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UNIVERSITY OF DENVER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK SPRING 13

FOUR CORNERS CELEBRATES 10TH ANNIVERSARY

Alumni Awards Page 26 contents scene @ gssw features From the Dean 4 FOUR CORNERS: March Lecture In this issue of GSSW Magazine, we honor the accomplishments Celebrating a Decade of Social of our Four Corners MSW Program during its first 10 years, its Work Education positive impact on people and communities throughout the Rounds out Four Corners region, and the many partners and supporters who have made these achievements possible. nnual eries sections A S At the same time, we are pleased to announce that we are 1 scene@gssw in the process of launching a similar program this fall in 10 Student News Glenwood Springs, Colorado. In partnership with Colorado Mountain College, and with the support and encouragement 14 Faculty News of the Garfield County Department of Human Services, GSSW has developed the Western Colorado MSW Program, set to 19 Staff News begin operation in September. We will keep you apprised 20 Institute for Human–Animal as the program takes shape and our first cohort of students Connection begins their studies. 22 Butler Institute Additionally, GSSW will implement a new and innovative MSW curriculum when our incoming two-year students begin the on-campus and Western Colorado programs this 23 Bridge Project fall. You’ll find details in the article on the back cover of this magazine or click here for 24 Development information on our website. 26 Alumni News Please note that we have also completely redesigned our website to make information even more accessible to alumni, applicants, students and our many other audiences. Our web A near-capacity crowd filled Craig Hall’s Boettcher Foundation 28 Class Notes address remains the same, but we hope you’ll take a look at the new format and share your Community Room for a March 12 lecture by David Hawkins, feedback with us. PhD, Endowed Professor of Prevention in the University of gssw magazine GSSW increasingly relies upon email and our e-newsletters to keep our alumni updated Washington’s Social Development Research Group. Entitled about upcoming events and other information about our school. To ensure that these Volume 5, Number 1 communications continue to reach you, please click here to provide us with your current “Prevention in Schools and Communities: Taking Advances in GSSW Magazine is published twice each email address. Prevention Science to Scale,” the presentation was the fourth year, in spring and fall, by the Graduate We hope you share our excitement about the many new developments at GSSW and, as and final lecture in the 2012-2013 GSSW Lecture Series. Audience School of Social Work, University of Denver, always, we welcome your communication, ideas and perspectives. members included not only alumni, students, faculty and staff, 2148 S. High St., Denver, CO 80208-7100. but also notable community leaders like former Colorado First The University of Denver is an Equal Sincerely, Lady, Jeannie Ritter, and William Kilpatrick, Chief of Police in Opportunity Institution. Golden, Colorado. Dean James Herbert Williams SAVE Hawkins began his lecture by noting that, among the nine Editor experimental tests of delinquency prevention programs conducted James Herbert Williams, PhD, MSW Deborah Jones, Director of in the U.S. before 1980, none were found to be effective. In recent Dean and Milton Morris Endowed Chair THE Communications and Marketing years, however, there have been two major advances in prevention Design and Layout Click here to read this issue and all past issues of our magazine DATE! science: identification of predictors of problem behaviors as Art Only, Inc. online. You can also scan this barcode to read GSSW Magazine on targets for preventive intervention, and identification of tested Photography your smartphone or tablet computer. and effective preventive policies and programs. Unfortunately, Wayne Armstrong Hawkins noted, practices without evidence of effectiveness are Karen Bensen still more widely used than policies and programs that have been McCarson Jones, Red Scarf Photography shown to be effective. Kristi Roybal GSSW Board of Visitors Philip Tedeschi “Effective prevention at scale is within reach,” Hawkins Gary Yourtz, Chair Grover “Cleve” Gilmore, PhD, MA Phil Winn, DPS Proofreading concluded. “But advocacy and political will are needed to take Helene Abrahams Alberto Godenzi, PhD, MBA Alec Wynne Catherine Newton Debbie Aleinikoff Ben Lewis, MBA prevention to scale to improve the well-being of all children and ©2013 by the Graduate School of Social Work Libby Bortz, MSW, LCSW Evi Makovsky, MA, MSW, JD Hope Wisneski, adolescents. This is an opportunity for social work leadership.” at the University of Denver. Jana Edwards, MSW, LCSW, BCD Margaret Roath, MSW, LCSW MSW (GSSW Click here to see videos of this and other lectures in the 2012- Admission: 303.871.2841 Troy A. Eid, JD Youlon Savage, MSW Alumni Association Alumni and Development: 303.871.7599 David L. Gies, MS, MPA Clara Villarosa, MSW President) 2013 series. Communications: 303.871.3114 www.du.edu/socialwork scene @ gssw spring 13 1

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Eddie Moore, Jr., PhD, founder and program director of the annual White

Conference Privilege Conference, gave a talk at GSSW on February 4. Co-sponsored MOORE Register Now for the CPD by GSSW’s PhD program and the 2013 Pedagogy of Privilege Conference, Founder Moore’s lecture was entitled “The Challenges of Diversity, Power/Privilege Summer Series! Addresses and Leadership in the Workplace and Community.” Moore is currently Director of Diversity at Brooklyn Friends School in Title Date Time Diversity Brooklyn, NY, and previously served as Assistant Dean of Students and Working with Military Families Sat. June 15 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Director of Intercultural Life at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. The by Associate Professor Julie Laser, PhD, LCSW and WPC Conference he founded features national and international experts on diversity, privilege and leadership. It attracts more than 1,500 attendees Uncovering Consultants’/Therapists’ Unconscious Racial Prejudice Sat. June 22 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Privilege from across the United States, as well as Australia, Bermuda, Canada and and Stereotypes in Multicultural Clinical Social Work Practice Germany. The Graduate School of Social Work is by Adjunct Professor Ted Manley, Jr., PhD pleased to announce the new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Summer How to Work with Difficult People—For Those in Leadership Positions Fri. June 28 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Series. Workshops will be held during June by Adjunct Professor Susan Kaplan, MSW, MPA and July at Craig Hall, 2148 South High 2013 Pedagogy of Privilege Conference Street, on the University of Denver campus. An Introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Fri. July 12 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Courses are geared toward human service by Adjunct Professor Amy Lopez, MSW, LCSW professionals seeking to strengthen and Keynote Speakers Your Pet and Coworker—The Value of Incorporating Animals Fri. July 19 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. enhance their professional knowledge in Work with Older Adults and Families Dean Spade, JD and repertoire of skills. Professional by Adjunct Professor Laurel Okasaki-Cardos, MSW, LCSW Seattle University & Founder of Sylvia Rivera Law Project Development Hours in approved Professional Development Activities are Introduction to Psychopharmacology for Social Workers Sat. July 20 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, PhD SAVE THE DATE! available, as well as Continuing Education by Assistant Professor Julia Rhiannon, MD, MSW, ACSW, LCSW Units (CEUs). For more information, Brilliance Remastered, Mobile Homecoming Project, & Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind August 5th & 6th including course descriptions, prices and Trauma Informed Leadership in Social Work Settings Sat. July 27 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. registration, click here. by Matt Bennett, MA, MPA Eddie Moore, Jr., PhD University of Denver Director of Diversity with the Brooklyn Friends School and founder of the White Privilege Conference PROGRESS Program Hosts Spring Events Click here for more info and registration or click here to email. GSSW’s PROGRESS gerontology program hosted two Alzheimer’s discussions for students, faculty, staff and alumni in February. Each discussion was followed by a croquet tournament with seniors from the community. Croquet equipment and instructional guidance were GSSW Co-Sponsors Community Events KIND provided by Jiminy Wicket™, a Denver-based international organization On February 27-28 in Durango, Colorado, GSSW’s Four Corners MSW Program joined La Plata County Senior that uses the game to Services and Centura Mercy Regional Medical Center in co-sponsoring “Community Challenge: Meeting the improve the lives of people Needs of Seniors, Providers and Caregivers.” One hundred people attended the free event’s first day, and 40 living with dementia. attended the specialized training provided on the second day. Viki Kind, clinical bioethicist, medical educator

BRASCH and author of Caregiver’s Path to Compassionate Decision Making, was the keynote speaker and trainer. This On March 1, PROGRESS was Durango’s third annual caregiver conference, developed in response to the Four Corners MSW Program co-sponsored “Estate Your Advisory Council’s request that GSSW help to address community training needs. Intentions: A Special Forum on End of Life Issues: Legal Medical, Ethical and Practical Implications,” featuring Norvell Brasch, Esq., an attorney with Bryan Cave HRO Private Client Services Group, the event’s other co-sponsor. Panelists joining the discussion The Denver Indian Center was the were Fred Abrams, MD, and Jennifer Ballantine, ED, from the Life Quality Institute, a Denver-based scene of RISE UP, a March 8 event organization that partners with the University of Colorado-Denver School of Medicine to provide that GSSW co-sponsored with Denver palliative care education. More than 70 people attended the event. Indian Health & Family Services, Inc., the Denver HIV Resources Planning Council, Café Cultura and other community PROGRESS (Providing Real Opportunities for Gero-Rich Experience in Social Work Services) is a program partners. Held in honor of National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day for GSSW’s concentration year and advanced standing MSW students who are interested in geriatric (March 10) and National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (March 20), the event social work. Originally funded in part by a John A. Hartford Foundation grant, PROGRESS continues the featured entertainment, music, food and free HIV testing. mission of helping to ensure the well-being of older adults and their family members.

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“This has been the most mind-stretching, heart-challenging, action- a $250 scholarship from the newspaper. An additional $1,000 donation motivating class I have taken,” read one student’s enthusiastic evaluation. helped defray the program’s operating expenses. All but one of the students were human service professionals who earned three credit hours in “special student” status, because they weren’t Tireless Champions four corners enrolled in a degree program. Still, two more years would pass before GSSW launched a full-blown MSW celebrating a decade of social work education The lack of advanced degree programs was, in fact, one of the reasons GSSW degree program in Durango, and – truth be told – the whole concept might chose to target the Four Corners region, some 400 miles from Denver, with have stayed on the drawing board, but for Alter’s enthusiasm and tenacious GSSW established the Four Corners MSW Program in Durango, a still experimental teaching approach. Developed in collaboration with spirit. Skeptics wondered whether courses taught partially online, using Colorado, in 2002. It serves the Four Corners region, where the the La Plata County Department of Human Services, the GSSW course web-based support modules, could be made accessible to rural and tribal borders of Colorado, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico meet. Much used the Colorado Interactive Video Cooperative (CIVICS) network and communities that still lacked Internet access. Would there be enough has changed since the program began, including an exponential the Web-CT course-authoring software that had facilitated a few other DU students willing to travel great distances to take Friday evening and Saturday increase in the types and quality of educational technology distance learning courses. classes, while continuing to work full-time? Would there even be enough available to faculty and students. But the objectives of the jobs available to graduates once they had earned their degrees? program have remained constant: to enhance human services Interactive video broadcasts gave students the opportunity to communicate But the dean would have none of that. Buoyed by support from infrastructure and delivery systems in the Four Corners area with guest speakers, including a female gang member who shared her community partners like the La Plata County Department of Human and to effectively address the special needs of its rural and tribal experiences with the class. Web-CT enabled students to access reading Services, encouraged by Ballantine’s supportive newspaper editorials, and communities. materials and communicate with each other, and with Molidor, via on-line bulletin boards—something brand new in those pre-blog days, five years confident in the ability of Professor Walter LaMendola, GSSW’s technology This is the story of the program’s founding and the ways in before Facebook had even been invented. On-site instruction by Molidor director, to overcome whatever technical challenges there might be, Alter which its objectives continue to be met. in Durango rounded out the beginning and end of the course. forged ahead. The Four Corners MSW program began in August of 2000, with 21 First Steps “There are so many places in the United States that do not have access to graduate-level social work education,” said Catherine Alter, GSSW’s dean students enrolled, nearly twice the number anticipated by the program’s If, as Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu said centuries ago, “a journey at that time. “Our faculty and staff are thrilled to begin filling this void.” planners. The cohort included one Hispanic student, one South African of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” GSSW’s foray and five American Indians, representing three different tribes. Some of into distance learning began with a single course. Taught in The Four Corners region also was chosen as a distance learning site the students drove up to four hours, over snow-packed mountain passes, the fall quarter of 2000, by then Associate Professor Christian because of its culturally diverse population, a shortage of human services to attend the weekend classes. Molidor, “Assessment and Interventions for Adolescents” professionals and the wholehearted support of several community attracted 16 students in Durango and was, by all accounts, a partners. Thanks to the generosity of the late Morley Ballantine, then With leadership and guidance from Associate Professors Jean East resounding success. a DU Trustee and editor of the Durango Herald, each student received and Susan Manning, the program’s local presence in Durango grew

Four Corners Director Wanda Joyce Truscott, MSW ’04, Current two-year MSW students give a warm welcome to Dean James Ellingson (center) enjoys was among the first Four Herbert Williams during his most recent visit to Durango. June 2012 Commencement Corners graduates. festivities with field liaisons Mindy Meiering, MSW, and 4 spring 13 four corners Patti Ellisor, MSW, LCSW. four corners spring 13 5 gssw four corners gssw four corners

exponentially with the hiring of Site Director (now Program Director and article p. 22]. The curriculum has expanded to include courses focused on indigenous population.” Benallyson is one of 11 members of the Navajo “GSSW graduates have moved into service and leadership roles throughout Clinical Associate Professor) Wanda Ellingson. Local adjunct faculty taught social work with Native clients and animal-assisted social work, and global Nation (Diné) to have earned an MSW through the Four Corners program the area, further spreading social work values and ideas, attitudes and courses, as did Denver-based faculty who traveled to Durango or broadcast practice courses have taken 23 Four Corners students to Mexico, six to to date. skills,” adds Rock’s fellow Advisory Council member Bob Boe, LCSW, a and simulcast classes from GSSW. Tuition was substantially discounted Kenya, three to China and one to Bosnia. former Four Corners field supervisor. Just as the Four Corners program has enhanced local community services from that of the school’s on-campus MSW program. A partnership forged between GSSW and Durango’s Fort Lewis College over the years, external financial support is helping to advance and Four Corners graduates have gone on to hold key positions in a wide variety Still more students joined that first cohort the following summer—BSW in 2009 allows Fort Lewis undergraduates majoring in psychology and expand the program. Last year, a grant from the John and Sophie Ottens of settings across the region: Ute Mountain Counseling and Treatment graduates who entered the MSW program with “advanced standing” and sociology to complete both their bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social Foundation established a scholarship fund for the program’s Native Services, La Plata Combined Courts, the San Juan Regional Medical Center, completed their degrees in one calendar year. By the time those first work in just five years, by spending their senior year in the Four Corners American students. This spring, the Denver office of the international law the Counseling Center at Fort Lewis College, Centura Home Health and students graduated in the summer of 2004, 17 more had signed on for the MSW program. firm, Greenberg Traurig, awarded the Four Corners program a Great Hearts Hospice, and the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, New Mexico. Other graduates have private practices with services tailored to next two-year cohort set to begin that fall. What had once been viewed as a Responsiveness to local community needs is even greater today than Great Minds grant aimed at strengthening services to Native American meet the needs of their communities. somewhat risky one-time experiment was now an integral part of GSSW’s when the program was founded, thanks to ongoing input from the Four children and families. MSW program. Corners Advisory Council and the Native Peoples Advisory Council. The program’s impact is also being felt well beyond the Four Corners Council members, among them current students and graduates, Leading the Way region. Classmates Lucas O’Laughlin and Curielle Duffy, both MSW ‘10, A Mission Fulfilled recommend community initiatives and professional development With 20 two-year students completing their first year of the MSW program are clinical social workers: O’Laughlin at the Southcentral Foundation in Fast forward to the Four Corners tenth anniversary celebrations last programs designed to meet the needs of local community members. Last this spring, and another cohort of advanced standing students set to join Anchorage, Alaska, and Duffy with the U. S. Army in Hawaii. O’Laughlin is fall. Ninety-six students have graduated from the program, 40 percent year, at the urging of both advisory councils, GSSW began offering social them soon, the Four Corners program shows no signs of slowing down. among the graduates who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees through of them students of color, a far higher percentage than at GSSW’s on- work licensure preparation workshops in Durango, similar to those And those initial concerns about graduates finding jobs? Completely the Fort Lewis College partnership. campus program. Graduates represent 27 communities across three states offered on the DU campus. unfounded. Joy Truscott, among the first Four Corners graduates in 2004, works as a and include 27 American Indians from 13 tribes: Acoma, Navajo, Jicarillo The Native Peoples Advisory Council has also worked to develop MSW Just as it set out to do, the Four Corners program has markedly increased trauma counselor, trainer and life coach in her native South Africa. She also Apache, Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute, Tlingit-Haida, Cheyenne River curriculum content related to social work with Native Peoples. “In this day human services capacity in the region, particularly in rural and tribal created Soul Awakening SA, an online platform through which individuals Lakota Sioux, Osage, White Mountain Apache, Otoe-Missouri, Choctaw, and age, there are Native families in all 50 states, Canada, Mexico and all communities where the lack of MSW social workers was most acute. from around the world share reflections about their life journeys. “My Creek Cherokee and Chippewa. parts of the world. We no longer reside within the confines of tribal lands “GSSW’s program has provided a forum for community collaboration and experience with the MSW program has been a spring board to a world The number of Four Corners field placement sites has grown to 140, 10 or reservations,” explains Carolyn Benallyson, MSW, one of the Native intervention with our neediest populations,” says Traci Rock, LCSW, a 2002 that might not otherwise have opened up so delightfully,” Truscott says. of them offering internships to recipients of Title IV-E Child Welfare Peoples Advisory Council’s original members. “I commend the University MSW graduate who now works with the San Juan Boards of Cooperative “I believe that the program has enriched the lives of so very many people, stipends administered by GSSW’s Butler Institute for Families [see related of Denver for the development of a program specific to this continent’s Educational Services in Durango. and then of course, through the ripple-effect, many thousands more.”

Current MSW students Jennifer Turner (left) and Emily Campbell participate in an experiential day at the Medicine Horse Center in Mancos, Colorado, as Ottens Hooper part of Clinical Professor Philip Tedeschi’s animal- assisted social work course this spring. Campbell’s MSW internship this year Marie Jim receives was at Medicine Horse, a a Certificate of nonprofit agency providing Appreciation on behalf equine-assisted therapies of the Native Peoples and experiential education Advisory Council from services. Turner, an MSW Seven members of the Native Peoples Advisory Ellingson (left) and intern at La Plata Youth Council enjoy the Four Corners Tenth Anniversary Jeanne Hooper (left) and Dr. Henry Hooper, President of the John Associate Professor Services this year, recently Commemorative Breakfast and Lecture on October 17. and Sophie Ottens Foundation, receive a GSSW Certificate of and Associate Dean for gave a presentation entitled “The Social Construction of ‘Emotional Disturbance’ and the Appreciation from Four Corners Director Wanda Ellingson. The Academic Affairs Oppressive Consequences of the Special Education System” at the 5th Annual Greenville Family foundation established a scholarship fund in 2012 for Native Jean East. Symposium, sponsored by Clemson University’s Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life and American students enrolled in the Four Corners program. the American Orthopsychiatric Association.

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Events, Awards Mark Tenth Anniversary GSSW marked the tenth anniversary of its Four Corners MSW program with a gala dinner at the Durango Doubletree Hotel on October 17, the Tenth Anniversary Commemorative Breakfast at Fort Lewis College the following morning, and the presentation of awards to many of the program’s key partners and supporters. GSSW to

Dean Emerita Catherine Alter received a Dean’s Award for Launch her leadership in establishing the Four Corners program in Barbara Morris (2nd from left), Fort Lewis College Provost, Durango. Western chats with Dean Williams, Program Director Wanda Ellingson and Wanda’s husband, John. La Plata County Colorado Human Services Director, Lezlie Mayer (2nd MSW Program from left), and Assistant This Fall Durango Herald Publisher Richard Ballantine (left) and his wife, Mary Retired Fort Lewis College Provost Steve Director, Martha Lyn, accept a Dean’s Award on behalf of the Ballantine family. Roderick shares a hug with Ellingson. Johnson (right), Based upon the success chat with Dean of GSSW’s Four Corners Williams and educational model, a similar Ellingson. program is set to launch in September in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, through a partnership with Colorado Mountain College. The Western Colorado 2010 MSW graduates Darlene Clayton MSW Program has already and Alshana John share a hug. enrolled 19 two-year MSW students from communities throughout the region, and Greenberg Traurig attorney, Amy Kramer (right), presented additional applications are being a check from the Four Corners Great Hearts Great Minds processed. grant at the tenth anniversary dinner. Pictured with her are (L-R) Janelle Doughty, MSW ‘04, one of the first Four Corners GSSW Technology “There is a great need for social graduates, and Ellingson. Operations Director, Ryan Garrett, is workers in this area of western Four Corners Administrative Assistant, Angela Ellingson welcomes (L-R) Dusty Pierce and Bob recognized at Colorado,” says Mary Baydarian, Carpenter, enjoys the dinner with her daughter. Browning of the Browning Ranch in Farmington, the breakfast for Garfield County Human Services New Mexico. Four Corners MSW students visit the the invaluable Director. “By bringing a program ranch as part of their course in animal-assisted technical support of this quality to our area of social work. he has provided for the state, the University of the Four Corners Denver is not only providing program. amazing opportunities for local students, but allowing people who are interested in human service work to learn in their home community and apply Renee Rivera (left), Executive Director of the Colorado for positions to work here after Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, attended the breakfast lecture. graduation.” Click here to find more A highlight of the Four Corners Tenth Anniversary Breakfast was a lecture information online. Fort Lewis College President Dene Kay by Susan Stone, PhD, entitled “Building Knowledge for School Social Thomas (left) talks with Ellingson. Work Practice: Current Evidence and Opportunities.” Stone is Associate Professor and Catherine Mary and Eileen Clare Hutto Chair for Social Ellingson greets Native Peoples Advisory Council Eddie and Betty Box of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe give the blessing as Services in Public Education at the University of California, Berkeley, Member Louise Wilson (right), MSW ’06, and her son. the October 16 Four Corners Tenth Anniversary Dinner begins. School of Social Welfare. 8 spring 13 four corners four corners spring 13 9 gssw student news gssw student news Associate Professor Nicole Nicotera takes a closer look at a student’s photo-narrative display.

Student News ECO Conscious “Crunchy Crafts,” hosted last fall Highlights by GSSW’s ECO Conscious student Dancin’ with the organization, offered students the Crunchy opportunity to make eco-friendly gifts Dean 3.0 Craig Hall’s Boettcher for themselves and others. Crafts Foundation Community Room was the scene of included scented bath salts, felted GSSW’s third annual “Dancin’ with the Dean” event Crafts soaps, coconut body butter and bags made from T-shirts. on Saturday evening, March 2. In addition to music, food, drinks and a photo booth, the event included line dancing and Samba Reggae lessons. Dance Game Night instruction was also provided on weekends prior to the event, with participants charged a “fee” for Kicks Off each lesson of a canned or non-perishable food item Spring Quarter donation to GSSW’s food drive.

It was (literally) a night of fun and games when the Graduate Student Association hosted GSSW Game Night on the first Friday of spring quarter in March. Students, faculty and staff were invited to bring their families and their favorite board games, card games, GSA Happy Snarf’s Sandwich Shop, located lawn games or art activities just down the street from Craig to share. Various student Hour Offers Hall, offered the perfect spot for groups sponsored individual students to take a study break and games, while also providing share some fun. The February 22 information to students who a Study Concentration student Holly Schor serves as Foundation student Kholoud happy hour was hosted by GSSW’s might be interested in joining Co-Leader of the Graduate Student Association, Helmi enjoys Game Night with Break Graduate Student Association. the organizations. which sponsored the Game Night event. her children.

GSSW’s Shades of Brown Alliance Students Host Speed student organization took the lead in sponsoring the school’s first Networking Event speed networking event at Craig Hall on February 13. The evening provided an opportunity for student job-seekers to interact with social work professionals from the community. Co-sponsors for the event included the school’s other student organizations: ECO- Conscious, Graduate Student Association, Multicultural Social Justice Student Organization, Phi Alpha honor society and Queer Equality Alliance. Click here to learn more about GSSW’s student organizations online. 10 spring 13 gssw student news gssw student news spring 13 11 gssw student news gssw student news SEELMAN

Student News WALLIS PEASE Bake Sale Highlights Pay Inequities A group of self-identified “non-traditional” GSSW The bake sale held in the Craig Hall lobby for students meets over their lunch hour on the fourth Friday two days in early March offered more than an of every month to share support, community and good

opportunity to buy brownies. Organized by MSW DICKMAN-PORTZ conversation. The group includes those who believe they students Amanda Matthews, Emily Moncrief and experience student life differently from their peers due to Rachel Schoonover, the sale featured items sold to age, parental status or a variety of other factors.

customers at varied prices reflecting typical gender LAVERY-BENSON and ethnicity wage inequities for social workers YODER doing the same job. Various types of baked goods represented various fields of practice. PhD Student News In other words, the students explained, if brownies represented hospital social workers, a white woman paid only 87 cents for a brownie, while a Hispanic

male paid $1.11. The price differential reflected LOPEZ MARTIN one of the many gender and ethnic wage disparities the students discovered during their research. The students also presented their findings on charts that bake sale customers were invited to review. “Soon we will all be entering the work force as employees and eventually employers . . . [in a field that] focuses on the values of equal opportunity and fair access,” the organizers noted in publicizing the KNOEPKE event. “Since we are the future of this profession, it is time examine how the pay scale is upholding our own values!“ This year’s “GSSW PhD Program Presents” series included the policy development. The organization also sponsors the peer-reviewed following student dissertation research presentations: Journal of Community Practice. Proceeds from the bake sale were donated to 9to5 • Kristie Seelman (October 19)—“At Least People Aren’t Throwing PhD student Jamie Pease was awarded a $151,000 grant from the Colorado, a membership Rocks at Me:” Transphobia in Social Welfare and Higher Education Veterans Healthcare Administration for a study entitled Examining organization dedicated to Variability in Risk Assessment for Suicidal Veterans. improving the workplace for Students in the community practice class taught on February first by Assistant Professor Ramona Beltrán • Jennifer Dickman-Portz (October 22)—Aging and Technology Doctoral candidate Darrin Wallis, LCSW, LMFT, CACIII, AAMFT clinical women throughout the state. (kneeling, 3rd from left) dressed in red to support the American Heart Association’s Wear Red for Heart Perspectives in the Self-Management of Chronic Disease fellow and approved supervisor, has been elected president of the Health Campaign. The annual campaign promotes heart health for women. Colorado Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT). The • Jamie Yoder (October 30)—Enhancing Treatment for Sexually election is part of a five-year commitment to serve on the State Board Abusive Youth: A Transformational Research Plan of Directors, with three different titles: president-elect (2011-2012), GSSW Supports Students During Job Search president (2013-2014) and past president (2015). • Amy Lopez (March 5)—The Role of Technology in the Therapeutic In addition to hiring Lisa Ingarfield as the school’s first Director of Career and Student Environment Wallis’ duties as board president are to serve the interests of Development (see article, p. 19), GSSW sponsors a number of events aimed at facilitating the Colorado’s couples and family therapists, advocate for or against efforts of graduating MSW students as they enter the job market. Doctoral students Chris Knoepke and Angela Lavery-Benson are the legislative bills that affect families or general mental health issues, Carly Einstein (pictured at left), DU’s Assistant Director of Graduate Career Services, advises 2013-2014 recipients of the Enid O. Cox Pre-Doctoral Scholarships. conduct and/or organize trainings on various couples-and-family students on job interview skills. The awards provide funding for their third year of study toward the therapy matters, organize credentialed conferences for trained PhD degree. professionals, and collaborate with other similar organizations Other discussions held during student lunch hours this spring focused on a variety of topics including the National Association of Social Workers or the Colorado including professional networking strategies and tips for successful job interviews. NASW Doctoral candidate Jennifer Martin has been elected to the Association Counseling Association. Colorado Chapter Executive Director Renee Riviera, MSW, LCSW, and Education Coordinator Julie for Community Organization and Social Administration (ACOSA) Butscher, MSW, LCSW, presented information about Colorado’s social work licensure process. board, where she will serve as the Western Regional Representative. Doctoral candidate Jamie Yoder has accepted a position as Assistant DU’s Jennifer Quinn, Assistant Director of Graduate Financial Aid, and Sarah Pingel, Senior ACOSA is the macro practice association for social workers engaged Professor in the College of Social Work at Ohio State University. Her Graduate Advisor, spoke with the students about loan repayment and forgiveness options. in community organizing, advocacy, nonprofit administration and appointment is effective in September.

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Hasche, L., Wilson, N., & Dessem, N. (2012). Predictive validity of an online assessment Testa, M., Fraser, M.W., Grinstein-Weiss, M., & Jenson, J.M. Building research capacity in Books to measure agency readiness to implement Healthy IDEAS. Gerontological Society of social work: The role of randomized controlled trials in program and policy innovation. Jenson, J.M., Alter, C.F., Nicotera, N., Anthony, E.K., & Forrest-Bank, S.S. (2013). Risk, Faculty Appointments America, San Diego, CA. Resilience, and Positive Youth Development: Developing Effective Community Nicotera, N. Qualitative strategies for accessing children’s measures of neighborhood Programs for At-Risk Youth: Lessons from the Denver Bridge Project, New York: Williams, J. H., (2012, August). Social work, social development, and empowerment quality. Presented in roundtable with Coulton, C., Foster, K., Hipp, A., Nicotera, N., Oxford University Press. within the One Health Paradigm. International Disaster and Risk Conference, IDRC & Teitler, J. Neighborhood metrics and measures: Alternative specifications and tools. Davos 2012: Integrative Risk Management in a Changing World – Pathways to a Resilient Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Society. Global Risk Forum, Davos, Switzerland. Fisher, C. M., Craig, S. L., Elze, D., Asakura, K., & Walls, N. E. Advancing research with sexual minority youth: Building a social work research agenda. Roundtable. Lee, S. J., Altschul, I., & Gershoff, E. T. (2013, January 21). Does warmth moderate lon- Williams, J. H., (2012, August). Capacity Building for Social-Ecological Resilience Panel gitudinal associations between maternal spanking and child aggression in early child- (Chair and Presenter). International Disaster and Risk Conference, IDRC Davos 2012: hood?. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1037/A0031630 In addition to the GSSW doctoral students listed as co-authors and co-presenters on Global Risk Forum, Davos, Switzerland. p. 14, additional doctoral student scholarship by Jordan Farrar, Badiah Haffejee, Chris Bender, K. (2012). The mediating effect of school engagement in the relationship Williams, J. H., (2012, August). Open Forum on Risk and Society Panel (Chair and Knoepke, Lisa Langenderfer, Jennifer Martin, Sarah Nickels, Kristie Seelman, Chris between child maltreatment and delinquency. Children and Schools, 34, 37-48. Presenter). International Disaster and Risk Conference, IDRC Davos 2012: Global Risk Veeh and Jamie Yoder included the following: Ferguson, K.M., Bender, K., Thompson, S.J., Pollio, D., & Maccio, E.M. (2012). Forum, Davos, Switzerland. Farrar, Jordan (2012, November). A critical review of international social work syllabi Employment status and income-generating among homeless emerging adults: Results posted on the CSWE website. Paper presented at the Council on Social Work Education from a five-city, mixed methods study. Youth & Society, 44, 385-407. The following papers, workshops and posters were presented in November 2012 at Annual Program Meeting, Washington, DC. the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting in Washington, DC: Ferguson, K.M., Bender, K., Thompson, S.J., Xie, B., & Pollio, D. (2012). General strain pre- Farrar, Jordan. (2012) An assessment of human development in Uganda: The capabilities dictors of arrest history in youths from four U.S. cities. Journal of Juvenile Justice, 1, 1-19. McDonald, S. E., & Ascione, F. Animal abuse and family violence: Implications for social approach, millennium development goals, and human development index. Josef Korbel work education. Journal of Advanced International Studies, 4, 74-101. Bender, K., Thompson, S.J., Ferguson, K.M., Komlo, C., Taylor, C., & Yoder, J. (2012). Substance use and victimization: Street-involved youths’ perspectives and service McDonald, S. E., Garrido, E., Ascione, F., & Taussig, H. Perpetration of animal abuse by Haffejee, B. (2012, November) Pushed to the fringe of society: The invisible minority- implications. Children and Youth Services Review, 34, 2392-2399. children in out-of home care. refugee woman. Paper presented at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting, Washington, DC. Brisson, D. (2012). Social cohesion and food security: A longitudinal study of hunger East, J., Benson, K., & Bussey, M. The implicit curriculum: Conceptualizing and incidence. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research. measuring a sense of community. Workshop. Knoepke, C.E. & Matlock, D.D. (2012, October). Adjustment to treatment online: An Molly Calhoun, MSW ’05, joined the GSSW faculty as Clinical Assistant analysis of contributions to a message board for patients treated with an implanted Brisson, D. & Roll, S. (2012). The effect of neighborhood on crime and safety: A review Kayser, J., Bowers, J., Bussey, M., & Jiang, H. Increasing information competencies Professor on January 1, 2013. She also continues her role as Executive through online course tutorials, class exercises and course assignments. Poster session. cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). Abstract and poster presented at the 7th Annual of the evidence. Journal of Evidence Based Social Work, 9(4). 333-50. DOI:10.1080/154 University of Colorado Palliative Care Research Days, Denver, CO. Director of the Bridge Project, a position she has held since 2010. 33714.2010.525407 Sienkiewicz, M., Bensen, K., Johnson, K., & Yuskis, K. Field placement disruption: Avoid it or exploit it? Knoepke, C.E. (2012, October). Online support & information: A qualitative analysis of Lucero, N. M., & Bussey, M. (2012). A collaborative and trauma-informed practice model member contributions to a website for patients treated with an implanted cardioverter for urban Indian child welfare. Child Welfare, 91 (3), 89-112. Yuskis, K., Sienkiewicz, M., & Johnson, K. Off-site MSW supervision: Out of site but defibrillator. Poster presented at the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare Research & Teaching Forum, Providence, RI. Bussey, M., & Lucero, N. M. (2013). Re-examining child welfare’s response to ICWA: not out of mind. Collaborating with community-based agencies to reduce disparities for American Williams, J. H., Korr, W., Uehara, E., Lein, L., & Godenzi, A. Behavioral and health equity: Kozicki, C., Knoepke, C.E., & Ellis, K. (2012, October). Leveraging utilization: Service and Indian/Alaska Native children. Children and Youth Services Review, 35, 394-401. Workforce development initiatives to address future gaps. company factors associated with employee utilization. Presented at the Annual World Employee Assistance Professionals Association Conference, Baltimore, MD. Roll, S. & East, J. (2012). Childcare as a work support: A socialist feminist Dettlaff, A., & Williams, J. H. Educational policy 2015: Where we’ve been, where we’re policy analysis. Afflia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 27(4), 358-370. DOI: going. Langenderfer, L. (2013). Alcohol use among partner violent adults: Reviewing recent 10.1177/0886109912464473 literature to inform intervention. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 18(1), 152-158. DOI: 10.1016/j.avb.2012.11.013 Kayser, J. (2012). Commentary on Mupedziswa and Ntseane’s “Human security in The following papers were presented in January 2013 at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research in San Diego, CA: the SADC region: Learning from Botswana’s social protection initiatives.” Regional Martin, J. (2012, November). An innovative approach to gerontological field education at Development Dialogue, 33(2), 71-71. Altschul, I., Lee, S., & Gershoff, L. It turns out that you do catch more flies with honey the BSW level. Paper presented at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting, Washington, DC. Abukari, Z. & Laser, J. (2012). Gender differences in academic outcomes among Ghanaian than vinegar: The associations of maternal warmth and physical punishment with youth. Youth and Society. children’s positive and aggressive behaviors. Nickels, S. J. (2013, January). The social environment of non-suicidal self-injury among LGBT youth. Paper presented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Parker, L. & Laser, J. (2012). Increasing social justice awareness through international Anyon, Y., & Stone, S. Individual and institutional correlates of health and social service Conference, San Diego, CA. education: Two models. Reflections, 18, 1, 53-63. use in schools. Seelman, K. L. (2013, January). Examining the risk factors for denial of equal treatment McDonald, S. E., & Ascione, F. Incarcerated men’s reports of animal abuse in the context Williams, J. H., & Jones, J. F. (Guest Editors) (2012). Human security, conflict resolution, in social welfare services for transgender and gender non-conforming clients. Paper pre- of intimate partner violence: The influence of antisocial personality disorder and capacity building and sustainable livelihoods in Africa. Regional Development Dialogue. sented at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, San Diego, CA. childhood animal cruelty. Seelman, K. L. (2012, November). A mixed methods examination of transgender Peer-Reviewed Presentations McDonald, S. E., Garrido, E., Ascione, F., & Taussig, H. Perpetration of animal abuse by Anyon, Y., & Stone, S. (2012, October). Racial group differences in utilization of school- oppression in higher education. Paper presented at the annual program meeting of the Clinical Assistant Professor Karen Bensen, MSW ’91, has been maltreated youth in out-of-home care: Mental health and behavioral correlates. Council on Social Work Education, Washington, DC. based health centers: An exploration of the role of referral routines. Paper presented at named Assistant Dean for Community Academic Programs, providing the annual conference of the American Public Health Association, San Francisco, CA. Bender, K., Ferguson, K., Thompson, S.J., & Langenderfer, L. Street victimization and Veeh, C.A. (2012, November). Traumatic brain injury and incarcerated youth: A role for mental health consequences among homeless youth: A latent class analysis. social work. Paper presented at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program leadership and oversight for GSSW’s community engagement, external Beltran, R., Olsen, P., Ramey, A., & Tiffany, K. (2012, September). Digital embroidery: Meeting, Washington, DC. Stitching stories of educational empowerment with Indigenous youth. International Bender, K., Thompson, S., Ferguson, K., & Kern, L. Danger on the streets: Risk detection educational partnerships and distance education programming. Network of Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development (INIHKD), 5th Biennial and self- protection among homeless youth. Veeh, C.A., Severson, M.E., Bruns, K., & Lee, J. (2013, January). Rethinking rehabilitation In addition, Bensen manages GSSW’s dual and cooperative degree Conference. Brisbane, Australia. in prisoner reentry programs: Capturing the chaos of desistance. Paper presented at the programs with other University of Denver academic units and other Yoder, J., Bender, K., Haffejee, B., Ferguson, K. & Thompson, S. Explaining homeless Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, San Diego, CA. Walters, K., Schultz, K., Beltran, R., Hearod, K., Hearod, C., Stroud, S., Stroud, K., youths’ criminal justice interactions: Childhood trauma or surviving the streets. universities, as well as the school’s international educational Johnson-Jennings, M. (2012, September). Yappalli–Walking the Choctaw road to health. Yoder, J., & Haffejee, B. (2013, January). Explaining homeless youths’ criminal justice International Network of Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development (INIHKD), Hasche, L., & Lavery-Benson, A. Structure and feasibility of care management across Interactions: Childhood trauma or surviving the streets? Paper presented at the Society and training partnerships. Bensen has served as GSSW’s Director of 5th Biennial Conference. Brisbane, Australia. aging services. for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, San Diego, CA. Students Services since 2010.

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Assistant Professor Ramona Beltrán traveled to Australia in November to attend the 2012 International Network of Dean and Milton Morris Endowed Chair James Herbert Williams has received the Day- Dean Williams Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development (INIHKD) meeting in Brisbane. INIHKD is a global network of Indigenous Garrett Award from the Smith College School for Social Work, where he earned his MSW. The elders and community representatives, traditional healers, researchers, medical professionals, educators, psychologists, award, established in 1967, is presented annually to individuals who have been “outstanding Honored as social workers, health workers, policy makers and others that seeks to improve the health of Indigenous Peoples around contributors to professional social work and . . . significant members of the the world. Click here to read the INIHKD Declaration online. Smith College School for Social Work educational community.” istinguished

n D Faculty Beltrán also traveled to New Zealand where she completed her “Aotearoa á Williams, who will receive the award at a July 19 dinner in his honor, Digital Storytelling as Indigenous Media Project” at the University of Victoria Beltr was selected by a committee consisting of two members of Smith’s at Wellington. The research was conducted as part of Beltrán’s Toihuarewa Graduate and ravel xpands Board of Trustees, two alumni, six faculty members and two field faculty T E Visiting Indigenous Scholar Fellowship. representatives. Journal Editor GSSW’s In January, Beltrán was selected for the 2013 cohort of the Indigenous HIV/ AIDS Research Training (IHART) Fellows. The program is funded through Williams received the 2013 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the School International the National Institute of Mental Health and housed at the University of of Social Work at the University of Washington, where he earned his PhD. The award, which was presented at the June 13 Washington’s Indigenous Wellness Research Institute. UW graduation, recognizes Williams’ exceptional service, social innovation and professional leadership, both nationally and internationally. Focus Dean and Milton Morris Endowed Chair James Herbert Williams traveled to Botswana in February to attend the launch of GSSW’s joint research project Williams “I am very humbled by these honors,” Williams says. “I really cherished my time at Smith College and at the University of Washington.” with the University of Botswana and the United Nations Centre for Regional In February, Williams was named editor-in-chief of Social Work Research, one of the top four journals in the social work discipline. His Development. Williams is Principal Investigator of the project, which is focused appointment is for a four-year term through 2017. on human security in Botswana. He previously served as PI for an earlier research and training project on conflict and human security in Northern Kenya.

Jeff Jenson, Philip D. and Eleanor G. Winn Professor for Children and Youth at Risk and Associate Dean for Research, appeared as a panelist on an April 10 live broadcast on Colorado Public Television that addressed bullying and victimization. Click here to watch the broadcast. Clinical Associate Professor Wanda Ellingson, Professor Lynn Parker, Clinical Ellingson Professor Philip Tedeschi and Digital Instruction Specialist Ethan Crawford have received internationalization grants from the University of Denver’s Office of Internationalization. The grant funding period is from May 1, 2013, through Associate Professors Inna Altschul and the end of the calendar year. Nicole Nicotera, and Assistant Professor Faculty Ellingson, director of GSSW’s Four Corners MSW Program, will use her grant Yolanda (Yoli) Anyon have been awarded to travel to Australia, where she will study the similarities and differences Faculty’s Public public good grants from the University of between the Four Corners Native Peoples curriculum and that of the and Staff Australian Catholic University Centre for Indigenous Education and Research ood rants Denver. Altschul’s funded project is titled Parker G G in Brisbane. “Increasing College Enrollment, Persistence, Receive to enefit and Graduation Among DPS [Denver Public By studying the colonization and assimilation of Australia’s Aboriginal B International peoples, and contrasting these experiences with those of Native Americans Schools Schools] Students.” of the Southwestern tribes, Ellingson hopes to develop a native peoples Anyon and Nicotera will use their award immersion course that would be taught in both our Four Corners and on- for their joint project, “Meeting the Needs Grants campus MSW programs. of Diverse Learners in the Classroom: An Parker will use her grant for her ongoing research project in Mexico. She is working on a book that will feature the Interdisciplinary Intervention to Build the

stories of people she has come to know through the MSW course she teaches, titled “Global Relations and Poverty in Tedeschi Capacity of School Personnel.” Mexico.” The people, who live in or near Cuernavaca, have in common a personal quest to alter social justice issues through the sharing of their lives and professional journeys. Parker’s intent is to explore the pathways that led these Since 2001, DU’s provost has provided an people through experiences of oppression to liberation. annual fund of $100,000 to promote and Tedeschi and Crawford will use their grant to bring the experiential learning of international field internships to the increase public good research and outreach classrooms of GSSW’s on-campus and Four Corners MSW programs, allowing students to benefit from these experiences at the University. The fund is aimed at even if they do not themselves take courses overseas. Tedeschi, executive director of GSSW’s Institute for Human helping DU achieve its vision to become Animal Connection (IHAC), will partner with Crawford to develop a series of video documentaries assembled from “a great private university dedicated to the

on-site footage from two of GSSW’s current international course and internship sites in Nairobi, Kenya and Chengdu, Crawford Altschul Nicotera Anyon China. The project is also aimed at deepening GSSW’s and IHAC’s relationships with our partner organizations abroad. public good.”

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Clinical Assistant Professor Michael Cortés has Professor’s received a two-year fellowship from the Colorado Latino Age Wave Initiative. One of three fellowship recipients, Fellowship Cortés will use the funds to help Denver community- based nonprofit organizations become more effective Supports advocates for public policies benefitting older Latinos. The fellowship also supports his independent research ervices for on strategies for building nonprofit capacity for public S policy advocacy. Older “The Latino Age Wave Initiative helps generate attention and resources for the Denver metro area’s rapidly Latinos growing low-income population of older Latinos,” says Cortés. “This is a group that tends not to be served by publicly funded programs and agencies focusing on older Americans.” The initiative is supported by the Latino Community Foundation of Colorado, in partnership with the Rose Community Foundation and Hispanics in Philanthropy, a national organization that Cortés helped start in 1981. Generous additional support is being provided by the Colorado Health Foundation and the Community First Foundation. Climbing one of Colorado’s “fourteeners,” mountain peaks that exceed 14,000 feet, is a milestone even for Colorado natives. But when Clinical Professor Philip Tedeschi (seated, far right) led students on a trek to the top of Greys Peak on September 16, his purpose went beyond meeting high-altitude physical challenges. The activity explored concepts of experiential wilderness therapy based on work by German educator Kurt Hahn, founder of Outward Bound, and the Biophilia Hypothesis, developed Clinical Professor Philip Tedeschi, IHAC Executive Director, participated in a live radio interview on May 2 on Australia’s QLD by Harvard University Zoology Professor Edward Wilson, PhD, suggesting there is an instinctive bond between human beings and other living systems. The students statewide radio network program, “Mornings with Greg Cary.” The broadcast focused on a controversial legal decision that set a 19-year- applied these concepts to themselves and explored how outdoor challenge can be transformational and therapeutic. The group also reviewed alpine safety guidelines to facilitate their enjoyment of Colorado’s mountains in the future. Accompanying the group on the trip was Assistant Professor Stephen von Merz (standing, top left). old Australian youth free after he allegedly tortured and killed two alpacas. Tedeschi also discussed the relationship between animal abuse and violence toward people. Click here to listen to the interview.

Staff News

At the Colorado Social Work Month Celebration in Professor Leá Leá Norcross was appointed as assistant to the registrar and field education in February. Norcross holds a BA with March, Adjunct Professor Andrea Philleo, MS, MSW, distinction in art history and history from Colorado College, and an MA in art history and museum studies from the received the 2013 Social Worker of the Year Award from Receives 2013 University of Denver. She currently is employed half-time at the Denver Art Museum, and she also has experience as a special collections assistant in DU’s Penrose Library. the Colorado Chapter of the National Association of ocial Social Workers. The award honored Philleo’s work as S Norcross Lisa Ingarfield was appointed as Director of Career and Student Development in May. In this newly founder of the Colorado Wellness Center for Girls, a Worker Of created staff position, Ingarfield will provide student support services, serve as the liaison to GSSW’s Alumni Association nonprofit comprehensive day treatment center whose and coordinate career service opportunities for MSW students and alumni. Ingarfield holds an MA in American History mission is to provide highly effective wellness-based The Year and Politics from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom and an MS in Student Affairs in Higher Education from programming that helps adolescent girls improve their Colorado State University. She anticipates receiving her PhD in Communication Studies, Culture and Communication in total well-being. Award June of 2014. Ingarfield previously served as Associate Director of The Phoenix Center at Auraria, serving the University of Colorado at Denver, Community College of Denver and Metropolitan

State University of Denver. Ingarfield

Adare Discher holds a temporary part-time position as GSSW’s receptionist through the end of June. Discher provides front desk reception in the mornings and assists in scheduling and supervising student employees who cover the desk in the afternoons. Discher earned a BA in English (creative writing) from Colorado Christian University and a Certificate in Publishing from the University of Denver. She was previously employed as an editorial intern at WaterBrook Multnomah Norcross Discher Publishing Group and editor of Paragon, a literary and arts magazine at Colorado Christian University.

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GSSW’s Institute for Human-Animal Connection hosted three events this spring. IHAC Hosts Institute for On February 20, “Animal-Assisted Therapy and Childhood Cancer” highlighted American Humane Association research on the effectiveness Varied uman nimal of animal-assisted activities with children undergoing cancer treatment. H -A The event also featured a presentation by Anne Gillespie, president Events of the Youth and Pet Survivors (YAPS) program that pairs children and by Arielle Giddens, Connection animals, both suffering from cancer, as pen pals. Based at Children’s MSW ‘13 Hospital Colorado, YAPS has paired more than 100 children and pets since 2001. IHAC financial supporter Chuck & Don’s Pet Food Outlet also co- sponsored the event. Animal Assisted Social Work Students On March 27, IHAC hosted a presentation by Jill Robinson, MBE, Dr.med.vet. h.c., Attend Human-Animal Interaction with an introduction by Marc Bekoff, PhD. Entitled “Bear Ambassadors Leading the Journey of a Thousand Miles: Bringing Conference Moon Bear to Life and Ending Bear by Mac Q. Simon, MSW ‘13 Farming in Asia,” the lecture exposed the plight of endangered Asiatic black bears Sixteen GSSW students and six faculty members attended the Human-Animal Interaction Conference (known as moon bears) cruelly farmed in Brewster, New York on April 26 and 27. Hosted by the nationally renowned nonprofit organization, and milked for bile that is traditionally Green Chimneys, “People, Animals and Nature: Modeling a New Paradigm” gave students the Gillespie used in many products. Robinson also opportunity to connect with nearly 200 mental health professionals, educators, researchers and covered other animal welfare topics animal-assisted therapy practitioners from across the United States, Canada and Europe. such as dog meat markets, spay and neuter practices and the illegal Pictured with a young moon Human-animal bond consultant Susan Cohen of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty wildlife trade. The event was co-sponsored by Animals Asia, an bear advocate and Clinical to Animals (ASPCA) spoke with our group, encouraging us to think creatively organization Robinson founded in China. Professor Philip Tedeschi, about how our knowledge and passion can meet the needs of humans and MSSW, IHAC Executive Director animals alike. The ASPCA’s Cruelty Intervention Advocacy team also presented Ngonyo (front row) are (standing L-R) information about their innovative work to help animals at risk for abuse MSW intern Arielle Giddens, while in the care of hoarders. Scholar-in-Residence Sarah Bexell, Marc Bekoff, Jill The following day, our GSSW group met with Green Chimneys’ founder, Dr. Robinson, Alice Ng from Samuel “Rollo” Ross, Jr., as well as their farm and wildlife director, Michael Animals Asia and Erica Elvove Kaufmann. We received a comprehensive tour of Green Chimneys, including (MSW ’08), IHAC Education their residential treatment center, school and therapeutic programs. Coordinator. Green Chimneys was buzzing with enthusiasm when the conference began, and the sounds of animals baaing, mooing and neighing their welcomes filled the air. GSSW Clinical Professor Philip Tedeschi gave the opening address, IHAC’s third spring event speaking about “consilience,” defined as the linking together of principles featured lectures by Josphat from different disciplines, especially when forming a comprehensive theory. Ngonyo, founder and CEO He encouraged conference attendees to have an open mind about cross-collaboration, and a sense of of the Africa Network for intellectual adventure filled the room. Animal Welfare (ANAW), and Ambassador Nehemiah GSSW Scholar-in-Residence Sarah Bexell gave a moving speech about our relationship with the natural Rotich, ANAW Board Chair. world, bringing the audience to a standing ovation. Afternoon workshops gave us an opportunity The presentation focused to learn about topics such as designing an animal-assisted therapy research project, nature-based on animal welfare issues in vocational programs for urban teens and animals as facilitators in learning and therapy. Kenya, including poaching The second day of the conference was an opportunity for GSSW students to shine. Led by Tedeschi that could lead to the rapid and Adjunct Professor Ann Howie, we co-facilitated a workshop called “What We Look for Is What We extinction of animals like Find!” At six different “sense” stations, we guided attendees to experience what it might be like to elephants and rhinoceroses. be an animal in therapeutic settings —suspended in the air by a harness, for example, and wearing Click here to learn about a mask simulating a horse’s vision. upcoming IHAC events. “The conference, for me, was a reminder of the power that the natural world offers us in terms Rotich of healing and growth,” reflected MSW student Schyler Lindekugel. “It also helped me remember why I am in this field and why I will always advocate for animal- and horticulture-based therapy modalities.”

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Bridge Butler Institute Project Stipends Help to Build Colorado’s

Child Welfare Workforce Baldes For MSW students with an interest in public child welfare, Title IV-E child welfare stipends can make a GSSW education considerably more affordable, as well as giving graduates a significant edge when they enter the workforce. “The stipend helped me realize my goal of earning my MSW at DU and was instrumental in helping me get hired success in before graduation,” says recent GSSW graduate Tyler Baldes, MSW ’13. The Bridge Project’s preventing childhood and adolescent problems The stipend program also helps to build Colorado’s child welfare workforce, especially in Members of the Women’s Foundation of Colorado’s Empowerment Council and improving academic achievement underserved areas of the state. Administered through a partnership between the Butler pose with the Bridge Project students they hosted for a speed mentoring event. Institute for Families and the Colorado Department of Human Services, the stipend is documented in the recent book Risk, program uses federal dollars to provide partial tuition support to MSW students. For Resilience, and Positive Youth Development: each year they receive the stipend, students commit to at least one year of employment Speed Mentoring Sparks Career Aspirations Developing Effective Community Programs for in Colorado public child welfare after graduation. Urban, rural and distance education At-Risk Youth: Lessons from the Denver Bridge stipends are available, thus helping to build the child welfare workforce in all areas of Finance, marketing, law, philanthropy—these were just a few of the careers that girls from Project, (Jenson, J.M., Alter, C.F., Nicotera, N., the state. GSSW’s Bridge Project learned about at the program’s first speed mentoring event this spring. As part of their ongoing collaboration, the Bridge Project and the Empowerment Council of the Anthony, E.K., & Forrest-Bank, S.S. (2013). Selected through an application and interview process, child welfare stipend recipients Schmittou take the child welfare concentration during their second year of MSW study and Women’s Foundation of Colorado (WFCO), teamed up to host a networking luncheon for the New York: Oxford University Press). The complete their internships in a wide variety of public child welfare programs. They also Bridge girls. book’s lead author is Philip D. and Eleanor complete the required Colorado Child Welfare Academy, making them attractive new WFCO’s Empowerment Council is a philanthropic community of young professional women G. Winn Professor for Children and Youth at hires for Colorado’s county child welfare agencies. seeking to effect change and contribute to the empowerment of Colorado’s girls and women Risk Jeff Jenson, GSSW’s Associate Dean for “The combination of the child welfare stipend, completing the Colorado Child Welfare through economic self-sufficiency. Ten of the council’s representatives acted as mentors whom Research, who works closely with Bridge to Academy, and my internship at Denver Human Services over the past year has prepared the girls interviewed during the luncheon about their professional lives. conduct ongoing evaluation of the program’s me for a lifelong career in public child welfare,” says Emily Schmittou, MSW ’13, “We wanted girls to see women from a variety of professions to make their future more real,” another recent graduate. says Nora Herrera, the Bridge Project’s mentor coordinator. effectiveness. The stipend program has an especially significant impact on underserved rural areas Two years ago, WFCO chose the Bridge Project as one of seven organizations across the state to of the state, including the Four Corners region where GSSW has offered on-site MSW receive funding to help prevent girls from dropping out of school. The funding is being used education in Durango since 2002 [see cover story on page 4]. to enhance Bridge mentoring programs and increase the number of middle school girls who “Through GSSW, our department has added four highly trained, motivated graduates to receive mentoring. our child welfare staff,” says Lezlie Mayer, Director of La Plata County Human Services Summers with daughter, “We truly appreciate the ongoing support that the Women’s Foundation of Colorado provides and a member of the Four Corners MSW Program’s Advisory Council. “They have been Sydney for our program,” says Bridge executive director Molly Calhoun. “The speed mentoring event great contributors to our agency!” allowed our students to question successful women in a variety of fields and help the girls Among those staff members is Four Corners graduate Charmaine Summers, MSW ’08, realize that they themselves are capable of great things.” who completed her second year internship at La Plata County’s child welfare program and was hired immediately after earning her degree. Now, as foster care coordinator and adoption specialist, Summers says the stipend helped her afford a graduate education that makes her shine in the workplace. “I love translating my classroom and experiential learning into hands-on work that allows me to show my skills and abilities,” she says. Save the Date! For Summers’ classmate, Char Lundberg, MSW ’08, the child welfare stipend and the Mark your calendars now for the Bridge Project’s 2013 Annual Gala Four Corners weekend class schedule combined to make a lifelong dream come true. “I was a late bloomer,” chuckles Lundberg, who earned her BSW degree when she was When: Saturday, September 21, 2013 41, then took a 17-year break from school to raise three adopted daughters as a single 5:30 p.m. – Cocktails & Silent Auction parent. “It was my personal goal to get my MSW, but I couldn’t stop working to go back to school and accrue student loans,” she explains. “I didn’t know if I’d ever be able to 7:15 p.m. – Dinner, Entertainment & Live Auction accomplish that goal, but the stipend and the Four Corners program made it possible.” Where: The Hyatt Convention Center Now 63, Lundberg is continuing her 17-year child welfare career as a supervisor at Lundberg Colorado’s Montezuma County Department of Social Services. Honorees: Charles Jordy, Jr. and Brian Fun

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from the from the Board of Visitors Chair Director of Donor Development Spotlight Dear Alumni and Friends: & Alumni Inspiring Change As the cost of providing top-quality graduate education continues to skyrocket, rising tuition costs threaten to make with Annual GSSW all but unaffordable for some of the social work profession’s most promising future leaders. As chair of GSSW’s Giving Donations Board of Visitors and the father of a 2010 MSW graduate, I am determined to see that this does not happen, and I ask your help at this critical time for our school, our nation and the often troubled world in which we live. Dear Alumni and Friends: When Jane Boone (MSW ‘11) When my wife and I established the Gary and Teresa Yourtz Foundation Endowed Scholarship, we did so knowing that more than 90% of traveled from her home in GSSW’s students require financial assistance to access the school’s top-quality education and outstanding preparation to help and empower Each year at this time, there’s a palpable sense of Los Angeles to Denver for a the most vulnerable among us. Your support for GSSW’s scholarship funds impacts not only its current students, but also the thousands of excitement at GSSW as our graduating students friend’s wedding, she didn’t individuals, families and communities they will serve for decades to come. anticipate the June Commencement ceremony— realize the weekend would be and, to an even greater degree, the commencement the start of a new life with the On behalf of the Board of Visitors, please accept our heartfelt appreciation for the support you provide to the Graduate School of Social Work. of their professional social work careers. These University of Denver taking center stage. Now this young alumna is making an impact on DU’s future by The legacy you create through scholarship support will help to keep GSSW within the financial reach of the very best and brightest future new graduates are poised to join our more than supporting the program that inspired and nurtured her career. social workers! 7,500 alumni in providing outstanding service and leadership in communities across the country and Best regards, During her weekend in Denver, Boone read a GSSW Magazine article describing around the world. GSSW’s Institute for Human-Animal Connection (IHAC). The Institute’s programs aligned perfectly with Boone’s growing interest in humane education. Through Your gifts to the Annual Fund ensure that a quality IHAC’s Animal-Assisted Social Work Certificate—the first such program in GSSW education remains affordable for promising the nation—MSW students learn to select, care for, and work with animals as Gary L. Yourtz students just like these. And today there are more teachers, therapists, facilitators and companions for their clients. Chair, Board of Visitors ways to give than ever before! Boone’s academic and career path became clear. She earned her MSW degree and For example, important provisions of the American the AASW Certificate in 2011. Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 mean you can provide financial assistance for GSSW students by using During her two years at GSSW, Boone came to realize the significance of IHAC’s your Individual Retirement Account (IRA). If you cutting edge research and teaching, and their worldwide impact on the social work profession. Boone was particularly inspired by her MSW course, “Social Work in own an IRA and have reached the age of 70½, you Kenya: Context, Empowerment and Sustainability,” taught in collaboration with can make an IRA charitable rollover gift to GSSW the African Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW). An article Boone wrote about anytime between now and December 31, 2013— her powerful experiences in Kenya was published in the ANAW 2011 Journal of and avoid the taxes you would otherwise pay on Animal Welfare and reprinted in the spring 2012 issue of GSSW Magazine. the IRA distribution. Now that they’re both University of Denver graduates, Jane Boone and her An IRA rollover is just one of the many ways you husband, Guthrie Boone (BSBA ’06, MBA ’07), choose to support DU and GSSW by can support the Annual Fund. To learn more, making annual gifts to IHAC. please contact me by email or phone 303-871-7599. Jane also supervises three GSSW interns as program manager at Pawsitive Your gift, in any amount, helps to ensure that Connection, a Freedom Service Dogs program that teaches at-risk youth to train tomorrow’s most promising social workers have service dogs for people with disabilities. The program helps not only the dogs’ the best possible preparation for the careers that eventual owners, but also the young trainers who develop empathy and pro- lie ahead. social skills, and the dogs who’ve been rescued from area shelters. Thank you! Boone’s commitment to helping GSSW and its Institute for Human-Animal Con- nection is an excellent example of the impact even our most recent graduates can make. And contributions to DU’s Annual Fund in any amount truly make a difference! Lynda Ricketson Director of Development and Alumni Giving To support GSSW in a way that means the most to you, click here, or contact DU’s Office of Annual Giving by phone at 303-871-2239 or email. Contact Lynda Ricketson For a complete list of giving opportunities, Jane and Guthrie Boone’s family ties to DU run deep. Jane’s parents are also DU Director of Development and Alumni Giving please click here. graduates, and Jane and her husband were introduced to one another by Jane’s 303.871.7599 best friend, another DU grad!

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2012 Alumni Award Recipients

GSSW Service Award This award is presented to an alumnus/alumna who has contributed to, or served, the Graduate School of Social Work in a noteworthy and significant fashion, through personal effort and/or financial contribution.

Joe Barfoot, MSW ’88, LCSW, has been a GSSW field instructor for nearly 20 years at Denver’s Kaiser Permanente Highline Mental Health Center, the Dean James Herbert Williams (left) and Professor Jean East (right) join Alumni largest mental health center in the Award recipients (L-R) Susan Manning, Joe Barfoot and Betty Proctor. Rocky Mountain Region. As Clinical and Women’s Bean Project Administrative Supervisor from 1996 to 2004, Barfoot’s responsibilities included numerous administrative Proctor also works with the Colorado Legislature on issues impacting Josepha “Jossy” Eyre, founder of the Women’s Bean Project, came to Founder Shares duties, as well as supervision of a multidisciplinary team providing older adults, and she serves as the board representative from St. Peter & campus April 23 to talk to students about her path to social work and outpatient mental health services. In recent years, Barfoot has been a St. Mary’s Episcopal Church on a collaborative effort to feed the homeless. the importance of following your passion. Life Lessons member of Kaiser’s Child and Adolescent Team, providing evaluation Eyre (MSA ’86) was on campus as part of the Masters Program, by Greg Glasgow and Carol Farnsworth and treatment of children, adolescents and families. Throughout his Robert L. Hawkins Social Work Achievement Award which invites successful alumni back to campus as “master scholars” time at Kaiser, he’s received outstanding reviews from the students This award is presented to an alumnus/alumna who has demonstrated who participate in lectures or teach courses during a regular day in he has supervised, many of whom note his dedication not only to professional achievement by being named executive director, the academic schedule of their department. Speaking to Michael The answer came in the unexpected form of beans. In 1989, Eyre Talamantes’ Social Work Intervention Strategies in Health Care founded the Women’s Bean Project, a soup-kit assembly nonprofit improving their clinical skills, but also to ensuring that they become manager, chairperson of the board, etc., of a social work agency or class in Craig Hall, she started by talking about her childhood in the to help women develop job skills, work habits and even inner peace committed and compassionate social workers. organization; or by reaching a level of prominence in education, Netherlands during World War II, where she lost a sister and brother through meditation. practice or politics, etc; or by receiving national recognition in the field during a bombing raid. Community Service Award of social work. This award is named in honor of Robert L. Hawkins, “We had a very caring atmosphere — people working together, people “In the 1940s, there was not much to help me deal with the grief,” she This award is presented to an alumnus/alumna who has demonstrated MSW ’67, who rose through the ranks at Colorado Psychiatric Institute learning together, people being supported together and trying to help said. “I buried the feelings, and they stayed with me a long time.”After significant and continuous volunteer involvement in major in Pueblo, eventually becoming the first social worker appointed as its them to ease their way into the mainstream,” she said. “One of the the war, Eyre came to New York City with her parents and surviving ways we did that was to take them along when we had opportunities community activities and/or charitable causes, above and beyond his/ Superintendent. Under Hawkins’ leadership, the Institute became a siblings. She earned her BA from St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn to sell the products. At first, they didn’t like the idea at all, but when her employed position. model psychiatric treatment facility. before enrolling in Columbia University, which granted her a BS in they found out that the products of their hands had monetary value, nursing in 1962. Eyre embarked on a career in public health nursing, they started to believe in themselves a little bit more.” Betty Proctor, MSW ’74, is retired after a 49-year career, 20 of those Professor Emerita Susan Manning, MSW ’83, PhD ’90, LCSW, retired which brought her to Denver in the late 1960s. The work started her years in business and the other 29 with Colorado’s Jefferson County last spring after a 28-year affiliation with GSSW—beginning as an thinking about the need for intervention and the role of social work. Eyre left the Women’s Bean Project 14 years ago but still is involved in Human Services. But hers isn’t your typical retirement, since Proctor adjunct instructor and field instructor, then as an appointed professor. its mission. She now volunteers for the Ignatian Spirituality Project, It was not until the 1980s, after her children were grown, that she which works with homeless women struggling with addiction. remains as busy as ever! A true social work entrepreneur who has In addition to her stellar academic career, Manning worked for many returned to school at the Graduate School of Social Work. She found participated in the start-up and operation of 27 nonprofits, Proctor years with the Denver-based nonprofit, CHARG Resource Center. Using a her voice and finally began to process what had happened to her so Through all her work, Eyre has emphasized serving people over has volunteered since 1997 as founder and director of Helping Hearts unique empowerment model that includes a partnership among clients, long ago. promoting a cause. When a student in the social work class asked Eyre what advice she had for students going into the health care field, Eyre and Hands, which provides emergency financial and in-kind support staff and community members, CHARG seeks to improve the lives of “My passion was there, and my professors were able to channel that replied, “There’s a living being behind the symptoms. We need to to those who might otherwise “fall through the cracks” of the human individuals with chronic and persistent mental illness. In addition to into better focus,” she said. support that person and make them feel safe.” services system. Proctor also is a founder and member of the Colorado serving on the program’s community board from 1996 through 2006, Long interested in helping the homeless and impoverished, Eyre This article first appeared on the University of Denver website. Social Legislation Council, works on legislative committees for the Manning also served for seven years as the organization’s president or began volunteering at the Gathering Place, a drop-in women’s shelter. DU’s Masters Program, sponsored annually by the Office of Alumni Seniors’ Resource Center, and sits on the Boards of Directors for Good vice president. In April of 2012, Manning was inducted into CHARG There she recognized the same hopelessness that had shackled her. Relations, brings distinguished graduates back to classrooms across News Jefferson County, the Colorado Coalition of Foundations, the Resource Center’s new Honorary Council in recognition of her “long How, she wondered, could she empower these women and help them the campus to share their professional knowledge and insights with Senior Lobby and the West Side Family Networks (Family to Family). and active history of service” to the program. achieve independence? students and faculty.

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Regina Richards (MSW ’06) received an Outstanding Staff Award from the and other stressful situations. A Child and Family Investigator (CFI), Gomez Class Notes Office of Inclusion and Outreach at the University of Colorado Anschutz conducts investigations and writes a report for the court regarding children’s Medical Campus, where she serves as Director of Diversity and Inclusion. best interests in divorce cases where parents do not agree on child custody. From the ’80s Richards also serves as Program Coordinator for the BA/BS-MD Program, a combined pipeline program for diverse Colorado high school students to enter Gomez, who also works as a school social worker at Annunciation Catholic Retired gerontologist and psychotherapist Virginia “Ginni” McCann (MSW ’88) of Biloxi, MS, Alumni medical school. The award was presented at the annual Chancellor’s Diversity School, recently presented a paper at the Race Gender and Class Annual traveled to Cuba for two weeks in 2012 with 24 other retired professionals with the Caribbean Recognition and Award Luncheon in early May. Find details, photos and videos Meeting at the University of New Orleans. Entitled “Motivations of African Cultural Religious Council of Long Beach, CA. The group explored various communities, the Association in the “newsroom” section at www.ucdenver.edu. American women environmental justice activists in Southeast Atlanta, Cuban culture and religious practices. She plans to return to the island this fall with the People- Georgia,” the paper was also published in UNO’s journal, Race Gender & Class to-People program to learn more about the different cultures, arts and universities. “It is a very President (volume 18, number 102, ISSN 1082-8354). Gomez recently was a presenter captivating country with lots of engaging people for sure, just a slower pace of life,” McCann on a panel discussing black youth, children and mental health at a conference writes. ’10s Antoinette Gomez (MSW ’10), LSW, CAC III, is owner held by Denver-based Brother Jeff Health Collaborative. Gomez also serves on Dear Fellow Graduates: McCann has been honored for her volunteer work around the world, including a GSSW of Harmony Counseling Services, LLC, a Denver-based the organizing committee for an August black mental health professionals’ Community Service Award in 2007 for her work after Hurricane Katrina. private practice specializing in family and couples, retreat. I am delighted and honored to be writing to you as and serving adults and children affected by trauma, your new Alumni Association President! Kathryn Rudlin (MSW ’84) has published her first book, Ghost Mothers: military deployment, grief, loss, adjustment, attachment Contact Harmony Counseling Services at 303-386-3377. Healing from the Pain of a Mother Who Wasn’t Really There. The book is First I hope you’ll join me in congratulating Clinical As- a non-fiction, self-help guide to understanding and healing from a mother sistant Professor Jae McQueen on her new appointed who was emotionally disconnected. Click here to purchase the book faculty position at GSSW, and in thanking her for her on Amazon.com. Learn more at the website, the book’s online blog, on outstanding work as Alumni Association President Facebook or Twitter. since 2010. I have always enjoyed working on alumni In Memoriam activities with Jae, my classmate and friend since we Dean Emeritus John (Jack) Jones, PhD, MSW, MA, Professor Emeritus Charles (Chuck) McCann, PhD, died both earned our MSW degrees in the Class of 2000. I died on February 20, 2013, after a brief illness. Jones on February 25, 2012. He was 92. McCann was a member look forward to her continued involvement with the ’00s served as GSSW dean from 1987 through 1996, and as of the GSSW faculty from 1965 to 1982 and served as association in the future. Megan (Boyle) Gage (MSW ’06) presented her company, Hot Tot, on ABC’s “Shark Tank” on Interim Provost for the University of Denver in 1989. head of the Community Organization-Administration MSW Before coming to GSSW as its seventh program head, Sequence. One of the University of California’s first doctoral January 4. Founded in 2010, Hot Tot produces professional hair products for babies and children Please rest assured that the Alumni Association will Jones served for 12 years as the director of the social graduates, McCann also played a key role in helping to without the use of harsh or harmful chemicals. “Shark Tank” is a popular business-themed reality continue to represent you at GSSW and University- work program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong establish GSSW’s doctoral program in 1969. wide events, and we’ll maintain an active alumni pres- TV program that provides opportunities for hopeful entrepreneurs to pitch their concepts to very (1976-1987) and was the founding dean of the School ence in the life of our school. I hope you’ll consider successful business men and women known as “sharks” in hopes of obtaining a powerful partner. of Social Development at the University of Minnesota-Duluth (1971-1976). Prior to joining GSSW’s faculty, McCann served as Associate Professor of dropping me an email soon with your ideas, recom- The program averages seven-million weekly viewers. He also held academic positions at Hong Kong University, the University of Community Organization and Social Casework at the Arizona State University Wisconsin and Case Western Reserve University. Graduate School of Social Service Administration in Tempe. mendations and Class Note updates for future issues “This was a wonderful opportunity to grow my brand,” says Gage. “Fewer than three percent of this magazine. of Season Four ‘Shark Tank’ hopefuls had their businesses aired on TV, so it was a great During Jones’ nine years as GSSW dean, the school’s enrollment nearly Among McCann’s many journal publications was an article in the doubled, and the volume of faculty research and training grants increased Meanwhile, be sure to check out the section of the accomplishment to make it this far.” inaugural issue of Social Work, published by the National Association of significantly. Jones played a key role in establishing, and later chairing, the new GSSW website designed as an easily accessible Social Workers in 1956. Co-authored with then NASW Executive Director, Colorado Human Services, Research, Education and Training Consortium. Chauncey Alexander, “The Concept of Representativeness in Community and comprehensive resource for our graduates. In At the annual LGBTIQ&A Celebration Gala on April 4, the Center This partnership among the social work programs at DU, Colorado State Organization” discussed whether being an elected representative bound addition to alumni resources and awards, key con- for Multicultural Excellence presented the “Still Struttin’ Your University and Metropolitan State University generated $1.5 million in GSSW one to vote exactly where the electors stood on any given issue, or tacts, licensure information, registrar services, giving Stuff Award” for alumni to Leo Kattari (MSW ’09) “for his grants for child welfare training. In addition, Jones provided leadership for whether a representative was free to formulate his or her own position opportunities and a list of upcoming alumni events, contributions to furthering inclusive excellence at and beyond the establishment of GSSW’s Bridge Project, a program serving the children, after hearing a debate. you’ll find links to several social work organizations the University of Denver.” Nominations for this award are youth and families in Denver’s public housing neighborhoods. invited each year from DU’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and their upcoming events as well. GSSW’s website ad- Drawing upon his extensive international experience and research on three Intersex, Queer, Questioning and Ally (LGBTIQA) communities, dress is still the same, and you’ll find a link to the new continents, Jones published a dozen books and numerous articles on social Rose Perrin Taylor (MSW ’56) died on January 3, 2013, and the selection is made by a volunteer committee. Kattari is Training and Education Manager Alumni section at the top right of every page. development, transitional economies, and human security in Asia and Africa. at the age of 96. Early in her career, Taylor was employed at Colorado Youth Matter, a Denver-based nonprofit organization. Pictured with Kattari is his He had a long history of consulting with the United Nations, and his most at Detroit’s Dodge Community House and the Detroit I eagerly anticipate building an even stronger alumni partner Shanna, who will be starting GSSW’s PhD program this fall. recent project, conducted with Dean James Herbert Williams and Dr. Asfaw Welfare Department. She later became the first child community with all of you, and celebrating the future Kumssa, focused on human security among refugees and internally displaced achievements of our newest MSW and PhD graduates. welfare worker in Fremont County, WY, and continued Paul Force-Emery Mackie (PhD ’05) was promoted to the rank of full tenured Professor at persons in Northern Kenya. The project is a collaborative effort of the her career as a child welfare worker in Cheyenne. She Minnesota State University, Mankato, effective June 1, 2013. Dr. Mackie previously held the United Nations, GSSW and the University of Nairobi. At the invitation of the spent the last 16 years of her career at the Health and Sincerely, University of Botswana, the project recently expanded to Botswana. positions of BSSW program director and assessment coordinator in the social work department, Welfare Department in San Mateo, CA, the last 10 of those years as a federal and he led the BSSW program through a successful reaffirmation of accreditation in 2011. His Jones also served on numerous boards and committees, including the American day care director. Taylor was co-founder of the Child Care Council of San research is focused on rural mental health and social service delivery issues, rural community Humane Association, Volunteers of America, the Governor’s Business Commission Mateo County. After retirement in 1974, she lived at the Sea Ranch for 20 organizing and development, and assessment. Currently, Mackie is serving as the University’s on Child Care Financing and Warren Village. Following his retirement from years, moving to Marin County in 1994. Assessment Coordinator. the GSSW faculty, Jones continued his work at DU as Dean Emeritus and as a research professor at GSSW and the DU Conflict Resolution Institute. Taylor is survived by two daughters, three grandsons, one great-grandaughter, Hope Wisneski (MSW ’00) At the Colorado Social Work Month Celebration in March, the Social Work Department of Survivors include Jones’ wife, Lois Jones, and two children. For information two nieces and a nephew. Memorial contributions may be made to 4Cs (Child Alumni Association President Metropolitan State University of Denver presented its BSW graduate Cynthia Masotti (MSW ’08), on making a donation to GSSW in Jones’ honor, please contact Lynda Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County, Inc.), the Redwoods in Mill LCSW, with the Distinguished Alumna Award. Also at the event, the Colorado Society for Clinical Ricketson, Director of Development and Alumni Giving, by email, or by Valley, the Eldercare Alliance, Rejoice Ministries Christian Church in Oakland, Social Work named Kerry Hamm (MSW ’01), LCSW, as its Most Distinguished Clinician. phone at 303-871-7599. CA, or a charity of your choice.

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The Last Word

Choices (chȯis-es) pl. noun – what MSW students will have even more of next fall

Back in the day (i.e., the 1990s) choosing your path through the MSW program was a fairly simple matter of either/or: direct practice or indirect practice— broad choices that prepared you for the type of social work you preferred. Then came a complete curriculum overhaul in 2002 that offered additional choices, dividing two newly named “clinical” and “community” concentrations into five practice tracks focused on specific populations or fields of practice. Beginning this fall, incoming GSSW students will embark on a new and even more innovative MSW curriculum that is both streamlined and more varied than ever before. The revisioned curriculum comes after months of hard work by dedicated faculty and staff, led by Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Jean East, with alumni, students, field agencies and others providing input along the way. Gone are the tracks, replaced by eight concentrations that increasingly blur the lines between clinical and community practice. Two-year students will now begin their concentration studies during spring quarter of their first year, thanks to careful weeding out of redundancies in foundation curriculum courses. To be sure, the most familiar and popular specialties are still available: Child Welfare, Family Systems, Organizational Leadership and Policy Practice, Children and Youth: Risks and Positive Development. But there are brand new concentration choices, too: Health and Wellness, Mental Health, Aging Services and Policy, and Sustainable Development and Global Practice, the latter yet another indication of GSSW’s increasingly international focus. In an already diverse profession, today’s social workers have more practice options than ever before. Now our MSW students can make academic choices that provide even more intensive preparation for the varied careers that lie ahead. Click here to learn more about GSSW’s new MSW curriculum online.