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Work in the 21st century Practice and Policy in India Weathering the State Budget Crisis The Promise of Prevention
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eDItorI al BoarD SSA tina rzepnicki, Chair William Borden robert Fairbanks II Colleen m. Grogan Heather Hill Dodie norton robert Chaskin (ex officio) maureen stimming (ex officio)
DI reC tor o F CommunIC atI ons Julie Jung
12 18 23 eDItor Carl Vogel features 12 > the promise of prevention W r I ter research on how to prevent social ills is on an upward trajectory— samuel Barrett and that’s fueling a wide array of policies and programs DesIGn 18 > exploring India anne Boyle, Boyle Design associates ssa students learn about poverty and community in the classroom PH otoG raPHy and in the field in mumbai lloyd DeGrane Kristen Dickins 23 > less money, more problems elizabeth Hart the Illinois budget crisis continues to overwhelm social service Peter Kiar agencies—and social workers—across the state sara manewith yelene modley Jacqueline reed and departments 2 > viewpoint: from the dean The Next Era of Social Work the Westside Health authority 4 > conversation Conflict Resolution Carl Vogel istock Photography 6 > ideas What are the Hours? Giving retail workers ‘predictable unpredictability’ in scheduling could ease employee work/life conflicts on tHe CoVer: Represent Me new research explores how residents of low-income Fishing village outside of mumbai. communities think about political representation Photo by Kristen Dickins Coming of Age Being a teen in Vietnam isn’t what it used to be— or at least what it seemed to be SSA Magazine is published twice a 8 > inside social service review year for alumni and friends of the Fathers Wanted When a mother has severe mental illness, university of Chicago school of social children do better when a father is involved service administration. articles may Short-Term Work Does taking a temp job limit a woman be reprinted in full or in part with leaving welfare? written permission of the editor. We welcome your comments. The Benevolent Tradition “lady boards” gave women an opportunity Please send letters to the Director of to lead charitable organizations nearly two centuries ago Communications, Julie Jung, at 10 > a voice from the field [email protected]. Every Block a Village From community research to community organizing, the Westside Health authority brings promise to austin tHe sCHool oF soCIal serVICe aDmInIstratIon research journal 48 > the university of Chicago The Many Faces of Denial american addiction treatment gets a makeover 969 e. 60th st., Chicago, Il 60637 P 773.702.1168 F 773.702.7222 29 > faculty notes school news www.ssa.uchicago.edu 31 > memoranda 34 > the alumni community ©2010 the university of Chicago, ssa 36 > in memoriam 38 > SSA 2010 honor roll of donors
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T The moST reCenT meeTing of SSA’s visiting committee, we were pleased to welcome the School’s new dean, neil guterman. The visiting committee A works closely with the dean, giving our perspective on the School’s plans and providing support and resources when applicable. i can say that for myself personally and for the committee as a group, we were excited to hear about neil’s vision for the future of the School. each of the deans at SSA has paid close attention to the David Vitale crucial infrastructure that keeps SSA at the top of graduate schools of social work in the country—building and maintaining a world-class faculty, attracting the best students, investing in leading scholarship. Jeanne marsh, neil’s predecessor, excelled at these tasks, and neil made it clear that he will keep to that tradition. But neil also talked about his vision for the next era of SSA, particularly how the School can build its relevance and reach in today’s world. for its entire history, SSA has had a robust commitment that its research, students, alumni, faculty and programs will make a difference in the lives of the disenfranchised. With that mission in mind, new programs and connections can ensure that the School is involved in solutions to our most important social issues. in Chicago, SSA already works closely with a number of city agencies such as the Chicago Public Schools and with many organizations in the social service community. The School will enhance these relationships, and the hope is that new relationships can be forged as well. internationally, SSA has begun to greatly expand its engagement with scholars, schools and students from around the world. At our meeting, we were all interested in hearing from students who had travelled to india this summer, and we’re looking forward to being involved in new plans to connect SSA’s expertise to countries abroad. With a new era at SSA beginning, a torch of leadership is being passed from one great dean, who had helped grow and support the School for many years, to a new one. neil’s ideas and plans were exciting to hear, and, as with any transition, have added a sense of energy and possibility to the School. i want to thank everyone who has supported SSA over the years, and ask you to keep an eye on what’s coming next. i think you’ll be as excited as we are.
David vitale Chair of SSA’s Visiting Committee
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uring my very first visit to SSA as a candidate for a faculty position six years ago, i recall starting off my Dcolloquium to the SSA community by noting that SSA is a great institution in the many meanings of the word: great in SSA’s historic role as one of the nation’s first schools of social work, whose founding pioneers left an indelible commitment on the profession to pursue social justice and alleviate human suffering in rigorous and evidence-based ways; great in SSA’s present day and enduring impact, with SSA faculty and graduates nationally and internation- ally recognized as among the most influential and talented leaders tackling the major social problems of our time; and great in SSA’s culture, bringing together a community of scholars and students across multiple disciplines, collectively devoted to carrying out critically important work for our society with passionate integrity, mutual support, and trenchant analysis. having now humbly stepped up from the faculty role to the Deanship at SSA, my aim is to build from this greatness to raise our ambitions to an even higher level as we begin our second cen- tury of service. Core to this aim is unleashing the most talented faculty anywhere to tackle social welfare problems. We continue to strengthen our already preeminent team of faculty carrying out their work at SSA. This year we are joined by Professor mark Courtney, who has returned to SSA from the University of Washington, Assistant Professor matthew epperson from Columbia University, and Professor J. Curtis mcmillen from Washington University in St. Louis. With these additions, SSA has significantly deepened its clinical and policy strengths, particularly in child welfare, and now has, without question, the premier cadre of faculty in the nation dedicated to addressing the needs of the most vulnerable children and families. Whereas many other schools are retrenching or holding steady in their faculty ranks, SSA will benefit from a University-wide faculty expansion initiative that will enable us to continue to strate- gically augment our faculty over the near-term future. SSA’s unique vibrancy, in part, stems from our distinctive tradi- tion of supporting leading faculty who derive from multiple disci- plinary backgrounds, collectively sharing a dedication to address the most intractable of social problems. for example, our faculty derive not only from social work, but also from psychology, sociology, political science, public policy, public health, economics, geography, and anthropology, among other disciplinary backgrounds. As one
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fascinating example of the cross-disciplin- seen a growing recognition and ary, cutting-edge research taking place support for the key role SSA at SSA, in this issue of SSA Magazine plays in shaping their futures we highlight the research of Assistant and serving those in need— Professor e. Summerson Carr—both an even in the face of the eco- anthropologist and social worker—who nomic downturn when so many dissects the cultural and clinical assump- more are struggling. We train tions shaping the language of professional students to enter into the most practice in substance abuse treatment ser- challenging of situations, against vices in her new book (Scripting Addiction, the odds, to raise up those who Neil Guterman Princeton University Press). are coping with and confronting SSA’s multiple disciplinary lenses also propel forward the enormously difficult circumstances. in face of these difficult times, innovation of effective responses to social problems across multiple our students all the more so seek to make a tangible difference for levels. An example of this, and considered in this issue of SSA those whom they serve. in this issue of SSA Magazine, our article, Magazine, is the growing shift in social welfare policies and practices “Less money, more Problems,” considers how many in our profes- toward a prevention paradigm—an approach that promises ways sion are coping, while dedicating their lives and careers to helping to reduce social problems before they occur while synergistically others in this most challenging economic environment. delivering both economic and social benefits to the wider As we raise our ambitions to make an even greater difference society. no doubt, you will soon hear more about SSA’s unique during these difficult times, we need the best-skilled and trained interdisciplinary activity, as we move ahead with a new Dean’s professionals possible to dedicate their careers to ensuring the initiative to establish hubs of interdisciplinary scholar networks well-being of others. our now more than century-old impera- across disciplinary lines situated at SSA, targeting the major social tive at SSA is to continue to nurture the next generation of social problems of our day. work practitioners and leaders. our students make great sacrifices SSA has also begun to systematically expand our international to come study at SSA to realize their dream of making a real dif- engagement. Last summer, eight of our students traveled to india to ference in the lives of others, and it is the support of gifts from collaborate with and learn from colleagues at the Tata institute of alumni and friends that make it wholly possible for so many of Social Sciences in mumbai, focusing on poverty and marginaliza- our students to fulfill this dream. As we anticipate an even greater tion from a cross-national perspective. having met with these stu- role for SSA in the future, so too do we need even greater support dents, i found their insights about the trip both thought-provoking to enable our students to best serve others, and for our faculty and and moving in the ways that such a cross-national urban experience alumni to lead the way in forging a more supportive, responsive, was transformative for their professional trajectories. This issue of and just society. the magazine contains a special section dedicated to their trip— i look forward to continuing to keep you informed about the told from their point of view with a wonderful collage of photos. inspiring work of the SSA community, and to partnering with you i am inspired by our students and alumni who carry forward as we strive to improve the lives of those around us. a deep commitment to address such complex and challenging con- cerns, and indeed i am impressed that so many of our alumni have Neil Guterman, MSW, Ph.D., is the Dean and Mose & Sylvia Firestone taken up key leadership positions in the field. i am proud that SSA Professor in the School of Social Service Administration. has served and continues to serve as a training ground for so many exceptional colleagues who shape the field, and whom we intend We welcome letters to the editor. Please send your submissions to to recognize for their contributions. from alumni, we have already [email protected].
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Conflict Resolution Every war sends home soldiers who need help tive processing therapy [CPt], right? example, Iron mountain could be the [Prolonged exposure therapy helps hub where you have a psychologist rebuilding their lives. For those among the nearly patients remember and engage with or social worker or psychiatrist using two million american troops who have served in the traumatic event(s), rather than telemental health with a veteran who’s avoiding reminders of the trauma, and at a CBoC. Iraq or afghanistan who are working to recover CPt helps a patient learn how going McCracken: you know where that through a trauma changed the way from physical and mental injuries, the Veterans came from? that came from rural men- he or she looks at the world. Both are administration (Va) is the place to turn. With an influx tal health. In the early mid-’90s, the considered state-of-the-art treatments Department of agriculture, I believe, of new patients, many of whom are dealing with for PtsD.] provided funds for setting up centers signature injuries from these conflicts, including post- Landreth: We offer both. where they could provide telemedi- traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, the Va is on the front lines of many human services. In this issue’s Conversation, Stanley McCracken, a senior lecturer at ssa, and Edward Landreth, the mental health lead for the Va’s Veterans Integrated service network (VIsn 12), dis- cuss integrated services, how the Va is tackling homelessness and more. With practice interests that include mental health, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders, mcCracken is a u.s. army veteran who served for four years, including during the Vietnam War as an interpreter. He has consulted to a variety of public sector and nonprofit agencies, including the Va and the state Department. landreth has a doctorate in clinical psy- chology and a master of clinical social work. Working out of the Jesse Brown Veterans administration medical Center, he serves as both a clinician and an administrator for the region. >>> . <<< the Va is a very exciting place to be right now because we’re putting all of these comprehensive services in place.
Landreth: at the Va, we now have It’s a culture change. that’s an McCracken: one of the things I had cine to people living in rural areas. It’s an oeF/oIF [operation enduring important thing that I hope people are been thinking about is whether we interesting to see that the Va is taking Freedom/ operation Iraqi Freedom] understanding, that this is“ not the old should basically tell any veteran he or advantage of that. What about virtual program dedicated to serving the Va. this is the new Va. she can go into any community setting, exposure: are you doing that now? veterans from the Iraqi conflict and the to any hospital and get care. and it Landreth: In madison we have Virtual afghanistan conflict. McCracken: I’m familiar with the old seems from what you’ve said that they’re reality Iraq and Virtual reality Vietnam. Va. How is the new Va different? probably not going to get as good of McCracken: separate from the other Currently we’re looking into imple- care as at the Va, at least in a place like programs? Landreth: Well, I can honestly say menting it also at Jesse Brown Va Chicago. my concern is more about the that we’re striving to offer world-class medical Center. Landreth: yes. It’s a program not only rural areas. service, especially in mental health. In here, but across the nation. they even McCracken: What about families? 2005, we implemented what is called Landreth: We have within our VIsn have their own separate outpatient unit What does that look like? the uniform mental Health service seven medical centers and we have 33 with dedicated social workers, one psy- Handbook, and that lays out our goals community-based outpatient centers— Landreth: We offer couples therapy, chologist and a psychiatrist who dedi- and the basic services that we want they’re called CBoCs. We go all the family therapy. It’s not uncommon for cate a hundred percent of their time to provide the veterans to assure that way up to Iron mountain. We cover four me to see a veteran who will bring a to the veterans who are transitioning they’re getting the best mental health states: michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and significant other in. any clinician knows back post-deployment. Veterans come care in the world. and this handbook Indiana. there’s a CBoC located so far how critical it is to involve the family in in and they meet their caseworker. addresses everything from evidence- north I thought they were in Canada. treatment, especially when you’re deal- and then they’re assigned to different based psychotherapy to how to treat ing with Post traumatic stress Disorder. primary clinics throughout the medical PtsD [post-traumatic stress disorder] McCracken: [laughs] right. you get Center. For example, they might go to McCracken: one of the problems that to military sexual trauma. there, but it’s by dog sled. a Post traumatic stress Disorder Clinic I’ve run into, both at the Va and in the for treatment and then be followed in McCracken: What do you do for Landreth: We have a very good tele- community, is that pretty much all pro- the background by a social worker and PtsD? you have the prolonged expo- mental health system in place at every grams are siloed and operating sepa- actually an entire oeF/oIF team. sure therapy and then there’s cogni- medical center and at every CBoC. For rately from each other. How do you
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 6 1/6/11 6:12 PM deal with someone who has problems stated that he’s going to end veteran of approaches. Brothers [Hospital] on providing ser- with, let’s say alcohol dependence, homelessness within five years. and How do you orient social work stu- vices to vets, which were really nice, PtsD, depression and homelessness, so this program offer vouchers to dents of all kinds and maybe even new and the place was packed. one of the which I suspect covers, what about homeless veterans for them to obtain employees to military culture? Do you things that was interesting was that 30 percent of the vets that you have. housing. have a formal kind of training on what we started the day with posting the Would they be getting services for military culture is and how it’s going to colors. and for a lot of the people, McCracken: are there supportive all of the conditions—and would they affect the thinking? they’ve never even seen anything like have an integrated team that works housing services that go along with it? Landreth: as far as I know, there’s no for- this. I think that starting the day that together? Landreth: Veterans in the HuD VasH mal class or anything. through the individ- way, since it happens on every post Landreth: absolutely. social workers program are assigned a caseworker ual supervision, working closely with the everywhere in the world, helps to or psychologists in the outpatient who will follow them from getting the supervisor, that’s where they’re learning. kind of give a mind-set.
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Psychiatry section work closely with the voucher all the way through to being McCracken: I’ve talked with people Landreth: right. that’s a good idea. social workers in oeF/oIF. We all have placed into the home, help them about it some, and we talked about McCracken: It would be good to do access to each others’ notes, and we obtain blankets, furniture, whatever using words” like honor and duty— some trainings for all of our social set up team meetings. I also want to they need. and, you know, a lot of words you don’t hear as often in the work students, at least those who mention that we have embedded a cli- these veterans, more chronic home- civilian communities, at least not with want to work with people in active nician into the PtsD team who focuses less veterans, they haven’t paid bills the same degree of reverence as duty or vets. I’d like to see the Va on substance abuse. in a long time. they don’t have check- you do in the military. and I’ve had take a stronger role in terms of ing accounts. so the social worker will it pointed out that there are habits McCracken: excellent! It seems like the training and education, not just for help this veteran with every aspect of military people develop and stick with Va is one of the very few places where residents and fieldwork students, getting back. this all falls under the them. For example, I still have a hard integrated mood disorder treatment is but also for community providers paradigm of Housing First. time walking outside without a hat on. actually a reality and you’re able to pull because of the number of vets that it off. that’s very impressive. I mean, when you’re outside, you’re are being seen, both at the Va and McCracken: For my students, espe- covered; and when you’re inside, the the community hospitals. and it’s not Landreth: the Va’s a very exciting cially the ones that are doing the cover is off. that people with no military back- place to be right now because we’re advanced training Program for ground can’t emphasize. they don’t putting all of these comprehensive addiction Council training, I’ve been Landreth: oh, sure. I’ve had veterans know what questions to ask. services into place. When I was con- pushing them really hard to go to the who have said to me, “I wasn’t quite sidering what I was going to talk Va, because they’ll get exposure to sure if I should discuss this with you about today, I was thinking about how evidence-based interventions. Plus, because you really don’t know what For more of this Conversation, it would be very difficult to cover all this is the place that’s hiring. Jesse it’s like. you’re a civilian. Civilians don’t including a discussion of the the new programs in this conversa- Brown hired one of my students, [the understand.” difficulty of returning home and tion. We also have, for example, the edward Hines Jr. Va Hospital] has two suicide prevention, visit ssa. HuD VasH Program [Housing and or more. and the supervisor is glad McCracken: Is the Va doing much uchicago.edu/publications/ urban Development, Va supplemental to have them because they already training of community providers? I ssamag.shtml. Housing]. secretary shinseki last year have an appreciation for these kinds did some of the trainings with alexian
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What are the Hours? Giving retail workers ‘predictable unpredictability’ in scheduling could ease employee work/life conflicts
n tHe retaIl FIelD, employ- granular recordkeeping at 19 stores taking into account factors such as hours, and then tell them to expect ers frequently use “just-in-time” on when schedules were posted, when age, race and job status. In particular, that 20 percent may vary week to scheduling practices: setting individual employees clocked in and lambert and Henly found that stores week. such a practice would give hourly workers’ schedules with out, and information about turnover with smaller staff size and more hours employees ‘predictable unpredictabil- Ilimited notice and making last-minute and retention in 151 stores over time. per employee have lower turnover and ity.’” employee survey findings suggest schedule changes. these practices In addition, they conducted surveys of higher retention. Because managers that employees with more predictable introduce unpredictability into workers’ managers and employees about work often have control over the number of schedules report less work-to-family schedules, making it difficult for many and family domains, as well as psycho- employees on their payroll, maintaining conflict, lower stress and fewer inter- to count on reliable earnings or plan logical and economic well-being. a small staff size can pay off in terms of ferences with nonwork activities such for family responsibilities. the hourly retail workers lambert employee longevity. as scheduling doctor’s appointments, according to the findings of the and Henly are studying are not just the study also found that the socializing with friends, and eating university of Chicago Work scheduling college kids working during school rationale for just-in-time schedul- family meals together. study, led by ssa associate professors holidays: the women have a median ing—the need to be flexible because lambert and Henly are currently susan lambert and Julia Henly, work age of 47, about one-third have child- of enormous variability in sales and analyzing the impact of a workplace schedules have important social wel- care responsibilities and 40 percent in other staffing-related needs—often intervention designed to build greater fare implications, creating challenges have a second job. “at ssa, a lot of our doesn’t pan out in reality. “somebody predictability into employees’ hours for a range of employment and family students end up dealing with the con- has to open the door every day,” through greater advanced notice of outcomes. the findings also suggest sequences of workers’ unstable sched- lambert says. “somebody has to close work schedules. they hope that the that there may be ways to lessen the ules, working with families trying to the cash register. there has to be a cer- Work scheduling study will increase impact of unpredictable scheduling on manage the demands of work and child tain number of employees at all times understanding of the connection hourly retail workers. care, families experiencing the vaga- for safety.” between work schedules and individu- Funded by the russell sage, ries of the labor market,” Henly says. In fact, although individual al and family well-being and contribute I Ford, and annie e. Casey foundations, Whether interfering with clients’ ability employees frequently find their sched- to employer and public policy initia- the Work scheduling study is being to keep appointments or contributing ules varying quite a bit from week to tives to increase workplace flexibility. conducted at a nationwide women’s to economic hardship and instability in week, overall store hours fluctuate “as researchers, we can step apparel chain. “the employer was family life, work schedules are a critical much less than is commonly believed. back and look anew at how employers interested in participating in the study social welfare issue. “although there is variation in expected might manage the scheduling process because scheduling can be a source the study found that job turnover demand at the margins, week to week in a way that balances their frontline of stress for all involved,” Henly says. for the hourly workforce is high, par- and day to day, we find that managers employees’ needs with broader busi- “managers often hate making sched- ticularly for part-time sales associates, might be able to take better advantage ness goals,” lambert says. “as social ules. employees get frustrated with younger workers and recently-hired of the stability that’s there,” lambert work scholars, we are uniquely posi- the unpredictable nature of them. [the workers. But it also found that the more says. “For example, if 80 percent of the tioned to consider how workplace topic] really resonated.” hours employees work and the less hours are always the same, a manager flexibility can be extended to low-wage the research to date has been their hours fluctuate, the longer they might be able to give employees a hourly jobs in ways that benefit both broad and deep, including using remain employed at the firm, even after stable schedule for 80 percent of their employers and employees.” — Ed Finkel
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esearCH Has sHoWn that a dozen in-depth cognitive interviews low-income communities and surveyed more than 200 south don’t have the political clout side residents of the Washington Park, of more affluent neigh- Woodlawn, Grand Boulevard and R Kenwood communities. they found borhoods. and so, when working in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, that more than half of those polled today’s large “downtown” government could not identify anyone who could agencies and foundations have learned speak on their behalf. respondents the importance of community participa- often said their aldermen were not tion. the typical approach is to invite responsive and views were split on local leaders like the pastor at an influ- whether local churches were good ential church, the executive director representatives. While social service of a social service agency and a local agencies were generally seen as altru- elected official to an advisory board or istic and trustworthy, few residents felt set of meetings. a strong bond with them. who communicates regularly with institutions themselves see their role. What are the Hours? “We see many of the same lead- “some community members community members, someone who “It seems like sometimes an ers and organizations on the south thought that church leaders would is very effective in “getting things executive director for an organiza- Giving retail workers ‘predictable unpredictability’ in scheduling side invited to participate on a vari- have only the interests of themselves done,” and someone who is from the tion goes to a meeting downtown could ease employee work/life conflicts ety of projects. Because they are not and their congregation in mind, not neighborhood itself. and says, ‘this is what our residents elected, it is important to understand the larger community,” mosley says. “the clear loser was the affinity need,’ and the people in the com- whether the people in the community “For social service agencies, people role,” Grogan says. “so ‘good represen- munity didn’t even know that the feel like they’re represented by these felt like if a group is out in the com- tatives’ don’t necessarily have to live in meeting happened,” mosley says. institutions and if they feel comfortable munity getting things done, like help- the neighborhood. at the end of the “the ultimate goal of this study is to with community-based organziations ing people find a job, then they could day, the people we talked with wanted understand if some organizations speaking on their behalf,” says Colleen usually be trusted.” to see something done, and they want- are particularly successful at engag- Grogan, a professor at ssa. allard, Grogan and mosley also ed to be sure they were heard.” ing and representing residents so Grogan, assistant Professor explored what kind of representation next is a broader survey of atti- that we can improve democratic Jennifer mosley and associate residents would prefer, giving tudes about representation and a com- participation in vulnerable communi- Professor scott W. allard did more than them a choice between a person parison of the results with how the local ties.” — Carl Vogel Coming of Age Being a teen in Vietnam isn’t what it used to be —or at least what it seemed to be
n tHe last 30 adolescence explicitly maturation, and of “problem” behavior like Britney spears, David Beckham years, Vietnam used political jargon,” and rebelliousness. now a research and Korean movie stars. has gone from says Huong nguyen, assistant professor of social work at san nguyen believes that these a communist, a.m. ‘06, Ph.D. ‘10, who Jose state university, nguyen says that kinds of “cultural and societal Ilargely agrarian studied the issue for her with the adoption of a market economy change really matters when it comes society ravaged by doctoral dissertation and and globalization, Vietnam has import- to social work.” although americans’ decades of war to is one of the first people ed these ideas, as well, although she underlying notion of adolescence one of the fastest in Vietnam to receive a adds, “each culture will have its own hasn’t changed much over the last growing economies Ph.D. in social work. In definitions and boundaries regarding decades, it can differ in subtle but in the world. In a contrast, she says that what `problem behavior’ is.” important ways among different generation, almost by 2005, the Vietnamese starting adolescence in america socioeconomic and cultural popula- everything has view of adolescence also marks the entry into a vast and tions—and it certainly is changing in changed, including society’s view of had been “stripped of its political lucrative consumer market, and here many developing countries such as adolescence and of teenagers. dimension and modeled after a too, Vietnamese youth are becoming Vietnam. “When we work with clients “In 1975, adolescence was Western conceptualization.” more like their Western counterparts. In who have come of age at different conceptualized as a stage that marks a the basic american perception Vietnam, nguyen found that markers of times,” nguyen says, “we need to specific level of political maturation of of adolescence is a time of searching teen interest evolved from Ho Chi minh take into consideration those per- an individual, and the discourse about for one’s identity, of social and sexual and other revolutionary icons to figures spectives.” — David Argentar
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 9 1/6/11 6:13 PM inside social service review by rIchard m ertens Fathers Wanted Founded in 1927, Social When a mother has severe mental illness, Service Review is devoted to children do better when a father is involved thought-provoking, original
research on social welfare He CHIlDren oF Women with severe mental illnesses tend to do bet- policy, organization and ter or worse in school according to the severity of their mother’s illness, according to a recent study published in the march 2010 Social Service practice. Articles analyze Review. However, the research also found that the same children perform Tbetter in school and are less likely to engage in risky behavior like smoking or drink- issues from the points of view ing if their fathers are involved in their lives--even if the fathers do not live at home. of various disciplines, theories, and “there is no panacea,” says Daphna oyserman, one of the article’s authors and a professor of psychology at the university of michigan. “If mothers have mental methodological traditions, view critical problems health problems, it’s problematic. Being with the father doesn’t take away those in context, and carefully consider long-range problems. But it has a separate, positive effect.” For the research in “Independent effects of Paternal Involvement and maternal solutions. The Review is edited by SSA’s Emily mental Illness on Children’s outcomes,” oyserman and colleagues studied youths Klein Gidwitz Professor Michael R. Sosin and whose mothers suffered from severe mental illnesses. Women with mental illnesses are just as likely as other women to have children. But they are less likely to marry or the faculty of SSA. live with the child’s father and more likely to engage in poor parenting practices.
Short-Term Work The Benevolent Tradition Does taking a temp job “Lady boards” gave women an opportunity to lead charitable organizations limit a woman leaving welfare? nearly two centuries ago
InCe 1996, WelFare PolICy Has aImeD at moving poor mothers off public assistance and into jobs. But what kind of jobs? For example, are temporary jobs an ill-paying dead end, leading to nothing but more temp jobs? or is temp work, as Ssome believe, a stepping stone to something better? a new study suggests that for most women coming off of welfare, temps jobs are indeed a brief stop on the way to regular employment. most work only a short time at temporary jobs, receive modest training in basic jobs skills, and end up neither better nor much worse off than women who go directly into regular jobs. “the recipients who took these jobs don’t say they were dead-end jobs,” says mary Corcoran, a profes- temp work is common. of the women in the study, 39 percent sor of public policy at the university of michigan. temped at some point in the years between 1997 and 2003, although most In an article published in the June 2010 Social Science Review, who took temporary jobs did so for only a short time. sixty percent temped “temporary employment and the transition from Welfare to Work,” for 13 weeks or less and only 6.5 percent temped for more than a year. Corcoran and Juan Chen, a professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic many women said temp jobs helped rather than hurt them. about three in university, attempt to answer two questions: what kind of women take 10 said the temp jobs led to permanent employment. and most said they jobs through temporary employment agencies? and how do they fare in learned simple job skills, such as workplace conduct, in the temporary jobs. the long run compared to women who take “direct-hire” jobs? still, many questions remain. the study could not determine why the researcher followed 483 single mothers from michigan for six women take temporary jobs rather than permanent jobs. Do they have no years after welfare reform. many faced serious obstacles to employment. choice? Does the local welfare office steer them to temp jobs? or do they a fifth reported literacy deficiencies. a quarter said they had the symp- choose temp jobs because such jobs are more attractive, perhaps offering toms of major depression. almost half had some physical limitation. greater flexibility for child-rearing? the researchers also found that african But in these and other ways, including age, skills and education, american women are more likely to take temp jobs than white women—68 women who took temporary work looked the same as women who took percent compared to 48 percent. direct-hire jobs. “What I thought I would find is that temporary workers “I don’t know why it is,” Corcoran says. “It certainly suggests to me that would have very different characteristics from direct-hire workers, and they have a hard time finding direct-hire jobs.” I thought I would find the reasons why they went into temporary work,” Juan chen and mary e. corcoran. 2010. “temporary employment and the transition from Corcoran says. “But I didn’t.” Welfare to Work.” Social Service Review 84 (2): 175-200.
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 10 1/6/11 6:13 PM the authors interviewed the 168 youths and their mothers over five years; they also consulted teachers and school records. In contrast to most previous research on the children of mentally ill parents, their study focused on a group that was both ethnically and economically diverse: more than half the families lived below the poverty line, and 58 percent of the youths, whose average age was 15, were african-american, 32 percent were white and 8 per- cent were Hispanic. only one in five said his or her father lived at home most of the year, but three in four said their fathers were involved in their lives. that fathers matter—even if they don’t live at home—has clear implications for social work. oyserman says social workers might help the children of mentally ill mothers by finding ways to increase an absent father’s involvement instead of only trying to get the father to live with the family. “living there may simply not be feasible,” she says. “We may not know what else is going on. It is usually to reunite a foster child with the parent who has custody—typically may be better to encourage and structure ongoing contact.” the mother. But encouraging the father’s involvement may also be important. social workers could also give more support to mothers to improve par- “What this is saying is that things outside the mother can be helpful,” says enting skills. or they might help the children in school. such efforts, beyond oyserman, who is currently looking at the influence of religiosity and reli- their own obvious benefits, might also encourage the fathers’ involvement. It’s gious institutions on the same youths. possible, for example, that a father would be willing to spend more time with paula allen-meares, Juliane blazevski, deborah bybee, and daphna oyserman. 2010. a child who is doing well in school or whose mother is a better parent. “Independent effects of paternal Involvement and material mental Illness on child outcomes.” the study also has implications for foster care. the aim of social workers Social Service Review 84 (1): 103-27.
The Benevolent Tradition “Lady boards” gave women an opportunity to lead charitable organizations nearly two centuries ago
Hen F. ellen nettInG, PH.D. ’82, anD a ColleaGue 2009 Social Service Review, “a missing tradition: Women managing Charitable were looking into the history of old charities in richmond, organizations in richmond, Virginia, 1805-1900,” they write that most were run Va., an archivist mentioned something that surprised them: by “lady boards of managers” who raised money, made decisions and involved many had been run by women. themselves closely in the day-to-day operations. W n etting, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth university school usually religiously affiliated, the organizations and their boards created of social Work who studies nonprofit organizations, had been searching “homeplaces” that fostered the development of a “social service culture.” they for clues as to how charitable organizations—essentially early social service also gave opportunities for civic participation at a time when women were agencies—had built capacity and sustained excluded from much of public life. the orga- it over many decades. But she and her col- nizations had few paid staff members; much leagues were soon side-tracked into study- of the work was voluntary. Decision-making ing a local example of what they character- was often collective and consensual. and ize as a largely forgotten tradition: women the boards typically relied on male trustees taking a leading role in establishing and or financial advisers behind the scenes—typi- governing charities in cities across the cally a clergyman or doctor who was often a east Coast well before the Civil War, long spouse of a board member. before it was commonly thought women the authors say social work history had assumed such responsibilities. has largely ignored the lady boards, dismiss- Historians identify three often over- ing their members as “ladies bountiful” and lapping traditions among women’s organi- pre-professionals who did little to challenge zations in the 19th century: benevolence, the status quo. yet these women created reform and rights. the reform tradition dates to the 1830s, when women “enduring organizations … before there were books on management, a social focused on abolishing slavery, closing brothels and other causes. the work profession or a nonprofit literature,” the authors write. “they planted rights tradition emerged in the 1840s and ’50s. But the oldest of the three seeds that lasted, but their efforts have been erased from institutional memory traditions dates to the late 1700s as women organized to meet urgent ... as professionalism overpowered volunteerism and as the profession came to social needs, supporting such institutions as orphanages. value broader scale advocacy over the tedium of direct service.” netting and two Virginia Commonwealth colleagues, mary Catherine f. ellen netting, mary katherine o’connor, and david p. fauri. 2009. “a missing tradition: o’Connor and David Fauri, identified 24 still surviving richmond chari- Women managing charitable organizations in richmond, Virginia, 1805-1900.” Social Service ties that had been founded before 1900. In an article in the December Review 83 (4): 557-84.
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out to 200 more. every Block a Village after a public meeting about equipped local residents with Internet the closing, chaired by reed and access, orchestrates meetings and attended by more than 300 people, holds potluck dinners to build a sense she worked with two local community of trust among neighbors. since its groups that shared her vision to bring inception, many austin residents have the kind of health services needed decided to not leave the neighbor- in austin without the added cost of a Every Block a Village hood, investing back into their proper- large inefficient hospital system and ties instead. facility. she organized a breakfast at a “Community needs to be built ministers’ coalition meeting, persuad- From community research to community everywhere—in poor and wealthy ed local clergymen to donate $40,000 organizing, the Westside Health Authority neighborhoods. It’s what we collectively for the purchase of a building, solic- brings promise to Austin struggle with in terms of improving our ited a matching grant from churches, schools, ending violence, and building and found tenants for the building to tolerance and understanding of one assist in paying the mortgage. By J ulIe JunG another,” reed says. WHa organized a consortium
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Hen st. anne’s research with a sophisticated under- of medical providers at the site, which HosPItal CloseD standing of the integration of programs >>> . <<< included many Chicago hospitals. In in 1988, Jacqueline and systems has led to an organization 1991, university of Illinois opened its reed was busy as a that offers health care, job training, tHe WestsIDe HealtH autHorIty first off-campus clinic at the former st. Wthird-year extended evening Program began because reed thought austin housing assistance and more. anne’s hospital, and three years later, student at ssa, a fellow at the Chicago sociologist Claire Kohrman, lab residents needed a voice in their health Cook County opened a small clinic Community trust and a mother raising ’52, who has gathered data with reed care. “I wanted to return to this com- there as well. although the university four children with her husband, ronald. and WHa for nearly 20 years, says munity better equipped to help people of Illinois clinic eventually closed, sev- But reed knew that with st. anne’s that she’s gratified for the experience. understand some of the macro level eral community residents were hired gone, her community of austin, a pre- “Jacqueline reed’s agency is built on needs. What is happening in health and remain employed at the main dominantly african-american neighbor- the responses from the community care? What are the implications of poli- campus. and thanks to its community hood on Chicago’s West side, would be rather than on theory—and this allows cies that are impacting our communi- infrastructure, WHa quickly absorbed without easy access to affordable health WHa to build on the strengths and ties?” she says. the loss through the expansion of the care. and she decided she needed to assets of the community,” she says. located just seven miles west of Cook County Clinic, which later met do something about that. “she has a spiritual and missionary-like downtown, austin was devastated in an increasing demand for primary and reed, a.m. ’89, started by exam- commitment combined with sophisti- the 1970s and ’80s by the closure of specialty services with a 28,000-square- ining the causes of hospital closings, cated skills from her ssa training that major factories, including sunbeam, foot austin Wellness Center facility that which led to advocacy for innovative make her remarkably effective.” leaf Brand Candy and aldens, and opened in 2004. solutions. the grassroots movement she WHa’s strength comes from com- reed was keenly aware that the com- “through the austin Wellness helped create led to an even wider set munity organizing, such as the corner- munity’s priority was job retention and Center, not only have we been able to of programs. today, reed is the Ceo of stone project “every Block a Village,” creation. “It was not until the closure help people understand the reality of the Westside Health authority (WHa), which harnesses the collective assets of st. anne’s that people organized health care services today,” reed says, a community-based organization in of the neighborhood. through the pro- and became engaged in health care,” “but we have been able to help people austin that she founded and built from gram, WHa has developed substantial she says. “st. anne’s was a major com- take some responsibility for creating the ground up. Her interdisciplinary relationships with citizen leaders on munity institution, which represented the type of facility and sustainable ser- approach of combining on-the-ground 100 blocks in austin and has reached neighborhood stability.” vices that meet their needs. In fact, the
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 12 1/6/11 6:14 PM first $60,000 for the facility was raised of older people and supporting local tors with citizen leaders via emails to advocates used the data to advo- by the people themselves. as a result, businesses. We think that through that discuss health issues and connected cate for safe places, jobs and basic we have also been able to provide kind of mechanism, ‘every block a vil- volunteer mental health professionals services in the community. residents jobs and develop businesses for com- lage’, we can shape our future in a more with residents to discuss ways of reduc- have also shared their information munity people.” more than 55 percent positive way,” reed says. ing stress. with doctors working in austin and of the construction contracts to build WHa now boasts 54 employ- reed believes that many com- people from other countries have the Wellness Center were with african- ees, six storefront buildings and 21 munities have long been dependent been interested in speaking with american contractors, and 80 percent subsidized apartment units. at the on outside professionals rather than community residents and Kohrman of the jobs went to local residents, Community re-entry Center, more solving problems from within. “this about their findings. returning approximately $2.8 million than 4,000 ex-offenders annually take community has many wonderful attri- “mrs. reed and Dr. Kohrman back into the community. advantage of a wide variety of services, butes, which can be useful in solving its allowed us to go into fields that we Bolstered by their success, including a fully functioning computer own problems. I like to describe them wouldn’t have been able to go into,” austin’s community groups examined lab, voicemail, barbers, job coaches in terms of assets, and a huge asset is says Patricia Wright, an austin resi- ways to expand health care services. and referrals for ongoing services. the the common vision and hope of the dent who became a researcher/inter- Community providers and local resi- program is being used as a model people. this builds all of our hope for viewer for the university of Illinois at dents created strategic plans together around the country. WHa also operates our future,” reed says. Chicago’s research laboratory via her training at WHa. she now works for WHa as a community health 1 : Jacquelinetxt txtReed txt with Mayor advocate. “I would never have been a Richard M. Daley at the ribbon- community researcher without them.” cutting ceremony for the new reed credits her training at WHA building ssa, as well as the relationships and access to resources she developed at 2 : The Austin Wellness Center at the school, with giving her the lever- Chicago and Cicero Avenues age to provide a voice of leadership, 3 : Community training at the center including during the first years of 4 : Jacqueline Reed speaks after negotiating a new health clinic. “I was receiving SSA’s Alumni of Color actually implementing some of the Award in 2010. strategies I was learning at ssa on 4 how to advocate and negotiate with power-brokers,” she says. last June, to promote health, and prevent the a community support advisory council >>> . <<< the ssa african-american student chronic diseases affecting austin, such of people whose children have been association awarded reed with the as obesity, heart disease and breast incarcerated. reeD Was aBle to BuIlD tHe WHa, alumni of Color award. cancer. Current programs include daily more than 8,000 local students in part, through the use of hard data to reed says she’s pleased to see fitness classes and health seminars, as have used WHa’s technology Center convince local policymakers and foun- that young african americans are well as a partnership between several to learn computer skills and take dations to support their efforts. to gath- coming back to austin to work in the Chicago-area universities and stroger workshops on topics such as writing er that information, reed and Kohrman neighborhood. reed’s own son and Cook County Hospital to hire commu- a resume. In partnership with the City developed a research model in 1992 daughter, an attorney and financial nity residents to teach medical profes- of Chicago’s Department of Family in which people from the community analyst respectively, are now working sionals about their community and and support services, WHa is placing were trained in research methods. after at WHa. It’s important, she maintains, communicating with patients. about 35 people in jobs each month. surveying, the participants reported the that students who are interested in the austin safety net Works, a violence information back to the community, not starting their own nonprofits and >>> . <<< prevention coalition organized by WHa, only to academic audiences. Back in the working in community advocacy have operates a volunteer network to imple- early 1990s, this approach was rare, but experience in the communities where Very early In WestsIDe HealtH ment peace-making strategies and pro- now, community-based participatory they want to work. authority’s development, reed motes programs such as a recent stop research (CBPr) has become a well- “I worked for three different expanded the vision of community Violence against Women campaign. respected research method. West side organizations, Bethel new and individual health. For example, for WHa’s many accomplishments is “our first research project indi- life, Westside Holistic Family Center years austin had not seen its children largely attributable to the power of the cated that stress was the biggest issue,” and trinity resources unlimited, playing in its parks. now, WHa engag- residents themselves. Women in the Kohrman says. “For example, over before I branched out on my own,” es men in the community as coaches community served on Cook County’s 60 percent of surveyed community she says. “students need to know and mentors in three baseball leagues Health advisory board and sold catfish members had witnessed drug dealing that they don’t have to ultimately for children of different ages. dinners as a fundraiser to show a level on their block, over 55 percent were work for a large organization. We “this is what we call community: of commitment that launched the cam- concerned about the safety of their need people with all kinds of skills People uniting together around the paign for the austin Wellness Center, children, and over 50 percent had working in their home communities socialization of children, the protection for example. WHa has connected doc- personally witnessed violence.” WHa and becoming part of its fabric.”
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 13 1/6/11 6:14 PM by carl V ogel The Promise of Research on how to prevent social ills is on an upward trajectory—and that’s fueling a wide array of policies and programs
inCe iTS inCePTion, lic,” says neil guterman, the dean social work has been inter- of SSA and the School’s mose and ested in not only serving Sylvia firestone Professor. “how do those in dire circumstances, you show a program works if its aim but also in getting ahead of is to keep something from ever hap- the problems that services pening? it seems almost paradoxical.” aim to address. Keeping the yet research has been leap- crime from being commit- ing over that apparent paradox for ted, the substance user away years. for example, from health care from dependence, the child research, we now have scientific proof safe from harm or the student of the impact of smoking, obesity, in school is a step better than attempting nutrition and other factors on every- Sto rebuild lives scarred by jail, addiction, maltreatment or a failed thing from heart disease to depression. Prevention research is education. Aid to those who are troubled will always be necessary, why your doctor may tell you to watch your cholesterol or give of course, but how wonderful it would be for an individual to you a vaccination at your annual check-up, and why there’s fluo- never face that trouble in the first place. ride in your drinking water. in many ways, social work is a natural field to advance the Attention to prevention in social and health care services promise of prevention. “Social workers think about the macro is unmistakably on the rise. Just look at the 2010 health care level and about people in the environment,” says Sydney hans, reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, SSA’s Samuel Deutsch Professor. “in clinical practice we’re work- which creates the national Prevention, health Promotion and ing in schools, in youth centers, in the community. We see that Public health Council, provides grants to small employers to supporting youth development is cheaper than prison—and we create wellness programs, mandates the disclosure of nutrition see the effects of prison on that youth’s life and his family.” content in chain restaurants, and requires insurers to cover key for most of social work’s 100-plus year history, however, evidence-based clinical preventive services. investment in prevention has been difficult to bring to scale. “There are a lot of prevention policies in this bill,” says “Policymakers could just say, ‘That sounds nice, but where’s the harold Pollack, the helen ross Professor at SSA. “That’s note- hard evidence?’ it used to be difficult to show that prevention worthy. it’s hard to get, say $10,000 to build a fence around a works. Social work professionals could themselves see the benefits local well. But when a toddler falls in and the rescue attempts are of prevention, but they had a hard time ‘proving it,’ to the pub- on cable Tv for three days, then we’re willing to spend $100,000
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 15 1/6/11 6:14 PM to save her. We’re starting to understand now that DvoCATeS for eArLy the life you save with the fence is as real as the tod- childhood development may be dler who’s already in peril. And in public health the most obvious proponents policy, we are now creating financing structures of prevention policies, but look and regulations to ensure that prevention receives almost anywhere in social ser- higher priority.” vices and you’ll see a similar much of this is thanks to the rise of research story. for example, SSA Professor that offers proof positive that programs and poli- mark Courtney has testified to a cies do indeed reduce major social problems before Congressional committee about they have a chance to erupt—and save the public his research on the collateral money at the same time. for example, a ground- benefits of providing support to breaking study of a home visitation program to foster children after age 18, which helped the pas- young parents who are at-risk of child maltreat- sageA of the fostering Connections to Success Act ment in the mid-1970s showed that nearly 80 in 2008. Dexter voisin, an associate professor at percent of mothers in the program had fewer SSA, influenced policy related to framing public verified reports of abuse or neglect and more than health messages in illinois with his studies of how 50 percent fewer of the children avoided arrest as to best get hiv prevention messages to youth. adolescents. A slew of studies of similar programs “Policymakers shouldn’t make decisions just based The use of around early childhood development have shown on anecdotal stories,” voisin says. “They need to these strategies is the same kind of results. look for hard data and know that what they’re “ Today, supporting newborns and toddlers and doing works or will have the potential to work.” growing because their families is a leading prevention policy prior- Social welfare scholars are increasingly turn- ity. it’s been a top agenda item for the obama ing to the latest research techniques that enable the research administration—for example, the health care bill reporting with confidence that a program or includes $1.5 billion allocated to home visitation policy will have a specific preventive impact. methodologies programs. University of Chicago nobel laureate randomized clinical trials, like those used to test James heckman, the henry Schultz Distinguished out new medications, allow researchers to scien- have really Service Professor in economics in the College and tifically weigh the efficacy of delivering a specific the harris School of Public Policy, is a researcher service to vulnerable individuals, when compared advanced, and and outspoken advocate on why early preven- against a group who hasn’t received the service. tion and support are effective and makes good And longitudinal studies give correlational infor- social welfare economic sense. A recent study by the rAnD mation that can help identify the early causes of Corporation reported that every dollar spent on social problems, long before they crop up. scholars are home visitation saved $5.70 in other governmen- “increasingly, social welfare scholars are rely- tal, health care and social costs. And even the U.S. ing on such statistical strategies as ‘propensity increasingly Chamber of Commerce is on board, recently pub- score matching,’ which permits us to construct a lishing a report “Why Business Should Support statistically unbiased control group, when we can’t recognizing their early Childhood education” through its institute feasibly carry out a randomized clinical trial in the for a Competitive Workforce. real world. others are turning to techniques such power. “There’s been a historic shift in social welfare as ‘structural equation modeling’, which enables scholarship around prevention in the last 10 or us to much better estimate causal precursors to
– Neil GutermaGuterma N 20 years, an unmistakable growth of research that social problems than before,” guterman says. ” sheds new light on ways to both prevent social “The use of these strategies is growing because the problems and reduce public expenditures, and of research methodologies have really advanced, and connecting this research to local, state and federal social welfare scholars are increasingly recognizing policy,” guterman says. “And this growth contin- their power.” ues in an upward trajectory.” one of guterman’s current projects is a four- year randomized trial of the impact of parent aide >>> . <<<
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 16 1/6/11 6:14 PM services, a paraprofessional home-visitation pro- nizing that much can be learned about the long gram for parents identified as at high risk of child term impacts of programs by taking advantage Making a List of existing administrative or archival data,” maltreatment. A historical predecessor to home F you Want eVIDenCe that visiting programs, parent aide services have been gorman-Smith says. preventive practices are having operating in hundreds of communities across the an impact on policy and funding, United States for several decades, but there has >>> . <<< look no further than the prolifera- Ition of lists that catalogue research- never been a controlled evaluation determining backed programs. such lists are kept whether they work or not. his study, currently ormAn-SmiTh is also the now by federal agencies like the being prepared for publication, finds that parent principal investigator and direc- substance abuse and mental Health aide services have a statistically significant posi- tor of the Chicago Center for services administration (samHsa), state programs like the California tive impact after six months in reducing parental youth violence Prevention, evidence-Based Clearinghouse for stress, maternal depression and anxiety, and reduc- a new collaboration between Child Welfare, and nonprofits like the ing psychological aggression and physical assault Chapin hall, the University of Coalition for evidence-Based Practice. toward a child. Chicago Crime Lab and the In theory, a careful list of pro- grams is a great way to ensure that hans is in the midst of a similar research Chicago Project on violence government and philanthropic funds project for the Doula home visiting initiative, Prevention at the UiC School only support projects that are dem- which has been operating for more than 20 years, of Public health, which is the onstrated to work through rigorous and has served more than 10,000 families since umbrella group for Ceasefire. research. some lists even give bet- ter grades if the research included a inception. “nobody has really ever studied it to The center, one of four national Academic double-blind study, and in some states, determine if it’s having the effects as planned,” GCenters of excellence funded by the Centers a program must be on the list to be hans says. “for the ounce of Prevention [the for Disease Control and Prevention, will build supported. agency that operates the program], this is an on earlier research to develop an integrated set some prevention experts are questioning how well the lists work in opportunity to show policymakers that research of activities aimed at reducing youth violence practice, though. “my concern is that backs up that there are useful results and a cost within targeted Chicago communities, and use the standards of evidence for effective- benefit.” the knowledge gained in this process to inform ness of a program vary considerably Deborah gorman-Smith, a research fellow at violence-prevention efforts more broadly. across the lists, and yet the lists are used as if they are interchangeable. Chapin hall specializing in prevention of youth “We’re appreciative of the opportunity to and I’m concerned about watering violence and president-elect of the Society for work with the center, which brings complimen- down standards to increase the num- Prevention research, a 20-year-old multidisci- tary strengths and resources,” says roseanna ber of programs that can make a list,” plinary organization, points out that with a grow- Ander, the executive director of the Crime Lab. says Deborah Gorman-smith, who nevertheless says she’s glad to see evi- ing wave of prevention research, we’re learning “That’s important to our goal: We’re interested dence standards are requiring the field more about longstanding programs. Sometimes in building a kind of portfolio of different kinds to “take a serious look at what we are the results are heartening, giving a boost to advo- of interventions that work across the lifespan and doing and make the case, with data, cates for ongoing support, and sometimes what for different populations, that have been tested for continuing to do it.” neil Guterman argues that was considered successful is found to fall short. and found to work.” if there are only a few approved Perhaps the most infamous example is The Crime Lab is currently running a ran- programs on a list, it can limit the DAre, the national anti-drug use program that domized clinical trial of the Becoming a man— consideration of new ideas, and he has been implemented across the country at a cost Sports edition (BAm) intervention, which helps adds that the lists can oversimplify a complex situation. “Because these lists of millions of dollars over many years. “research low-income urban youth strengthen emotional are so user-accessible, policymakers found that not only was it not having a positive self-regulation and social skills. “in many cases, can potentially overlook a lot of the effect in preventing substance abuse, for some young men get into violent situations because other factors that should be taken into groups of youth it was having a negative effect,” they have what’s called ‘hostile cultivation bias,’ account to match a program with the gorman-Smith says. even proof that a prevention specific needs of a given community,” which means they have a tendency to view he says. program isn’t working is useful, though, since the people as having more hostile intentions in “I understand the intent, and it’s a information can help free up resources for better ambiguous situations than is actually the case,” good idea,” Guterman concludes. “But alternatives. explains Pollack, who, along with SSA Professor the reality of how such clearinghouses “The field has become more methodologi- are being used in practice can raise Jens Ludwig, co-directs the Crime Lab. “By concerns. ” cally sophisticated, while at the same time recog- strengthening socio-emotional skills, we can help
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 17 1/6/11 6:14 PM youth avoid getting into a bad situation in the and on-campus organizations like Chapin Hall,” first place.” Pollack says. One of the fascinating aspects of prevention The work of Jennifer Bellamy, an assistant work is how one strategy can potentially lead to a professor at SSA, is focused on how to help young cascade of multiple positive outcomes. By avoid- first-time fathers become more positively involved ing the criminal justice system, a young man who with raising vulnerable children in order to pre- has gone through BAM can remain in school and vent child maltreatment. Even though Bellamy’s Policymakers need stay on a much better track for future employ- research won’t explicitly measure all the ways the ment. With improved socio-emotional skills he program helps secure a better life for the children, to look for hard data may lower the amount of stress in his life, which the existing body of research can build a case for “ can impact mental health and substance abuse the program’s potential range of positive long-term and know that what issues, and he may do better in school because impacts. For example, the National Institute of he can avoid confrontations with teachers in the Mental Health is interested in preventing abuse they’re doing works classroom. and neglect because research has shown that Measuring all of these outcomes is currently child maltreatment is a factor across the lifespan or will have the beyond the scope of most studies, although the for a wide variety of mental and physical health Crime Lab’s research of BAM does include an outcomes, and the National Science Foundation potential to work. assessment of the basic academic success of par- is interested in the issue because of documented ticipants. “This is one place where the University links between violence prevention and educational of Chicago has a real advantage to gather this outcomes. – Dexter Voisin ” wide set of data because of our relationships with Bellamy’s research is also an example of where Chicago Public Schools, the Illinois State Police prevention research is heading—closer inspection
Prevention in the Classroom
revention research is a groWing Field, and with the continued expansion of home-visitation and other early childhood programs, prevention is a career option for more and more practitioners as well. so how are the next generation of social workers learning about the state-of-the art in prevention thinking? at some level, preventing social problems is already woven into the social worker mind- Pset and training. “the old notion of seeing a ‘red flag’ in a clinical encounter—that’s another way of saying that the practitioner sees a risk factor for some future problem in a client’s life, and such thinking naturally triggers planning about preventive strategies on the worker’s part,” points out neil guterman. “When we teach clinical skills, we are often teaching about ways of preventing fur- ther problems in our clients’ lives.” at ssa, some courses are explicitly aimed at preparing a social worker for work in prevention. For instance, for three years, adjunct faculty member victor Bernstein has taught “strategies for Working with infants, toddlers, and their Parents,” where students learn how to build a relationship with a family in a home visitation model. “the class is applied learning—the students have to find a family to work with and learn how to build a relationship. We work a lot on self-awareness of what they’re feeling in the process and how to manage those feelings,” Bernstein says. “the model for helping prevent problems is important, but the students have to learn how to make it really work in practice.” three years ago, ssa made a deeper commitment to prevention education with the creation of the Beatrice cummings Mayer Program in violence Prevention, making the school the first school of social work in the U.s. with a curricular concentration expressly devoted to the prevention of interpersonal vio- lence. the program offers a specialized seminar, organized colloquia of prominent leaders in the field and more than 30 field placement opportunities for stu- dents. Program graduates are working in the field in a wide an array of settings, from early childhood centers that prevent child abuse to advocacy programs that aim to reduce domestic violence to public schools that identify and serve children that are at high risk of youth victimization. “chicago is one of the most active hubs in the nation carrying out work in violence prevention, and that has allowed us to partner with an exciting array of agencies for field placements,” guterman says. “the students in our program are coming at this issue from the clinical, the administrative and the policy levels, and they’re learning about the many ways that social workers can work to effectively prevent violence.”
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 18 1/6/11 6:22 PM of how to influence specific sub-populations. support among young mothers to help prevent “There has been research about a number of child maltreatment. programs that support young mothers, but not as much for young fathers,” she says. “I’m >>> . <<< looking at what would have that impact for a 16-year-old father—what are the needs, what N 50 yEARS, Stanley McCracken likes to will get him involved, what will help him par- tell his students, we may look back at this ent.” era and find it barbaric that an individual Alida Bouris, an assistant professor at SSA, would even have an episode of severe mental is also focusing on a specific population for her illness—that early screening and prevention research: How the parents of Latino adolescent methods may have progressed to the point gay and bisexual males can be supported to that mental health service is an entirely differ- help prevent HIV infection among their chil- ent profession. McCracken, a senior lecturer dren. “Research shows that parents can have at SSA, also points out, however, that the field an important influence on their child’s sexual of mental health is far behind substance abuse decision-making and behaviors,” she says. “But in applicable prevention research. the majority of this research has focused on “In some ways, prevention has been the heterosexual youth. Historically, there’s been an iholy grail in mental health. Just now a pre-clinical By strengthening assumption that parents don’t matter for LGBT level of psychotic disorder is being proposed for youth, or that they only matter in negative the DSM-V [the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual socio-emotional ways. However, research is starting to show that of Mental Disorders],” McCracken says. “And the “ parents can be an important source of support path to realize real prevention in mental health is skills, we can for LGBT young people and that they want filled with tough ethical questions: What level of assistance. At the same time, there isn’t a lot of false positives are you willing to live with in iden- help youth avoid evidence-based guidance for parents and practi- tifying people who are at risk of mental illness and tioners to draw upon, and most of the research given a treatment? Is there a preventive intervention getting into a has been conducted with white families.” available with an acceptable risk/benefit profile? Like Bellamy, Bouris is developing an inter- If you identify people early in life as susceptible bad situation in vention that can be evaluated in the context for mental illness, would that end up stigmatizing of a randomized controlled trial. Rather than them?” the first place. finding an existing social service program and And even if fields where prevention research applying research methodologies to determine is well-established, funding remains hard to come if it’s been effective—as Guterman is doing by, and there are real-world issues about how to – harold PollaCk” with Parent Aide Services and Hans is with the bring a program that has been successful in one Doula Home Visiting Initiative—researchers context to scale. Bouris points out that the rates of who are doing this kind of “social R&D” are smoking have dropped dramatically in this country using evidence-based findings to create inter- over the last 30 years, but it took a combination of vention programs from the ground up, from policies, programs and approaches to accomplish identifying the best methods to recruit and that change—health education for children and retain participants to determining the kinds of adolescents, policy changes such as higher taxes on services offered. tobacco products and restricted access to cigarettes, “Increasingly, prevention researchers are public health campaigns and more. also the innovators themselves. Researchers can “Behavior change is a complex endeavor,” she use scientific methods to guide the develop- says. “There’s not necessarily a magic bullet—but ment of a novel strategy as well as to evaluate each intervention, especially when it’s evidence- it,” says Guterman, who has used this approach based and targets multiple systems, can have an to design and test a program that provides peer important impact.”
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SSA students learn about poverty and community Iin then classroom dand in the fieldi in aMumbai
s the monsoon season began to wind down, a small contingent of ssa students arrived in India this august. For more than three weeks they studied in the classroom and in the field in amumbai, the largest city in India and an intense urban setting of vibrant streets and startling poverty. The program, “Poverty, Marginalization, The students participated in two full days in and Challenges to Community Practice in India” the field each week, observing several different local introduced the eight master’s students to how NGOs at work, and engaged in classes, seminars, social welfare is organized in India, the nature of reading assignments and reflective writing, all in a its urban poverty, key issues confronting vulner- comparative framework of community organizing able populations, and the intent, organization and and development practice in India and the United implementation of local models of community States. Chaskin points out that even the peda- practice. Organized by Associate Professor Robert gogy was different: At TISS, students spend much Chaskin, the program included reciprocal peer more time in the classroom, where coursework can learning with master’s students at the Tata Institute routinely run from 9–6. However, the biggest eye- of Social Sciences (TISS) and field work at a num- opener was experiencing first-hand the deep depri- ber of community agencies and organizations. vation that exists in pockets of the city, especially in “I think it went remarkably well,” says the poorest slums. “We did readings and orientation Chaskin, who accompanied the students for the before going, but you don’t really begin to under- program. “The goal was to throw into relief and stand until you experience it,” he says. begin to question what we think we know about The program was a milestone for SSA’s growing poverty and the responses to poverty at the com- international program, providing the first oppor- munity level. What is different, what is relevant to tunity for SSA students to study overseas. “It really our work in the U.S., what are the possibilities and exceeded our expectations, and it certainly served as limitations and challenges to our assumptions that a very concrete example of the development of our working in these other contexts suggests?” programming,” says Cristina Gros, the manager for
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 21 1/6/11 6:29 PM international programming and continuing education at SSA. Gros says that the program also was a great learning experience for her and the partners who made it possible, helping to pave the way for ongoing opportunities. Chaskin is planning to replicate the program for next summer, and he hopes similar courses, perhaps with different academic focuses, can also be developed. “The intent is to continue to build experiences such as this as part of a broader set of opportunities at SSA that are focused on social work internationally,” he says. The following pages are filled with thoughts and descriptions of the experience from the SSA students who participated, excerpted from their daily field journals, e-mails and blog posts during their time in Mumbai.
Meeting in the Market Katie and i were paired with three tiss students to explore the informal and formal components of the chembur Market, and the ways in which we witness and understand the manifestation of poverty and inequality. Katie, avad, saumya, Ujjwaal and myself split into two auto rickshaws and headed to the market. Jumping out, we were immediately surrounded by children asking for money. there is a similar hand gesture that most children display when they are asking for resources—they gather the tips of their fingers, as if holding a small wad of rice between them, dragging them from their imaginary plates drawn in the air toward their lips, looking up at you with round, deep brown eyes. We weaved in and out of traffic, the students grabbing our hands telling us the optimal moment to make a dash and how to carry ourselves. in the market, The International Students Office at TISS provided four weekend cultural immersion trips, we talked to an “auntie” (a word commonly referring to a woman in informal con- including one to the village of Versova. versation) who was selling onions. she sat on the ground with a knife, separating the white bulbs from the green stalks. she was in her sixties, widowed, telling us that she had been doing this work since she was 10 years old. she likes it, she told us, it makes her happy, because it is through this work that she is able to pro - vide for her family. — Kirsten Dickins
Life in a New Building today was the first day of field placement. i am placed at an agency called the slum rehabilitation society. Basically, the agency works with the governments to place people who are forced out of slums (due to land use for infrastructure proj - ects, etc.) into permanent housing and organizes the people in housing projects. today, we went to the field site with our student hosts, ashish and Pradeep. the goal is to organize women in one of the projects to develop groups devoted to gaining some type of livelihood, such as embroidery, sewing or running a can- teen serving food. We first were welcomed into the home of sumitra, the president of the women’s group at one of the buildings, the flat was essentially in two rooms, a small kitchen in the back and a main living room with beds that double as sitting spaces. the dimensions may be around 200 square feet. sumitra had set up her space beautifully, with brightly colored sheets on the beds, decorative art such as a small glass chandelier, and plants in the kitchen. the space was comfortable, orderly and immaculately clean. When asked about her feelings about her flat, she choked up. she was so happy to have moved in, she said. in the slum housing where she lived, there were 16 toilets for 2,000 people and now she has her own toilet. in her flat she has running water for 15-30 minutes a day. she told us she was used to fighting to get water with hundreds of others in the short time period the taps were on. she
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 22 1/6/11 6:31 PM laughed when she talked about the fights that she witnessed at the water taps and the toilet lines. it amazes me that so many people struggling for survival have such a good sense of humor, but i guess, how else do you survive? other women and children came to the flat to talk with us, and we discussed families and marriage and laughed with each other. — Katie Gambach
Living without Resources today we visited a different part of the settlement— rafi nagar, which is located much closer (or directly on top) of the garbage dump, as new migrants act mostly as scavengers within the dump. Made out of wooden sticks and tarps, the housing seemed less sturdy and it had a sense of illegitimate establishment, as if at any moment there may be a family moving in or out. it is becoming more and more apparent that the migrant pull to Mumbai for work is a large contrib- uting factor to the unyielding growth of this community at the macro-level. other environmental factors added to the feeling of worsened qual- ity of life: even worse sanitary conditions, the location directly on top of the dump, and the general feeling that these “homes” were dropped and could be removed just as easily, contributed to the unsettling feeling and overall difficulty of the day. aside from my own, perhaps selfish, concerns with my own health, i had a hard time grasping that these conditions (no running water, no public toi- let, high levels of pollution, use of rain water for bathing and washing) were the reality of so many individuals. i struggled to understand how one might attempt to survive in these dismal conditions, and the idea of basic home needs came back to mind. Without access to proper nutrition, running water, and health security, then education and awareness may be difficult points to stick within the community. — Allison Yura
The Dilemma of the Poorest Slums Katie Gambach with TISS students in Mumbai. visiting rafi nagar helps me understand a bit better the policy dilemma lawmak- ers in india must face. on one hand, the migration from rural areas is not going to stop while people cannot make a living there. on the other, the government will condone the migration and possibly make it worse if they create the neces- sary infrastructure to support the influx of people. in a harm reduction world, it seems like the most humanitarian policy would be to try to accept the migration and provide services and sanitation as quickly as possible, but i also understand that may not be politically feasible. though 60 percent of the population of Mumbai lives in slums, only a small portion of that are undeveloped slums like rafi nagar, and the people who live here are not a population that i perceive to be easily mobilized. the load they carry just to survive seems to preclude that. From my experience here, i get the sense that people who live in the developed slums are not too keen on the arrival of the new migrants, even though they themselves may have been migrants at one point (though, according to the tiss students, this could be as much as 20 years ago). With more people comes more pressure on resources, and this area is already resource poor to begin with. it’s amazing how your concept of poverty can change in a very short time. Before i’d been to rafi nagar, the recognized parts of shivaji nagar seemed poor and run-down, but now that i’ve seen the unrecognized slums, i am able to see the resources that are clearly available to the people who live here: water, electricity, drainage, social services, community, commerce, etc. these are thriv- ing communities, despite their poverty. — Elizabeth Siegel
Children with Special Needs one of the day cares at apnalaya [an organization that provides education, health services and a variety of other social supports, primarily in the slums of
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Social Work and Empowerment i have been struck from the very beginning of our time at tiss by the over- whelming foundation of self-empowerment that exists in notions of “social work.” rather than playing the role of the trained expert coming in to “help” these communities, they are seen much more as facilitators of local, commu- nity-centered, self-empowered autonomous choice; giving people a space to have their voice heard and listening to what they are expressing as their needs. that’s clearly not to say this happens all the time in india, but it’s something i have found far too often missing in notions of “social work” i’ve encountered in the states, and i find this gravely problematic. -- Roanna Cooper
Wives, Mothers and Infant Mortality in the afternoon, we were exposed to a program that is researching the high The students received henna tattoos called mehndi, a traditional hand decoration, from a women’s prevalence of infant mortality in the slums. along with Kirsten, i joined a tiss vocational training center. student and community worker in visiting two different homes of women who had lost infants recently. Both women were suspected to be victims of domestic abuse, and at the second home we visited there was a second wife living on the other side of the wall/tarp. Both women would like to stop having children, and in one case the husband agreed. Both women seemed exhausted, and unable to provide their living children with the love and attention they need. after the second home visit, the tiss student explained to us some of the issues in the infant mortality rate. she linked the lack of education and aware- ness as a large contributing factor; many of the families, she found, did not know how to treat a sick child and were generally unaware of the importance of hygiene. additionally, she felt that the emphasis on the man’s happiness and satisfaction led to an uneven distribution of the family’s food resources in favor of the father and other older males. she hoped that the findings of her research would reach the organization and call for further education of mothers. By CHa RLES WHITakER — Allison Yura
The Human Touch i often think about how the culture in the United states, particularly in settings such as schools, hospitals, and various other social service organizations are becoming increasingly “touch-phobic”—we seem to fear what human touch might suggest, and moreover, the repercussions that we may incur from pro- voking these interpretations. legal and social ramifications are constantly at stake. i don’t see that being the case here in india, but rather the opposite. People are inclined to touch, to rub your shoulder, to put their arm around your back, to stroke your hand. the comfort i feel expressed through human touch is astounding, and i wonder how expressing affection and care through these means may aid in the strengthened development of micro level community ties. — Kirsten Dickins
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By CHa RLES WHITakER
N THE SPRING OF 2009, as Illinois Gov. Patrick Quinn attempted to plug an estimated $9.2 billion budget hole, a cloud of dread and despair hovered over a wide swath of the Istate’s social workers and therapists. The announcement of possible massive funding cuts caught many social service agencies off guard. Already reeling from chronically delinquent payments by the state
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for existing agreements, they struggled to come to Following the announcement of budget cuts in terms with an even more uncertain future. 2009, thousands of protesters rallied in Springfield to At the time, Eric Foster, A.M. ’03, was working convince legislators to reconsider the dramatic reduc- at The South Suburban Council on Alcoholism and tions. The result was the restoration of some funds for Substance Abuse in East Hazel Crest, Ill. He recalls fiscal year 2010 to 2009 levels. But today, cuts are once the difficulty of soldiering on in his job as director again in the news, as Illinois officials have a budget of outpatient services with the prospect of losing col- deficit projected to be in the range of $13.1 billion for leagues and turning away clients looming over the fiscal year 2011, according to the Center for Tax and organization. “While we were one of the agencies that Budget Accountability. And once again, social service was in better shape, there was still this general sense of providers are wondering what impact the measures will dismay,” says Foster, now chief operating officer of the have on their clients, their agencies and themselves. Illinois Alcohol and Drug Dependence Association. “There were all these rumors and speculation. People >>> . <<< just weren’t sure if they’d walk in one day and their job would be gone.” HE STATE OF ILLINOIS is a Foster tried to steel himself from the stress of the major funder for human services budget morass by plowing deeper into his work man- across the state, providing much of aging clients and staff. But even that took a toll. “I the support for the Illinois social kind of shut down emotionally,” he says. “I didn’t sleep service sector, which has a workforce well at night. I didn’t do all those things that you do that is 400,000 strong. In fiscal year when you’re feeling really good. I didn’t go to the gym. 2010, Illinois spent nearly $5.5 bil- I wasn’t eating right. I was always tired. But I knew I lion on social services through the had to make the environment as comfortable as pos- state’s general fund under the umbrella of three depart- sible and relieve as much stress as I could for the staff ments:T Human Services, Children and Family Services, and clients I was responsible for.” and Aging. Many American workers in this shaky economy Advocates say, however, that the modest increases take a head-down, nose-to-the-grindstone approach in state social service spending that took place between at work, and that’s especially true for individuals in 2002 and 2009—roughly $1 million a year—did not the human services sphere, where a deep dedication keep pace with the needs. The Illinois Department to helping the most vulnerable members of society is of Commerce and Economic Opportunity estimates a prime professional motivator. “People in the human that when new census figures are released, they will services sector are caregivers,” says Gina Guillemette, show that per capita spending on social services, when director of policy and advocacy for the Heartland adjusted for population growth and inflation, declined Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights. by 10.5 percent. “They’re very committed to this work, and they yet facing the bleakest financial picture in decades, understand resiliency, so they’re particularly adept at Illinois Gov. Patrick Quinn has proposed cuts to the continuing on in the face of difficult situations.” budgets of the three overarching social service agen-
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 26 1/6/11 6:36 PM cies for fiscal year 2011 that are both deep and wide: United Way of Illinois, nearly half of the respondents $567 million to the Department of Human Services, said more than half of their funding comes from the $28.4 million to the Department of Aging and $34.5 government. In some sectors, the dependence is even million to the Department of Children and Family greater. Many Illinois health and human services agen- Services. cies rely on the state for 97 percent of their funding. The impact of such cuts will be felt by agencies The proposed cuts come on top of prolonged as large as Catholic Charities, which serves more than periods of non-payment by the State of Illinois, which 1 million clients in Cook and Lake counties and was is up to seven months in arrears to a variety of organi- forced to layoff close to 25 percent of its staff, and zations and service providers. More than 120 groups smaller nonprofits like Ada S. McKinley Community in the state are owed as much as $1 million each, Services, Inc., an organization on the South Side that according to data collected by the Illinois Partners for provides childcare, vocational care, mental health care Human Services. Often, contracts have been amended and adoption training. The agency struggled through on the fly as state officials juggle bills and attempt to fiscal year 2010 with a $6 million hole in its budget hold creditors at bay. According to a national survey of due to nonpayment of funds owed by the state (about 9,000 human service organizations conducted by the $3.5 million) and federal government. The agency laid Urban Institute, Illinois is the worst state in the nation off staff, borrowed into its line of credit and exhausted for late payments to human service providers and is its reserves, but still had to slash programs. the third worst when it comes to changing the terms “I’ve been in this business 37 years, and I’ve of contracts and grants midstream. never seen anything like the last five or six years,” says “The uncertainty of when to expect payment or George Jones, Jr., A.M. ’73, executive director of Ada if you’ll be paid what you agreed to has been most S. McKinley. “We’ve had to send people home with- detrimental to a lot of programs,” says Samantha out services. It’s terrible. The need is there, but the Aigner-Treworgy, A.M. ’10, M . P. P. ’10 (Harris), policy
Illinois is the worst state in the nation for late payments to human service providers and is the third worst when it comes to changing the terms of contracts and grants midstream.
funding isn’t there to keep programs going. It’s going associate with the Ounce of Prevention Fund, an to impact the entire community.” umbrella agency devoted to improving the quality of What makes the cuts so devastating is the over- life for children born into poverty. For example, the whelming dependence that most Illinois social service Ounce subcontracts with a number of community- organizations have on state dollars. In a recent survey based nonprofits to provide home-visiting services to of nearly 500 nonprofit agencies conducted by the new parents. “They lost a lot of families because they
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just couldn’t find out from the state where they really challenge of having more and more people coming were in terms of funding,” Aigner-Treworgy says. “That through the door but not knowing whether [their makes it impossible to plan.” staff] are going to have jobs the next week, next At some agencies, chief executives have exhausted month, next year.” their lines of credit with lenders and venders, and at some small nonprofits, executive directors have even >>> . <<< used their personal credit cards to make payroll and keep the doors open. About 54 percent of Illinois’ non- he fISCAl TrOUbleS buf- profits have laid off staff and imposed furlough days, feting Illinois are not exactly according to the Urban Institute report. Counselors unique, but the state does have and therapists, in turn, have often continued working one of the worst budget crises full-time schedules on part-time salaries. Some are even in the country, with longstand- performing their jobs on a volunteer basis, working ing structural problems that have without any pay to help the agencies stay afloat and made the financial difficulties more maintain the continuity of client care. intractable (the state’s pension fund Nancy Chertok, SSA’s director of field education, alone has an unfunded liability of $74 billion). The works with more than 400 agencies in a wide variety Tproblem, according the Center for Tax and budget of fields across the city, giving her a wide-angle view of Accountability, is not spending. Illinois is a relatively the impact of the state’s budget woes. “I have observed low-spending state, ranking 42nd nationally. but for that our students are learning professional skills in more decades revenue has not kept pace with the state’s complex environments,” she says. “Some agencies are in expenses, and the loss of tax income from a sputter- transition; more agency staff work with the uncertainty ing local economy has only made it worse. of job cuts. We have lost some field placements because “Illinois is really significantly behind the eight agencies have had let go of staff due to budget cuts.” ball in relation to the rest of the country,” says Judith Of course, at the same time budgets are being cut, Gethner, coalition manager of Illinois Partners for the recession has increased the need for social services. human Services, a statewide network of social service With the ranks of the unemployed swelling to nearly 10 organizations. “Other states experienced a recession percent nationally—close to 10.4 percent in Illinois— in 2000, but they also experienced a recovery. Illinois more individuals and families are seeking the care and never did. If we’d had a recovery like other states, we counsel of the agencies whose staffs and programs are wouldn’t be where we are now.” in jeopardy. Allard points out that policy changes over the “A lot of the providers who I’ve spoken with in last decade or more have changed the impact of the Chicago area are dealing with a lot of stress,” says state budgets. “Part of it is that we simply have more SSA Associate Professor Scott W. Allard, who recently people with need than we’ve seen in some time,” he completed two surveys of more than 2,000 governmen- says, “but it’s also that our safety net is much dif- tal and nonprofit social service providers in seven rural ferent now than it was during the recessions of the and urban communities. “They’re facing the daunting early 1980s when the federal [welfare reform] work
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ncertainty, Financial strain, stress, loW morale: the collateral damage from the state budget crisis is being felt in the offices of social service agencies across illinois. But social workers are problem solvers—so how are they tackling this enormous problem? U Jacob Dancer at Ucan says that as an administrator, he has to face the issue head on: “When i, as a supervisor, know that you might lose your job, i have to find a way to help you go through all the emotions that go along with that. at the same time, i have to make sure that you’re still there for your clients while all this is going on. it’s very draining for everyone—clinicians, supervisors and clients, who might hold back because they don’t know how long that therapist is going to be there.” communication is key to getting through the crisis. “For people on the ground, what can be the most damaging is not knowing what is going to happen,” says i reta Gasner, senior policy associate with the ounce of Prevention Fund. “if supervisors can keep the staff engaged and informed about the whole budget process, it helps with morale.” of course, supervisors need care and nurturing as well. many of the ceos of requirement wasn’t in place. So much of our safety financially strapped agencies are struggling to maintain their composure in the face net assistance is tied to work activity today. Now, if of the intense pressure of budget and personnel crises. “i have one ceo who is so emotionally desperate he can barely put a sentence together,” says Judith Gethner you can’t find work, the safety net isn’t there for you. with illinois Partners for Human services. That makes the current recession very different. It has For release and relief, administrators gather in meetings convened by coalitions very different consequences.” like illinois Partners for Human services and the illinois alcohol and Drug Dependence The rules have also changed for providers and association. these groups are working to galvanize the agencies and public opinion in support of social service providers, which can give a much-needed sense of positive, those in need of services, particularly in the areas of forward momentum. But they’re also a place to commiserate and share strategies. mental health and substance abuse, the two categories “sure, there’s a little bit of the fear of what’s happening that goes on,” says of treatment that many say have been most adversely marvin lindsey, public policy social worker for the community Behavioral Healthcare affected by the budget crisis. for substance abuse, as association of illinois. “But we try not to let that go on too long. mostly, we want to provide a forum for these ceos to meet to talk out their problems and bounce ideas dollars are shrinking there is an increased demand for off of each other. it’s a place for them to repair before they have to get back in the services due to escalating heroin and prescription drug trenches.” use, particularly among youth. for mental health, in if any good has come from the budget crisis it is how it has forced social service an effort to contain costs, the state has narrowed the administrators to rethink their roles and their business models. “it has placed a greater premium on better strategic planning and revenue diversification,” says ssa’s scott population eligible for reimbursed services, targeting allard. “many administrators are talking about not relying so much on state funds. a only those individuals who have particular diagnoses lot of nonprofits are trying to turn more to private giving and foundations.” and many such as anorexia or bipolar disorder. Agencies must agencies have stepped up their fundraising efforts. demonstrate that treatment of these individuals is a Dancer says that as a matter of self-preservation and emotional well-being, more providers have to think bigger—beyond their programs and even their individual medical necessity, usually by documenting at least two clients. “i think it’s important to think systematically about how to impact change,” says in-patient hospitalizations, and if they can’t, they are Dancer, “not just for yourself, but for the area you’re involved in. if i think about how i often unable to maintain relationships with clients. can impact change by doing collaborative work, discussing not just the client’s needs, “They’re targeting a group of people for whom but the broader picture, then i’m making connections and partnerships that take me outside of the day-to-day funding problems. i’m coming up with solutions that enable illness is not only severe, but persistent,” says SSA me to keep impacting change. and that’s what social work is all about.” Senior lecturer Stanley McCracken, who has taught courses in adult psychopathology, mental health treat- UCAN’s Jacob Dancer confers with master’s student Robyn Offenbach, who has her second-year ment and substance abuse. “My fear is that these indi- field placement at the agency. viduals whose treatment is now unfunded will wind up in the criminal justice system. A lot may end up just freezing to death.” In many cases, agencies are still able to pro- vide service to the very poor clients who qualify for Medicaid. but individuals whose expenses are not covered are shunted aside, leaving the brunt of service cuts on the working poor. “So treatment decisions wind up being made based on eligibility for funding,” McCracken says, “rather than acuity.” >>> . <<<
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ArvIN lINdSey, dependence Association. “but when that’s your base, PUblIC POlICy it’s hard to figure out how to rally the support of the SOCIAl WOrker community.” for the Community Then there is the issue of providers’ devotion to behavioral healthcare clients. While shutting down services might dramati- Association of cally illustrate to the public and media how dire the Illinois, shakes his situation is for the state’s social service agencies, such a head sorrowfully as move is unfathomable to many providers. he recounts a meeting convened in August with a “What is important to all of us is work ethic and Mcoalition of executives from mental health and sub- professional responsibility,” says Jacob dancer, A.b. stance abuse agencies in Southern Illinois. “It was one ’89, A.M. ’04, program supervisor at UCAN (for- of the most depressing meetings I’ve ever been to,” he merly the Uhlich Children’s Advantage Network), an says. agency devoted to the empowerment, education and The proceedings started with the director of a healing of youth and families who have suffered trau- clinic from Cairo, Ill. standing to tearfully relay the ma, abuse or neglect. “As a clinician, you’re governed dire straits her agency was in. “She said she had 15 by certain ethics as part of your licensing. So even days of cash left,” lindsey recalls. “She had run out if your agency says, ‘I’m laying you off,’ your clients of all of her ability to borrow cash, including on her have to be taken care of in some form or fashion. So personal credit cards. The bank would no longer lend I inform my clients that in the event that I’m laid off, her money, and she was going to have to close her we’re still going to take care of you—off the clock if I facility. This is one of the poorest communities in the need to.” state, a community that really needs these services, but such devotion masks the true nature of the but these are the communities where services are crisis. “It then gets perceived by the public and the being cut back and cut out.” press as a false alarm,” says Ireta Gasner of the Ounce larger nonprofits and advocacy groups that rep- of Prevention. “As an administrator, you do everything resent human service agencies are working to get the you can to keep the funding decisions from impacting word out about the impact of the state’s budget on clients, but from the advocacy perspective, you need clients and on agencies. but in some ways, the cul- that pressure to let people to know what will happen ture of social service work thwarts these efforts. if these services are not provided. So that’s really a for instance, with so much of social service moral and ethical dilemma.” work—particularly in the areas of substance abuse, “These are people who are rooted in social work,” mental health and domestic violence—devoted to says Judith Gethner of Illinois Partners. “They’re mis- protecting the identities of individuals in counseling sion-driven and struggle as business people to manager or treatment, providers are reluctant to ask clients their limited resources, not wishing to turn away any to go public with the importance of services. “A lot client in need of help. Their instinct is to take care of of providers are rooted in the 12-step philosophy,” people. The notion that we’re not going to take care of says eric foster of the Illinois Alcohol and drug our clients even for a day is foreign to them.”
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Jarrett Award New Professors Join SSA Faculty to Hans samuel Deutsch Professor Sydney Hans received ssa’s Valerie Jarrett Mark E. Courtney award for Faculty mentorship and Professor mark courtney has leadership at the 2010 Hooding returned as a faculty member at ceremony in ssa after three years serving as June. Hans the Ballmer endowed chair for teaches child Well-Being at the school of Human social Work at the University of Behavior in Washington, where he was also the the social founding director of Partners for environment, our children, a public-private part- the introduc- nership devoted to improving child tory course welfare services. Poc received in the fam- Sydney Hans the 2008 american Public Human Mark E. Courtney Matthew W. Epperson ily support services association award for program and academic excellence. doctoral courses in life course devel- “i moved to seattle in large years past, including a social work with disadvantaged populations, opment theory and research. she part to start the center, and that and policy course for new master’s and working in the criminal justice is chair of the doctoral program at worked out well,” says courtney, students and a history and philoso- arena made me painfully aware of ssa and the director of the irving B. who was on the faculty at ssa phy of social work course for doc- the challenges faced by people in Harris infant mental Health training for seven years before moving to toral students next year. that system. i was also faced with Program at the University of chicago. seattle and also served as the direc- “i’m excited to be spending how to think about how social work tor of chapin Hall from 2001 to more time in the classroom,” he says. might engage with criminal justice 2006. “But the center is at the stage “ssa has great students, and i’m in meaningful ways that promote Ludwig Honored where it primarily needs a manager, looking forward to exploring social our core value of social justice.” with Award, and i found i missed chicago. i’m work, and how it works, with them.” epperson’s research includes Scholar Status very glad to be back.” investigating the context of HiV risk a national expert on child wel- Matthew W. Epperson for criminal justice populations, and mccormick Foundation Professor fare issues and policies, courtney he is a co-investigator on a multime- of social service, law, and Public is the author of several books and assistant Professor matthew dia HiV prevention intervention tar- Policy Jens Ludwig received a 2009 numerous academic articles, many epperson joins ssa from rutgers geting women with criminal justice robert Wood Johnson Foundation based on the midwest evaluation University where he was a post-doc- involvement in new york city. this investigator award in Health Policy of the adult Functioning of Former toral research fellow at the center fall he was awarded a grant from research for a study that he is co- Foster youth (“the midwest study”), for Behavioral Health services and the national institute of Justice for authoring, titled “neighborhood a unique large-scale longitudinal criminal Justice research. epperson a three-year study of three court- effects on Health.” ludwig has examination of the transition to received his Ph.D. with distinction based programs in cook county for also been named a russell sage adulthood for foster youth who and m.Phil. from the columbia persons in the criminal justice sys- Foundation Visiting scholar. He came of age after the passage of University school of social Work, tem with mental illnesses: a mental is on sabbatical from ssa for the the Foster care independence a m.s.W. from Grand Valley state health court, a specialized proba- academic act of 1999. His current work also University, and a B.s. in sociology/ tion unit and traditional probation. year while a includes studies of experimental criminal Justice from central the comparative evaluation study scholar, writ- evaluation of independent living michigan University. will examine participants’ experi- ing a book services for foster youth, reunifica- epperson has more than 15 ences in these programs and the about how tion of foster children with their years of clinical and administra- effectiveness of each program on neighbor- families, and evaluation of solution- tive social work experience, and mental health treatment and crimi- hood envi- based casework as a child welfare his research primarily revolves nal recidivism outcomes. ronments practice model. around the intersecting domains of “although many hold negative affect the courtney, who received his HiV, mental health and substance attitudes about the criminal justice Jens Ludwig life chances Ph.D. and m.s.W. from the school abuse: issues relevant to criminal system, it is a system desperately in and well- of social Welfare, University of justice-affected populations. “after need of the presence and influence being of california, Berkeley, an m.a. in i earned my m.s.W., one of my first of social work,” epperson says. “i low-income families, using data from clinical psychology from the John jobs working in mental health was have a huge amount of respect for the U.s. Department of Housing F. Kennedy University and a B.a. in a jail,” he says. “now that setting, the school and i’m really looking and Urban Development’s moving from the University of california, and the people who are tangled in forward to working with the greater to opportunity residential mobility Berkeley, will be increasing his it, are my passion. our role as social chicago community. i’m glad to be experiment. teaching load at ssa compared to workers is to advocate for and work here.”
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New Faculty Grants Appointments cultural competence,” at the oregon work reform of employment services ssa’s faculty have recently Juvenile Department Directors’ Quorum (resQ). Brodkin is on the received a number of new for Johnson association annual conference in resQ steering committee. Brodkin also research and program grants. associate Professor Waldo E. september, where she also lead a spoke at the annual meeting of the Johnson Jr. was appointed to workshop. american Political science association Dean and mose and sylvia the program committee of the in Washington D.c., september 2-5 Firestone Professor Neil assistant twenty-First century Foundation in on the panels on “interpretive Policy Guterman, for “Promoting Professor new york, as well as the national analysis,” and “the changing Faces Father involvement in at-risk Alida Bouris advisory Board of the national of Government: representation, Families with young children,” was one of resource center for in-Home responsiveness and responsibility.” Pew charitable trusts the keynote services for the children’s Bureau speak- associate samuel Deutsch Professor of the U.s. ers at the Professor Sydney Hans, for “educare Department latino social Robert Chaskin randomized study,” ounce of Health Workers served as mod- of Prevention Fund/Brady and Human organization Alida Bouris erator for the education Foundation services, at conference chicago area the University assistant Professor Jung 2010 on april 7-9 at the University Project’s 75th of iowa Hwa-Ha, for “end of life care of illinois-chicago. she presented anniversary school of Planning: Does caregiving “Preventing latino adolescent and conference on social Work. Determine ‘Who’ Plans young adult Unintended Pregnancies: community- Robert Chaskin a family in advance,” Wisconsin Waldo E. Johnson Jr. the role of social Workers.” Focused research longitudinal study Pilot Program Juvenile Delinquency Prevention at the scholar, associate Professor Waldo E. Johnson University of chicago’s Gleacher center Johnson’s substantive research Jr. presented at a national conference, associate Professor Julia Henly, in april. focuses on male roles and “Building Healthy communities for “Determinants of subsidy involvement in african-american through a Focus on men and Boys of Professor Colleen Grogan presented stability and continuity of child families, nonresident fathers in color,” sponsored by the earl Warren at the american Political science care in illinois and new york,” fragile families, and the physical institute on race, ethnicity and association’s U.s Department of Health and and psychosocial health statuses of Diversity of the Berkeley law school annual meeting Human services african-american males. and the california endowment in los and exhibition associate Professor Waldo angeles on september 28-29. Johnson in september E. Johnson, Jr., for “chicago also signed copies of his book, Social in Washington Bernstein Honored Parenting initiative,” U.s Work with African-American Males: D.c. at the con- Department of Health and for Career Health, Mental Health, and Policy, at a ference, “the Human services, access nasW/naBsW event on october 20 Politics of Hard Achievement community Health and for alumni at ssa in september. times: citizens, Victor Bernstein, ssa adjunct fac- nations, and the ulty member and research associate, Bellamy, Bouris and Johnson also Colleen Grogan international was honored on october 5 by the spoke at the “Fathering Urban youth: system Under economic stress,” she illinois association for infant mental the roles of Fathers in adolescent chaired the Health Politics and Policy Health for career achievement in Well-Being” conference on may 6 at panel: “the aftermath of Health care the area of early childhood infant the University of chicago international Marsh in Asia reform.” George Herbert Jones Distinguished mental health. Bernstein focuses on House. service Professor Jeanne C. Marsh relationship-based practice models Professor Mark Courtney was a co- associate attended the opening ceremonies of and use of “home movies” as tools presenter on “research on the transition Professor the new University of chicago center for prevention intervention with par- to adulthood for Foster youth: recent Evelyn in Beijing in september. she also ents of young children. Findings on employment and crime,” Bodkin was met with at chapin Hall on august 25, which pro- an invited the social vided an update on the overall midwest Faculty Speaking speaker at the Welfare facul- evaluation of the adult Functioning of international ties of Peking assistant Former Foster youth (“midwest study”). Professor conference University Jennifer “the Global senior lecturer Stanley McCracken and in Beijing Bellamy Financial Evelyn Bodkin adjunct faculty member Mary Jo Barrett and chinese gave the crisis and presented at the naomi ruth cohen cultural keynote new Governance of labor market institute for mental Health education University Policies” in copenhagen, Denmark, conference in may. mccracken led (ccU) in presentation, Jeanne Marsh “intersecting June 24-26. the conference was orga- the discussion, “Dual Diagnosis: What taipei, where evidence- nized by the centre for labour market is it and What Do We Do about it?” she gave a Jennifer Bellamy Based research, University of aalborg, Barrett led the discussion, “life style lecture on the history of social work Practice and and the international research net- addictions: sex, Gambling and Beyond.” education at ccU.
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Reception for Jeanne Marsh 1 : Jeanne C. Marsh with David Vitale, chair of SSA’s Visiting Committee
2 : Hermon Dunlop Smith Professor Melissa Roderick with Marsh
3 : Marsh shares a laugh with then 1 4 executive director of Youth Guidance and alumna Vivian Loseth
4 : An attendee adds her best wishes to Marsh on a Centennial banner featuring SSA’s first dean, Edith Abbott
5 : Marsh with (from left to right), Beatrice Cummings Mayer, a friend, and Shirley Brussell
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Marsh’s Service Possibility: a University of chicago Pediatrics at Boston University school Herbert Jones Distinguished service convening on Poverty and How to of medicine and chief of pediatrics at Professor, moderated a panel discus- Honored at SSA combat it,” an initiative to bring Boston medical center, Zuckerman is sion on “evidence-Based Practice in on may 17, the ssa community thanked together the University’s scholarly a national and international leader in cross-national Perspective” on may Jeanne C. Marsh, ssa’s George resources on issues of poverty in new, health and child development dispari- 3 with panelists Hans-Uwe Otto, Herbert Jones Distinguished service more publicly accessible and more ties and his research has demonstrated research professor at the Faculty Professor, for her service as dean of the socially relevant ways. the program the effectiveness of the reach out of educational science at Bielefeld school with a reception at ssa. “Jeanne is a collaborative initiative of ssa, and read Program, a national effort University in Germany, John Pinkerton allowed me to sit in on her doctoral the office of civic engagement, by pediatricians to distribute a devel- from Queens University in Belfast, statistics class when i was working in Graham school of General studies, opmentally and culturally appropriate ireland, and David and mary Winton the Department of Psychiatry, and it Humanities Division/civic Knowledge book to children. Green Professor Tina L. Rzepnicki. was in her class that i made my deci- Project and the Urban education otto also presented may 6 at ssa, sion to apply to the doctoral program institute. “social Work in a Declining Welfare state: a German Perspective.” Eileen at ssa,” said senior lecturer Stanley To learn more about the series, visit Munro from the london school of McCracken, one of several speakers the Public Programs and Lectures economics presented “improving from ssa and the University of chicago section of the SSA website, www.ssa. Performance in social Work and who expressed their appreciation for uchicago.edu. marsh’s time at ssa as dean. “she is a reducing errors” on may 5. James wonderful teacher, colleague and boss. Fallows, national correspondent for i look forward to her return as faculty.” Zuckerman Gives The Atlantic, presented “Does china Cafferty Lecture Barry Zuckerman exist?” on may 26 for the international social Welfare student group. New University on november 3, Barry Zuckerman, M.D., gave the annual Pastora san SSA’s International on october 19, Greg Marston, asso- Initiative Tackles Poverty Juan cafferty lecture on race and ciate professor of social policy, school ssa will host a series of public discus- ethnicity in american life for ssa. the Speakers of social Work and Human services, sions as part of “Poverty, Promise, and Joel and Barbara alpert Professor of Jeanne C. Marsh, ssa’s George the University of Queensland present-
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At the 2010 Hooding and Graduation, ssa conferred its annual student awards. Jerrilyn F. Black was given the Wilma Walker Honor award for outstanding work in the first year and promise for future achievements in social work. the s onia Berz Honor award was given to yi-Ju Chen, a graduating master’s degree student for outstanding work and promise in the field of aging. the evelyn Harris Ginsburg memorial Prize was awarded to Mara H. Lindsay, a graduating master’s degree student for outstanding work and promise for work in schools. the s olomon o. lichter memorial Prize was presented to Ariel B. Schwartz, a graduating master’s degree student for scholarship and professional leadership. PictUreD: 1 : Dean of students Penny Johnson hooded the graduates, 2 : samuel Duetsch Professor Sydney Hans received the Valerie Jarrett award, 3 : the award-winning master’s students.
ed “the Place of ‘Fringe lenders’ in CWSE in Portland the shadow Welfare state.” Geraldine ssa was well represented at the MacDonald, professor of social work council on social Work education and director of the institute for child conference in Portland, ore. on care research at Queen’s University in october 14-17. associate Professor UpCoMiNG EvENtS at SSa Belfast spoke to students on october Waldo E. Johnson Jr. chaired the 26 and Ellie Vasta, an associate inaugural meeting of the csWe Children at the Crossroads: The Over Representation of professor at the centre for research commission on research, and at-Risk African-American Youth in Multiple Public Systems on social inclusion at macquarie Victor Bernstein, ssa adjunct fac- University in sydney, australia spoke SATURDAy, FEBRUARy 19, 2 011 ulty member and research associ- on november 1. a discussion of the relationship between race, poverty and children at risk ate, conducted a workshop with for school disengagement and academic failure, juvenile justice involvement, ssa doctoral candidate Renee and trauma from within the family, school, and/or community. Early Childhood Edwards and Bart Klika, A.M. ’08 on “Video scrapbooking: a tool American Indian Urban Families Conference Grant Renewed for enhancing students’ Work with APRiL 2 in July, the irving B. Harris Foundation Families and children.” assistant renewed a training grant to the Professor Jennifer Bellamy took Migrant Rights in an Era of Globalization: school for three additional years. the part in three presentations, leading The Mexico-US Case award supports courses at ssa and two: “strategies and resources for APRiL 12-13 workshops in the professional devel- evidence Based Practice education a symposium examining how new and expanding forms of migrant political opment program that focus on social in social Work” and “toward a activism have emerged out of new cross-border economic flows as they work with infants, young children and sustainable model of evidence interact with various state projects on both sides of the Us-mexico border. their parents. Based Practice training through
For more information, visit the Programs, lectures and conferences section at the school website, ssa.uchicago.edu.
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eVen years aGo, with a gener- ous gift from David and Mary Green, A.M. ’49, ssa launched a new model for field education Sfor master’s students. this ambitious program included field seminars led by experienced practitioners, faculty and field consul- tants who 4 5 monitored the quality of the field experiences while mentor- ing, coaching Katharine (Kitty) Mann and support- ing students individually. the model has received national recognition in the social work profes- sion, but due to budget constraints, key elements were scaled back last year. 6 7 thanks to an alumna donation, parts of the model have been reinstated for Guterman’s First Fireside Chat neil Guterman, ssa’s dean and mose and sylvia Firestone Professor, this and next year. a new campaign, held a fireside chat with alumni and students on november 17. Hosted by ssa and the alumni association, the event the endowment for excellence in Field was facilitated by ricardo estrada, a.m. ’93, the first deputy commissioner of the city of chicago Department of Family education is being formed to ensure and support services. PictUreD: 4 : alumni association President Jinnie English, A.M. ‘99, 5 : Facilitator Ricardo that the field education program is able Estrada (left) and Dean Neil Guterman, 6 : alumni talk with the new dean, 7 : Question and answer time to continue as envisioned. “the model was created with intensive study over the last decade of how to best structure field education,” agency-University Partnerships,” which SSA Students Shine says Katharine (Kitty) Mann, A.M. ’69, also included doctoral student Erna Doctoral student Benjamin Roth Ph.D. ’99, who has served as a field Danita. was awarded a U.s. Department of consultant for the last 10 years. “support from the school’s alumni community adjunct faculty member Stephen Housing and Urban Development through a field education endowment Edward McMillin led a paper session, dissertation award for 2010 for will ensure ssa students the highest “evidence-Based Balance: teaching “immigration integration in two quality field placement experience.” research and evaluation courses for chicago suburbs: Barriers and mann is taking the lead to spear- sustainable learning.” strategies among the mexican second Generation.” head the campaign, and she is begin- ssa’s director of career services, ning work this winter with others to extended evening Program student Michael Jogerst, was on two pan- build the endowment. the fund will Marcus Wolfe presented a paper, els: “your cV theme: Up Front and support key features of the current “science in service to community: center” and “research statement model—including field seminars, field Building community-engaged Health Writing: Defining Direction,” and the consultants, professional development research and Discovery infrastructure deputy dean for the curriculum, Karen workshops for field instructors, and elec- on the south side of chicago,” at the Vanessa Vorhies (in blue) in the mural Teigiser, was on the panel “examining tive classes on integrating field work Faces of Urban Health Forum in new educational Processes among HPPae through their daily contributions and course work—and provide resources york city on october 26. students: implications for aging to the local community. Vorhies to study new concepts in field education education and Beyond.” Doctoral Doctoral student Vanessa Vorhies participated in the marathon on in the future. student Tina Sacks led a paper ses- was one of ten runners featured in sunday, october 10th, as captain “this endowment is an important sion, “mobilizing class resources and the Bank of america’s 2010 chicago for team thresholds, which provides initiative for insuring continued support Presenting the self: Black Women’s marathon advertising campaign. the mental health services for patients for excellence in field education,” says reflections on Health care.” runners were chosen for their impact in chicago. nancy chertok, ssa’s director of field education.
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SSA’s Alumni Connections 1 : Everyone gathered at the “One Love Summer Social” at the Three Peas Art Lounge. 2 : Alumni enjoyed each others company and conversation at the 50+ Luncheon. 3 : Maria Bechily, A.M. ’85 4 : Jacob Dancer, A.B. ‘89, A.M. ‘04 5 : Ann Alvarez, A.M. ‘76 6 : Claude Robinson, executive vice president for Diversity and External Affairs, UCAN 7 7 : Jacqueline Reed, A.M. ‘89
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Graduates from across the decades understanding urban poverty and Social Services Award were present- who have advanced and informed his came to Hyde Park for an array of models for optimizing federal housing ed to Ucan and casa central. Ann professional development and that of events at Alumni Weekend at ssa assistance. Alvarez, A.M. ’76, president and ceo social systems and policies. on June 4-6. make your plans now for of casa central, noted how research, the 2011 alumni Weekend, June 3-5. at the SSA Stars Celebration, which education and preparation at ssa has the ssa african-american student spotlighted luminary alumni making influenced the development of casa association and the Harris school Gerry and Janet Erickson, A.M. disproportionate contributions to their central, and Jacob Dancer, A.B. ’89, minorities in Public Policy group ’60, hosted the class of 1960 din- fields, the Distinctive innovations in A.M. ’04, highlighted the many col- presented the Alumni of Color ner at their home for 15 classmates. laborations between ssa and Ucan. Awards to Jacqueline Reed, A.M. associate Professor Dexter Voisin ’89, founder, president, and ceo of presented “Urban youth living and Scott Petersen, A.M. ’02, was recog- Westside Health authority, and Maria coping with Violence exposure: nized with the Elizabeth Butler Award C. Bechily, A.M. ’85 (Harris), owner implications for Practice and Policy” for his impressive career achievements of maria Bechily Public relations, yan for the rhoda and Bernard sarnat with Heartland alliance and for his Dominic Searcy, Ph.D. ’99, associ- lecture, and mccormick Foundation extraordinary work educating the field ate professor of sociology and social Professor of social service, law, and about harm prevention. scott’s accep- work and president of the faculty sen- Public Policy Jens Ludwig gave the tance remarks emphasized the many ate at chicago state University was Uncommon core Presentation about faculty, alumni and students of ssa the keynote speaker.
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Hazel Vespa, A.M. ’68, has been though the newly enacted health awarded the national association care reform bill includes the most of social Workers lifetime substantial reforms since adoption of achievement award from the illinois medicare and medicaid in the 1960s, chapter. the award was given for health care reform in the U.s. is still a more than forty years of dedicated work in progress service to keeping children healthy, Sonia “Sunny” Fischer, A.M. ’82, her energy and passion for the field has been appointed by Governor of social work, 25 years of building Quinn to be the chairman of the and overseeing the association’s Board of trustees of the illinois internship program, and mentor- Historic Preservation agency. Fischer ship and professional development is the executive director of the to social workers. richard Driehaus Foundation. Jim Henson, A.M. ’69 published Robert Goerge, A.M. ’85, Ph.D. ’88, 7 Pee Up A Tree, A Mental Health and Erwin McEwen, A.M. ’98, par- Memoir with ticipated in chapin Hall’s thursday’s arborwood child panel “From Data to Decisions: Press. in it, What is needed For Planning Public Henson draws services?” on may 13 at the chicago upon 40 years cultural center. the panel explored of professional how large public agencies and small experience as community organizations can plan a clinical social better to meet the needs of the worker in the people they serve. process of illuminating the lives of clinic employees and the individu- Peter Gaumond, A.M. ’93, has been als and families they served. hired as the first chief of the office of national Drug control Policy’s Steve Davidson, Ph.D. ’74, had recently established recovery Branch Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. in Washington D.c.. Gaumond regu- Health Care System, published by larly participates in ssa’s Washington stanford University Press in april. Week. 8 Based on more than 30 years of study, the book argues that even John A. Niemi, A.M. ’93, has had
alumni Socials Seeking Nominees on July 16, the african american for SSA Awards alumni committee of the alumni association sponsored the “One Nominate an SSA graduate Love Summer Social” at the for the Edith Abbott Lifetime three Peas art lounge, coordinat- Achievement Award, or nomi- ed by engagement subcommittee nate a program or agency for the chair Tawa Jogunosimi, A.M. ’01. Distinctive innovation in social ssa hosted a network- services recognition award, which ing social on october 21 at the honors an organization that dem- Wrightwood tap. over 80 alumni onstrates the effective application enjoyed a featured chat with of clinical and administrative Anne Wright Schmidt, A.M. ’76, techniques addressing client and from social Work p.r.n., a nation- organizational goals. wide professional social work firm. For nomination forms, visit http:// www.ssa.uchicago.edu/alumni/ or contact yelene Modley, A.M. ’09, associate director of alumni rela- tions and the ssa Fund: Susan Sholl, A.M. ’78, opened her home for a Book talk featuring Frank P. [email protected]. Hixon Distinguished service Professor Charles Payne, where he discussed his most recent publication, So Much Reform, So Little Change. the event, co- hosted by alumna Joanne Medak, AM ’74, brought together alumni spanning six decades, many of whom practice or are retired from school social work.
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Former SSA professor Jack Meltzer, Isabel D. Polner, A.B. ’41, A.M. ’48, A.M. ’47 (Social Sciences), died in May died on August 20. in Washington, D.C. He was 88. Meltzer Betty Ticho, A.B. ’42, A.M. ’48, died on joined the University of Chicago as May 29 at the age of 89. She founded director of planning for the Southeast the Los Angeles County Epilepsy Society Chicago Commission in 1954, a posi- (LACES) in 1957 and served as its execu- tion he held until 1958. After serving tive director for 30 years. as a planning consultant, he rejoined the University in 1963 as director of C. Marvin Greenbaum, A.M. ’69, died the Center for Urban Studies and pro- in April. Greenbaum worked as a con- fessor in the School of Social Service sultant to both Illinois Governor Richard Administration, the Division of Social Ogilvie and Lt. Gov. Neil Hartigan on Sciences and the College. He became social policy and was instrumental in cre- chairman of the Public Affairs Program ating the Illinois Department on Aging. SSA alumna Lynn Kim (left) with Hamilton Fellows James Miner and in the College and chairman of Social Over his career he was involved in health Melissa Slaughter. Development in SSA in 1972. He also care, social science research and busi- served on the faculty and as dean in ness. his proposal, “Envisioning Jinnie English, A.M. ’99, has the School of Social Sciences of The and Enacting: Dance and written The High Achiever’s Guide University of Texas at Dallas. He was Marta White, A.M. ’93, died on May 18. Social Justice in Dance to Being a Decent Parent, a book proceeded in death by his wife, Rae Amie “Tukung” Joof, A.M. ’98, died on Pedagogy,” accepted for the for parents want to raise healthy, Libin Meltzer, also a former faculty August 14. After obtaining her master’s NDEO October 2010 National independent and self-motivated member at SSA. degrees from SSA and Loyola University, Conference. A doctoral can- children who have common sense. Sidney E. Zimbalist, A.M. ’47, died in and J.D. from the DePaul School of Law, didate in the Department President of the SSA Alumni 2008. Zimbalist was a researcher with Joof served as an administrator for the of Dance at Texas Woman’s Association, English is the CEO the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Department of Children and Family University, Niemi is a full-time of International Chicago High Chicago and was a tenured profes- Services and practiced law by primarily employee as a college advisor Achievers, which has recently sor at the Jane Addams College of working on pro bono immigration cases. for the School of the Arts at become a strategic sponsor for Social Work at the University of Illinois- She was actively involved in community Texas Woman’s University. the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Chicago. and cultural organizations. governing body for the sport of Monico Whittington-Eskridge, taekwondo. A.B. ’92, A.M. ’96, was recently promoted from senior pro- Eugene Robinson, Jr., A.M. gram coordinator to statewide ’09, was recently promoted from program administrator of field senior facilitator to deputy direc- support for the Supervisory tor of the smaller learning com- Dorothy W. Runner, Training to Enhance Practice munities in the Office of Student A.M. ’53, died on (STEP) Program, a joint venture Support and Engagement of the between the Illinois Department Chicago Public Schools. July 17. A life mem- of Children and Family Services, Suzanne Nathan, A.M. ’10, has ber of the SSA Chicago State University and six launched The Gan Project, a non- Visiting Committee, public universities. profit that endeavors to create a Runner was concerned with child Lynn Kim, A.M. ’97, helped vibrant, sustainable and healthy well-being and was an early activ- create the U.S. Department of Chicago Jewish community ist on behalf of women’s health the Treasury Hamilton Fellows through recurring, action-oriented issues. After earning a B.A. in program; James Miner, A.M. environmental and agricultural social work in 1941 from Howard ’09, was in the first class of programming. Nathan has also University, she worked at fellows. Read more on-line began working at Thresholds at Provident Hospital in Chicago at: http://www.ssa.uchicago. the Safehaven Program working where she met her husband, the edu/publications/ssamag/ with chronically homeless and late Charles Runner, M.D. Runner HamiltonFellows.shtml mentally ill clients. was a founding member of the South Side Auxiliary of Planned Parenthood and helped establish the 63rd Street Outpatient Clinic. She CORRECTIONS: was also a founding member of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Auxiliary of the In the Spring 2010 issue of SSA Magazine, Alumni Updates mistakenly reported that Christopher G. Hudson, A.M. ’74, is completing an M.A. in publishing in London. Illinois Children’s Home and Aid Society. In 1961, Runner founded Urban The correct information is that his daughter, Elizabeth, is studying in London. Gateways, now a leading arts education organization, to help “ignite the In the August/September meSSAges e-newsletter, it was mistakenly reported that full creative potential of all young people.” Laysha Ward, A.M. ’03, president of Community Relations and Target Foundation for the Target Corporation, was featured in the September issue of Ebony magazine. She was featured in the September issue of Essence magazine. SSA regrets these errors.
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 38 1/6/11 7:33 PM Irving A. Spergel, one of the nation’s leading experts on gangs and SSA’s George Herbert Jones Professor Emeritus of SSA, died on December 3. Bishop Arthur M. Brazier, a powerful He was 86. force for change in the Woodlawn com- Spergel’s comprehensive munity and a partner with the University gang prevention, of Chicago and SSA, died on October 22. intervention and suppression program has He was 89. been adopted by the U.S. A prominent leader on civil rights, education, housing and Department of Justice urban development issues, Brazier’s influence reached across the and used in cities across South Side, including a long and complex history of relations with the country to combat the University of Chicago. After serving as a U.S. Army staff sergeant gang violence. He wrote in India and Burma during World War II, he began training for the seven books and wrote, co-authored and edited more than 100 publications on ministry in 1955, while still a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. street gang intervention. In 1960 he became pastor at the Apostolic Church of God, where After serving in the U.S. Army in Europe in World War II, Spergel studied at City he eventually became bishop and built a congregation of 22,000. College of New York and received a B.A. in social sciences in 1946. He went on Expressing his condolences, President Barack Obama called Brazier to earn an M.A. in social work in 1952 from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in a “dear friend, a stalwart of the city of Chicago and one of our social work in 1960 from Columbia University. Spergel joined the University faculty nation’s leading moral lights.” in 1960 and was named the George Herbert Jones Professor in 1993. He also held Working with legendary community organizer Saul Alinsky, the position of research associate (professor) in the Department of Sociology. He Brazier successfully limited the University’s building plans in became an emeritus faculty member in 2002. At SSA, Spergel helped build the school’s group work program with Mary Lou Woodlawn in the 1960s. But his commitment to the community Somers, professor emeritus, and Paul Gitlin, associate professor emeritus. He ultimately led to an array of fruitful partnerships with the University, revitalized SSA’s community organizing program by linking theory and practice especially on issues of education, job creation, security and afford- through examples drawn from his grassroots activism and ongoing research in able housing. Brazier served as a consultant in the design of the Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. University of Chicago Charter School’s Woodlawn campus, which Though retired from the faculty, Spergel continued to do research and lecture, opened in 2006, and recently served as chair of the Woodlawn and he wanted to be known and remembered, first and foremost, as a social Children’s Promise Community, an effort to improve the quality of worker. “Over the course of his career, Spergel has played many roles—youth children’s lives in the Woodlawn community, from birth through col- worker, scholar, teacher, program designer, evaluator, mediator, activist,” said lege and into their early careers. Robert Chaskin, associate professor at SSA, who recently edited Youth Gangs “Bishop Brazier is literally among the folks who created com- and Community Intervention: Research, Practice and Evidence, which was created munity organizing in this country, and he’s been a towering civic from papers presented at a 2006 conference honoring Spergel’s retirement. “He figure in Chicago,” said Charles M. Payne, SSA’s Frank P. Hixon embodied the commitment to bridge scholarship and action, and was remarkably Distinguished Service Professor and the Woodlawn Children’s successful in concretely translating his research findings and theoretical arguments Promise Community’s acting director. “The Woodlawn Organization into policy and practice that could be empirically tested.” was a model for a community and a generation.”
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We are grateful to all who make contributions to SSA. Annual gifts are essential to SSA’s mission. DEAN’S MIDWAY With 9 out of 10 students receiving financial support from the CIRCLE CLUB School to offset rising tuition, every gift, large and small, $1,000 – $1,999 $500 - $999 makes a difference. Anonymous Holly Andrus, AM’76 and Judith Spiegler Adler, AB’59, AM’61 Joseph Andrus, JD’76 and Dr. Jack J. Adler, HD’54, Mark Arnell, MBA’83 The names listed here recognize hundreds of individuals, SB’59, MD’62 Molly Baltman, AM’99 Yasmin Bates Carol Barnickol, AM’66 and foundations, and companies who gave to SSA between Margot Brinley, AM’99 Karl Barnickol, JD’66 Shirley Brussell, EX’42, AB’41 Waynona N. Brown, AM’53 July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010. Lisa Crandell, AM’86 and Rubi D. Clay, AM’71 Bradford Crandell Tyna Coles, AM’73 Judith Delehanty, AM’69 and Betty Dayron, LCSW, AM’64 John Delehanty, JD’69 Janet M. Erickson, AM’60 and Anna Sohmen, EX ‘70 and Janet Drake, AB’43, AM’46 and Gerald Erickson, AM’60 Dr. Helmut Sohmen George Drake, EX’43 Stephen Gilmore, MBA’98 and Ida N. Sondheimer Carol Erickson, AM’55 Gwen Jessen EDITH ABBOTT Margaret B. Stineman Anne Fortune, AB’70, AM’75, Barbara Gottschalk, AM’66 and FELLOWS PHD’78 Thomas Gottschalk, JD’67 Dr. Betsy R. Gidwitz Gary B. Grant, AB’87 and $5,000 or more Mary L. Hartenstein, AM’49 Kerry Grant Anne K. Jamieson, AM’74 and Judy Greene, AM’67 Anonymous CHARLOTTE Edward B. Jamieson, MBA’75 David Helms, AM’62 Donna Barrows, AM’79, HD’71 and TOWLE Larry L. Johnson, AM’69 Alice Holloway, AM’52 and William H. Barrows, MD Maurine E. Kornfeld, AB’42, AM’48 Frank Holloway, SM’49, PHD’50 Mr. Philip D. Block IV SOCIETY Patricia M. Lenahan, AM’75 Waldo E. Johnson Jr., PHD’93 Judith Stofer Block and Elise Lennard, AM’73 Ashley Joyce, AM’01 Mr. Philip D. Block III $2,000 - $4,999 Jill F. Levi, AM’78 and Glenda J. Klein, AM’72 Fay Lomax Cook, AM’72, PHD’77 John G. Levi, LAB’65 Thomas Kmetko, AM’65 The Honorable William M. Daley Jennifer L. Brorsen, AM’78, MBA’78 Patricia MacClarence, AM’96 Iris J. Krieg, AM’75 Katharine Darrow, AB’65 and and Richard M. DeMartini Anita J. Mackey, AM’41 Max Kurz, AM’48 Peter Darrow, JD’67 Terry Cahill Arlene Alpert Mehlman, AM’74 and Kathy Laska, AM’77 Gail M. Elden, LAB’51, AM’73 and Frances Comer Dr. David Mehlman Paul Lehman, AM’75 and Richard Elden, MBA’66 Stephanie Comer Adeline Morrison and Ronna Stamm, AM’76 Sondra B. Epstein and Sidney Epstein, Evelyn F. Cooper, AB’41, AM’43 Harold Morrison Phyllis A. Letendre, AM’55 LAB’40 Diane Drayson, AM’62 and Judith Nelsen Jean B. Matthaei, EX’41 *Charyl Gerring, AM’55 Roland Drayson, SM’61 Nancy Newberger Dr. Mary A. Olson, AM’66 Joan W. Harris Bernard S. Dyme, AM’79 Rose M. Perez, AM’01, AM’02, Neil O’Toole, AM’70 Angelica Harter, AM’60 and Irene Elkin PHD’08 Veronica Pollack and Harold Pollack Richard Harter, JD’61 Cecily Finley, AM’48 Scott R. Petersen, AM’02 and Mark J. Reinecke, AM’81 Virginia C. Karl, AM’40 Steven Fishman, AM’61 Sara L. Schmitt, AM’06 Christy S. Renjilian, AM’88 Jean A. Klingenstein, AM’66 Mary Green, AM’49 Carol T. Pollak and William Pollak Robert A. Riesman Jr., AM’88 Amelia Koplow, AM’97 Cynthia Greenleaf and Muriel T. Quinn, AM’98 and Arline L. Rosenberg, AM’49 Christian S. Ledley, AM’58 Jonathan Fanton Robert F. Pasin Herbert E. Ruben, AM’51 Charles Ashby Lewis and Janet Gray Hayes, AM’50 and Laura C. Rhind and James T. Rhind Nancy T. Segall, AM’72 and Penny Bender Sebring Kenneth Hayes, MD’52 Marlene F. Richman Ralph M. Segall, MBA’70 Renée K. Logan, AM’70 *Israel Jacobs, SM’51, PHD’53 Susan G. Rothenberg, AM’69 Susan N. Sholl, AM’78 and Joseph G. Loundy, AM’69 Judith Jacobs, AM’51 Merilyn M. Salomon, AB’65, AM’72, Steven P. Sholl, SM’80 Amy S. Lubin, AM’75 and Doris Jean Keller PHD’80 Elizabeth B. Smith, AM’71 and Donald G. Lubin Stephanie Larsen, AM’66 and Michael F. Seibold, AM’80 Robert H. Smith, JD’72 Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, EX’47 Edgar Larsen, MBA’68 Lorraine R. Suzuki, PHD’73 and Patricia Steele and Kurt Steele, AM’02 Oscar H. Mayer, MBA’67 Robert Lippert, AM’60 Yuji Suzuki, SM’70 Dr. Cynthia Stuen, AM’73 Felicia B. McClelland, AM’46 Linda K. Lymburn, AM’80 Hazel M. Vespa, AM’68 and Arthur Sugarman, MBA’60 Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Thomas B. Puls II, AM’78 Carl Vespa, AB’49 Kaimay Y. Terry, AM’64 Professor Dolores Norton Robert Reum Wilbur A. Weder, AM’70 Francine Togneri, AM’85 James G. Reynolds Jr., MBA’95 Margaret Saunders, AM’49 Eugene Wollaston Reverend Dr. Richard Tolliver Ann M. Rothschild, LAB’32, AM’58 David Vitale, MBA’76 and John Yuditsky, AM’64 Marilyn B. Rusnak, AM’71 and Marilyn F. Vitale, CER Irene Zaleski and Raymond L. Rusnak, EX’59 Grace M. Williamson, AM’59 William Zaleski, AM’68 Julie D. Simmons and Brian P. Simmons Mari Yamaguchi * deceased
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 40 1/6/11 7:33 PM Rosemary McCaslin, AM’73, PHD’80 Dorothy Anderson, AM’47 Constance Catrone, AM’78 Dr. Susan McCracken and Rebecca Fogel Anderson, AM’78 Chun-Wah Chan, AM’71 Stan McCracken, AM’78, PHD’87 Dr. Robert Anderson, AM’53 Dr. Valerie N. Chang, AM’65 Bette J. Meyer, AM’65 and Yvonne Anderson, AM’93 and Margery C. Chapman, AM’66 and Gerald H. Meyer, AM’68 Thomas Gonzalez Earl Chapman ADVOCATES Edward F. Mortimore, AB’83, AM’88 Suzanne Wrobel Armato, AB’87, Judith Z. Christofferson, AM’58 and $250 – $499 Roberta A. Nechin, AM’73 and AM’93 and Samuel Armato, Thomas Christofferson, MBA’67 Herbert B. Nechin AB’87, PHD’97 Sun Hae Chung, AM’89 Anonymous Patricia O’Grady, AM’67 Eugene Aronowitz, PHD’70 Dorothy L. Cochran, AM’73 Robert Anderson, AM’71 Carrie B. Patterson, AM’74 Kristina Arscott, AM’93 Elizabeth R. Cohen, LAB’51, AB’55, Susan Bagnini, AM’67 and Maxine L. Penn, AB’62, AM’64 and Mary Austin, AM’43 AB’59, AM’63 and Edward I. Cohen Carl Bagnini David Penn, LAB’53, SB’57, Arvis Averette, AM’78 Leslie R. Cohen, AM’99 Marcella Baird, AM’51 SM’58, PHD’65 Mitchell Balk, AM’84 David D. Cohn, AM’77 Jane Berlin, AM’52 Cynthia N. Phon, AM’07 Rainer Bauer, AB’75 and Mary E. Collins, AM’88, PHD’94 Dr. Ruth Bournazian, AM’58 and Dorothy K. Powers, SM’52 and Dianne Louick Paul W. Colson, AM’82, PHD’90 George Bournazian Erl Dordal , AB’52, MD’56 Janice Baum, AM’75 David R. Conradi-Jones, AM’73 Verlea Briggs and Harold Briggs, Nancy H. Rhein, AM’78 and Shirley Baum, AB’44, AM’47 Bettelou Conte, AM’56 AM’80, PHD’88 Kevin A. Rhein, MBA’78 Peter Beckman, AM’67 Pamela J. Cook, AM’05 Nancy Bruski, AM’75 and Charlotte S. Rodetsky, AM’55 Gretchen Behimer, AM’95 Dana L. Corman, AM’72 Mitchell Bruski, AM’75 Margaret C. Root and Ruth Beiersdorf, AM’65 Eloise H. Cornelius, AM’56 Joan B. Chism, AB’46, AM’49 Lawrence S. Root, PHD’80 Janis Bell, AM’88 Daniel B. Cornfield , AB’74, AM’77, Tammy B. Cook, AM’94 Gracemary Rosenthal, AM’74 and Pamela Bell, AM’97 PHD’80 and Hedy M. Weinberg, Rosemary Crowley, AM’77 and Peter Rosenthal, LAB’68 Kirsten Belzer, AM’91 LAB’71, AM’77 *Dr. Morton F. Arnsdorf Corrine K. Roy, AM’61 Phyllis Beren-Bach, AM’68 Karen S. Cornwell, LCSW, AM’87 Inger P. Davis, AM’62, PHD’72 Carol Schectman, AM’75, PHD’00 Suzanne Berger, AM’68 Mary Costello, AM’98 Susan Dawson, AM’44 Beverly E. Shapiro, AM’66 Barbara Berkman, AM’60 Colleen Coyle, AM’06 Geraldine N. Derby, AM’46 Joan C. Shea, AM’78, MBA’78 Liese Berkowitz, AM’56 Eileen Cronin, AM’72 Alexandra C. Earle, AB’66, AM’79 Elizabeth A. Smith, AM’79 Sharon Berlin Charles Curie, AM’79 and David P. Earle III, JD’62, MCL’64 Sarah L. Smith, AM’68 Caryn Berman, AM’80 and Wilda Dailey, CER, AM’48 Eric Foster, AM’03 Otha Spencer-Williams, AM’68 Laura Cuzzillo, AB’76, MBA’88 Julie Danis, AM’79, MBA’84 Susan Frolichstein, AM’64 and Dr. Laurel A. Spielberg, AM’71 and Jules Berman, AB’36, AM’37 Gwyn Davidson-Volk, AM’98 Syrus Frolichstein Stephen Spielberg, PHD’71, MD’73 Rebecca Bier, AM’79 and Selene L. Davis, AM’75 and Barry Goldman-Hall, AM’78 Susan Stephens, AM’84 Michael Bier, MBA’81 Arnold A. Davis Arlene Gordon, AM’46 Susan Stone, CER, AM’69 and Marilyn Blacher-Reich, AM’77 James H. Dawkins, AM’71 Glenn Green, AM’79, PHD’82 Errol Stone, CER Rose Blaney, AM’78 Philomena De Andrade, AM’73 Steven Grier, AM’81 Phyllis L. Street, AM’44 Marjorie Blue, AM’46 Donna De Angelis, AM’74 Marianne Hammett and William Anne H. Strohm, AM’79 Robert Boe, AM’62 Cyndie De Ridder, AM’92 Hammett, AM’71 Patricia H. Turner, AM’48 Lillian Bogolub, AB’44, AM’73 Saundra P. De Vos, AM’78 Almalee Henderson, AM’50 Dr. Ione D. Vargus, AM’54 Ann Bond, AM’71 Mary Debose, AM’77 Stephen Herzog, AM’65 Lynn H. Vogel , AB’67, AM’69, Carol Boone, AM’68 Kathleen Demos, AM’70 and Larry Higa, AM’68 PHD’78 and Lynn D. Carter, Allan Bostelmann, AM’64 Steven Demos Steven and Sandra Hill AM’77, MBA’77 Frank Bourget, AM’76 Sharon B. Di Rago, AM’72 Gail Hoben, AM’81 Suzanne E. Wakefield, AM’02 and Roger V. Boyvey, AM’64 Malitta Engstrom and David Dickson Marguerite Hodge, AM’47 David Wakefield Janis McGillick, AM’75 and Kenneth P. Dobucki, AM’78 Barbara Horner-Ibler, AM’85 Anna-Mary A. Wallace, AM’52 and Bruce Bradley, AM’75 Mikiko H. Domoto-Stebbing, AM’66 Naeda Irick, AM’71 David L. Wallace James H. Bramson, AM’90 Valerie C. Dorfman and Barbara Jackson, AM’69 Ruth G. Weatherford, AM’70 Dr. Gladys Branic, AM’70 Paul M. Dorfman Gerrie Jakobs, AM’89 Bernice Weissbourd, EX’45 Karen P. Brasile, AM’77 Lynn U. Drew, AM’68 and Penny Johnson, AM’71, PHD’01 Charlotte E. Williams, AM’85 Monica M. Breitkreitz, AM’77 James B. Drew, AM’64 Lauren Kaden, AM’71 and Bruce Kaden Elaine Wishner and Alice Brock, PHB’45, AM’49 Mary A. Droel, AM’77 Mary Kaess, AM’71 Maynard Wishner, AB’45, JD’47 Mollie Y. Brooks, AM’55 and Ms. Susan Fleischaker Silbar Duman, Sharon M. Keigher, AM’71, PHD’85 Gregory Zyvert, AM’74 Richard O. Brooks, AB’56, AM’58 AM’78 Katherine A. Kendall, PHD’50 Rosemary Brouwer, EX’43 Michael J. Dundon, AM’71 Raymond C. Kennedy, AB’74, AM’80, Kent R. Burbank, AM’96 Joan Durman, AM’73, PHD’88 and MBA’80 and Karen R. Guberman, Lisa P. Burch, AM’81 Eugene Durman, AM’78 AB’75, AM’78 Barry Burke, AM’62 Craig H. Earnest, AM’73 Edward E. Kent, AM’60 Shirley Buttrick, AM’51 Phyllis D. Eaton, CER, AM’65 and Paul H. Kusuda, PHB’45, AM’49 Richard H. Byrd, AM’72 Philip Eaton Sandra J. Leve Stein, AM’83 and Dr. Mary Byrne, AM’77 Marjorie R. Eckels, AM’43 Richard A. Stein, MBA’83 SPONSORS Frank Caldwell, AM’58 Dori Erlich, AM’78 and Josef Erlich Pamela D. Levy, AM’95 and $100 - $249 Judith Calica, AM’74 and Judith Feldman, AM’68 Rodrigo H. Levy, MBA’99 Richard H. Calica, AM’73 Wendy Fine, AM’00 Amy B. Lipsey, AM’84 and Anonymous – 3 Mary P. Campbell, AM’79 James Fogerty, AM’71 William L. Lipsey , MBA’86 Harry C. Aldrich Jr., AM’61 Hector A. Cano, AM’01 Thomas Fojtik, AB’80, AM’81 Pamela C. Little, AM’78 Sharon Allen, AM’73 Richard K. Caputo, PHD’82 Florence Forshey, AM’60 and Joseph R. Marlin, AM’54, AM’60 Jane Alt, AM’75 and Howard Alt, CER Virginia M. Carpenette, AM’57 Gerald Forshey, AM’67, PHD’78
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Margaret Foster, AM’91 Catherine Holmquist, AM’06 Doris E. Linn, AM’66 Dr. Maryellen Noonan, AM’76 Ethanie Francis, AM’64 Karen Hopkins, PHD’93 Esther R. Liss, AM’55 Sarah A. O’Leary, AM’81 Ronda Franks, AM’74 Michael Howe, AM’72, PHD’75 Gertrude O. Lloyd, AM’58 Grace B. Olin, AM’54 Marjorie Frazier, PHD’93 Sean Hoyer, AM’96 Robert P. Long, AM’74 Gertrude Oliner, AM’48 Margareta Freeman, AM’80 James Huenink, AM’78 Lois A. Love, PHD’86 and Kathleen M. Osberger, AM’93 Betty Fridlund, AM’50 Charlotte Hughes, AM’67 Brian R. Love, AM’76 Lara O’Shaughnessy, AM’01 and Janet Frigo, AM’78 Isabel Huizenga, AM’48 Dell Loyless, AM’49 Michael O’Shaughnessy, MBA’04 Dorothy Fuhrman, AM’66 Beth Hurwitz, AM’55 Christine Luisi, AB’67, AM’69 Stephen P. Ott, AM’91, AM’95 Leola Furman, AM’65 Barbara Huyler, AM’89 Man-Kwong A. Ma, PHD’93 Dr. Darwin Palmiere, AM’51 Patricia Furnival, AM’70 Rachel Inch, AM’80 Keith R. Madderom Betty A. Papangelis, AM’50 Alysse Furukawa, AM’71 Dorothy Inglis, AM’43 Dawn M. Magid, PHD’87 Nicole Hrycyk, AM’04 *Joseph Gale, AM’49 Andrew Isaacs, MST’77 Barbara M. Maguire, AM’71 and Stephanie M. Paton, AM’71 and Irwin Garfinkel, AM’67 Nancy Isis, EX, AM’83 Dr. Lambert Maguire, AM’71 Donald Paton, MBA’71 Marianne Garvin, AM’78 Kristina Iturralde, AM’93 Dr. Mildred Mailick, AM’48 Lillie L. Patterson Linda Gearhart, AM’83 Prentiss Jackson, AM’75 Diane R. Redelin, AM’86 and Penni L. Patterson, AM’90 Angela Gershenson, AM’79 and Kathleen Jacob, AM’90 Glenn D. Mandel, AM’86 Jacquelynn J. Payne, AM’05 Eric Gershenson, JD’75 Susanne Jessen and Elizabeth Mandel-Carley LCSW, Cynthia B. Peterson, AM’66 Monica Getzendanner, AM’78 Howard Jessen, MBA’68(XP-24) AM’68 Joe E. Phillips Jr., AM’96 Jessie Gilbert, AM’73 and Elaine Jolly, AM’80 Margaret W. Manikas, AM’62 Walter G. Phillips, AM’65 Alan Gilbert, JD’75 Colleen Jones, LAB’65, AM’74 Minda Manolis, PHB’44, AM’47 and John D. Pielemeier, AM’70 Linda Gilberto, AM’68 Suzanne Jost, AM’67 Stephen Manolis Timothy D. Plant LCSW, AM’76 Jane Gilgun, AM’84 Ernest Kahn, AM’51 Harriet E. Marcus, AM’48 John E. Poulin, PHD’81 Karen Gilman, AM’80 and Mitchell Kahn, AM’71 Dr. Robert Mardirossian, AM’81 Rhonda M. Present, AM’89 Michael Gilman, MBA’80 Dr. Gerson Kaplan Paul A. Marier, AM’52 Nina P. Priebe, AM’80 Mary Gleason, AM’89 Leanne G. Kaplan, AM’98 Allan H. Marquardt, AM’60 Susan Purdie, AM’87 Jeffrey Glick, AM’75 *Ruth Kaplan, AM’59 Paul J. Marquis, MD’72 Karen Quinn, AM’72 and Nancy Gold, AM’55 Anne B. Moses, AB’72, AM’77, Wilma M. Martens, AB’42, AM’48 James F. Quinn Robyn Golden, AM’81 MBA’77 and David J. Katz, AB’72 Flora I. Mather, AM’44 Jane F. Quinn, AM’69 and Amy Goldman, AM’75 Geraldine J. Katz-Atkin, AM’73 Dorothy Mayer, AM’66 Terry Quinn, AM’71 Crystal Gonzales, AM’09 Linda R. Kelsey, AM’86 Ann McCabe, AM’82 Judith H. Ramseyer, AM’66, PHD’86 Felice Gonzales, AM’02 Virginia L. Kemp, AM’95 Evalyn Vigil-McCoy, AM’62 and Joy E. Reese, AM’88 Evelyn Green, AM’95 Darryl E. Ward, AM’78 and C. James McCoy Miriam Reitz, AM’62, PHD’82 * Linda Groetzinger, AM’71 and J. Keith Kemper, MBA’78 Yolanda McCoy, AM’06 Walter G. Rest, AM’52 Norman Groetzinger, AM’76 Ellen N. Kenemore, AM’73 and Joan M. McGrane, AM’81 Marjorie Richard, AM’59 Marilyn Gross, AM’74 Thomas K. Kenemore, AM’71, Cheryl A. McGuirk, AM’74 Dr. Leslie Richards and Frances Grossman, LAB’58, AM’77 PHD’84 Martha McInerney Chen, AM’73 Dr. Dick Richards, AM’64 and Robert Grossman Ellen M. Kennedy, AM’99 Kathleen A. McKeown, AM’67 Dr. Ruth-Lyn Riedel, AM’69 Elizabeth Guenzel Masuo Kino, AM’56 Joanne M. Medak, AM’74 Irving I. Rimer, AM’47 Lorraine Gutierrez, AM’78 Jeanne W. Klems, AM’64 Marilyn Meier, AM’69 Deborah A. Rogers-Levin, AM’74 Edward Haley, AB’56, AM’59 Eleanor Y. Klosterman, AM’70 and Elizabeth Menary, AM’58 Steven A. Roller, AB’87, AM’94 and Patricia Hanberry, AM’75 Thomas Klosterman, MD’71 Bonnie A. Mervis, AM’74 Suzanne M. Missert, AM’94 Herbert Hannahs, AM’71 Angela Klot, AM’79 Paul Meyer, AM’73 Christiane W. Ronneberg, AM’67 James Hansen John Kmet, MBA’69 S. Ruth Meyer, AB’41, AM’44 and Earl F. Ronneberg, CER, Gerhardt Hanson, AM’67 Susan Knight, AM’79 Reverend William Middleton, AM’92, MBA’70, MLA’00 Nancy Hanson, AM’57 Janet L. Kohrman, AB’40, AM’49 MDV’92 and Reverend Barbra Hardy Ronald Rooney, AM’75, PHD’78 Peggy Jackson, AM’83 Jan Kralovec, AM’88 Karla K. Miley, AM’66 and Reverend Ellen A. Rosen, AM’72 James Haritage, AM’56 Geraldine C. Krasner, AM’68 David H. Miley, DB’67, AM’71 Lawrence Rosenberg, AM’69 Willard Harrell, AM’70 Jacqueline Kraus, AM’05 and Rebecca J. Miller, AM’64 Linda Rosenblum, AM’71 Marilyn Harris, AM’71 Jacob Kraus Susan R. Miller, AM’74 Jason D. Rosenbury, AM’98 Susan Hatta, AM’69 Elizabeth A. Krise Henrietta P. Mitchell, AM’74 Jona M. Rosenfeld, AM’56, PHD’62 Patrick Henry, AM’67 Ann Kuehner, AM’64 Karen M. Montaperto, AM’69 William Rosenfeld, AM’81 Jean Herbert, AM’67 and Elizabeth P. Kuo, AM’04 Steve Montoya Jr., AM’75 James M. Rosenheim, LAB’68 William Herbert, CER Norma Y. Leben, ACSW, AM’74 and Jean Mosheim, AM’42 and Arleen E. Rosenthal, AM’67 Javier Herrera, AM’07 Dr. Clay Leben, AM’74 Ludwig Mosheim Thomasine M. Rosenthal, AM’66 Helen Hessler, AM’60 Grace Lee, AM’82 Carol Mullins, AM’82 Joan F. Ross, AM’67 Susan Hileman, AM’75 and Leon Lee, AM’82 Daniel E. Neal, AM’70 Nola J. Roth and David J. Roth, Wilson Hileman, MBA’77 Dr. Angela Levenstein, AM’63 Krista M. Nelson, AM’87 AM’81 Andrea Hirschfeld, AM’06 and Carol G. Levin, AM’66 and Marsha D. Nelson, AM’70 and Linda S. Rothstein, AB’61 and David Hirschfeld, AM’81 Peter J. Levin, JD’67 Stephan Nelson, SM’71 Stanley H. Rothstein, AM’51, PHD’67 Irwin Hoff, AB’50, AM’55 Sarah E. LeVine, AM’66 and Stuart C. Nelson, AM’65 Betty F. Rozenfeld, AB’44, AM’45 and Marvin Hoffenberg, AM’50 Robert A. LeVine, AB’51, AM’53 Virginia T. Newlin, AM’79 Irving H. Rozenfeld, SB’45, MD’47 Judith Hogan, AM’89 and Madeline W. Levinson, PHB’44, Nancy F. Nichols, AM’65 and Linda K. Runden, AM’71 William Hogan SB’46 and Alvin Levinson , AM’47 John H. Nichols Jimmy C. Rush, AM’70 Sidney Hollander Renee S. Lieber, AM’80 and Phyllis S. Nickel, AM’76 Ruth K. Sachs, AM’63 Joyce Hollingsworth, AM’86 Harry S. Lieber, AM’80 Kenneth T. Nickele, AM’76 Dorothy A. Scheff, AM’47 Phyllis Holmes, AM’71 Barbara S. Linhart, AM’55 Donna M. Nieckula, AM’89 Karen M. Schneider, AM’63
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John F. Schnier, AM’73 Roberta Van Dusen, AM’80 Jane Anker, AM’65 Jacqueline H. Schoenstadt, AM’64 Marla Vasquez, AM’90 Gina Anselmo, AM’98 We give to SSA for Charlotte K. Schuerman, AM’63 and Martha Vayhinger, AM’49 and Diana Apostal, AM’08 many reasons, but mostly John R. Schuerman, SB’60, AM’63, Richard Vayhinger, AM’49 Rena Appel, AB’64, AM’75 and “ PHD’70 Kenneth N. Viggers, AM’63 David Appel, AM’61 Lissa A. Schwartz, AM’71 Dorothy M. Vogelsburg Heying, AM’80 Charline Appleby, AM’71 because the School gave a solid Barbara Ibarra-Scurr and Almarie M. Wagner, AM’68 Mourad Arganian, AM’62 Charles D. Scurr, AM’75 Robert A. Wagner, AM’63 Jacquelyn Aron, AM’70 and base for successful careers. We Monsignor Joseph F. Semancik, Donna L. Walker, AM’75 Dennis Aron, LAB’64 PHD’77 Marcia T. Wallace, AM’47 Alice Arrowood, AM’71 and also want to recognize that SSA David W. Shane, AM’65 David Wallenstein, AB’82, AM’87 Wayne Arrowood, AM’71 Rebecca Shaw, AM’98 Robin A. Walls, AB’93, AM’98 Theoni Arvanitis, AM’82 provided both of us with financial Heather L. Sher, AM’03 and Thomas C. Wedekind, AM’73 Jane Aufmuth, AM’68 Benjamin S. Sher, JD’04, MBA’04 Betty K. Weinberger, AM’58 and Lisa Austin, AM’93 support we needed to attend Dr. Margaret Sherraden, EX’67, Stanley R. Weinberger Susan Austin, AM’87 AM’74 Anita I. Weinstein, AM’71 Clarissa Babrie, AM’91 graduate school. Kathryn A. Shibley, AM’69 Karen Weiss, AM’79 Carlos Bahr, AM’80 Adam R. Shields, AM’99, MDV’99 Susan G. Weiss, AM’80 Stephen Baker, AM’93, PHD’06 and Dr. Joan Shireman, AM’59, PHD’68 James R. Welke, AM’72 Kimberly Griffin, SM’03 JERRY”, AM’60 AND Roberta R. Siegel, AM’80 and Ronaele R. Whittington, AM’65 Lee Ballard, EX’52 and JANET ERICKSON, AM’60 Howard A. Siegel Dorothy Widegren, EX’37 William Ballard, SM’47, PHD’57 Dr. Natalie S. Siegel, AM’52 Barbara D. Widem, AM’57 and Judith Bank, AM’79 and Roberta O. Siegfriedt, LAB’71, AM’77 Paul Widem, AM’55 Michael Bank, EX’65 Kathryn Botica, AM’04 Barbara Siepker, AM’65 Paul C. Winkler, AM’93 Brittany Barber, AM’99, MDV’99 Albert Boxerman, AM’46 Lois N. Silverstein, AM’67 Vernita D. Winn, AM’73 Joyce Barlow-Koenig, AM’81 Robin G. Bradley, AM’07 Jan F. Simon, EX’61, AM’67 and Paula J. Winner, AM’83 and Heather Barnes, AM’99 Sister Mary L. Brady RSCJ, AM’79 Jerald I. Simon, MD’62 Edward Russo Patricia Barnes, AM’79 Linda M. Brandeis, AM’75 Brenda D. Smith, AM’89, PHD’99 Molly A. Wirick, AM’85 Aliza Baron, AM’91 Frankella Brandon, AM’78 George A. Smucker, PHD’75 Janet Wolf, AM’74 and Barbara Barrington, AM’57 and Esther L. Brauer, AM’57 Lynne Sootheran, AM’69 Jerrold Wolf, AM’74, MBA’75 Byron Barrington, AM’57, PHD’59 Hilary F. Brayton, AM’07 Donald L. Sparrow, AM’62 Aaron Wolff Joan Barth, AM’75 Mildred Z. Brenkus, AM’49 * Irving A. Spergel Madeline Woo, AM’71 David Baruch, AM’57 Dr. Clifford Brickman, AM’70 Carol St. Amant, AM’97 Patricia Woods, AM’78 Beverly Bassin, AM’43 Deborah Brill, AM’80 Wendy Stansbury-O’Donnell, AM’84 Gregg Wright, AM’76 Deborah Bates Susan L. Brooks, AB’83, AM’84 Charles Staples, AM’61 Susan Wulczyn, AM’82 and Susan Beale, AM’69 and Susann Brown, AM’67 Katherine Starace, AM’68 and Friedhelm Wulczyn, PHD’86 Henry Beale, AM’70, PHD’74 Karla Brun and Dr. Carl Brun, AM’83 Anthony Starace, SM’67, PHD’71 Leslie York, AM’94 Mary Bell, AM’81 and Stanley Izen Joy C. Burns, AM’66 Erin Kelley, AM’09 and Annette Young, AM’47 Judith Bemis, AM’66 and Shirley Burnside, AM’59 John Staub, MPP’02 Robin Young, AM’87 Stephen Bemis Jerrold Burton, AM’66 Merle T. Sternberg, AM’49 June Yoxall, AM’50 and George Yoxall Brianna Benner, AB’04, AM’09 Elizabeth T. Busby, AM’44 Kathryn R. Stevens, AM’70 Susan Zweig, AM’77 Judy Berg, AM’59 Roy L. Bush, AM’62 Susan S. Stewart, AM’68 and Ann Bergart, AM’69, PHD’97 Elizabeth M. Butler, AM’46 Ireland Stewart, MBA’68 Margaret Bergmann-Ness, AM’86 Cynthia Cabrera, AM’96 Maureen A. Stimming Lara Bergstedt-Foster, AM’07 Ann Campbell, AM’67 Alan J. Strauss, PHB’44, SB’46, Robert Bergstrand, AM’51 Brenda Capek, AM’65 PHD’56 Jill Bernstein, AM’84 and Suzanne M. Carney, AM’96 Kary A. Strickland, AM’95 Irwin Bernstein Troy Carroll, AM’71 Joan Karlovska J. Stuart, AM’83 CONTRIBUTORS Deborah Bishop, EX’64 Rebecca Carter, AM’47 Michelle E. Sweet, AM’81 Paul Blackstone, AM’63 Cheryl L. Castillo, AM’07 Mitzi H. Takehara, BSS’53, AM’54 $1 – $99 Ann Blick-Hamer, AM’82 Kathleen M. Castillo, AM’83 and Gerald J. Talsky, AM’70 Anonymous – 10 Sharon Bloch, AM’94 Dennis Castillo, AM’82, PHD’90 Dorothy T. Tannenbaum, AM’55 Janice Abrohams Alene Blomquist, AM’92 Carol Chapman, AB’83 and Lynne C. Tappan, AM’68 Seymour Adler, AM’58 Sonja Bloom, AM’67 Peter Chapman, AB’82, AM’86 Joan S. Taylor, AB’53, AB’58, AM’66 Susan Aeschbach, AM’77 Jean Blum, AM’56 Gary A. Chaudoir, AM’71 Andrew C. Teitelman, LAB’68, AM’75 Halley Aldeen, AM’00 Linda Blumberg, AM’56 and Betty K. Chernansky, AM’95 Phoebe S. Telser, AM’60 Karen Allen, AM’74 and David Blumberg, LAB’43, AB’47, Thurman J. Chisholm, AM’72 David H. Tennenbaum, AM’79 James Allen, AM’73 MBA’50 Paula K. Chow, AM’54 and Jane M. Thibault, PHD’84 Madeline Allen, AM’73 David Blumenthal, AM’49 Gregory Chow, AM’52, PHD’55 Warren T. Townsend, AM’65 David Altschuler, AM’75, PHD’83 Judith Bly, AM’72 Andrea Christian-Michaels, AM’79 Terri W. Travis-Davis, AM’99 Barbara Amram, AM’55 Kathleen Bogie, AM’64 and Stephen Christian-Michaels, Jane B. Tune, AM’96 Jan Anasis, AM’86 Rosemarie Bone, AM’74 and AM’79 Judith M. Unger, AM’63 Sara Anastaplo, AM’49 and George Bruce Bone, AM’74 M. Judith Christl, AM’65 and Hirobumi Uno, PHD’66 Anastaplo, AB’48, JD’51, PHD’64 Tyler Boris, AM’08 Donald J. Christl, JD’66 John W. Van Abel, AM’84 Marcia Anderson, AM’56 and Joy Borkholder, AM’07 Anna B. Clark, AM’80 Elizabeth A. Van Buren, AM’54 Paul Anderson Janine Bostick, AM’90 Berneice Clayton, AM’48 and Lillian E. Van Diver, AM’58 Marsha Anderson-Niazmand, AM’73 Gerald Bostwick, PHD’81 Norman Clayton, AM’48
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Robert Clement, PHD’64 I acknowledge that I would not have been able to attend SSA without the James E. Clinton, AM’66 Ruth E. Coan, AM’69 and generous financial aid that I received from the institution. It is my pleasure and Mark G. Coan, MD’70 “ Esta L. Cohen, AM’64 social responsibility to give financially and facilitate efforts aimed at providing financial support to Janice E. Cohn, AM’48 Johann Cohn, AM’61 Elizabeth A. Colburn, AM’91 future generations of SSA students as they proceed in their academic career. Christina Cole Wilma F. Cole, AM’67 E VELYN ”GREEN, AM ‘95 Barbara R. Coltman, AM’51 Jacob R. Colton, AM’07 Paul Ephross, PHD’69 Judith Gezon, AM’63 Tina Herpe, AM’80 and Mary L. Comeskey, AM’69 James K. Erickson, AM’70 Adrenise Gibson David Herpe, JD’78 Mary L. Connolly, AM’79 Warren H. Erickson, AM’65 Andrew Gill, AM’06, MDV’06 Mary Hester, AM’48 Albert T. Cook Jr., AM’66 Abigail Erikson, AM’07 Judith Glassman, AM’78 and Joan Hirnisey, AM’65 Julie G. Coplon, AM’77 Monico Whittington Eskridge, AB’92, David Frankford, JD’79 Kathryn Hoban, AM’08 Dorothy J. Corrigan, AB’45, AM’49 AM’96 Barbara Glosny, AM’70 Richard Hoekstra, AM’63 Teresa A. Cortas, AM’93 Stephanie Eslinger, AM’66 and Lynne Godek, AM’80 and Jennifer Hoffman-Mentle, AM’04 Michael Coy, AM’06 Ronald Eslinger, THM’67, DMN’69 Paul Godek, AM’81, PHD’83 Abigail Hoffman, AM’06, MDV’06 Bonnie M. Crawford, AM’68 and Ellen Estes, AM’81 Gail Goldfarb, AM’75 Nancy Hollinger-Samson, AM’85 Hal W. Crawford, MD’66 Adelia Evans, AM’62 and Diane K. Gonzalez, AM’73 and Herbert Hopkins, AM’70 Margaret F. Crawford, EX’44 Gerald Evans, JD’62 Thomas Leibig, MBA’71 Louise Hopkins, AB’65, AM’70 and Edith L. Crigler, AM’92 Vivian Fantauzzi, AM’79 Brunhilde Goodman, AM’48 Joseph Hopkins, AM’68, PHD’74 Margaret S. Crockett, AM’67 and Frank Farrow, AM’71 Lucretia Goodwin, AM’73 Carol Horowitz, AM’65 Steven F. Crockett, AM’67 Cathleen Finn, AM’77 and Sally Goren, CER, BSS’53, AM’54 Dorothea Hosch, AM’51 Reverend Lisa R. Cross, AM’05 Donald Finn, AM’77 and Ralph Goren, JD’52 Richard Houskamp, AM’61 Gordon Cutts, AM’65 Susan Fishman, AM’77 Phyllis Gould, AM’82 Michael Huck, AM’84 Susan Damico, AM’96 Dorothy Ford, AM’48 Tema Gouse, EX’48 Barbara Hudson and Christopher Jacob Dancer III, AB’89, AM’04 Janis Forte, AM’97 Margaret Grace, AM’63 Hudson, AB’72, AM’74 Jessica Darrow, AB’05, AM’07 Kathleen Franke, AM’68 Harley Grant, AM’96 Patricia Hudson, AM’00 Elizabeth Davenport, AM’78 Rhoda Frankel, AM’78 and Natalie Graves, AM’01 Carol Hughes, AM’66 Hope Davis, AM’55 Jerome Frankel Megan Gray, AM’05 Robert Hughes, AM’49 Yvette Davis-Peeples, AM’91 Constance Fraser, AM’50 Barbara Gray-Gottorff, AM’80 Michael Hugo, AM’84 Mary E. De Van, AM’72 Jose Frau, AM’03 Francine Green, AM’68 Marie Huizenga, AM’63 Laurie Dean-Amir, AM’83 Sally Frau, AM’90 *Marvin Greenbaum, AM’69 Barbara Hunter, AM’61 Joanne Dehn, AM’59 Janet Freed, LAB’49, AM’58 and Phyllis Greenbaum, AM’65 Amy Hurd, AM’03 Julia Deller, AM’61 Merrill Freed, AB’49, JD’53 Georgia Greenberg, AM’95 Karen Ignazito-Cripps, AM’96 Peggy DeRango, AM’93 Roberta Freitag, AM’85 Judith Greenberg, AM’70 Cosimo Iodice, AM’53 Sister Colette Didier, PHD’88 Mary Frey, AM’53 Julie Greenwald, AM’89 Stuart Iseminger, AM’93 Geraldine M. D’Iorio, AM’70 Gerri Friedberg, AM’67 Ann Grelecki, AM’00 Vicki Isenstadt and Paul Isenstadt Clarence L. Dix, AM’70 Jack Friedman, SM’61, PHD’65 Constance Grey, AM’77 Anne Jacknis, AM’78 William P. Dolnick, AM’75 Lorraine Friedman, AM’47 Cristina Gros, AM’08 Betty Jackson, AM’00 Rebecca L. Donaldson, AM’04 Andrea Friedman, AM’77 and Susan Grossman, AM’82, PHD’91 Ariel Jacobs, AM’08 Holly Doolittle, AM’96 Peter Friedman, AM’71, PHD’79 Alina Groth, AM’02 Marshall Jacobson, AM’65 Meredith J. Dornemann, AM’62 and Friends of School of SSA David Grotke, AM’66 Judith Jager, AM’68 Rudolph H. Dornemann, AM’65, Kathleen Frost and James Frost, Arleen Groves, AB’43, AM’50 Ruth Jajko, AM’92 and Richard Jajko, PHD’70 AM’73 Mary Gulla, AM’64 AM’93 Richard Dougherty, AM’77 Adele Fry, AB’42, AM’43 Genna Guttman, AM’00 Nancy James, AM’92 Pamela A. Dowling, AM’81 Joan Fuller, AM’62 Sheila Haennicke, AB’84, AM’86 and Elizabeth Jansson, AM’67 and Robert Downey, AM’90 Richard Gabriel, AM’73 Robert Haennicke, AM’86 Bruce Jansson, AM’67, PHD’75 Rebecca Drendel, AM’02, MBA’02 and Linda Gaibel, AM’68 Jaris Hammond, AM’69 Sally Jasper, AM’73 Michael Drendel, MBA’03 Judith Ganeff, AM’66 Patricia Hanrahan, AM’79, PHD’90 Patricia Jenkins, AM’95 Donna J. Drinan, AM’80 Mary Gannon, AM’72 Christine Harber, AM’72 Tawa Jogunosimi, AM’01 Ann E. Drouilhet, AM’80 Laurie Garber-Amram, AM’90 Elizabeth Harding, AM’05 Robert Johnson, AM’92, MDV’92 Shirley Dry, AM’63 Janet Gardner, AM’89 Joan Hardy, AM’71 Marian Jones, AM’52 Elizabeth Duncklee-Pariseau, MBA’90, Jane Garza, AM’82 Jessie Harvey, AM’83 Marybeth Jordan, AM’96 AM’02 Brenda Gearhart, AM’94 Ann Haslanger, AM’93 Jean Judson and Donald Judson, Jean-Pierre Duplantie, PHD’74 Betty Gebhart, AM’80 Joan Hatlestad, AM’70 AM’77, AM’89 Nancy Durham, AM’78 and Mary Gebka, AB’76, AM’77 John Hayner, AM’05 Hannele Haapala and Bruce Fried, AM’78 Richard Gehring, AM’71 Anne Hazzard, AM’67 David Juedemann, AM’83 Elizabeth Durkin, AM’94, PHD’00 Lois Gehrman, AM’68 and JoAnn Hearne, AM’71 Nam-Jin Jun, PHD’80 Nada Ellert, AM’66 Richard Gehrman Kerianne Hearns, AM’98 Mildred Juskevice, AB’63, AM’03 and Meredith Emerick, AM’06 Sharon Gerber, AM’76 Kimberly Hebert-Gregory, AM’02 John Juskevice, SM’62, PHD’69 James Engelbrecht, AM’60 Bradley Gerratt, AM’79, MBA’79 Anne Heller, AM’66 Carol Kanter, AM’66 Jinnie English, AM’99 Kathleen Gerstner, AM’87 and Rebecca Hendrickson, AM’07 Randy Kanter, AM’76 David W. Engstrom, AM’83, PHD’92 Jonathan Gerstner, AM’80, PHD’85 James Henson, AM’69 Ann R. Kanthor, AM’68
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 44 1/6/11 7:33 PM Shirley W. Kaplan, AM’56 and Lucille T. Levitan, AB’34, AM’55 Melissa E. Miller, AM’72 Gregory L. Potts, AM’08 William Kaplan, AM’57 Bethamie L. Levy, AM’06 Jessica R. Miller, AM’79 and Nathaniel D. Powell, AM’02 Thomas J. Kaplan, AM’79 Hilma Levy, AM’47 and Peter M. Miller, MFA’79 Irene A. Prashker Chalek, AM’79 Erica Karger-Gatzow, AM’04 Walter Levy, AM’45 Robert A. Miller, AM’74 June A. Price, AM’08 Ravindra N. Katiyar, AM’63 Janet E. Levy, AM’79 Sherie G. Miller, AM’79 Camille R. Quinn, AM’98 Susan B. Katz, AM’79 Tracy S. Lewis, AM’82 Patrick W. Milton, AM’06 Michael F. Radding, AM’92 Anna Kaufman, AM’47 Eileen Libby, CER, AM’64 Dr. Diane M. Mirabito, AM’77 Carlen B. Rader, AB’93, AM’96 Rebekah Kaufman, AM’57 and Renee Lightstone, AM’50 Renee M. Mitchell, AM’92 Marlene O. Rankin, AM’78 William Kaufman, JD’58 Colleen M. Lindberg, AM’94 Raymond Mitterer, AM’70 Debra N. Raquet-Safford, AM’92 Geoffrey L. Kaufmann, AM’76 Laurel A. Lindemann Patricia E. Molloy, AB’05, AM’09 Diane L. Ravizza, AM’69 Jennifer L. Kavanagh-Bognar, AM’95 Richard H. Lindo, AM’75 Diane C. Moncher, AM’96 Susan L. Reese, LCSW, AM’89 Mary W. Keenan, AM’88 and Patricia C. Linnihan, AM’69 Carol B. Moore, AM’37 John H. Reid, AM’67 Philip T. Keenan, SM’87, PHD’91 Melvin J. Wilson and Judith K. Morris, PHD’89 Lynette M. Reitz, AM’90 and Maureen Kelly, AM’67 Nathan L. Linsk, AM’74, PHD’82 Mabel Moses, AM’62 Jeffrey J. Reitz, AM’89 Rose Kelman, BSS’48 and Iris Lipner, AM’69 Dr. Carol A. Moses-Robinson, AM’77 Shirley B. Reizen, AM’48 Herbert Kelman Laura B. Lippold, AM’80 Luella R. Mosher, AM’54 Ellen R. Rest, AM’72 James N. Kennedy, AM’72 Melinda Lis, AM’93 Dr. Caryl T. Moy, AM’69 and Kathryn L. Revtyak, AM’03 Jeff J. Kenny, AM’88 Eleanor Lish, AM’61 and Richard Moy, AB’53, SB’54, Dianne M. Rhein, AM’78 Katherine J. Kerr, AM’04 Raymond Lish, AM’60, PHD’73 MD’57 Gwendolyn M. Rice, AM’92 Irving E. Kestin, AB’41, AM’46 Joseph Lisiecki Jr., AM’68 Wesley K. Mukoyama, AM’72 Patricia R. Rich, AM’91 Joanne S. Kestnbaum, AM’75 and Elsa Littman, AM’58 Elizabeth B. Mulford, AM’67 Zelda R. Rich, AM’53 Joseph D. Kestnbaum, AM’66 Penny W. Liu, AM’55 Jo-Ann J. Murdach, AM’65 and Marie Richard-Jackson, AM’95 Glenn Key, AM’64 Lauren Lux, AM’08 Allison D. Murdach, AM’66 Virginia J. Richards, AM’81 Amy T. Khare Jane F. Lyles, AM’75 Carol M. Murray, AM’72 Katherine Richards-Schuster, AM’97 Eunsook Kim, AM’79 Elizabeth D. Lynch, AM’82 Arthur Nack Jr., AM’55 and Timothy G. Schuster Lynn S. Kim, AM’97 Nancy Macy, AM’70 Justine L. Nagan, AM’04 and Beverly D. Rimpila, AM’64 Mary Kintzler, AM’72 Azell Madden Jr., AM’94 Matthew H. Rowe, AM’06 Anita F. Robinson, AB’42, AM’43 William Kirsch, AM’43 Elizabeth V. Madden, AM’95 Lieutenant Colonel Fred E. Nelson, Josephine H. Robinson, AM’77 Michiko Kobayashi, AM’06 and Lisa A. Maggiore, AM’01 AM’54 Mary A. Roche, AM’52 Parakrama De Silva Robert S. Magill, PHD’76 Muriel E. Nelson, AM’47 Wenceslao Rodriguez Jr., AM’71 April L. Kopp, AB’04, AM’08 Julie C. Malen, AM’72 Ellen Netting, PHD’82 Muriel J. Rogers and Alfred A. Rogers Joan Koth, AM’63 Charlotte M. Mallon, AM’80 Edith D. Newman, AM’70 Steven P. Rook, AM’74 Marilyn B. Krantz, AM’79 Gail M. Malvestuto, AM’92 Pauline H. Nichols, AM’48 Dr. Anita L. Rosen, AM’69 Kenneth Krause, PHD’70 Sara L. Manewith, AM’97 Caryl M. Noble, AM’90 Donna D. Rosenbush, AM’60 Phyllis Krause-Braun, AM’78 Wilhelmina P. Manns, PHD’81 Julie A. Noparstak, AM’94 Ella Ross, AB’42, AM’43 Lyn C. Krieger, AM’76 Christine R. Marlow, AM’79, PHD’83 Mary Norton, AM’64 Rose M. Rostoker, AM’76 Evelyn Kruger, AM’47 Caroline S. Martin, AM’84 Julia B. O’Brien LCSW, AM’96 Ila S. Rothschild, AM’74 Keri Krupp, AM’98 Deborah Marx-Sokoler, AM’79 Hannah W. O’Connor, AM’01 Sharon Rowe Rebecca Kuhlmann Taylor, AM’05 Joseph Mason, AM’07 Thomas A. O’Connor, AM’73 Hiasaura Rubenstein, PHD’70 Roland J. Kulla, AM’76 Loula Z. Matsa, AM’55 Sandra O’Donnell, AM’73, PHD’85 Susan B. Rubnitz, EX’45 and Winnie Kung, PHD’96 Helen May and John M. O’Donnell, AM’77 Dr. Myron E. Rubnitz Warren Kunstler, AM’97 Suzy Mazur and Regina J. Ogunsuyi, AM’91 Sarah E. Ruhl, AM’91 Rose Kurland, AM’91 Henry A. Mazur, AM’84 Jayme S. Olitzky, AM’78 Gloria B. Russell, PHB’47, AM’68 Joel A. Kvamme, AM’69, AM’72 Barbara McBride, AM’86 Marilyn R. Olson, AM’94 Douglas J. Rzepka, AM’76 Susan B. Lakin, AM’71 and Diane McCoy, AM’88 Mary C. Onorato, AM’62 Susan S. Valoff, AM’97 Milton Lakin, SB’68, MD’72 William B. McCurdy, AM’52 Linda W. Ovrick, AM’84 Yoa G. Sachs, AM’60, AM’74 Myril Landsman, AB’42, AM’44 and Julie M. McFarlane, AM’06 Andrew J. Pakis, AM’88 Nancy D. Sacks, AM’75 Benjamin Landsman, AB’42, Dorothy McGill, AM’57 Charles M. Palmer, AM’64 Paul Z. Sakol, MBA’65, AM’76 AM’43 Janis McGowan, AM’82 Melissa I. Pappas, AM’88 Shira Saliman, AM’09 Shaun Lane, AM’91 Jennifer A. McNabb, AM’03 Charles F. Parham, AM’63 Joseph Salzman, AM’58 Roger Langland, AM’67 Leanne J. McNett, AM’05 Joan Paru and Marden D. Paru, Mignon Sauber, AM’47 Marilyn Lansberry, AM’79 Shirley A. McRae, AM’93 AM’65 Paul Saxton, AM’64 Eric Lanzl, AM’77 Stephanie Medlock, AM’88 and Joan Patterson, AM’73 Patricia G. Schreiber, AM’47 James Lavin, LCSW, AM’79 Gordon Medlock, AM’78 Christine C. Patton, AM’56 Howard V. Schrock, AM’70 Mary P. Lavin, AM’67 Ingrid R. Mejia, AM’08 Simon S. Pava, AM’51 Jan K. Schultz, AM’76 and Laurie Lawton, LAB’69, AM’75 Susan L. Melsky, AM’72 Nathan J. Payovich, AM’04 Howard B. Schultz, AM’76 Susana Lee, AM’96 Shereen Mendelowitz, AM’70 Diane E. Pellowe, AM’91 Ralph T. Schwab, AM’83 Joan A. Letendre, AM’77 Drew S. Mendoza, AM’79 Palmira Perea-Hay, AM’74 Angela M. Scott, AM’04 Gail Lettman-Matson, AM’89 Marion G. Mengert, AM’54 Cynthia M. Peters, AM’78, PHD’01 *Joyce R. Scott, AM’73 Camille A. Leung, AM’08 Eugenia S. Merczak, AM’77 Judith Mendels-Peterson, AM’73, Sally A. Scott, AM’71 Maria C. Leung, AM’06 Jess T. Metzmeier, AM’06 PHD’88 and James Peterson, AM’72 Virginia O. Secemsky, AM’75, PHD’87 Nancy L. Levin, AM’80 Beryl Michaels, AM’77 and Katherine L. Phillippo, AM’92 Lee M. Seftenberg, AM’97 and Roberta L. Levin, AM’82 John Bach, MBA’71 Wilma J. Pierson, AM’54 Thomas M. Seftenberg, MBA’98 Tamara L. Levin, AM’80 Janet B. Midgley, AM’67 and Herman Piven, AM’51 Florence Z. Segal, AM’45 Nancy B. Levinbook-Widlus, AM’82 David B. Midgley, JD’65 Ruth Pomerantz, AM’49 Natalie W. Seglin, AB’47, AM’54 Kenneth A. Levine, AM’76 Jeanne Y. Miller, AM’41 Gloria R. Potter, AM’74 Frances R. Seidman, AM’50
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Lauren D. Senoff, AM’87 Lisa A. Tieszen, AM’81 Ruth Wootten, AM’53 and Ernst & Young Foundation Frank A. Sesek, AM’75 John M. Tower, AM’08 William Wootten, AB’50 Exelon Corporation Marcia J. Sezer, AM’82 Rosemary P. Trujillo, AM’65 Christopher Workman, AM’98 Exxon Mobil Foundation Mary L. Shadle, AM’76 Anna L. Tuccoli, AM’80 Richard Wright, AM’61 Fahs-Beck Fund Fund for Research Alfreda Shapere, AM’69 Ruth P. Tuzson, AM’63 Candace Machein, AM’82 and and Experimentation Lisa Shapiro, AM’76 and Nancy O. Unferth, AB’65, AM’74 Robert Wujtowicz, AM’74 Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Alan Golding, AM’75, PHD’80 and Robert D. Unferth, AB’62, Robert Wyllie, AM’60 Fidelity Foundation Dhamana J. Shauri, AM’98 MBA’64 Marjorie Yaker, AM’92 Ford Foundation Katherine P. Shaw, AM’58 Martha O. Uyeki, AM’56 and Olivia Yang, AB’00, AM’07 General Electric Foundation Robin A. Sheerer, AM’65 Eugene S. Uyeki, AM’52, PHD’53 Lorene Young, AM’48 Genesis Philanthropic Fund Shirlee Sher, EX’45 Maria T. Valarezo, AM’05 Dr. Vicki Yusim-Hass, AM’83 The Gerontological Society of America Isadora R. Sherman, AM’50 Lorena Valles, AM’94 Rebecca Zuber, AM’80 Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund Delores E. Shoemate, AM’98 Christopher R. Valley, AM’73 Laura Zumdahl, AM’04 Leo S. Guthman Fund Sharon Shoham, AM’07 Jean K. Vanderlinde, AM’65 Frederick Zverin, AM’53 Harris Bankcorp, Inc. Latha Shrivatsa, AM’07 Adeline P. Vanderpool, AM’64 The Irving Harris Foundation Audrey F. Shuler, AM’53 Anne L. Vanderweele, AM’01 and Harter Family Charitable Foundation Charlotte Siegel, EX’43 David Vanderweele, PHD’05, MD’07 Hedge Funds Care Jane Siegel, AB’64, AM’66 and Thomas V. Vassil, PHD’75 The Horner Foundation Benjamin Siegel, MD’67 Lois M. Vazirani, AM’61 and MATCHING Graham Hunter Foundation Renee Siegel, AB’62, AM’64 Govind Vazirani, SM’61 Jewish Community Endowment Fund James R. Simmons, AM’64 Dr. Mary Veit, AM’69 GIFTS Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Stephen P. Simonds, AM’53 Jean L. Victor, AM’76 Chicago Ernst & Young Foundation Connie T. Sims, AM’80 Ruth S. Vogel, AM’71 and Johnson & Johnson Family of Sarah J. Singer, AM’78 Morris Vogel, AM’68, PHD’74 Companies Ada Skyles, LAB’62, AM’75 George W. Vognar, AM’77 Johnson Controls Foundation Armernola P. Smith, AM’90 Lowell E. Wagner, AM’68 The Joyce Foundation Barbara H. Smith, AM’72 William G. Wagner, AM’94 T. Lloyd Kelly Foundation Eleanor Smith, AB’85, AM’04 and Barbara Wallace, AM’89 The Carroll and Percy Klingenstein Roger Bilisoly, AB’84 Darlene J. Wallace, AM’69 BEQUESTS Foundation, Inc. Valerie Smith, AM’94 Le Nedra Wallace, AM’99 Loop Capital Markets Joseph P. Smyth, AM’72 Cynthia Walls, AM’81 and Estate of Frances B. Cole The John D. and Catherine T. Yi So, AM’50 Edward Clancy Estate of Patricia Ann Harris MacArthur Foundation Maria T. Solis Metz, AM’03 Denis F. Walsh, AM’77 Trust Estate of Jeanne Jewett The Oscar G. and Elsa S. Mayer Beth S. Soltzberg, AM’97, MBA’97 Carola Walton, AM’62 Trust Estate of Jean Sulzberger Meltzer Family Foundation Ferdinand J. Songayllo, AM’58 Carole L. Walton, AM’74 Estate of Margaret Burnett Wright McDougal Family Foundation Lillian Sorensen, AM’99 Christine H. Warren, AM’69 MidAmerican Energy Corporation Paul Sorrentino, AM’77 and Naomi B. Warshawsky, AM’03 Harold M. & Adeline S. Morrison Karen L. Sorrentino Nancy J. Watson, EX’52 Family Foundation Judith A. Sosted, AM’63 Esther K. Wattenberg, AM’57 Kenneth & Bernice Newberger Nancy D. Spargo, AM’88 Donna L. Watzke, AM’75 Family Fund Joan Spigelman, AM’83 Florence Weimann, AM’60 New York Times Company Foundation Carole Spreitzer, AM’68 Joyce C. Weiner, AM’82 ORGANIZATIONS Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Charitable Trust Herbert Stanelle, AM’77 Betty H. Weiskirch, AM’55 Northwestern Mutual Foundation Lael Stegall, AM’64 Vivian G. Weisman, AM’70 Aetna Foundation, Incorporated Perspectives Ltd. Kathleen A. Stephens, AM’80 Emily L. Weiss O’Connor, AM’98 Alcoa Foundation Pfizer Foundation Inc. Evelyn Steward Phyllis Wexler, AB’42, AM’44 Amsted Industries Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation Susan Stewart, AM’77 Michael D. White, AM’85 Anadarko Radio Flyer Inc. Jane S. Stokar, AM’75 and Phillip C. White, AM’71 B & D Foundation Searle Funds at The Chicago Elliot Stokar Lynne P. White-Dixon, AB’75, AM’76 Badger State Civic Fund, Inc. Community Trust Mary V. Stout Hemmer, AM’98 Susan B. Wickersham, AM’73 Philip D. Block III Family Foundation Julie & Brian Simmons Foundation Suzanne F. Strassberger, AM’80 Alice M. Williams, AM’68 The California Wellness Foundation Sisters of Notre Dame Barbara L. Straus, AM’82 Fremont A. Williams, AM’69 Earl M. and Margery C. Chapman Max Solomon Foundation Inc. Sarah H. Stuart, AM’76 Paulette D. Williams, AM’70 Foundation The Sondheimer Family Foundation Sandra Stumme, AM’68 and Susan M. Wilschke, AM’98 JP Morgan Chase Foundation The Spencer Foundation John Stumme John L. Wilson, CER, AM’70 The Chicago Community Foundation The Stanley Works Meredith H. Sullivan, AM’98 Sandra M. Wilson, AM’69 Chicago’s High Achievers The Tower Foundation Elena C. Sznajder, AM’86 and Shirley Wise, AM’72 Comer Science & Education Foundation The Vitale Family Foundation Inc. Jacob Sznajder Karen P. Wiskoff Community Foundation for Toledo Jewish Community Foundation Christine M. Szymanski, AM’77 Dr. Marylou Witz, AM’66 Southeast Michigan UBS Foundation USA James Talbert, AM’73 Sandra Wixted, AM’69 David D. Cone Foundation United Way of Delaware, Inc. Ruth F. Tamaroff, AM’68 Donna Wolf, AM’87 Dayton Foundation Depository Universal Health Services, Inc. Electra M. Tarsinos, AM’61 Judith Wolf, AB’68, AM’70 Deloitte Foundation Vanguard Charitable Endowment Harrison H. Taylor, AM’91 Marcella Wolf, AM’73 DeMartini Family Foundation Program Robert Tell, AB’90, AM’96 Dr. Robert Wolf, AM’63 Eades Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation Dr. Eugene Thomas, AM’71 Elita Wolsk, AM’79 The Sidney Epstein and Maynard and Elaine Wishner Danny H. Thompson, PHD’72 Lansing Wood, AM’67 Sondra Berman Epstein Foundation Philanthropic Fund
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65295_SSA_u1.indd 46 1/6/11 7:33 PM ALEX AND MIRIAM ELSON Trust Estate of Jean Sulzberger Meltzer SSA CENTENNIAL GALA SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND Estate of Margaret Burnett Wright Anonymous Miriam Elson, AM’42 LOUNDY CENTENNIAL PLANNING FUND Mrs. Martha Mills McInerney Chen FUND/ Ellen Costello Betty Kiralfy Weinberger and Mr. Joseph G. Loundy RECOGNITION Stanley R. Weinberger The Chicago Community Foundation Mr. Aaron S. Wolff, P.C. PROFESSOR JEANNE C. MARSH SSA WILLIAM BORDEN BOOK FUND SSA FIELD PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP FUND Kurt Steele, AM’02 and Patricia Steele FOR MASTERS DEGREE STUDENTS Judith Calica, AM’74 and IN MEMORY ALVIN BRONSTEIN SCHOLARSHIP FUND Katharine B. Mann, LCSW, AM’69, Richard H. Calica, AM’73 PhD’99 and James E. Mann, JD’68 OF The Jewish Community Foundation Graham Hunter Foundation GENDER DIFFERENCES IN ACCESS Kerry Grant and Gary B. Grant, AB’87 GEORGE BUGBEE MEMORIAL FUND In Memory of Miriam Elson, AM’42 Fahs-Beck Fund Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Mr. John W. Kmet Chicago Stanley R. Weinberger RICHARD AND ANGELICA HARTER CALIFORNIA FUNDERS BRIEFING Patricia MacClarence, AM’96 In Memory of Susan Fox Professor Jeanne C. Marsh The California Wellness Foundation SCHOLARSHIP Nancy T. Segall Dr. Ione D. Vargus, AM’54 Angelica Harter, AM’60 and Karen P. Wiskoff CENTENNIAL GALA EVENT Richard Harter, JD’61 PATRICIA McKNEW NIELSEN FELLOWSHIP Yasmin Bates Harter Family Charitable Foundation In Memory of Meyer B. Louick Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Charitable Trust Frank M. Clark Dr. Edward K. Heininger Dianne S. Louick Susan Fleischaker Silbar Duman, ANITA MACKEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND In Memory of Helen Harris Perlman AM’78 HEALTH ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM Anita J. Mackey, AM’41 DEVELOPMENT AND ENRICHMENT Mr. Paul M. Isenstadt Sidney Epstein and NETWORK FOR COLLEGE SUCCESS Sondra Berman Epstein Arthur Sugarman, MBA’60 McDougal Family Foundation, In Memory of Harold Richman Linda L. Groetzinger and IMPACT OF HEALTH DECLINE Freshman Success Project Ms. Jane Frances Gilgun Norman J. Groetzinger ON SOCIAL RELATIONS Polk Bros. Foundation Inc. Ms. Roberta R. Siegel Harris Bankcorp, Inc. The Searle Funds at The Chicago Paulette D. Williams Loop Capital Markets The Gerontological Society Community Trust The John D. and Catherine T. of America In Memory of Gary Lee Shaffer MacArthur Foundation IMPLEMENTING EVIDENCE-BASED PLACEMENT DECISION MAKING Ms. Vivian Golan Weisman Jim Reynolds, Jr. PRACTICE Fahs-Beck Fund for Research In Memory of Robert F. Wallwork and Experimentation CHANGING FAMILY CIRCUMSTANCES Fahs-Beck Fund for Research Anonymous and Experimentation PLANNING GRANT FOR THE CENTER FOR Fahs-Beck Fund for Research In Memory of Carolyn L. Wollaston and Experimentation HIGH SCHOOL LEADERSHIP PRINCIPAL INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM SUPPORT Mr. Eugene G. Wollaston CHICAGO INITIATIVE TO REDUCE GUN Anna Sohmen, EX‘70 and PREPARATION PROGRAM Dr. Helmut Sohmen The Spencer Foundation In Memory of Ikuo Yamaguchi VIOLENCE AMONG SCHOOL-AGE YOUTH Mari Yamaguchi Exelon Corporation JEANNE JEWETT MEMORIAL FUND PROGRAM IN VIOLENCE PREVENTION Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, EX’47 CHICAGO INITIATIVES FOR SSA Trust Estate of Jeanne Jewett Judith Stofer Block and WILLIAM S. AND DORIS JEAN KELLER PROMOTING FATHER INVOLVEMENT Philip D. Block III FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP Oscar H. Mayer Philip D. Block, IV IN HONOR Valerie Crane Dorfman and SUSAN AND EDWARD ROSENSON Philip D. Block III Family Foundation Paul Michael Dorfman OF Margaret Block Stineman FELLOWSHIP FUND The Honorable William M. Daley RUTH KNEE FACULTY SUPPORT FUND Ernst & Young Foundation Irene Elkin FOR SPIRITUALITY AND SOCIAL WORK BERNECE KERN SIMON TEACHING In Honor of Donna Barrows, AM’79, Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Mrs. Susan Speakman Hatta FELLOWSHIP HD’71 and William Barrows M.D. The Sidney and Sondra Berman Renée K. Logan, AM’70 Trust Estate of Ruth Irelan Knee Elizabeth M. Butler, AM’46 Arlene Alpert Mehlman, AM’74 and Epstein Foundation ELIZABETH KUTZA FUND Ms. Naomi B. Farber Dr. David J. Mehlman Mr. Sidney Hollander, Jr. Fay Lomax Cook, AM’72, PHD’77 In Honor of Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Butler, Professor Dolores Norton Ms. Muriel J. Rogers Carol T. Pollak and William Pollak AM’46 LARSEN ENDOWMENT Dr. Diane Margaret Mirabito Marguerite V. Hodge, AM’47 CHICAGO YOUTH Stephanie Larsen, AM’66 and Professor Bernece Kern Simon Patricia M. Lenahan, AM’75 GUN VIOLENCE INITIATIVE Edgar Larsen, MBA’68 STRENGHTHENING LEADERSHIP In Honor of Frank Clark Polk Bros. Foundation LAWNDALE RESEARCH AND SCIENCE Harris Bankcorp, Inc. The Spencer Foundation Joan W. Harris JPMorgan Chase Foundation In Honor of Professor Jeanne C. Marsh CRIME LAB The Irving Harris Foundation DOROTHY H. SULLIVAN Judith Calica, AM’74 and The Joyce Foundation CHRISTIAN S. LEDLEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND SCHOLARSHIP FUND Richard H. Calica, AM’73 DISSEMINATING MOTIVATIONAL Christian Ledley, AM’58 Estate of Patricia Ann Harris Graham Hunter Foundation INTERVIEWS SSA LEGACY SCHOLARSHIP AID IKUO YAMAGUCHI MEMORIAL Kerry Grant and Gary B. Grant, Fahs-Beck Fund for Research Estate of Frances B. Cole SEMINAR FUND AB’87 Jewish Federation of Metro Chicago and Experimentation Orville McClelland, AM’46 Ms. Mari Yamaguchi
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In Honor of Bernece Simon, Michelle Bautista Catherine Croak Nancy Gardner AB’36, AM’42 Paul Beals Carmen Curet Dan Gasper Sidney Hollander, Jr. Timothy Bechtel, AM‘07 Ashley Cureton, AM‘10 Peter Gaumond, AM‘93 Marlene F. Richman Christy Beighe-Byrne Charlie Curie Pauline Geary Muriel J. Rogers and Alfred A. Rogers Moushumi Beltangady, AM‘03 Jennifer Cutilletta, AM‘01 Michael Gelder Brianna Benner, AM‘09 Amy Daigler, AM‘00 Michelle Geller In Support of Professor Edwin Bennett, AM‘06 Karen Daiter, AM‘82 Patricia Gherardini Dolores Norton’s Research Carrie Bergen Maruis Dancea Betsy Gidwitz Ms. Judith Nelsen Bebe Bermudez Jacob Dancer III, AB’89, AM‘04 Laura Giesle-Geekie Gwendolyn M. Rice, AM’92 Peggy Best Dina Danieli Shauna Gilman, AM‘81 Bernice Weissbourd, EX’45 Marcella Bicoff Peter Darrow, JD‘67 Jeffrey Glick, AM‘75 David Blair, AM‘06 Sanjna Das Lolita Godbold In Support of Professor Heather Bland Cindy Davis Kate Goetz Charles Payne’s Research Courtney Bledsoe, AM‘04 Shelley Davis Robyn Golden, AM‘81 Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation, Judith Block Yvette Davis, AM‘91 Jennifer Goldstein Charles Ashby Lewis and Penny Katie Bogacki Denise Davison, AM‘87 Clare Golla, AM‘02 Bender Sebring Joy Borkholder, AM‘07 Betty Dayron, AM‘64 Michelle Gomberg Linda Bowen Lilliana De Santiago, AM‘05 Crystal Gonzales, AM‘09 Susan Bowker Mary S. Debose, AM‘77 Susan Gould Kristin Bradley Christian Denes Harley Grant, AM‘96 Heather Bradley Lisa Dieterle Carole Graybill, AM’97 Mark Bradley, AM‘00 James Dimon Mary Green, AM‘49 Brenna Brady Judith K. Dimon Evelyn Green, AM‘95 VOLUNTEERS Ariva Brill Jaime Dircksen, AM‘01 Cynthia Greenleaf Douglas Brown Dorenda Dixon Katherine Gregg Suberlak, AM‘07 The 2009-10 SSA Volunteer Honor Elizabeth Brown, AM‘68 Diane Doherty Jennifer Gregg, AM‘01 Roll includes alumni and friends Pamela Brown, AM‘99 David Donaldson Amy Groessl who gave their time and energy in Shirley Brussell, EX‘42 Kirby Doonan, AM‘02 Angeline Groves many different roles. We greatly Pamela Bryan-Davis, AM‘77 Lisa Doot Katy Groves appreciate the generous support Jennifer Buhot Misty Glisola Drake, AM‘00 Esty Gur and contributions of all volunteers, Shanquinnell Bullock Liz Drapa Sheila Anne Haennicke, AM‘86 including those who may not have Tiffany Burnside, AM‘09 Natalie DuBois, AM‘88 Denise Hagerla, AM‘03 made this list. Elizabeth Butler, AM‘46 Sybil Dunlap, AM‘06 Kenneth Hallas Jarred Butto, AM‘07 Andrea Durbin, AM‘93 Stanley Hamilton Roxanne Alvarez, AM‘00 Osvaldo Caballero Rachel Durchslag, AM‘05 Younhee Harm Marlene Abiodun Richard Calica, AM‘73 Bernie Dyme, AM‘79 Lillian Sheron Harris, AM‘07 Delrice Adams, AM‘00 Lekesha Campbell, AM’82 Michele Edwards, AM‘86 Bess Hart Chiquita Agusto Betsy Carlson, AM‘06 Laura Elk, AM‘07 Lisa Hassenstab, AM‘05 Joe Albritton Shannan Cassel Ira Emkin Lindsey Haugen David Alexander Maria Castillo Diane English, AM‘00 Gina Haverland, AM‘98 Adam Alonso Jennifer Cave Jinnie Kwon English, AM‘99 John Hayner, AM‘05 Joyce Alvarado Seth Chamberlain, AM‘04 Charna Epstein, AM‘05 Maureen Hellwig Daniel Alvarez Peter Magaw Chapman, AM‘86 Ricardo Estrada, AM‘93 Christine Henry Kristen E. Anderson, AM‘08 Iris Chavez, AM‘05 Paul Fagen, AM‘98 Diane Hermanek Deborah Anderson, AM‘95 Joy Cheng, AM‘76 Edward Fajardo Sheila Hickey Margaret Andrews Anura Cheryan Charles Feldstein, AM‘44 Mio Hidaka, AM‘06 Lyndal Andrews, AM‘05 Norene Chesebro Carlos Fernandez Tony Hollenback Gina Anselmo, AM‘98 Janice Cichowlas Frank Field Dorothy Holley, AM‘73 Michelle Arnold Frank Clark Ian Fielding Casey Holtschneider John Atkin, AM‘73 Liz Clary Sunny Fischer, AM‘82 Eric Homer Elysia Aufmuth, AM‘04 Rubi Clay, AM‘71 Heather Flett, AM‘97 Sarah Hooker, AM‘07 Sarah Aulie John Codd Nancy Flowers Peggy Howard Arvis Averette Meredith Cohn, AM‘02 Susan Flynn Bernadine Howard Adam Avrushin Jake Colton Mary Ellen Flynn Nicole Denise Hrycyk, AM‘04 Claudia Baier Becky Conway Jolene Foster Erica Hubbell Frank Baiocchi, AM‘06 Pamela J. Cook, AM‘05 Jay Freedman LaToya Hudson Darryl Baker Allyson Coppin Michelle Lynn Freeman, AM‘05 Patricia Hudson, AM‘04 Don Baker Susan Cornelius Tamar Friedman Jim Huenink Gina Baldacci Ana Correa, AM‘08 Kristin Friesen Kristen Huffman-Gottschli Kristin Balfanz-Vertiz James Cosenza Cecile Frydman Lori Hunsaker-Smith, AM‘85 Dr. Karen Barbee-Dixon Lisa Couser Doreen Frymire-Bonaldi Henry Innocente Judith Barnes Susan Cowen Deborah Fullilove, AM‘75 Cheryl Irmiter Todd Barnett Kristen Cox, AM‘03 Gregory Gaither, AM‘84 Deborah Jackson Brenda Barr D. Michael Coy, AM‘06 Sara Galdikas Kathleen Janosky Donna Barrows, AM‘79 Will Crafton, AM‘08 Elizabeth Gallichio Beatriz Jaramillo Laura Bass, AM‘08 Edith Crigler, AM‘92 Gayle Gamauf McCoy Kate Jesko
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Tawakalitu Jogunosimi, AM‘01 Shaun Marshall, AM’03 Thomas Puls, AM‘78 Sivie Suckerman Julie Johnson Sarah E. Marshall, AM‘04 Dorothy Pytel Debra Sundblad Domini Johnson Teri Marx Paul Quanbeck John Sykes, AM‘76 Harmony Johnson, AM‘09 Jason Mask Christine Quinn, AM‘05 Eileen Taflan Waldo Emerson Johnson, Jr., PHD‘93 Joseph Mason, AM‘07 Camille Quinn, AM‘98 Elizabeth Taylor, AM‘05 Nancy Johnstone, EX‘54 Paul Matthews, AM‘04 Ellen Ray, AM‘06 Daviel Thomas Kelly Jones Ann Maxwell, AM‘06 Sophia Register Carrie Elizabeth Thomas, AB’86, AM‘91 Verbie Jones Jessica Mayans Katie Reibert Brenda Thompson Nancy Jones, AM‘76 Beatrice Mayer, EX‘47 Tania Rempert, AM‘01 Martha Tierney Ann Jordan, AM‘61 Mike McCann Ben Reuler Richard Tolliver Heather Joseph Domonique McCord, AM‘03 James Rhind Heather Tompkins, AM‘06 Phyllis Joseph, AM‘74 Sue McDaniels Andrea Rich, AM‘06 Benjamin Topp, AM‘05 Thea Kachoris-Flores, AM‘04 Erwin McEwen, AM‘98 Sarah Richart Mary Towers Kristen Kainer-Turner, AM‘04 Kathleen McKenzie John Ridings Sabrina Townsend, AM‘03 Heather Kaplan, AM‘03 Amanda McMillen Sandra Rigsbee Dana Traub, AM‘06 Rose Karasti Jennifer McNabb, AM‘03 Rafael Rivera Terri Walton Travis-Davis, AM‘99 Virginia Karl Sujata Mehta, AM‘07 Bryan Rivera, AM‘08 Jessica Troost Mariola Kasper Judith Meltzer, AM‘71 Carmen Rodriguez, AM‘98 Tracy Tucker, AM‘04 Becky Kaufman Jessica Memoli Annie Rosenthal, AM‘98 Elizabeth Tumiel Lesley Kennedy, AM‘03 Danley Menard Bina Rubinson, AM‘06 Thomas Tynan Ellen Kennedy, AM‘99 Doris Merrity Ben Rucker Amaka Unaka, AM‘07 Pamela Kerr Emily Michael, AM‘02 * Dorothy Runner, AM’53 Lisa Valerio Lynn Kim, AM‘97 Kelly Michele Evans, AM‘00 Panola Russell Kimberly Ann Van Horn, AB’89, AM‘95 Taya Kinzie Ron Migalski Rebecca Rust, AM‘09 Stephen Matthew Vick, AM‘99 Laurie Knick Ben Miller Kayleen Ruthberg Linda Villalobos Seth Knobel, AM‘02 Jennifer Miller, AM‘05 Caroline Ryan, AM‘07 Theresa Violante Katherine Kobylak James Miner, AM‘09 Gloria Salmeron David J. Vital, MBA‘76 Jessica Koester, AM‘06 Patricia Moncada Valee Salone, AM‘73 Sasha von Varga Zachary Korotko Molly Moore Ayoka Samuels Bonnie Wade, AM‘04 Mary Krawczyk, AM‘92 Amzie Moore, AM‘10 Melissa Sang Melissa Sonia Wade, AM‘05 Iris Krieg, AM‘75 Darby Morhardt Naria K. Santa Lucia, AB‘02, JD‘05 Keith V. Wallace Michael Kristovic, AM‘07 Suzanne Muchin Christine Schaefer Margery Wallen, AM‘83 Chris Kuck Rev. Dr. Bill Mueller Sally Scheib Gail Waller Leslie Kuflick Wood Vince Murphy Michelle Scheidt Steve (Steven) Wallman, AM‘94 Liz Kuhn Denice Murray, AM‘95 Doug Schenkelberg Quenette Walton, AM‘04 Kweli Kwaza Tiffany Myers, AM‘97 Erin Schneider Thomas Curtin Wedekind, AM‘73 Sylvia Lackey Jane Niermann Carolyn Schneider, AB‘86, AM‘87 Lisa Weiland Nora Lally Birgitta Nilson Tamra Schwartz Joyce Weine, AM‘82 Jean Lam Camille Odeh, AM‘05 Mimi Scotchmer Samantha Weishan, AM‘10 Hayley Landis Samantha Oliver Angela Scott, AM‘04 Bernice Weissbourd, EX‘45 Kim Langston Antonio Oltean Leah Seligman Eugene Wesolowski, AM‘77 Tanya Larson, AM‘04 Sandra Oppong Phyllis Shadwick Gracie (Serena Grace) Whalen, AM‘05 SuAnne Lawrence Laura Orogun, AM‘96 Connie Shapiro Monico Whittington Eskridge, AB’92, Nicole Lee MaryLu Osterberg Sara Shapiro AM‘96 Elliot Lehman Jose Angel Torres Pacione-Zayas, AM‘94 Dhamana Shauri, AM‘98 Pamela Widell Christina LePage, AM‘07 Kari Palishen Jacqueline Shelton-Espino Michelle Wilczynski, AM‘08 Rebecca Lerfelt, AM‘75 Marc Paloma, AM‘93 Sharon Shoham, AM‘07 Bruce Williams Carolyn Lewis, AM‘97 DesLonda Parkinson Jeffrey Sholomson, AM‘04 Camille R. Williamson, AM‘07 David Lipschutz Neelam Patel, AM‘05 Brian Simmons Susan Wilschke, AM‘08 Sarah Loffman, AM‘08 Lo Patrick, AM’98 Loren Simmons Sarah Wilson, AM‘02 Kristin Lopez Katie Patterson Jeff Simon Janet Winslow Joseph Loundy, AM‘69 Kristin Payne Armando Smith Maynard Wishner, AB ‘45, JD‘47 Amy Lubin, AM‘75 Kirsten Peachey, AM‘91 Terry Smith Keith Witham, AB‘01, AM‘06 Lauren Lux, AM‘08 Sharise Penczek Rebecca Solomon Diana Wolsic Linda Lymburn, AM‘80 Patty Perez Andrya Soprych Maria Woltjen David G. Lysy, AM‘05 Rashanda Perryman Robert Soucek Amanda Woodfield Lisa Maggiore Lizanne Phalen Susan Sowle Louis C. Wright, AM‘00 Monica Mahan Cynthia Phon, AM‘07 Brent Sparlin Rhea Yap, AM‘06 Amy Malinowski, AM‘04 Donald Pinkston Jill Spooner Melissa Young, AM‘05 Gail Malvestuto, AM‘92 Jane Plonka Susan Spreiter Tita Yutuc Katharine Mann, AM‘69, PHD‘99 April Porter, AM‘01 Jamie Stanesa Amy Zann Robert Manrique, AM ‘04 Nathaniel David Powell, AM‘02 Kate (Katherine) Stepleton, AM‘07 Debra Zarkowsky-Morris Rob Mapes Heather Powers, AM‘04 Shannon Stewart Jose Zayas, AM‘94 Robert Mardirossian, AM‘04 June A. Price, AM‘08 Margaret Stineman Susan Zeigler Eleni Marsh, AM ‘02 Toni (Antoinette) Priester, AM‘05 Kathleen Strangeman Steve Zeisel Tyrone Marshall Marianne Protess, AM‘72 Todd Stull, AM‘03 Theresa Zito * deceased
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makes clinical sense. However, casting not-yet-recovered addicts, denied. clients as “in denial” profoundly affects Clients reacted in ways that, arguably, almost every aspect of treatment. further troubled their relationships THE MANY FACES Perhaps most troubling was the way with program staff, including what denial drove a wedge between client they called “flipping the script”—dis- and counselor. Counselors—assuming cerning what their professionals that addicts floundered in denial—were expected them to say and saying pre- OF DENIAL quite suspicious of what clients said cisely that, without necessarily invest- about themselves, their problems ing in the content of what they said. American addiction treatment and even their reactions to treatment, gets a makeover especially in the early stages. In other Collaboration and words, therapeutic relationships were Communication built on radical suspicion rather than Imagine if this theory of denial was trust. reworked, allowing counselors and OST SCHOLARS AGREE social commentary by obliging individ- Administrative routines and rela- clients to re-channel their analytical that the therapeutic ual speakers to “own” expressed ideas tionships were also affected. Despite energies in more collaborative ways. relationship between and feelings. the program’s promise to funders to This appears to be precisely the goal drug-using clients and Given counselors’ careful atten- involve clients in program develop- of an innovative counseling method the professionals who tion to and direction of clients’ speech, ment, administrators and line staff known as Motivational Interviewing, treat them profoundly I concluded that the familiar prelude resisted clients’ efforts to establish a formulated in the mid-1980s for the Maffects the degree to which clients “Hi, my name is X” and the structured representative position on the pro- treatment of drug users. MI is a direc- invest in addiction treatment. These tale that follows are not the natural gram’s Advisory Board, largely on the tive, yet client-centered approach relationships are built, in part, on coun- outpourings of the addict in recovery. grounds that addicts were unable to that aims to elicit “change talk” and, selors’ characterizations of clients and These narratives are instead the hard- see what they really wanted and need- hence, changed behavior from client- theories about why they suffer. The sim- won products of a clinical discipline ed from treatment. interviewees. ple assumption is that these ideas stem that assures that clients’ speech refers In sum, professionals’ efforts to MI proponents insist that denial directly from clinical training and expe- only to speakers’ preexisting inner help clients hinged on the claim that is not an internal property of the rience. But American cultural norms states. Interestingly, the study of they could see and intimately know addicted person, but a product of and values also profoundly affect the American linguistic norms reveals that the inner states that their clients, as interactions in which participating therapeutic relationship. the many other things people regu- parties disagree about the nature For my book Scripting Addiction: larly do with words—such as persuade, of the problem. Rather than getting The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and negotiate, critique and cajole—have clients to see what they once denied, American Sobriety, I spent more than long been considered morally as well the practice of MI involves exploring three years at an intensive outpatient as clinically suspect. Counselors— the parallel interpretations of coun- drug treatment program studying The Language of Denial selors and clients. therapeutic transactions like group assuming that addicts My recent study of MI docu- therapy sessions, attending program The concept of denial calibrates widely “ ments a very different language meetings, interviewing clients and staff, shared ideas about language with floundered in denial— ideology at play, one that values the and examining program documents—all the clinical regimen that character- ability of spoken words to produce with the goal of uncovering the cultural izes mainstream American addiction rather than reveal realities, regardless and clinical assumptions that governed treatment. Since the 1930s, denial were quite suspicious of whether the speakers are clients practice and program policy. has stood at the ideological center or counselors. It also underscores a I found that it is not just counsel- of the field and has enjoyed a wide of what clients said basic lesson of Scripting Addiction— ors’ ideas about addiction and sobriety range of professional adherents across that is, that clinical heuristics, like that influenced their everyday prac- otherwise distinctive theoretical orien- denial, are never insulated from cul- tice. The staff I studied also mobilized tations. As in so many contemporary about themselves, their tural precepts and profoundly affect mainstream American ideas about addiction treatment programs, the both how clients and counselors the nature and function of language. professionals I studied believed that problems and even engage. Counselors used slogans—like HOW addicts are—by definition—unable to (Honesty, Openness and Willingness)— clearly see themselves. By extension, to promote what they saw as healthy they also believed that addicts are their reactions E. Summerson Carr is an assistant human communication. They even unable to speak about themselves and professor at SSA. Her book, Scripting hung rules of speaking on the group their problems authoritatively. to treatment. Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic room wall, which prohibited overlap- Given addicts’ presumed pro- Talk and American Sobriety ping or “cross” talk, required public pensity toward denial, a therapeutic (Princeton University Press), was confession of relapses, and redirected program of “speaking inner truths” ” released this fall.
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