KUSSW 2019 Research Highlight

2019

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WELFARE

30 CELEBRATING

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STRENGTHS PERSPECTIVE IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE

socwel.ku.edu/research

MESSAGE FROM THE

This Research Highlight provides a glimpse into the transformative, community-based research conducted by the School’s faculty, research staff and students in 2019 as evidenced by dissemination through publications and presentations. The connections between the researcher’s expertise and the Grand Challenges for Social Work are also highlighted.

This year we are also excited to celebrate 30 years of the Strengths Perspective at KU. In July 1989, KU School of Social Welfare faculty and students built upon the work of previous scholars and formally named the ‘Strengths Perspective’ in an essay for the journal Social Work. Since then, the perspective has been a core value of our School and has continued to grow in influence throughout the profession.

Our work would not be possible without our many funders and community partners, and so we thank them for engaging in this important work with us.

We hope that our work teaches you something new or inspires you to make your own impact on the field and the world. We would love to hear from you or collaborate with you in the future!

Sincerely, Michelle Mohr Carney, Ph.D. Dean and Professor, University of Kansas School of Social Welfare

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Amy N. Mendenhall, Ph.D Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor, University of Kansas School of Social Welfare

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 6 8 12 14 16 42 50 54 University of Kansas School of Social Welfare Vision & Mission Transformative Social Work: Strengths-based Research 30th Anniversary of the Strengths Perspective at KU

Center for Community Engagement & Collaboration (CCEC) Center for Aging & Disability Options (CRADO)

Featured Faculty & Research Staff Publications & Presentations

2019 PhD Graduates & Candidates with PhD Student Publication & Presentations Sponsors & Community Partners Index

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OUR VISION & MISS All individuals, families, & communities utilize their power to achieve justice, equity, & well-being.

The University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, rooted in the Strengths Perspective, aims to transform lives and social contexts and promote social, economic, and environmental justice in Kansas, the nation and the world. We do so by educating students to practice with integrity and competence; advancing the science and knowledge base of social work through scholarship and research; and participating in community-engaged service.

Guiding Principles & Values Relationship Building: We engage in relationship building that fosters creativity, collaboration, and mutual learning. Relationship building is essential across practice, scholarship, education and service. We take a strengths approach as we serve our local, state, national, and global communities.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: We embrace the inherent worth of all people. By taking the position of cultural humility and applying the lens of intersectionality, we seek to develop and promote modes of anti-oppressive social work and dismantle structures of exclusion.

Practice with Integrity: We demonstrate our integrity and trustworthiness as scholars, educators, practitioners, and community members by promoting social work values, ethical practice, and the process of critical reflection.

Multisystem Competency: We recognize that social, economic, and environmental injustices are the root causes of inequities and multiple strategies are necessary to address these. Our work integrates micro/macro social work and builds collaboration across systems and disciplines to create multi-level change.

Critical Perspective: We engage in deliberate and continuing examination of social conditions and solutions. We use critical inquiry to analyze and challenge existing structures and systems in order to advance the field and promote social, economic, and environmental justice.

Empirically Informed Social Work: We rigorously advance empirical research that impacts the social work knowledge base. By translating and applying evidence, we continually transform practice and policy across multiple systems.

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33 students working directly on research projects

84 presentations by faculty, research staff & PhD students

17% increase in grant awards over fiscal year 2017-2018; 63% of awards from federal agencies

113 journal articles, book chapters, and other works published or in-press

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TRANSFORMATIVE STRENGTHS-B RESEARCH CLUSTERS Research Clusters were designed to foster an integrated and inclusive environment for scholarship and research. Our seven research clusters work towards advancing the science and knowledge base of social work through collaboration, curriculum, scholarship and research.

STRENGTHS: Building on strengths and resources to reach goals and address challenges CHILD & FAMILY WELL-BEING: Child & Family Well-bring: Promoting child and family well-being through prevention, intervention and system change SOCIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE: Working towards social and economic justice across individuals and systems HEALTH EQUITY: Supporting access, equity and quality in health service delivery and outcomes MENTAL/BEHAVORIAL HEALTH: Advancing mental, emtional and behavorial health across the lifespan OLDER ADULTS: Advancing quality of life and community integration for older adults GLOBAL SOCIAL WORK: Collaborating globally to build and share knowledge and address injustices

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E SOCIAL WORK: BASED RESEARCH RESEARCH GOAL Our goal is to conduct, disseminate and translate theoretically and empirically informed scholarship and research that impacts the social work knowledgebase and transforms practice and policy. Our faculty, research staff and students work towards this goal by collaborating with community stakeholders and other scholars to address the many social issues that face individuals and communities at the local, national and international levels. This community-based work takes many forms including training, evaluation, research and policy analysis.

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WELFARE

30 CELEBRATING

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STRENGTHS PERSPECTIVE IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE

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OF THE ERSPECTIVE AT KU HISTORY OF STRENGTHS PERSPECTIVE July 1989 marks the date that KU School of Social Welfare faculty and doctoral students continued to build upon the work of previous scholars and formally named and articulated the Strengths Perspective in an essay for the journal Social Work (Weick, Rapp, Sullivan, & Kisthardt, 1989), and since then and it has grown to be a pervasive influence on our profession.​As a kick-off to a year long celebration, Governor Kelly signed a proclamation stating July 31, 2019 as “The 30th Anniversary of the Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice.”

LEARN MORE AT socwel.ku.edu/strengths-perspective-early-history

Social Work Day - Rooted in Strengths: 30 Years of the Strengths Perspective in Social Work April 17 | 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Kansas Union | Lawrence Kansas

To honor this momentous occasion, the KU School of Social Welfare will celebrate with 30 different events throughout the academic year.

Peer-reviewed book, “Rooted in Strengths: 30 Years of the Strengths Perspective in Social Work,” to be released in April 2020 socwel.ku.edu/Call-Chapters

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Center for Community Engagement & Collab

WORKING DIRECTLY WITH COMMUN

The University of Kansas’ School of Social Welfare has an extensive history of community engagement and agency partnerships and has bee efficiently organize and promote these longstanding efforts, we created the Center for Community Engagement and Collaboration (CCEC) an aim of promoting social, economic, and environmental justice. CCEC partners with the community to transform practice and policy throu significant contributions to the community and the regional social work field and look forward to new opportunities to work with our partner

AGENCY CAPACITY-BUILDING & COMMUNITY EVALUATION The Agency Capacity-Building division focuses on supporting social service agencies’ needs for capacity building and collaborative evaluation, as well as on the broader community’s interests in evaluation and strategic partnerships. In addition to direct contracts with government and nonprofit agencies, this work also includes partnerships with local and regional foundations to ddress grantees’ needs around evaluation, training and strategic planning.

Projects undertaken within this division’s scope of work include: • Training & convening around critical or emerging social issues • Evaluation of community interventions • Assessment of community strengths and needs • Working with other university departments to insert social work perspectives &priorities into communitybased research or leadership efforts • Augmenting agencies’ internal evaluation capacities by providing technical assistance central to our approach is a commitment to participatory and empowering alliances, accountability and transparency in process and dissemination and intentional orientation to transformative practices.

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en instrumental in the shaping of many practices and policies in human service systems To extend the impact of this work and to more in 2018. CCEC works with stakeholders across systems to pursue collaborative projects and invest in organizational capacity, with ugh evaluation, training and technical assistance, and professional development. We believe that the CCEC has the potential to make rs toward our common vision.

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION The Professional Education division focuses on professional development and education needs of social workers and other human service sector professionals in the community. We provide professional continuing education offerings utilizing traditional and new, innovative methods of professional education appropriate for the fast-paced, technology-driven, resource-sparse environment of the human service sector. We also develop alternative educational opportunities for professionals such as non-degree seeking certificates and skill/knowledge badges. This division works closely with community professionals and agencies to identify and develop more specialized education and workforce development trainings or courses needed by the community workforce (e.g. job readiness, medical social work). We aim to be responsive to the educational needs of our local communities.

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The Center for Research on Aging and Disability Options (CRADO) is one of the longest continuously funded gerontological research centers in a school of social work in the United States. CRADO works to maximize the health and well-being of older adults and people with disabilities and increase the options they have for aging well and living independently in their communities. CRADO has pioneered the strengths-based approach in work with older adults. We are leaders in applied research to improve social service practice and policy with older adults. Collaboration with older adults, community, and state partners ensures that research findings result in policy change and the implementation of empirically-based interventions.

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PREPARING SCHOLARS The Center prepares tomorrow’s scholars and practitioners in gerontological social work. It provides strengths-based gerontological resources, training and unique educational opportunities that help develop faculty and students’ knowledge and skills in working with older adults and people with disabilities. Faculty and staff work with state agencies, such as the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services and federal agencies as well as with a variety of other public and private service organizations and foundations, to provide research, training and technical support. Collaboration with older adults, people with disabilities, community and state partners ensures that research findings result in policy change and the implementation of empirically-based interventions.

PARTNERS CRADO staff are currently partnering with the Kansas Department for Aging and Disabilities Services, the KU Research and Training Center on Independent Living (RTC-IL), and the KU Medical Center (KUMC) to develop a universal uniform assessment instrument for people receiving long-term supports and services through the Medicaid Waivers Program (Physical Disabilities (PD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Frail Elderly (FE), Intellectual/Developmentally Disabled (I/DD)) of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), TBI Rehabilitation Facilities (TBIRFs), Nursing Facilities (NFs)), and Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF-IID). It is also currently developing collaborative research with the Veteran’s Administration focusing on reintegration of veterans discharging from the domiciliary program and crafting initiatives to increase volunteer opportunities for people aging with disabilities. It is also working to develop a partnership with Jewish Family Services focused on its programs for older adults.

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FEATURED FACULTY PUBLICATIONS & PR

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Y & RESEARCH STAFF RESENTATIONS DEBORAH ADAMS Associate Professor, MSW Program Director Scholarship Focus

Poverty and policy studies; asset building and asset effects; well-being of women and children; social and economic development; theory for research; mixed methods research.

Grand Challenges

Reduce extreme economic inequality. Stop family violence. Build financial capability and assets for all.

Publication West, S. M., & Adams, D. (in press). Promoting Emergency Savings for Low-Income Families: Policy Rationale and Options. Journal of Policy Practice, 31.

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BECCI AKIN

Associate Professor, PhD Program Director Scholarship Focus

Understanding the keys to successful implementation and effective and equitable interventions for families involved in child welfare.

Grand Challenges

Ensure healthy development for all youth. Stop family violence.

Publications Akin, B. A., Johnson-Motoyama, M., Kepple, N. J., & Clark, S. L. (in press). Intergenerational Transmission of Maltreatment. In E. J. Mullen (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Social Work. New York: Oxford University Press.

Collins-Camargo, C., Strolin-Goltzman, J., & Akin, B. A. (in press). Use of Technology to Facilitate Practice Improvement in TraumaInformed Child Welfare Systems. Child Welfare.

Kim, J., Akin, B. A., & Brook, J. (2019). Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to improve child well-being and family functioning outcomes with substance using parents in the child welfare system. Developmental Child Welfare, 1(2), 124-142. doi:10.1177/2516103219829479 Akin, B. A., Lang, K., McDonald, T., Yan, Y., & Little, T. (in press). Randomized trial of PMTO in foster care: Six month child well-being outcomes. Research on Social Work Practice, 29(2), 206-222. doi:10.1177/1049731516669822 Akin, B. A., & McDonald, T. (2018). Randomized study of PMTO in foster care: Reunification otucomes. Child Abuse & Neglect, 83, 94105. doi:0.1016/j.chiabu.2018.07.011 Akin, B. A., Brook, J., Johnson-Motoyama, M., Paceley, M., & Davis, S. (2018). Engaging substance-affected families in child welfare: Parent perspectives of a parenting intervention at program initiation and completion. Journal of Family Social Work, 21(4-5), 313-330. doi:10.1080/10522158.2018.1469562 Akin, B. A., Johnson-Motoyama, M., Davis, S., Paceley, M. S., & Brook, J. (2018). Parent perspectives of engagement in the Strengthening Families Program: An evidence-based intervention for families in child welfare and affected by parental substance abuse.

Child & Family Social Work, 23(4), 735-742. doi:10.1111/cfs.12470 Akin, B. A., Lang, K., McDonald, T., Yan, Y., & Little, T. (2018). Randomized study of PMTO in foster care: Six-month parent outcomes.

Research on Social Work Practice, 28(7), 810-826. doi:10.1177/1049731517703746 Akin, B. A., Lang, K., Yan, Y., & McDonald, T. (2018). Randomized Trial of PMTO in Foster Care: 12-Month Child Well-being, Parenting, and Caregiver Functioning Outcomes. Children and Youth Services Review, 95, 49-63. doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.10.018 Lloyd, M. H., Akin, B. A., Brook, J., & Chasnoff, I. (2018). The policy to practice gap: Factors associated with practitioner knowledge of CAPTA 2010 mandates for identifying and intervening in cases of prenatal alcohol and drug exposure. Families In Society, 99(3), 232243. doi:10.1177/1044389418785326 Chasnoff, I. J., Barber, G., Brook, J., & Akin, B. A. (2018). The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act: Knowledge of health care and legal professionals. Child Welfare, 96(3), 41-58.

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Presentations Dunkerley, Stacy, Becci A. Akin, and Jody Brook, The 21st National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect: Striving and Thriving Families, “Parent Reports of Engagement and Challenges Early in Their Involvement with Foster Care,” Washington, DC. (April 2019).

Akin, B. A., Brook, J., & Cornwell, P. Kansas Assessment Permanency Project: Preliminary Results. Administration for Children and Families, Trauma Cluster Grantee Meeting, Washington, DC. (April 2019).

Akin, Becci A., Jessica Strolin, and Crystal Collins-Camargo, The 21st National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect: Striving and Thriving Families, “Implementing with Science: Developing Trauma-Informed, Data-Driven Child Welfare Systems with the Integration of Research and Practice,” Washington, DC. (April 2019).

Palmer, Ashley, Becci A Akin, Stacy Dunkerley, and Jody Brook, 32nd Annual Research and Policy Conference on Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Behavioral Health, “Collaboration in a Public-Private Partnership for Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Services,” Tampa, FL. (March 2019).

Brook, Jody, Margaret H Lloyd, and Becci A Akin, Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, Ending Gender Based Family and Community Violence, “A Propensity Score Analysis of Reunification Outcomes Among Families Affected By Substances and Served By the Strengthening Families Program,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Akin, Becci A, Juliana Carlson, Aaron Conrad, Jennifer Rose, Shellie Taggert, Lonna Davis, and Andrew Zinn, Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, Ending Gender Based Family and Community Violence, “Collaboration at the Intersection of Domestic Violence and Child Welfare: The Views of Stakeholders from Multiple Systems,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Brook, Jody, Becci A Akin, and Margaret H Lloyd, Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, Ending Gender Based Family and Community Violence, “Community Challenges and Barriers to the Delivery of Behavioral Health Services,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Yan, Y, Becci A Akin, and Thomas McDonald, Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, Ending Gender Based Family and Community Violence, “Does PMTO Moderate the Change of Child and Family Functioning within Families with Children in Foster Care with Serious Mental Health Problems: A Latent Profile Transition Analysis,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Akin, Becci A, Jody Brook, Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, Megan Paceley, and Sharah Davis, Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, Ending Gender Based Family and Community Violence, “Parent Perspectives of a Parenting Intervention at Program Start and Completion: Considering the Views of Parents Involved in Child Welfare and Affected By Substance Use,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Kepple, Nancy J, Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, and Becci A Akin, Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, Ending Gender Based Family and Community Violence, “Resilient Parenting Project: Exploring the Role of OB/GYN Clinics in the Prevention of the Intergenerational Transmission of Child Maltreatment,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Kim, Johnny, Becci A Akin, and Jody Brook, Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, Ending Gender Based Family and Community Violence, “Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to Improve Child Well-Being and Family Functioning Outcomes with Substance Using Parents in the Child Welfare System. Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, Ending Gender Based Family and Community,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Bass, Linda, and Becci A Akin, Webinar for Child Welfare League of America, “Implementing EBPs for Reunification and Sustained Permanency,” Washington, DC. (July 2018).

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MEREDITH BAGWELL-GRAY Assistant Professor Scholarship Focus

Reduce health disparities for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV); sexual safety planning intervention to address HIV/STI risk, substance use, and trauma.

Grand Challenge Stop family violence.

Publications Bagwell-Gray, M. E. (in press). Application of an intimate partner sexual violence taxonomy to women’s experiences of sexual violence in intimate relationships: New insights and understanding. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Bagwell-Gray, M. E. (2018). Establishing positive sexuality and reducing HIV risk: Women’s healing journey from intimate partner violence. Qualitative Health Research. doi:10.1177/1049732318804302.

Presentations Bagwell-Gray, Meredith, Catherine Burnette, Gail Danna-Sacco, Jill Messing, and Jaqcueline Campbell, Society for Social Work and Research, “Culturally Tailoring a Web-based Intervention for Native American Women,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Kappas, Andrea, Meredith Bagwell-Gray, Jill Messing, and Megan Brown, Society for Social Work and Research, “Increasing Access to Evidenced-Based Care for Survivors of Domestic Violence: Year One,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Bagwell-Gray, M., Holmes, C., Banda, L. & White Starr, R. Responding to Domestic Violence Among Child Welfare-Involved Families: Lessons Learned in Collaboratively Designing and Evaluating a Novel Child Welfare Approach. 2019 National Child Welfare Evaluation Summit: Washington D.C. (August 2019).

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MAHASWETA BANERJEE Professor, BSW Program Director Scholarship Focus

Theories and practices associated with enhancing social and economic justice; community development; micro-enterprise as an anti-poverty strategy; international social development; qualitative and quantitative research.

Grand Challenges

Reduce extreme economic inequality. Build financial capability and assets for all.

Publications Banerjee, M. M. (in press). Self Help Groups as Social Enterprises: Case Study of Social Entrepreneurship from India. In M. Nandan, T. Bent-Goodley, & G. Mandayam (Eds.), Social Work Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship and Social Value Creation: Relevance for Contemporary Social Work Practice. NASW Press.

Banerjee, M. M. (2018). Reflections on Cultural Competency related to Poverty from a Study (Abroad) in India Course. In S. Chama and M. Sossou (Eds.) Creating successful bridges through study abroad: An International Social Work and Culture Competency Approach. NY: Nova Scientific Publishers, Inc.

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JODY BROOK Associate Professor Scholarship Focus

Substance abuse across the lifespan; child welfare; family drug courts; substance abuse prevention; community substance abuse strategies; mixed research methods.

Grand Challenges

Close the health gap. Ensure healthy development for all youth. Advance long and productive lives.

Publications Lloyd, M., & Brook, J. (2019). Drug testing in child welfare: A systematic review. Children and Youth Services Review. doi:https://doi. org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104389 Kim, J., Akin, B., & Brook, J. (2019). Solution Focused Brief Therapy to improve child well being and family functioning outcomes with substance using parents in the child welfare system. Developmental Child Welfare, 1(2), 124-142. doi:10.1177/2516103219829479 Feder, K., Letourneau, E., & Brook, J. (in press). Children in the opioid epidemic: Addiressing the next generation’s public health crisis.

Pediatrics, 143(1). doi:10.1542/peds.2018-1656 Chasnoff, I., MD, Barber, G., Brook, J., & Akin, B. (2018). The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and infants affected by prenatal substance exposure: Knowledge and actions of healthcare and legal professionals. Child Welfare, 96(3), 41-58.

Lloyd, M., Akin, B., Brook, J., & Chasnoff, I. (2018). The Policy to Practice Gap: Factors Associated With Practitioner Knowledge of CAPTA 2010 Mandates for Identifying and Intervening in Cases of Prenatal Alcohol and Drug Exposure. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services.

Akin, B., Brook, J., Johnson-Motoyama, M., Paceley, M., & Davis, S. (2018). Engaging substance affected families in child welfare: Parent perspectives of a parenting intervention at parent initiation and completion. Journal of Family Social Work. doi:10.1080/10522158.2018 .1469562 Akin, B., Johnson-Motoyama, M., Davis, S., Paceley, M., & Brook, J. (2018). Parent perspectives of engagement in the Strengthening Families Program: An evidence-based intervention for families in child welfare and affected by parental substance use. Child & Family Social Work. doi:10.1111/cfs.12470

Presentations Brook, Jody, Supporting Families: Bridging Substance Use Treatment and Early Childhood Systems, “Facilitators and Obstacles to Implementing Parenting Programs in Substance Use Treatment,” Rockville, MD. (June 2019).

Dunkerley, Stacy, Becci Akin, and Jody Brook, The 21st National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, “Parent Reports of Engagement and Challenges Early in Their Involvement with Foster Care,” Washington, D.C. (April 2019).

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Brook, Jody, and Becci Akin, 21st National Conference on Child Abuse & Neglect, “Using the UNCOPE Substance Abuse Screen as Part of Caseworker Assessment: Lessons and Findings from Statewide Implementation,” Washington, D.C. (April 2019).

Brook, Jody, “Sustainability Strategy Planning for the Regional Partnership Grants,” Washington, D.C. (April 2019).

Palmer, Ashley, Becci Akin, Stacy Dunkerley, and Jody Brook, 32nd Annual Research and Policy Conference on Child, Adolescent and Young Adult Behavioral Health, “Collaboration in a Public-Private Partnership for Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Services,” Tampa, FL. (March 2019).

Brook, Jody, Becci Akin, and Margaret Lloyd, Society for Social Work Research, “A Propensity Score Analysis of Reunification Outcomes Among Families Affected by Substances and Served by the Strengthening Families Program,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Akin, Becci, Jody Brook, Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, Megan Paceley, and Sharah Davis-Groves, Society for Social Work and Research, “Parent Perspectives of a Parenting Intervention at Program Start and Completion: Considering the Views of Parents Involved in Child Welfare and Affected by Substance Abuse,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Kim, Johnny, Becci Akin, and Jody Brook, Society for Social Work and Research, “Solution Focused Brief Therapy to improve child well-being and family functioning outcomes with substance using parents in the child welfare system,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Brook, Jody, Becci Akin, and Margaret Lloyd, Society for Social Work Research, “Community Challenges and Barriers to the Delivery of Behavioral Health Services,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

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EDWARD R. CANDA

Professor, Coordinator of Spiritual Diversity & Social Work Initiative Scholarship Focus

Connections between cultural diversity, spirituality and resilience in relation to health, mental health and disabilities.

Grand Challenges

Achieve equal opportunity and justice. Create social responses to a changing environment. Advance long and productive lives.

Publications Canda, E. R., & Gomi, S. (in press). Zen philosophy of spiritual development: Insights about human development and spiritual diversity for social work education. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work. doi:10.1080/15426432.2018.1520671 Vetvik, E. E., Danbolt, T., Furman, L. D., Benson, P. W., & Canda, E. R. (2018). A comparative analysis of Norwegian and American social workers’ views about inclusion of religion and spirituality in social work. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work, 37(2), 105127. doi:10.1080/15426432.2017.1422415 Canda, E. R. (in press). Respecting spiritual diversity in social work: Clients’ rights to freedom of and freedom from religion. In Z. Truhlarova, et al. (Eds.), Issues of social work in uncertain times..

Canda, E. R. (in press). Foreword to Integrative body-mind-spirit social work. In M.-Y. Lee, et al., Integrative body-mind-spirit social work: An empirically based approach to assessment and treatment, second edition.. New York, USA: Oxford University Press.

Canda, E. R. (in press). Review of “America Will Be! Conversations on Hope, Freedom, and Democracy” by Vincent Harding & Daisaku Ikeda.. [Review of the book America Will Be! Conversations on Hope, Freedom, and Democracy, Vincent Harding & Daisaku Ikeda].

Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought.

Canda, E. R., & Warren, S. (in press). Spiritual well-being. In The encyclopedia of positive psychology. Oxford, UK & Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Canda, E. R., Furman, L. D., & Canda, H.-J. (in press). Spiritual diversity in social work practice: The heart of helping, third edition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Robbins, S., Chatterjee, P., Canda, E. R., & Leibowitz, G. (2018). Contemporary human behavior theory: A critical perspective for social work, fourth edition.

Canda, E. R., Moon, J., & Kim, K. M. (in press). Korean social welfare’s approach to spiritual diversity. In B. R. Crisp (Ed.), Routledge handbook of religion, spirituality and social work. (pp. 26-34). London, England: Routledge.

Canda, E. R. (in press). Promoting human well-being and environmental justice through social work: A deep ecological perspective. In I. Prihonska, et al., Proceedings of the 2016 Hradec days of social work practice conference.. Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic: Czech Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and the UHK Institute of Social Work.

Canda, E. R. (in press). Reflections on spiritually sensitive social work for Caritas Seoul. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Spirituality in Social Work, Caritas Seoul, Seoul, Korea. (pp. 10). Seoul, Korea: Caritas Seoul.

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Presentations Canda, Edward R, and Hwi-Ja Canda, Department of Social Work, Theological Faculty, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, “Recent trends in connecting spiritual diversity to social work practice.,” Olomouc, Czech Republic. (June 2019).

Canda, Edward R, Symposium on Spiritual, Religious and Existential Wellbeing in Health and Social Care, Brunel University, London UK, “The path of creative scholarship: Creating a research agenda in spirituality, religion, and existentialism for health and social care.,” Brunel University, London, UK. (June 2019).

Canda, Edward R, and Hwi-Ja Canda, Symposium on Spiritual, Religious and Existential Wellbeing in Health and Social Care, Brunel University, London, UK, “Supporting optimal living and spiritual growth at the end of life.,” Brunel University, London, UK. (June 2019).

Canda, Edward R, The 2st Century Human Values Forum: Life, Embracing the Values of Living, Korea Foundation for Cultures and Ethics, Andong, Republic of Korea, “Optimal living and dying: Integrating Confucian insights with contemporary social welfare.,” Andong, Republic of Korea. (September 2018).

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JULIANA CARLSON Associate Professor Scholarship Focus

International organizational practices to engage men in gender-based violence prevention; formal support of new and expectant fathers to reduce child exposure to domestic violence; economic and social justice for families.

Grand Challenge Stop family violence.

Publications Allen, C. T., Carlson, J., Casey, E. A., Tolman, R. M., & Leek, C. (in press). Examining men’s perceptions of gender-based violence prevention programming content. Violence Against Women.

Tolman, R. M., Casey, E. A., Carlson, J., Leek, C., & Allen, C. T. (in press). Bystander behavior in the context of gender-based violence: Willingness to take violence preventative action in a global sample of men. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma.

Carlson, J., & Casey, E. A. (in press). Disjunctures in experiences of support during the transition to fatherhood among men who have used intimate partner violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Carlson, J., & Casey, E. A. (in press). Perceptions of men who have used intimate partner violence on creating a transition to fatherhood program. Journal of Family Violence.

Carlson, J., Quiaison, M., Doan, A., & Mabachi, N. (2018). What can campuses learn from community Sexual Assault Response Teams?

Literature review of teams’ purpose, activities, membership and challenges. Trauma, Violence & Abuse.

Carlson, J., Voith, L., Brown, J., & Holmes, M. (in press). Viewing children’s exposure to intimate partner violence through a developmental, social ecological, and survivor lens: The current state, challenges, and future directions. Violence Against Women.

Presentations Carlson, J. Gender-based Violence: Prevention Focused on Stopping Violence Before It Starts. Research Impact talk, University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare, Lawrence, KS. (April 2019).

Akin, B., Carlson, Conrad, A., Rose, J., Taggart, S., Davis, L., & Zinn, A Collaboration at the Intersection of Domestic violence and Child Welfare: The Views of Stakeholders from Multiple Systems. Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, San Francisco, CA. (National) (January 2019).

Voith, L., Carlson, J., *Brown, J., & Holmes, M. Survivor-Researcher Writing Collaborations: Unpacking the Process Using Principles of Community-Based Participatory Research and Trauma-Informed Care. Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

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D. CRYSTAL COLES Assistant Professor Scholarship Focus

Child welfare and the intersection of the African-American/Black diaspora through the lens of health disparities in rural and urban communities; focusing on the child and maternal well-being as a preventative method of children transitioning into the foster care system.

Grand Challenge

Ensure healthy development for all youth. Close the health gap.

Publications Price, S. K., Coles, D. C., & Wingold, T. (in press). Clusters of behavioral health and psychosocial risk for childbearing women in four [state] communities. Maternal and Child Health Journal.

Presentations Coles, D. Crystal, and Angie Mann-Williams, Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, “Creativity in teaching: Utilizing a progressive pedagogical framework in HBSE courses,” Orlando, FL. (November 2018).

Barnett, Tracey, and D. Crystal Coles, American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting, “Understanding the Interconnectedness of Behavioral Health Risks Experienced by Mother’s and Food Insecurity,” San Diego, CA. (November 2018).

Mann-Williams, Angie, and D. Crystal Coles, Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, “Utilizing collaborative and case-based learning: An innovative approach to teaching research methods,” Orlando, FL. (November 2018).

Isom, Shanza, D. Crystal Coles, and Tracey Barnett, Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, “We helped build this: Contributions of African-American pioneers in social welfare history,” Orlando, FL. (November 2018).

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SARAH JEN Assistant Professor Scholarship Focus

Intersections of social work, gerontology, and sexuality; support the sexual needs of aging populations and to improve the health and well-being of LGBTQ midlife and older adults.

Grand Challenge

Achieve equal opportunity and justice. Close the health gap. Advance long and productive lives.

Publications Jen, S., & Jones, R. (2019). Bisexual lives and aging in context: A cross-national comparison of the United Kingdom and United States.

International Journal of Aging and Human Development. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0091415019843661 Fredriksen-Goldsen, K. I., Jen, S., & Muraco, A. (2019). Iridescent life course: LGBTQ aging research and a blueprint for the future - A systematic review. Gerontology, 65(3), 253-274. doi:10.1159/000493559 Fabbre, V. D., Jen, S., & Fredriksen-Goldsen, K. I. (2019). The state of theory in LGBT aging: Implications for gerontological scholarship. Research on Aging. doi:0164027518822814 Jen, S. (2018). Discourses of late life gender transitions. Journal of Research on Women and Gender, 8, 49-64.

Jen, S. (2018). Sexuality of midlife and older women: A review of theory use. Journal of Women & Aging, 30(3), 204-226.

Jen, S. (2018). Bisexual aging: Resources, recognition, and representation. In S. Westwood (Ed.), Ageing, diversity, and inequality (pp.

131-146). Routledge.

Segal-Englelchin, D., Jen, S., & Erera, P. E. (in press). Parenting in hetero-gay families: Motivations, assumptions, gender, and culture. In O. Taubman-Ari & (Eds.), Pathways and barriers to parenthood. Springer.

Jen, S. (2019, June). Biracial, bisexual, and silent: The hidden life of a quiet, academic queer. 10-11.

Presentations

Jen, S, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, “Discourses and life course trajectories of bisexuality among older women,” Champagne-Urbana. (May 2019).

Jen, S, Human Behavior in the Social Environment (BSW foundational course), “Aging, disability, and sexuality.” (April 2019).

Jen, S, Methods of Qualitative Inquiry (Required PhD course), “Discourse Analysis.” (April 2019).

Lustbader, W., S. Jen, and A. Strayer, Aging in America Conference, “Sexy women: Aging bodies and sexual experiences in later life,” New Orleans, LA. (April 2019).

Jen, S, Social Work Practice Seminar II (BSW foundational course), “Working with organizations and communities.” (Spring 2019).

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Jen, S, Gerontology Pro-Seminar (Gerontology required PhD course), “Aging at the intersections: Later life, sexuality, and health.”

(March 2019).

Jen, S, Multigenerational Brownbag hosted by University of Washington School of Social Work, “Younger social workers, older clients: Practice across generations.” (February 2019).

Storer, H., C. Willey-Sthapit, S. Jen, and O. Benson, Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, “Applied critical discourse analysis methods to advance social work research and practice,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Jen, S, Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, “Discourses of bisexuality among older women.,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Jen, S, Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting, “Discourses of bisexuality among older women,” Boston, MA. (November 2018).

CHERYL HOLMES Associate Researcher Scholarship Focus

Frontier and rural; integrated care; behavioral health.

Grand Challenges

Closing the health gap. Eradicating social isolation.

Publications Cai, H., Spreckelmeyer, K., Mendenhall, A., Li, D., Holmes, C., & Levy, M. (2018). A regional survey on residents’ preferences on patient-centered medical home design in rural areas. Health Environments Research and Design Journal. doi:https://doi. org/10.1177/1937586718806866

Presentations Holmes, Cheryl, Suzanne Gladney, Michelle Levy, Elizabeth Reid, and Kaylee Uland, Research Impact Talks, “Engaging Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers in Healthcare Research,” Overland Park, KS. (February 2019).

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NANCY KEPPLE Assistant Professor Scholarship Focus

Social consequences of the availability, distribution and use of psychoactive substances; substance use behaviors among parenting populations; the role of parent substance use in child welfare decisionmaking; and racial/ethnic disparities within the child welfare system.

Grand Challenges

Stop family violence. Ensure healthy development for all youth. Eradicate social isolation.

Publications Akin, B., Johnson-Motoyama, M., Kepple, N., & Clark, S. L. (in press). Intergenerational Transmission of Maltreatment. In E. J. Mullen (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Social Work.

Freisthler, B., & Kepple, N. J. (in press). Using spatial analysis to better integrate context into our understanding of addictive behaviors.

In A. Begun & P. Murray (Eds.), Handbook of Social Work in the Addictions.

Kepple, N. J., & Freisthler, B. (in press). All drugs aren’t created equal: Exploring the general and specific effects of psychoactive substances to understand child maltreatment risk by drug type. In A. Begun & P. Murray (Eds.), Handbook of Social Work in the Addictions.

Freisthler, B., & Kepple, N. J. (in press). Types of substance use and punitive parenting: A preliminary exploration. Journal of Social Work Practice in Addictions.

Wolf, J. P., Kepple, N. J., & Freisthler, B. (in press). Weighing the Evidence: Understanding the Role of Parental Substance Use in Child Welfare Substantiation Decisions. Journal of Social Work Practice in Addictions.

Kepple, N. J., Parker, A. P., Whitmore, S., & Comtois, M. (2019). Nowhere to go? Examining Facility Acceptance Levels for Serving Clients Using Medications for Opioid Use Disorder. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 104, 42-50. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j. jsat.2019.06.004 Kepple, N. J., & Freisthler, B. (2018). Who’s Buying What and How Much? Correlates of Purchase Behaviors from Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Los Angeles, California. Journal of Primary Prevention, 39(6), 571-589. doi:10.1007/s10935-018-0528-5 Kobulsky, J. M., Kepple, N. J., & Jedwab, M. (2018). Abuse Characteristics and the Concordance of Child Protective Services Determinations and Adolescent Self-Reports of Abuse. Child Maltreatment, 23(3), 269-280. doi:10.1177/1077559518771743 Subica, S. M., Douglas, J. A., Kepple, N. J., Villaneuva, S., & Grills, C. T. (2018). The geography of crime and violence surrounding tobacco shops, medical marijuana dispensaries, and off-sale alcohol outlets in a large, urban low-income community of color. Preventive Medicine, 108, 8-16. doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.12.020 Kepple, N. J. (2018). Does parental substance use always engender risk for children? Comparing incidence rate ratios of abusive and neglectful behaviors across substance use behavior patterns. Child Abuse & Neglect, 76, 44-55. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.09.015

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Presentations Kepple, Nancy J, Michelle Johnson Motoyama, and Becci Akin, 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, “Resilient Parenting Project: Exploring the Role of OB/GYN Clinics in the Prevention of the Intergenerational Transmission of Child Maltreatment,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Parker, Amittia P., and Nancy J. Kepple, 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, “Understanding the Community Context of Housing Services for Individuals in Recovery from Substance Use Disorder By Facility Spiritual-Orientation,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Kepple, Nancy J, Amittia P Parker, and Susan Whitmore, 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, “Using Knowledge to Build a More Responsive System for Individuals on Medication Assisted Treatment,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Kepple, Nancy J, 2019 Douglas County Behavioral Health Prevention Summit, “Changing Marijuana Attitudes and Policies: Lessons Learned from Other States and Its Implications for Kansas,” Lawrence, KS. (June 2019).

Kepple, Nancy J, 2019 Douglas County Behavioral Health Prevention Summit, “Leveraging Strengths of the SUD Recovery Process for Parents as an Opportunity for Child Maltreatment Prevention,” Lawrence, KS. (June 2019). *** Kepple, Nancy J, Amittia Parker, Susan Whitmore, and Michelle Comtois, 2nd Annual Kansas Opioid Conference, “Nowhere to go: Examining facility tolerance levels for clients using medication assisted treatment,” Topeka, KS. (November 2018).

Kepple, Nancy J, and Amittia Parker, “Using knowledge as prevention for the opioid epidemic: A comprehensive community needs assessment of the substance use disorder continuum of care in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area,” Kansas City, KS. (October 2018).

Kepple, Nancy J, “Does parental substance use always engender risk of children? Comparing incidence rate ratios of abusive and neglectful behaviors across substance use behavior patterns,” Toronto, ON. (September 2018).

Kepple, Nancy J, and Amittia Parker, “Moving towards a more responsive substance use disorder continuum of care: A comprehensive needs assessment of the Kansas City metropolitan area,” Overland Park, KS. (September 2018).

Kepple, Nancy J, “Working with substance-using parents within a child welfare context: Evidence-based insights for CASA volunteers,” Mission, KS. (July 2018).

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TERRY KOENIG Professor

Scholarship Focus

Ethical decision making in social work practice; social welfare philosophy; international social work development and cross-cultural practices; Central Asian and post-Soviet issues; aging, elder abuse and self-neglect; qualitative research methods.

Grand Challenge

Achieve equal opportunity and justice.

Publications Koenig, T., Spano, R., & Thompson, J. (in press). Human behavior theory for social work practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Koenig, T. L., Spano, R. N. N., & Thompson, J. (in press). Human Behavior Theory for Social Work Practice The remaining two chapters were written and approved in 2018. Chapter 12 Empowerment and the Strengths Perspective Chapter 13 Cognitive and Moral Development.

Besthorn, F., Koenig, T., Spano, R., & Warren, S. (in press). A critical analysis of social and environmental justice: Reorienting social work to an ethic of ecological justice. In R. Hugman & J. Carter (Eds.), Rethinking values and ethics in social work. London: PalgraveMacmillan.

Chappell Deckert, J., & Koenig, T. (in press). Growth and Dissonance in Kazakhstan. Qualitative Social Work.

Thompson, J., Spano, R., & Koenig, T. (in press). Back to Addams and Richmond: Was Social Work Really a Divided House in the Beginning?

Spano, R., & Koenig, T. (in press). In R. Spano (Ed.), Social work ethics.

Zimmerman, S., Munn, J., & Koenig, T. (in press). Social work practice in assisted living. In B. Berkman (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Social Work in Health and Aging (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Presentations Koenig, Terry, and Sachiko Gomi, Global Partnership for Transformative Social Work, “Growth and transformation in social work,�

Burlington, Vermont. (2018).

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MICHELLE LEVY Research Project Director Scholarship Focus

Recruitment, retention and workforce issues; health and behavioral health; interprofessional education, integrated care; prevention; rural perspectives; engagement; organizational intervention; cross-systems collaboration.

Grand Challenges

Ensure healthy development for all youth. Close the health gap. Achieve equal opportunity and justice.

Publications Cui, H., Spreckelmeyer, K., Mendenhall, A., Li, D., Homes, C., & Levy, M. (2018). A regional survey on residents’ preferences on PatientCentered Medical Home (PCMH) design in rural areas. Health Environments Research & Design Journal.

Holmes, C., Mariscal, S., & Levy, M. (2018). Serving migrant and seasonal farmworkers: Exploring needed healthcare research and information.

Levy, M., Holmes, C., & Mariscal, S. (2018). Engaging migrant and seasonal farmworkers in identifying motivators, facilitators, and barriers to health care: Literature review.

Levy, M., & Matejkowski, J. (2018). Social workers in integrated health care. Lawrence.

Presentations Levy, Michelle, Navigating Rural Health Resources, “Integrated Health Scholars Program,” Webinar. (April 2019).

Rogers, Mish, and Michelle Levy, University of Kansas Medical Center Psychology Didactic, “Self-care for health care students,” Kansas City, KS. (April 2019).

Levy, Michelle, and Amy Mendenhall, Regional Partnership Grant Program Annual Grantee Meeting, “Engaging stakeholders in your evaluation,” Washington, DC. (April 2019).

Invited breakout leaders Holmes, Cheryl, Suzanne Gladney, Michelle Levy, E Reid, and K Uland, Research Impact Talk, “Engaging migrant and seasonal farmworkers in healthcare research,” University of Kansas Edwards Campus, Overland Park, KS. (February 2019).

Lee, Bethany, Shauna Aquavita, and Michelle Levy, Council on Social Work Education 64th Annual Program Meeting, “Preparing MSW students for interprofessional practice: Three programs share lessons learned.,” Orlando, FL. (2018).

Wellner, Z, Ashley Crowl, Michelle Levy, Christina Boyd, Jessica Bates, Jessica Barnes, and Sarah Shrader, Faculty Academic Day & Interprofessional Preceptor Summit, “Determining the impact of an interprofessional simulation focused on social determinants of health with pharmacy and social work students.,” University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas. (November 2018).

Levy, Michelle, Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care, Mo-Kan Chapter, “Educating social workers for health care practice.,” Overland Park, KS. (July 2018).

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MELINDA LEWIS

Associate Professor of Practice & Associate Director for the Center for Coummunity Engagement & Collaboration Scholarship Focus

Poverty and economic inequality; asset-based financial aid; social change; strategies for effective policy advocacy by nonprofit organizations; advocacy evaluation; advocacy capacity-building for individuals and social service organizations.

Grand Challenges

Achieve equal opportunity and justice. Reduce extreme economic inequality.

Ensure healthy development for all youth. Build financial capability and assets for all.

Publications Lewis, M. (in press). Instructor Resources. Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach: New Directions in Social Work: Routledge.

Presentations Lewis, M. Making Education Work for the Poor. Keynote presentation for the Kansas Association of Scholarship and Financial Aid Administrators conference. Lawrence, KS. (April 2019).

Lewis, M. Building Advocacy Capacity to Reduce Poverty. Presentation for the Kansas Conference on Poverty. Topeka, KS. (July 2018).

Elliott, W., Reeves, R., Hamilton, D., and Lewis, M. Making Education Work for the Poor. Book presentation at New America.

Washington, DC. (July 2018).

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ALLY MABRY Research Project Director Scholarship Focus

Evidence-based best practices implementation support for organizations providing services to adults and transition-age you who expereince serious mental illness; strengths model of case management; development of fidelity scales; client-centered social administraive practices for mental health organizational and state mental health authorities.

Grand Challenges

Eradicate social isolation. End homelessness. Reduce extreme economic inequality.

Acheive equal opportunity and justice.

Presentations

Mabry, Ally, and Rick Goscha, “Strengths Model Workshop,” Napa, California. (June 2019 - June 20, 2019).

Mabry, Ally, “Strengths Model- Pre-Implementation Considerations,” Kansas City, MO. (June 2019).

Mabry, Ally, and Bryan Knowles, Johnson County Mental Health Center, “Strengths Model Case Management Workshop,” Shawnee, KS. (May 2019).

Mabry, Ally, Bryan Knowles, and Rick Goscha, Evidence-Based Best Practices Symposium, “Strengths Model For Justice Involved Individuals,” Burbank, CA. (April 2019).

Mabry, Ally, and Bryan Knowles, Hong Fook Mental Health Association, “Strengths Model Case Management Workshop and Supervisor’s Forum,” Toronto, Canada. (November 2018).

Mabry, Ally, Rick Goscha, and Matthew Blankers, Eastern Sierra Strengths Model Learning Collaborative, “Strengths Model Case Management Presentation on Implementation,” June Lake, CA. (July 2018).

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JASON MATEJKOWSKI Associate Professor Scholarship Focus

Policies and services involving adults with mental illness who are involved with the criminal justice system or who are homeless.

Grand Challenges

Promote smart decarceration. End homelessness.

Publications Matejkowski, J. (in press). Mental health courts. In Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology.. Oxford.

Responsible for development and writing of all portions of the manuscript as well as manuscript revisions.

Matejkowski, J., & Conrad, A. (2019). Minor risk factors. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Criminal Psychology. Sage.

Responsible for development and writing of all portions of the manuscript as well as manuscript revisions.

Matejkowski, J., Lee, S., & Severson, M. (2018). Validation of a tool to measure attitudes among community corrections officers toward shared decision making with formerly incarcerated persons with mental illness. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 45(5), 612-627. doi:10.1177/0093854818761991 Choi, S., Lee, S., & Matejkowski, J. (2018). The effects of state Medicaid expansion on low-income individuals’ access to health care: Multilevel modeling. Population Health Management, 21(3), 235-244. doi:10.1089/pop.2017.0104

Presentations Woojae, Han, Jason Matejkowski, and Lee Sungkyu, Society for Social Work Research Annual Conference, “Racial variation in effects of mental health court experience on recidivism,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Conrad, Aaron, Han Woojae, and Jason Matejkowski, American Society for Criminology Annual Conference, “An examination of the relationships among mental health court participation, perceived voluntariness of treatment, service utilization, and quality of life.,” Atlanta, GA. (November 2018).

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BRIANA MCGEOUGH Assistant Professor Scholarship Focus

Understanding and intervening on mental health disparities expereinced by sexual minority individuals, particularly disaprities in depression and alcohol use disorders..

Grand Challenges

Close the health gap. Ensure healthy development for all youth. Advance long and productive lives. Achieve equal opporunity and justice.

Publications McGeough, B. L., & Sterzing, P. R. (2018). A Systematic Review of Family Victimization Experiences Among Sexual Minority Youth.

The journal of primary prevention, 39(5), 491-528.

Presentations McGeough, B, Association of Recovery in Higher Education, “Rates and Predictors of Alcoholics Anonymous Attendance Among Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Individuals,” Houston, Texas. (Summer 2018).

McGeough, B, Society for Psychotherapy Research, “Understanding and Addressing Co-Occurring Depression and Alcohol Use Symptoms Among Sexual Minority Individuals,” Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Summer 2018).

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AMY MENDENHALL Associate Professor & Associate Dean for Research Scholarship Focus

Children’s mental health including serious mental illness, service utilization, parent and child education and the impact of mental illness on children and their families.

Grand Challenges

Achieve equal opportunity and justice. Close the health gap. Ensure health development for all youth.

Publications Mendenhall, A. N., & Early, T. J. (in press). Pediatric bipolar disorder: considerations for school social workers. School Social Work Journal.

Mendenhall, A., Grube, W. & Jung, E (2019). Implementing Strengths Model for Youth in Community Mental Health: Impact on Case Mnagaers’ Professional Quality of Life. Children and Youth Services Review.

Schuetz, N., Mendenhall, A., & Grube, W. (in press). Strengths Model for Youth Case Management: Professionals’ Perceptions of Model Impact on Clients. Social Work in Mental Health. doi:10.1080/15332985.2018.1563024 Cai, H., Spreckelmeyer, K., Mendenhall, A., Holmes, C., & Levy, M. (2018). A Regional Survey on Residents’ Preferences on Patient Centered Medical Home Design in Rural Areas. Health Environments Research & Design Journal. doi:10.1177/1937586718806866 Mendenhall, A. (in press). Mental Health. In S. Kapp (Ed.), Introduction to Social Work. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Presentations Mendenhall, Amy, Elizabeth Schoenfeld, Brooke White, and Whitney Grube, 32nd Annual Research & Policy Conference on Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Behavioral Health, “The Strengths Model: Applications for Innovative Work with Youth.,” Tampa, FL. (March 2019).

Borland, Olivia, Amy Mendenhall, and Whitney Grube, 32nd Annual Research & Policy Conference on Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Behavioral Health, “Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up: Investigating the Experiences and Views of Cultural Relevance from Bilingual Home Visitors.,” Tampa, FL. (March 2019).

Graaf, Genevieve, and Amy Mendenhall, 32nd Annual Research & Policy Conference on Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Behavioral Health, “Evidence into Systems of Care: An Integrative Framework.,” Tampa, FL. (March 2019).

Mendenhall, Amy, Whitney Grube, and Kaela Byers, Society for Social Work Research 23rd Annual Conference, “Examining Differences in Home and Family Environment and Child and Caregiver Functioning Among Families Receiving Early Childhood Intervention.,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Mendenhall, Amy, and Susan Frauenholtz, Developmental Poster presentation at the Council on Social Work Education 2018 Annual Program Meeting, “Challenges to Interprofessional Collaboration in Children’s Mental Health Systems of Care.,” Orlando, FL. (November 2018).

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Mendenhall, Amy, Susan Frauenholtz, and Whitney Grube, 2018 Mentoring Conference, “Mutuality in the Mentorship Relationship between Pre-Tenured Faculty and Doctoral Students.,” Albuquerque, NM. (October 2018).

Byers, Kaela, Whitney Grube, and Amy Mendenhall, Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education, and Social Development, “Profiles of Toxic Stress Risk and Protection in Early Childhood: A latent class analysis of the Household Strength and Strain Inventory.,” Dublin, Ireland. (July 2018).

Mendenhall, Amy, and Whitney Grube, Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education, and Social Development, “Strengths Model Case Management for Youth: A Case Study of a Mental Health Center’s Journey to Providing Strengths-Based, Client-Driven Services.,” Dublin, Ireland. (July 2018).

Mendenhall, A., Grube, W., Sattler, P. & Byers, K. Attachment and Biobehavioral Catchup: Lessons Learned from Implementation of an Evidence-Based Practice in Rural and Urban Communities. 21st National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Washington DC. (April 2018).

MEGAN PACELEY

Assistant Professor, Coordinator for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarship Focus

Understanding the impact of non-urban communities on the health and well-being of gender and sexual minority (GSM) youth; development, sustainability, and evaluation of gender and sexual minority community organizations.

Grand Challenges

Eradicate social isolation. Achieve equal opportunity and justice. Close the health gap.

Create social responses to a changing environment. Ensure healthy development for all youth. Stop family violence. Advance long and productive lives.

Publications Wagaman, M. Alex, Alessi, E., Goffnett, J., Watts, K., Iacono, G., Thomas, D., Paceley, M. S., & Craig, S. (in press). Interrupting heteroand cisnormativity in social work programs: LGBTQ+ student strategies for increasing inclusion. Journal of Social Work Education.

Gandy-Guedes, M. E., & Paceley, M. S. (2019). Activism in Southwestern queer and trans young adults after the marriage equality era.

Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 1-22. doi:10.1177/0886109919857699 Paceley, M. S., Fish, J., Conrad, A., & Schuetz, N. (2019). Diverse community contexts and community resources for sexual and gender minority youth: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 1-16. doi:10.1002/casp.2417 Paceley, M. S., Thomas, M., & Turner, G. (2019). Factors limiting SGM youths’ involvement in nonmetropolitan SGM community organizations. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 31(1), 1-18. doi:10.1080/10538720.2019.1567429

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Akin, B. A., Johnson-Motoyama, M., Davis, S., Paceley, M. S., & Brook, J. (2018). Parent perspectives of engagement in the strengthening families program: An evidence-based intervention for families in child welfare and affected by parental substance use. Child & Family Social Work, 23, 735-742. doi:10.1111/cfs.12470 Paceley, M. S., Thomas, M. M., Toole, J., & Pavicic, E. (2018). “If rainbows were everywhere”: Nonmetropolitan SGM youth identify factors that make communities supportive. Journal of Community Practice, 26(4), 429-445. doi:10.1080/10705422.2018.1520773

Paceley, M. S. (2018). In Their Words: A Found Poem on the Experiences of Rural LGBTQ Youth. Qualitative Inquiry, Advanced Online Publication. doi:10.1177/1077800418810980 Akin, B., Brook, J., Johnson-Motoyama, M., Paceley, M. S., & Davis, S. (2018). Engaging substance-affected families in child welfare: Parent perspectives of a parenting intervention at program initiation and completion. Journal of Family Social Work, 21(4-5), 313-330. doi:10.1080/10522158.2018.1469562 Paceley, M. S., Goffnett, J., & Wagaman, M. Alex. (2019). School Social Work Association of America Resolution Statement: Supporting Promoting the Well-being of LGBTQIA+ Students.

Presentations Akin, Becci, Jody Brook, and Megan Paceley, Society for Social Work and Research, “Parent perspectives of a parenting intervention at program start and completion: Considering the views of parents involved in child welfare and affected by substance use,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Fisher, Colleen, Megan S Paceley, and Megan Gandy-Guedes, Society for Social Work and Research, “Promising school-based interventions for sexual and gender minority youth wellbeing: A meta-analysis,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Goffnett, Jacob, and Megan S Paceley, Society for Social Work and Research, “What messages do trans youth have for other youth about growing up trans?,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Paceley, Megan S, Jessica N Fish, Aaron Conrad, and Nikolaus Schuetz, Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting, “Community support within diverse community contexts for sexual and gender minority youth,” Orlando, FL. (November 2018).

Goffnett, Jacob, and Megan S Paceley, Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting, “Rural sexual and gender minority youth, social media, and support,” Orlando, FL. (November 2018).

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MICHAEL RINQUINO Assistant Professor Scholarship Focus

Nonsuicidal sef-injury across the lifespan, child and adolescent mental health and trauma, centering the perspective of you with marginalized idenities, integrating micro and macro approaches, miced methods research.

Grand Challenges

research Ensure health development for all youth. Acheive equal opportunity and justice. Advance long and productive lives.

Publications Garland, E.L., Bryan, M.A., Priddy, S.E., Riquino, M.R., Froeliger, B., & Howard, M. (2019). Effects of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement versus social support on negative affective interference during inhibitory control among opioid-treated chronic patients: A pilot mechanistic study. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. doi: 10.1093/abm/kay096 Priddy, S.E., Howard, M.O., Hanley, A.W., Riquino, M.R., Friberg-Felsted, K., & Garland, E.L. (2018). Mindfulness meditation in the treatment of substance use disorders and preventing future relapse: Neurocognitive mechanisms and clinical implications. Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation, 9, 103-114. doi: 10.2147/SAR.S145201

Presentations Garland, E L, A Baker, A K Larsen, M R Riquino, S E Priddy, E A Thomas, A W Hanley, P Galbraith, N Wanner, and Y Nakamura, Society for Social Work and Research Conference, “Efficacy of brief mindfulness training and hypnotic suggestion for acute pain relief in the hospital setting: A randomized controlled trial of integrative social work interventions,” Washington, DC. (2018).

Baker, A, S E Priddy, M R Riquino, and E L Garland, Society for Social Work and Research Conference, “Heart rate variability mediates the relationship between dispositional mindfulness and opioid craving among chronic pain patients,” Washington, DC. (2018).

Baker, A, M R Riquino, S E Priddy, and E L Garland, Society for Social Work and Research Conference, “How do opioid-using chronic pain patients experience change during an 8-week mindfulness-oriented intervention? A phenomenological study,” Washington, DC. (2018).

Priddy, S E, M R Riquino, A Baker, and E L Garland, Society for Social Work and Research Conference, “Mindfulness and prescription opioid misuse: The mediational roles of craving and attention to positive information,” Washington, DC. (2018).

Riquino, M R, A W Hanley, S E Priddy, A Baker, and E L Garland, Society for Social Work and Research Conference, “The body is not the enemy: Befriending the body through mindfulness reduces self-harm ideation in chronic pain patients,” Washington, DC. (2018).

Riquino, M R, Society for Social Work and Research Conference, “The experiences of mental health professionals working with selfinjuring adolescents: An exploratory study,” Washington, DC. (2018).

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PAUL SMOKOWSKI Professor

Scholarship Focus

Children and families, Latino immigrant families, rural youth, school, health, psychodrama techniques.

Grand Challenge

Ensure healthy development for all youth.

Publications Smokowski, P.R., Corona, R., Bacallao, M., Fortson, B.L., Marshall, K.J., & Yaros, A. (2018). Addressing barriers to recruitment and retention in the implementation of parenting programs: Lessons learned for effective program delivery in rural and urban areas. Journal of Child and Family Studies.

Webber, K., Smokowski, P.R., & Evans, C.B.R. (2018). Assessment of adolescent optimism: Measurement invariance across gender and race/ethnicity. Journal of Adolescence.

Smokowski, P. R., & Evans, C. B. R. (2019). Bullying and Victimization Across the Lifespan: Playground Politics and Power. Boston, MA: Springer.

Smokowski, P. R., Evans, C. B. R., Wing, H., Bower, M., Bacallao, M., & Barbee, J. (In Press). Implementing school based youth courts in a rural context: Making schools safer by interrupting the school to prison pipeline. Children and Adolescent Social Work Journal.

Cotter, K. L., Rose, R. A., Bacallao, M., & Smokowski, P. R. (In Press). Parenting Wisely six months later: How delivery format impacts program effects at follow-up. Journal of Primary Prevention.

Wu, Q., Guo, S., Evans, C. B. R., Smokowski, P. R., Bacallao, M. & Cotter, K. L. (In Press). Modeling ecological risk, health promotion, and prevention program effects for rural adolescents. Journal for the Society of Social Work and Research.

Smokowski, P. R., Bacallao, M., Evans, C. B. R., Rose, R. A., Stalker, K. L., Guo, S., Wu, Q., Barbee, J., & Bower, M. THE NORTH Carolina Youth Violence Prevention Center: Using a Multifaceted, Ecological Approach to Reduce Youth Violence in Impoverished, Rural Area. Journal for the Society of Social Work and Research.

Presentations Evans, C. B. R., & Smokowski, P. R. (2018, January). Implementing school based teen courts in a rural context: Making schools safer by interrupting the school to prison pipeline. Paper presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Evans, C. B. R., Smokowski, P. R., & Rose, R. A. (2018, January). Cumulative bullying experiences, adolescent behavioral health, and academic achievement: An integrative model of perpetration, victimization, and bystander behavior. Paper presented at the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, D.C.

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L Fernandez-Rhodes, EK Lodge, D Sotres-Alvarez, N Franceschini, MM Llabre, EM Arredondo, LC. Gallo, W Arguelles, ML. Daviglus, CR. Isasi, P Smokowski, P Gordon-Larsen, AE Aiello, K Perreira, KE North (April 2018), Population Association of America Annual Meeting. Demographic, Sociocultural, Behavioral and Health-Related Factors and Adulthood and Migration-Related Weight Gain Among Hispanic/Latino Adults: Results from the Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). Denver, Colorado, USA.

CARRIE WENDELHUMMELL

Project Manager, Director for the Center for Research on Aging and Disability options Scholarship Focus

Healthcare and long term services and supports policy, mental health over the life-course, aging with disabilities, mixed methods research, community based research.

Grand Challenges

Eradicate social isolation. Close the health gap. Advance long and productive lives.

Presentations Wendel-Hummell. C.L., Chapin, R., Sellon, A., and Kang, H. (July 2017). Implementing Kansas’s Universal Assessment in a Managed Long Term Services and Supports Environment. International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics

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2018-19 PHD GRADUATES Jennifer Chappell Deckart

Dissertation: Humanizing Migration: A qualitative case study of a learning delegation to the United States/Mexico border Employer: Bethel College

Ashley Palmer

Dissertation: Characterizing the developmental heterogeneity of connectedness to school or work during the transition into adulthood Employer: University of Texas at Arlington

Debby Moon

Dissertation: Preventing Maltreatment through Trauma-Informed Integrated Primary Care: A Realist Evaluation of Community-Based Organizational Change Efforts Employer: University of Pittsburg

Jared Barton

Dissertation: Development and Initial Validation of a Measure for Early Childhood Program Readiness for Data Driven Decision Making Employer: University of Kansas

NDIDATES & STUDENTS

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SHELBY CLARK Publications Akin, Becci A., Johnson-Motoyama, M., Kepple, N., Clark, S.L. (in press). “Intergenerational Transmission of Maltreatment.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Social Work. Ed. Edward J. Mullen. New York: Oxford University Press.

Presentations Ethics in Behavioral Health. Renew Counseling Community Continuing Education Event. Renew Counseling Center. (March 2019).

Inner Revolutionary Series: Mindful Forgiveness. Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness. (April 2019).

Compassion, Empathy and Building Relationships: Tools for a Better World. The Junior League of Kansas City. (April 2019).

ERIN CONRAD Publications Paceley, M. S., Fish, J., Conrad, A., & Schuetz, N. (2019). Diverse community contexts and community resources for sexual and gender minority youth: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 1-16.

Matejkowski, J., & Conrad, A. (2019). Minor risk factors. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Criminal Psychology. Sage.

WHITNEY GRUBE Publications Grube, W. A., & Mendenhall, A. N. (in press). Adolescent mental health case management: Provider perspectives. Social Work in Mental Health.

Schuetz, N., Mendenhall, A., & Grube, W. (in press). Strengths Model for Youth Case Management: Professionals’ Perceptions of Model Impact on Clients. Social Work in Mental Health.

Presentations Mendenhall, Amy, Elizabeth Schoenfeld, Brooke White, and Whitney Grube, 32nd Annual Research & Policy Conference on Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Behavioral Health, “The Strengths Model: Applications for Innovative Work with Youth.,” Tampa, FL. (March 2019). *** Borland, Olivia, Amy Mendenhall, and Whitney Grube, 32nd Annual Research & Policy Conference on Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Behavioral Health, “Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up: Investigating the Experiences and Views of Cultural Relevance from Bilingual Home Visitors.,” Tampa, FL. (March 2019).

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Mendenhall, Amy, Whitney Grube, and Kaela Byers, Society for Social Work Research 23rd Annual Conference, “Examining Differences in Home and Family Environment and Child and Caregiver Functioning Among Families Receiving Early Childhood Intervention.,” San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Mendenhall, Amy, Susan Frauenholtz, and Whitney Grube, 2018 Mentoring Conference, “Mutuality in the Mentorship Relationship between Pre-Tenured Faculty and Doctoral Students.,” Albuquerque, NM. (October 2018).

Byers, Kaela, Whitney Grube, and Amy Mendenhall, Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education, and Social Development, “Profiles of Toxic Stress Risk and Protection in Early Childhood: A latent class analysis of the Household Strength and Strain Inventory.,” Dublin, Ireland. (July 2018).

Mendenhall, Amy, and Whitney Grube, Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education, and Social Development, “Strengths Model Case Management for Youth: A Case Study of a Mental Health Center’s Journey to Providing Strengths-Based, Client-Driven Services.,” Dublin, Ireland. (July 2018).

Mendenhall, A., Grube, W., Sattler, P. & Byers, K. Attachment and Biobehavioral Catchup: Lessons Learned from Implementation of an Evidence-Based Practice in Rural and Urban Communities. 21st National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Washington DC. (April 2018).

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KILEY W. LIMING

Publications Liming, K. W. (2018). Examining the differing effects of economic hardship and poor maternal wellbeing on cumulative exposure to adverse childhood experiences. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 1–15.

Grube, W. A., Liming, K. W. (2018). Attachment and Biobehavioral Catchup: A systematic review, Infant Mental Health.

Presentations Liming, K. Examining the Differing Effects of Economic Hardship and Poor Maternal Wellbeing on Cumulative Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences. Poster presentation at the 21st National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Strong & Thriving Families, Washington, D.C. (Accepted). (April 2019).

Liming, K. Examining the Differing Effects of Economic Hardship and Poor Maternal Wellbeing on Cumulative Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences. Poster presentation at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, Ending Gender Based, Family and Community Violence, San Francisco, CA. (January 2019).

Liming, K., Grube, W. Integrated or Isolated?: Implementing the Findings of a Systematic Review on ACEs. Oral presentation in the Child Welfare Track at the 2018 Council on Social Work Education, 64th Annual Program Meeting, Orlando, FL. (November 2018).

Liming, K., Grube, W. Multiples Matter: Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Early Childhood. 90-minute oral presentation at the First Things First: Early Childhood Summit 2018, Phoenix, AZ. (August 2018).

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KRIS MATTHEWS Publications Matthews, K., Enyart, M., & Freeman, R. (2019). Putting the Pieces Together: Perceptions of Longitudinal Wraparound, Systems of Care, and Positive Behavior Support Implementation. Community mental health journal, 1-10.

Presentations Matthews, K. & Byers, K. Differential impact of wraparound facilitation best practices on youth outcomes: A latent class analysis.

Society of Social Work Research (SSWR) conference. Washington D.C. (January 2018).

Matthews, K. & Byers, K. Differential impact of wraparound facilitation best practices on youth outcomes: A latent class analysis.

Children’s Mental Health Conference in Tampa (March 2018).

AMITTIA PARKER Publications Parker, A. & Blackwell, A. (2019). Capturing Context: The Role of Social Support and Neighborhood on the Psychological Well-being of African American Families. Urban Social Work.

Kepple, N.J., Parker, A., Whitemore, S., & Comtois, M. (2019). Nowhere to Go? Examining Facility Tolerance Levels for Serving Individuals Using Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Opioid Use Disorder. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.

Parker, A., Johnson-Motoyama M., Mariscal, S.E., Guillamo-Ramos, V., Reynoso, E., & Fernandez, C. (in press). Community Health Workers Addressing Reproductive Health Disparities in Immigrant Latino Communities through an Evidence Based Intervention: An Implementation Study. Health & Social Work.

Presentations Parker, A. Help is Where You Find It: African Americans Psychological Wellbeing and the Role of Natural Networks, Presented at National Association of Black Social Workers Conference, Atlanta, GA. (April 2019).

Parker, A. & Kepple, N.J. Understanding the Community Context of Housing Services for Individuals in Recovery from Substance Use Disorder By Facility Spiritual-Orientation. Poster Presentation, Society of Social Work Research Conference, San Francisco, C.A. (January 2019).

Kepple, N.J. & Parker, A. Using Knowledge to Build a More Responsive System for Individuals on Medication Assisted Treatment. Oral Paper Presentation, Society of Social Work Research Conference, San Francisco, C.A. (January 2019).

Parker, A. Race, Privilege, Oppression, and Reflective Supervision. Kansas Association of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Annual Conference. Wichita, KS. (May 2019).

Parker, A. Race, Privilege, and Home Visiting. Maternal Infant Child Health Home Visiting Workshop. Kansas City, KS. (April 2019).

Parker, A. Rewiring the Brain to Uncover Implicit Bias Underneath the Surface. 37th Annual Kansas Division of Early Childhood Conference, Wichita, K.S. (February 2019).

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Kepple, N.J. & Parker, A. Nowhere to Go: Examining Facility Tolerance Levels for Clients Using Medication Assisted Treatment.

Kansas Opioid Conference 2018. Topeka, KS. (November 2018).

Kepple, N.J. & Parker, A. Moving Towards a More Responsive Substance Use Disorder Continuum of Care: A Comprehensive Needs Assessment of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Lawrence, KS; University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare. (September 2018).

PATRICIA SATTLER Publications Sattler, P. (2019). Trauma Informed Juvenile Justice in the United States. International Review of Victimology, 25(1), 133-134.

Sattler, P. (accepted). Crimes Against Children. In J. Bumgarner & C. Lewandowski (Eds), Criminal Justice in America: The Encyclopedia of Crime, Law Enforcement, Courts, and Corrections. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

Presentations Paceley, M., Goffnet, J., & Sattler, P. “Conceptualizing community and community climate to promote social change: Perspectives of young trans people in the Midwest.” Oral paper submitted for presentation at the LCBTG Research Symposium: An Interdisciplinary Research Symposium on LGBTQ Research in the Social Sciences held in Champaign, IL. (May 2019).

Mendenhall, A., Grube, W., Sattler, P., & Byers, K. “Attachment and Biobehavioral Catchup: Lessons Learned from Implementation of an Evidence-Based Practice in Rural and Urban Communities.” Workshop to be presented at the 21rst Annual National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect held in Washington, D.C. (April 2019).

Paceley, M., Goffnet, J., & Sattler, P. “Understanding community climate among transgender youth in the Midwest.” Oral paper presented at the Wichita State 2019 Gender & Sexuality in Kansas Conference held in Wichita, KS. (March 2019).

NIK SCHUETZ Publications Schuetz, N., Mendenhall, A., & Grube, W. (in press). Strengths Model for Youth Case Management: Professionals’ Perceptions of Model Impact on Clients. Social Work in Mental Health.

Paceley, M. S., Fish, J., Conrad, A., & Schuetz, N. (2019). Diverse community contexts and community resources for sexual and gender minority youth: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 1-16.

Presentations Paceley, Megan S, Jessica N Fish, Aaron Conrad, and Nikolaus Schuetz, Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting, “Community support within diverse community contexts for sexual and gender minority youth,” Orlando, FL. (November 2018).

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SHERRY WARREN Publications Warren, S. & Chappell Deckert, J. (accepted). Contemplative practices for self-care in the social work classroom. Social Work, Special Issue on Self-Care for the Social Work Profession.

Chappell Deckert, J., Warren, S. & Britton, H. (2018). Midwestern service provider narratives of migrant experiences: Legibility, vulnerability, and exploitation in human trafficking. Advances in Social Work, Special Issue Immigrants and Refugees,18(3), 887-910.

Presentations Warren, S. Not all who wander are lost: Therapeutic labyrinth walking for health. Presentation at the Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education, and Social Development. Dublin, Ireland. (2018).

Warren, S. Contemplative practices for mindful presence: Deepen, connect, and transform your classroom. Workshop presented at the Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education, and Social Development. Dublin, Ireland. (2018).

Warren, S. & Chappell Deckert, J. Postcolonial feminist theory in international social work: Mohanty’s ‘feminist in solidarity’ explored.

Symposium presented at the Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education, and Social Development. Dublin, Ireland. (2018).

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We would like to thank the many sponsors and community partners who made our work in the 20182019 fiscal year possible. Together with these partners, we have engaged in transformative social work research which has positively impacted individuals, organizations, and communities in Kansas and beyond.

SPONSORS California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions Colorado Department of Human Services Connecticut Department of Children and Families Council on Social Work Education First Call Alcohol/Drug Prevention & Recovery Franklin County (Ohio) Children Services Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City Iowa Department of Human Services Jackson County (Missouri) Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services Kansas Department for Children and Families Maine Department of Health and Human Services Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department New York Trust Office on Women’s Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Oregon Department of Human Services Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Saint Francis Community Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration United Methodist Health Ministry Fund

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COMMUNITY PARTNERS Aging and Disability Resource Centers Alpine County (California) Behavioral Health Services Area Agencies on Aging Association of Community Mental Health Centers Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center California Department of Health Care Services, Mental Health Services Division Center for Health and Safety Culture Center for Study of Social Policy Children’s Research Triangle Community Developmental Disability Organizations Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas Family Peace Initiative First Call Futures Without Violence Haskell Indian Nations University Health Care Collaborative of Rural Missouri HealthCore Heartland Community Health Center Hong Fook Mental Health Association Horizons Mental Health Center Implementation Sciences International, Inc. Institute for Ethics and Culture Inyo County (California) Behavioral Health Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska Jewish Family Services Johnson County (Kansas) Mental Health Center Johnson County Mental Health Center Kansai University Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved Kansas City Opioid Treatment Work Group Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence Kansas Department for Children and Families Kansas Department of Health and Environment Kansas Family Advisory Network Kansas Foster and Adoptive Parent Association Kansas Health Institute Kansas Statewide Farmworker Health Program Kansas Youth Advisory Council KU Medical Center KU Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center KVC Kansas Lafayette County Health Department LifeWorks of Austin LiveWell Northwest Kansas Migrant Farmworkers Assistance Fund Mono County (California) Behavioral Health National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges 52

Oklahoma Department of Human Services Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Oregon Social Learning Center Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Project Eagle Rainbows United Russell Child Development Center Sac & Fox Nation Saint Francis Community and Family Services Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center Santa Cruz County (California) Behavioral Health Self Advocates of Kansas Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care Sunflower Foundation The Sexual Trauma & Abuse Care Center Treetop Productions University of Connecticut, School of Social Work University of Delaware, Psychological & Brain Sciences Dept University of Denver School of Social Work University of Hong Kong University of Louisville Kent School of Social Work University of Oklahoma, Health Sciences, Child Study Center University of Vermont Department of Social Work VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System Valeo Behavioral Health Van Go Washta’ge Peacemakers Men’s Project Western Implementation Research and Evaluation Wyandot Center

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INDEX Complete list of faculty Deborah Adams (pg. 15) Scholarship focus: Poverty and policy studies; asset building and asset effects; well-being of women and children; social and economic development; theory for research; mixed methods research.

Becci Akin (pg. 16) Scholarship focus: understanding the keys to successful implementation and effective and equitable interventions for families involved in child welfare.

Meredith Bagwell-Gray (pg. 18) Scholarship focus: Reduce health disparities for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV); sexual safety planning intervention to address HIV/STI risk, substance use, and trauma.

Mahasweta Banerjee (pg. 19 ) Scholarship focus: Theories and practices associated with enhancing social and economic justice; community development; microenterprise as an anti-poverty strategy; international social development; qualitative and quantitative research.

Jody Brook (pg. 20) Scholarship focus: Substance abuse across the lifespan, child welfare, family drug courts, substance abuse prevention, community substance abuse strategies, mixed research methods.

Edward Canda (pg. 22) Scholarship focus: connections between cultural diversity, spirituality, and resilience in relation to health, mental health, and disabilities Juliana Carlson (pg. 24) Scholarship focus: International organizational practices to engage men in gender-based violence prevention; formal support of new and expectant fathers to reduce child exposure to domestic violence; economic and social justice for families.

Michelle Mohr Carney Scholarship focus: Intimate partner violence, at-risk youth, community practice, nonprofit development and management, program development and evaluation, leadership development, collaboration building and conflict resolution, grant writing, strategic planning.

Kortney Carr Scholarship focus: Intergenerational trauma, clinical practice in social work, leadership development, trauma and its impact on behaviors, relationships, and violence in communities, mental health D. Crystal Coles (pg. 25) Scholarship focus: Child welfare and the intersection of the African-American/Black diaspora through the lens of health disparities in rural and urban communities; focusing on the child and maternal well-being as a preventative method of children transitioning into the foster care system.

Sarah Jen (pg. 26) Scholarship focus: Intersections of social work, gerontology, and sexuality; support the sexual needs of aging populations and to improve the health and well-being of LGBTQ midlife and older adults.

Nancy Kepple (pg. 28) Scholarship focus: Social consequences of the availability, distribution, and use of psychoactive substances; substance use behaviors among parenting populations; the role of parent substance use in child welfare decision-making; and racial/ethnic disparities within the child welfare system.

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Terry Koenig (pg. 30) Scholarship focus: Ethical decision making in social work practice; social welfare philosophy; International social work development and cross-cultural practices; Central Asian and post-Soviet issues; aging, elder abuse and self-neglect; qualitative research methods.

Melinda Lewis (pg. 32) Scholarship focus: Poverty and economic inequality, asset-based financial aid, social change, strategies for effective policy advocacy by nonprofit organizations, advocacy evaluation, and advocacy capacity-building for individuals and social service organizations.

Jason Matejkowski (pg. 34) Scholarship focus: Policies and services involving adults with mental illness who are involved with the criminal justice system or who are homeless.

Briana McGeough (pg. 35) Scholarship focus: Understanding and interviewing on mental health disparities experienced by sexual minority individuals, particularly disaprities in depression and alcohol use disorders.

Amy Mendenhall (pg. 36) Scholarship focus: Children’s mental health including serious mental illness, service utilization, parent and child education and the impact of mental illness on children and their families.

Megan Paceley (pg. 37) Scholarship focus: Understanding the impact of non-urban communities on the health and well-being of gender and sexual minority (GSM youth; development, sustainability, and evaluation of gender and sexual minority community organizations.

Michael Rinquino (pg. 39) Scholarship focus: Nonsuicidal self-injury across the lifespan, child and adolescent mental health and trauma, centering the perspectives of youth with marginalized identities, integrating micro and macro approaches, mixed methods research.

Christopher Petr Scholarship focus: Policy and practice issues in child mental health and child welfare; family-centered practice; professional-consumer relationship.

Laurie Ramirez Scholarship focus: Indigenous and Latinx issues; cultural competency; social justice; substance abuse prevention and treatment; community organizing.

Edward Scanlon Scholarship focus: Anti-poverty programs and policies; social justice; policy and social change strategies.

Margaret Severson Scholarship focus: Research and practice in social justice venues, including mental health and suicide prevention programming in detention centers, divorce and child custody mediation, restorative justice and social work ethics.

Paul Smokowski (pg. 40) Scholarship Focus: Children and families, Latino immigrant families, rural youth, school, health, psychodrama techniques.

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Complete list of research staff Marion Boyd Scholarship focus: Aging and disability options Kimberly Bruns Scholarship focus: Privatization of child welfare services, university partnerships with child welfare agencies, and supervision and coaching practices Melinda Coffman Scholarship focus: Child welfare services for families impacted by substance abuse Sharah Davis-Groves Scholarship focus: Promote evidenced based and community based practices to improve family well-being with at risk families. Utilize research findings to guide community based interventions for at risk families.

Monika Eichler Scholarship focus: Mental health; supported housing initiatives; international Cheryl Holmes (pg. 27) Scholarship focus: Frontier and Rural; Integrated Care; Behavioral Health Bryan Knowles Scholarship focus: Evidence based best practices implementation support for organizations providing services to adults and transition age youth who experience serious mental illness Michelle Levy (pg. 31) Scholarship focus: Recruitment, retention and workforce issues; health and behavioral health; interprofessional education, integrated care; prevention; rural perspectives; engagement; organizational intervention; cross-systems collaboration Ally Mabry (pg. 33) Scholarship focus: Evidence based best practices implementation support for organizations providing services to adults and transition age youth who experience serious mental illness; the Strengths Model of Case Management; Development of fidelity scales to measure adherence to emerging best practices in mental health; Client-centered social administrative practices for mental health organizations and state mental health authorities.

Sarah McCall Scholarship focus: child welfare services and collaboration Terry Moore Scholarship focus: Child welfare management; management reporting; use of data in program improvement planning and management decision making; outcomes research; program evaluation; risk assessment; and abuse/neglect prevention with public assistance populations Kellie Spencer Scholarship focus: Consultant and trainer directly supporting community mental health agencies in developing recovery oriented and strengths based programs with the ultimate aim of improving the lives and amplifying the voices of those impacted by the mental health system Jon Sushinsky Scholarship focus: Child welfare management, use of data in program improvement planning and management Lora Swartzendruber Scholarship focus: Aging and disability options 56

Carrie Wendel-Hummell (pg. 37) Scholarship areas: Healthcare and Long Terms Services and Supports Policy, Mental Health over the Life-course, Aging with Disabilities, Mixed Methods Research, Community Based Research

Complete list of PhD graduates, candidates and students Jared Barton (pg. 43) Jennifer Chappell Deckert (pg. 43) Shelby Clark (pg. 44) Erin Conrad (pg. 44) Whitney Grube (pg. 44) Kiley Liming (pg. 45) Kris Matthews (pg. 46) Debbie Moon (pg. 43) Ashley Palmer (pg. 43) Amittia Parker (pg. 47) Patricia Sattler (pg. 48) Nik Schuetz (pg. 48) Sherry Warren (pg. 49)

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