Jerry Brandell spent five days as a guest of the Department of Social Work, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Zurich, Switzerland, where he presented an invitational half-day workshop on the therapeutic use of children's autogenic stories to students, and also consulted with ZHAW faculty regarding topics of mutual research and programmatic interest.

On April 8 in Washington, DC, Angelique Day and Ph.D. student Michael Hensen presented research to officials from the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children, Youth and Families. Their talk was titled, “Presentation on the State of Evidence: An evaluation of the 21 States with Tuition Waivers for Youth from Foster Care." Dr. Day and Michael are seen here beside Acting Assistant Secretary Mark Greenberg of the Administration for Children, Youth and Families.

Jun Sung Hong has been invited to be a keynote speaker for a forthcoming international conference on bullying, "World anti-bullying forum 2017,” will take place in Stockholm on May 7-9, 2017. This conference will be co-arranged by Friends International Center against Bullying, Linköping University, Örebro University, and International Bullying Prevention Association (IBPA). The focus is on school bullying and intersectionality (particularly LGBTQ, heteronormativity, masculinity and femininity) from a socio-ecological perspective.

Michael Kral is quoted in a PBS NewsHour article citing his research on suicide prevention among Canada's indigenous people. Read the article here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/how-canada-is-working-with-indigenous-peoples-to-prevent-suicide/

Kral, M.J. (March 2016). Suicide prevention from the community's point of view. Annual conference of the American Association of Suicidology, Chicago, IL.

Massey, K.D., Kral, M.J., & Massey, K.A. (March 2016). Development of an effective community-based suicide prevention program. Annual conference of the American Association of Suicidology, Chicago, IL.

Joanne Sobeck was invited in April as a Visiting Scholar to the University of Texas at Arlington where she consulted with faculty, center directors and presented a colloquium on Building Research Capacity Through Faculty Development, Interdisciplinary and Multi-Sector Collaborations.

Doctoral students Nikita Buckhoy and Michael Henson presented with anthropology doctoral students Kathryn Nowinski, Kimberly Oliver, and Eduardo Piqueiras at the Michigan Association for Evaluation, 21st Annual Conference - Exemplary Michigan Evaluations, in Lansing on April 14. The name of the workshop was “Using Rapid Ethnographic Assessment: A Case Study in Data Collection.”

Ph.D. student Laurel Hicks was selected to be a Research Fellow at the 2016 Mind & Life Summer Research Institute: People, Place, and Practice: Putting Contemplative Studies into Context. She will present a poster and collaborate with senior and junior researchers from across North America with hopes to build strong future research collaborations that will aid in bringing contemplative practices, such as mindfulness meditation to our community. 

The University of Windsor School of Social Work and Psychology Departments invited Laurel Hicks as a guest speaker in April. Laurel presented to a full house on Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Current Research and Practice.