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April 2016
Drawing from multiple perspectives and promoting opportunities that link
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Poverty Workshops
Join us for our upcoming talks!
Upcoming
April 8, 12-1:30, B770 SSWB
Co-Hosted by: Ford School of Public Policy and Citizens Alliance on Prisons and Public Spending
April 13th, 4-5:30, Annenberg, Ford School
Presenter:
Marie Gottschalk, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
April 15th, 12-1:30, B770 SSWB
Recap
Advancing Prevention supports for at risk infants and toddlers
, Jan. 29th
Professor
Sandra Danziger and Clinical Associate Professor
Julie Ribaudo discussed approaches that integrate addressing mental health with providing resources and supports for the many other needs of low income at risk families (parents and infant/toddlers) in order to reduce the stressors and effects of trauma in challenged socioeconomic contexts.
Economics of Child Maltreatment in Unmarried Families,
Feb. 12th Professor
Lawrence (Lonnie) Berger
of the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
examined the link
between
family income and child maltreatment. The results of his study suggest that an exogenous increase in income is associated with reductions in child neglect.
Book talk, "Why are they angry with us: Essays on race"
, Feb. 19th Professor and Dean Larry E. Davis of the University of Pittsburgh reflected upon what it was like to grow up black in America and comes to terms with a question he has contemplated since his childhood years; "If we (black people) were slaves, then why are they (white people) angry at us?"
Persistence and fadeout in the impacts of child and adolescent interventions
,
March 11th
Professor Greg Duncan of the University of California, Irvine, discussed the key
features
interventions that can be expected to sustain beneficial impacts on children over time. Duncan proposed three perspectives regarding the nature, timing, and targeting of interventions that generate enduring impacts.
Low-income families and the public and private safety net
,
March 25th
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Natasha Pilkauskas
, discussed how low-income families often depend on a combination of private and public supports to make ends meet. The value of support is greatest when mothers receive both both types of supports, indicating that these are complementary.
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MSW students visit to US-Mexico border
This past winter break, Associate Professor
Sherrie Kossoudji and a group of MSW students traveled to the U.S-Mexico border to witness, experience, record, and reflect upon U.S. border enforcement in the Tucson/Nogales area. Throughout their journey, students maintained a blog narrating their experiences. Check out the blog
here.
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Restoring Safety: An Attachment-Based Approach to Clinical Work with a Traumatized Toddler
In a recent clinical case study, Clinical Associate Professor
Julie Ribaudo
's explores the integration of infancy research, brain development, attachment theory, and models of infant-parent/child-parent psychotherapy to address the needs of abused and neglected young children placed in foster or adoptive homes. In this recent
paper, she illustrates how therapeutic sessions with parent and child together can help manage and contain a traumatized child's terror, rage, and grief.
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Moms' Mental Health Matter
In a recent blog for Michigan's Children, MSW alumna Mina Hong, writes about the role that a parents' mental well-being has on their ability to provide nurturing care to their children. Given the link between maternal depression and child maltreatment, Hong advocates for investing in the emotional health of mothers as a means to strengthen mother-child bonds both in the short and long-term.
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Mapping Financial Opportunity
Assistant Professor
Mathieu Despard (Co-PI) and Assistant Professor
Terri FriedLine (PI) of the University of Kansas were recently awarded a $240,000 grant by the MetLife Foundation to the Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion (AEDI) of the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare. Their project, titled Mapping Financial Opportunity, will
explore community and structural explanations of financial inclusion and health by asking where different types of financial services are located and how the array of services within communities may enable or hinder individuals' financial inclusion and health. In other words, the extent to which banks, credit unions, payday lenders, and post offices are located within a community may relate to how an individual pays his/her bills, saves money, or takes out loans. The findings can inform national policy efforts to widen and deepen financial inclusion and health.
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Stay Informed - with the Poverty and Inequality Community News Roundup
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We want to feature news of your related projects, research, and recognitions in our upcoming newsletters. Please send your abstract and a link to your talk or paper to Sandra Danziger and Analidis Ochoa-Bendaña
.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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University of Michigan
School of Social Work
Poverty and Inequality Learning Community
1080 South University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106
http://ssw.umich.edu/research/learning-communities/poverty-and-inequality
734-764-5254
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