2023 SSWR Annual Program Meeting
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University of Denver Education Sessions
Thursday, January 12
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1:30-3:00 p.m.
Topic: Applying Critical Feminist Principles to Social Work Research
Speaker(s): Associate Professor Ramona Beltran
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3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
Topic: Publishing Research in Peer-Reviewed Journals: Talk with the Editors
Speaker(s): Professor Jenn Bellamy
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Friday, January 13
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Virtual Poster(s)
Topic: Engaging Fathers to Strengthen the Impact of Home Visitation on Physical Child Abuse Prevention: Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial of the "Dads Matter-HV" Enhancement
Speaker(s): Professor Jenn Bellamy
Session linkTopic: Sense of Community Among Young Adults before and after Moving into Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH): A Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis
Speaker(s): PhD Student Danielle Littman
Session linkTopic: Investigating Intergenerational Trauma: Alaska Native Mothers' Experiences of Interpersonal Violence and Involvement with the Child Welfare System
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Autumn Asher BlackDeer
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8:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Topic: "I'm Glad That I Was Given a Second Chance to Live": The Buffering Impact of Turning Points in the Lives of Young People with Foster Care Experience
Speaker(s): Professor Heather Taussig
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9:45 - 11:15 a.m.
Topic: Patients speak back to one-size-fits-all measures: Utilizing qualitative data to assess the fit and function of gold-standard eating disorder measures
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Erin Harrop
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2:00–3:30 p.m.
Topic: Invited Symposium I: Critical Conversations for Environmental Justice
Speaker(s): Associate Professor Lisa Reyes Mason
Session linkTopic: Conceptualizations of Mutual Aid during Covid-19: A Critical Analysis
Speaker(s): PhD Student C. Riley Hostetter; PhD Student Danielle Littman; PhD Student Brendon Holloway; PhD Student Annie Zean Dunbar; Professor Kimberly Bender; Assistant Professor Sophia Sarantakos
Session linkTopic: Refusing the scale during healthcare visits: The role of body image
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Erin Harrop
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3:15 - 5:45 p.m.
Topic: Brief and Brilliant Session
Speaker(s): Associate Professor Ramona Beltran
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3:45 – 5:15 p.m.
Topic: Is Antiracism in Social Work Doomed to Fail?: A Roundtable on Interrogating Antiracism through Critical Colonialism
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Autumn Asher BlackDeer
Session linkTopic: Cooperation and Conflict: The Paradoxical Relationship between Social Work and Law Enforcement
Speaker(s): PhD Student C. Riley Hostetter
Session linkTopic: Sense of Community Among Young Adults before and after Moving into Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH): A Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis
Speaker(s): PhD Student Danielle Littman
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5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Topic: Navigating, Subverting, and Replacing Conventional Academic Productivity Expectations to Co-Create with PAR Teams
Speaker(s): Professor Kim Bender, Associate Professor Ramona Beltran, PhD Student Danielle Littman
Session linkTopic: Systems thinking and systems science in community and neighborhood research
Speaker(s): Professor Daniel Brisson
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Saturday, January 14
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Virtual Poster(s)
Topic: Wildfire and Older Adults: Impacts, Risks, and Interventions
Speaker(s): PhD Student Colleen Cummings Melton, PhD Student Carson De Fries, MSW Student Rebecca Smith, and Associate Professor Lisa Reyes Mason
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8:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Topic: Barriers, Facilitators, and Action Ideas for PrEP Adoption and Sustainment Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men and Young Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals in Colorado
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Donny Gerke, PhD Student Jarrod Call
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9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
Topic: Using Qualitative Geographic Methods to Understand Embodied Experiences of Place
Speaker(s): PhD Student Danielle Littman
Session linkTopic: Centering Equity through a Breakthrough Series Collaborative: Reflections on Engaging Fathers and Paternal Relatives in Child Welfare
Speaker(s): Professor Jenn Bellamy
Session linkTopic: Building a Regenerative Future: Social and Solidarity Economies in Mutual Aid Networks
Speaker(s): PhD Student Colleen Cummings Melton, PhD Student Riley Hostetter, PhD Student Brendon Holloway, PhD Student Danielle Littman, Professor Kim Bender
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4:00-5:30 p.m.
Topic: Vietnamese-American Perspectives on Western Secular Mindfulness: A Phenomenological Study
Speaker(s): PhD Student My Ngoc To
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Sunday, January 15
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8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Topic: Implementing and Researching Guaranteed Basic Income: Successes, Issues and Challenges
Speaker(s): Professor Daniel Brisson, PhD Student Katie Hoops Calhoun
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9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
Topic: Bridging the Science-to-Service Gap: Strengthening the Child Welfare Workforce through Knowledge Engagement
Speaker(s): Associate Professor Amy He and Butler Senior Program Associate Michelle Clinch
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11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Topic: Challenges and potential solutions to supporting and rewarding community engaged scholarship
Speaker(s): Professor Daniel Brisson
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