Caitlin Brown and Shantalea Johns are contributing authors of the Global Community for Academic Advisors 2^nd edition, "Advising Students on Academic Probation pocket guide book that released in March 2019.  Their section highlights the SSW Student Success program that Johns created for MSW and BSW students on academic probation in 2013. Caitlin completed an ongoing evaluation of the program when it was in its infancy and now the Student Success Program is part of the normal processes we do in OASS. Click here to purchase the pocket guide.

Since the release of the book in March, Brown and Johns have been asked to be part of a Students on Academic Probation global webinar that will air in March 2020 to over 100 institutions. Brown will represent the SSW by sharing best practices for evaluating probation programs and will be joined by colleagues from Indiana University, Florida Gulf Coast University, The College of Charleston and the University of California Berkeley.  Johns will serve as the moderator for the webinar

Congratulations to Leonard Swanson on his first publication!

Comartin, E., Swanson, L., & Kubiak, S. (2019). Mental health crisis location and police transportation decisions: The impact of Crisis Intervention Teams training on crisis center utilization. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, doi.org/10.1177/1043986219836595.

Shires, D., Stroumsa, D., Jaffee, K. & Woodford, M. (2018). Primary care providers' willingness to deliver routine care to transgender patients. Annals of Family Medicine, 16:6, 555-558

Stroumsa, D., Shires, D., Richardson, C., Jaffee, K. & Woodford, M.  (2019). Transphobia rather than education predicts provider knowledge of transgender healthcare. Medical Education, Apr, 53(4): 398-407. DOI: 10.1111/medu.

McCord, J. S., Kral, M. J., & Morse, R. (2019). It takes a village: The nonprofessional mental health worker movement. In I Marsh & M. E. Button (Eds.), Suicide andsocial justice: New perspectives on the politics of suicide and suicide prevention. New York, NY: Routledge.

Kral, M.J., & Kidd, S. (2019). Community-based participatory research and community empowerment in suicide prevention. In J.K. Hirsch, E.C. Chang, & J. Rabon (Eds.), A positive psychological approach to suicide: Theory, research and prevention (pp. 285-300). New York, NY: Springer.    

Guhathakurta, M., Bjeloncikova, M., Contreras-Chavez, A., Gojova, V., & Kral, M. J. (2019). Community rights, conflict, and democratic representation. In M. Brydon-Miller (Ed.), Ethics in participatory research for health and social well-being (pp. 80-88). New York, NY: Routledge.

Kendra Wells, MSW shares why and how social workers can be advocates for medical marijuana patients with a quick analysis of social work values and ethics as they relate to the medical marijuana industry.

Wells, K. (2019, Feb-March). Social Work and Medical Marijuana Advocacy Are Perfect Interstection. NASW Social Work Advocates, 8-9.