J. Collon (SSW’94) ■ Felicita N. Colon (SSW’83) ■ Karen E. Comiter Beer (SSW’86) and Thomas R. Beer ■■ Leonard S. Confar (STH’51, SSW’53) and Nancy S. Confar (STH’51) ■ Amy L. Conwell (SSW’92) and Nicholas Conwell ■ Amy E. Cook-Wright (SSW’95) and Jermaine D. Cook-Wright ■ James E. Cooney (SSW’78) and Norma A. Cooney ■■ Laurel K. Cooney (SSW’16) ■ Norman D. Corwin (MED’57) ■■■ Dorothy J. Corwin (SSW’57) ■■■ Jane R. Coyle (SSW’76) and D. Lorne Coyle ■ Barbara L. Cracknell (MET’78, SSW’91) and Terry A. Cracknell ■■ Lisa A. Cremer (SSW’08, SPH’09) ■ Richard J. Cresta (SSW’93, SPH’94) ■■ Laura E. Young (SSW’82) and Francis J. Cummings ■ Penny Cuninggim ■ Roger A. Phillips (SDM’92) and Robin M. Cushman-Phillips (SSW’90) ■ Phyllis M. Cynamon (CAS’54, SSW’58) ■■ Irene M. Daitch (SSW’61) and Herbert E. Daitch ■ Ronna Dallal (SSW’79, MET’74) and Amir D. Dallal ■ Thomas J. Damigella (CAS’70, CGS’67, SSW’72) and Rita M. Damigella ■■ Phyllis R. Dana (SSW’68) Susan I. Dansker (SSW’71) Maurie C. Davidson (SSW’67) ■ Nancy C. DeFeudis (SSW’93) ■ Douglas W. Deitz (CAS’78, Questrom’82) and Harriet S. Deitz (SSW’82, SED’78) ■ Anthony DeJesus (SSW’90) Kathleen R. Denham (SSW’13) ■ Ralph A. Detri (SSW’86, SPH’89) ■ Christopher L. Borges (CAS’93) and Anne E. Detweiler (SSW’97) ■ Yaminette Diaz-Linhart (SSW’10, SPH’11) ■■ Margaret J. Dieter (SSW’68) and Richard W. Miller ■ Necole M. Diggs (SSW’01) ■ Noelle C. Dimitri (SSW’00) ■ Denise O. DiOrio (SSW’85) and Joseph M. DiOrio ■ Lesley A. Dixon (SSW’97) ■ Daniel L. Do (SSW’14, SPH’14)

Marie L. Gerace (SSW’88, CAS’81) and Andrew Doherty ■ Robert G. Doll (SSW’67) and Judith A. Doll (CFA’67) Linda W. Dolmatch (SSW’80, Questrom’65) Nan Donovan (SSW’92) Monique K. Doussard (SSW’06) and Aleksandar D. Jovovic ■ Kimberly Percival (SSW’01) and Keith Duclos ■ Sherry L. Dutzy (SSW’74) ■ Hilda A. Earsy (SSW’93) and Paul G. Earsy ■ Joanne F. Edinberg (SSW’91) and Joseph Edinberg Deon S. Edwards (SSW’85) and Walter H. Edwards ■ Arthur Eisenberg (SSW’57, CAS’55) and Elaine F. Eisenberg ■■ Michael A. Ellis (SSW’97) and Cathy Ellis ■ Francois Exilhomme (MET’16) ■■ Emily B. Saltz (SSW’81) and Ira Fader ■ Nancy J. Fagan (SSW’88) and Thomas G. Wourgitis ■ Mary C. Fallon (SSW’68) and Phillip J. Fallon ■ Erica Farrell (SSW’13) ■ Marieka C. Farrenkopf (SSW’00, SED’00) and Matthew A. Bihn ■■ Caroline W. Feely (SSW’92) and Joseph A. Feely ■ Irma S. Feldman (SSW’54) ■ Aida I. Fernandez (STH’89, SSW’89) and Radames Fernandez Robert F. Finn-Clarke (SSW’01) ■ Victoria I. Fish (SSW’16) ■ Madeline B. Fisher (SSW’68) ■ Grace C. Fitzpatrick (SSW’54) ■ James A. Fitzsimmons (SSW’78) and Annett LaRocque Mildred Flashman (PAL’43, SSW’45) ■■ Susan Fleischmann Heather S. Holmes Floyd (SSW’84) and William H. Floyd ■ Sharon S. Foerster (SSW’87) and Donald R. Foerster ■ Stephen R. Folven (SSW’81) ■ John L. Forbes (SSW’55) and Nora T. Forbes ■ Lorna Forbes (SSW’82) and Richard P. Holt ■ Nancy Forman (SSW’73) ■ Ellen Forman (SSW’90) Cheryl A. Foster (SSW’73) ■ Amanda Frank (SSW’08, SPH’10) ■ Edith C. Fraser (SSW’72) and Trevor H. Fraser Jane S. Freed (SSW’75) and Gerald M. Freed ■■ Donald N. Freedman and Ruth I. Freedman Beth T. Freeman (CGS’78, SAR’80) and Douglas M. Freeman ■ Randi Freundlich (SSW’98) Ellen C. Friedman (SSW’85) ■ Erika Gaitan (SSW’15) ■ Peter W. Gariti (SSW’69) and Katherine O. Gariti ■ Diane Gates (SSW’84) and Paul H. Gates ■ Erica H. Gendel (SSW’96) Linda D. Gershman (SSW’76) ■ Elfrieda Gershman (SSW’91)

Randi P. Kaplan-Gesten (SSW’85, CGS’79, CAS’81) and Rod Gesten ■ Mark S. Gianino (SSW’83) ■ Judith C. Gilberg (SSW’80) and David J. Gilberg ■ Judith C. Gilbert (SSW’73) Jeanne A. Gill (SSW’58) ■ Jane R. Gill (CAS’54, SSW’56) ■ Katherine Ginnis (SSW’98, SPH’08) Diane F. Gittinger (SSW’71) and John W. Gittinger ■ John S. Glaser (SSW’65) ■ Shayna Gochberg (SSW’55) ■■ Jane G. Gold (SSW’98) Jonas B. Goldenberg (SSW’78) and Karen Weiner Katherine S. Gong (SSW’77) ■ Elizabeth M. Goodchild (SSW’03) ■ Mark D. Goodwin (SSW’87, SPH’87) ■ Cameron M. Gordon (COM’04) ■ Marla S. Richmond (SSW’93) and Robert A. Gottlieb ■ Shawn E. Granoff (SSW’98) Monroe D. Green (SSW’54) and Prudence C. Green Gerald Greenberg (SSW’79) and Gretchen Greenberg ■ Gregory L. Rosenberg (SSW’85) and Phyllis Greenberger ■■ Michael Greenstein (SSW’91) and Nettie K. Greenstein ■ Jane M. Griffin (SSW’97) and John R. Griffin ■■ Luigi A. Grimaldi (SSW’05) ■ Betsy M. Groves (SSW’75) and Timothy W. Groves ■ Anitza Guadarrama-Tiernan (CAS’99, SSW’01) Roberta H. Guez (SSW’71) and Moshe Guez ■ Deborah Guptill (SSW’67) ■ April D. Hackley (SSW’98) and Patrick D. Hackley ■ Jessica M. Hagewood (SPH’12, SSW’13) Hyeouk C. Hahm ■ Elizabeth W. Hahn (SSW’79) and Andrew B. Hahn Jaclyn Lichtenstein (SSW’79) and Paul Haley ■ Frances H. Hall (SSW’72) Daphne E. Hallowell (SSW’65) and Lee H. Hallowell ■ William J. Halpin (SSW’03, SPH’06) ■ Mary Halpin (SSW’93) ■ Stephanie G. Handel (SSW’96) Randy T. Siegel (CAS’86) and Maren A. Handler Siegler (CGS’85, CAS’87, SSW’90) ■ Patricia A. Hardy (SSW’08) ■ Jane S. Harrington (SSW’61) ■ Dennis E. Harrington (LAW’67) and Ellen B. Harrington (SSW’87) ■ Alexander O. Harris (SSW’05, STH’06) ■ Helen A. Lukash (SSW’90) and Paul T. Harrison ■ Suzanne M. Hart (SSW’90) Patricia M. Hartung (SSW’59) ■ Mary S. Hartzell (SSW’53) ■ Richard J. Hassinger (SSW’82) and Kathryn Hassinger ■ Suzanne Hauck (SSW’94) ■ Joe L. Hegel (LAW’78) and Marielaine Hegel (SSW’78) ■

Bonnie L. Hennig (CAS’87, SSW’89) ■■ Phyllis R. Hersch (SSW’67) and Charles Hersch ■ Catherine A. Hess (SSW’80) ■ Herbert J. Korn (COM’61) and Roberta J. Hodson (SSW’77) ■ Jean Holmblad (SSW’88) and Robert E. Zaret ■ Graham Holmes (Questrom’85) and Nancy J. Newton (SSW’81) ■ David J. Homsey (CFA’86) and Susan L. Wildemann (SSW’91) ■ Sandra S. Horne (SSW’63) and William A. Horne Laurie A. Howe (SSW’14) ■ Leslie Hu (SSW’07) Jessica M. Hudon (SSW’14) ■ Cecilia M. Hughes ■ Elizabeth A. Rose (CAS’70, SSW’75) and Joe D. Hull ■ Kathryn A. Hunt (SSW’15) ■ Hope M. Hussey (SSW’07) and Michael S. Hussey ■ Kenneth Ingber (LAW’79) and Selma Ingber (SSW’78) ■ Gordon Isakson (CGS’72) and Jeanette B. Isakson (SSW’79) ■■ Sara L. Jackson (SSW’13) ■ Marcia U. Jackson (SSW’76) ■ Richard A. Jackson (SSW’97, SPH’98) and Alexandra Jackson Mitchell Jaffe (SSW’52, SED’53) and Evelyn Jaffe ■ Jeanne A. James (SSW’80) and Dale W. James ■ Melissa W. Janfaza (CAS’92, SSW’95) and Andrew Janfaza Lucille M. Jerome (SSW’78, GRS’95) ■ Renita K. Johnson (SSW’84) and Lawrence P. Johnson ■ Elizabeth D. Johnson (SSW’81, GRS’81) ■ Aleta B. Johnson (SSW’86) and Douglas S. Johnson Catherine B. Johnston (SSW’12) ■ Robert E. Jolley (SSW’72) and Cheryl A. Jolley ■■ Christina R. Jolley (SSW’13) ■ Elizabeth N. Niedbala (SSW’84) and Stephen N. Jones ■ Tom S. Jones (SSW’80, STH’82) and Katherine S. Jones Roberta E. Jordan (SSW’09) ■ Helen R. Jordan (SSW’72) Mark D. Jose (SSW’75) and Barbara P. Covey Carin A. Kale (SSW’84) ■ Shamai Kanter (CAS’51) and Jeannette E. Kanter (SSW’70) Gary A. Kaplan (SSW’69) and Joan F. Kaplan (DGE’66, CAS’68) ■ Manuel E. Kaplan ■ Barbara B. Kaplan (SSW’89) and Marc M. Weiner ■ James H. Kaplan (CAS’97, LAW’00) and Erica L. StreitKaplan (SSW’00, SPH’01) ■ Kami J. Kato (SSW’98) Sandra M. Katz (SSW’98) ■ Christie L. Kaufman (SSW’76) and Fred Kaufman ■ Charlotte L. Kay (SSW’88) Donna J. Kean (SSW’72) and Douglas M. Keane Melissa M. Keel (CAS’72, SSW’75) and Harry W. Keel ■

Hope W. Kenefick (SSW’92, GRS’02) ■ Michael P. Kennedy (SSW’16) ■ Mary T. Kent (SSW’84) Nancy A. Kerrigan (SSW’96) Judith M. Keys (SSW’73) Christopher P. Kiritsy (Questrom’94) and Molly C. Owen-Kiritsy (SSW’94) Ellen P. Klein (SSW’72) and Jared S. Klein ■ Carol Klein (SSW’60) and David M. Klein ■ Suzanne R. Klumpp (SSW’90) and Andrew M. Klumpp ■ Kristin M. Koe (SSW’87) and Gregory K. Steinberg ■ Jodi Koeman (SSW’95) ■ Constance J. Koerner (SSW’70) ■ Barbara K. Kondilis (SSW’98, SPH’99) Jennifer Y. Kong (SSW’16) ■ Tamara E. Konig (SSW’06, SPH’08) ■ Gwendolyn A. Kopka (SSW’80) and Richard Kopka ■ Gail H. Korrick (SSW’60, CGS’56) and Ira Korrick ■ Katherine E. Kowaloff (SSW’87) and Harvey J. Kowaloff ■ Jane B. Kuniholm (SSW’70) and Peter F. Kuniholm ■ Betty Kurkulos (CAS’49, SSW’58) ■ Barbara Lambiaso (SSW’97, SPH’00) and Eric Lambiaso Jamison M. Landsman (SSW’92) and Jeffrey M. Landsman ■ Virginia L. Lane (SSW’75) and Robert M. Taiclet Lavay Lau (CAS’54, SSW’56) ■ Lina A. Lawall (SSW’75) and Lawrence M. Schaefer ■ Barbara E. Lazar (SSW’72) Thomas P. LeBlanc (SSW’82) ■ Jaime E. Lederer (SSW’08, SPH’10) ■ Susan S. Lederer (SSW’74, CAS’71) ■ Katherine W. Lee (SSW’99) ■ Christina M. Lemmo (SSW’93) ■ David P. Leonard (SSW’82) Elayne Lepes (SSW’87, SED’69) and Jeffrey Lepes ■ Joan B. Lerner (SSW’79) and Edward Lerner Rachel Lerner (SSW’90) Madeleine H. Linck (SSW’70) and Richard W. Linck Dennis B. Lind (MED’66) and Judy A. Lind (SSW’66) ■ Brita S. Loftus (SPH’14, SSW’14) Alissa M. Lonergan (SSW’93) and Edward J. Lonergan ■ Ingrid S. Longo (SSW’91) and Edward J. O’Neil ■ Luz M. Lopez ■■ Rosemary K. Lough (SSW’97) ■ Jeanne P. Louizos (SSW’68) ■ Susan L. Lovett (SSW’98) ■■ Peter Lowy (COM’74, Questrom’82) and Linda Zeckendorf-Lowy (CFA’72, SED’79) ■ Marshall H. Lykins ■■ Betty S. Lykins (SSW’80) ■ Gypsy B. Lyle (SSW’64) and David L. Lyle ■ Katherine M. Lynch (SSW’77) ■ Ann Marie T. Lynch (SSW’97) and William Lynch ■■

Boston University School of Social Work

HONOR ROLL Beverly A. Lyte (SSW’84) and Stewart Walsh Kailey M. MacArthur (SSW’14) ■ Kathy A. MacDonald (SSW’90) and Helen S. Raizen ■ Pandora L. MacLean-Hoover (SED’80, SSW’97) ■ Elizabeth A. Maguire (SSW’60) and Donald Maguire ■ Doris C. Magwood (SSW’73) ■ Cassandra E. Maher (SSW’90) ■ Leah Maihos (SSW’16) ■ Melva M. Meade (SSW’73) and Van Major ■ Charles J. Marcella (SSW’81) and Dorothy M. Marcella Steven R. Mark (Questrom’92) and Joanna Mark (SSW’84) ■ John B. Markoff (SSW’74) and Laurie S. Markoff ■ Joseph T. Marotta (SSW’78) Cristina R. Martin (SSW’11) ■ Nicolette S. Martinez (SSW’16) ■ Marylou Masterpole (SSW’80) ■ Mary W. Mathias (SSW’90) ■ Burnet B. Sumner (SSW’69) and Jack W. McAninch ■ Mary F. Pignataro (SSW’78) and James T. McCudden David E. McDonald (SSW’72) and Sheila S. McDonald Caroline Q. McElroy (SSW’64) and Peter E. McElroy ■ Amanda E. McGerigle (SSW’15) ■ Donna McGinnis ■■ Jane K. McGrath (SSW’53) Michael J. Novack (SSW’97) and Mary C. McGurrin-Novack ■ Keith W. McIntosh (CGS’01, CAS’04) and Leidy S. McIntosh (SSW’15, SPH’15) ■ Donna McLaughlin (SSW’94) ■■ Jennifer McLaughlin (SSW’94) Tracy A. McLaughlin (SSW’96, MET’94) and Daniel J. McLaughlin ■ Elizabeth W. McNamara (SSW’89) and Anna-Beth Winograd ■ Raymond McPhie (SSW’95) and Annette H. McPhie (MET’97, MET’92) ■■ Ann C. McWalters (SSW’95) ■ Sylvia L. Memolo (SSW’76) and Ralph Memolo ■ Donna J. Merrell (SSW’16) ■ Diane B. Meskin (SSW’69) and Peter Meskin ■ Corey W. Dolgon (CAS’84) and Deborah A. Milbauer (SSW’94, CAS’90, SPH’95) ■ John J. Millette (CAS’87) and Susan K. Yi-Millette (SSW’88, CAS’87, MET’87) ■ Jack A. Mine (SSW’81) Andrea G. Monderer (SSW’91) and Stewart Monderer ■ Penelope A. Moore (SSW’11) ■ Betty B. Moorehead (SSW’44) ■■ Earl D. Morris (SSW’51) and Helen N. Morris ■ Robert L. Morrison (GRS’92, SSW’07) and Emily Morrison ■ Jay M. Morrison (SSW’71) and Susan J. Morrison ■ Christine M. Moyer (CAS’14, SSW’16) ■ Theresa A. Moynahan (SSW’04) ■ Jenny Mundell ■ Jordana R. Muroff ■■ Sarah N. Murphy (SSW’87) ■

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Kathryn E. Myers (SSW’11) ■ Stephen Nadel (SSW’08, SED’16) Hasib F. Nasirullah and Ishrat Nasirullah ■■ Raika A. Nasirullah (CAS’14, SSW’16) Cherie L. Nault (SSW’97) ■ Amy H. Neumann (SSW’16) ■ Harvey I. Newman (SSW’66) and Stephanie Newman Hung T. Nguyen (SSW’16) ■ Kristina F. Niccoli (SSW’71) ■ Joyce Nicholas (SSW’71) and Roger A. Nicholas ■■ Margaret R. Nichols (SSW’50) ■ Sara A. Nichols (SSW’14) ■ Kerri E. Nickerson (CAS’05, SSW’07, SPH’09) ■ Pamela B. Noonan (SED’69) ■ Richard W. Norcross (SSW’65) ■ Kristina E. Normann (SSW’11) ■ Nicole L. Norton (SSW’14) ■ Kristen R. O’Brien ■■ Lauren A. Rudd (SSW’13) and Vincent O’Driscoll Lydia P. Ogilby (SSW’67) ■ Victoria S. O’Gorman (SSW’47) Margo Okazawa-Rey (SSW’74) Brian C. O’Keefe (SSW’16) ■ Judith E. Opsahl (SSW’59) and Richard Opsahl ■ Brian J. Oren (Questrom’86) and Lisa M. Oren (SSW’90) ■ Sima R. Osdoby (SSW’68) ■ Lauren W. Osga (STH’15, SSW’15) ■ Lauren A. Pagan (SSW’16) ■ Lucia A. Panichella (SSW’06) Mary Anne Parachini (SSW’70) and David C. Parachini ■■ Stacey M. Paradise (SSW’15) ■ Jim Park (SSW’92) ■ Alison Parodi-Bieling (SSW’96) ■ Margery B. Pattison (SSW’76) ■ Wilma C. Peebles-Wilkins ■ Judith Perlstein and Frederick Levy ■■ Marjorie M. Perry (SSW’89) ■ Bruce W. Peters (SSW’90) and Molly F. Peters ■ Sandra M. Peterson (SSW’60) ■ Faye M. Polansky (SSW’81) ■■ Jennifer Polk (SSW’92) ■ Nikki R. Pollard (SSW’04) ■ Mary E. Posner (SSW’70) and Edward M. Posner ■ Henry J. Powsner ■ Rhonda J. Press (SSW’79) and Lawrence Ragent Marilyn A. Preston (SSW’94) ■ Victoria Preziosi (SSW’16) ■ Deborah Putnam (SSW’92, SPH’94) ■ Ellen Queeney (STH’97, SSW’98) Edward L. Raynard (SSW’67, CGS’60) and Shirley M. Raynard (CAS’64) ■■ Patricia A. Reese (SSW’70) ■ Audrey J. Reffie (SSW’11) ■ Donna S. Reilly (SSW’75) and Thomas E. Reilly ■ Doreen P. Reis (SSW’01) and Felix J. Rodriguez ■ Jean R. Rekemeyer (SSW’89) and Arthur H. Brownlow Tracey S. Rezendes (COM’01, SED’12) and David S. Rezendes ■■ Robert M. Rice (SSW’54) and Priscilla M. Rice (DGE’48) ■■ John R. Richard (SSW’80) and Joan C. Richard ■

Morris Richman (SSW’54) and Marjorie Richman ■ Alicia K. Ridenour (SSW’14, SPH’14) ■ Nancy R. Rikoon (SSW’73) and Gary M. Rikoon ■ Christina Rios (SSW’14, SPH’14) Donna L. Riva (SSW’01) ■ Shawna M. Rodrigues (SSW’02) ■ William M. Rogers ■ Ellen M. Sparrow (SSW’95) and Edwin R. Rogers Elizabeth D. Rogers (SSW’64) Jennifer F. Roman (SSW’10) and Jason M. Roman ■ Nora Rose (SSW’11) ■ Joan E. Rosenson (SSW’60) and Lawrence Rosenson ■ Abigail M. Ross (SSW’08, SPH’10, GRS’16) ■■ Ann H. Ross (SSW’68) and Joseph Ross ■ Doris Rothe (SSW’76) ■ Annemarie O. Rotondo (SSW’74) and Anthony M. Rotondo ■ Phillip S. Rubin (COM’64) and Laurie K. Rubin (SSW’73) ■ Charlotte Rubin (SSW’48) ■ Taffy S. Ruggeri (SSW’05) and Joseph N. Ruggeri ■ Betty J. Ruth (SSW’84, SPH’85) and Ken S. Schulman ■■■ Linda J. Sacks (SSW’80) and Chris T. Holland (SSW’80) ■ Bridgett J. Sadler (SSW’07) and Michael Sadler ■ David Sadownick (SSW’08) ■ Jasmine Sahady (SSW’97) and Jonathan L. Sahady ■ Juanita Salinas (SSW’90, CAS’85) ■ Janet A. Salomon (SSW’71) and Kenneth P. Salomon ■■ Louise P. Saltzman (SSW’54) and Charles Saltzman ■ George R. Samuels (SSW’90, GRS’89) ■ Elana J. Sandler (SSW’05, SPH’06) ■ Nancy A. Sanford (SSW’83) ■ Cathleen O. Savery (SSW’96) and Donald J. Savery ■ Marion S. Schaal (CGS’67, CAS’69, SSW’71) ■ Anne L. Schaller (SSW’96) ■ Pauline T. Scheinfein (SSW’56) ■ Nancy J. Schieffelin (SSW’72, CAS’68) and Carl M. Brauer Katherine L. Schiessl (SSW’88) and Gary G. Schiessl Susan K. Schlesinger (CAS’71, SSW’74) and Alan J. Schlesinger ■ Constance J. Schnell (SSW’69) ■ Anne Scholder (SSW’74) ■ Jill M. Schreider (SSW’14) ■ John H. Schwartz (CAS’63) and Janice H. Schwartz (SSW’69) ■ Cecile Schwartzman (SSW’46) ■ Susanne Scipione (SSW’03) and Michael J. Scipione ■ Erica D. Scoppetti (SSW’05) ■ Meredith A. Scott (SSW’80) and Robert J. Scott ■ Millicent P. Scott (SSW’55) ■ Jillian C. Scribi (SSW’07) ■ Margaret O. Seigenthaler (SSW’62) ■ Lori B. Seller ■ Margaret E. Senturia (SSW’74) and Stephen D. Senturia ■

George Serpikov and Constance Serpikov ■■ Judith C. Server (SSW’75) and Alfred C. Server Teresa W. Shaka (SSW’75) and George J. Shaka Barbara Shapiro ■ Beth-Ann Sheff Ross (SSW’95) and Laurence A. Ross ■■ Elaine Sherrod (SSW’72) and Rome Sherrod ■ Evelyn J. Shickman (SSW’59) and Gerad M. Shickman ■ Jean C. Shimer (SSW’82) ■ Ruth Sidel (SSW’56) and Victor W. Sidel ■ Carol R. Siegel (SSW’65) and Jules Siegel ■ Erica Sigal (SSW’88) ■ A. Richard Slayton (SSW’67) and Louise U. Slayton (SSW’67) ■ Laura Smales (SSW’13) ■ Dorothy L. Smith (SSW’49) ■ Arlette T. Smith (SSW’82, CAS’79) ■ Wendy J. Zimman-Smith (SSW’73) and Edward H. Smith ■ Judith A. Smith (SSW’83) and Robert M. Smith ■ E. Kendra Smith (CAS’62, SSW’64) and Huston Smith ■ Hannah J. Smyth (SSW’13) ■ David I. Solomon (Questrom’83) and Debra B. Solomon (SSW’87) ■ Deidra M. Somerville (SSW’95) and Michael Somerville ■ Pamela Sonnen (MET’94, SSW’98) Faye B. Speert (SSW’70) and Peter K. Speert ■ Kerri Spillane (SSW’99) ■ Andrew M. Spooner (SSW’93) and Bliss Austin ■ Ashley M. Spring (SSW’16) ■ Julie S. Springwater (SSW’94) ■■ Drury A. Spurlock (SSW’88) ■ Allison T. Srinivasan (SSW’00) and Sriram L. Srinivasan ■ Meg E. Stafford (SSW’83) and Martin D. Stafford ■ Naomi M. Stanhaus (SSW’70) and James S. Stanhaus ■■ Mary A. Stankovich (SSW’73) and Dushan Stankovich Lee H. Staples (GRS’93) ■ Naomi M. Stearns (SSW’74) and Robert W. Stearns ■ Elizabeth D. Steel (SSW’87) and R. Knight Steel ■ Patricia H. Stejskal (SSW’84) and Allan D. Stejskal Brian H. McCorkle (GRS’92, GRS’99) and Gail S. Steketee ■■ Marjory B. Stickler (SSW’91) and David B. Stickler ■ Stephanie M. Stidham (SSW’01) and Erik Stidham ■ Deborah C. Strod (SSW’89) and Eran C. Strod ■ Moragh L. Stroud (SSW’60) and David H. Stroud ■ Elizabeth S. Sunde (SSW’94, SED’95) and Paul E. Sunde ■ Susan E. Sweet (SSW’92) ■ Nermeen A. Tahoun (SSW’16, SPH’16) ■ Regan M. Tamura (SSW’16) ■ Sharon A. Tancredi ■ Paul Taraborelli (SSW’93) ■

Margo Tarasov (SSW’83) ■ Alison B. Tarmy (SSW’99, SPH’00) and Jeffrey Tarmy ■ Cynthia W. Taska (SSW’80) ■ Nancy C. Taylor (SSW’67) ■■ James R. Taylor ■ Allison B. Taylor (SSW’99) ■ Jennifer Terkelsen (SSW’16) ■ Shelley A. Terry (SSW’00) and Matthew C. Terry ■ Michelle E. Thesing (SSW’92) and Michael P. Thesing ■ Robert M. Thomas (SSW’15, SPH’15) ■ Natalie C. Thomas (SSW’16, SPH’16) ■ Linda Thompson (SSW’95) ■ Daniel L. Thompson (SSW’78) and Jeanne M. Thompson ■ Linda B. Tiedemann (SSW’77) and Skip Tiedemann ■ Deborah A. Todd (SSW’96) ■ Hanh V. Tran (SSW’01) Diane L. Tukman (SSW’81) ■ Ivy Tumlinson (SSW’11) and Adam Tumlinson ■ Janice Turner (SSW’89) ■ Jay W. Turner (STH’79) and Marianne M. Turner (SSW’78) ■ Gloria J. Turosz (SSW’87) ■ Anne Unterkoefler (SSW’86) Erika M. Vargas (SSW’10) ■■ Esther E. Velasquez (SSW’09, SPH’09) ■ Heather Vogel (SSW’01) ■ Silvia R. von Sacken (SSW’97) and Paul von Sacken ■■ Madeline K. Wachman (SSW’15, SPH’15) ■■ Natalie P. Waggaman (SSW’14) ■ Laura J. Wagner (SSW’06) and Kenneth R. Wagner Clyde E. Grubbs (GRS’77) and Michelle A. Walsh (SSW’93, STH’06, STH’14) ■■ Elisa Walts (SSW’15) ■■■ Christina Weeter (SSW’04, SED’05) ■ Karl W. Weiland (SSW’86, SED’75) and Karen C. Weiland ■ Michele J. Fishel (SSW’74) and Barry L. Weisman ■ Carolyn Welch (SSW’70) ■ Karen Welling (SSW’82) ■ Eve H. Welts (CAS’49, SSW’51) ■ Nancy H. White (SSW’73) and William T. White ■ Jamie T. Whiteman (SSW’15) ■ Isabelle Wiedis (SSW’56, CAS’51) and Donald L. Wiedis ■ William Wiener (MED’57) and Ita N. Wiener (SSW’77) Honora M. Willcutts (SSW’90) and Martha L. Williams (Questrom’91) Constance W. Williams (SSW’70) and Preston N. Williams ■ Judith A. Williams (SSW’93) Shelby Williams (SSW’03) ■ Tierney E. Wilson (SSW’98) ■ Sarah E. Winn (SSW’12) ■ Sally Ann H. Wood (SSW’60) and Loren M. Wood ■ Charles B. Wood (STH’74) and Constance M. Wood (SSW’92) ■ Nelson C. Woodfork (SSW’72) and Ann P. Woodfork ■ Stacie M. Wythe (SSW’97) and Kevin P. Wythe ■ Cassandra Xanthos (SSW’11)

■ President’s Society (AFLGS) member ■ Young Alumni Giving Society member ■ Faculty/Staff member ■ Parent ■ Three-year consecutive giving ■ First-time donor ■ Deceased

ST U D E N T S C H O L A R S H I P S P OT L I G H T Joan C. Yesner (SSW’82) and Seymour Yesner Lindsey K. Young (SSW’09) ■ Lisa D. Zerden (GRS’09) and Matthew L. Zerden ■ Joan L. Zink (SSW’75) and William P. Zink ■ Dory T. Ziperstein (SSW’13, SPH’13) ■ Ernest Zucco (CAS’91, SSW’98) ■ Corporations and Foundations $100,000–$249,999 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation $50,000–$99,999 Jewish Family & Children’s Service (Svenson Foundation) Mentor Network Charitable Foundation Svenson Family Foundation $25,000–$49,999 C & P Buttenwieser Foundation Portland State University (William T. Grant Foundation) William T. Grant Foundation $10,000–$24,999 Combined Jewish Philanthropies The Mastercard Foundation $5,000–$9,999 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust, Inc. Pine Street Inn (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mass Foundation) $2,500-$4,999 The Fund for Charitable Giving The Paul Singer Family Foundation $1,000–$2,499 Schwab Charitable Fund $500–$999 KAG Realty Trust $250–$499 Commonwealth Charitable Fund $100–$249 Cary N. Mack, Ph.D., LLC Feelpeacenow, LLC The Gill Family Trust Headlands Farm J. M. Lazarus Foundation Jewish Federation Foundation of Greater Rhode Island Oceangate Counseling Roberta E. Jordan Revocable Trust Silvia R Von Sacken, PLLC William P. Zink,M.D. Matching Gifts Analog Devices, Inc. Kresge Foundation Philips Electronics North America Corporation Shell Oil Company We strive to list all donor contributions as accurately as possible. If we have inadvertently made an error, please accept our apologies and contact our Director of Development Joshua Aiello at jaiello@bu.edu or 617-353-2286.

2016 SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES Angelina Alberti Ruggie Scholarship: Alicia Pereira Annette Schaffer Eskind Scholarship: Christina DuBois Barbara Locke Memorial Scholarship: Matthew Parra BUSSW MAP Scholarship: John Griffin Carolyn Dillon Scholarship: Diana Cho City Year Scholarship: Jaleesa Bell, Angela Cenzon, Taylor Cole, Victoria De La Llama, Danielle Helme, Claire Palius Deborah Feldstein Bartfeld Scholarship: Erica Gifford, Amanda Robbins FIELD EDUCATION STIPEND RECIPIENTS Maria Campos Angela Cenzon Susan Derby Sarah Diaz Maira Ferraz Sharon Gunda Erin La Flamme Stacey Jacobsen Laura Julius Sarah Kinnane Jennifer Littleton Yessica Nye William Ruhm Nicole Schick Sarah Steinberger Lauren Summerill Allison Theis Frances H. Gelber Scholarship: Natalie Rios Golda Edinburg Scholarship: Alyssa Meltzer

Vicky Nguyen William Ruhm Emily Seifert Grace Steele Kathryn Tsagronis Solomon Yniguez Margaret Lakis Scholarship: Ellen Mail Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellowship: Haven Jones Mary Louise Dillon Scholarship: Celine O'Connor Miriam Hurwitz Scholarship: Heather Brown Muriel Bloch Kolner Sieh Scholarship: Elizabeth Chalfin Naomi Osterman Scholarship: Brianne Edwards Thomas D. Mackey III Memorial Scholarship: Nalim Choi, Sharon Gunda, Sara Horn Richard B. DeWolfe Scholarship: Brittany Mitchell Rosemary Pazol Mundell Memorial Scholarship: Carole Calderon Ruskin Scholarship: Liam Murphy Samaritan’s Stipend: Nina Levine Shapiro Scholarship: Erin LaFlamme SSW Unrestricted Endowment Fund: Katelyn Ouimet Wilma Peebles-Wilkins Human Relations Scholarship: Scott Clark Women Graduates’ Club Scholarship: Kate-Lynd Murphy

Holly Margolin Zwerling Scholarship: Maggie Dobbins Hubie Jones Urban Service Scholarship: Nicole Brooks Ina L. Morgan Scholarship: Michael Moore Jane Stewart Memorial Prize: Dawn Shewmaker Josephine Lambert Scholarship: Tracy Guzman Legacy for the Future Scholarship: Laura Heller, Rebecca Zafran Louise and Anna B. Frey Multicultural Education Scholarship: Nalim Choi, Sarah Horn, Madeline Ray, Jackson Rodriguez Lowy-Gem Stipend Recipients Willow Carter Nandini Choudhury Maureen Crocker Alexandria Cruz Linda Dryden Kailey Face Kasey Howard Molly Hunt Jan Ingvalson Heather LaCasse Ellen Mail Lorna Moran-Richmond

2016 DEAN’S ADVISORY BOARD Maki Amano Tokyo, Japan Rhea Bufferd, SSW’74 Newton, MA Cassandra Clay, SSW’79 Campaign Co-Chair Jamaica Plain, MA John Drew, SSW’70 Hingham, MA Annette S. Eskind, SSW’51 Nashville, TN Joline Godfrey, SSW’77 Santa Barbara, CA Nancy Karp, SSW’78 Brookline, MA Joan Kwiatkowski, SSW’85 Barrington, RI Carla Meyer, SSW’78 Campaign Co-Chair Vero Beach, FL Naomi Stanhaus, SSW’70 Chicago, IL Joan Fuld Strauss, SSW’70 New York, NY Steve Tirado, SSW’82 Castro Valley, CA

Haven Jones (’18, SED’19) First-Year Clinical Student, Dual Degree in Social Work and Education; Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellowship

Areas of interest: I’m particularly interested in social work within school settings and hope to work with early-adolescent youth of color. As a black woman, I am intimately acquainted with many of the racialized systems that impact people of color on a daily basis. I’d like to be a resource for students as they grapple with some of these systems inside and outside of the classroom. Why I chose BUSSW: After attending college in Cambridge, I served with City Year Boston. I realized I wanted to make the city of Boston my home. BUSSW stood out to me because of its commitment to preparing social workers to tackle social justice issues in urban settings and the opportunity to enroll in a dual degree program with the School of Education. I’m passionate about working in education, and this program will prepare me to meet the multifaceted needs of my future students and school community. My scholarship story and my future: My year with City Year provided me with insight about the major, often unmet social-emotional needs of Boston’s students. I’d like to work as a school social worker within the Boston public school system and hope to fill that resource gap in one of the city’s highneeds schools. Receiving the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellowship is an honor. This fellowship has eliminated my worries about affording graduate school tuition. The associated stipend will allow me to focus more on my coursework and less on working to cover living expenses. It’s a privilege to receive a fellowship bearing Martin Luther King, Jr.’s name. I hope to one day live up to his legacy. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellowship is awarded to full-time Boston University graduate students in any department or school who are committed to the principles of social justice espoused by Dr. King. Awards provide a stipend for living expenses and a scholarship for up to full-time tuition.

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S N A P S H OT S

A Celebration of Passion and Service 2 0 1 6 B U S S W A L U M N I A S S O C I AT I O N AWA R D S

During the 2016 Boston University Alumni Weekend, the School of Social Work held its annual Alumni Association Awards ceremony. On the evening of October 1, 2016, nearly 90 BUSSW family, friends, faculty, alumni, colleagues, and peers gathered in the Photonics Center for a celebration of passion and service in the field of social work. The awardees were introduced by BU School of Social Work Dean Gail Steketee and Alumni Association President Cate Johnston (’12).

“My mother [Meredith] is a pioneer in the profession of geriatric care management. She cares for everyone in all of the systems they interact with.” —REBECCA MINOR (’15), ON HER MOTHER, MEREDITH PATTERSON (’82)

“Katherine epitomizes public health social work. I admire her professionalism, poise, and her sharp ability to read people and systems.” —MADI WACHMAN (’14, SPH’15), PROGRAM MANAGER FOR THE BU SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK CENTER FOR INNOVATION IN SOCIAL WORK AND HEALTH, ON KATHERINE GINNIS (’98, SPH’08)

“Vicki is known throughout Buffalo for her efforts to build peace, decrease violence, and stomp out hate.” —ROLANDA WARD (’97, STH’02, GRS’09) ON VICTORIA ROSS (’96)

“Luz is a gift to our school.” —BETTY J. RUTH (’84, SPH’85), PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE MSW/MPH PROGRAM, ON LUZ LÓPEZ

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AWARD WINNERS… Outstanding Career in Social Work MEREDITH PATTERSON (’82) Founder and Owner, ElderCare Consultants of Choice, LLC Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Social Work KATHERINE GINNIS (’98, SPH’08) Director of Behavioral Health Policy, Boston Children’s Hospital Hubie Jones Urban Service Award VICTORIA ROSS (’96) Executive Director, WNY Peace Center Outstanding Contributions to the School of Social Work LUZ LÓPEZ Clinical Associate Professor, Clinical Practice; Associate Director, MSW/ MPH Program, BU School of Social Work

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M E S S AG E F R O M T H E A L U M N I A S S O C I AT I O N

Greetings, BUSSW alumni, students, faculty, and staff! And on behalf of the Alumni Association, a very warm welcome to new students. We look forward to meeting you, and we encourage you to reach out anytime for support, advice, or just to say hello. Alumni love to hear from students! The Alumni Association Board has been busy over the past few months. I am pleased to share some highlights: Refugee Kids In March, the Board supported BUSSW’s Professional Education Program and Equity and Inclusion Committee in hosting a screening of the film Refugee Kids. Approximately 120 people attended, including over 40 alumni, and enjoyed an insightful discussion with the filmmaker. I was proud to participate in this important conversation and to see so many from the BUSSW community stand in solidarity with the immigrant and refugee community. Policy Symposium The BUSSW Department of Social Welfare Policy held its first annual policy symposium in May, highlighting the year-long task force projects completed by students enrolled in Welfare Policy I. Many of us on the Board remember our own policy projects and applaud the department’s initiative to recognize the hard work of the students by displaying their final products. Members of the Board acted as judges to help select the best project—no easy feat among all the impressive work! Social Work in Color In April, the Alumni Association and the Student Organization held the second annual Social Work in Color event. This event provided an opportunity for students and alumni of color to connect intentionally around their experiences at BUSSW and in the field. For the second year in a row, the event was well attended, and participants

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found great value in having this safe space to connect and share. Thanks go out especially to Jasmine Choi (’17), student representative to the Board, and to Nikki Pollard (’04) for coordinating the event. BUSSW on Wheels and Admissions Events Alumni continue to support BUSSW’s Alumni Relations Office and Admissions and Financial Aid Office in recruitment events both on and off campus. So far in 2016, our alumni chapters have hosted 20 BUSSW on Wheels information/networking events for local alumni, current Online Program students and faculty advisors, and prospective students. Associate Dean Ken Schulman travels to these events and keeps us all connected across our 17 chapters. Alumni also served on panels at Admissions Information Sessions and Admitted Student Days, talking with prospective students about their BUSSW experiences and the varied directions their BUSSW degrees have taken them in. Alumni Association Awards During Alumni Weekend in early October, the Alumni Association Board held its annual meeting and hosted the Alumni Association Awards Ceremony. We were awed to hear about the achievements of our fellow alumni: Award recipients Meredith Patterson (’82), Katherine Ginnis (’98, SPH’08), Victoria Ross (’96), and professor Luz Marilis López. Congratulations to all, and thank you for being such strong representatives of BUSSW! As you can see, the Board continues to actively support BUSSW and our extended professional family. I would like to personally thank all of the alumni who contributed to the wonderful achievements highlighted here, especially the Alumni Board Steering Committee members, who work throughout the year to make them possible. Keep an eye out for our upcoming events, coming soon! Warm wishes, Cate Johnston (’12) BUSSW Alumni Association Board President

A LU M N I ASSOC I AT I O N B OA R D M EM B ER S Katy Abrams (’97) Austin, TX

Sharon Cruz (’00) Rochester, MA

Requina Barnes (’04) Steering Committee Member Cambridge, MA

Yaminette Diaz-Linhart (’10) Cambridge, MA

Betty Bernier (’97) Hyde Park, MA Kimberly Bradley (’11) Auburn, WA Katie Britton (’03) West Roxbury, MA Emily Bruce (‘16) Carlsbad, CA Sukhi Bubbra (’97) Toronto, Ontario, Canada Pamela Charney (’91) Ft. Lauderdale, FL Yi-Chin Chen (’03) West Roxbury, MA Jasmin Nalim Choi (’17) Student Representative Newton, MA Lisa Cremer (’08) Shaker Heights, OH Kelly Crowley (’03) Concord, MA

Early fall day at Boston University, looking toward the Charles River

Nickie Diggs (’01) Laurel, MD Noelle Dimitri (’00) Amesbury, MA Lesley Dixon (’97) West Orange, NJ Marieka Farrenkopf (’00) Portland, OR Amanda Frank (’08) Steering Committee Member Weymouth, MA Erika Gaitan (’15) Steering Committee Member Somerville, MA Nanci Ginty-Butler (’01) Waban, MA Mark Goodwin (’87) Poughkeepsie, NY Anitza Guadarrama-Tiernan (’04) Steering Committee Member Waltham, MA Will Halpin (’03) Jamaica Plain, MA

Cate Johnson (’12) President Steering Committee Member Cambridge, MA Kenyora Johnson (’12) Steering Committee Member Norwood, MA Rose Kamsler (’18) Student Representative Sudbury, MA Kami Kato (’98) Mililani, HI Hope Kenefick (’92) Barrington, NH Barbara Kondilis (’98) Glyfada, Greece Jennifer Kong (’16) San Leandro, CA Susan Lovett (’98) Jamaica Plain, MA Jamie (Wyatt) Marshall (’06) Great Falls, MT

Rebecca Minor (’15) Acton, MA

Deidra Somerville (’95) South Holland, IL

Rebecca Mulhern (’02) Brooklyn, NY

Stephanie Stidham (’01) Orange, CA

Kristina Normann (’11) Denver, CO

Elizabeth Stookey Sunde (’94) Wilder, VT

Nicole Norton (’14) Westbrook, ME

Sharon Ash Tancredi (’99) Scarborough, ME

Michael Novack (’97) Waltham, MA

Stephanie Tesch (’03) Encinitas, CA

Nikki Pollard (’04) Vice President Steering Committee Member Cambridge, MA

Michelle Thesing (’92) Tucker, GA

Doreen Reis (’01) Southington, CT Abby Ross (’08) Steering Committee Member Boston, MA Jill Schreider (’14) West Roxbury, MA

Kathy Mackenzie (’92) New Bedford, MA

Erica Scoppetti (’05) Steering Committee Member Brookline, MA

Pandora MacLean-Hoover (’95) Newburyport, MA

Allison Srinivasan (’00) Minggu, Indonesia

Ann McWalters (’95) Berkeley, CA

Taffy (Smith) Ruggeri (’05) Greenfield, MA

R. Mitchell Thomas (’14) Boston, MA Amneris Torres (’12) Hartford, CT Erika Vargas (’10) Aiea, HI Christina Weeter (’04) Louisville, KY Sarah Winn (’12) Auburn, WA Angela Yarde (’07) Mattapan, MA Lindsey Young (’09) Redondo Beach, CA

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