UNIVERSITY OF SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK BMAGAZINE ridgesFALL 2016

BROKEN: RACE AND POLICE RELATIONS Bridges Bridges is the School of Social TABLE OF CONTENTS Work magazine. We selected the name Bridges largely because of its symbolism. The term provides an Feature important metaphor for both our profession and our FEATURE STORY: school. Social work is a profession that has, as part of its mission, the goal of building and sustaining bridges Late Dean David E. Epperson Inducted ...... 8 among individuals, families, groups, neighborhoods, into National YMCA Hall of Fame and communities, and we felt that the title Bridges COVER STORY: captured this part of our professional mission. At BROKEN: RACE AND POLICE RELATIONS .... 10 the same time, the city of Pittsburgh has more than 450 bridges, and Allegheny County has almost 2,000, suggesting an uncompromising desire of the city’s Departments inhabitants to remain connected with one another. Dean’s Message ...... 3 In keeping with this heritage, it is the school’s goal to School News ...... 4 sustain and build bridges among those needing social work services; our students, alumni, faculty, and staff; Development and Alumni News ...... 15 the community; and corporate and governmental Faculty Notes ...... 16 partners. We believe that the information in this magazine is an important way to achieve this goal. Student Spotlight ...... 19 News from the Center on Race and Social Problems ...... 20

Public Service Project ...... 22 CONTRIBUTORS News & Notes ...... 23 PUBLISHED BY THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK Editor ...... Larry E. Davis, Dean

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2 SOCIALWORK.PITT.EDU DEAN’S MESSAGE

Greetings, alumni and friends,

I would like to welcome you to the role in helping to find solutions. fall issue of Bridges. Fall is always This summer, the center hosted an exciting time for universities. the City of Pittsburgh’s chief The new students come to campus of police at a Summer Institute eager to get started, and returning focused on building long-term students come back eager to relationships between the police continue their education. But and the communities they serve. while these are exciting times, The Child Welfare Education and they also are challenging times. Research Programs also hosted Students are sometimes faced with an excellent Summer Institute on economic hurdles, but the good race and child welfare. In addition, news is that upon graduating, we hosted an educational institute the vast majority are employed this past summer. Each of these quickly. More than ever, the skills institutes was a huge success. taught in schools of social work In fact, it is the connections are sorely needed. By almost that the center and school have any standard, our students are forged that make each an ideal needed to address the many social host for such events, and this problems facing our society. issue highlights some of those This fall, the school welcomed community connections as well two new faculty members: It was not our intent to have as the exceptional community Lecturer Toya Jones and Assistant another issue that addressed racial outreach of our students, faculty, Professor Darren Whitfield. As problems in America again so and alumni. our research grows, so, too, does soon, but the topic remains such the need for research staff, and a volatile one. Earlier this year, As this issue points out, we are so we welcomed Kelsey Cowles when we started planning this extremely proud that the late Dean as a research assistant and Taylor issue, we knew that there would David E. Epperson was inducted Nichols as a research specialist. likely be more confrontations into the National YMCA Hall of involving young African American Fame. Epperson’s commitment As some of you perhaps are males and the police. However, it to the Pittsburgh community is already aware, the school will is surprising that the incidents are legendary, and we are honored to celebrate its centennial year in so numerous, causing protests and continue his work. Other members 2018. We are in the early phase unrest throughout the country. of our community also are making of planning for this celebration. As the father to three young an impact, including alumnus Those of you who have men, I am acutely aware of the Dan’Talisha Deans (MSW ’12), memorabilia that you think would dangers they face in our society, whose education and talents have be interesting to highlight may but it is only by shining a light on taken her all the way to the White want to contact us about a possible social problems that we will find House. It is her commitment to presentation of your items. solutions to them. social justice, collaboration, and We always look forward to community engagement that make Clearly, our society is struggling hosting friends and alumni for her such an outstanding example with both racial and economic both our center and school of what social workers can inequities. Social workers speaker series. Please join us for accomplish. are better situated than most lunch, networking, and a spirited professionals to assist our society As you will note highlighted in discussion of the critical issues with the amelioration of these this issue, John Wallace Jr. and facing America today. And, of difficulties. As you will note from James Huguley are leading an course, you can always visit us this issue of Bridges, many of our exciting new initiative called online at socialwork.pitt.edu. colleagues and graduates are on Pitt-Assisted Communities & the front lines of this struggle. Schools that unites the extensive resources of the University of I am proud that the Center on Pittsburgh with the Larry E. Davis Race and Social Problems is neighborhood’s schools, families, Dean and among those taking an active and children in need. Donald M. Henderson Professor

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WELCOME, NEW STAFF NEW FACULTY

KELSEY COWLES TAYLOR NICHOLS TOYA JONES DARREN WHITFIELD KELSEY COWLES is a new research assistant. TOYA JONES has been appointed a lecturer. TAYLOR NICHOLS is a new research specialist. DARREN WHITFIELD has been appointed an assistant professor.

2016–17 SPEAKER SERIES All lectures are from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the School of Social Work Conference Center, 2017 Cathedral of Learning. Lunch will be provided; registration is not required.

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK CENTER ON RACE AND SPEAKER SERIES SOCIAL PROBLEMS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 BUCHANAN INGERSOLL “ What Does Prevention Look Like?” & ROONEY PC FALL 2016 SPEAKER SERIES PATRICIA M. MARTIN, Presiding Judge, Child Protection Division, Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2016 “ Why Diversity Programs Don’t Work” Raymond R. Webb Jr. Lecture FRANK DOBBIN, Professor of Sociology, “ Are Children and Women for Sale? Yes, and It’s a $150 Billion Industry” Harvard University NOËL BUSCH-ARMENDARIZ, Professor; Associate Dean for Research; and Director, Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2016 University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work “ Residential Segregation: What Are the Remedies?” THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, Research “ Understanding Collaboration from the Ground Up to Advance Associate, Economic Policy Institute Evidence-based Practices” BRIAN SCHREIBER, President and CEO, Jewish Community Center TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016 of Greater Pittsburgh “ Race and Gender in the Police: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017 Beyond the Blue Uniform” Sidney A. Teller Lecture MAURITA BRYANT, Assistant “ Radical Love in an Age of Racial Oppression: Social Work, Superintendent, Allegheny Social Change, and the Politics of Unflinching Inclusivity” County Police JOHN L. JACKSON JR., Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2016 “ Just Discipline and the School- TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2017 to-Prison Pipeline in Greater WORLD SOCIAL WORK DAY LECTURE Pittsburgh: Local Challenges “ The ‘Greening’ of Social Work: Striving for Environmental Justice” and Promising Solutions” MICHAEL S. CRONIN, Associate Professor and Coordinator, Concentration JAMES HUGULEY, Assistant Professor, in International and Community Development, Monmouth University University of Pittsburgh School of School of Social Work Social Work

4 SOCIALWORK.PITT.EDU AFTERNOON OF RECOGNITION The School of Social Work’s Afternoon of Recognition was held on Sunday, May 1, 2016. The keynote address was given by Thomas VanKirk, executive vice president and chief legal counsel for Highmark Inc. VanKirk serves as chair of the School of Social Thomas VanKirk Graduates of the School of Social Work Work Board of Visitors.

ANNUAL BOARD OF VISITORS MEETING The annual Board of Visitors dinner and meeting were held on May 5 and 6, 2016. Attendees are pictured at right.

Attending the Board of Visitors dinner on May 5, 2016, were (top photo, left to right) Dean Larry E. Davis, James Browne, Alan Momeyer, Stephen Paschall, James McDonald, Vice Provost Alberta Sbragia, Marc Cherna, James Roddey, and Basil Cox.

Attending the Board of Visitors meeting on May 6, 2016, were (bottom photo, left to right) Cherna, Browne, Momeyer, Paschall, Shanti Khinduka, Cox, Eric Springer, Sbragia, Doris Carson Williams, Joy Starzl, McDonald, Estelle Comay, and Davis.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS BASW Program Pictured left to right: Rhonda Strozier, Sarah Freedman, Lily Starr, and Angelica Walker

2016 SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP Bachelor of Arts in Social Work (BASW) students Rhonda Strozier, Sarah Freedman, Lily Starr, Angelica Walker, and Claire Dempsey (not pictured) were selected to participate in the 2016 Summer Research Fellowship. Paired with research- engaged faculty members from the School of Social Work, these emerging scholars are working to support research on child welfare interventions, the strengths of and challenges facing African American female adolescents, racial diversity in higher education STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, public school desegregation, and full-service community schools.

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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

MSW Program The Master of Social Work We have welcomed an incoming beginning to emulate the (MSW) program celebrated class of 227 registered students, management methods and 127 new MSW graduates at a including eight hailing from paradigms practiced by for- commencement ceremony at China, Nigeria, or Israel. profit companies. The MSW/ Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Eighteen percent of our MBA joint degree program is Hall & Museum on May 1, incoming students have chosen designed to provide students 2016. Twenty-three graduates our COSA concentration. We with a unique combination of completed the requirements for also welcomed two new full- social work knowledge and the Community, Organization, time and six new part-time skills as well as exceptional and Social Action (COSA) track, faculty members. strength in management-level and 104 graduates did so for the We are pleased to announce decision making and leadership. Direct Practice with Individuals, the launch of the new joint Professor Hidenori Yamatani Families, and Small Groups degree option: a Master of will coordinate this joint degree track. In June, another three Social Work and a Master program, which will initially students graduated with their of Business Administration be open to COSA students only, MSW degrees, and in August, 21 from Pitt’s Joseph M. Katz although plans are under way students graduated. We applaud Graduate School of Business. to eventually include Direct their accomplishments and wish Faced with an increasingly Practice students as well. The them strength and courage as competitive, commercialized, first class of the joint degree they tackle many of society’s and entrepreneurial market, program will begin in fall 2017. most intransigent problems. nonprofit organizations are

PhD Program The Doctor of Philosophy scholars. They continue to System. We wish both of them program had an eventful spring publish and represent the School the best of luck. and summer that featured a of Social Work at national The doctoral program is leadership change, as Christina conferences and meetings. very excited to welcome five Newhill stepped down and In the spring, two students, new students this year. Kate Jeffrey Shook was appointed Courtney Queen and Janice Levine-Freedman, Christina program director. We are very McCall, successfully defended Ramos, Kess Ballentine, Kristen grateful for the leadership their dissertations. Queen MacKenzie and Haeran Song Newhill has provided over currently is working at the began their journey with us the years. U.S. Department of Homeland this fall, and we look forward Security, and McCall has started Our students continue to be to watching them develop as a postdoctoral program at the productive, and we have an scholars and teachers. excellent group of emerging VA Pittsburgh Healthcare

CONGRATULATIONS, DOCTORAL GRADUATES! LAUREN ELIZABETH CHEREESE MAKALIS JANICE DAISY CHO BISHOP FITZPATRICK PHILLIPS McCALL (MSW ’11, PHD ’15) (PHD ’15) (PHD ’16) NGOC NGUYEN NGUYEN AMANDA EGNER HUNSAKER HYUN A. SONG (PHD ’15) (MSW ’11, PHD ’16) (PHD ’16)

6 SOCIALWORK.PITT.EDU DAN’TALISHA DEANS FOLLOWS HER DREAMS TO THE WHITE HOUSE

Two dreams have come true for social administration (now Dan’Talisha Deans (MSW ’12). known as COSA, or Community, One was to meet President Barack Organization, and Social Action) Obama while he is still in office. as well as a Certificate in Human The other was to be accepted to Services Management. She the highly competitive Presidential then went to work as a project Management Fellows (PMF) coordinator for the Program, an entry-level leadership University’s Center on Race development initiative for graduate and Social Problems. students administered by the U.S. While at Pitt, she applied to Office of Personnel Management the PMF Program with the in Washington, D.C. backing of Keith Caldwell, Dan’Talisha Deans in front of the White Both dreams were realized in director of the BASW House (top) and with tandem. Deans met Obama program; Tracy Soska, her White House dogs Bo while working as a Presidential advisor and chair of the and Sunny. Management fellow at the U.S. COSA concentration; and While in the program, Deans Department of Housing and Urban Dean Larry E. Davis. founded a PMF council at HUD, Development (HUD) as a member “Her work as a student and a where she learned how to navigate of the Performance Management student leader, along with her governmental bureaucracy. Her Office within the Office of the interest in policy practice, made Pitt education, she adds, has been Chief Human Capital Officer from her an ideal and strong candidate,” a “tremendous” help. June 2014 to June 2016. Less than 10 says Soska, who worked closely percent of the approximately 7,000 “My social work training and with Deans as a mentor on social applicants were selected for Deans’ curriculum focused on human policy and advocacy issues. He PMF cohort. resource management; effectively notes that her peers selected her to working with communities, During her appointment, Deans serve as president of the school’s organizations, and individuals; developed the performance Student Executive Council and building capacity; and social management portion of the that she interned with the Idaho policy, to name just a few [areas]. agency’s new employee orientation chapter of the National Association These have all prepared me for and currently serves as its key of Social Workers during a term of the work I do and have done in facilitator. She also played a study there. government.” significant role in HUD’s employee Deans, 26, now works as a engagement efforts, serving as the Soska says that Deans is an management analyst in HUD’s agency’s employee engagement outstanding social work role Performance Management Office point of contact for the Office model who he sees contributing in the Office of Human of Personnel Management. In to the field’s priority to advance Capital Officer. She says that her addition, she served six months on policy practice for all social early professional experiences the leadership development team workers and social work students. inside the Beltway have taught with the White House Office of She “exemplifies the reemergence her a great deal. Presidential Personnel. of social workers in the policy “I’ve learned that it is important to arena,” he says. Deans was an undergraduate understand one’s organizational studying social work at Alabama “She carries herself very well; culture, especially when it comes A&M University when she first conveys a strong sense of to getting things done,” she says. heard about the PMF Program for responsibility; takes initiative; “This is probably true for all sectors grad students. After graduating, and demonstrates many of the but especially in government, she enrolled at the University of intangibles of charisma, grace, because there are often many Pittsburgh School of Social Work and personal strength of self and key stakeholders involved in the and earned a master’s degree in convictions that one looks for in decision-making process.” social work with an emphasis emerging leaders.” on community organizing and

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LATE DEAN DAVID E. EPPERSON INDUCTED INTO NATIONAL YMCA HALL OF FAME

A dedicated leader of the Pittsburgh Washington, president and CEO, professor emeritus until his death in community and worldwide YMCA of the USA. “Whether 2011 at the age of 76. ambassador of the YMCA, the late reaching out to college students, the “I knew Dave as a colleague, a David E. Epperson has earned a place African American community, or neighbor, a friend, and a fellow in the National YMCA Hall of Fame rural areas of Asia and Africa, he servant of the YMCA,” said Leon at Springfield College. Epperson’s worked to ensure that everyone felt L. Haley, professor emeritus at contributions to the YMCA welcomed at the YMCA and that the University of Pittsburgh and movement were recognized during their contributions were valued. He author of A Citadel of Hope: The an induction ceremony on July 16 at merits induction into our Hall of Centre Avenue YMCA. “He had three the General Assembly of YMCAs in Fame not only for the work he did passions in life: his faith and service Kansas City, Mo. personally to further the Y’s mission to the church; his wife and daughters but also for his ability to mobilize “In all my years with the YMCA, and, by extension, a love of teaching people worldwide to work together to I have not met anyone with more all children; and his love of the strengthen their communities.” dedication to the YMCA’s mission YMCA, which lasted from his first than David Epperson,” said Kevin Epperson first experienced the day of his freshman year at college Bolding, president and chief executive YMCA community as a student at until the last day of his life. He not officer of the YMCA of Greater the University of Pittsburgh in 1954, only supported the YMCA’s values of Pittsburgh. “He devoted more than when he attended “freshman camp” at respect, responsibility, honesty, and 50 years of service to the YMCA and Camp Kon-O-Kwee Spencer in Beaver caring but lived them out in every inspired several generations of young County, Pa. After a four-year stint in facet of his life each day.” people from the Hill District to Hong the U.S. Air Force, he returned to the While Epperson’s devotion to Kong to live healthy lives dedicated University of Pittsburgh and began the Pittsburgh community was to serving their communities. For all working part time at the Centre unwavering, he also worked hard to he did to further the YMCA’s work in Avenue YMCA in Pittsburgh’s Hill spread the YMCA’s mission globally. Pittsburgh and in all corners of the District. He proceeded to become During college, he volunteered at the world, he deeply deserves recognition president of the University of YMCA’s Buildings of Brotherhood in the YMCA Hall of Fame.” Pittsburgh Student YMCA and the Work Camp in Turkey. After he National Student YMCA. The National YMCA Hall of Fame graduated, he became the first honors YMCA professionals and After graduating with a bachelor’s African American World Service volunteers who exemplify a lifetime of degree in political science, he worker with the Chinese YMCA in commitment to the mission and cause continued his education, earning Hong Kong. In 1991, he joined the of the YMCA. It honors individual master’s degrees in social work and Y-USA’s International Committee, leaders who have devoted their lives international relations and a PhD in which he served twice as chair of the to strengthening the community by political science and public policy, committee and 15 years as chair of the nurturing the people around them and all at the University of Pittsburgh, committee’s Office for Africa. He was helping them improve their bodies, where he eventually made his also a delegate to nine World Council minds, and spirits. career. Beloved by his students and meetings and served on the World colleagues, Epperson served as dean Alliance Executive Committee. “One of Dr. Epperson’s enduring of the University of Pittsburgh’s legacies is the inclusion and sense “The YMCA has never had an School of Social Work for 29 years, of belonging that he helped to grow ambassador that was so well known making him the longest-serving dean at YMCAs in the United States and well liked nationally and in the University’s history. He retired and around the world,” said Kevin internationally as Dave,” said Julius in 2001, serving as dean emeritus and

8 SOCIALWORK.PITT.EDU Jones, executive director of the YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh from 1979 to 2003. “No matter where we traveled in the world, people knew him as a ABOUT THE YMCA man who would do anything to ease the burden of another. He was the kind of person who would The YMCA is the nation’s leading nonprofit committed to promise a village in Kenya that he would raise strengthening communities through youth development, money to dig a well for clean drinking water and healthy living, and social responsibility. The YMCA of Greater come back with the resources to dig 500 wells Pittsburgh is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to across the country.” nurturing the potential of every youth and teen, improving the community’s health and well-being, and providing At home in Pittsburgh, Epperson volunteered with opportunities to give back and support our neighbors. the YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh and served on its Programs offered by the YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh serve Board of Directors, including as board chair, for more than 90,000 different people each year and include more than 50 years. He also served on the Y-USA after-school care and childcare, outdoor camping, community Board of Directors from 1998 to 2007 and was the outreach, sports, health and fitness, youth counseling, and first African American board chair of Y-USA. senior assistance. Every day, the Y works side by side with its During his time as national chair, he emphasized neighbors to ensure that everyone, regardless of age, income, diversity and inclusion initiatives and expanding or background, has the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive. the YMCA’s public policy role in Washington, D.C. “Dr. Epperson made a lifelong impact on the YMCA at the local, national, and international levels,” said Eric Mann, current president and CEO of the YMCA of Florida’s First Coast and former CEO of the YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh. “His leadership and mentorship of young people was a beacon of hope among the African American community. Many of us grew up wanting to be like him, hoping we could someday emulate his tremendous impact on the world through his work with the YMCA.”

BRIDGES FALL 2016 | 9 COVER STORY BROKEN: RACE AND POLICE RELATIONS In the opening moments of occasionally works with the Black Tackling the Beyoncé’s performance at the Lives Matter movement. “There MTV Video Music Awards on is no more putting out the sparks. August 28, gunshots sounded as This is a state of emergency.” Increasing Violence angels collapsed in pools of blood. Tension between law enforcement Earlier, the popular Black singer and Black communities has not Between Black and actress had walked the event’s red carpet with the mothers of been this high since the height four Black males from across the of the civil rights movement in Citizens and country who had died as a result the 1960s, not even in the federal of handgun violence, three at the war on drugs during its peak hands of police. in the 1980s and 1990s. And in Law Enforcement an increasingly hostile social Around the same time, NFL quar- environment, the hot-button issue Starts with Asking terback Colin Kaepernick, who has of race and policing creates oppor- worn socks depicting as pigs, tunities for which social workers stirred controversy by refusing to are uniquely qualified. stand as the national anthem was played before preseason games. “For us, it’s part of our total “Why?” commitment to justice. It’s a The San Francisco 49ers quarter- back has said that his protest will social justice issue,” says Larry E. be ongoing to highlight issues Davis, dean of the University of such as racial inequality and Pittsburgh School of Social Work by LaMont Jones Jr. police brutality. and director of its Center on Race and Social Problems. “We attempt The social activism of both drew to alleviate the injustices we see. praise from some quarters and We want to make sure that people criticism from others and fueled in all communities are treated the anger and division that increas- fairly as citizens. When someone ingly characterize the relationship is not, that runs counter to the between law enforcement and position and goals of social work.” Black communities. The public posturing comes at a time when Social workers can play a critical the number of civilians killed by role in repairing the breach, police has risen dramatically and acknowledges Darrel Stephens, the incidences of police killed by a law enforcement veteran of civilians, some of them retaliatory, nearly 50 years and executive have seen an alarming increase. director of the Major Cities “I feel like the time bomb has Chiefs Association, a nonprofit gone off,” says La’Tasha Mayes, professional organization. “They cofounder and executive director frequently are dealing with of New Voices Pittsburgh, a families in crisis and children 12-year-old advocacy group that who may have witnessed violence

10 “I feel like the time

or have been subjected to abuse,” bomb has gone off. says Stephens. “Partnerships with the police can improve the overall There is no more government response to these tragedies and contribute to better relationships.” putting out the The situation may get worse before it gets better. In Texas, for sparks. This is a example, five Dallas police officers were killed and seven others were state of emergency. injured by sniper fire as they ” RACE AND POLICE RELATIONS policed a protest march on July La’Tasha Mayes, cofounder and executive 7. The young Black male accused director of New Voices Pittsburgh of shooting them, who ultimately was killed during the incident by a police robot explosive, said when And they have. This year is on has always avoided speaking out confronted that he was unhappy track to break a record for fatal on controversial topics, issued a about police shootings. A few attacks on police by civilians. statement in late July saying that he weeks later, Dallas police were Between January and early August, could “no longer stay silent. … compared to the same period fired on again when they answered “I have been deeply troubled by in 2015, there was an 84 percent a call about shots being fired—an the deaths of African-Americans increase in the number of police apparent ambush. at the hands of law enforcement officers killed by gunfire in the and angered by the cowardly and Typically, high-profile civilian line of duty, according to the hateful targeting and killing of deaths at the hands of police are nonprofit Officer Down Memorial police officers,” his statement said, Black males killed by White male Page, Inc. officers. In recent cases involving in part. “We need to find solutions attacks on police, the officers The increased attacks on police, that ensure people of color receive have typically been White and perhaps unprecedented in U.S. fair and equal treatment AND that the shooters Black. The two-di- history, are “horrible incidents that police officers—who put their lives rectional violence is evidence of strike at the heart of our democ- on the line every day to protect us a relationship between police and racy,” says Stephens. “I understand all—are respected and supported.” the tension that exists between the public, specifically communi- Jordan pledged $1 million each to police and the African American ties of color, that is “broken and the NAACP Legal Defense and community, but violence toward often laced with suspicion,” says Educational Fund, Inc., and the police must be condemned—just as Pitt School of Law professor David Institute for Community-Police excessive force by police should be.” Harris, who has researched and Relations, an initiative of the written about race and policing The uptick in deadly civilian- International Association of Chiefs issues. “When you don’t trust and police encounters, particularly of Police. His hope that “we all work can’t talk to each other, when you attacks against police, has put the together” to mend police-commu- don’t have a way of trusting each public on edge—and awakened nity relations echoed a statement other so you can work together, a sleeping giant. Retired NBA by another Black man, whose police things go wrong in a hurry.” superstar Michael Jordan, who beating 25 years ago in California created a national furor. Following a high-speed chase on We need to find solutions that ensure people March 3, 1991, four Los Angeles, “ Calif., police officers pulled the unarmed 25-year-old Rodney of color receive fair and equal treatment AND King out of his car and inflicted injuries that included a broken that police officers—who put their lives on the ankle and 11 skull fractures. An amateur photographer witnessed line every day to protect us all—are respected the incident and sent 81 seconds of grainy video footage to a local and supported.” Michael Jordan, retired NBA superstar TV station, igniting international

BRIDGES FALL 2016 | 11 COVER STORY “When we talk about [police] and what we expect of them ... One is for them to outcry. Three of the four officers were acquitted the following year; obey the law as they enforce the law. It’s the jury couldn’t agree on charges against the fourth officer involved. simply not acceptable for those whose The acquittals set off fiery riots across Los Angeles—and protests job is to enforce the law not to follow it, elsewhere in the nation—that left more than 50 people dead, more even if that is deemed by some people than 2,000 injured, and about $1 billion in property damage. as for some greater purpose.” King, who pleaded “Can we all get along?” in an on-camera appeal to David Harris, Pitt School of Law professor stop the rioting, sued the City of Los Angeles and ultimately won a multi- That legacy of the racialization of adds, “they tend to be dispropor- million-dollar judgment. Decades crime and criminalization of race tionately and unjustly targeted by later, police and many communities continued to influence policing in police forces seeking to justify the of color are still struggling with the 1960s, when departments were economic investments in them. how to get along. ordered to enforce anti-Black prac- “In fact, [Black and Latino popula- One reason, suggests Davis, is tices in the North and de jure segre- tions] have been disproportionately that dialogue tends to be sensitive gation in the South, says Harris. “At targeted by the drug war, despite because it is largely a Black-White sit-ins, restaurant managers didn’t the fact that drug use and sale issue. “The police have historically arrest protesters; police did. When numbers are comparable across been White and continue to be African American people tried to groups. In addition to the economic White, and Blacks have been the sign up and vote, the registrar didn’t mechanisms, long-standing skewed ones, mainly, who have suffered the attack them with dogs and water media portrayals of Blacks have majority of injustices or aggressions hoses; police did.” reinforced the notion that they are, from police. White America views James P. Huguley, an assistant as a group, more dangerous and police as guardians—in some professor in the School of Social criminal and thus worthy of greater respects guardians from Black Work, says that the grim situation police attention.” people. Police have had to enforce today can be better understood and uphold historically unjust laws Mayes echoes the frustration of in the historical context of Black to keep Black people contained, so many Blacks with her assertion that subjugation. police are in a tough spot.” “the mere presence of Black people “Many police forces in the U.S. have incites fear in the minds and hearts Harris traces the roots of mutual been a mechanism by which the of officers, regardless of race, and is mistrust back to slavery, when many racial order could be maintained,” a sentence to death in an encounter of the first police forces began as he says, “and Black populations with police.” She suspects that most slave patrols. “They were deputized could be kept in check as desired by Black people share experiences with groups that could hunt down slaves the larger community and society. law enforcement that are similar to and interrogate them and ask to see Blacks have been experiencing hers, in which she was “fraught with their passes. They enforced rules oppression from police forces fear for my life.” against slaves such as no reading.” perpetually in the U.S., and only It’s a fear that often is passed from Criminal law—through the pre-Civil now, in the social media era, is generation to generation. Huguley War Slave Codes, the post-Civil War the world able to witness it in real notes that many Black parents Black Codes, and the subsequent time.” have a serious conversation with Jim Crow laws—was used as a form Law enforcement perpetuates their children, especially boys, of social control over both free and injustice against Black communities about how to conduct themselves enslaved Blacks, notes William M. through several structural mecha- with police. Carter Jr., dean of Pitt’s School of nisms, including a system of mass Law. “The law and law enforcement “They unfortunately have to incarceration “that incentivizes practices have been heavily communicate proactively to their arrests and prosecutions for racialized since the founding of children that their rights may be nonviolent offenses,” says Huguley. the country,” says Carter, who violated and that they may not And because Black and Latino has researched and written about receive the benefit of the doubt populations “have less political historical and contemporary consti- from many officers and, in these clout and are overrepresented in tutional and civil rights issues. instances, that it may be necessary lower economic communities,” he

12 SOCIALWORK.PITT.EDU to obey unjust directives from threatening or more likely to be will be more likely to obey the law. police,” says Huguley. “At the same engaged in criminal behavior and Of course, the opposite is true, too. time, I hear Black parents trying are put in a high-stress situation, If people feel that the police do not to be clear that their children such as a police-citizen encounter, treat them fairly, do not treat them shouldn’t hate all police and that [then] that is when those implicit with respect and equality, they there are many good ones. It is a biases tend to manifest and consider the police authority to be tough balance for families, trying to therefore to make it more likely illegitimate, and they are less likely promote a cautious respect for law that an encounter may escalate to follow the law.” enforcement when so many exam- or be perceived by the citizen as The law itself may be problematic ples of unjust and deadly practices influenced by his or her race,” because it provides more protection are now being captured so often in says Carter. to police than to ordinary citizens. the social media age.” Because it’s unlikely that an “Sometimes use of deadly force is Race complicates the conversation untrained average police officer has questionable,” says Harris. “That when a Black civilian dies at the more or less implicit bias than the law should be properly calibrated. It hands of a White officer. The officer average citizen, Carter says, it is should be reasonable and necessary typically gets labeled a racist, a important for police departments to to take a life. That’s not the law charge that inflames passions and provide officers with the tools and right now. Current law says a cop can deny the complexity of the training to recognize and interrupt can use deadly force if it is reason- issue. implicit bias. able in his or her eyes. Some states “I definitely do not think all or most “There is no reason to think that, have additional conditions, but this police bring overt racist perspec- absent such training, the average is basic constitutional law. Some tives to their work,” says Huguley. police officer would necessarily be are saying maybe there should be “However, issues like selective better than the rest of us at knowing stricter laws with stricter training.” surveillance and monitoring of what his or her implicit biases Carter agrees, noting that U.S. communities of color and reinforced even are, let alone knowing how to Supreme Court case law—“through stereotypes in our society are prevent those biases from affecting legal doctrines of immunity, structural issues that make justice in their investigatory practices or standards of proof, and standards policing a very troubling problem for encounters with citizens,” says of pleading in civil cases—makes it Black and Brown people in the U.S. Carter. “Studies have shown, tremendously difficult to success- Many of these tragic, racially influ- however, that when provided with fully litigate a claim of racially enced events that we see … reflect such training, police officers do biased law enforcement practices the subtle and subconscious ways substantially better than the average unless there is explicit proof that our society trains us to understand citizen in recognizing implicit the officer purposely intended to act race and how it can impact a sudden bias and avoiding it affecting in a racially biased manner, which life-or-death decision. And the their behavior.” of course completely discounts the science is there for us to get better at Still, police are sworn to uphold the existence of implicit bias influ- those momentary decisions.” law regardless of the intensity of an encing officers in ways they may Part of the solution is for everyone encounter, says Harris. not even recognize.” to become aware of his or her own “When we talk about [police] and Because the case law makes unconscious and implicit racial what we expect of them, people are succeeding on such claims so diffi- biases. “Our culture has historically looking for two things,” Harris says. cult and claimants’ successes are so treated Blackness as a signal of poten- “One is for them to obey the law infrequent, “the law doesn’t impose tial danger and of inherent propensity as they enforce the law. It’s simply much of a cost for departments that for criminality,” says Carter. not acceptable for those whose job fail to train officers effectively in When negative unconscious or is to enforce the law not to follow these issues,” Carter says. “The implicit racial biases are enabled by it, even if that is deemed by some departments therefore have little or reflected in laws, public policy, people as for some greater purpose. external legal incentive to change police training, and procedures The other part is [that] people current practices and behavior. —for example, racial profiling— understand whether they are being Change therefore has to come from the chances of violent or deadly treated fairly and equally. There the inside.” conflict increase. is very good empirical evidence Many cities, including Pittsburgh in that if you treat people fairly, if you “If you have an embedded set 1997, have signed consent decrees treat them with equality and with of unconscious assumptions with the federal government to respect, they will view police as a and biases, as we all do, such as diversify their police ranks by race legitimate force for good and they perceiving Blacks as being more and gender to avoid litigation over

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practices and patterns of civil that offer social work degrees, only and macro levels,” says Soska. rights violations. Although in many a small percentage of graduates Experts agree that a return to cases the agreements have helped, choose to work in macro practice, community policing is a huge some critics say that the fractious the arena that encompasses advo- step in the right direction. relationship between police and cacy and community organizing Black communities can be repaired around policy issues such as “When police are known by only when racism is eradicated. police-community relations. community members and have a vested interest in the success of “As long as there is anti-Black At Pitt over the last five years, that community’s people, and are racism, police-community between 15 and 20 percent of social not just there for arrest numbers relations will never be possible, let work students have focused on or military-style occupation, alone healthy,” says Mayes. macro practice, says Tracy Soska, then treating people humanely is an assistant professor of social work Some see progress in the intentional much more likely to be the norm,” and chair of the MSW program’s work done by progressive police says Huguley. “Also, training in Community, Organization, and departments in terms of community implicit biases—subconscious Social Action concentration. He’s policing and problem solving. racism and its impact—can be also a national leader in an industry very powerful in helping people “Police have been investing in initiative called the Special acknowledge how race impacts training in procedural justice, Commission to Advance Macro their practice in unforeseen and implicit bias, and crisis interven- Practice in Social Work. unintentional ways.” tion, which helps them de-escalate “Our goal is to see that through encounters and improve the way Harris recommends reforming our schools of social work, 20 they are handled,” notes Stephens. the rules for the use of force and percent of all students are in macro Citizens, he says, need to “open changes in police training and practice so that we can again exert their hearts and minds and not policy that promote de-escalation our leadership of the policies, engage in stereotyping of police. “rather than a model of control programs, and organizations that The community must also begin to and obedience. Too often, policing employ social workers—once our accept responsibility for its role in is focused on a war mentality and domain,” says Soska. “Our school neighborhood safety. Police offi- getting compliance over all other has never wavered in being a cers need to understand the impor- things in every encounter—or leading macro practice school, and tance of each and every one of your life is in danger. That has our student population has been at their interactions with the public. to change. We’re talking about or close to the 20 percent goal for They must not violate a person’s community policing, a shared as long as I remember.” dignity in their encounters.” responsibility for coming up with Social workers are vital to Social workers who interact goals of policing in any particular the discussion because they routinely with police and the public place.” are trained to take a systems are in a unique position to influence perspective approach that helps those relationships. However, stakeholders to solve problems. the direct involvement of social They also “make good mediators workers in community organizing because of how they approach and public policy has decreased social problems on both micro over the years. At many universities

“When police are known by community members and have a vested interest in the success of that community’s people, and are not just there for arrest numbers or military-style occupation, then treating people humanely is much more likely to be the norm.” James Huguley, assistant professor, School of Social Work

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A Message from the Office of Development DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS RECEIVES It is no secret that LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD the University of In June, School of Social Work alumnus MICHAEL J. AUSTIN Pittsburgh School of Social Work is proud (PhD ’70) received the Chauncey Alexander Lifetime Achievement of its top-10 ranking in Award at the Network for Social Work Management Annual the latest U.S. News & Management Conference awards luncheon. World Report rankings The award was established in 1989 to honor the entire career of of social work graduate select social work managers. Chauncey Alexander was a beloved, programs. We would energetic, high-performance professional—an accomplished like to give credit where credit is due. We social work manager grounded in rich social work tradition. His must thank our faculty for their scholarly lifetime of social work management achievements represents a research and teaching expertise. We must rich legacy that merits passing from one generation to the next. thank our staff for administering cutting- edge programmatic work. We must thank Recipients reflect Alexander’s passion and commitment to the our students for their innovation, energy, social work profession and his drive for excellence. During the 27- and drive. And, perhaps most fittingly, year history of the award, there have been only nine recipients. we must thank you. Austin is the Milton and Florence Krenz Mack Distinguished As alumni, you have taken your Pitt Professor of Nonprofit Management and director of the Mack Social Work education into the world Center on Nonprofit & Public Sector Management in the Human to make it better. You are practitioners, Services at the School of Social Welfare at the University of organizers, leaders, and changemakers. California, Berkeley. He is the former dean of the University of You are helping to solve complex social Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice and teaches problems, ensuring that those without graduate students in the areas of nonprofit management and a voice are heard. You are making a community planning. His areas of research include the social difference in the communities you serve—where you live, work, and play. psychology of organizational role taking, building organizational Your success has raised the profile and knowledge-sharing systems to support evidence-informed image of Pitt Social Work, and for that, practice, and expanding the methodologies of practice research. we are both grateful and proud. You have Since 1992, he has served as staff director of the Bay Area Social helped us to become a top-10 school, Services Consortium, a collaborative with primary activities that a school that is sought out by the next include an applied research program, an executive development generation of social work leaders. You program, and a policy analysis/implementation program. have challenged us to be better and to have impact in our work. Thank you for Since 2006, Austin also has served as staff director of the Bay making the school great! Area Network of Nonprofit Human Service Agencies, and he recently published a Mack Center research report on pioneering Tell us what Pitt Social Work means to you. I invite your comments via e-mail nonprofit human service organizations. ([email protected]) or phone (412-624-8604). His publications reflect a long-standing interest in the management We really want to know what you’ve of nonprofit and public sector organizations. He is the author been up to since your time here. We or coauthor of more than 20 books, more than 100 articles, and want to hear your Pitt story and learn numerous other reports. He serves as editor of Human Service how that story has shaped your many Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance. achievements. In 2005, Austin received the Career Achievement Award Simply put, we couldn’t be the top-10 school from the Association for Community Organization and Social we are today without you. Thank you! Administration. He is the only academic to be recognized by two With appreciation for you, leading national macro-social work practice organizations in which he has been active. Austin also has received the Distinguished Alumni Award for Social Work Education from School of Social Work. Tony Gacek Director of Constituent Relations 412-624-8604 [email protected]

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JOURNAL ARTICLES Cochran with Rubinstein, J., Bacci, J.L., Eack with Rotondi, A.J., Hanusa, Ylioja, T., and Tarter, R., “Screening B.H., Spring, M.B., and Haas, G.L., Keith Caldwell Community Pharmacy Patients for “Critical Design Elements of E-health with Levinson, S.G., Risk of Prescription Opioid Misuse,” Applications for Users with Severe Petracchi, H.E., Journal of Addiction Medicine, 9(5): Mental Illness: Singular Focus, Simple Wexler, S., and Engel, 411–6, 2015. Architecture, Prominent Contents, R., “Integrating Explicit Navigation, and Inclusive Video Documentary Shaun M. Eack, Hyperlinks,” Schizophrenia Bulletin, into the Classroom: “Complying with the 41(2): 440–8, 2015. A Community National Institutes of Assessment Assignment,” Journal Health Public Access Eack with Shashi, V., Harrel, W., of Teaching in Social Work, 36(2): Policy to Facilitate Sanders, C., McConkie-Rosell, 160–75, 2016. Science Availability A., Keshavan, M.S., Bonner, M., for All,” Research on Schoch, K., and Hooper, S.R., “Social Gerald Cochran Social Work Practice, Cognitive Training in Adolescents with Bacci, J.L., 25(5): 619–22, 2015. with Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion Ylioja, T., Hruschak, Syndrome: Feasibility and Preliminary V., Miller, S., Seybert, Eack with Bishop-Fitzpatrick, L., Effects of the Intervention,” Journal of A.L., and Tarter, Mazefsky, C.A., and Minshew, N.J., Intellectual Disability Research, 59(10): R., “Prescription “The Relationship between Stress 902–13, 2015. Opioid Use: Patient and Social Functioning in Adults Eack with Wojtalik, J.A., Barb, S.M., Characteristics and with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Newhill, C.E., Keshavan, M.S., and Misuse in Community Pharmacy,” without Intellectual Disability,” Autism Research, 8(2): 164–73, 2015. Phillips, M.L., “Fronto-limbic Brain Journal of the American Pharmacists Dysfunction during the Regulation of Association, 56(3): 248–56, 2016. Eack with Hogarty, S.S., Bangalore, Emotion in Schizophrenia,” PLOS ONE, Cochran with Field, C., Foreman, M., S.S., Keshavan, M.S., and Cornelius, 11(3): 2016. J.R., “Patterns of Substance Use during Ylioja, T., and Brown, C.V.R., “Effects Eack with Wojtalik, J.A., Hogarty, of Brief Intervention on Subgroups of Cognitive Enhancement Therapy: An 18-month Randomized Feasibility S.S., Cornelius, J.R., Phillips, M.L., Injured Patients Who Drink at Risk Keshavan, M.S., and Newhill, C.E., Levels,” Injury Prevention, 22(3): Study,” Journal of Dual Diagnosis, 12(1): 74–82, 2016. “Cognitive Enhancement Therapy 221–5, 2016. Improves Frontolimbic Regulation Cochran with Gordon, A.J., Field, Eack with Hogarty, S.S., Greenwald, of Emotion in Alcohol and/or C., Bacci, J., Dhital, R., Ylioja, T., D.P., Litschge, M.Y., McKnight, S.A.F., Cannabis Misusing Schizophrenia: Bangalore, S.S., Pogue-Geile, M.F., Stitzer, M., Kelly, T., and Tarter, R., A Preliminary Study,” Frontiers in Keshavan, M.S., and Cornelius, J.R., “Developing a Framework of Care Psychiatry, 6: 2016. “Cognitive Enhancement Therapy in for Opioid Medication Misuse in Substance Misusing Schizophrenia: Rachel A. Fusco Community Pharmacy,” Research Results of an 18-month Feasibility with Jung, N., in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, Trial,” Schizophrenia Research, 161(2–3): and Newhill, 12(2): 293–301, 2016. 478–83, 2015. C.E., “Maternal Victimization and Cochran with Gordon, A., Lo-Ciganic, Eack with Mazefsky, C.A., and Child Trauma: The W., Gellad, W.F., Cathers, T., and Minshew, N.J., “Misinterpretation Mediating Role of Donohue, J.M., “Treatment Quality of Facial Expressions of Emotion in Mothers’ Affect,” for Buprenorphine Care: The Pot at Verbal Adults with Autism Spectrum Children and Youth Services Review, the End of the Rainbow,” Journal of Disorder,” Autism, 19(3): 308–15, 2015. 67: 247–53, 2016. Addiction Medicine, 10(3): 210–1, 2016. Eack with Newhill, C.E., and Keshavan, Sara Goodkind Cochran with Gordon, A.J., Lo-Ciganic, M.S., “Cognitive Enhancement with Bay-Cheng, W., Gellad, W.F., Cathers, T., Kelley, Therapy Improves Resting-state L.Y., “Sex and the D., and Donohue, J.M., “Patterns and Functional Connectivity in Early Single (Neoliberal) Quality of Buprenorphine Opioid Course Schizophrenia,” Journal of the Girl: Perspectives on Agonist Treatment in a Large Medicaid Society for Social Work and Research, Being Single among Program,” Journal of Addiction 7(2): 211–30, 2016. Socioeconomically Medicine, 9(6): 470–7, 2015. Diverse Young Eack with Padmanabhan, J.L., Tandon, Cochran with Lo-Ciganic, W., Gellad, Women,” Sex Roles: A Journal of N., Haller, C.S., Mathew, I.T., Clementz, Research, 74 (5): 181–94, 2016. W.F., Gordon, A.J., Zemaitis, M.A., B.A., Pearlson, G.D., Sweeney, J.A., Cathers, T., Kelley, D., and Donohue, Tamminga, C.A., and Keshavan, Goodkind with Kolivoski, K.M., Shook, J.M., “Association between Trajectories M.S., “Correlations between Brain J.J., Johnson, H.C., Fusco, R., DeLisi, of Buprenorphine Treatment and Structure and Symptom Dimensions M., and Vaughn, M.G., “Applying Legal Emergency Department and In-patient of Psychosis in Schizophrenia, Socialization to the Child Welfare Utilization,” Addiction, 111(5): Schizoaffective, and Psychotic Bipolar System: Do Youths’ Perceptions of 892–902, 2016. I Disorders,” Schizophrenia Bulletin, Caseworkers Matter?” Child & Youth 41(1): 154–62, 2015. Care Forum, 45(1): 65–83, 2016.

16 SOCIALWORK.PITT.EDU Elizabeth A. Mentoring Approach,” Journal of Social BOOKS Mulvaney, Work in the Global Community, 1(1): “Thanksgiving: 1–16, 2015. Larry E. Davis, Why A Reflection on Are They Angry with Personal and Petracchi with Weaver, A., Schelbe, Us? Essays on Race, Professional L., and Song, H., “Service-learning in Chicago, Ill.: Lyceum Caregiving with Baccalaureate Social Work Education: Books, 2016. Alzheimer’s,” Results of a National Survey of Reflections: Narratives of Professional Accredited Programs,” Journal of Social Helping, 20(3): 5–14, 2014. Work Education, Vol. 52(3): 325–36, 2016. Christina E. Newhill, Interventions for Serious Mental Disorders: Working Mary E. Rauktis, Christina E. Newhill with Individuals and Their Families, “ ‘When You First with Fusco, R.A., and Boston, Mass.: Pearson, 2014. Jung, N., “Maternal Get There, You Victimization and Wear Red’: Youth Child Trauma: The Perceptions of Point BOOK CHAPTER and Level Systems in Mediating Role of Fengyan Tang, “Religion and Mothers’ Affect,” Group Homes,” Child and Adolescent Social Volunteering across the Life Course,” Children and Youth in M.H. Meyer and E.A. Daniele (eds.), Services Review, 67: 247–53, 2016. Work Journal, 33(1): 91–102, 2016. Gerontology: Changes, Challenges, Newhill with Eack, S.M., and Rauktis with Siordia, C., “Demographic and Solutions, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Keshavan, M.S., “Cognitive Profile, Geographic Distribution, Praeger, 2016. Enhancement Therapy Improves Disability Prevalence, and Likelihood Resting-state Functional Connectivity of Being In-Poverty amongst in Early Course Schizophrenia,” Grandparents Responsible for OP-EDS Grandchildren,” GrandFamilies: The Journal of the Society for Social Work Larry E. Davis, “Who’s to Blame? The and Research, 7(2): 211–30, 2016. Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy, 3(1): 93–105, 2016. White Police/Black Community Divide Newhill with Eack, S.M., Wojtalik, Has Been with Us from the Beginning, J.A., Barb, S.M., Keshavan, M.S., and Fengyan Tang with and There Is a Reason for That,” Phillips, M.L., “Fronto-limbic Brain Burr, J.A., “Revisiting Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 17, 2016. the Pathways to Dysfunction during the Regulation of Davis, “Why Can’t African-Americans Be Emotion in Schizophrenia,” PLOS ONE, Retirement: A Latent as Successful as Immigrants?” Pittsburgh 11(3): 2016. Structure Model of the Dynamics Post-Gazette, December 13, 2015. Newhill with Nguyen, N.N., “The Role of Transition from of Religiosity as a Protective Factor Work to Retirement,” against Marijuana Use among African Ageing & Society, 35(8): 1739–70, 2015. PRESENTATIONS American, White, Asian, and Hispanic Michael Byers Adolescents,” Journal of Substance Use, Tang with Jang, H., and Carr Copeland, with Campbell, 21(5): 547–52, 2016. V., “Challenges and Resilience in E., “Lessons from African American Grandparents Organizational Newhill with Wojtalik, J.A., Hogarty, Raising Grandchildren: A Review Effectiveness S.S., Cornelius, J.R., Phillips, M.L., of the Literature with Practice Basecamp for Those Keshavan, M.S., and Eack, S.M., Implications,” GrandFamilies: The “Cognitive Enhancement Therapy Contemporary Journal of Research, Who Want to Help Improves Frontolimbic Regulation in Practice and Policy, 2(2): 1–31, 2015. Their Organization Alcohol and/or Cannabis Misusing Reach New Heights,” National Staff Schizophrenia: A Preliminary Study,” Tang with Jang, H., Lingler, J., Tamres, Development and Training Association Frontiers in Psychiatry, 6: 2016. L.K., and Erlen, J.A., “Stressors and Annual Conference, Denver, Colo., Caregivers’ Depression: Multiple October 2015. Helen E. Petracchi Mediators of Self-efficacy, Social with Levinson, S.G., Support, and Problem-solving Skill,” Helen Cahalane with Caldwell, K., Wexler, Social Work in Health Care, 54(7): Parry, C., “Evaluating S., and Engel, R., 651–68, 2015. Organizational “Integrating Video Change in a Tang with Lingler, J.H., Sereika, S.M., Documentary into Complex Agency Amspaugh, C.M., Arida, J.A., Happ, the Classroom: Environment,” 19th M.E., Houze, M.P., Kaufman, R.R., A Community Annual National Assessment Assignment,” Journal Knox, M.L., Tamres, L.K., and Erlen, J.A., “An Intervention to Maximize Human Services of Teaching in Social Work, 36(2): Training Evaluation Symposium, 160–75, 2016. Medication Management by Caregivers of Persons with Memory Loss: Berkeley, Calif., May 2016. Petracchi with Song, H., “The Intervention Overview and Two-month Adaptation Needs of International Outcomes,” Geriatric Nursing, 37(3): Social Work Students: A Proposed 186–91, 2016. Continued on page 18

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Cahalane with Winters, R., “An Christina E. Newhill, “Perceptions TESTIMONIES Invisible Struggle: The Presence of by Clients with Cluster-B Personality Intergenerational Trauma in Child Disorders as Compared to Their Michael Byers, “The Pennsylvania Welfare,” Pennsylvania Association Clinicians in the Assessment of Child Welfare Resource Center,” for Infant Mental Health 7th Annual Emotion Regulation Problems and Self- testimony presented before the Conference, Monroeville, Pa., harm”; with Eack, S.M., Bell, M.M., and Pennsylvania House of Representatives October 2015. Keshavan, M.S., “A Trans-diagnostic Children & Youth Committee, Comparison of Emotion Dysregulation Mechanicsburg, Pa., May 16, 2016. Cahalane with Winters, R., and Unger, in Mental Health: Implications for W., “Innovative Pathways to Sustained Helen Cahalane, “Child Welfare NIMH Research Domain Criteria”; and Change: Organizational Effectiveness Professional Education and with Wei, K., “How Does Latino Threat Work in Child Welfare,” National Training,” testimony presented at the Narrative Affect Mexican Americans’ Association of Social Workers National congressional briefing Let’s Improve Psychological Distress?” SSWR 20th Conference, Washington, D.C., June 2016. the Child Welfare Outcomes: The Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., Workforce Matters, Washington, D.C., Larry E. Davis, “Presidential Plenary: January 2016. June 28, 2016. Race: America’s Grand Challenge,” Mary L. Ohmer, Society for Social Work and Research Cahalane, “Child Welfare Professional “Community- (SSWR) 20th Annual Conference, Education and Training,” testimony based and Engaged Washington, D.C., January 2016. presented before the Pennsylvania Research: Community House of Representatives Children & Davis, “Hispanics and Blacks: A Intervention Youth Committee, Mechanicsburg, Pa., Dialogue Sharing Similarities— and Prevention,” May 16, 2016. Acknowledging Differences,” and with International Yoshioka, M.R.M., and Williams, J.H., Symposium: Japan “Race, Curriculum, and Pedagogy,” National Council for Social Welfare AWARDS/HONORS Council on Social Work Education and Community Development, Tokyo, Annual Program Meeting, Denver, Japan, June 2016. Larry E. Davis was the recipient Colo., October 2015. Mary E. Rauktis, “ ‘When You First of the 2016 National Distinguished Social Work Leadership Award from Shaun M. Eack with Bishop- Get There, You Wear Red’: Youth the Touro College Graduate School of Fitzpatrick, L., Mazefsky, C.A., Perceptions of Point and Level Systems Social Work. and Minshew, N.J., “Perception of in Group Home Care,” SSWR 20th Life as Stressful, Not Biological Annual Conference, January 2016. Shaun M. Eack, Christina E. Response to Stress, Predicts Greater Tracy M. Soska, Newhill, Mary L. Ohmer, and Social Disability in Adults with “Social Work Jeffrey J. Shook were named fellows Autism Spectrum Disorder”; with Management of the Society for Social Work and Greenwald, D.P., Hogarty, S.S., as a Catalyst Research in 2016. Litschge, M.Y., Porton, S.S., Mazefsky, for University- C.A., and Minshew, N.J., “Cognitive Community Enhancement Therapy for Adults Engagement,” with Autism Spectrum Disorder: and with Homan, Results from an Ongoing Randomized- M.B., “Issues and Challenges for controlled Trial”; and with Minshew, Managing Today’s Community-based N.J., “Common and Distinct Organizations,” Network for Social Neuroanatomical Abnormalities Work Management 27th Annual in Adult ASD and Schizophrenia,” Conference, Los Angeles, Calif., International Meeting for Autism June 2016. Research, Baltimore, Md., May 2016. Fengyan Tang, “Late-life Well-being Rachel A. Fusco, “Children Exposed in Family and Neighborhood Contexts to Intimate Partner Violence: How in Older Chinese Americans,” and with Family Strengths and Supports Mediate Chang, I., and Dong, X., “Psychological Mental Health,” and with Jung, N., and Well-being of Grandparents Caring Newhill, C.E., “Maternal Victimization for Grandchildren” and “Sense of and Child Traumatic Stress: The Community and Older Adults’ Well- Mediating Role of Mothers’ Affect,” being,” Gerontological Society of SSWR 20th Annual Conference, America Annual Scientific Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2016. Orlando, Fla., November 2015.

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PUBLICATIONS Jessica A. Wojtalik with Hogarty, AWAR DS S.S., Cornelius, J.R., Phillips, M.L., Rachel W. Goode received a Rachel W. Goode with Ye, L., Keshavan, M.S., Newhill, C.E., and predoctoral fellowship from the Sereika, S.M., Zheng, Y., Mattos, M., Eack, S.M., “Cognitive Enhancement Provost Development Fund. Acharya, S.D., Ewing, L.J., Danford, Therapy Improves Frontolimbic C., Hu, L., Imes, C.C., Chasens, Regulation of Emotion in Alcohol Valerie J. Hruschak received the E., Osier, N., Mancino, J., and and/or Cannabis Misusing Joseph and Helen Eaton Scholarship Burke, L.E., “Socio-demographic, Schizophrenia: A Preliminary Award for the best single-author Anthropometric, and Psychosocial Study,” Frontiers in Psychiatry, scholarly work. Predictors of Attrition across 6: Article 186, 1–11, 2016. Behavioral Weight-loss Trials,” Hruschak attended the North Eating Behaviors, 20: 27–33, 2016. PRESENTATIONS American Pain School (NAPS) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Goode with Ye, L., Zheng, Y., Ma, Q., James A. Kmett with Eack, S.M., in June 2016. She was one of 30 Sereika, S.M., and Burke, L.E., “The “Characteristics of Sexual Abuse trainees at the intensive five-day Impact of Racial and Socioeconomic among Individuals with Severe workshop led by NAPS faculty and Disparities on Binge Eating and Self- Mental Illnesses” and “Childhood six internationally recognized pain efficacy among Adults in a Behavioral Sexual Abuse and Longitudinal investigators from around the world. Weight Loss Trial,” Health & Social Substance Use among Individuals Work, 41(3): e60–7, 2016. with Severe Mental Illnesses,” Hruschak received a travel grant Society for Social Work and from the International Association Valerie Hruschak with Cochran, Research (SSWR) 20th Annual for the Study of Pain (IASP) to attend G., Bacci, J.L., Ylioja, T., Miller, Conference, Washington, D.C., and present a research poster at the S., Seybert, A.L., and Tarter, R., January 2016. IASP World Congress on Pain in “Prescription Opioid Use: Patient Yokohama, Japan, in September 2016. Characteristics and Misuse in Marcus Poindexter, “Engaging Community Pharmacy,” Journal Youth At-Risk in Summer Hruschak received a Conference of the American Pharmacists Programming, Respecting Ethnic/ Travel Award to attend the Association, 56(3): 248–56, 2016. Cultural Diversity & Differences” Association for Medical Education and “Managing Conflict while and Research in Substance Abuse Hruschak with Cochran, G., Maintaining Involvement with 40th Annual National Conference in Defosse, B., and Hohmeier, K.C., Youth & Families At-Risk,” Washington, D.C., in November 2016. “Prescription Opioid Abuse: AmeriCorps, Nov. 15, 2015, and Pharmacists’ Perspective and July 20, 2016, Pittsburgh, Pa. Response,” Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice, in press. Poindexter, “Explaining the Occurrence of ‘Black-on-Black’ Hruschak with Cochran, G.T., Engel, Violence among Black Residents in R.J., and Tarter, R.E., “Prescription the City of Pittsburgh,” University Opioid Misuse among Rural of Pittsburgh Graduate School Community Pharmacy Patients: of Public Health, July 13, 2016, NEW LATINO Pilot Study for Screening and Pittsburgh, Pa. GRADUATE Implications for Future Practice and Research,” Journal of Pharmacy Jessica A. Wojtalik with Eack, STUDENT GROUP Practice, in press. S.M., “Structural and Functional FOUNDED Neurobiological Correlates James A. Kmett with Eack, S.M., of Functional Outcome in DANIEL JACOBSON founded the “Characteristics of Sexual Abuse Schizophrenia: A Systematic first Latino graduate student among Individuals with Severe Review,” and with Hogarty, S.S., group at the University of Mental Illnesses,” Journal of Cornelius, J., Keshavan, M.S., Pittsburgh. It is called the Interpersonal Violence, in press. Phillips, M., and Eack, S.M., Latin American Graduate Marcus Poindexter with Ruddock, “Cognitive Enhancement Therapy Organization of Students and J.S., Gary-Webb, T.L., Walker, Improves Fronto-limbic Regulation of Emotion in Substance Misusing is open to all graduate and E.A., and Davis, N.J., “Innovative professional students at Pitt. Strategies to Improve Diabetes Schizophrenia,” SSWR 20th Annual Outcomes in Disadvantaged Conference, Washington, D.C., FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT Populations,” Diabetic Medicine, January 2016. pittlagos.wordpress.com or 33(6): 723–33, 2016. facebook.com/pittLAGOS

BRIDGES FALL 2016 | 19 CENTER ON RACE AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Fall 2016 CRSP Update SUMMER INSTITUTES Three one-day Summer Institutes kept us busy at the Center on Race and Social Problems (CRSP) during June and July. Summer Institutes are topic- and issue-focused events that bring together academic researchers with practitioners, professionals, and community leaders who wish to enhance their knowledge of the subject at hand. CRSP is proud of DISPROPORTIONALITY IN RACE AND the diversity of topics, issues, and CHILD WELFARE SUMMER INSTITUTE audiences who attend our Summer (photo above, from left to right): Institutes, which form a key part of Fred Wulczyn, Walter Smith, Chereese Phillips, Alan Dettlaff, Helen Cahalane, CRSP’s mission to provide space for and Marc Cherna people to come together for collegial PROCEDURAL JUSTICE FOR THE discussions on our society’s most POLICE AND THE COMMUNITY difficult and sensitive topics: race (photo at right, from left to right): and social problems. Chief Cameron McLay, John Wallace Jr., Kimberly Burke, Cristyn Zett, David Hickton, Jason Lando, and Full details of the three institutes Jeff Upson we hosted this summer are available on our Web site, crsp. pitt.edu. The topics were ongoing racial disproportionality in the U.S. child welfare system, a community-oriented primer on police procedures to ensure justice and safety for both officers and community members, and the issue of racial disparities in higher education access and demographics. All three institutes featured both national and local speakers and DIVERSITY AND RACIAL JUSTICE IN THE 21ST-CENTURY UNIVERSITY drew a similarly diverse audience. (photo above, from left to right): Dean Larry E. Davis, Saleem Ghubril, Jason Lee, Kenyon Bonner, Kedra Ishop, Karina Chavez, Richard Reddick, Liliana Garces, and James Huguley

20 SOCIALWORK.PITT.EDU CRSP FELLOWS 2015–16 CRSP fellows (photo at left, from left to right): Detria Dixon, Malika Mason, Mary O’Hara, Lesley McCaskey, Sarah Nestlerode, Jasmine Beckwith, Vindya Reedy, and Monte Robinson 2016–17 CRSP fellows (photo at right, from left to right): Standing: Louisa Muniain, Rebecca Sherrill, Deirdra Bullock, and Amanda Dugan Seated: Meghan Hough, Cody Harmon, and Tailer Speight

CRSP FELLOWS RESEARCH The inaugural class of CRSP fellows presented their work on April 20, A DV ISORY PA NELS 2016, and we congratulate the fellows on their excellent work during the 2015–16 academic year. We know from their presentations that they truly The Research Advisory Panels (RAPs) made a difference in children’s lives, and we look forward to hearing more provide the intellectual backbone of about their careers as they move forward to touch more lives with positive CRSP and serve to help select pilot energy, practical skills, and academic rigor. projects sponsored by the center as well as to advise on and help to plan As we begin the 2016–17 academic year, we are delighted to introduce you Summer Institute topics. The RAP to the newest batch of CRSP fellows: Deirdra Bullock, Amanda Dugan, chairs began the year with a meeting Cody Harmon, Meghan Hough, Louisa Muniain, Rebecca Sherrill, and with School of Social Work Dean Tailer Speight. and CRSP Director Larry E. Davis to They all are Master of Social Work students who are selected through outline their plans to build on past the application process to work at the Homewood Children’s Village in a accomplishments with an exciting program of in-school mentoring for at-risk students in two schools located agenda for new research projects in the in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Homewood. The CRSP fellows will work upcoming academic year. Current RAP one on one with children during school hours to help them develop the chairs are as follows: social and emotional skills that help them to build a solid foundation for CRIMINAL JUSTICE: academic success. Jeffrey Shook, School of Social Work CUBAN SOCIAL POLICY ISSUES, SPRING BREAK  ECONOMIC DISPARITIES: Waverly Duck, University of In collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Study Abroad Office, Pittsburgh Department of Sociology we currently are planning for our annual graduate-level Cuban Social Policy Issues course. A select group of 10 students will be admitted to the course, EDUCATIONAL DISPARITIES: which meets four times for readings, films, and discussion followed by a James Huguley, School of Social Work nine-day trip to the historically rich city of Havana, Cuba, during Pitt’s FAMILIES, YOUTH, AND spring recess. Students will research and learn about Cuban social policy and THE ELDERLY: social services and complete a research paper upon returning to the United Fengyan Tang, School of Social Work States. The trip costs about $1,800, and the application deadline is October 31. Details about this trip are available at crsp.pitt.edu. HEALTH: Daniel Rosen, School of Social Work CRSP PILOT FUNDS INTERRACIAL GROUP RELATIONS: We are delighted to announce that two proposals for pilot project funds Ashley Woodson, University of have been selected for funding: Pittsburgh School of Education JAIME BOOTH MENTAL HEALTH: Shaun Eack, School of Social Work “ Exploring the Role of Ethnic Identity in Latino Youths’ Experience of Acculturation Stress and Its Health Outcomes in an Emerging Latino Community” FALL  SPEAKER SERIES

LOVIE JACKSON FOSTER We look forward to another term of intellectual food for thought at our “ Design and Evaluation of A+ FamCare: African American fall speaker series at CRSP. As always, Family and Child-affirming Resilience Education: A lectures will be held from noon to Tailored Web-based Tool to Teach African American 1:30 p.m., and lunch will be provided Parents Racial Strengths, Social Problems, and Resilience” thanks to the ongoing generosity of our For more details on these promising projects or to apply for funds during fall speaker series sponsor, Buchanan the upcoming term, visit our Web site at crsp.pitt.edu. Ingersoll & Rooney PC. See page 4 for a complete list of our scheduled speakers.

BRIDGES FALL 2016 | 21 PUBLIC SERVICE PROJECT

PITT-ASSISTED COMMUNITIES & SCHOOLS PROGRAM The mission of the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work’s Pitt-Assisted Communities & Schools (PACS) program is to mobilize University resources to enrich the lives of Homewood, Pa., children and youths while simultaneously advancing the University’s commitment to transformative research, teaching, learning, and community impact. Led by professors John Wallace Jr. and James Huguley, PACS’ goal is to improve academic achievement, physical and mental health, and social and economic outcomes for the children and families who live, learn, work, and play in this Pittsburgh neighborhood.

THE STRATEGY TO CHS currently has partnerships Center on Race and Social Problems ACCOMPLISH THIS with more than 120 high schools Continues to Support Fellows at the GOAL IS FIVEFOLD: in Pennsylvania. More than 3,000 Homewood Children’s Village students are involved in Pitt 1. Assess the presence and effective- courses taught at their high school. Since 2011, the Center on Race ness of Pitt’s existing programs For the 2016–17 school year, CHS and Social Problems (CRSP) and activities in Homewood’s is partnering with Pitt’s School has provided 42 fellows to the Westinghouse Academy 6–12 of Social Work to offer the first Homewood Children’s Village school feeder pattern network College in High School social work to support the social workers at (hereafter referred to as the course, Introduction to Social Work. Pittsburgh Faison K–5, Pittsburgh Westinghouse network). This course is offered to juniors and Lincoln PreK–5, and Pittsburgh seniors at Pittsburgh Westinghouse Westinghouse Academy 6–12. The 2. Coordinate and streamline Academy 6–12. Students who CRSP fellows program works to existing programs and activities in participate in the course will earn meet the needs of the community accordance with state-of-the-art three Pitt college credits and have schools in the Westinghouse evidence-based individual and their application fee waived if they network. The School of Social Work coordinated program practices. apply to Pitt. and CRSP have provided more than 3. Match unmet network needs $100,000 to support CRSP fellows’ The School of Social Work is with corresponding University stipends. Currently, there are seven committed to providing more resources. CRSP fellows placed at Pittsburgh than $5,000 in financial support Faison and Pittsburgh Lincoln for 4. Recruit, train, and deploy for participating students’ tuition the 2016–17 academic year. students, faculty, staff, and other and supplies for the course. Keith resources to support students Caldwell, assistant professor and In addition to providing support and families in the Westinghouse director of the school’s Bachelor in the form of the Introduction to network. of Arts in Social Work program, Social Work course and the CRSP is the faculty liaison for the fellows, PACS also is actively 5. Evaluate the impact of Pitt’s Introduction to Social Work course looking to support the needs of the inputs over time, using both at Pittsburgh Westinghouse. PACS Westinghouse Network schools. formative and summative assess- also is coordinating a number of By actively connecting with the ments, to inform subsequent course-related events for this inau- community and the schools, PACS program iterations. gural high school course, including is demonstrating meaningful HIGHLIGHTS OF PACS a special book talk by Dean Larry engagement in support of trans- Davis to support students’ learning formative impact. College in High School Launches at as they read his book, Why Are Pittsburgh Westinghouse Academy They Angry with Us? Essays on College in High School (CHS) is a Race. This PACS initiative aims to concurrent enrollment program that improve college access by exposing has been in operation through Pitt’s students to the rigors of a college Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts course and supporting students as and Sciences for the past 35 years. they meet the attendant challenges. John Wallace Jr. James Huguley

22 SOCIALWORK.PITT.EDU NEWS & NOTES

CLASS NOTES Elana Devora Clavner (BASW ’88) was appointed director of IN MEMORIAM KECamps at Signature of Solon Country Club in Solon, Ohio. This Jacquelyn Naughton eight-week day camp features weekly themes along with Thankful (MSW ’76) Thursday, a social action project. When she is not playing in the pool or taking golf lessons, Clavner is the third-grade teacher at St. Andrew Joseph Toth Jr. Stanislaus School in Cleveland, Ohio. (BASW ’05, MSW ’06) Michael R. Williams David C. Droppa (MSW ’67) was appointed director of the social (PhD ’84) work program at Seton Hill University in the fall of 2015. He led a multidisciplinary research team to complete a study on community perceptions about diversity in Westmoreland County, Pa., completed in 2015, and published an article about collaboration failure, also in 2015. We Are Looking for You! The School of Social Work is seeking Kathy Kroeger (MSW ’06) received the inaugural Pamela J. Cousins alumni who might be interested in Excellence in Social Work Award from the Master of Social Work becoming field instructors for our program at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. Kroeger received students. a congratulatory note from Senator Robert P. Casey Jr. If you are interested in becoming a field instructor, please visit socialwork.pitt.edu/academics/ Pitt Career Network field-education for more information. Register to serve as a mentor to a current student or to network with fellow alumni. The Pitt Career Network is an online networking Did You Know? service for Pitt alumni and students that provides the opportunity to discuss careers and job prospects, learn The VanKirk Career Center is open about your field in new places, have a positive impact on someone’s to alumni as well as students from the future, and make valuable connections with other alumni. School of Social Work. For more information and to sign up, visit alumni.pitt.edu/alumni/ Our specialization in social work resources/career-resources. careers will provide you with the information and connections necessary to empower people, lead organizations, and grow communities. The VanKirk Career Center hosts student and alumni networking events and career development workshops throughout Keep Us Posted! the year. Our free job posting service provides employers with a direct The School of Social Work wants to know connection to the region’s top talent. what’s new with you. Visit socialwork.pitt.edu/student- Tell us about career advancements, papers, honors, resources/career-services.php for and achievements, and we’ll include this information full details on upcoming events or to in our Class Notes section. Simply visit socialwork. schedule an appointment. pitt.edu/alumni/alumniupdates.php and submit your name, degree(s) and graduation year(s), and the information you’d like to highlight (be sure FIND US ONLINE! to include locations and dates). Find us on If you wish to include a photo, please make Facebook by sure the file size is at least 1 megabyte to searching for ensure proper print quality. We accept PittSSW TIF, EPS, and JPG files. Follow us on Twitter: @PittSocialwork

BRIDGES FALL 2016 | 23 NONPROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID School of Social Work PITTSBURGH, PA PERMIT NO. 511 2117 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ...... CENTER ON RACE AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS BUCHANAN INGERSOLL & ROONEY PC FALL 2016 SPEAKER SERIES SCHOOL OF TUESDAY, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016 Social Work SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 “ Race and Gender in the Police: “ Why Diversity Programs Beyond the Blue Uniform” Empower People Don’t Work” Lead Organizations MAURITA BRYANT, Assistant FRANK DOBBIN, Professor of Superintendent, Allegheny Grow Communities Sociology, Harvard University County Police

All lectures are from noon to 1:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2016 in the School of Social Work Conference OCTOBER 19, 2016 “ Just Discipline and the School- Center, 2017 Cathedral of Learning. “Residential Segregation: to-Prison Pipeline in Greater What Are the Remedies?” Pittsburgh: Local Challenges Lunch will be provided; registration RICHARD ROTHSTEIN, and Promising Solutions” is not required. For more information, Research Associate, JAMES HUGULEY, Assistant visit socialwork.pitt.edu or call Economic Policy Institute Professor, University of Pittsburgh 412-624-6304. School of Social Work

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK 2016–17 SPEAKER SERIES THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 “ What Does Prevention Look Like?” “Understanding Collaboration PATRICIA M. MARTIN, Presiding Judge, from the Ground Up to Advance Child Protection Division, Circuit Court Evidence-based Practices” of Cook County, Ill. BRIAN SCHREIBER, President and CEO, Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2016 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017 TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2017 Raymond R. Webb Jr. Lecture Sidney A. Teller Lecture WORLD SOCIAL WORK DAY LECTURE “ Are Children and Women for Sale? “ Radical Love in an Age of Racial “ The ‘Greening’ of Social Work: Yes, and It’s a $150 Billion Industry” Oppression: Social Work, Social Striving for Environmental Justice” NOËL BUSCH-ARMENDARIZ, Professor; Change, and the Politics of MICHAEL S. CRONIN, Associate Associate Dean for Research; and Unflinching Inclusivity” Professor and Coordinator, Director, Institute on Domestic Violence JOHN L. JACKSON JR., Dean, Concentration in International and 24 SOCIALWORK.PITT.EDUand Sexual Assault, University of Texas University of Pennsylvania Community Development, Monmouth at Austin School of Social Work School of Social Policy & Practice University School of Social Work