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Social Impact: North Carolina Students Apply Fcab Knowledge, Melody Brackett

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The students have really enjoyed learning the FCAB curriculum because it both applies to their own personal lives and helps prepare them to work with their clients when they get in the field.

Social Impact, Edward F. Lawler, Neil Schoenherr, Patricia Anagos, Mary Ellen Benson, Donna Brodsky, Timothy Poor, Katie Rice-Guter, Rick Skwiot, Rachel Smidt, Toky Branding + Design, Michael Austin

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Social Impact, Edward F. Lawler, Patricia Anagos, Leslie Mccarthy, Ann Kittlaus, Terry Mcclain, Roslind Early, Timothy Poor, Anne Milford, Mary Margaret Mcmiller, Brittany Jewel Bethea, Toky Branding + Design, Michael Austin

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Social Impact, Edward F. Lawler, Ellen Rostand, Julie Kennedy, Jessica Martin, Toky Branding + Design, Dan Page

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Social Impact, Edward F. Lawler, Keith Negley, Ellen Rostand, Julie Kennedy, Toky Branding + Design, Jessica Martin

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From the Dean: It's a "Go-Go" Place;

Perspectives: Michael Sherraden: Policy Innovator: The Key to Our Children's Future;

Interview: Q&A with Robert Joiner;

Bookshelf: Latina Suicide;

Bookshelf: A Mini MPH;

The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur: A new social work specialization arms socially minded entrepreneurs and creates an evidence base for an exploding field.;

Scaling Up Abroad: As demand for international service opportunities grows, academic and policy leaders determine how to expand availability and measure impact.;

Tip of the Iceberg: The Affordable Care Act's sweeping changes are already reshaping America's health care, and there is so much more to go …

Social Impact, Edward F. Lawler, Ellen Rostand, Michelle Kassman, Julie Kennedy, Jessica Martin, Toky Branding + Design, Donna Boyd, A.J. Agee

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From the Dean: Our Work in this Economy.;

Interview: Q&A with Paul C. Brophy;

Bookshelf: Understanding Assets: Two new books explore the impact of ownership and assets on individuals and communities;

Perspectives with Matthew Kreuter: Communication Connections;

Building a New Paradigm: Transdisciplinary Research Comes to the Forefront;

A Sense of Place: Place-Based Initiatives Help Communities and Students;

Notebook: Research: Tutoring Produces Big Gains in Student Learning;

Notebook: Research: Free Exercise and Nutrition Program in Brazil Could Serve as Model in United States;

Notebook: Research: Growing Problem for Veterans-Domestic Violence;

Notebook: Message of Service Drives Surge in Peace Corps Applications;

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Social Impact: Perspectives With Melissa Jonson-Reid And Brett Drake: Changing The Role Of Child Welfare, Betsy Rogers, Geoff Story

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"A public health approach would help move child welfare from assessing and preventing an action to thinking about how to support healthy families..."

Social Impact: Green Dream: Environmental Justice Is Emerging From The Shadows., Rick Skwiot

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"We have been slow to engage as a profession," Rogge says of social work's inclusion of the natural environment in research, teaching, and practice—a criticism shared by others interviewed here. She knows of no existing specialization or concentration in the United States or Canada for environmental social work or social work in natural environment, as she prefers to call it. But indicators suggest that may soon change.

Social Impact, Edward F. Lawler, Tonya E. Edmonds, Enola K. Proctor, Ellen Rostand, Julie Kennedy, Jessica Martin, Toky Branding + Design, Donna Boyd, A.J. Boyd

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From the Dean: Remember the Past. Imagine the Future. Celebrate Today.;

Perspectives: Temperature Rising: Health Care Reform is Back;

Bookshelf: From Incentives to Intuition: What Faculty and Staff are Reading.;

Perspectives with Melissa Jonson-Reid & Brett Drake: Changing the Role of Child Welfare; Perspectives: SEED for Oklahoma Kids.;

Interview: Q&A with Julian Le Grand;

Connecting Individual Health with Public Health: New interdisciplinary approaches are needed to solve today's health care challenges. The solution lies at the nexus of social work, public health, and medicine.;

The Green Dream: The social work profession has been slow to engage the issue of environmental …

Social Impact: Social Work Reaches Out To Returning Veterans, Researches Ways To Help., Susan Thompson

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It has become a truism that this new global war on terror is a different kind of war, open-ended in time and place. But all wars are different, and as this snapshot of today's returnees from Afghanistan and Iraq shows, so are the men and women who come home from them.

Social Impact: Sowing The Seeds Of Knowledge, Brenda Murphy-Niederkorn

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Social Work PhDs share their impact and reflect on their doctoral education.

Social Impact: Q&A With Greg Echele, Ellen Rostand

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Interview with Greg Echele

Social Impact: Scattered Image, Rick Skwiot

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Most inside the social work profession agree that it has an image problem, which affects recruitment, pay, status, funding, and social influence. But they often disagree on who is a social worker, what the term "social work" means, whether to re-brand or scrap the term, who ought to do it, and what the image problem really is. Whatever it may be, it causes at least one social work school dean to worry "a lot" and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) to launch a multi-year campaign to change the image.

Social Impact: Anything But Ordinary: A New View Of Federal Service, Judy H. Watts

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Presidential Management Fellows program offers solution to federal workforce challenge.

Social Impact: Built Environment: Place, Space, And People, Candance O'Conner

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As a child, Michael Willis lived in the Pruitt-Igoe public housing development, a cluster of 33 St. Louis high-rises that became national symbols of poor social planning. Elevators stopped on every other floor; there were few services nearby for families or recreational facilities for children. Not surprisingly, Pruitt-Igoe deteriorated, its corridors infested with crime, and was finally demolished in the mid-1970s, with the first buildings famously dynamited in 1972. Michael was there as an observer when he was a Washington University architecture student.

Social Impact, Edward F. Lawler, Tonya E. Edmonds, Luis H. Zayas, Enola K. Proctor, Ellen Rostand, Jessica Martin, Toky Branding + Design, Donna Boyd

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From the Dean: Challenging Our Profession;

Perspectives: In The News: Social Work Faculty and Alumni Comment on Latina Mental Health, Saving in China, and the Poverty Line.;

Bookshelf: From the Internet to Economics: What Faculty and Staff are Reading.;

Perspectives by Arlene Rubin Stiffman: Indictment of Cruelty or Testimony of the Human Spirit?;

Perspectives with Gina Chowa: Student Exports Poverty-Fighting Idea to Africa;

Interview: Q&A with Richard A. Gephardt;

Perspectives: A Closer Look at Immigration with Luis H. Zayas; 16 For Love or Money: The Rise of For-Profit Social Services.;

The 4-2-1 Phenomenon: New Partnership Explores Aging in China.;

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Social Impact: 4-2-1 Phenomenon: New Partnership Explores Aging In China, Mu Mian

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There is a traditional belief that every child will have a younger generation to support them. Thishas resulted in an obligation on the child to take child of the elderly.

Social Impact: A Sense Of Place: Place-Based Initiatives Help Communities And Students, Rick Skwiot

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Kirkland has been advocating and teaching "place-based" social work for some 30 years under the rubric "social and economic development."

Social Impact: Perspectives With Luis H. Zayas: A Closer Look At Immigration, Betsy Rogers

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Immigration reform took center stage last spring as hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Latin America and elsewhere filled American streets to protest proposed legislation widely seen as harsh and punitive. The immigrants' numbers and fervor took many by surprise, but Luis Zayas, the Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor of Social Work and professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, finds nothing historically unusual in today's migrations.

Social Impact: Perspectives With Enola K. Proctor: The Future Of Social Work Research, Betsy Rogers, Geoff Story

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As an academic discipline and a profession, social work is undergoing a dramatic transformation, embracing new standards of evidence, effectiveness, and accountability in both research and practice. Characteristically, the Brown School is leading the way, and Enola K. Proctor, associate dean for research, has become a national champion for the new standards.

Social Impact: Love Or Money: The Rise Of For-Profit Social Services, Rick Skwiot

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For better or for worse, for-profit social-service providers—in mental health, welfare, and medical care—are driving fundamental change in an industry previously driven largely by humanitarian concerns.

Social Impact, Edward L. Lawler, Tonya E. Edmonds, Enola K. Proctor, Julie Kennedy, Jessica Martin, Toky Branding + Design, Donna Boyd, Ellen Rostand, Michelle Kassman

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From the Dean: Make Space for Social Work;

Perspectives: In the News: Social Work Faculty and Staff Comment on Civilian Service, Health Care Costs, and Native American Stereotypes;

Perspectives: Civic Service Worldwide;

Perspectives: The Future of Social Work Research with Enola K. Proctor;

Interview: Q&A with Greg Echele;

Scattered Image: Leaders in social work education agree that the profession has an image problem but remain at odds on the best way to change it.;

Place, Space, & People: Traditionally two disparate fields, architecture and social work are interacting in new ways that involve communities in producing socially innovative design.;

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Social Impact, Edward F. Lawler, Tonya E. Edmonds, Luis H. Zayas, Enola K. Proctor, Ellen Rostand, Julie Kennedy, Jessica Martin, Toky Branding + Design, Donna Boyd

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From The Dean: Celebrating Social Work's Impact;

Perspectives: In the News & Bookshelf;

Making a Medicare Part D Decision;

Three Quarters of Americans Will Experience Poverty in Their Lives;

Interview: Q&A with Kristal Brent Zook;

Perspectives: Before Disaster Strikes with David Gillespie;

The Globalization of Social Work: How Flat Are We? Researchers and practitioners explore underlying social conditions that keep many left behind;

Parents as Teachers: A Force for Good: Sue Stepleton leads growing program aimed at helping preschoolers reach their potential;

Tapping into Energy of Older Americans: New retirement scenarios shift toward service;

Notebook: Partnerships and Research School of …

Social Impact: Parents As Teachers: A Force For Good: Alum Leads Growing National Program Aimed At Helping Preschoolers Reach Their Potential, Betsy Rogers, Geoff Story

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Imagine a network of 10,000 trained educators who meet individually every month with families of preschoolers to maximize every child's readiness for school. Imagine the opportunity these educators have to foster literacy, learning, emotional health, sound nutrition, and an appreciation for human diversity. Imagine the promise for every child fortunate enough to participate.

Social Impact: The Globalization Of Social Work: How Flat Are We?, Rick Skwiot

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In this book, the World is Flat, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman posits that a global technological revolution has increased economic opportunities and create a world that is more connected than ever before. But does a flatter economic world equal a more just world? Are the benefits resulting from greater connectivity distributed in a way that everyone can share in newfound prosperity? The answer is an unequivocal no.

Social Impact: Productive Aging: Tapping Into Energy Of Older Americans, Janet Edwards

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Welcome to the new era of "Productive Aging." As the first wave of baby boomers turns 60 this year, the typical retirement scenario of softening 60-somethings retreating into a vacation-like vacuum is passé. Healthier, wealthier, and better educated, this new generation of older adults seeks—perhaps “demands” — ongoing productive roles in mainstream society.

SOCIAL IMPACT | Spring 2006 | FEATURE STORY Productive Aging

Social Impact: Knowledge Monographs: The Question Of Questions: An Agenda For Social Work Practice Research, Enola K. Proctor, Frank Bruno

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