Brown School Leads 60+ Presentations at Society for Social Work and Research Conference

The faculty, staff and students of the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis will offer more than 60 presentations at the Society for Social Work and Research annual conference, a key convening of leading researchers in the field. Their findings cover topics such as food insecurity, place-based community development interventions, and social workers’ role in preventing gun violence.

Centered on the theme “Achieving Equal Opportunity, Equity, and Justice,” the conference will take place Jan. 10 – 14, 2018, in Washington, D.C. 

During the conference, Professors Sean Joe and Melissa Jonson-Reid will also be inducted as fellows in the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare for their distinguished accomplishments as scholars and practitioners dedicated to advancing social good.

To honor their achievements, the Brown School will host a reception on Friday, Jan. 12, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m., in the Tulip Room of the Marriott Marquis Washington D.C.

Consult the listings below to explore the breadth of ways to connect with Brown School researchers throughout the conference. All events will take place within the Marriott Marquis Washington D.C.

Thursday, January 11

8:00 AM	Effective Dissemination and Communication for Policy Change: Are We Making Legislation or Sausage?	Ross Brownson
8:00 AM	Developing Successful Minority Social Work Scholars	Renee Cunningham-Williams
1:30 PM	Rates of Child Welfare Interactions: Methodological Challenges and Policy Implications	Hyunil Kim
1:30 PM	The Front Lines of Financial Defense: Managing Financial Emergencies in Low-Income Households	Stephen Roll, Samuel Taylor, Sam Bufe, Michal Grinstein-Weiss
2:00  PM	Assessing Subjective Norms Towards HIV As Barriers and Facilitators for Intent to Share Information about PrEP	Whitney Sewell
2:30  PM	Can Financial Capability Be Built at Work?	Ellen Frank-Miller, Meredith Covington, Michal Grinstein-Weiss
2:30 PM	Correlates of PrEP Awareness Among High Risk Heterosexual Women	Whitney Sewell, Harry Taylor, Darrell Hudson
3:15 PM	​Caregivers’ Health Concerns and the Recurrence of Child Maltreatment Reports	​Chien-jen Chiang
3:15 PM	Nurse Home Visitation Practice with Vulnerable Families in Rural Areas: A Qualitative Casefile Review	Ellie S. Wideman, Allison E. Dunnigan, Melissa Jonson-Reid
3:15 PM	Understanding Child Maltreatment Report Risks: A 14-Year Longitudinal Study	Hyunil Kim, Melissa Jonson-Reid, Brett Drake
3:45 PM	Employee Financial Wellness Programs (EFWPs)	Ellen Frank-Miller, Meredith Covington, Michal Grinstein-Weiss
3:45 PM	The Israeli Child Savings Account Program: Early Analysis on Implementation and Participation	Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Stephen Roll, Sam Bufe
4:15 PM	Do Seoul Hope Plus Savings Accounts Increase Savings and Assets for Working Poor Families in Korea?	Michael Sherraden
4:45 PM	Impacts of Asset Holding and Saving Behavior in Child Development Accounts: A Causal Mediation Analysis	Sondra Beverly, Margaret Clancy, Michael Sherraden

Friday, January 12

7:00 AM	Advance Long and Productive Lives (Grand Challenge)	Nancy Morrow-Howell
8:00 AM	How Do I Fit? Understanding Barriers and Facilitators to Social Services Among Women Involved in Commercial Sexual Exploitation	Tonya Edmond
8:00 AM	Interpersonal Violence on Campus	Tonya Edmond
8:00 AM	Delinquent Behaviors Among Taiwanese Adolescents: Patterns Identification, Gender/Age Differences, and Correlation with Well-Being	Yu-Chih Chen, Chien-jen Chiang
8:30 AM	Staff Perceptions of Feasibility and Acceptability on Implementing an Evidence-Based Child Mental Health Intervention to Reduce Behavioral Difficulties in Child Welfare	Cole Hooley
9:45 AM	Impact of Recession on Food Insecurity Among Low-Income Families: Findings from 2005 – 2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys	Von Nebbitt
9:45 AM	Out-of-Pocket Financial Burden for Middle-Aged Adults: Impact of Distinct Patterns of Multi-Morbidity and Health Insurance	Sojung Park, Songhee Kim
9:45 AM	South African Adult Caregivers As “Protective Shields”: Serving As a Buffer between Precarious Neighborhood Conditions, Food Insecurity, and Youth Risk Behaviors	Mary McKay, Ozge Sensoy-Bahar
9:45 AM	Propensity Score Matching: King & Nielsen’s Critique and Discussion	Shenyang Guo
9:45 AM	Research Roots & Wings Roundtable 1	Renee Cunningham-Williams
10:45 AM	​Assessing the Extent and Impact of School Sabotage Among Female Community College Students	​Tonya Edmond
1:45  PM	Building Social Capacity: A Core Concept for the Promote Smart Decarceration Grand Challenge	Carrie Pettus-Davis, Antoinette Grier
1:45 PM	Are Social Workers Doing Enough to Prevent Gun Violence?	Sean Joe
1:45 PM	Child Development Accounts: A Universal and Progressive Asset-Building Policy for Economic Equality	Michal Grinstein-Weiss
1:45 PM	Gun Violence: Using Community Based System Dynamics to Elicit Solutions from Youth	Saras Chung, Kyle A. Pitzer, Peter S. Hovmand
2:15 PM	An Exploratory Investigation of Applying Social Control Theory in Taiwanese Adolescents’ Delinquent Behaviors: Do Gender and Developmental Stage Matter?	Chien-jen Chiang, Yu-Chih Chen
3:15 PM	The Men’s Group at St. Pius V Parish: A Case Study of a Voluntary Partner Abuse Intervention Program	Maxine Davis, Melissa Jonson-Reid
3:30 PM	Measuring Resiliency in Adolescent Girls Involved in Child Welfare: Evaluating Reliability and Validity	Wendy Auslander, Shih-Ying Cheng, Donald R Gerke, Rachel Voth Schrag
3:30 PM	Effectiveness of Self-Stigma Interventions for Persons with Serious Mental Illness: A Systematic Review	Eleni Gaveras, Wendy Auslander
3:30 PM	An Examination of the Methodological Rigor of Place-Based Community Development Interventions	Andrew Foell
3:30 PM	Participatory Governance in Rural China the Impact of Formal and Informal Institutions on the Provision of Public Goods	Yiqi Zhu
3:30 PM	Social Isolation, Self-Rated Health, and Self-Rated Oral Health Among African Americans	Harry Taylor
4:00 PM	How Deep in Debt? How Levels of Unsecured Debt Affect Hardship Among Low- and Middle-Income Households	Sam Bufe, Stephen Roll, Michal Grinstein-Weiss
5:00 PM	The Effect of ACA’s Medicaid Expansion on Insurance Coverage Among Low Income Adults	Sojung Park, Timothy D. McBride, Ja Kyung Jang
5:15 PM	Do Universal and Automatic Child Development Accounts Show Positive Impacts for Disadvantaged Families?	Sondra Beverly, Margaret Clancy, Michael Sherraden
5:15 PM	Sexual Violence Survivors	Tonya Edmond (Moderator)

Saturday, January 13

8:00 AM	The Effectiveness of Interventions for Incarcerated Females with Substance Abuse Histories: A Systematic Review	Sara Beeler-Stinn
8:00 AM	“God Used a Lot of People to Encourage Me”: A Qualitative Exploration of Sources of Social Support in African American Breast Cancer Patients	Tess Thompson, Maria Pérez, Maxine Davis, Donna Jeffe
9:00 AM	Examining Association between Resource Curse and Neonatal Mortality Rate	Aytakin Huseynli
9:45 AM	Overcoming Challenges to Implementing Randomized Controlled Trials with Underserved Populations in Community-Based Settings	Carrie Pettus-Davis
12:45 PM	Grand Challenges Roundtable	Michael Sherraden
4:00 PM	At the Interface: Organizational and Implementation Science in Social Work	Enola Proctor
4:00 PM	Matching Therapists and Patients on Age, Gender and Race: Does It Improve Outcomes in Substance Use Disorder Treatment?	David A. Patterson, Josh Chen
4:00 PM	​Now I Am Ready to Die: A Look at Substance Use, Suicidality and Acquired Capability in Adolescents	Cashell Lewis
4:30 PM	Experiences of Adopted Children Returning into Public Child Welfare: What We Can Learn from Afcars Data	Allison E. Dunnigan, Hollee McGinnis
5:30 PM	Impact of Parental Incarceration and Substance Use on Suicidal Planning of African American Youth Living in Urban Public Housing	Von Nebbitt, Sean Joe

Sunday, January 14

8:00 AM	Relationship of Use of Evidence-Based Practice and Length of Stay to Treatment Outcomes at a Large Children, Youth, and Family Services Agency	David A. Patterson
8:00 AM	What Would Help Low-Income Families Most? Results from a National Survey of 2-1-1 Call Center Professionals	Tess Thompson, Patricia Kohl, Sonia Boyum, Matthew Kreuter
9:45 AM	Barriers to Treatment Utilization and Attendance in a Multiple Family Group (MFG) Intervention Among Poverty-Impacted Families in New York	Lindsay A. Bornheimer, Mary McKay
9:45 AM	Recent Immigrants’ Health Service Utilization and the Coverage of State Medicaid in the United States	Shih-Ying Cheng, Takashi Amano
9:45 AM	Activity Profiles and Health in Later Life: Does Nature of Engagement Matter?	Yu-Chih Chen, Nancy Morrow-Howell
9:45 AM	The Association between Social Support and Purpose in Life: Focusing on Retirement Status	Oejin Shin, Takashi Amano, Sojung Park
9:45 AM	An Examination of Class-Based Visibility Bias in Child Maltreatment Reporting	Hyunil Kim, Brett Drake
10:15 AM	An Examination of Provider Characteristics and Views about Evidence-Based Practices	Lindsay A. Bornheimer, Mary McKay
10:15 AM	Community Development Block Grants: Exploring Organization and Neighborhood Networks	Kyle A. Pitzer, Andrew Foell, Natalicio Serrano
10:45 AM	Identifying Factors Related to Interest in Entrepreneurship Past Midlife	Cal Halvorsen, Yu-Chih Chen
11:15 AM	Longitudinal Effects of Positive Father Involvement on Child Behavioral Health Among Families At-Risk for Neglect	Ericka Lewis, Donald Gerke, Patricia Kohl
11:30 AM	Neighborhood Environment, Volunteering, and Life Satisfaction Among Older Adults in South Korea: A General Structural Equation Model	Yi Wang, Sojung Park
11:30 AM	The Impact of Housing Insecurity on Child Maltreatment: A Causal Investigation Using Propensity Score Analysis	Katherine Marcal
11:30 AM	​Understanding Racial, Economic and Behavioral Health Barriers for Incarcerated Women of Color	Maya Williams
1:00 PM	Maternal Caregivers Types and Internalized Behaviors in African American Adolescents Living in Public Housing	Von Nebbitt, Takashi Amano