California Child Welfare Indicators Project (CCWIP) Principal Investigator Barbara needell presented “Overview of California’s Child Welfare Indicator Data” using data from the CCWIP website at the event, Improving Outcomes for Foster Youth in California. emily Putnam-hornstein (Phd ’10), CCWIP researcher and USC School of Social Work Assistant Professor, has received several significant research grants, including a $10,000 grant from the Orange County Alliance for Community Health Research; a one-year, $100,000 award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Maternal & Child Health Branch; as well as a sixmonth, $73,542 grant from First 5 LA. CCWIP Project Director daniel Webster delivered the invited presentation, “Trends in Child Welfare Outcomes,” to the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care. Dr. Webster also co-instructed an “Advanced Analytics” training for child welfare staff from 10 counties at UC Davis and made invited presentations on longitudinal outcome data to staff from the Nevada Department of Children and Family Services and from the California DSS Outcomes and Accountability Bureau this past summer. Claudia Waters retired after decades of service as the computing manager. She is still lecturing at the School.
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Doctoral candidate Clara Berridge (Phd ’14) presented “Subjecting one’s self to monitoring: Decision making about the option to use remote monitoring technologies in low-income independent living residences,” based on her dissertation research at the conference, Planning Later Life: Bioethics and Politics in Aging Societies, held at the University of Göttingen in Germany. Graduating MSW student minh dang (msW ’13) was named a White House “Champion of Change” for her efforts to stop sex trafficking of youth in the United States. Dang’s extraordinary commitment has also earned her a place on UC Berkeley’s Wall of Fame, which includes the names of campus graduates whose “visions and talents have changed the world.” Second-year MSW student lauren Gonzalves’ (msW ’14) journalistic piece, “Bred in Abuse,” was published in several Bay Area news outlets, including the East Bay Express,
which featured her work as the August 7, 2013 cover story. Her article looks into the life of Oakland former foster youth Moses Kamin, who murdered his adoptive parents in 2012. PhD candidate Colleen henry (Phd ’14) was a recipient of the Jim Fahey Safe Homes for Women Fellowship, which provides support for UC Berkeley graduate students with a deep commitment to combating domestic violence against women. leah Jacobs (Phd ’16) was selected to receive the 2013 University of California Human Rights Fellowship as well as the 2013 Berkeley Human Rights Center Fellowship. The awards will support her qualitative investigation of the experiences of forensically-involved individuals with mental illness living in San Francisco. Phyllis Jeroslow (Phd ’14) contributed a chapter titled, “The Earned Income Tax Credit as an antipoverty programme: palliative or cure?” to Social Policy Review 25: Analysis and debate in social policy, 2013, edited by Gaby Ramia, Kevin Farnsworth and Zoe Irving (Policy Press, Bristol, UK). mimi Kim (Phd ’14) was an organizer for Race, Domestic and Sexual Violence: From the Prison Nation to Community Resistance last spring. She presented her paper, “Contesting Feminisms: The Anti-Domestic Violence Social Movement and the Pursuit of Criminalization, 1973-1986,” at the event. Social welfare major sadia saifuddin (Ba ’14) was confirmed as the 40th student regent to sit on the University of California Board of Regents. She currently serves as an ASUC senator in UC Berkeley and will assume the UC student regent position in July 2014, following a one-year term as student-regent designate. As a voting member of the UC board, the student regent represents the perspective of the entire student body of the University of California system. Saifuddin is just one of two undergraduates to hold the position over the last decade.
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