The faculty, staff and students of the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis will offer more than 60 presentations at the Society for Social Work and Research annual conference, a key convening of leading researchers in the field. Their findings cover topics such as food insecurity, place-based community development interventions, and social workers’ role in preventing gun violence.
Centered on the theme “Achieving Equal Opportunity, Equity, and Justice ,” the conference will take place Jan. 10 – 14, 2018, in Washington, D.C.
During the conference, Professors Sean Joe and Melissa Jonson-Reid will also be inducted as fellows in the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare for their distinguished accomplishments as scholars and practitioners dedicated to advancing social good.
To honor their achievements, the Brown School will host a reception on Friday, Jan. 12, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m., in the Tulip Room of the Marriott Marquis Washington D.C.
Consult the listings below to explore the breadth of ways to connect with Brown School researchers throughout the conference. All events will take place within the Marriott Marquis Washington D.C.
Thursday, January 11
8:00 AM Effective Dissemination and Communication for Policy Change: Are We Making Legislation or Sausage? Ross Brownson 8:00 AM Developing Successful Minority Social Work Scholars Renee Cunningham-Williams 1:30 PM Rates of Child Welfare Interactions: Methodological Challenges and Policy Implications Hyunil Kim 1:30 PM The Front Lines of Financial Defense: Managing Financial Emergencies in Low-Income Households Stephen Roll, Samuel Taylor, Sam Bufe, Michal Grinstein-Weiss 2:00 PM Assessing Subjective Norms Towards HIV As Barriers and Facilitators for Intent to Share Information about PrEP Whitney Sewell 2:30 PM Can Financial Capability Be Built at Work? Ellen Frank-Miller, 2:30 PM Correlates of PrEP Awareness Among High Risk Heterosexual Women Whitney Sewell, 3:15 PM Caregivers’ Health Concerns and the Recurrence of Child Maltreatment Reports Chien-jen Chiang 3:15 PM Nurse Home Visitation Practice with Vulnerable Families in Rural Areas: A Qualitative Casefile Review Ellie S. Wideman, 3:15 PM Understanding Child Maltreatment Report Risks: A 14-Year Longitudinal Study Hyunil Kim, 3:45 PM Employee Financial Wellness Programs (EFWPs) Ellen Frank-Miller, 3:45 PM The Israeli Child Savings Account Program: Early Analysis on Implementation and Participation Michal Grinstein-Weiss, 4:15 PM Do Seoul Hope Plus Savings Accounts Increase Savings and Assets for Working Poor Families in Korea? Michael Sherraden 4:45 PM Impacts of Asset Holding and Saving Behavior in Child Development Accounts: A Causal Mediation Analysis Sondra Beverly,
Friday, January 12
7:00 AM Advance Long and Productive Lives (Grand Challenge) Nancy Morrow-Howell 8:00 AM How Do I Fit? Understanding Barriers and Facilitators to Social Services Among Women Involved in Commercial Sexual Exploitation Tonya Edmond 8:00 AM Interpersonal Violence on Campus Tonya Edmond 8:00 AM Delinquent Behaviors Among Taiwanese Adolescents: Patterns Identification, Gender/Age Differences, and Correlation with Well-Being Yu-Chih Chen, 8:30 AM Staff Perceptions of Feasibility and Acceptability on Implementing an Evidence-Based Child Mental Health Intervention to Reduce Behavioral Difficulties in Child Welfare Cole Hooley 9:45 AM Impact of Recession on Food Insecurity Among Low-Income Families: Findings from 2005 – 2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys Von Nebbitt 9:45 AM Out-of-Pocket Financial Burden for Middle-Aged Adults: Impact of Distinct Patterns of Multi-Morbidity and Health Insurance Sojung Park, 9:45 AM South African Adult Caregivers As “Protective Shields”: Serving As a Buffer between Precarious Neighborhood Conditions, Food Insecurity, and Youth Risk Behaviors Mary McKay, 9:45 AM Propensity Score Matching: King & Nielsen’s Critique and Discussion Shenyang Guo 9:45 AM Research Roots & Wings Roundtable 1 Renee Cunningham-Williams 10:45 AM Assessing the Extent and Impact of School Sabotage Among Female Community College Students Tonya Edmond 1:45 PM Building Social Capacity: A Core Concept for the Promote Smart Decarceration Grand Challenge Carrie Pettus-Davis, Antoinette Grier 1:45 PM Are Social Workers Doing Enough to Prevent Gun Violence? Sean Joe 1:45 PM Child Development Accounts: A Universal and Progressive Asset-Building Policy for Economic Equality Michal Grinstein-Weiss 1:45 PM Gun Violence: Using Community Based System Dynamics to Elicit Solutions from Youth Saras Chung, 2:15 PM An Exploratory Investigation of Applying Social Control Theory in Taiwanese Adolescents’ Delinquent Behaviors: Do Gender and Developmental Stage Matter? Chien-jen Chiang, 3:15 PM The Men’s Group at St. Pius V Parish: A Case Study of a Voluntary Partner Abuse Intervention Program Maxine Davis, 3:30 PM Measuring Resiliency in Adolescent Girls Involved in Child Welfare: Evaluating Reliability and Validity Wendy Auslander, 3:30 PM Effectiveness of Self-Stigma Interventions for Persons with Serious Mental Illness: A Systematic Review Eleni Gaveras, 3:30 PM An Examination of the Methodological Rigor of Place-Based Community Development Interventions Andrew Foell 3:30 PM Participatory Governance in Rural China the Impact of Formal and Informal Institutions on the Provision of Public Goods Yiqi Zhu 3:30 PM Social Isolation, Self-Rated Health, and Self-Rated Oral Health Among African Americans Harry Taylor 4:00 PM How Deep in Debt? How Levels of Unsecured Debt Affect Hardship Among Low- and Middle-Income Households Sam Bufe, 5:00 PM The Effect of ACA’s Medicaid Expansion on Insurance Coverage Among Low Income Adults Sojung Park, 5:15 PM Do Universal and Automatic Child Development Accounts Show Positive Impacts for Disadvantaged Families? Sondra Beverly, 5:15 PM Sexual Violence Survivors Tonya Edmond (Moderator)
Saturday, January 13
Sunday, January 14
8:00 AM Relationship of Use of Evidence-Based Practice and Length of Stay to Treatment Outcomes at a Large Children, Youth, and Family Services Agency David A. Patterson 8:00 AM What Would Help Low-Income Families Most? Results from a National Survey of 2-1-1 Call Center Professionals Tess Thompson, 9:45 AM Barriers to Treatment Utilization and Attendance in a Multiple Family Group (MFG) Intervention Among Poverty-Impacted Families in New York Lindsay A. Bornheimer, 9:45 AM Recent Immigrants’ Health Service Utilization and the Coverage of State Medicaid in the United States Shih-Ying Cheng, 9:45 AM Activity Profiles and Health in Later Life: Does Nature of Engagement Matter? Yu-Chih Chen, 9:45 AM The Association between Social Support and Purpose in Life: Focusing on Retirement Status Oejin Shin, 9:45 AM An Examination of Class-Based Visibility Bias in Child Maltreatment Reporting Hyunil Kim, 10:15 AM An Examination of Provider Characteristics and Views about Evidence-Based Practices Lindsay A. Bornheimer, 10:15 AM Community Development Block Grants: Exploring Organization and Neighborhood Networks Kyle A. Pitzer, 10:45 AM Identifying Factors Related to Interest in Entrepreneurship Past Midlife Cal Halvorsen, 11:15 AM Longitudinal Effects of Positive Father Involvement on Child Behavioral Health Among Families At-Risk for Neglect Ericka Lewis, 11:30 AM Neighborhood Environment, Volunteering, and Life Satisfaction Among Older Adults in South Korea: A General Structural Equation Model Yi Wang, 11:30 AM The Impact of Housing Insecurity on Child Maltreatment: A Causal Investigation Using Propensity Score Analysis Katherine Marcal 11:30 AM Understanding Racial, Economic and Behavioral Health Barriers for Incarcerated Women of Color Maya Williams 1:00 PM Maternal Caregivers Types and Internalized Behaviors in African American Adolescents Living in Public Housing Von Nebbitt,
