Recent Research Awards:

Dr. Rita Chou has been selected as a Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar. This is a highly prestigious, highly competitive award. The award provides up to $50,000 each year for two years in support of salary and benefits, attending national professional meetings and/or research and statistical consultation, as well as other costs related to work on Dr. Chou's research project.

Seokwon Yoon, COSW doctoral student, received the Third Place - Student Paper Award at the 29th Annual Meeting of The Southern Gerontological Society for her paper "Effective treatments for the management of late life depression in long term care facilities."

Dr. Jinseok Kim received a grant award from the HRSA. The study entitled as "Long-term effect of social environments on activity patterns and overweight among U.S. adolescents," is to conduct a series of analyses using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to determine how social environmenal factors (such as neighborhood cohesion, safety, and social network) predict physical activity/inactivity patterns and overweight status at adolescence and 6 years later in their early adulthood. This study is responding to R40: Maternal and Child Health Research Program (MCHR) and funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of US DHHS. Jihong Liu (Public Health) is the PI, and Jinseok Kim (Social Work), Natalie Colabianchi (Public Health) and Russ Pate (Public Health) are co-PIs.

The Social Work Leadership Institute at the New York Academy of Medicine, together with the John A. Hartford Foundation, has announced that Dr. Terry Wolfer of the College of Social Work has been selected from a competitive group of submissions to receive a Practicum Partnership Program (PPP) Grant. Dr. Wolfer's project will focuses on geriatric social work in congregations. Geriatric Social Work in Congregation Press Release (In Adobe Acrobat)

Arlene Bowers Andrews, Professor in the USC College of Social Work, has been selected as a Fahs-Beck Fellow by the Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation at The New York Community Trust.

Centers of Economic Excellence (CoEE)  has approved state funding for a new Center of Economic Excellence, including SMART HOME

Drs. Maryah Fram and Jinseok Kim pilot research proposal entitled "Observational Study on Influences of Child Care Context" has been selected for funding throug the Research Consortium on Children and Families. They will use this pilot study to strengthen an R01 proposal they plan to resubmit to NICHD.

Drs. Jinseok Kim and Karen Gray's manuscript "Leave or stay? Battered women's decision after intimate partner violence," has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. It will appear in print in volume 23 no. 10, October 2008.

Dr. Johnny Jones and Jennifer Reid Webb, M.A. in the Center for Child and Family Studies' paper, "Collaboration for the Provision of Services: A Review of the Literature," has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Community Practice.

New Information:

Congratulations to Dr. Maryah Fram, who recently submitted a proposal to the Spencer Foundation titled, “Social Capital and Academic Achievement Among Middle School Youth.” Dr. Fram’s research aims examine how youth develop and use social capital, and how this relates to academic success during their transition into middle school.

Congratulations to Nancy Brown, Ph.D., who has just submitted a grant proposal to the Fahs-Beck Fund. Nancy’s proposal, The Domestic Violence Reduction Project for Recovering Women, is designed to reduce or prevent violence toward women who are recovering from problems with alcohol and other drug addiction. This project represents a unique way of providing services to women who are often estranged from traditional domestic violence services.

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The College of Social Work is committed to advancing research with a focus on families and communities that will benefit social work practice and impact social policy. Our faculty has expertise in mental health; addictions; gerontology; child welfare; faith-based social work; transnational social research; and in family and community social interventions with vulnerable populations. Affiliations with the University’s health sciences division and with state and local agencies allow us to collaborate on varied and cross-disciplinary research opportunities.