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“We need to invent ways to change our perspective continually and
reconfigure our mindset quickly as new knowledge emerges.”
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Social Innovation
THE GSSW INTRODUCES NEW MACRO PROGRAM
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FEATURES
6 grounding
experiences
GSSW professors create a
social innovation program for
transformational social change
DEPARTMENTS
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Q& A
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DIVERSITY
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GLOBAL
16 RESEARCH
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BY DEAN ALBERTO GODENZI
Two projects in Africa reveal the value of collaborative research
10 the pathfinders
THE POWER OF SOCIAL INNOVATION
COMMUNITY
26 REPORT ON GIVING
contributors:
Cara Feinberg
Serena Heartz
Julie Michaels
Jane Whitehead
editorial:
Vicki Sanders
Spence & Sanders Communications
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a few months ago, the us government published a
strategy paper to reach the UN Millennium Goals (MDG):
Celebrate, Innovate, and Sustain: Towards 2015 and Beyond.
The report celebrates the progress made since the launch
of the MDG in 2000 and recognizes that it will take sustainable and “historic development leaps” to reach objectives such as eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.
Innovation is at the heart of the government’s strategy.
Its promise is to be a powerful, game-changing force multiplier, not just a technological tool. Innovation is key to
fundamental changes—abroad and at home. Since seizing power, the Obama Administration has established a
number of innovation-focused offices in various government agencies, the latest one called
the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation (SICP), housed within the Domestic Policy Council. Its agenda is to support community-led, bottom-up solutions to social
challenges.
SICP’s agenda sounds as if it were copied from
a social work textbook. However, when you look
This initiative will transform the
at SICP’s staff, you will find the usual suspects:
GSSW once again as the School
economists and public policy and business experts.
and local stakeholders jointly adThis is not surprising given that social innovation
and social entrepreneurship are taught, if at all, in
dress the pressing issues of today
management programs and schools of government.
and tomorrow with fresh ideas.
GSSW faculty Stephanie Berzin, in an upcoming
article in the journal Social Work, confirms the absence of social work in the social entrepreneurship
discourse. Our School has decided to address this void. As you will read in this magazine,
Berzin and her GSSW colleague, Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, developed a new vision for our
macro practice focus and named it the Social Innovation and Leadership Program and
Collaborative. This initiative will transform the GSSW once again as the School and local
stakeholders jointly address the pressing issues of today and tomorrow with fresh ideas.
The magazine shows other striking examples of innovative initiatives that have been
transforming the lives of vulnerable populations. For example, Andrea Cohen ’84, established HouseWorks, a pioneer organization in private home care, and Navyn Salem ’94,
founded Edesia, an organization that saves children’s lives in Tanzania and other parts of
the world. In addition, you will learn how GSSW faculty Tom Crea and Margaret Lombe
devised research designs in cooperation with communities in Zimbabwe and Ghana.
To go with the theme of the government’s strategy report noted above, the GSSW has
many things to celebrate. A great occasion to do so is coming up in 2011. On September
14, our School will kick off a year-long celebration of its 75th anniversary. I very much look
forward to greeting the GSSW’s unique community of innovative and dedicated thinkers
and shakers.
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QA
Having Their Say
The underserved deserve a voice
muthoni muriu, director of the Regional
Programs Department for Oxfam America, was
one of the GSSW 2010 Commencement speakers.
Educated in Kenya and in England, she moved
to the US in 2006. We asked her to share something about her experience of humanitarian aid
work, and her thoughts on emerging trends.
Q. How did you become involved in the
field of humanitarian aid?
A. I started working with the NGO sector 20 years ago, with organizations in
Nairobi, at first on a voluntary basis.
Then I quit my corporate job to work
full time for a very small NGO that provided information on policy issues for
the water and sanitation sector in Africa.
Q. What did you learn from that grassroots
work?
A. The first part of the work in Kenya was
really interesting, because we were using
a lot of participatory methodologies both
in research and training. We worked with
communities to help build capacity and develop their ability to ask critical questions of
themselves and of the people who come up
with policies and programs that affect them.
That was very exciting and humbling work,
because when you get researchers going into
a community, there’s often an assumption
that you’re researching people, as opposed
to researching an issue with the community. That’s a completely different approach.
Q. How did those lessons translate into
your later work in policy development at the
regional and national levels?
A. The reality is that often the relationship
between policy makers and populations is
very paternalistic. The idea that populations
should have a say in the type of services
they’re getting, that there should be some
integration of the wishes and cultural requirements of communities in a strategy,
may be taken for granted sometimes, especially in the West, but it’s quite innovative
in many developing countries, especially
at the regional and national levels. I think
things have moved pretty rapidly, and progress has been made. It pleases me when
I hear younger civil society activists talk
about some of these aspects of the work
that they do as given, when at a certain point
in time it was a constant uphill struggle.
Q. Looking out at the humanitarian aid
landscape, what do you see as some of the
key challenges?
A. I think that some types of disasters
will become more intense. For example,
droughts may last longer and the impact
will be not only more protracted but also
will be felt harder because the recovery period will be farther out.
Q. How is the accessibility of new technology affecting the delivery and evaluation of
humanitarian aid and relief efforts?
A. More and more populations across the
board, even in very poor places, are much
more connected and aware. Humanitarian
organizations have to really ask themselves
questions about the impact and the quality
of their response. We learned this from the
2004 tsunami in [South Asia], and we’re
doing it again in Haiti. We’ve got real-time
evaluations going on. We’re not waiting
until the end of the emergency to evaluate.
We have contracted researchers who will go
in three weeks into a response and begin
to track the indicators that show whether
or not we’re making progress. The whole
humanitarian field has become much
more sophisticated in the last 20 years,
and there is a lot more attention paid to the
quality of the response. And the quality is
not just a question of the technical quality.
It’s how you’re involving the community,
whether you’re disrupting local food markets, all that sort of thing, and monitoring it in real time so you’re not having to
put in mitigating measures down the line.
Q. What do professional social workers
bring to the humanitarian aid/relief field?
A. Part of what social workers do so well is
understand context and link needs with possible solutions. They’re trained to look for
opportunities and match them with needs,
and as part of their training and their values, they bring a people-centered approach
to every aspect of their work. They also understand the policy environment, and their
academic discipline helps them build bridges from grassroots activism to higher-level
solutions that translate into policy terms.
—JANE WHITEHEAD
boston college | graduate school of social work 1 DIVERSITY
School Initiative Has Measureable Impact
Students gain confidence in their understanding of diverse populations
a diversity initiative launched at the
GSSW four years ago and designed to engage the entire GSSW community in dialogue around a different theme each year is
getting high marks from students—and the
community at large—according to Professor Paul Kline, chair of the Diversity Task
Force. “Our students are thinking more
broadly and speaking more bravely about
human diversity and social justice” he said,
citing student surveys done in 2007 and
2010. “We are learning in very powerful
ways that success in meeting our School’s
ambitious diversity objectives is dependent
on the entire community being involved—
as teachers and learners together—in these
ongoing conversations. It’s been a remarkable process for us over the past few years.”
Conceived in 2006 to make diversity
an even more integral part of the GSSW
culture and curriculum, the initiative examined race in 2007-2008, sexual orientation in 2008-2009, and immigration and
refugees in 2009-2010. This year’s theme
is poverty. Activities include a kickoff event
for incoming students and faculty; an annual diversity retreat for faculty and staff;
the Pinderhughes Lecture, named for
Professor Emerita Elaine Pinderhughes;
trainings; student-initiated and studentsponsored events; brown bags; and focused
discussions in and out of the classroom.
Kline said that exploring a specific
theme each academic year has been highly
effective. “It immerses the entire GSSW
community in studying, in depth, that aspect of the human condition and the challenges of empathic and effective social work
practice with individuals and communities
whose stories and experiences are different from our own,” he explained. “Also,
we are finding that exploring together one
specific theme triggers important simulta-
neous conversations and questions about
other dimensions of human diversity.”
The approach provides a central vision
around which all major diversity activities
of the School revolve. Student organizations have become partners in the effort,
co-creating programs in which members of
the community teach and learn from one
another and consider how to better serve
the cause of justice. In a variety of ways,
people in every part of the School are engaged, from alumni to administrators to
faculty and staff in the academic, research,
field education, and admissions offices.
The surveys conducted in 2007 and
2010 support Kline’s observations (see sidebar). For example, when asked if the GSSW
encourages discussion about differences,
the percentage of students who agreed or
strongly agreed rose nearly 17 points, from
67.3 percent to 84.2 percent. An even bigger
jump in satisfaction was with the GSSW’s
commitment to diversity in the curriculum,
which leapt 31 points to just over 85 percent.
In several measures of whether students
perceived discrimination within the community on the basis of race, gender, sexual
orientation, or disabilities, the School received high scores for nondiscrimination.
Kline said the surveys also identified an
area of diversity about which students feel
uncertain and which therefore will likely
be the theme for 2011-2012: spirituality.
—VICKI SANDERS
DIVERSIT Y SURVEY SHOWS ENCOURAGING PROGRESS
ADiversityTaskForcesurvey,thatspanstheyearstheDiversityInitiativehasbeenunderway,
indicatessubstantialprogressinstudents’understandingofandcomfortlevelwithmattersof
diversity. Here is a sampling of the questions and responses.
STRONGLY AGREE/AGREE (%)
2007 The GSSW encourages open discussion about
issues of difference
67.3
STRONGLY AGREE/AGREE (%)
2010
84.2
In my classes, I feel free to speak up about
diversity issues that are important to me
70.3
Outside of class, I feel free to speak on
diversity issues
78.8
87.8
The GSSW demonstrates a commitment
to social justice
80.4
93.2
The GSSW demonstrates a meaningful
commitment to diversity in the curriculum
53.7
85.1
The GSSW demonstrates a meaningful
commitment to diversity in faculty
52.2
72.4
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86.1
GLOBAL
The World Is Their Classroom
The tough, transformative lessons of international placements
poipet, cambodia
Empowering those less fortunate
Sarah Wineland, MSW ’10, chose social
work as her major at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts, because of
its broad applicability toward furthering
her aspirations of service to those in need.
Her undergraduate experience culminated
in a three-month internship at CURE International Children’s Hospital in Uganda.
“I love working with people and I wanted
a solid education that would support any
number of careers that involve empowering
others,” she explains. “Traveling to several
developing countries in high school and college gave me a passion and a calling to fight
for social justice, especially in the international arena.”
Concentrating in global practice at the
Graduate School of Social Work, Wineland
sought a placement in Asia. Having spent
semesters in Central America and Uganda,
she wanted to experience another completely different culture and way of life. “It was
much more intimidating than returning to
a more familiar setting, but I wanted to be
challenged and changed,” she explains.
Wineland interned at Cambodian Hope
Organization (CHO) in Poipet, Cambodia,
approximately one mile from the Thai border. Her major project was to help CHO
evaluate its Safe House pilot project so that
future Safe Houses would be more effective.
She conducted a comprehensive program
evaluation, interviewing the House parents,
children, CHO staff, and community members. After researching, translating, interviewing, and compiling data, she presented
her findings and recommendations to CHO
leadership.
Sarah Wineland, shown here with colleagues from Cambodian Hope Organization, says, “I wanted to
be challenged and changed.”
“The people I worked with were incredible,” Wineland says. “Many of them had
moved to Poipet to work for CHO, and it is
not a town that most people would choose
to live in. Several had given up more lucrative careers to lend their expertise for the
betterment of Poipet’s people. They were
kind, giving, and open and took every opportunity to teach me Khmer and about
their culture. It was very difficult to leave.”
Crediting Boston College with equipping her with a solid foundation of skills
and knowledge, Wineland adds that the
University also offered a network of experts
to call upon when the going got tough. As a
result of her internship, Wineland’s desire
to serve others in an international setting
has solidified.
nogales, sonora mexico
Helping people on their
journeys at the border
Assisting recently detained or deported
Mexican migrants on the border between
Arizona and Mexico, Corie Darling, MSW
’10, discovered that her interest in immigration and refugee services has deepened
with her field experiences. “Jesuit Refugee
Services talks about accompanying people
and that is how I see my role, accompanying people on their journey and helping
to provide support wherever they want it,”
Darling explains. Profoundly moved by the
stories they told of their personal struggles
and despair, she adds, “I felt honored that
they trusted me enough to share their stories and to look beyond my skin, which is
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so similar to a number of racially discriminative Border Patrol and Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agents who so badly
want them out of the United States and who
treat them with such disdain.”
Darling participated in the Kino Border Initiative, led by four Jesuit priests on
the US side of the border and three Mexican nuns on the Mexican side. The nuns
run direct services, such as a comedor or
soup kitchen as well as provide clothing
and medical services through other agencies that use the comedor as their base of
operations. They also operate a women’s
shelter that can house up to 10 women and
children. The Jesuits focus on advocacy and
education, encouraging the involvement of
church parishes, and volunteers and students who come to work and learn about
border issues.
Darling helped with the comedor operations, organizing some of the systems that
the agency uses to receive and disburse
donations, and providing basic case management and counseling to individuals.
She also implemented an intake survey,
interviewing more than 2,000 participants,
analyzing data, and developing a statistical
report for the agency.
“The Global Practice Program really
helped me to prepare for the kind of challenges I would face in terms of operating
in a different culture,” Darling says of her
education at Boston College. “I took a class
in financial management that totally gave
me a level of comfort utilizing Excel that I
did not have and enabled me to really analyze and draw reports from the data I had
collected. Furthermore, I think the diversity
of the global cohort is amazing and, over
the course of our time together, I learned a
great deal from my counterparts.”
Intent on a career of service to others,
Darling earned her bachelor’s degree in social work from Loyola University Chicago
and studied abroad at Universidad Alberto
Hurtado in Santiago, Chile. Following graduation, she worked for two years as a case
manager at Connections for the Homeless
in Chicago, which runs a drop-in shelter for
approximately 40 people per day. Inspired
and energized by this type of engagement,
Darling admits she has learned so much
from her clients that she hopes to enable
them to realize their personal goals.
“I hope that as I move forward in my
career I can continue advocating for present day immigrants, especially those from
Mexico and farther south in Latin America,
who are searching for that same dream, a
better life for their families.”
johannesburg, south africa
Preventing mother-to-child
HIV transmission
“The entire reason I chose Boston College—indeed, the entire reason I chose social work—was for the Global Practice Program,” says Katie Gaddini, MSW ’10. She
is continuing her work at the Witkoppen
Health and Welfare Center in South Africa
through December.
Gaddini’s career path developed from
a very deliberate and thoughtful journey.
She graduated from Westmont College in
Santa Barbara, California, with a major in
sociology and minor in Spanish. She subsequently worked at an after-school program
for girls and, later, as a counselor providing
individual and group psychotherapy in English and Spanish at two elementary schools.
Gaddini also volunteered for three months
at a rehabilitation program in Peru for sexually abused children. Her experience there
served as a trial run to see if international
aid work appealed to her, and the resounding answer was “yes.” As she examined
various graduate programs, she found social work with an international focus to be
particularly compelling. Boston College’s
Graduate School of Social Work was her
top choice because “the Global Practice
Program is by far the most developed in the
country,” she explains.
Gaddini found her field placement at the
Witkoppen Center challenging. The center
houses a comprehensive medical and social
welfare clinic serving approximately 500 patients daily. She had little prior knowledge
about HIV/AIDS and was suddenly collabo-
Katie Gaddini, left, established a clinic, conducted a study, and started a support group at a South
African health center that deals with HIV/AIDS issues.
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rating with doctors and health professionals
who have specialized in this area for years.
She works with a variety of people from
differing cultures, and has tackled several
projects that have not only strengthened
her skills, but have also launched new approaches to curbing the spread of HIV, especially to newborns.
Her initial project, to establish a postnatal clinic, has taken off and she is now in the
process of fine-tuning the clinic from a programmatic standpoint as she also serves as
its social worker. The clinic provides comprehensive services to mothers and their infants at one week, six weeks, and ten weeks
post-partum, with a focus on preventing
mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Since this is the first of its kind in the
Greater Johannesburg area (and one of the
only postnatal programs in the entire country), the clinic has received much attention
and has generated new opportunities. For
example, Gaddini is coordinating a patient
follow-up study with a local research hospital, and she has been asked to help establish another site for postnatal care through
Right to Care, the organization that funds
the clinic’s HIV program. It is hoped that
the clinic will serve as a model for future
programs throughout the country.
Gaddini is also collaborating with one
of the clinic’s social workers to start a support group for HIV-positive mothers and is
working with the clinic’s psychologist to develop a sexual violence prevention program.
The combined macro and clinical social work knowledge Gaddini gained from
Boston College’s Graduate School of Social
Work has been invaluable, she says.
“At this point, I feel I am gaining amazing experience and have been entrusted
with a huge responsibility,” she says. “I
am not sure what is next for me…but I am
certain that the experience will provide me
with the tools necessary to work in other international settings and compete in the very
competitive field of international aid.”
Marie Noel sang a song of hope for Haiti at commencement.
HAITI INSPIRES GSSW COMMUNITY TO ACTION
when graduate marie noel stood up at commencement this spring to sing,
in Creole, a Haitian song of hope, student Bianca Sassine was by her side, translating
the words into English.
“For the love that is growing in the hearts of all the children of Haiti…So that love
may destroy our pain, alleluia. We are going to walk hand in hand, so that our country
may stop dragging. This is a fight we can win, alleluia.”
The two women, together with Stacey Anglade, who delivered the diploma ceremony benediction, share a Haitian heritage. All have families that were deeply affected by the January 12 earthquake that devastated so much of their country.
Just as their message of faith was an inspiration to the graduation audience, so
too was the fortitude of their countrymen and women an inspiration to the GSSW
community at large.
In February, a meeting was held at the School to help educate the community
about how it could get engaged in the country’s reconstruction efforts. Among the
Haitian experts in attendance was Harry Dumay, a former GSSW associate dean.
In the months that followed, students, faculty, and alumni rallied to the cause with
events and fundraisers that brought in nearly $3,500 for Haiti aid.
The students initiated a festival featuring
Haitian foods and merchandise, and raised
more than $1,000 that was distributed through
DID YOU KNOW?
Partners in Health. The academic year ended
That Graduate School of Social
with a t-shirt sale held in partnership with the
BC Bookstore that raised close to $2,500 in a
Work students contributed
matter of weeks. The proceeds were sent to
approximately
Catholic Relief Services to assist its relief and
development initiatives in Haiti. hours of community service last
As the Haitian song sung at commenceyearinover
fieldagencies
ment so aptly put it, “The time has come, the
throughout New England.
time has come. Together, together we can do
miracles. Alleluia for Haiti.” — VS
240,000
700
boston college | graduate school of social work 5 Above: MEN FROM THE MANICALAND PROVINCE IN ZIMBABWE WAIT AT A DESIGNATED VILLAGE DISBURSEMENT AREA FOR DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CASH TRANSFER PROJEC
Below: CITIZENS OF GBANGBNI, GHANA, HOLD A SAVINGS AND INTERNAL LENDING MEETING. THE CASH BOX IN THE MIDDLE CONTAINS THE GROUP’S FINANCIAL ASSET
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CT.
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by jane whitehead
Two projects in Africa reveal
the value of collaborative research can a microfinance project in rural ghana promote
peaceful relations in villages torn by ethnic conflict? Can
the lives of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe
be improved by making cash aid to their families dependent on conditions imposed by the aid agency?
These questions are at the heart of a new collaboration between Boston College GSSW and Catholic Relief Services
(CRS), the official international humanitarian agency of
the Catholic community in the United States, headed by
Ken Hackett ’68. After exploratory meetings with CRS
management in April 2009, GSSW professors Margaret
Lombe and Tom Crea contracted to provide research expertise to two major CRS projects in Africa. Here they share
some lessons from their evaluations-in-progress.
boston college | graduate school of social work 7 LOMBE’S PROJECT aims to improve the
livelihoodsofruralvillagersbyencouraging
saving and lending among members of
self-selectedgroupsof15to30people,and
to rebuild a sense of community in areas
long troubled by ethnic conflict.
Professor Lombe, far right, and doctoral student Chrisann Newransky, middle, with colleagues outside the Catholic Relief Services office in Tamale, Ghana.
Helping Communities Thrive in Ghana
W
e laughed and cried. Above all, we learned a lot,”
said Margaret Lombe of her 10-day research
trip to Ghana last May with research assistant
and doctoral candidate Chrisann Newransky.
Their visit marked the culmination of around
12 months’ discussion with CRS staff in the US
and Ghana about an evaluation strategy for the Savings and Internal
Lending Communities (SILC) pilot microfinance project, started in
January 2008 in three districts of the Yendi Diocese in the north of
the country.
A joint venture with CRS/Ghana’s Peace-building initiative, the
project aims to improve the livelihoods of rural villagers by encouraging saving and lending among members of self-selected groups
of 15 to 30 people, and to re-build a sense of community in areas
long troubled by ethnic conflict. The groups meet weekly to contribute to a communal savings and loan fund. Collectively, they decide
what money should be paid out for emergencies like serious illness,
birth, or death in a member’s family, and which business proposals—for example, the purchase of a goat or chickens—deserve the
group’s support. Anecdotal evidence collected by CRS suggested
benefits to the communities beyond a rise in household assets,
in terms of better relationships among different ethnic groups.
Lombe’s research brief was to build a more granular picture of this
“social capital,” that is, the aspects of community life that foster
social cohesion and peaceful co-existence; to probe the factors that
discouraged people from joining SILC groups, and to identify the
challenges facing local program coordinators, and measure their effectiveness.
The centerpiece of Lombe’s research was a survey of 120 SILC
participants, and 120 non-participants, in five villages. Her first task
on arriving in Ghana in May was to participate in a day-long intensive training program for data collectors, eight male teachers from
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local schools, chosen for their fluency in the region’s three dialects.
When Lombe questioned the use of male data collectors in a project in which women outnumber men (SILC’s direct beneficiaries
include around 2,000 women and 1,000 men to date), she was told
that the work, involving travel by motorbike between villages, was
not considered appropriate for women. This, she said, was an early
reminder to “let the local voice be louder than the research voice.”
Paying attention to the context and respecting local traditions
are key in any collaborative research, said Lombe. “If you want a
collaboration that’s going to be authentic, you’re giving up something,” she acknowledged, whether it is the ability to seek specific
information or to select field workers. In their visits to five project
sites, Lombe and Newransky learned that though the group members are mainly women, usually two of the three officials who run
the elaborate, ritual security and accounting system whereby The
Box (i.e., the strongbox containing the group’s money) is kept, are
men. “It’s just the way society operates,” said Lombe, a native of
Zambia who studied in Kenya before coming to the US, where she
has kept a strong research focus on effective ways of serving impoverished communities.
While material assets are readily quantifiable, turning the abstract idea of “social capital” into measurable behaviors and perceptions is more problematic. By including questions such as: “Do you
get advice or other information from your neighbors?” and “Would
you watch your neighbor’s child?” in the survey, Lombe hopes to
identify these “intangible assets.” Lombe and Newransky heard
many stories of how SILC has empowered rural entrepreneurs to
send their children to school, employ workers to maximize the yield
from their plots of land, and, in one case, build a business selling
ice made from boiled water in a region where safe drinking water
is at a premium. They hope that when their data is analyzed—they
aim to present a final report to CRS in November—their findings
will bear out SILC’s potential for peace-building as well as incomeboosting.
Building a Database in Zimbabwe
A
s a former social worker in Georgia, and researcher on
the foster-care system and adoption in the US, Tom
Crea has spent years focusing on the needs of children
at risk. Following the April 2009 exploratory meeting
at CRS, he accepted a brief to design a “robust and
user-friendly” management information system for a
three-year Cash Transfer Project to serve orphans and vulnerable
children stranded by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Zimbabwe.
Funded by UNICEF and administered by CRS in partnership
with the Diocese of Mutare, the Cash Transfer Project reaches more
than 12,000 children in around 4,700 households in rural villages
in Manicaland Province in eastern Zimbabwe, on the Mozambique
border. The project aims to assess the relative impact of different
types of aid: unconditional cash transfers, conditional cash transfers, and a basic package of agricultural support and parenting skills
classes, all made available at 10 disbursement sites within easy
reach of participants’ home villages.
Families randomly assigned to the group receiving conditional
cash transfers must show compliance on four key measures that
are assessed for all three groups: birth registrations, vaccinations,
90 percent school attendance, and monitoring of children’s growth.
A family sheltering one dependent child receives $22 every other
month, with a cap of $30 for a household with three or more eligible
children. The study will show whether making cash aid conditional,
which involves higher costs in terms of staff time, for home visits
or spot checks at schools, for example, results in better outcomes
for children than no-strings cash transfers. The group that receives
no money, but help with farming and parenting, acts as a control.
Crea explained that his research is part of a larger picture, a data
collection effort on the impact of HIV/AIDS in the region spearheaded since 1998 by a team of researchers from Imperial College,
London, with support from the Biomedical Training and Research
Institute (BTRI) of Zimbabwe. His task was to design, build, and
field-test a database to track, analyze, and synthesize data from the
Cash Transfer Project, and build local capacity to collect data. Working within this larger framework has substantial benefits, in terms
of depth of data, but also challenged him to integrate many “different stakeholder perceptions and needs,” said Crea.
“My approach was trying to listen to people, figure out what
they really needed, and give them the capacity to run with it on their
own,” said Crea, who visited Harare last February to get feedback
on his initial draft of the system from CRS staff and a researcher
from the Imperial College team. He also visited field workers in
Mutare, to find a format for information collection that would be
easy to understand and yet allow for analysis of multiple levels of
related data, and for the incorporation of data already collected in
paper-based reports.
Back at Boston College, Crea spent six weeks refining his work
in the light of what he learned in Zimbabwe. In May, he returned to
train both field workers and their managers in input data, navigation and installation of the database, and report-writing based on
the findings. Over five days of consulting and coaching with local
project workers, he experienced the technical problems that bedevil
data collection in rural areas with no reliable Internet access, and
no foolproof way to connect machines remotely.
For Crea, the project offered “a unique opportunity to work directly with frontline workers, administrators, and researchers in
the context of international development.” The project itself is “the
first pilot project of conditional cash transfers in Africa,” following their successful use in several Latin American trials. As such,
Crea said, the study has attracted interest in the larger community,
among non-governmental organizations and even government
agencies. By the end of this December, when the first round of
number crunching yields results, Crea hopes that the international
aid community will have a valuable new tool in its armory.
jane whitehead
CREA’S PROJECT seekstoassesstherelative
impactofdifferenttypesofaid:unconditional
cash transfers, conditional cash transfers,
andabasicpackageofagriculturalsupportand
parentingskillsclasses,allmadeavailableat
10 disbursement sites within easy reach of
participants’ home villages.
Professor Crea, left, and CRS staff members who work in Harare.
boston college | graduate school of social work 9 KERRY BURKE, BC—MTS
the pathfinders
In the entrepreneurial spirit, GSSW professors create a
social innovation program that aims at nothing less
than transformative social change
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b y
I
v i c k i
s a n d e r s
n big cities and small towns, in established agencies
and risk-taking startups, in the field and the academy, a national
movement is stirring, one with the potential to inspire transformative social change.
Broadly known as social innovation, this emerging area of en-
deavor encourages new ideas to solve intractable social problems.
Over the past several decades, it has gained traction as the number of enterprising individuals and organizations doing such work
has grown and their ranks have coalesced into a loose community of forwardlooking thinkers and doers.
Increasingly, their impact on underserved
populations has gained media attention and the
backing of funders and other support groups. The
trend has even received the imprimatur of the
Obama administration, which established the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation
and put the muscle of $50 million in public and
$74 million in private money into a Social Innovation Fund to spur fresh approaches to longstanding social dilemmas.
The Boston College Graduate School of Social
Work is taking a leadership role in this new social
movement by establishing the Social Innovation
and Leadership Program and Collaborative (SIL)
under the direction of Professor Stephanie Berzin and Sloan Center on Aging and Work Director Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes. “Social innovation is
a new paradigm about sustainable social change,”
says Berzin. “The future success of social service
agencies depends on the development of new approaches to solving social problems.”
It also depends on training tomorrow’s innovators. A recent Duke University study found that
the social work field “needs new talent pipelines
and development programs to prepare social entrepreneurs and their teams for the challenges of
sustainability, scale, and the creation of new equilibriums.”
Itself a pathbreaking effort, SIL is the first comprehensive social work graduate program to train
social workers to take their rightful place in an
entrepreneurial movement heretofore dominated
by business schools and schools of public policy.
“Though the values and practices of social entrepreneurship are closely aligned with our profession, social work scholars and institutions have
been less at the forefront of this movement than
other disciplines,” Berzin explains in her paper,
“Where is Social Work in the Social Entrepreneurship Movement?”
A recent PBS program, “The New Heroes,”
talked about social entrepreneurship in expansive terms. “The job of a social entrepreneur is
to recognize when a part of society is stuck and
to provide new ways to get it unstuck,” PBS said.
“Ultimately, social entrepreneurs are driven to
boston college | graduate school of social work 11 so many of the systems and programs set up
over the last decades have failed to solve
society’s most stubborn problems. we simply must
find new solutions to social injustice and
inequality, and we must do it now.
produce measureable impact by opening up new
pathways for the marginalized and disadvantaged,
and unlocking society’s full potential to effect social change.”
Berzin and Pitt-Catsouphes have taken the discussion one step further, defining social innovation as a paradigm that encompasses the range of
new ideas and creative approaches people and organizations devise to tackle social problems. Under this umbrella, social entrepreneurship is one
of many solutions that can result. “Entrepreneurship implies that a new agency or company is the
solution. To be sure, some innovation has that result. However, innovation can also change existing
agencies or inspire political and advocacy activities that bring about social justice,” Berzin says.
W
hile the social work community prepares to participate more fully in the
development of the social
innovation field, social
innovators themselves have been busy making
things happen. The best of their ideas exemplifies
characteristics of what Pitt-Catsouphes calls the
“social innovation triple bottom line: innovation,
sustainability, and social justice.”
Past examples famously include Muhammad
Yunus, whose concept of microcredit enabled
poor Bangladeshis to get small loans through his
Grameen bank and spawned a global network that
has made untold thousands economically selfsufficient. Ashoka founder Bill Drayton, arguably
the father of the modern concept of social entrepreneurship, crystallized the notion when he said,
“Social entrepreneurs are not content to give a fish
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or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they
have revolutionized the fishing industry.” Ashoka
searches the globe for citizen entrepreneurs and
provides the support they need to succeed. Closer
to home, there is the venture philanthropy firm
New Profit, in Cambridge, a pioneer in funding
promising social enterprises, and Boston Rising,
a grantmaking organization that backs novel ideas
that fight poverty.
Innovation, of course, is not the sole province
of independent visionaries. Increasingly, established organizations are recognizing and encouraging out-of-the-box ideas developed within. Examples are near at hand, at agencies with which
the GSSW has collaborated and placed students.
The Home for Little Wanderers in Massachusetts,
for instance, was one of only three organizations
nationwide to establish a group residence for atrisk gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth,
and it had to make up all its own rules as it pioneered the project. “It was a new thought to put
these kids all in one house when all of them were
in transition,” says Joan Wallace-Benjamin, president and CEO. About seven years ago, Catholic
Charities took the novel idea of simultaneously
teaching English and medical skills to immigrants
and turned it into a successful career path for
nursing assistants.
Tiziana Dearing, immediate past president of
Catholic Charities Boston and now CEO of Boston
Rising, believes that with demand for services going up and dollars going down a brand of program
innovation she calls leveraging is also growing in
popularity. “It’s all about bringing groups together
to leverage dollars, access, all kinds of things,” she
says, pointing to the Safe City Initiative, a summer
program for inner city youth, and the Boston Op-
thinking inventively about senior care
Personal experience with parents inspires a company
by cara feinberg
A
rose lincoln
ndrea Cohen, MSW ’84, was already
experienced in the world of professional eldercare when her own parents got sick. Seven years out of graduate
school, she had been the program director
at Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services for
more than half a decade, and had just founded Elderlink, a non-profit direct service organization serving lower-income seniors. “Here
I was arranging care for my parents so they
could stay in their home, and with all I knew
about the field, I still couldn’t do it,” she said,
listing their needs one-by-one until she ran
out of fingers: transportation, medication,
daily household chores, home modification...
“I knew there had to be easier ways to keep
seniors in their own homes.”
This goal has become Cohen’s life’s passion and days’ work. Born in Summit, New
Jersey, to two parents over the age of 40, Cohen has wanted to work with seniors for as
long as she can remember. “My parents used
“This is a business that relies on perceiving the needs of others, on relato joke they’d be my first clients,” she said. Indeed, Cohen arranged home care for them for
tionship building...and in the macro sense, on changing the way the world
about half a year; they passed away within a
works.” andrea cohen, msw’84
few months of each other in 1991.
After working in eldercare for more than 15
years, in 1998, she co-founded HouseWorks, a Newton-Massachu- relies on perceiving the needs of others, on relationship building...
setts-based private-pay company dedicated to helping seniors age and in the macro sense, on changing the way the world works.”
Still, she said at a GSSW Alumni Association event last March
in place. By providing everything from hourly to live-in home care,
medication assistance, and companionship, as well as basic home when she received its Distinguished Alumna of the Year award,
modification services—building wheelchair ramps, installing grab she had gotten no business education: “I was trained as a social
bars in the shower, moving a bedroom to the first floor—House- worker. Running a business was not on my radar screen.” She acWorks has been a pioneer in private home care. As the company’s complished with sheer determination what GSSW students particiCEO, Cohen has overseen its growth from a small service organiza- pating in the Social Innovation and Leadership curriculum will be
tion in Massachusetts to one of the largest of its kind in the country. able to do with their entrepreneurial training. Those new skills, she
Now a nearly $16 million company with more than 500 associates, predicts, “will open up whole new possibilities.”
Her own long-term vision is to change the way people age, “to
HouseWorks opened a second office in 2008 in Bethesda, Maryeffect a paradigm shift,” she says. Today, 13 percent of Americans
land, serving the greater Washington, DC, area.
“Private home care is a fairly new industry,” says Cohen, “and are over the age of 65, but according to 2008 US Census Bureau
it’s wonderful to find success.” But as a social worker, she says she projections, by 2030, that figure will jump to 20 percent. By 2050,
also finds the work extremely fulfilling: “These are people’s lives 89 million Americans will have aged into that bracket. “People are
we’re changing, this is peace of mind for their families.” Her so- looking at how their parents struggled, and they’re saying they want
cial work background, she added, in one sense provided excellent to age differently,” said Cohen. “They know where and how they
preparation for the entrepreneurial world. “This is a business that want to grow old; we’re giving them a way to do it.”
boston college | graduate school of social work 13 a new approach for
a changing world
How Navyn Salem saves children
with novel ideas
by vicki sanders
W
hen searching for a role model who defines the term
social innovator, one need only look inside an industrial 15,000-square-foot building in Providence, Rhode
Island. There, Navyn Salem ’94 presides over the manufacturing of
nutritional supplements that can save nearly a half million children
every year.
What may at first seem a straightforward social venture, however, quickly reveals itself to be something more complex. Yes, the
company, named Edesia for the Roman goddess of food, fits the
profile of a mission-driven nonprofit and is the brainchild of an
entrepreneurial leader determined to help eliminate malnutrition
among the world’s most vulnerable populations.
But what distinguishes Salem’s enterprise from social service
organizations with similarly noble intentions, is not only how she
turned her vision into reality in three short years but also Edesia’s
potential to transform, even revolutionize, conventional thinking
and governmental policies about feeding the malnourished.
The story begins several years ago when Salem, an advertising
executive turned stay-at-home mom, started looking for a worthy
project. She focused her attention on Tanzania, her father’s homeland, and discovered that, despite the various forms of aid reaching
the country, its children were dying of hunger.
Teaming up with Nutriset, the French maker of Plumpy’nut®,
a ready-to-use food with the incredible ability to restore starving
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children to health in four to six weeks, Salem
sought the means to manufacture the therapeutic supplements in Tanzania. The idea was
not only to feed Tanzanian kids, but also to
create jobs, support local farmers, and provide
direct distribution of the sachet-like packets
throughout the East Africa region.
That’s when things started getting complicated. That’s also when Salem’s entrepreneurial penchant for problem-solving really kicked
into gear.
The biggest challenge, and the one that
completely changed the direction of her company, were US humanitarian aid policies.
In an article about Edesia in Newsweek last
March, writer Katie Paul explained it this way:
“Statutes in the US farm bill require that foodaid money be spent on food grown in the US,
while at least half of it must be packaged in
the US, and most of it must be transported by US shippers…Digging into the regulations, Salem realized that the US farm bill restrictions meant [some] NGOs that contract with USAID wouldn’t
be able to use the food her Tanzanian factory would produce.”
Facing this bureaucratic behemoth, Salem found a novel way
to work with the bureaucracy. Her revised strategy was to set up
a factory in her home state of Rhode Island, which met criteria
for US-based raw materials, production, and shipping. In January, a few months before she opened the Edesia plant in March,
the US Agency for International Development granted her $2 million to produce 300 metric tons—that’s more than 15 million daily
doses—of Nutributter®, a preventive supplement that promotes
healthy growth and development, in 2010. Plans for the Tanzania
plant were not lost in the shuffle; it is on track to make supplements
to be sold locally.
Salem’s nimble thinking also meant that Edesia is in a position
to respond to humanitarian crises elsewhere. Last summer alone,
the company sent 3.6 million packets of Supplementary’Plumpy®
through the World Food Programme to treat 60,000 malnourished
people in Haiti. Every day, new crises—as big as a two-week US Customs holdup of a major shipment, as small as a delayed fire inspection permit—land in Salem’s lap. She confronts them with relish. “It’s my
favorite task. My colleagues know: Just throw all the problems on
Navyn’s desk, she’ll figure it out.”
Salem says the reward for her efforts is immeasurable. She
recalled meeting a mother and child during a trip to Tanzania. The girl’s eyes were closed and she was lifeless; the mother
was in despair. “A couple of months later I got a report back that
Plumpy’nut® had worked and the daughter was up and running
around,” Salem said. “Even that one story is enough to keep me going. Saving one child is enough.”
Navyn Salem’s company, Edesia, was featured in a September article in the
New York Times Magazine.
portunity Agenda, a cradle-to-college educational
pipeline. Though different in scope and purpose,
both projects required collaborations among various agencies, interest groups, and funders that
enabled a scale of operation not possible otherwise, she says.
O
bserving that business schools
and their graduates receive the
bulk of the recognition for social entrepreneurship and that
no other MSW programs offer
a comprehensive curriculum in the discipline, the
School has prepared the Social Innovation and
Leadership Program and Collaborative to launch
in 2011.
The aim, say the co-directors, is twofold. The
program side will focus on the training of the
students while the collaborative side will redefine
the GSSW’s partnerships beyond the School
community.
The School will engage leaders-in-training in
courses that support innovation, provide experiential learning opportunities at human service
organizations and in the GSSW Lab, offer awards
for innovative proposals, and devise specialized
training for practitioners who supervise students.
“The program offers multiple opportunities to
integrate field and coursework to foster creative
problem-solving within these settings,” Berzin explains. “Students are prepared to develop innovative solutions to social problems, lead human service organizations that foster these solutions, and
mobilize strategic partners, political resources,
and community resources to initiate and sustain
social change.”
The SIL will enhance social work’s reputation
in the field going forward through its collaboration
side. The Social Innovation Lab is a training and
research partnership between the GSSW and social service agencies and nonprofit organizations.
Pitt-Catsouphes says that each year, four to eight
organizations are accepted into a lab “class.” A select team from an agency receives intensive training in cultivating and sharing ideas. In addition,
leaders from the agencies interact with their peers
from other agencies in a process that allows them
to test good ideas before a broader, objective audi-
ence. “We are teaching people how to trust their
creativity and how to promote an organizational
culture that encourages brainstorming, risk-taking, and collaboration,” Pitt-Catsouphes explains.
“But, as a laboratory, we are also providing important evidence-based research. This information will help practitioners to invent and sustain
solution-focused responses to a range of social
problems.”
Going forward, the Social Innovation and Leadership Program and Collaborative will establish a
social innovation journal, crucial to instigating
scholarship in the field, and an annual social innovation conference. Pitt-Catsouphes says the
conference will foster the exchange of research
findings, showcase examples of social innovation, support a learning community, and provide
resources for practice. Through the presentation
of a proposed social innovation legacy award, the
conference will honor organizations or their leaders for projects in the vanguard of social change.
Funding permitting, a social innovation leaders
development award will bring with it venture capital for the best student proposals, possibly beginning in 2013, when the first cohort of students are
in their second year.
The awards will provide another seminal function. “The award projects contribute to the articulation of standards of excellence for social innovation,” Pitt-Catsouphes explains. “Practitioners and
scholars alike are starting to grapple with questions about appropriate metrics.” The awards are
a provocation to find the answers. They tease out
discussion of such issues as whether small change
can produce transformative results, whether there
is a timeframe for sustainability, and what are the
best indicators of gains in social justice or reductions in inequities.
The GSSW is launching the Social Innovation
and Leadership Program and Collaborative at an
opportune place and time. Boston is known as a
center of innovation, and the success of SIL could
position Boston College as a leader in social innovation. Furthermore, says Dean Alberto Godenzi,
“so many of the systems and programs set up over
the last decades have failed to solve society’s most
stubborn problems. We simply must find new solutions to social injustice and inequality, and we
must do it now.”
boston college | graduate school of social work 15 RESEARCH
GSSW Hosts Social Work NIH Grant Directory
bc gssw recently converted the social work nih grant
Directory, launched in 2004 by the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research, into a web-based tool. This
database lists NIH grants awarded to social work researchers between 1993 and the present time. A range of search
criteria assists users in locating information to enhance research initiatives. The directory facilitates networking and
mentorship among researchers across programs and along
specific subject areas. It highlights NIH agencies with the
largest funding potential and aims at increasing social work
funding from NIH.
In order to keep the directory current, the GSSW invites grant recipients to submit updates to the website at
https://htmldbprod.bc.edu/swgrants. For other inquiries
and information, contact the GSSW grants manager at
swgrantdirectory@bc.edu.
Research Development Day Stresses
chris soldt, bc –mts
Multidisciplinary Collaboration
PhD student Charu Stokes, accompanied by nursing professor Rosanna
DeMarco, stands before her poster on HIV/AIDS research among African
American women.
gssw phd students joined colleagues from other boston
College professional schools in March for the inaugural
Multidisciplinary PhD Research Development Day, created
to encourage collaborations across disciplines and allow students and faculty to share research and engage in scholarly
dialogue.
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The day-long event on campus, attended by more than 70
people, featured 8 papers and 22 posters by doctoral students
from the GSSW, Lynch School of Education, and Connell
School of Nursing.
“Today’s doctoral students are tomorrow’s faculty,” said
Ahearn Professor of Social Work James Lubben, director of
the GSSW doctoral program. “They will experience a world
of scholarship that is increasingly multidisciplinary in focus
and research methodologies. Thus it is fitting that we create
opportunities to showcase the research being conducted by
our doctoral students and point out commonalities of interest and concern across disciplines and professional schools.
“Further, this unique conference enhances our doctoral
students’ ability to form useful connections with faculty and
students in other disciplines and professions thereby enhancing their own doctoral program.”
Monica Adhiambo Onyango, who recently earned her
doctorate from the Connell School and now teaches at the
Boston University School of Public Health, gave the keynote
address, “Women’s Health Issues in the Post War Context of
South Sudan.”
The conference is part of a Boston College strategic plan
to enhance interdisciplinary cooperation and increase global
focus university-wide. The second annual Multidisciplinary
PhD Research Development Day is being planned for next
spring.
BCGSSW | RESEARCH |
A Curriculum Reform Makes Room for New Ideas
Five electives, flexibility respond to changing field
the pace of change is quickening
worldwide, and the field of social work
is accelerating with it. Flexible curriculum reform is one way that the
GSSW is responding to this new age
of growing demand for novel solutions
and more effective social services. “Everything we’re doing is about being
responsive to new knowledge,” says
MSW Program Director and Associate
Dean Tom Walsh. “We want to provide
the latest information to students. By
tapping into our faculty’s expertise, designing new courses quickly, and then
changing things up, we’re giving students what they need to practice.”
To that end, the Structural Flexibility Committee is implementing a five-
elective curriculum plan that adds two
electives to the existing three for both
clinical and macro students and encompasses all fields-of-practice concentrations: Children, Youth, and Families;
Health and Mental Health; Older Adults
and Families; and Global Practice.
Walsh says that the change is helpful
on several levels. It means students get
more variety in their course selection.
They are allowed an elective in their
first year, with the result that some
courses can be offered every other year.
It also means each concentration can
readily add and subtract optional courses as real-world situations dictate. Dual-degree students, who previously had
no elective options, will now be eligible
to take two electives. And the Program
Evaluation class has been moved to the
final semester of the two-year program,
giving students time during their fall
semester field work to prepare for the
course.
In addition, more electives enable
the scheduling of courses at times
convenient for students. By incorporating intensive, short-term courses, the
GSSW provides the flexibility to take,
the traumatic victimization class either
twice a week for four weeks or over the
span of three weekends.
Implementation of the new curriculum is on track to be introduced in the
fall of 2011.
—vicki sanders
| 2009 – 2010 GSSW LECTURE SERIES |
grotevant davis SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
NOVEMBER 12, 2009 FEBRUARY 22, 2009 mallon
george
HAROLD GROTEVANT, Rudd Family Foundation Chair in Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
“From Nuclear Families to Kinship Networks: Longitudinal Perspectives on Openness in Adoption”
KING DAVIS, Professor and Robert Lee Sutherland Chair in Mental Health and Social Policy, University ofTexas
at Austin School of Social Work. “Predicting the Future Direction of American Mental Health Policy”
DEBORAH PADGETT, Professor, New York University Silver School of Social Work.
“Qualitative and Mixed Methods Studies: Case Examples from ‘Local’ and International Experience”
GERALD P. MALLON, Professor and Executive Director of the National Resource Center for Permanency
and Family Connections, Hunter College School of SocialWork.“Lesbians and Gay Men Choosing Parenthood”
MARCH 10, 2010 MARCH 26, 2010
padgett DR. USHA GEORGE, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University, Toronto.
“Immigrants and Refugees: Settlement Issues and Service Delivery Models”
boston college | graduate school of social work 17 BCGSSW | RESEARCH |
grant awards 2009–2010
STEPHANIE BERZIN
• Evan B. Donaldson Foundation
“Overcoming Barriers to Permanency for
Older Youth in Foster Care”
$7,000
KEVIN MAHONEY
• DHHS
“Cash & Counseling: Next Steps—
Supplement”
$59,998 ($1,199,899)
JUDI CASEY
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
“Sloan Work-Family Network—Year 3 of 3”
$501,302 ($1,487,664)
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
“Self Direction/Cash & Counseling Research and Technical Assistance Center—
Year 2 of 4”
$980,136 ($4,751,055)
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
“Business Planning Resources”
$30,000
TOM CREA
• Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
“The Orthodox Family in America at Home
and in Church: A Study of Families in the
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America”
$15,000
• Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
“SAFE and Child Specific Recruitment”
$8,665 ($31,164)
JACQUELYN JAMES
• Institute for Intercultural Studies
“Engaged as We Age”
$29,962
MARCIE PITT-CATSOUPHES/
CHRISTINA COSTA
• The Gerontological Society of America
“Hartford Doctoral Fellows Program—
Year 1 of 1”
$25,000 ($50,000)
• The Administration on Aging
“Cash & Counseling: Sustainable Paradigm
for Service Delivery—Year 2 of 3”
$399,444 ($1,104,723)
• Atlantic Philanthropies
“National Center for Consumer Direction—
Year 2 of 3”
$791,421 ($3,500,000)
MARCIE PITT-CATSOUPHES/
MELISSA BROWN
• The Gerontological Society of America
“Hartford Doctoral Fellowship”
$25,000 ($50,000)
KAREN KAYSER/PHILIP HIGGINS
• The American Cancer Society
“Training Grant in Oncology Social Work”
$20,000 ($40,000)
VINCE LYNCH
• City of Denver
“22nd Annual National Social Work
and HIV/AIDS Conference”
$5,000
• Gilead Sciences, Inc.
“22nd Annual National Social Work and
HIV/AIDS Conference”
$25,000
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MARCIE PITT-CATSOUPHES
• The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
“The Sloan Center on Aging & Work;
Workplace Flexibility and the 21st Century
Multi-Generational Workforce”
$ 1,065,901 ($3,561,685)
• The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
“The Sloan Center on Aging & Work;
Workplace Flexibility and the 21st Century
Multi-Generational Workforce”
$273,354 ($3,561,685)
• Metlife Mature Market Institute
“Health & Well-Being Across Ages:
Global Issues-Local Solutions”
$50,000
G S S W – S P O N S O R E D P R O G R A M F U N D I N G F Y03– F Y10
(dollars in thousands)
4,775.9
5,000
3,851.3
4,000
2,817.1
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
3,198.9
4,312.2
3,000.8
2,186.5
1,397.9
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
BCGSSW | RESEARCH |
faculty publications
Here are highlights from among the
many accomplishments of the full-time
faculty in the 2009-2010 academic year.
Berzin, S. C. (2009). Preparing foster
youth for independent living: Collaboration between county independent
living programs and community-based
youth-serving agencies. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 3(3), 254-274.
Berzin, S. C. (2009). Vulnerability in
the transition to adulthood: Defining
risk based on youth profiles. Children
and Youth Services Review. Online First
(November).
Berzin, S. C. (2010). Understanding
foster youth outcomes: Is propensity
scoring better than traditional methods? Research on Social Work Practice,
20, 100-111.
Berzin, S. C. (forthcoming). Educational aspirations among low-income
youth: Examining multiple conceptual
models. Children & Schools.
Berzin, S.C. (forthcoming). Where is
social work in the social entrepreneurship movement? Social Work.
Berzin, S. C., & DeMarco, A. C. (2009).
Understanding the impact of poverty
on critical events in emerging adulthood. Youth and Society, Online First
(November).
Berzin, S. C., & Kelly, M. (2009). Disability and post-high school transition:
Does placement in special education
improve youth outcomes? Advances in
School Mental Health Promotion, 2(2),
17-30.
Berzin, S. C., & Taylor, S. (2009).
Preparing foster youth for independent
living: Collaboration between county
Independent Living Programs and
community-based youth-serving agencies. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 3,
254-274.
Berzin, S. C., & O’Connor, S. (forthcoming). Educating today’s school
social workers: Are school social work
courses responding to the changing
context? Children & Schools (special
issue).
Kelly, M., Berzin, S. C., Frey, A., Alvarez, M., Shaffer, G., & O’Brien (2010).
The state of school social work 2008:
Findings from the National School Social Work Survey. School Mental Health,
Online First (March).
Kelly, M. S., Frey, A., Alvarez, M.,
Berzin, S. C., Shaffer, G., & O’Brien, K.
(forthcoming). School social work and
response to intervention. Children &
Schools (special issue).
Blythe, B., Heffernan, K., & Walters, B.
(in press). Best practices for developing child protection workers’ skills:
Domestic violence, substance abuse,
and mental health training. Revista de
Asistenta Sociala, 2.
Ivanoff, A. M., & Blythe, B. (in press).
Research ethics. In R. M. Grinnell & Y.
A. Unrau (Eds.), Social work research
and evaluation: Foundations of evidencebased practice (9th ed.). New York:
Oxford University Press.
Tucker, A. R., & Blythe, B. (2008).
Research note: Attention to treatment
fidelity in social work outcomes: A
review of the literature from the 1990s.
Social Work Research, 32(3), 185-190.
Walters, B., & Blythe, B. (2010). Results
accountability: A critical component of
community support for children and
families, Journal of Policy Practice, 9(1),
3-17.
Crea, T. M. (2009). Intercountry adoptions and domestic home study practices: SAFE and the Hague Adoption
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faculty hires
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The multitude of presentations made by
GSSW faculty at scholarly conferences
in the US and abroad are not included
in this magazine. Though these are
very important scholarly activities, they
could not be referenced due to space
limitations.
Scholars bring expertise in
neuroscience and families to GSSW JESSICA BLACK, a Stanford-trained educational
psychologist and neuroscientist, has joined the
faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Children,
Youth, and Families concentration.
Black earned her PhD in Educational Psychology
from the School of Education at Stanford and completed post-doc training in Education and Developmental Neuroscience in the Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research (CIBSR) at Stanford University Medical
School. Her research interests include achievement motivation, dyslexia and
special education, and child and adolescent development.
The project manager on CIBSR’s Reading Brain Study, Black led a novel undertaking that combined standard measures of cognition and achievement
with functional magnetic resonance imaging and near-infrared spectroscopy
to predict reading outcomes of kindergartners (half with family history of de| R and
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She also designed Introduction to Education Neuroscience, a first-of-its
kind course proposed for Stanford University School of Education students.
Her cross-discipline experience promises to deepen GSSW students’ understanding of the “bio-part” of the bio-psycho-social assessment in social
work.
LINNIE GREEN WRIGHT, a community-based researcher with expertise in early childhood intervention, has been hired as an Assistant Professor in
the Children, Youth and Families concentration.
linnie green
wright Wright earned her PhD from the School
Green
Psychology Program at New York University’s
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She began her academic career
at a Head Start program that served mothers with substance abuse and
psychiatric disorders and their young children. The work culminated in her
receiving an NIH grant to develop and implement the Mommy and Me Play
Program, an innovative initiative that teaches young mothers positive play
skills to improve children’s social and emotional well-being. She intends to
pilot this intervention program with Boston families while continuing her
collaboration with partner communities and agencies in New York.
Most recently, Green Wright was project manager for PEARLS, a NIH-funded
study that focuses on how black families foster the social and academic success of children in low-income communities. She plans to further investigate
the influence of parent interaction, social support networks, and community
involvement on young children’s successful transition to elementary school.
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COMMUNITY
ALUMNI NEWS
to post an update, email gsswalumni@bc.edu or call 617-552-4020.
MAKING CONNECTIONS
september ushered in a new academic
year and renewed activity for the GSSW
Alumni Association. If you feel like you have
lost touch with the School since graduation,
participating in Alumni Association activities is a great way to get reconnected, network with classmates, and meet students.
There are numerous events designed to
benefit alumni or enable you to help students entering the field.
The Alumni Association kept up a busy
pace this past year, offering several networking events, a career day (for alumni and
current students), and mock interviews for
final-year students. The association also
responded to members’ continuing education needs with several CEU programs. We
worked with the Admissions Office to recruit
new students and brought people together
to celebrate our profession and honor our
distinguished alumni at the annual alumni
event.
Such activities will form the core of our
work in the upcoming year, but we are always looking to improve our program-
GSSW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
BOARD MEMBERS 2009 - 2010
ming. This past spring the Alumni Board
sponsored a Clean Sweep event, collecting
student items for local shelters. Last fall,
alumni participated in the Boston Walk to
Cure Diabetes and gathered to cheer on the
BC Eagles against Maryland in our first organized GSSW football event. We are also
excited to begin planning events to celebrate
the GSSW’s 75th anniversary next year. A
day-long event on September 14, 2011, will
start the year’s festivities.
If you have suggestions for the association, please let us know or get involved in the
planning committees. Our events are posted
on the GSSW website, www.bc.edu/gssw, or
you can contact the Alumni Board’s liaison
at the School, Susan Callaghan, at callaghs@
bc.edu or call 617-552-6234 for more details.
I hope you will take advantage of the resources offered to you as graduates of the
GSSW. You’ll find a great community of
dedicated social workers eager to help fellow
alumni.
We encourage you to check our website at
www.bc.edu/gssw to keep informed about
upcoming 75th Anniversary plans, alumni
events, and CEU course offerings.
GSSW 75th Anniversary
September 14, 2011
Watch for event details on our website.
Alumni Networking Event
November 18, 2010
6:00-7:30 p.m., Campion Hall, Rm. 139
RSVP by November 4 to
gsswcareerservices@bc.edu.
Students and alumni come together to talk
about their career interests.
achieve representation across many categories, including class years, clinical and
macro specialties, MSW and PhD degrees,
and professional concentrations that correspond to the current curriculum, those
being Children, Youth, and Families, Health
and Mental Health, Global Practice, and
Older Adults. Board Members are elected
for up to three-year terms, with one-third
of the board elected annually. Elections for
open board and officer slots are planned
for October.
PRESIDENT
Anita Riley, MSW 1998, Clinical
VICE PRESIDENT
Liana Fantasia, MSW 1993, Clinical
SECRETARY
Jessica Bedney, MSW 2008, Macro
— anita riley, msw ’98
GSSW Alumni Association President
TREASURER
Danielle Sutton, MSW 2001, Clinical
BOARD MEMBERS
ALUMNI EVENTS
SAVE THE DATES
The board strives to recruit alumni to
Lisa Bello, MSW 1997, Clinical
Jennifer Breneisen, MSW 2007, Clinical
23rd Annual National Conference
on Social Work and HIV/AIDS
May 26-29, 2011
Atlanta, GA
See details on our website at http://www.
bc.edu/schools/gssw/academics/ce/
conferences.html.
Scune Carrington, MSW 2009, Clinical
Gary Dauer, MSW 1982, Macro
Jeanette Forgey, MSW 2007, Macro
Corey Gabowitz, MSW 1998, Clinical
Andrea Gieryic, MSW 2000, Clinical
Emily Greising, MSW 2007, Macro
Mike Gutierrez, MSW 1982, Macro
Continuing Education
Lynda Ketcham, MSW 1992,
To view course offerings for 2010-2011,
visit http://www.bc.edu/schools/gssw/
academics/ce.html.
Patrick McCabe, MSW 2003, Macro
Questions?
Contact the GSSW Alumni Association at
gsswalumni@bc.edu or 617-552-4020.
Clinical and M. Div.
Kimberly McManama O’Brien,
MSW 2005, Clinical
Susan Moriarty, MSW 1999, Macro
Cheryl Snyder, MSW 1983, Macro
boston college | graduate school of social work 23 gssw lost one of its most distinguished
alumnae when Dorothy Baker, DHM, died
at age 90 in January.
After earning her MSW in 1945, Baker
joined the religious order, the Society of the
Daughters of the Heart of Mary. In 1958,
her superiors asked her to travel to India to
serve as a consultant to a new school of social work affiliated with Bombay University.
Soon after, she was appointed its director,
a position she held for more than 25 years.
While serving in this administrative
capacity, she simultaneously earned her
PhD in Sociology from Bombay University,
where she later taught courses in social
change theories and philosophy in social
work as a professor. After becoming re-acclimated to American life in 1984, she was
named Superior of the St. Paul Community
and President of Nardin Academy in Buffalo, New York.
During the later stage of her life, she
accomplished some of her most cherished
work, initiating the Children’s Fund for the
School for the Deaf, a cause she promoted
until well past her retirement from the
board. Boston College has twice recognized
Baker for her leadership, vision, and service
to the disadvantaged. She received an honorary degree from the University in 1979,
and her achievements were celebrated at the
2005 GSSW graduation ceremony. We once
again pay tribute to her extraordinary life’s
work.
— SH
works with the Dudley Street Neighborhood
Initiative and GOTCHA, a youth employment program.
andrea cohen, msw ’84, received the
2010 Distinguished Alumni Award at the
annual GSSW Alumni Association ceremony
in March. Cohen is co-founder and CEO of
HouseWorks, a Newton-based private home
care company (see story page 13).
robbie tourse received the Lifetime
Achievement Award in April from the MA
Chapter of NASW. Tourse was an administrator and faculty member at GSSW from
1980–2006. She currently serves as an
Adjunct Faculty at Simmons College School
of Social Work. At the same ceremony,
michelle butman, msw ’07, received the
Greatest Contribution by a Social Worker
with Less than Five Years Post-Degree
Experience Award. Butman is a program
coordinator at TRACS, Transition Resources
and Community Supports, a program of
South Shore Mental Health.
A Royal Visit
princess muna al hussein of jordan visited boston college last june
to discuss how her country’s mental health services might benefit from American
practice models, as well as potential Jordan-US academic and professional collaborations.
GSSW alumna Cindy Dempsey, MSW ’96, who has connections to Jordan’s
royal family, played a key role in arranging the visit to BC.
Princess Muna, along with Jordanian Nursing Council Board Member Hania
Dawani, gave a presentation in Burns Library to a select group of Boston College
and Massachusetts mental health experts that included Marylou Sudders, president
and CEO of Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and
an adjunct GSSW faculty member, Connell School of Nursing Associate Dean for
Research Barbara Wolfe, and Massachusetts Department of Mental Health Commissioner Barbara Leadholm.
University President William P. Leahy, SJ, gave a formal welcome to Princess
Muna and her delegation. BC representatives said the event constituted a promising start for future exchanges on Jordan’s mental health field.
chris soldt–bc mts
remembering
dorothy baker
newsnotes
alicia mooltrey, msw ’11, was honored
with a Boston Neighborhood Fellows Award
in February. The honor is given annually to
six individuals who are making a difference in their community through unusual
creativity, vision, and initiative. The Philanthropic Initiative designed this program
for an anonymous donor who wanted to
recognize unsung heroes and remind others that hope and possibility exist. Mooltrey
Princess Muna Al Hussein, in white, and her Nursing Council colleague Hania Dawani were
welcomed to BC by Dean Alberto Godenzi, left, and President William P. Leahy.
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BCGSSW | COMMUNITY |
staff comings & goings
WELCOME ADDITIONS
scune carrington, MSW ’10, became
GSSW’s Grant Manager in August. She
previously worked at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a research
administrator. She is a member of the
GSSW Alumni Association Board. Carrington replaces christie cohen, who
became Grant Proposal and Award Administrator at GSSW’s National Resource
Center for Participant-Directed Services
(NRCPDS).
molly hurt joined the NRCPDS as its
Membership and Innovations Program
Specialist in June. Hurt concentrated in
Older Adults and Families at GSSW, where
she recently earned her MSW. Her professional experience includes an internship
at the Alzheimer’s Association, where she
developed materials to support families
coping with the disease.
eileen ihrig was named Director of
International last March, replacing penny
alexander (see below). Ihrig has more
than ten years of experience working
with displaced persons and refugees in
post-conflict situations in Eastern Europe,
Russia, and Central and South Asia. Most
recently, she was Director of International
Programs at Tulane University School of
Social Work.
je’lesia jones joined the Sloan Center for
Aging and Work last November as Editorial Assistant. Previously, she was a press
secretary for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under three governors. In addition
to writing for the National Broadcasting
Company and Public Broadcasting Service,
she has been a freelancer for the Wellesley
Townsman since 1989.
mary quirk was hired as the Administrative Assistant to the Director of the
NRCPDS in August 2009. Quirk previously worked for BC’s Bureau of Conferences, the Alumni Association, and the
Carroll School of Management’s Center for
Corporate Citizenship.
brenda vitale, Assistant Director for
Academic and Student Services, Doctoral
Program. (She remains as Associate
Project Director of HCBS.org, the Clearinghouse for Home and Community
Based Services.) FOND FAREWELLS
mary zider became an Admissions Assistant last January. Zider graduated from
the Lynch School of Education with a BA
in human development and was an office
manager at Beaver Country Day School in
Chestnut Hill before joining the GSSW.
ON THE MOVE
Congratulations to the following staff on their
new titles and promotions:
karen doherty, Director of Finance and
Administration, Sloan Center for Aging
and Work (CAW) jackie james, Director of Research, CAW
dianne kayala, Director, New Initiatives,
NRCPDS patti krusz, Fiscal Specialist, NRCPDS
tay mcnamara, Senior Research
Associate, CAW christina matz-costa, Associate
Director of Secondary Analysis, CAW
chad minnich, Associate Director of
Marketing and Communications, CAW
casey sanders, Assistant Director,
Training, NRCPDS
kristin simon, Director, Finance and
Administration, NRCPDS
penny alexander departed GSSW after
four years of overseeing and coordinating the international and part-time
programs. She is employed by the Jesuit
Refugee Service in South Africa as the
Regional Programmes/HR Officer for
the Southern Africa Region. karen corday resigned as Information
Specialist at the Sloan Work and Family
Network (SWFN) to become Data Curator
at Harvard Medical School.
jen lawless joined Kalido.com as Internet
Marketing Manager. She was the graphic
designer at SWFN.
ryan “buddy” rutzke, consumer direction module technology manager at the
NRCPDS, has left to attend law school at the University of Washington.
libby sands is attending the Lynch
School of Education to earn a certificate
of advanced educational scholarship in
educational administration and school
leadership. She was the program assistant for the Global Practice and Older
Adults and Families concentrations.
julie weber left her position as Policy
Specialist at SWFN to move to Virginia
with her family.
cindy snell, Director of Career
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gssw gifts:
june 1, 2009 to may 31, 2010
gasson gift society
($10,000+)
Leocadia B. Burke, MSW ’56 & *Edmund M.
Burke, MSW ’56
*Doris Faissole, MSW ’50
Mark W. Holland, BS ’71 & Jo Ann H.
Holland, BA ’75
Joan F. Maher, BA ’71, MED ’75 & Joseph
C. Maher, Jr., BS ’71, JD ’75
Navyn Datoo Salem, BA ’94 & Paul J. Salem
Lynn H. Stahl, MSW ’79
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
president’s circle
($5,000–$9,999)
Thomas M. Burke, BS ’85
City and County of Denver, CO
fides patrons
($2,500–$4,999)
Alice N. Hart, MSW ’62 & Robert F. X. Hart,
BA ’60, MSW ’62, MTS ’03
fides members
($1,000–$2,499)
Brian P. Burke, BA ’79
Agnes Cox M. Carson, MSSW ’41
Jean D. Donahue, MSW ’61
Susan R. Gould, MSW ’88
Peter C. McKenzie, BS ’75 &
Maureen Quinn McKenzie,
BA’75, MSW’95
Ellen D. Scannell, BA ’38, MSSW
’42 & *William H. Scannell, Jr.,
BA ’38
Paul J. Scobie, BS ’86
Joanne D. Zannotti, MSW ’68
Abbott Laboratories
general gssw gifts
Siobhan Ahearn, MSW ’08
Najiba Akbar, MSW ’07
Jane Malick Alden, MSW ’80
*Louis F. Alfano, BS ’43 & Ella G. Alfanso,
MSW ’79
Rondey Allen, MSW ’03
William J. Allen, MSP ’71
Carol Freiberg Almasi, MSW ’65
James W. Alves, MSW ’80
Amy Amatangelo, MSW ’93
Jessica A. Appelman, BA ’05, MSW ’10
Jeffrey S. Applegate, PHD ’85
Laura B. Archambault, MSW ’82
James J. Arena, MSW ’85
Martha Addison Armstrong, MSW ’72
Nancy L. Ayotte, MSW ’91
Janet M. Baiardi, AS ’97 & Peter C. Wolf,
MSW ’98
Laura Bailey, MSW ’06
Rev. Paul F. Bailey, MSW ’62
Rosalyn Baker Greene, MSW ’92
Elizabeth Mills Beaulac, MSW ’89
Elise M. Beaulieu, MSW ’80
Deborah Y. Beers, MSW ’07
Judith B. Bello, MSSW ’72
Ann Murphy Bellotti, MSW ’68 & Michael P.
Bellotti, MSW ’67
Peter A. Berg, BA ’10
Linda Rene Bergeron, PHD ’98
Mary B. Blackman, MSW ’94
Dana C. Blankschtein, MSW ’09
George J. Boiros, MSW ’68 & Marcia K.
Boiros, MSW ’69
Joseph Michael Bonasera, MSW ’91
Edward A. Bonenfant, MSW ’62
Brooke A. Booth, MSW ’98
Susan Botello, MSW ’98
Diane C. Boulanger, BS ’86 & Albert
Boulanger
Mary T. Brackett, MSW ’74
Mary Brainerd, PHD ’02
Douglas Breunig, MSW ’84
Deborah Brigandi, MSW ’99
Patricia M. Broderick, MSW ’59
Marilyn Bronzi, MSW ’90
Carol Barr Brown, MSW ’71
Donna R. Brown, MSW ’85
Maureen Kleponis Brown, MSW ’79
Paul J. Brown, MSW ’05
Victoria Brown, MSW ’94
Patricia Ann Bruno, MSW ’88
Patricia Daley Buckley, MSW ’71
Elaine G. Bucuvalas, MSW ’48
Marilyn A. Bunnewith, MSW ’68
Jessica Buttner, MSW ’08
Mary Byrne, PHD ’06
Leesa Caballero, MSW ’04
Adrianne Cady, MSW ’76
Gary Calhoun, PHD ’00
James J. Callahan, Jr., MSW ’59
Matthew Caminiti, BA ’03 & Kristen M.
Deboy Caminiti, BA ’04, MSW ’05
Richard V. Cannarelli, MSW ’70
Andee K. Cantavero, MSW ’97
Marilyn C. Carey, MSW ’78 & James W.
Drisko, DSW ’83
Rosemary Carney, MSW ’95
John W. Carswell, MSW ’57
Leida Cartagena, MSW ’04
Kevin M. Casey, MSW ’86
Yolande F. Casey, MSW ’51
Carolyn Cassin-Driscoll, BA ’66 & John
Driscoll
Anne S. Castelline, MSW ’83
Ann E. Castle, MSW ’84
Phyllis B. Cater, MCP ’79
Ronald J. Celio, MSW ’77
Carol A. Chandonnet, MSW ’87
Ann M. F. Chapman, MSW ’60
Kathryn Chapman, MSW ’83
Elizabeth M. Charter, MSW ’93
Geraldine Chase, MSW ’73
Joan E. Christel, MBA ’00, MSW ’00
Gina Chung, BA ’05
Patricia M. Clifford, MSW ’72
Catherine L. Cody, MSW ’65
Sherry S. Cohen, MSW ’80
Susan A. Coleman, BA ’82, MSW ’86 &
Robert J. Coleman, Jr., BA ’80
Alessandra Colia, MSW ’09
Anita Lanciaux Collins, MSW ’65
Adam J. Combies, BS ’03
Elaine F. Conners, MSW ’71 & *Thomas J.
Conners, MED ’71
Clement E. Constantine, MSW ’48
Elizabeth Conway, MSW ’94
Elizabeth O’Neal Conway, MSW ’88
Owen C. Coogan, MSW ’57
Nancy R. Cook, MSW ’71
Joseph M. Costa, MSW ’86
Barbara M. Cotter, MSW ’66
Myrtle R. Crawford, MSW ’57
Leigh A. Cronin, MSW ’94
Lauren Cross, MSW ’07
Diane C. Crowley, MSW ’97
Alison M. Cunningham, BA ’04
Edward Cunningham, MSW ’91
Ellen M. Curri, MSW ’87
Jacqueline V. Dailey, MSW ’61
Deborah Kay Dalrymple, MSW ’95
Elizabeth Darlington, MSW ’05
Robin Davidson-Catalano, MSW ’83
Katie A. Davis, BS ’05
Patricia H. Davis, MSW ’80
Phyllis N. H. Davis, MSW ’50
Charleen M. De Stefano, MSW ’99
Anthony R. DeCubellis, MSW ’59
Margaret M. DeFrancisci, MSW ’91
Luigi A. Del Gaudio, MSW ’72
Carol H. DeLemos, MSW ’61
Donald R. Delery, MSW ’73
Erica Delery, MSW ’07
Audrey Y. DeLoffi, MSW ’74 & Thomas V.
DeLoffi
Lt. Col. Maurice A. Demers, MSW ’68
Carol Denney, MSW ’61
Patricia H. Denoble, MSW ’69
Sister Susan Deppisch, MSW ’61
Katherine C. Dervin, MSW ’63
Barbara E. DiCocco, MSW ’71
Margaret A. Dimond, MSW ’82
Marc A. Dionne, MSW ’05
Mary Frances Dionne, MSW ’63 & Petre L.
Dionne, MA ’63
Cecilia A. M. Dohrmann, MSW ’93
Alvera E. Donatelle, MSW ’67
Nora M. Donoghue, MSW ’54
James P. Doran, MSW ’76 & Karen C.
Doran, MSW ’76
John E. Doyle, MSW ’68
Patrick C. Doyle, MSW ’86
Heather Duell, MSW ’94
Gloria Spaulding Dugan, MSW ’64
Mary Ellen R. DuVarney, MSW ’64
Margaret Ann Dwyer, MED ’56
Kathleen M. Egan, MSW ’85
Lisa Beth Eisenbud, MSW ’94
Donald J. Emond, MSW ’62
Patricia Siragusa Engdahl, MSW ’91
Elizabeth A. Engelhardt, BA ’02
Deborah W. Essig, MSW ’78
Matthew Eynon
Michelle Fagnano, MSW ’83
Robin A. Famighetti, MSW ’80
Rosemary Farley, BA ’67
Catherine M. Fatina, MSW ’81
Helen Guiney Feleciano, MSW ’48
Jean M. Ferrovia, MSW ’74
Kathleen M. Fink, MCP ’78
Elaine Marie Finneral, MSW ’89
Wayne M. Firstenberg, MSW ’83
Ann McClorey Fisher, MSW ’80
John F. Fitzgerald, MSW ’60
John R. Fitzgerald, Jr., MSW ’69 & Alice M.
Fitzgerald
Susan Fitzgerald, MSW ’91
Tanya R. Fitzpatrick, PHD ’92
Thomas G. Foley, MSW ’62
Karen Lind Folland, MSSW ’72
Carol Senopoulos Forbes, MSW ’74
Daniel F. Forbes, MSW ’85
Joni Fortin, MSW ’93
Carol A. Freedman, MSW ’70
Kenneth L. Freedman, MSW ’76
* deceased
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John Anthony Frisco, MSW ’73
Rosemarie G. Frydman, MSW ’74
Marie Fuhrman, MSW ’90
Idonia Gaede, MSW ’09
Beth M. Gallagher, MSW ’06
Ellen M. Galligan, MSW ’74
Amy J. Garber, MSW ’05
Constance S. Garbutt, MSW ’54
Gerardo Garcia-Rios, MSW ’01
Timothy J. Gauntner, MSW ’65
Marylou P. Gauvin, MSW ’79
Frances Vozzella Gay, MSW ’61
Andrea M. Gieryic, MSW ’00
Leslie G. Goldberg, MSW ’90 & *Herbert K.
Goldberg, MSW ’65
Margaret A. Goode, MSW ’82
Francis Grady, MSW ’73
Nancy L. Graf, MSW ’66
Janet V. Graham, MSP ’74
Celia W. Grand, MSW ’88
Elizabeth C. Gravelle, MSW ’67
Jan S. Greenberg
Ashley B. Griffin, MSW ’07
Janet E. Griffin, MSW ’83
Christina C. Grimes, BA ’97
Carolyn Grinstead, MSW ’98
Catherine M. Gruber, BA ’01 & Matthew J.
Gruber, BA ’02
Amy C. Guen, MSW ’52
Mary J. Guerra, MSW ’69
Denise E. Guilbeault, MSW ’80
Francis X. Guilfoyle, MSW ’57
Jina S. Guimond, MSW ’87
Ann V. Gullion, MSW ’53
Thomas M. Gunning, MSW ’84
Ellen K. Gurney, MSW ’97
Joanne Guthrie, MSW ’97
Michael E. Gutierrez, MSW ’82
Linda M. Haas, MSW ’91
Ginger M. Hadley, MSW ’79
Mary Jo B. Haggerty, MSW ’76
Suki Hanfling, MSW ’73
Nancy Harris, MSW ’79
Claire B. Harrison, MSW ’92
Elizabeth Harrison, MSW ’92
Harmon D. Harvey, MSW ’62
Edith A. Haughton, MSW ’50 & *Donald J.
Haughton, MSW ’50
Marie M. Hennessy, BA ’68, MSW ’95
Ruth A. Hensley, MSSW ’72 & Francis J.
Quinn, Jr., MSW ’75
Jocelyn R. Hermoso, MSW ’95
Eugene P. Hickey, MSW ’71
Diana L. Hilberman, MSP ’76
Erin S. Hillier, MSW ’06
Joan Himstead, MSW ’94
Kendall M. Hinote, BA ’87
Whitney S. Hodgkins, MSW ’08
Nancy W. Hoffmann, MSW ’97
Ann B. Holleran, MSW ’90
Nancy A. Hood, MSW ’76
Blaire K. Horner, BS ’07
Belen Hornos, MSW ’09
Madeline Howe, MSW ’07
Susan Howe, MSW ’79
Steven Hulcher, MSW ’91
Mary G. Hull, MSW ’58
Elizabeth M. Hunt, MSW ’65
Renee M. Hunter, MSW ’96
Robert J. Hurley, MSW ’73
Edward Hutner, MSW ’94 & Elise B. Hutner
Anne M. Hutton, BA ’96, MSW ’99
Christine Irwin, BA ’98
Charles E. Ivers, MSW ’82
Horace S. Ivey, PHD ’99
Marie E. Jennings, MSW ’79
Stacey C. Jennings, MSW ’99
Anna W. Johnson, MSW ’87
Carol D. Johnson, MSW ’75
Evelyn R. Jones, MSW ’89
Hannah S. Jones, MSW ’07
Sarah J. Jorgensen, MSW ’09
John D. Kaplan, MSW ’74
Maria M. Kavanaugh, BA ’01, MSW ’02
Michael E. Kay, MSW ’77
Mary G. Keegan, MA ’80 & John J. Keegan,
MSW ’61
Hannah M. Keevil, MSW ’88
Kristen Kelley, MSW ’03
Edmond J. Kelly, Jr., BSBA ’58, MSW ’60
Francis J. Kelly, MSW ’58
Pat M. Kelly, MSW ’60
William H. Keough, BSBA ’59
Eleanor D. Kilbourn, MSW ’51
William J. Kirkpatrick, MSW ’78
Carol A. Klein, MSW ’66
Maxine M. Klenicki, MSW ’01
Esther Kletter, MSW ’01
Paul M. Kline, MSW ’81, PHD ’90 &
Rosemary Kline
Theresa K. Kline, MSW ’82 & Stephen
A. Kline
Kathleen Korgen, PHD ’97 & Jeffry O.
Korgen, BA ’88, MSW ’95, MA ’95
Pamela M. Koski
Jeannine Kremer, MSW ’95
Elaine Kunigonis, MSW ’91
Yayoe Kuramitsu, MSW ’70
Kathleen A. Labrie, MSW ’85
Rosemary R. Ladd, MSW ’74
Susan R. Lambert, MSW ’70
Myrna K. Landay, MSW ’95
Erna B. Larson, MSW ’05
Joseph M. Leavey, ’63, ’66
D. David Lee, MA ’01, MBA ’10
Jennifer B. Leonardo, MSW ’02
Mary A. Lessard, MSW ’89
Bruce E. Levison, MSW ’69
Howard A. Levy, MSW ’83
Sharon Kay B. Lichten, MSW ’84
Everett A. Lilly, MSW ’70 & Karen T.
Cummings Lilly
Patricia Lindsey, MSW ’04
Mark H. Lipof, MSW ’91
Barbara O. Lipschultz, MSW ’64
Katherine C. Litrocapes, BA ’05,
MSW ’08
David A. Litwack & Mary Anne L.
Litwack
Felise L. Llano, MSW ’81
Mary Ellen Loar, MSW ’91
Jean M. Lochiatio, MSW ’81
Janet T. Loughlin, MSW ’96
Pauline R. Ludwig, MSW ’90
Betsy L. Lundell. MSW ’83
Katherine M. Lynch, BS ’74
Carolyn D. Lynes, MSW ’96
Kyley W. Lyon, MSW ’08
Heather A. MacDonald, MSW ’85
Donald MacGillivray, MSW ’73
Elizabeth A. MacLeod, MSW ’82
John N. MacPhee, MSW ’69
Doris F. MacPherson, MSW ’96
Edward P. Madaus, MSW ’75
Anne Marie Magill, MSW ’99
Elizabeth A. Maguire, MSW ’48
Mary T. Mahoney, MSW ’68
Robert C. Mahoney, BA ’58, MSW ’60
Owen W. Mahony, MSW ’55
Sarah B. Mandel, MSW ’61
Lisa M. Manganiello, MSW ’09
Ellen Manning, MSW ’67
Claire E. Markowitz, MSW ’52
John F. Marshall, MSW ’95
Dianna A. Martinho, BA ’09
Adele Hanna Martz, MSW ’54
Frederick G. Masteka, MSW ’82
Marianne Matarazzo, MSW ’76
Mary J. Matthews, MSW ’63
Helene C. Mayer, MSW ’82 & Kenneth E.
Virgile
Gabrielle B. Mazza, MSW ’82
Judith A. McAllister, MSW ’66
Mary McCall, MSW ’91
Alice O. McCarter, MSW ’97
Moira McCarthy, MSW ’91
Angelo W. McClain, PHD ’01
John W. McClain, MSW ’72
Francis J. McClory, BA ’61 & Susan M.
McClory, MSW ’65
Diana N. McClure, MSW ’69
Marjorie McDonald-Dowdell, MSW ’89
Katherine E. McGillivray, MSW ’62
Nathanna McGivney, MSW ’06
Mary Ellen F. McGowan, MSW ’68
As part of last year’s diversity series on “Refugees and Immigrants,” the Graduate School of Social Work and the Center
for Human Rights and International Justice co-sponsored the “Man on Fire” exhibition of images and words honoring the
legacy of Father Pedro Arrupe, the founder of the Jesuit Refugee Service. This powerful exhibit offered a window into the
experiences of displaced people.
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Mary Elizabeth M. Durkin, MSW ’82
Dennis McGrath, MSW ’73
Michael R. McIntyre, MSW ’80
Carmen M. McNamara, BS ’63
Keith McPhail, BS ’77
Emily S. Medina, MSW ’98
Carmen M. Mercer, MSW ’91
Leigh S. Merritt, BA ’95
Linda K. Mertz, MSW ’90
John M. Mimoso, MSW ’89
Kristina S. Missbach, MSW ’09
E. Jennifer Morris, MSW ’71
Edward F. Morrissey, MSW ’58 & Carolann
Morrissey
Walter Mullin, PHD ’00 & Kathleen P. Mullin
Gail S. Murphy, MSW ’86
Gwendolyn H. Murphy, MSW ’63
*Kenneth C. Murphy, MSW ’61
Lauren H. Murphy, MSW ’94
Michael J. Murphy, MSW ’61
Paula M. Murphy, MSW ’81
Thomas M. Murphy, BS ’50, MSSW ’56
Nancy E. Myerson, MSW ’78
Kimberly Nagy, MSW ’05
Paula B. Nannicelli, MSW ’74
Michael A. Nardolillo, MSW ’60 & Janet B.
Nardolillo
Joy B. Natoli, MSW ’86
Barbara L. Neel, MSW ’74 & Stephen E. Neel
Cathy A. Neidich, MSW ’80
Sarah J. Nethercote, MSW ’04
Frances J. Newcombe, MSW ’82
Susan J. Newman, MSW ’70
James C. Nolan, BA ’55, MSW ’61
Lorraine Noone, MSW ’48 & *Thomas E.
Noone, MSW ’48
Margaret Norbert, MSW ’92
Barbara Nordstrom, MSW ’93
Anne M. Norman, MSW ’79
Gerald F. Nugent, MSW ’62 & Frances J.
Nugent
Gina A. Nunziato-Smith, MSW ’86
Paul J. Oates, BS ’59
Edward J. O’Connell, Jr., MSW ’67
Margaret A. O’Flanagan, BA ’68, MSW ’85 &
John P. O’Flanagan, Jr., BA ’67
James R. O’Hair, Jr., MCP ’78
Margaret F. O’Keefe, MSW ’73
Mary G. O’Leary, MSW ’47 & *Thomas F.
O’Leary, MSW ’47
Johnnie M. Oliver, MSP ’74
Rhonda M. Ollquist, MSW ’82
Mark R. Olson, MSW ’69 & Lynn D. Olson
Gregory R. O’Meara & Mary Jane O’Meara
Joseph M. O’Neil, BA ’55
Jennifer M. Orcutt, MSW ’91
Ellen R. Orlen, MSW ’59
Ellen M. Orsi, MSW ’84
Claire O’Toole, MSW ’49
Robert F. Ott, Jr., MSW ’66 & Rosalinda J. Ott
Gail S. Packer, MSW ’77
Richard F. Papalia, MSW ’62
Kenneth J. Paterson, MSW ’77 & Agnes W.
Lui, MSW ’77
Abby Patterson, MSW ’97
Margaret M. Patterson, MCP ’78
Anne V. Pearlstein, MSW ’79
Kathryn A. Pearson, MSW ’60
Shirley T. Perry, MSW ’60
Stacey Peters, MSW ’99
Jeanne M. Petrillo, BA ’80
Marilyn Pevear, MSW ’77
Theresa D. Pickering, MSW ’65 & Joseph H.
Pickering, Jr., MSW ’65
Sonia T. Pinnock, MSW ’78
Heather K. G. Pistell, MSW ’77
Martha Pitt-Catsouphes, MSW ’80 & Corvis
Catsouphes
Jeanette Polito, MSW ’51
Robert J. Porta, MSW ’99, MBA ’99
David J. Porter, MSW ’71
Valerie M. Potter, MSW ’68
Joan L. Power, MSW ’59 & *Paul F. Power,
MSW ’67
Carey B. Price, MSW ’88
Denis P. Pringle, MSW ’95
Paul J. Provencher, MSW ’64 & Mary O.
Provencher, BS ’63, MSW ’66
Jesse Quam, MSW ’05
Micheila Questell, MSW ’05
Judith F. Ramirez, MSW ’94
Robert R. Raymond, Sr., MSW ’61
Nancy Reiche, MSW ’77
Elizabeth S. Reidy, MSW ’52
Marilyn J. Reynolds, MSW ’88
Robert J. Ridick, MSW ’59
Christine M. Rinaldi
Joan H. Roberts, MSW ’94
Michael D. Roberts, MSW ’80
Virginia B. Robertson, MSW ’54
Virginia W. Robinson, MSP ’74
Marlene V. Rodriguez, MSW ’58
Dena B. Romero, MSW ’82
Linda Rosa, MSW ’84
Roland L. Rose, MSW ’75
Cindy M. Rosenbaum, MSW ’81
Cecelia B. Ross, MSW ’76
Colette M. Rowland, MSW ’95
Anne R. Rowley, MSW ’87
Barbara N. Ruchames, MSW ’72
Sheila F. Russo, MSW ’88
Mary L. Ryan, BA ’60, MSW ’85
Thomas M. Sadtler, MSW ’77 & Jane E. Wells
Eileen F. Salame, MSW ’60 & Nicholas J.
Salame
Casey E. Sanders, MSW ’09
Nancy G. Sandman, MSSW ’72
Phyllis A. Sands, MSSW ’77
Nancy D. Savage, MSW ’86
Mary M. Scanlan, MSW ’56
Heidi A. Schiller, JD ’84
Ann F. Schwartz, MSW ’01
Laura Scott, MSW ’06
Lynne D. Scoville, MSW ’96
Dorothy J. Scrimgeour, MSW ’80 & Andrew
D. Scrimgeour
Lisa Sechrest-Ehrhardt, MSW ’84 & David
E. Ehrhardt
Nancy S. Segal, MSW ’83
Paul L. Segal, MSW ’66
Kati Sepe, MSW ’09
Grace M. Sexton, MSW ’48
Paul D. Shaw, MSW ’78
Gregory Shea, MSW ’66
Paul J. Sheedy, BS ’60, MSW ’62 & Joan F.
Sheedy
Joseph F. Sheehan, MSW ’61
William A. Sherman, BS ’59 & Lucy I.
Sherman, BA ’68
Catherine F. Sherwood, MSW ’64
Harry Shulman, MSW ’69
Susan M. Shwom, MCP ’79
Rita Silverman, MSW ’81
Carol P. Simone, MSW ’08
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Kenneth L. Sipe, MSW ’77 &
Margaret L. Sipe
Mary V. Slovic, MSW ’48
Barbara F. Smith, MSW ’76
Kimberly J. Smith, MSW ’90
Molly M. Smith, MSW ’05
Lauren L. Sommer, BA ’08, MSW ’09
Theresa S. Sorota, MSW ’71
Susan M. Soucy, MSW ’68
Robert F. Spaziano, MSW ’69
Francis H. Spillane, MSW ’67
Caitlin A. Sprague, BA ’05
Gerald C. St. Denis, MSW ’53
Margo W. Steinberg, MSW ’04
Alan C. Stewart, MSW ’67
Andrea P. Stidsen, MSW ’81
Lois Sulahian, MSW ’92
Barbara C. Sullivan, MSW ’60 & Francis J.
Sullivan, BA ’51
Florence V. Sullivan, MSW ’59
Janet Sullivan, MSW ’81
Thomas W. Sullivan, MSW ’52
Pamela S. Surratt, MSW ’71
Louis M. Swan, MSW ’76
Anne S. Sweeney, MSW ’63
Karen L. Swicker, MSW ’81
Ryan J. Swift, BA ’95, MBA ’00, MSW ’00
Mary T. Sylvia, MSW ’56
Lisa M. Tarashuk, MSW ’87 & Richard
Tarashuk
Paul J. Tausek, MSW ’69
Nicholas M. Teich, MSW ’09
Kathleen L. Terry Modderno, BA ’00, MA ’03
Mary B. Toland, MSW ’68
James E. Tooley, MSW ’76
Katherine Topper, MSW ’92
Rev. Normand Tremblay, MSW ’65
Mary A. Turvey, MSW ’76
Catherine E. Tuttle, BA ’05, MSW ’08
Janet Urman, MSW ’70
Joseph W. Valentine, MSW ’63
Andrew S. Valeras, BS ’01 & Aimee M. B.
Valeras, BA ’01, MSW ’02
German M. Valtierra, MSP ’74
Dale L. Van Meter, MSW ’65
Margaret E. Van Wyk, MSW ’09
David Veillette, MSW ’04
Rosemarie S. Verderico, MSW ’69
Eva Victor, MSW ’81 & Steven Lessin
Elizabeth Vincent, MSW ’92
Meghan G. Voris, BA ’98, MSW ’04
Wayne K. Walker, MSW ’69
Jack C. Wall, PHD ’89
Margaret M. Wall, MSW ’52
Lisa P. Wallace, MSW ’96
Richard D. Wallace, BA ’60, MA ’67,
MSW ’89 & Sandra L. Wallace
Frank J. Walsh, MSW ’80
Kate E. Walsh, BA ’05, MSW ’08
Martha Anne Waltien, MSW ’73
Cynthia S. Wasserman, MSW ’80
Marguerite A. Waterman, MSW ’87
Sherol Watson, MSW ’08
Napoleon K. Weaver, MSW ’91
Lee Webster, MSW ’95
Clara M. Weeks-Boutilier, MSW ’72
Christine Weitzel, MSW ’97
Paul S. Wenger, BA ’04 & Elizabeth A.
Wenger, BA ’04, MSW ’06
Judith D. Wentzell, MSW ’85
Elaine P. Werby, MSW ’66
Genevieve M. West, MSW ’53
Nancy J. Wewiorski, PHD ’95
Patricia J. Whitaker, MSW ’77
Karin A. White, MSW ’86
Marybeth Whitney
Jason H. Wild, BA ’00 & Norline R. Wild,
MSW ’03
Jerome J. Wild, MSW ’62
Tracy Wilkes, MSW ’91 & Paul Wilkes
Gordon Willett, MSW ’50
Jayne Wilson, MSW ’94
Julie C. Wilson, BS ’05
John J. Winchester, Jr., MSW ’65
Hans Woicke, MSW ’05
Patricia Woodcome, MSW ’84
Jill M. Wussler, MSW ’93
Melissa Yanes, MSW ’06
Katherine A. Zeisler, MSW ’83
Ling Zhang, MSW ’92
* deceased
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SAVE THE DATE!
september 14th, 2011
Join Faculty, Students, Alumni and Staff for a daylong series of events in celebration of our school's
75th Anniversary.
Beginning the morning of the 14th, our anniversary schedule will include a Faculty and Alumni
Panel, Alumni Reunion and Luncheon, Liturgy
with Boston College President William P. Leahy,
a Symposium and Keynote Speaker in Robsham
Theater followed by a Reception.
Mark your calendar and plan to spend the day with
us on Wednesday, September 14th, 2011. Watch
for postings of all 75th commemorative festivities
on our GSSW website throughout this year.
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