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Sadye L. M. Logan, DSW, MSW

Making Change Happen:

Real change is an internal process. Professional helpers serve as facilitators, supporting the service consumer’s change effort. As facilitators, they help in the process of creating a healing context for change. Dr. Logan’s teaching, research, and service are based on this perspective—a perspective that recognizes that conditions within the service consumer’s environment may never change. In other words, equality of external circumstances has never existed locally or globally. 

Given this seemingly contradictory recognition of how change occurs, Dr. Logan focuses her professional and personal responsibilities on change that not only impacts external circumstances, but also supports the consumer’s internal processes. This includes focusing on intervention strategies that support not only a peaceful world, but also the upliftment of humanity. 

Dr. Logan’s professional and personal commitment to making change happen is reflected in her community outreach services to families and children—particularly through her teaching children to meditate project. Meditation, she believes, along with other creative strategies, is one of the essential tools for strengthening the internal as well as external change processes.

Practice and Research Background

Effective social work practice and research are both consumer centered, collaborative, and strength based. Dr. Logan draws on an empowerment framework that incorporates service consumers’ diversity, their narratives, and oral history.

Research Projects

  • Logan, S.L. M. (2011-2013) Teaching Clinical Social Work Practice with Black Families
  • Logan, S. L. M. (2011-2012) Notable African American Women from South Carolina
  • Logan, S. L. M. (2007-2010) Newman Oral History Project. Newman Institute.
  • Logan, S. L. M. (2005-2007) In Their Own Voices: Oral History Project and Documentary Interviews with Unsung Sheroes. Newman Institute.
  • Logan, L. M. (2007) 4 Voices: Reflections on gender, race, socio-economic status and civil rights. Women Studies, Abney Award.

Selected Presentations

  • Are We There Yet? Sisterhood and the Impact of Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Race/Ethnicity.  Unsettling feminisms Unconference, Chicago, ILL, May 22-24, 2011.
  • Feminism and Pedagogy in Social Work. Unsettling feminisms Unconference, Chicago, ILL, May 22-24, 2011.                 
  • Best Practices in Recruitment and Retention of Native American Students. Council on Social Work Education, Atlanta, GA, October 2011.
  • Best Practices in Recruitment and Retention of Native American Indian Faculty. Council on Social Work Education, Portland, OR, October 2010.
  • Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Cultural Diversity in Doctoral Education: Factors that Constrain, Facilitates and Differentiate, Council on Social Work Education, San Antonio, TX, October, 2009.
  • Current Processes that Circumvent the Successful Recruitment and Retention of Students and Faculty of Color in Social Work Education, Council on Social Work Education, Philadelphia,   PA, October, 2008.
  • Narratives on race, gender and Civil Rights: Listening to the Voices of Older African American Women. USC Women Studies Research series, Columbia, SC, Spring 2007.
  • The changing Role of Ghanaian Women. University of South Carolina SC Women Studies Annual Conference, Spring 2006.

Awards and Honors

  • Obama Fall Fellowship Program, 2012
  • Notable Documents Awards, South Carolina State Library, 2011.
  • NASW Foundation Pioneer Award, 2011       
  • Living the Legacy Award, In recognition of worthwhile service to humanity,
  • National Council of Negro Women, January 2009
  • The Abney Award: USC Women Studies Department. Ongoing Research Series, 2007
  • Inducted into Phi Alpha Honor Society, 2007

Selected Publications

  • Logan, S. L. (2006) Remembering the Women of Rwanda: When Human Rely on the Old Concepts of War to Resolve Conflict. Affilia:  Journal of Women and Social Work, 21 (2) 234-239
  • Logan, S. L. (2007). I. DeQuncey Newman: A true servant of the people. Arete: Special History Issue. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina.  
  • Logan, S.L. (Ed.), Denby, R. & Gibson, P. (Co-ed.) (2007) Mental Health Care in the African American Community:  A Life Course Perspective.  Binghamton, N.Y. Haworth Press, Inc.
  • Logan, S.L. (2007) Mental health interventions and the Black community. In S. Logan, Denby and Gibson, P.(Eds). Mental Health Care in the  African American Community:  A Life Course Perspective.  Binghamton, NY: Haworth
  • Logan, S. L. ( 2007) Rural African American Families and their mental health needs: South Carolina as an exemplar. In S. Logan  Denby, R. and P. Gibson (Eds.). ) Mental Health Care in the African American Community:  A Life Course Perspective.  Binghampton, NY: Haworth
  • Logan, S. L. (2007). The healing spirit of our ancestors: A look toward the future. In S. Logan, R. Denby and P. Gibson (Eds.) ) Mental Health Care in the African American Community:  A Life Course Perspective. Binghampton, NY: Haworth.
  • Logan, S. L.(2008) Isaiah DeQuincey Newman. Henry L. Gates, Ed. The African National Biography, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Logan, S. L. (2008). Families: Overview. In Terry Mizrahi and Larry Davis, Eds. Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th edition, New York: Oxford University Press
  • Logan, S. L. (2009). Social Work Practice with African Americans. In Albert R. Roberts, Ed. Social Workers’ Desk Reference. Second Edition.  New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Logan, S. L. (2010) Identity Diffusion. In Ronald L. Jackson, Ed, Encyclopedia of identity, CA:  Sage Publication
  • Logan, S. Cultural competence and Ethnic Sensitive Practice, In Social Work, Edward Mullen, Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, July 2021. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/
  • Logan, S. L. (in press) Families: Overview. In Cynthia Franklin, Ed. Encyclopedia of Social Work. 21 edition.Revised. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Logan, S. L. (in press) The spirit of an activist: The life and work of I. DeQuincey  Newman, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press

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