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Engaging the World
Collaborating
With Communities
Near and Afar
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2009
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features
Real World Commitment
6 multiple choices
New center re-imagines
home care
11 building bridges
Ruth McRoy’s vision
sections
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Diversity
2
Global
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Research
20 Community
26 Report on Giving
contributors:
Serena Heartz
Julie Michaels
Jane Whitehead editorial:
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Front cover:
Illustration by Adam Niklewicz
by dean alberto godenzi
as social work professionals, we have learned
competencies that enable us to initiate and sustain change
in the lives of vulnerable populations throughout the
world. Our skills set is a privilege and a responsibility. We
cannot sit idly by when poverty, disease, inequality, and
injustices undercut families’ and communities’ potential
to survive and thrive.
This past year, I attended a lecture on campus by Jesse
Treviño, who served as President Clinton’s Special Envoy
to the Americas. Treviño discussed how the extraordinary
Hispanic population growth rate has radically changed the
face of US demographics. He was calling on all of us to
wake up and tackle the ramifications of this monumental transformation of our society. We
should be alarmed by spiraling high school dropout rates of Hispanic and African American youth, he warned, as we will need their leadership in this newest demographic chapter
“of the great American story.”
However, as New York Times columnist Bob Herbert said in a July 3 op-ed piece about the
dissolution of the nation’s social conscience since the 1980s: “In many ways we descended
as a society into a fantasyland, trying to leave the limits and consequences and obligations
of the real world behind.” Herbert pointed to how “politicians stopped talking about the
poor” and how we shipped millions of jobs overseas
without any serious backup plan.
Our clients are more diverse than
As social work students and professionals, we
ever and speak languages that
face this real world in the collaborative efforts we
many of us may not even have
undertake on behalf of and with vulnerable and marheard of. We are engaged in
ginalized populations. Our clients are more diverse
than ever and speak languages that many of us may
neighborhoods that run through
not even have heard of. We are engaged in neighneither Main Street nor Wall Street.
borhoods that run through neither Main Street nor
Wall Street.
It is, therefore, crucial that the GSSW community deepens its understanding of and
sensitivity towards issues of diversity and inclusion. Over the past two years, the School
has been involved in conversations on race and sexual orientation. This academic year,
our focus will be on immigrants and refugees. While we will try to better comprehend the
realities of these populations, we will remain dedicated to addressing issues of poverty and
inequality.
Dr. Beverly Greene, this year’s speaker in the Elaine Pinderhughes Lecture Series, spoke
to the concept of multiple identities. She pointed out that understanding how categories
such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation intersect will increase our potential
to become ethnically and culturally competent.
While such a goal is an ambitious one, our School will not shy away from it. Indeed,
the fact that for the first time a multi-racial, African American president is in the White
House provides us with a special incentive to live up to his call to contribute to “a more
perfect union.”
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diversity
Q&
A
Compassion for the Displaced
Sister Loughry shifts paradigm on immigration and refugees
doctor maryanne loughry, associate director of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Australia, is a Sister of Mercy and
psychologist. As a visiting scholar at the GSSW this year, she
will organize special events and lectures to support the school’s
diversity focus on immigrants and refugees. Dr. Loughry was
previously the Pedro Arrupe tutor at the University of Oxford
Refugee Studies Centre in England. She has worked in refugee
camps in the Philippines and in Vietnamese detention centers
in Hong Kong. Her research explores the impact of detention
on unaccompanied Vietnamese minors.
Q. How did you learn about the GSSW and
this year’s diversity focus on refugees and
immigration?
A. In 2009, I was a visiting scholar at BC’s
Center for Human Rights and International Justice. I taught a course at the Lynch
School of Education on “Psychological
Responses to Conflict and Forced Immigration.” There were a number of students in
that class studying global social work, and
GSSW Dean Alberto Godenzi and I have
been eager to strengthen the ties between
the Jesuit community and the GSSW.
Q. How does the relationship between BC,
a Catholic, Jesuit university, and the broader
Jesuit community work?
A. The Jesuits are always eager to see how
their intellectual centers, like Boston College, can help their social apostolate work
through organizations like the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS). Part of our goal at JRS is
to introduce “boots on the ground” reality
into research in this field. We’ve already
had several global social work students do
internships with the JRS in Malawi and
Kenya.
Q. The US seems to be less welcoming of
immigrants and refugees than in the past.
Is there less commitment to “Give me
your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free?”
A. The whole issue has become more
complex over time. Post World War II,
Americans understood what refugees
were fleeing—the Nazis or Communism.
With the Vietnam war, refugees were put
into camps in neighboring countries, like
Thailand, and later resettled to other nations. Today, in most of the African conflict
centers, like Kenya or Somalia, refugees
flee within their own borders and often end
up in permanent camps or in cities, among
the urban poor. The vast majority are not
coming out to the US or Australia. Look
at the Iraqis; most are living in Jordan or
Syria.
Q. What diversity events are you and the
faculty planning this year at the GSSW?
A. We’ll have a faculty retreat featuring
invited speakers. We’ll also have refugees
and immigrants come to tell their stories
and share their experiences with the student community, as well as experts from
the Jesuit Refugee Service in Washington,
DC, and experts in refugee resettlement
from Catholic Charities. We’re planning
a film festival that will illustrate many of
the issues of forced migration. Finally, we
hope to work together with the Law School,
which has an immigrant legal clinic. If
social workers are going to work with immigrants, they need to understand what
people’s rights are. As in any diversity year,
we hope to have these ideas percolate out
into the greater BC community.
—interview by Julie Michaels
GSSW DIVERSITY ACTIVITIES 2008—2009
The GSSW Diversity Committee established an initial plan through 2010 in which each academic year the
School would examine a primary aspect of diversity via speaker series, trainings, diversity retreats, and
meetings and discussions with faculty, staff, and students. The three thematic areas selected were: race
and racism (2007-2008), sexual orientation (2008-2009), and immigration and refugees (2009-2010).
Though the School’s primary diversity focus during the last academic year was sexual orientation, other
diversity issues were also incorporated into programming. Here’s a sampling:
* Workshop and presentation on effective social work practice with GLBT individuals and families,
led by Assistant Professor Catherine Crisp of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
* Art and Identity Conference in partnership with Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, a medical and psychiatric care facility in Jamaica Plain.
* Presentation by Professor James Keenan, Boston College Theology Department, on “Moral theology and the lives of gay and lesbian persons.”
* The Pinderhughes Lecture: “Social marginalization by and between the marginalized: What the
same sex marriage debate hath wrought. Implications for mental health providers,” presented by
Psychology Professor Beverly Greene of St. John’s University.
g l obal
Pictures from a Genocide
Darfur victims wage a wordless peace
for three weeks in march 2009, more
than 200 children’s drawings were on display in Bapst Library’s Gargan Hall. They
showed tanks and fighter planes attacking
villages, armed men shooting women and
children, houses set on fire, dead bodies
lying in pools of blood. The imagery came
not from violent video games but from life.
The pictures were made by children and
teenagers who had fled attacks by Sudanese
government troops and the Arab Janjaweed
militia on their homes in Darfur.
“I’m going to get worked up about
this subject,” Rebecca Tinsley warned the
audience at a talk in the library on March
11 to mark the exhibition’s opening at
Boston College. Tinsley, a British former
BBC reporter and chair of the UK-based
human rights organization Waging Peace
(www.wagingpeace.info), has campaigned
against human rights abuses in Darfur,
Chad, Rwanda, and northern Uganda. She
is a trustee of the Carter Centre UK and a
“Genocide is part of the
human condition.”
rebecca tinsley, chair, waging peace
member of the London committee of Human Rights Watch.
In years of “blundering across Africa
and Bosnia,” said Tinsley, she has learned
some hard truths. One is that “genocide is
part of the human condition.” Another is
that not all genocides are treated equally by
western mainstream media. Tinsley calls it
“sidebar syndrome,” the phenomenon by
which certain human catastrophes dominate front-page headlines, while others
are routinely sidelined. In the West, said
Tinsley, “we simply don’t value an African
life so much.”
Since 1989, when Islamists took over
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the government of Sudan in a military
coup, said Tinsley, more than 200,000
black Africans living in Darfur in southern
Sudan have been killed, over 2 million have
been displaced, and 90 per cent of their
villages have been destroyed. In June and
July 2007, Waging Peace researcher Anna
Schmitt carried out a fact-finding mission
to Eastern Chad to collect testimony from
Darfuri refugees and displaced Chadians.
As well as interviewing adults, Schmitt
gave children aged 6-18 paper and pencils
and asked them to draw their dreams for
the future, and their strongest memory.
“This is not normal refrigerator art,”
said Tinsley, with grim understatement.
Most of the 500 drawings Schmitt collected
showed attacks on villages by Sudanese
government forces (identified by their
insignia) and their allied Janjaweed militia
(drawn from local nomadic Arab tribes,
armed by the government.) Some drawings highlight the ethnic dimension of
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the attacks: The villagers have black skin,
while the attackers are shown with lighter,
orange faces.
Waging Peace has shown the drawings
in London and around the world to compel
international attention to the Darfur crisis.
In 2008, they were submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as contextual evidence to be used in the prosecution
of Sudan President Omar al-Bashir and
other alleged perpetrators of human rights
abuses. On March 4, 2009, the ICC issued
a warrant for his arrest on a charge of
war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Depicting in blood-chilling detail military
attacks on reed-fenced compounds and
huts, the killing of boys and men, the
rape of women, and the capture of girls,
the drawings directly contradict Sudanese
government denials of complicity in the
violence.
“I couldn’t do this if it was all about
tears,” said Tinsley, who is awed by the
resilience of survivors. “Teaching about
business is an integral part of recovery,”
she said, and Waging Peace teams work
in Rwanda, Northern Uganda, and Chad
to teach women economic survival skills.
When women are educated, she said, the
birthrate and the incidence of domestic
violence go down, and women’s selfesteem and status soar.
The exhibition and talk were sponsored
by the GSSW, with the Center for Human
Rights and International Justice and the Center for the Arts and Social Responsibility.
Educating students “to understand
these global tragedies” is a key responsibility of the University, said GSSW Dean
Alberto Godenzi, and outreach to subSaharan African communities through the
School’s Global Practice concentration has
increasingly been a focus over the last five
years. Tinsley’s impassioned advocacy and
the stark evidence of the drawings reach
people “on a level much more powerful
than any readings in books,” said Godenzi.
Art Helps South Asian Women Heal
victimization knows no boundaries, and survivors of violence across
the world must seek ways to mend and move on with their lives. An exhibit
in Bapst Library last April was a testament to their resilience.
Re-Drawing Resistance: South Asian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance, which was co-sponsored at BC by the GSSW, was a collection of
paintings, photography, poetry, and videos by South Asian women survivors of violence and their families and allies. It illustrated the intersection
of gender, sexuality, violence, and resistance among South Asian women
across the Diaspora.
A recent study on domestic violence in South Asian communities in the
US revealed that more than 40 percent of women surveyed were victims
of intimate partner violence, and that only 50 percent of them were aware
of services available to help. The statistics are on par with India, where 45
percent of married women experience domestic violence.
“Re-Drawing Resistance seeks to explode the commonly held view of
South Asian women as the victimized other and illustrate their resilience
to thrive and transcend cultural violence,” said the traveling exhibition’s
producers, Serena Chaudhry and Prasanna Poornachandra.
The show’s impact was captured in the words of one of its artist participants: “We hide so many feelings in our hearts and say nothing, but when I
paint and show my fears and feelings through art, that is so effective,” she
said. “This exhibit shows that we are a group of women who had no source
to channel our pain into but found something that allows us to protest for
freedom and independence.”
— vicki sanders
— jane whitehead
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“Mama Mdogo”
Navyn Salem’s entrepreneurial drive inspires a plan to address malnutrition in Tanzania
by vicki sanders
the sunny book-filled office
of navyn salem ’94 overlooks the
upper reaches of Narragansett Bay
in Rhode Island. A framed picture
of her four daughters, ages three to
eight, rests on a shelf beside neatly
arranged folders and paperwork
pertaining to her new non-profit
business venture, Industrial Revelation.
Everything about this home
headquarters speaks of order, efficiency, prosperity, except for the
row of photographs above Salem’s
desk. Many of the people in the
pictures, primarily women and
children, look at the camera with
haunted eyes. Their colorful garments and timid smiles belie the
poverty, disease, and malnutrition
they battle everyday to stay alive in
Tanzania.
The East African country may
be different from Rhode Island in
many respects, but it is very close
to Salem’s heart.
Salem’s great-great grandparents emigrated from India to
Tanzania as traders in the mid-nineteenth
century; her father and a partner in Industrial Revelation, Fazil Datoo, was born and
raised in Dar-es-Salaam, the sub-Saharan
country’s largest city, before coming to the
United States for college. When Salem,
who worked in advertising before becoming a stay-at-home mom, was searching
for a worthy project that would engage her
mind and allow her to be a role model for
her daughters, she traveled several times
to Tanzania, looking for ways to help the
struggling nation.
In the relief efforts in the region by
groups such as Catholic Relief Services,
Partners in Health, and the Clinton Foundation, Salem observed hopeful signs of
progress in HIV/AIDS treatment or empowering small business enterprises, but
the gap she saw widening before her was
hunger. She learned of a French product
made by Nutriset called Plumpy’nut®,
an energy-dense paste of peanuts, milk
powder, sugar, vegetable oil, and a fortified
vitamin mineral mixture with the remarkable capacity to take a child from starving
to healthy in four to six weeks and a success rate of 95 percent at doing so.
Salem had to overcome many obstacles,
not the least of which was persuading
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Nutriset that her intentions were
humanitarian and not for commercial gain. Her idea was to set
up a manufacturing operation to
produce Plumpy’nut® in Tanzania. Doing so, she reasoned, was
both nutritionally and financially
sound. Her plan would address
acute malnutrition while helping
the economy by buying from—
and therefore supporting—area
farmers; most of Plumpy’nut’s ingredients could be obtained that
way. Industrial Revelation would
also employ locals and model
small business independence and
entrepreneurship, factors Salem
says are integral to the venture’s
philosophical success.
Other hurdles included
obtaining the cooperation of
government bodies and clinics to
administer Plumpy’nut® (it will
be handled as a food by prescription); establishing national guidelines for diagnosis, prescription,
and follow-up procedures; and
building partnerships for distribution with the likes of UNICEF.
Salem has worked fast. Even she marvels that Industrial Revelation is almost
ready to open after only two years. The
plant is in a small, renovated corner of
another company’s building, but there are
plans to build a bigger facility on nearby
land. Initially, she expects to produce
400,000 kilograms of Plumpy’nut®,
enough to restore 35,000 children to
health, but her goal is to reach 100,000
severely malnourished children in the East
Africa region in the near future.
Industrial Revelation’s website, www.industrialrevelation.org, calls Plumpy’nut® BC GSSW | g l o b a l |
revolutionary
because it does not
need to be refrigerated or mixed with
clean water, two
things hard to come
by in large parts
of the developing
world. Ready-to-use
Navyn Salem
foods allow the treatment to be placed at
home with the caregiver instead of requiring a costly hospital stay and its formula
DID YOU KNOW?
T
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HISTORY
ia
D E AT H R AT E
After achieving independence from Britain, Tan-
12.59 deaths/1,000 population (US 8.38)
ganyika and Zanzibar merged to form the United
Country comparison to the world: 35
Republic of Tanzania on October 29, 1964.
I N F A N T M O R TA L I T Y R AT E
GEOGRAPHY
Total: 69.28 deaths/1,000 live births (US 6.26)
Eastern Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, and
Salem had to overcome many
obstacles, not the least of which
was persuading Nutriset that
her intentions were humanitarian
and not for commercial gain.
a
Country comparison to the world: 26
8 African countries, between Kenya and Mozambique. Capital: Dar es Salaam, and Dodoma (legislative). Climate: from tropical to arid to temperate.
L I F E E X P E C TA N C Y AT B I R T H
52.01 years (US 78.11)
Country comparison to the world: 203
AREA
RELIGIONS
Slightly larger than twice the size of California.
Kilimanjaro (19,341 feet) is highest point in Africa.
Mainland: Muslim 35%, Christian 63% (more than
half also practice indigenous beliefs), other 2%.
saves lives as if it were an essential medicine. Plumpy’nut® is encased in palmsized, squeezable packets, making it easy
for children to feed themselves. If properly delivered to malnourished children
ages six months to three years—the most
critical developmental growth period—
Plumpy’nut® can save almost 100 percent
of them.
Salem’s venture may be saving young
lives in the land of her forebears, but it is
also teaching important lessons to her children here at home. “I want my daughters
to understand that they have the power
and the responsibility to make a difference
in the social inequalities that exist in our
world.” she says. “The only way I know
how to teach that is to lead by example.”
Salem and her husband Paul have also
established the Salem Global Practice
Grants Fund at Boston College, providing
travel grants to GSSW students who are
placed at field sites across the world.
P O P U L AT I O N
Zanzibar: 99% Muslim.
Mainland: 41 million; Zanzibar: 1.2 million.
ECONOMY
The African population (99%) consists of more
than 120 ethnic groups, majority: Bantu.
In the bottom 10% percent of the world’s econo-
Urban population: 25% of total population (US
mies in terms of per capita income. Economy
82%). Tanzania hosts over a half-million refugees,
depends heavily on agriculture, which accounts for
more than any other African country.
more than 40% of GDP, provides 85% of exports,
and employs 80% of the workforce. The industrial
LANGUAGES
sector accounts for about 23% of GDP, one of the
Official: Kiswahili and English; Arabic (widely
smallest in Africa.
spoken in Zanzibar)
GOVERNMENT
AGE STRUCTURE
Republic; President and National Assembly mem-
0-14 years: 43% (US 20.2%)
bers elected by direct popular vote for 5-year terms.
15-64 years: 54.1% (US 67%)
President Kikwete was the first African president to
65 years and older; 2.9% (US 12.8%)
meet President Obama in Washington in
May 2009.
B I R T H R AT E
34.29 births/1,000 population (US 13.82)
Country comparison to the world: 38
MISCELLANEOUS
Rock legend Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh
Bulsara, on the island of Zanzibar.
Sources: CIA World Factbook, Library of Congress, US Department of State
boston college | graduate school of social work 5 Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Choices
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A new center
empowers participants to
manage their own care and services
I
magine two people with identical health problems. Both have
diabetes, are wheelchair bound, and suffer from high blood
pressure. Both require home care financed by Medicaid.
person a has no control over her care. A state agency hires
her home health aide and even determines the hours he
works. Rules are strict; the aide is permitted to do the participant’s laundry but he cannot wash her children’s clothes. .
photos: by ed kashi—used with permission from the robert wood johnson foundation
person B, on the other hand, spends the same amount of govern-
ment funds, but she controls how the money is allocated. Instead
of hiring a caregiver through an agency, she hires her sister to
come for two hours in the morning and two hours in the late afternoon. With the money she saves, she purchases a microwave oven
so she can do more of her own cooking. Person B, who can tailor
care to fit her particular needs, is a far more satisfied customer.
by julie michaels
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Josie Dickey, 87, who has multiple health problems, faced a
constant turnover of home health care workers. Her health has improved since
Arkansas’ consumer-directed home care program allowed Josie to hire
her daughter Brenda as a health aide.
calvin dodson, 50, is partially blind, experiences
seizures, and has diabetes. He hires helpers he knows to help him in his
home and has used some of his Medicaid funds to purchase a voice-activated
computer and microwave.
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ut here’s the money part, explains GSSW
Professor Kevin J. Mahoney: Studies reveal that individuals who participate in
decisions about their own health care
are more apt to accept care. They are more satisfied, have fewer unmet needs, and their health outcomes are the same or better. It’s a rare win-win
situation: Participants are happier and the government saves money.
Mahoney is a leading advocate for consumerdirected home care supports and services and
has participated in much of the research that has
proved its effectiveness. He joined the faculty of
the Graduate School of Social Work in 1999 and
just last spring assumed the directorship of the
GSSW’s new National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services.
“The mission of the National Resource Center
is to give every person eligible to receive publicly
funded long-term care services the option to manage those services for themselves at home,” says
Mahoney. The center, which has received more
than $9 million in foundation and government
grants, will provide technical assistance, training,
research, and policy analysis to states and other
organizations interested in transitioning to more
participant-directed services.
Taped on the wall of Mahoney’s office at Haley
House hangs a Biblical quotation that very much
defines the man and his mission: “He gives power
to the faint and strengthens the powerless”—Isaiah
40:29. It is from this tidy Chestnut Hill building
that Mahoney will direct a still-evolving staff of 22
and represent the GSSW in the national debate on
health care reform.
Mahoney has made a career out of bending bureaucracies to meet people’s needs. Even as far
back as the 1970s, while a graduate student at the
University of Wisconsin, he investigated ways to
develop home and community alternatives to nursing facilities. But the real push toward consumerdirected health care started in the 1990s, when
the Clinton administration tried to pass comprehensive health care legislation. “There was a lot
of talk about long-term care and how to control
costs,” says Mahoney. “It was in response to those
concerns that the Cash & Counseling program was
developed.”
Based on a Dutch prototype, Cash & Counseling
was designed to test whether giving the elderly or
disabled more control over their Medicaid funding
would make their lives better without costing the
government more. From 1998–2003, Mahoney and
his colleagues conducted controlled experiments
in three states, Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey.
Participants were randomly divided into two groups
and allocated the same amount of money: The control group continued with the traditional, agencydirected system of services. The other group was
offered flexible spending plans that would allow
them to manage their own funds.
The second group required additional assistance
in redirecting their spending. Counselors helped
them develop financial plans and suggested a variety of options: Clients could hire their own service
workers, determine work hours, and perhaps spend
any funds saved on such things as home alterations
(adding a wheelchair ramp, for example), air conditioning, or auto repair. A financial management
service provided bookkeeping and tax assistance.
“The clients didn’t want a case manager,” Mahoney says. “They wanted someone to help them
think things through so they could decide for
themselves.”
The results of the study, “bowled us over,” says
Mahoney. Since care workers were being hired by
the participants rather than an agency, they treated
their employers with more respect. They showed
up on time and were more efficient in their duties. Health outcomes improved. There were fewer
bed sores, falls, or other events that might require
hospitalization. There was less physical, financial,
and psychological stress for participants and their
families.
karla herrera, 22, has cerebral palsy and is a spastic
quadriplegic. Her mother has used home care funds to pay for computer
training that has made Karla more self-sufficient. She’s also hired a friend to build
Karla’s stamina through swimming.
T
hese results were consistent across the
board, in all three states, with participants much more satisfied with Cash &
Counseling (C&C) programs than those
who received traditional services. These changes
did not, in themselves, save the states any money,
but there were profound savings in other areas.
“In Arkansas, there was an 18 percent reduction in
nursing home use,” says Mahoney. With funding
from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the
Administration on Aging within the Department of
Health and Human Services, and the Retirement
Research Foundation, Mahoney and his colleagues
repeated their study in 12 additional states. Again,
the results strongly favored the flexible spending
option.
Even as Mahoney has made a career out of researching services for the elderly and disabled, he
has also experienced the need for those services
harold hamilton, 70, is blind and diabetic. Poor home
care led to frequent hopitalizations for insulin shock. When Harold’s wife,
Violet, discovered she could quit her job and earn enough by caring for him
herself, she was relieved. He hasn’t been hospitalized since.
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S tatistics
Participant-directed services are long-term care
services that help people of all ages across all types of
disabilities maintain their independence and determine for themselves what mix of personal care services
and supports work best for them.
Kevin Mahoney, nrcpds Director
The National Resource Center for Participant-Directed
Services, launched in April 2009, is the only center of
its kind to assist states and other entities offer participant-directed services to people with disabilities.
The original Cash & Counseling Demonstration was a three-state demonstration in
Arkansas, New Jersey, and Florida beginning in 1998. Cash & Counseling programs
now operate in 15 states.
Research showed that in Arkansas:
• 93 percent of early enrollees said they’d recommend the program
• 82 percent said their lives had improved
• Institutional costs were 18 percent higher for the control group
Research showed that in New Jersey:
• 99 percent were satisfied with the caregivers they hired
• 70 percent said choosing their caregivers was the primary reason their lives improved.
Kevin Mahoney, founder of Cash & Counseling and director of the National Resource
Center for Participant-Directed Services, was awarded the 2007 Flynn Prize for Social
Work Research.
first-hand. When Mahoney and his wife adopted a
four-year-old orphan from Colombia 20 years ago,
they were aware that he had a weakness on his left
side. But it was only after returning to the U.S. that
the couple discovered that their son, Rob, suffered
from a severe case of pediatric epilepsy that caused
almost constant seizures. At age 10, Rob underwent surgery for the removal of his right temporal
lobe and hippocampus. While Rob is now seizurefree, the Mahoneys have had to deal with a maze of
agencies to help their son find a suitable job, housing, and social supports that serve his needs. “I’ve
spent a lot of time holding on the telephone,” says
Mahoney, “so I’m well aware of how much families
welcome more control of their resources.”
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The results of Mahoney’s C&C research have
begun to draw widespread interest among government policymakers. The 2007 implementation of
the Federal Deficit Reduction Act and the 2006 reauthorization of the Older Americans with Disabilities Act created an opportunity for every state to
institute flexible spending plans within their Medicaid-funded services. Such developments have increased the demand for specialists who know how
to implement and monitor these services.
It’s this very demand that has sparked the need
for GSSW’s new National Resource Center for
Participant-Directed Services (www.participantdirection.org). The center has already provided research, training, and consulting for states and other organizations eager to implement programs in
participant-directed services. It will also function
as a public policy advocate to further knowledge
and understanding of self-directed care options.
Given the Obama administration’s commitment
to new health care legislation, Mahoney expects
his center to be deeply engaged in providing the
government with options that contain costs even
as they provide better services. Obviously, others
agree, since the center has received a $4.75 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a $3.5 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies, and additional support from the U.S.
Administration on Aging and the Office for the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. The
center has also received funding from the Veterans
Health Administration, which will be directed at
developing self-directed care options for the nation’s veterans.
“Our vision is that, one day, high-quality, participant-directed care programs, based on the hallmarks of the very successful Cash & Counseling
program, will be the primary way that states make
personal care services available to eligible residents with disabilities—with a traditional directcare plan available as an option rather than as a
default plan,” says Mahoney.
When that day comes, it’s certain that Mahoney
and the GSSW will be leading the way.
Julie Michaels is a freelance writer and principal in
Spence & Sanders Communications LLC.
“The differential impact of race, power, and class is still far reaching”, says Donahue and DiFelice Professor Ruth McRoy.
Building BRIDGES
photograph by rose lincoln
Scholar envisions a universe of possibilities
W
hen Professor Ruth McRoy trained her experienced
gaze on a Methodist multipurpose care center in Johannesburg, South Africa, during a visit there last
summer, she saw opportunities for improving outcomes for impoverished families worldwide. Instead of defeat, she saw
small victories. Instead of overwhelming odds, she saw singular achievements. Instead of local restraints, she saw global possibilities.
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cRoy makes it her business to discern the big picture in the scenarios she encounters in
the US and abroad in pursuit of her scholarly passions: child welfare research and practice, adoption,
foster care, diversity, and disproportionality. Lured out of retirement
by the GSSW, McRoy this September began bringing her optimistic
perspective to Boston College as the inaugural holder of the Donahue and DiFelice Endowed Professorship.
Her recent experiences in South Africa offer a glimpse into
McRoy’s gifts of observation. She visited AMCARE, a seven-year-old
program of the Alberton Methodist Care and Relief Enterprise that
offers everything from vegetable gardens for impoverished families
to clinics for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS patients to services for orphans and child-headed families. Notable as these initiatives were,
they took on added significance for McRoy when she thought about
their field-study, research, and teaching potential.
She was impressed with AMCARE as 1) a possible location where
BC students can learn how a comprehensive, community-based,
volunteer program addresses a variety of needs; 2) a research post
to study the effectiveness of outreach; and 3) a promising model for
other communities and churches that serve at-risk populations.
McRoy’s interest in strategies for comparative research was further piqued by several of the country’s adoption programs. Officials
there are trying to design national policies to improve the likelihood
of finding permanency through domestic adoption rather than
through more commonplace intercountry adoption. She is excited
by such efforts because she believes they afford universities like BC
the chance to collaborate with counterparts in emerging countries
to jointly design and evaluate innovative social programs. McRoy
is already collaborating with her South African colleagues on policies and practices to promote domestic adoptions. She presented a
workshop on comparative models of adoptions policy. The payback,
according to McRoy, is that “it helps us learn about a new context for
developing targeted interventions and for looking at multiculturalism and diversity. It’s an opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration in a global context.”
McRoy’s enthusiasm for collaboration, internationalization, and
inclusivity animates her conversation and offers a clue as to why
she joined the GSSW faculty. Since 2005, when the School began
work on a diversity initiative and hired McRoy as consultant to the
project and visiting research professor, the GSSW has nurtured a
culture that’s become increasingly attractive to her. “Through my
visits to BC over the past four years, I developed close relationships
with faculty and the dean and I saw a school that has a commitment
to training students and faculty to truly value and pursue global as
well as multicultural practice,” she explains. “That commitment,
more than anything else, caused me to come out of retirement and
to want to be a part of this amazing initiative here.” She was also
drawn here by the “knowledge, drive, and wonderful collegial spirit”
of Professor Emerita Elaine Pinderhughes.
An esteemed researcher, McRoy is also prized for her 30 years
as a practitioner, trainer, and lecturer. She is the Ruby Lee Piester
Centennial Professor Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin
School of Social Work and author or co-author of eight books and
more than 100 articles and book chapters on child welfare issues.
Recent honors include the 2004 Flynn Prize for Social Work Research from the University of Southern California, the 2005 George
Silcott Lifetime Achievement Award from the Black Administrators
in Child Welfare, and the 2006 Distinguished Achievement Award
from the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR).
“Ruth McRoy comes at a perfect time to the GSSW. Our faculty increasingly engage with local and global partners,” says Dean Mcroy’s recent scholarship
Lum (Ed.), Culturally competent practice: A framework for understanding
diverse groups and justice issues (3rd edition) (pp. 276-298). New York, NY:
Brooks-Cole.
McRoy, R. G. & Flanzer, J. (under contract). From research culture to
infrastructure: Enhancing capacity building in schools of social work. New York:
Oxford University Press.
McRoy, R. G., Grotevant, H., Ayers-Lopez, S., Henney, S. (2007). Open
adoptions: Longitudinal outcomes for the adoption triad. In R. Javier, A.
Baden, F. Biafora, & A. Camacho Gingerich (Eds), Handbook of adoption:
Implications for researchers, practitioners and families (pp. 175-189). Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage.
McRoy, R. G. & Madden, E. (2009). Youth permanency through adoption.
In B. Kerman, A. Maluccio, & M. Freundlich (Eds.), Achieving permanency for
older children in foster care (pp. 244-265). New York, NY: Columbia University
Press.
McRoy, R. G., Lynch, C., Chanmugam, A., Madden, E. & Ayers-Lopez, S.
(2009). Children from care can be adopted. In G. M. Wrobel & E. Neil
(Eds.), International advances in adoption research for practice (pp. 97-118).
London: Wiley.
McRoy, R. G. (2008). Acknowledging disproportionate outcomes and changing service delivery. Child Welfare, 87(2), 205-210.
McRoy, R. G., Mica, M., Freundlich, M., Kroll, J. (2007). Making MEPA-IEP
work: Tools for professionals. Child Welfare, 86(2), 49-66.
McRoy, R. G. (2007). Cultural competence with African Americans. In D.
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McRoy, R. G. (2006). Social Work Perspectives on Adoption. In K. Stolley &
V. Bullough (Eds.), The Praeger Handbook on Adoption. Vol.2 (pp. 549-554).
Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishing.
McRoy, R. G. (2006). Adoptions in the USA. In C. McAuley, P. Pecora,
& W. Rose (Eds.), Enhancing the well being of children and families through
effective interventions. (pp. 266-274). Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley
Publishers.
McRoy, R. G., & Vick, J. (2006). Intersecting child welfare, substance
abuse and violence. In R. Fong, R. G. McRoy, & C. Ortiz-Hendricks (Eds.),
Intersecting child welfare, substance abuse and family violence: Culturally
competent approaches (pp. 3-23). Washington, D.C.: Council on Social Work
Education.
“We need to take an inclusive perspective and find strategies for enhancing the well- being of economically oppressed and socially
excluded groups all over the world.” ~ donahue and difelice professor ruth mcroy ~
Alberto Godenzi. “To be able to handle the challenges of research
collaborations, you need a deep understanding of and respect for
people and communities. Ruth’s distinguished research and diversity expertise uniquely qualify her for these kinds of communitybased endeavors. I have no doubt that she will build long-term and
mutually beneficial relationships with communities across the
globe.”
The GSSW diversity initiative McRoy worked on mapped out a
plan through 2010 in which each of three themes would be examined
in successive academic years: race in 2007-2008, sexual orientation
in 2008-2009, and immigration and refugees in 2009-2010.
McRoy is eager to see how this year’s immigration and refugees
theme can serve the learning environment at GSSW. “I’m particularly interested in looking at child welfare issues in a global context.
One goal is to embrace multiculturalism through leadership, curriculum, services, practice, and research,” she says. A good place to
start, she points out, is our own backyard in Boston, where the burgeoning immigrant population is not only changing the city’s demographics but is also providing an exciting learning environment.
“Unfortunately, we often expect immigrant populations to assimilate and don’t take the time to understand their heritage, their
culture, their language, their families, their background, or their
religion. We need to better prepare students to understand withingroup and between-group diversity and the different environments
from which immigrant families are coming. As a result of that
increased understanding, hopefully we will be able to design programs and interventions to meet their needs,” McRoy says.
This is also a time to identify topics for additional comparative research, she contends. By examining issues such as adoption
policies and practices in South Africa and America, for instance,
GSSW students and scholars can reflect on and learn to appreciate
the challenges in various global contexts and the impact of those
challenges on children and families in different cultures. This in
turn can lead to research that provides empirically based responses
and strategies to address the many problems families and children
face worldwide.
McRoy’s duties as Donahue and DiFelice Professor will include
teaching a doctoral course in qualitative research methods, promoting linkages between the School and various national and interna-
tional initiatives and agencies like Catholic Relief Services, particularly in the area of child welfare, and providing leadership in the
social work arena.
McRoy regards today as a uniquely suitable time to be pushing
the diversity and global agendas forward. In Barack Obama, America has its first African American president and a leader whose international travels are bringing much-needed media attention to the
plights of many cultures. “We have much work to do both in the US
and abroad. There are still issues to be resolved. The differential
impact of race, power, and class is still far-reaching. We now have an
opportunity to address more of them, to look at sources of oppression, the disparities in outcomes between the haves and have-nots,
between various minority and majority racial groups, and to talk
openly about and eventually overcome these inequities,” she says. T
his era can be a boon to social work, McRoy
adds. It’s raising awareness about the value of social
workers’ expanding role in world society, their appreciation for people’s interconnectedness and interdependence, and their interest in reducing or alleviating the cruelties of
poverty, disability, disease, violence, oppression, prejudice, and cultural insensitivities and misunderstandings.
“If we have a model for really examining how other cultures have
addressed the social work principles of social economic justice and
empowerment and for how they go about promoting participation
by various socially excluded groups,” McRoy argues, “it will illuminate how we look at our own models and strategies for enhancing
well-being.”
Given the aspirations of many of those entering the social work
field today, McRoy sees a bright future. Global education is far more
than improved training of social workers and the people they serve
beyond our borders. Yes, she acknowledges, we want to produce students who appreciate global interconnectedness, who have multicultural knowledge and understanding, and who desire to go around
the world and learn from it. But there are also imperatives here at
home. “We must have a long-term institutional commitment to promoting social justice, reducing disparities and inequities,” McRoy
says. “We are in an ever-changing global age and we must be prepared to contribute to it in our communities here and abroad.” boston college | graduate school of social work 13 r e s earch
Ensuring That Longevity Is a Blessing
Lubben puts GSSW on top in aging studies
Lubben has taken on the challenge of creating an
Institute on Aging that will position Boston College
at the forefront of research and scholarship
gary gilbert
on the aging of society.
Professor James Lubben, Louise McMahon Ahearn Chair
professor james lubben, an expert on aging and the impor-
tance of social support networks for the elderly, is a man who
acts on his own research.
“Longevity is a blessing,” says Lubben, holder of the Louise McMahon Ahearn Chair at the BC GSSW and director of
the University’s new Institute on Aging (IOA). “But we have
to be sure that as we age we remain open to new opportunities. We must constantly reinvent ourselves.”
Thus it comes as no surprise that, at age 64, Lubben has
taken on the challenge of creating an Institute on Aging that
will position Boston College at the forefront of research and
scholarship on the aging of society. This University-wide appointment has gone to a faculty member of the Graduate
School of Social Work whose work as a gerontologist is well
known throughout the world.
Our aging population is a 21st century phenomenon, Lubben explains. In 2008, an estimated 28.7 million people
were over the age of 65, or one of every eight Americans. By
2050, the number of people over 65 will rise to 86.7 million.
Even more significantly, 18.7 million Americans will be 85
or older. The challenge for social scientists is to make sure
these extra years are healthy ones, says Lubben. “Seniors
must have services that will help them remain engaged in
the community.”
Engagement is Lubben’s specialty. He is best known for
his creation of the Lubben Social Network Scale (LSNS), a
series of questions designed to gauge social isolation in older adults by measuring perceived social support received by
family, neighbors and friends. The scale has been employed
in numerous studies that demonstrate the dangers of social
isolation among the elderly. In fact, social isolation appears
to be a greater health risk for seniors than limited exercise or
excess weight, and almost as dangerous as being a life-long
smoker.
It will be the responsibility of the next generation of social workers to identify essential services for the elderly and
advocate for their creation. Lubben hopes the institute can
create an undergraduate minor in “aging studies.” He also
looks to the GSSW for a new generation of social work “pioneers” to lead the way.
But the IOA’s mandate extends beyond any one graduate
program: Lubben intends to bring together under his umbrella interested faculty from the schools of Business, Nursing, Social Work, and Law, all of which have an interest in
aging issues. He will develop a research grant program for
faculty and doctoral students as well as encourage joint appointments. Already a new member of the sociology department has a joint appointment with the IOA, and there are
plans for a similar hire in economics.
“I admire Boston College for ‘capturing the wave,’” says
Lubben, and recognizing that this is an existential moment
of growth and development in the field of aging. I am delighted to help them take a leadership role.”
— By Julie Michaels
14 boston college | graduate school of social work
BC GSSW | res e a rc h |
Award-winning Paper Challenges Convention
Berzin’s study looks anew at youth outcomes
gssw professor stephanie berzin
caused a stir in the social work field
recently with her article in Social Service
Review on foster care outcomes. The piece
did more than provide a new perspective on youths transitioning to adulthood,
however. It also earned her the 2009 Frank
R. Breul Memorial Prize for best article in
the University of Chicago journal and has
been nominated for SSWR’s (Society for
Social Work and Research) 2010 Excellence
in Research Award.
“Difficulties in the Transition to
Adulthood: Using Propensity Scoring to
Understand What Makes Foster Youth
Vulnerable” challenged the conventional
view that foster care is a primary deterrent
to many young people’s ability to succeed
after emancipation.
“My paper was a different way to look at
the problem,” explains Berzin. “Previous
research looked at defects in the system
and how foster care had failed youths.” By
contrast, her findings suggest that “the preplacement characteristics that put youth at
risk for foster care involvement also place
them at risk for negative outcomes in the
transition to adulthood.” In other words,
the issues that make youth vulnerable in
the general population—poverty, abuse,
government dependence, etc.—and not
foster care itself, are the culprits in poor
transitions to adulthood.
While Berzin was applauded for her efforts, she says some critics have challenged
her study for including kids who were ever
in foster care, not just those transitioning
out. Others have expressed concerns from
a policy perspective, arguing that her findings could undermine existing programs
designed specifically for foster care youths.
Berzin thinks the broader glimpse
provided by her study begs the question:
“If kids in the general population are just
as vulnerable as
foster care kids,
shouldn’t we be
providing these
services to all atrisk kids?”
To push that
conversation
forward, she is
working on another project that examines
vulnerable youth generally, with attention
to three groups: 1) those who do okay in
transition to adulthood despite their situation; 2) those who don’t do well academically but do moderately well in emerging
adulthood and present no chronic patterns
of harmful behavior; and 3) those who
do poorly in all categories of transition
outcomes (e.g., habitual drug users or
youths involved in criminal activities or
teen pregnancy).
Berzin suspects that which group
people fall into has more to do with their
own resilience, personal attributes, and
family characteristics than with external
factors such as whether they are in special
classes in school or in foster care.
“If we can figure out youths’ future orientation based on these qualities,” Berzin
argues, “then we are much more likely to
target appropriate programs for them.”
— vicki sanders
G S S W L ect u re S eries 2 0 0 8 — 2 0 0 9
On-campus
December 11, 2008
Walter DeKeseredy, professor of criminology, justice, and policy studies, University
of Ontario Institute of Technology
“Dangerous Exits: Escaping Abusive Relationships in Rural America”
March 26, 2009
Cynthia Franklin, professor and holder of the Stiernberg/Spencer Family
Professorship in Mental Health, University of Texas at Austin
“Dropout Prevention for Adolescent Mothers Using the Taking Charge
Life Skills Intervention”
Off - c a m p u s
March 10, 2009 —Stonehill College, Easton
Kerry Mitchell, GSSW clinical assistant professor, health and mental health
“Confessions of a Cognitive Therapist: 20 Years in Practice”
May 5, 2009 — Maine Community College, South Portland
Debra Butterfield, GSSW adjunct faculty
“Intuition as a Reliable Skill in a Clinical Setting and as a Resource for
Client Health and Well-being”
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faculty promotion
grant awards 2008–2009
TOM CREA
• Dave Thomas Foundation/University of Maryland
“Structured Analysis Family Evaluation (SAFE) and Child Specific Recruitment Methods”
$22,500
TARA EARL
• Cambridge Health Alliance/NIMH
“NIMH Minority Supplement to the
Advanced Center for Mental Health
Disparities, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School”
$16,642
• Atlantic Philanthropies
“National Center for Consumer Direction—Year 1 of 3” $1,600,000 ($3,500,000)
Shen Granted Tenure
Ce Shen, whose aca-
demic goals emerged
from his experience
• Administration on Aging
“Cash & Counseling: Sustainable
Paradigm for Service Delivery­—
Year 1 of 3”
$200,000 ($1,104,273)
growing up in China,
was promoted to Associate Professor with
tenure in March by
Boston College President William Leahy, S.J.
• ASPE/ DHHS
“Cash & Counseling: Next Steps—
Supplement”
$39,978 ($1,139,901)
Shen witnessed firsthand the impact of the
Cultural Revolution on his family. His background inspired his passion for social development issues, especially as they relate to low-
JAMES LUBBEN
• John A. Hartford Foundation
“Strengthening Geriatric Social
Work Through a Doctoral Fellowship
Program—Year 3 of 5”
$148,339 ($754,485)
• Hartford/GSA
“Hartford Doctoral Fellowship: Jessica
Johnson, Fellow—Year 2 of 2”
$25,000 ($50,000)
VINCE LYNCH
• Gilead Sciences, Inc.
“21st Annual National Social Work
and HIV/AIDS Conference”
$25,000
• Abbott Laboratories
“21st Annual National Social Work
and HIV/AIDS Conference”
$1,500
KEVIN MAHONEY
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
“Self Direction/Cash & Counseling
Research and Technical Assistance
Center”— Year 1 of 4
$1,870,562 ($4,751,055)
KEVIN MAHONEY/VIDHYA ALAKESON
• ASPE/ DHHS
“Intergovernmental Personnel
Agreement—Year 2” (Alakeson)
$131,379 ($255,941)
income nations and countries transitioning to
a market economy.
During his six years as an assistant professor
in the Global Practice concentration at the
GSSW, Shen developed and taught courses
HENRIKA MCCOY
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
“A Strategy for Promoting the Mental
Health of and Decreasing the Negative
Trajectories for Juvenile Offenders”
$74,999
KATIE MCINNIS-DITTRICH
• New York Academy of Medicine
“Practicum Partnership Program –
Year 3 of 3”
$25,000 ($75,000)
such as Research Methods, Statistical Analysis, and Comparative Policy.
Shen has published more than 20 articles on
such diverse topics as cross-national studies
in child and infant mortality, women’s status,
social security, corruption and governance,
post traumatic stress disorder, and math and
science education. In addition, he was co-chair
of the 2007 International Consortium of
Social Development’s Biennial Symposium in
Hong Kong.
MARCIE PITT-CATSOUPHES
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
“Sloan Center on Aging & Work”
$1,065,901 ($3,561,685)
Shen’s broad array of interests extends beyond
academia. He is an avid soccer player and, as
many of his students can attest, has outstanding Chinese culinary skills.
• MetLife Mature Market Institute
“Engaging in the 21st Century Multigenerational Workforce—Supplement”
$10,000 ($65,000)
16 boston college | graduate school of social work
Shen’s tenure is a reflection of his record
of excellence in teaching, research, and
scholarship.
—Serena Heartz
BC GSSW | res e a rc h |
faculty publications
Here are highlights from among the
many accomplishments of the full-time
faculty in the 2008-2009 academic
year.
Berzin, S. C. (forthcoming). Understanding foster youth outcomes: Is propensity scoring better than traditional
methods? Research on Social Work
Practice.
Berzin, S. C. (forthcoming). Adult
children living at home. In M. CraftRosenberg (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Family
Health. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Berzin, S. C. (in press). Disability and
post-high school transition: Does
placement in special education
improve youth outcomes? Advances in
School Mental Health Promotion.
Berzin, S. C. (in press). Understanding the impact of poverty on critical
events in emerging adulthood. Youth
and Society.
Berzin, S. C. & Taylor, S. (forthcoming).
Preparing foster youth for independent
living: Collaboration between county
independent living programs and
community-based youth-serving agencies. Journal of Public Child Welfare.
De Marco, A. C. & Berzin, S. C. (2008).
The influence of family economic
status on home-leaving patterns during emerging adulthood. Families in
Society: Journal of Contemporary Social
Services, 89(2), 208-218.
Stone, S. I., Berzin, S. C., Taylor, S.,
Austin M. J. (2008). Human behavior
and the social environment: Exploring
conceptual foundations. In B. A. Thyer
(Ed.), Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare, Vol. 2 (pp.
1-38). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Crea, T. M. (in press). Balanced
decision-making in child welfare: Structured processes drawing from multiple
perspectives. Administration in Social
Work, 30.
Crea, T. M. (in press). Intercountry
adoptions and domestic home study
practices: SAFE and the Hague Adoption Convention. International Social
Work.
Crea, T. M., Barth, R. P., Chintapalli,
L. K., & Buchanan, R. L. (in press).
Structured home study evaluations: Perceived benefits of SAFE vs.
conventional home studies. Adoption
Quarterly.
Crea, T. M., Barth, R. P., Chintapalli,
L. K., & Buchanan, R. L. (in press).
The implementation and expansion
of SAFE: Frontline responses and the
transfer of technology to practice.
Children & Youth Services Review.
Crea, T. M. & Berzin, S. C. (forthcoming). Family involvement in child welfare decision-making: Strategies and
research around inclusive practices.
Journal of Public Child Welfare.
Crea, T. M., Crampton, D. S., Abramson-Madden, A., & Usher, C. L. (2008).
Implementation of Team Decisionmaking (TDM): Scope and compliance with
the Family to Family practice model.
Children & Youth Services Review, 30,
1221-1232.
Crea, T. M., Usher, C. L., & Wildfire, J.
B. (2009). Implementation fidelity of
Team Decisionmaking (TDM). Children
& Youth Services Review, 31(1), 119-124.
Crea, T. M., Wildfire, J. B., & Usher,
C. L. (2009). The association of team
composition and meeting characteristics with foster care placement recommendations. Journal of Social Services
Research, 35(4), 297-311.
Crampton, D. S., Crea, T. M., Abramson-Madden, A., & Usher, C. L. (2008).
Challenges of street-level child welfare
reform: The case of Team Decisionmaking. Families in Society, 89(4),
512-520.
Earl, T. R. & Williams, D. R. (2008).
Black Americans and mental health
status: Complexities and new developments. In H. A. Neville, B. M. Tynes, &
S. O. Utsey (Eds.), Handbook of African
American Psychology (Section 6, Chapter 24). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
berzin
Iatridis, D. (2008). Critical social
policy. In J. Midgley & M. Livermore,
M. (Eds.), The Handbook of Social
Policy (pp. 215-235). Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage.
Kayser, K., Feldman, B., Borstelman,
N., & Daniels, A. (forthcoming). The
effects of a couple-based intervention
on the quality of life of breast cancer
patients and their partners: A randomized trial. Social Work Research.
Scott, J. L. & Kayser, K. (2009). Review
of couple-based interventions for
enhancing women’s sexual adjustment and body image after cancer. The
Cancer Journal, 15, 1-9.
blythe
crea
Scott, J. L. & Kayser, K. (2009). Enhancing coping with cancer using a couplesbased approach. In E. Saita (Ed.),
Psico-oncologia. Elementi di psicologia
della salute nella prospettiva relazionale.
Milano: Unicopli.
McMackin, R. A., Keane, T. M., Kline,
P. M. (2008). Introduction to special
issue of betrayal and recovery: Understanding the trauma of clergy sexual
abuse. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse,
17(3-4), 197-200.
McMackin, R. A., Keane, T. M., & Kline,
P. (Eds.) (2009). Understanding the
impact of clergy sexual abuse—Betrayal
and recovery. New York: Routledge.
earl
iatrides
Lee, E. O., & Chan, K. (in press).
Religious/spiritual and other coping
strategies among Chinese American
older adults. Journal of Gerontological
Social Work.
kayser
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kline
lee
lombe
Lee. E. O., Shen, C., & Tran, T. (2009).
Coping with Hurricane Katrina: Psychological distress and resilience among
African American evacuees. Journal of
Black Psychology, 35(1), 5-23.
Lombe, M. & Sherraden, M. (2008).
Inclusion in the policy process: An
agenda for participation of the marginalized. Journal of Policy Practice, 7(2/3),
199-213.
Oh, H., & Lee, E. O. (in press).
Caregiving burden and social support
among mothers raising children with
developmental and physical disabilities
in South Korea. International Journal of
Disability, Development, and Education.
Lombe, M. & Sherraden, M. (2008).
Impact of asset ownership on social
inclusion. Journal of Poverty, 12(3),
284-305.
Lombe, M., Mahoney, K., & Bekteshi,
V. (2009). Exploring patterns of service
utilization among persons with disabilities in a consumer directed care
program. Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 8, 1-16.
Lombe, M., ManSoo, Y., & Nebbitt, V.
(in press). Assessing effects of food
stamp program participation on child
food sufficiency in female-headed
households: Do informal supports
matter? Families in Society: Journal of
Contemporary Social Services.
Lombe, M., Nebbitt, V., & Mapson, A.
(in press). Individual and social correlates of efficacious beliefs: Assessing the moderating effects of parent/
daughter relationship among urban
African American adolescent females.
Families in Society: Journal of Contemporary Social Services.
lubben
mahoney
Lombe, M. & Ochumbo, A. (2008).
Sub-Saharan Africa’s orphan crisis:
Challenges and opportunities. International Social Work, 51(5), 682-698.
Lombe, M., Ochumbo, A., & Norstrand, J. (2008). Attainment of basic
needs as a predictor of civic engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some
implications. Journal of Comparative
Social Welfare, 24(2), 103-117.
Lombe, M., Putnam, M., & Huang, J.
(2008). Exploring effects of institutional characteristics on saving outcomes:
The case of the Cash and Counseling
Program. Journal of Policy Practice, 7(4),
260-279.
mcinnis-dittrich
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Nebbitt, V. & Lombe, M. (2008).
Assessing the moderating effects of
depressive symptoms on antisocial
behavior among urban youth in public
housing. Child and Adolescent Social
Work Journal, 25(4), 409-424.
Nebbitt, V., Lombe, M., & Williams, J.
H. (in press). Assessing the moderating effects of anxiety sensitivity on antisocial behavior among urban African
American youth. Journal of Health Care
for the Poor, 19(1), 277-293.
Crooks, V. C., Lubben, J. E., Petti, D. B.,
Little, D., & Chiu, V. (2008). Social network, cognitive function and dementia
incidence in elderly women. American
Journal of Public Health, 98(7), 12211227.
Mjelde-Mossey, L. A., Chi, I., &
Lubben, J. E. (in press). Relationship
between productive activities, family
relations and aging well for elders in
China. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural
Diversity in Social Work.
Crisp, S., O’Keefe, J., & Mahoney, K.
J. (2009). Enrollment. In J. O’Keeffe
(Ed.), Developing and implementing
self-direction programs and policies: A
handbook (Chapter 4, 1-21). Princeton,
NJ: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Doty, P., O’Keeffe, J., Simon-Rusinowitz, L., & Mahoney, K. J. (2009). Selfdirection: An overview. In J. O’Keeffe
(Ed.), Developing and implementing
self-direction programs and policies: A
handbook (Chapter 1, 1-24). Princeton,
NJ: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Simon-Rusinowitz, L., Martinez,
G., Martin, D., Sadler, M. D., Tilly,
J., Marks, L. N., Loughlin, D. M., &
Mahoney, K. J. (forthcoming). Hiring
relatives as caregivers in two states:
Developing an education and research
agenda for policymakers. Social Work
and Public Health.
McCoy, H., McMillen J. C., & Spitznagel, E. L. (2008). Older youth leaving
the foster care system: Who, what,
when, where, and why? Children and
Youth Services Review, 30, 735-745.
McInnis-Dittrich, K. (2009). Social work
with older adults (3rd edition). Boston:
Allyn & Bacon.
O’Hare, T. (2009). Essential skills of
social work practice—Assessment intervention and evaluation. Chicago,
IL: Lyceum Books.
O’Hare, T. & Sherrer, M. V. (forthcoming). Effects of clinic staff support
on psychosocial wellbeing and PTSD
symptom severity in clients with severe
mental illnesses. Best Practices in Mental Health: An International Journal.
Pitt-Catsouphes, M., & Matz-Costa,
C. (2008). The multi-generational
workforce: Workplace flexibility and
engagement. Community, Work and
Family, 11(2), 215-229.
Pitt-Catsouphes, M., Sano, J., & MatzCosta, C. (in press). The aging of the
workforce: Union perspectives. Journal
of Workplace Behavioral Health (special
issue).
Pitt-Catsouphes, M., Weber, J., Gabrielson, T., & McNamara, T. (in press). A
state of action: Creating opportunities
for older workers. Generations.
Hill, E. J., Grzywacz, J. G., Allen, S.,
Blanchard, V. L., Matz-Costa, C.,
Shulkin, S., & Pitt-Catsouphes, M.
(2008). Defining and conceptualizing
workplace flexibility. Community, Work
and Family, 11(2), 149-163.
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Williamson, J. B., Shen, C. & Yang,
Y. (in press). Which pension model
holds the most promise for China: A
funded defined contribution scheme, a
notional defined contribution scheme,
or a universal social pension? Benefits:
The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice.
Secret, M. & Pitt-Catsouphes, M.
(2008). Introducing work-family
scholarship to social work students:
The development and assessment of
an online reading seminar. Journal of
Teaching in Social Work, 28, 145-164.
mccoy
mcroy
mitchell
ohare
Smyer, M., & Pitt-Catsouphes, M.
(2008). Work-life policies: The changing landscape of aging and work. In A.
C. Crouter and A. Booth (Eds.), Worklife policies (pp. 309-322). Washington,
DC: The Urban Institute.
rowland
Yang, Y., Williamson, J. B., & Shen, C.
(in press). Social security for China’s
rural aged: A proposal based on a
universal non-contributory pension.
International Journal of Social Welfare.
Tran, T. V. (2009). Developing crosscultural measurement (Pocket guides to
social work research methods). New
York: Oxford University Press.
Smyer, M. A., Besen, E., & Pitt-Catsouphes, M. (2009). Boomers and the
many meanings of work. In R. Hudson
(Ed.), Boomer bust? The new political
economy of aging (pp. 3-16). New York:
Praeger.
shen
Fitzpatrick, T., Alemán, S., & Tran, T.
V. (2008). Factors that contribute to
levels of independent activity functioning among a group of Navajo elders.
Research on Aging, 30(3), 318-333.
Shen, C., Smyer, M., Mahoney, K. J.,
Simon-Rusinowitz, L., Shinogle, J., Norstrand, J., Schauer, C., & Vecchio, P.
(2008). Consumer direction, personal
care, and well-being for Medicaid beneficiaries with mental health diagnoses:
Lessons from the New Jersey Cash
& Counseling Program. Psychiatric
Services, 59(11), 1299-1306.
Xu, Q., Bekteshi, V., & Tran, T. V.
(forthcoming). Family, school, country
of birth and adolescents’ psychological
well-being. Journal of Immigrant and
Refugee Studies.
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.
Shen, C. & Tam, H. P. (2008). The
paradoxical relationship between student achievement and self-perception:
A cross-national analysis based on
three waves of TIMSS data. Educational
Research and Evaluation, 14(1), 87-100.
tohn
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gssw sponsored program funding fy02 –fy09
(dollars in thousands)
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4,775.9
5,000
3,851.3
4,000
2,817.1
3,000
2,000
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3,198.9
3,000.8
2006
2007
2,186.5
1,558
1,397.9
2002
2003
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2005
2008
2009
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kerry burke
AIDS Conference Looks
to the Future
Distinguished alum award winner David Brennan with friends and family
The Making of a Scholar-Activist
in an impassioned speech about pivotal moments that shaped his life and future
as a social worker committed to HIV/AIDS education and prevention, David J. Brennan,
MSW ’87, PhD ’07, accepted the 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award at a dinner ceremony
on campus last May.
A member of the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto,
Brennan said he would not be a social worker were it not for the Catholic Jesuit education
he received at Boston College. “I have learned about the role of social justice through that
training,” he told the audience of fellow alumni, faculty, and friends.
The first transformative event that set Brennan on his path was seeing a film in high
school about Soweto when he was 16 years old. It was his first exposure to the concept of
apartheid, which separated the races in South Africa, and it shattered his world view. “Here
was this film about how in another country there was a law that identified someone who
was black as essentially non-human. I had no idea that that could even happen,” he said.
Not only that, it opened his eyes to injustices everywhere.
In 1981, Brennan acknowledged to a friend that he was gay, and that occurrence was the
beginning of his activism of behalf of the gay community and various social causes while a
student at Boston College. He fought for gay rights, gun control, and issues related to the
Central American conflicts of the time, among other things.
The 1980s was also the era when a mysterious illness began taking the lives of homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and heroin addicts. The HIV/AIDS epidemic propelled Brennan in
a new direction. He determined to make it the focus of his life’s work and has become an
outspoken advocate.
Brennan concluded by calling upon the social work community to recommit to HIV.
“Get infected with the passion for fighting this epidemic…with the concern that we still
need to reach out to those at highest risk and develop programs and models to protect
everyone from the ravages of HIV,” he said.
— vicki sanders
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the 21st annual national conference
on Social Work and HIV/AIDS, founded by
Vincent J. Lynch of the GSSW, was held in
New Orleans, May 21-24.
Based on the theme, “Defining the
Future of HIV/AIDS Social Work: What is
YOUR Vision?”, the four-day conference
featured more than 120 presentations on
AIDS social work service delivery and drew
more than 500 AIDS-care social workers
from the US and abroad. Four books on
AIDS social work have been published
from the proceedings from several past
conferences.
Next year’s event, “Direct Social Work
Practice Approaches with HIV/AIDS
Clients: Current Perspectives, Needs and
Challenges,” will convene at the Hyatt
Regency in Denver, May 27-30.
For further information regarding the
conference, contact Vince Lynch, GSSW
Director of Continuing Education, at
617-552-4038 or vincent.lynch.1@bc.edu
or visit the GSSW website at www.bc.edu/
schools/gssw.
Innovation Is Cornerstone
of Alumni Conference
Graduates share creative thinking
in various key areas
the graduate school of social work
hosted a forum in May that enabled alumni to present their most innovative work to
an audience of fellow graduates.
Presentations took the form of workshops and reports during a daylong session
in Devlin Hall on the BC campus.
Cynthia Kennedy and Kassie Goforth
led a workshop on promoting healing in
human trafficking survivors, and Anita
Riley discussed how counter-transference
can be used as a guide for self-growth. Deb
Shriver tackled the social worker’s role during an adopted person’s return to his or her
birth country, and John and Gail Kaplan
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unveiled their psycho-educational program
to assist couples planning marriage.
Religion was the backdrop of two
presentations: its role in substance abuse
treatment programs was Margot Trotter
Davis’s topic, and Celtic spirituality’s role
in organizational belonging was Dylan
Dalton’s.
Former GSSW faculty member Dale
Masi revealed the findings of a recent study
on college binge drinking. Shaping adaptive behaviors in people with developmental
disabilities was discussed by Joseph Samaro
and Richard Salandrea, and Kate Granigan
talked about the evolving role for social
workers in geriatric case management.
The day ended with an alumni dinner
and awards presentation.
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GSSW commencement 2009
GSSW Website Gets Facelift
Redesign wins national award
the graduate school of social
work website, which was redesigned
and launched in spring 2009, has been
awarded an Award of Excellence for
design by the UCDA (University College
and Designers Association). The new
website design was the result of a collaboration between the GSSW Marketing
Office, the Boston College Information
Technology Office, and an outside web
consultant firm.
The GSSW site, located at www.
bc.edu/schools/gssw/, features online
applications, news and events stories,
profiles, image galleries, GSSW magazine, directories, calendars, and related
links to BC resources.
In order to connect with current and
prospective students and build an online
community, the school has also launched
GSSW social media sites—including
Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. To
learn about how GSSW is using social
media for sharing and learning, visit
www.bc.edu/schools/gssw/student-life/
student-life.html.
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Three PhD’s and 181 MSW degrees were awarded to the graduates of the GSSW Class of 2009
at the 133rd Commencement of Boston College
May 18. Among the speakers were student representative André Lira Gordenstein (1), alumni
board president Anita Riley (2), and Catholic
Charities Archdiocese of Boston president Tiziana Dearing (3). In her talk, Dearing identified
social service trends that point to increases in
need even as programs close; growing cultural,
ethnic, linguistic, and experiential diversity that
will require new skills of social workers; and a
double-whammy of privatization and disinvestment in infrastructure that threatens the social
safety net. She urged the new graduates to stick
to their commitment to serve. “Do not go lightly
into this work. Do not tread softly as you go.
Poverty hates children. It preys on those who
have been weakened, and vulnerability eats its
own. You have chosen to be warriors for those
in need. Fight. You are signing up for this in a
time of crisis and tremendous need,” she said.
“You must stick.”
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ALUMNI NEWS
to post an update, email gsswalumni@bc.edu or call 617-552-4020.
GSSW Alumni Association
Board Members 2008 - 2009
The board strives to recruit alumni to
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
rachel greene baldino ’97 co-authored
a book with the National Foster Parent
Association. Success as a Foster Parent:
Everything You Need to Know about Foster
Care, published by Alpha/Penguin, is the
first commercially available book to explain
the foster parenting process. Greene also
contributes a relationship column to a
health and wellness website.
and Mental Health, Global Practice, and
Older Adults and Families. Board members
are elected for up to three-year terms, with
one-third of the board elected annually.
President
Anita Riley, MSW 1998, Clinical
Vice President
Cheryl Snyder, MSW 1983, Macro
Secretary
Lynda Ketcham, MSW 1992, Clinical
& M.Div
Board Members
Jessica Bedney, MSW 2008, Macro
Lisa Bello, MSW 1997, Clinical
Susan Bernstein, 1997 Clinical
Jennifer Breneisen, MSW 2007, Clinical
Mary Byrne, MSW 1955, Research
Marlon Cummings, MSW 2008, Macro
* Kate Durrane, MSW 2004, Clinical
Liana Fantasia, MSW 1993, Clinical
Andrea Gieryic, MSW 2000, Clinical
Mike Gutierrez, MSW 1982, Macro
Heidi Hart-Gorman, MSW/MBA 2003, Clinical
Susan Moriarty, MSW 1999, Macro
* Kristena O’Hara, MSW 2004, Clinical
Danielle Sutton, MSW 2001, Clinical
* Retiring Board Members
New Board Members 2009-2010
Corey Gabowitz, MSW 1998, Clinical
cheryl boissy ’86 won the National Association of Social Workers Lifetime Achievement Award for the Massachusetts Chapter.
She is a clinical social worker in the mental
health unit at Heywood Hospital. Her community service work includes leadership
roles with the Leominster Spanish American Center; the Office of the Massachusetts
Attorney General Task Force on Hate Crime
Prevention; the Human Rights Commission, City of Fitchburg; and the North Central Massachusetts Minority Coalition.
andrea cohen ’84 received the 2009
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Achievement in Entrepreneurship Pinnacle
Award. She is the co-founder and CEO of
HouseWorks, Inc., a leading private home
care company in New England dedicated to
helping seniors live independently. Among
her many endeavors, she was a delegate
to the 2005 White House Conference on
Aging.
matthew eggen ’07 was featured in the
Winter 2009 issue of Cool Kids Connection,
a national newsletter for children fighting
cancer. Eggen is a clinical social worker at
the Pediatric Oncology Unit at Baltimore’s
John Hopkins Hospital, where he “assists
with keeping the patient’s family, including
the parents and siblings, healthy.”
Kimberly Hayes McManama O’Brien,
MSW 2005, Clinical
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anthony “benny” mokaba, msw ’88, has
been an executive director of Sasol Ltd., an
oil and gas company, since 2006 and serves
as the head of the firm’s South African business. He is married to Ramaesela Mokaba,
MSW ’92.
debra morgan ’83 received the New
Jersey Organ and Tissue Sharing Network’s
Kountz Heritage Award for Excellence in
recognition of her ongoing support of the
organization’s community outreach initiatives, particularly those designed to raise
awareness among the African American
population. As director of the Renal Pancreas Transplant Division of Saint Barnabas
Health Care System, she has been instrumental in significantly expanding renal
transplant services to New Jersey patients.
most rev. timothy senior ’92 was
ordained a bishop for the Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of Philadelphia on July 31. After
graduating from BC’s joint MSW/MBA program, he joined Catholic Human Services in
Philadelphia, where he has held numerous
leadership positions. Since 2004 he has
served as vicar for clergy for the Philadelphia archdiocese.
ltc jeffrey yarvis ’94 was honored as
the 2008 US Army and Uniformed Services
Social Worker of the Year for his work on
PTSD and his book on Subthreshold PTSD.
He is an assistant professor of family
medicine and director of social work at the
Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences in Bethesda, MD, and adjunct professor of social work at Virginia Commonwealth. He is also the first chief of the new
Integrated Adult Behavioral Health Clinic
for the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
making connections
Alumni Association offers programs,
camaraderie
september ushered in a new academic
year and renewed activity for the BCGSSW
Alumni Association. If you feel like you have
lost touch with the School since graduation, now is the perfect time to reconnect. Participating in Alumni Association
activities is a great way to get back in touch
with the school, network with classmates,
and meet incoming and current students.
There are numerous events designed to
benefit alumni or enable them to help new
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, for the first time,
mock interviews for final year students.
These events are great for connecting job
seekers to agencies or areas of interest. The
association also responded to members’
continuing education needs with several
CEU programs, including the “By Alumni
For Alumni” conference in May. We worked
with the Admissions Office to recruit new
social work students, and we brought
people together to celebrate our profession
and honor our own at the annual Alumni
Dinner.
Such activities will form the core of our
work in the upcoming year, but we are always looking to improve our programming.
If you have suggestions for the association,
please let us know or get involved in the
planning committees. All of our events are
posted on the GSSW website, http://socialwork.bc.edu/alumni/, or you can contact
the Alumni Board’s liaison at the School,
Susan Callaghan, at callaghs@bc.edu or
call 617-552-4095 for more details.
We were very pleased by the participation in last year’s events and look forward
to another successful year. I hope you will
take advantage of the resources offered to
you as graduates of the BCGSSW. You’ll
find a great community of dedicated social
workers eager to help fellow alumni.
— anita riley, msw ’98
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professor and former dean of gssw edmund
“ed” burke died November 3, 2008, after a brief
illness.
Dr. Burke’s tenure at Boston College spanned
many years, beginning with his studies at the
Boston College School of Social Work, where he
earned an MSW in 1956. He later received a doctorate in urban planning from the University of
Pittsburgh and joined the faculty of the GSSW in
1965. After serving as dean from 1971 to 1976,
Dr. Burke was a member of the Domestic Policy
Unit at the White House under President Jimmy
Carter. In 1985 he founded the Center for Community Relations, now known as
the Center for Corporate Citizenship, at Boston College.
Throughout his distinguished career, Dr. Burke remained committed to the
ideal of involving the community in the design of responses to social issues. He
will be remembered for his joyful optimism and exuberant spirit.
research associate professor janet “lee”
bezanson died July 25. From 2002–2008, she
advanced causes for people with disabilities in
her roles with the Home and Community Based
Services (HCBS) Clearinghouse; the Independent Living Research Utilization Technical Exchange for Community Living; and the Cash &
Counseling program. Her expertise on self-determination for people with disabilities and her
commitment to change were highly respected
in academic policy and practice communities
across the country.
young people frequently encounter, Mr. Litwack
was the “father figure” who ensured a safe, comfortable, and hospitable environment.
The lasting friendships that resulted inspired
the Litwacks, their son David, and his wife Mary
Anne to endow a GSSW fellowship for students
interested in serving the older adult population.
Since 2006, more than a dozen individuals have
received financial aid enabling them to pursue
an MSW, a degree that otherwise might not have
been within reach.
louise (mcauliffe) donelan ’39, a pioneer
diane canning ’77 passed away in July 2008.
She ran a private counseling practice and was a
family therapist at McLean Hospital’s Klarman
Eating Disorders Center in Belmont. She was
also known for her green thumb and respect for
nature.
hyman litwack, The GSSW community was
saddened by the April 30 death of longtime
friend Hyman Litwack, whose generosity to the
geriatric social work field enriched the school.
For more than 40 years Mr. Litwack and his wife
Betsy rented rooms to Boston College women.
While Mrs. Litwack used her social work skills
to help the students overcome the obstacles that
member of its second graduating class, passed
away in May at the age of 92. The only girl in a
family of seven boys, Mrs. Donelan was among
the first women to graduate from Boston College.
She earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Emmanuel College before discovering
her calling in social work. In her master’s degree
thesis, she challenged the school of thought that
children born out of wedlock should always be
separated from their mothers. Later, she worked
for Catholic Charities and the American Red
Cross. In 1941 she married a BC alumnus with
whom she raised four children. At the age of 50
she re-entered the workforce to use her skills in
the adoption field.
GSSW Alumni Association President
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staff comings & goings
Welcome Additions
rick allen joined GSSW last November as
the Communications and Web Assistant.
He brings eight years of experience as a lab
operations manager at Emerson College,
where he earned his BFA and MA in publishing. He replaced Patricia Shuker, who
moved to the BC Advancement Office.
suzanne crisp became Director of Program Design and Implementation at the
National Resource Center for ParticipantDirected Services (NRCPDS) last December. During some 20 years in health care
consulting and research, she has provided
technical assistance to state Medicaid programs on implementing, monitoring, and
evaluating self-direction with in-home and community-based programs.
mary curlew, lcsw, joined the Sloan
Work & Family Research Network in February as Policy Research Associate. Curlew
holds a masters of psychology and religion
from the Andover Newton Theological
School. In private practice, she specialized
in perinatal mental health, child development, and trauma.
jacquelyn james, phd, was named Codirector of Research at the Sloan Center on
Aging. She is also the center’s co-principal
investigator of the Workplace Culture and
Flexible Work Arrangements Study and a
Research Professor at the Lynch School of
Education.
huong nguyen was hired in January as
the Web Support and Communications
Specialist in BC’s Center for Aging and
Work. She was employed previously as
a quality assurance engineer at Stanford
University.
jim wironen joined the National Resource
Center for Participant-Directed Services in
April as Director of Product Development
and Participant-Directed Services. He has
been a senior executive at Fidelity Investments, State Street Global Advisors, New
York Life Benefit Services, and the American Association of Retired Persons.
Fond Farewells
jeanne zilliox departed GSSW after 10
years as Senior Admissions Assistant and
as Assistant Director of Academic and
Student Services (PhD Program). She will
devote her full attention to her one-year-old
son, Luke.
Moving Ahead
Congratulations to the following GSSW
staff on their recent job title changes and
promotions:
jen bewley, Assistant Director, Hartford
Doctoral Program & Institute on Aging Alumni Events
We encourage you to check our
website at http://www.bc.edu/
schools/gssw/alumni/alumni.html
to keep informed about upcoming
Graduate School of Social Work
Alumni events and CEU course
offerings.
To view this year’s Continuing Education course offerings for 2009-2010:
http://www.bc.edu/schools/gssw/
academics/ce.html
The 22nd Annual National confer-
liz cinquino, Director, GSSW Advising
Center ence on Social Work and HIV/AIDS
diane kayala, Director of Measurement
and Information Systems, NRCPDS Denver. See details on our website at
jeannine kremer, Program Manager,
Hartford Doctoral Program patti krusz, Fiscal and Administrative
Assistant, NRCPDS elizabeth maguire, Assistant Director
for Marketing and Communications,
NRCPDS linda robichaud, Manager of Information Systems will be held May 27-30, 2010 in
http://www.bc.edu/schools/gssw/
academics/ce/conferences.html
Alumni Networking Event
Thursday, November 19 , 2009
RSVP by November 2nd to
gsswcareerservices@bc.edu
Our Alumni are a great resource for
both networking and job searches.
This evening event brings together
students and alumni to talk about
buddy rutzke, Consumer Direction
Module Technology Manager, NRCPDS their career interests.
casey sanders, Research Analyst,
NRCPDS Questions?
kristin simone, Director of Quality
Assurance and Member Services,
NRCPDS
gsswalumni@bc.edu or 617-552-4020
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gssw in the world
As the director of the International Program, Penny Alexander
explores and nurtures collaborations with communities in Africa and Asia
(Clockwise from top right): Alexander enjoys Burmese food with a staff member in a
Thailand refugee camp; meets with community and NGO leaders in Vietnam; comforts
a child in an HIV/AIDS pediatric clinic in South Africa; and visits a family who resides
and works in a garbage dump in Cambodia.
in february, i visited six countries (Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Cambodia, Thailand, and Bangladesh), to see the MSW students in the Global Practice Concentration use all that they had
learned in the previous year of training. I met with students and
their supervisors to gain an understanding of the overall learning
opportunities, heard about their challenges and successes, experienced a bit of what it means to live in their countries of assignment,
tried amazing indigenous food, and met with the local community
members.
After five weeks of traveling, 21 LONG flights and the loss of my
luggage three times, I observed the beginning transformation of
the students and gained a deeper admiration for their work. Our
students served refugees and people infected and affected by HIV,
leveraged limited resources for the growth of programs, and measured the impact of an intervention. This was accomplished with
social work professionalism, humor, flexibility, a sense of wonder, and overall respect for the agencies and community members. Here is a snapshot of some of my site visits this past year.
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REPORT ON GIVING
THANK YOU
We have again had a record number of donations to support the GSSW
community. Every gift, large or small, directly benefits our students, programs, and the future of social work. Donations to our annual fund come
directly to GSSW and provide the flexible discretionary funds necessary to
provide the best educational environment possible. Other donors on this
list have chosen to support specific fellowships, research funds, or student
support funds that also have a direct impact on the school.
To make a gift, visit www.bc.edu/friends/give.html and select “GSSW”
from the dropdown menu to designate it to the School. Donations made
after May 31, 2009 will be acknowledged in this magazine next fall. If you
need to report an error or omission, please call Steve Witkowski at 617-5529162 or email witkowst@bc.edu.
gssw gifts:
june 1, 2008 to may 31, 2009
gasson gift society
($10,000+)
Mark W. Holland, BS ’71 &
Jo Ann Hilliard Holland, BA ’75
Joan Fallon Maher, BA ’71, M.ED ’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.
The Salem Foundation
The Stahl Family Foundation, Inc.
president’s circle
($5,000–$9,999)
Timothy V. Gavin, BA ’98
Fidelity Charitable Gift
fides gift society
($1,000–$2,499)
Agnes Cox M. Carson, MSSW ’41
Cassandra M. Costa, MSW ’68
Peter C. McKenzie, BS ’75 &
Maureen Quinn McKenzie,
BA ’75, MSW ’95
Carole Bocasky Remick, MA ’63
William W. Scannell, Jr., BA ’38 &
Ellen Dalton Scannell,
MSSW ’42
Katherine Volpe, MSW ‘05
Carol M. Volpe & Louis J. Volpe
Foundation
general gssw gifts
Pamela M. Abraham, BS ’06
Merrill B. Adler, MSW ’73
Joanne M. Agababian, MSW ’71
Najiba Akbar, MSW ’07
Jane Malick Alden, MSW ’80
Sarah Alexander, MSW ’93
Louis F. Alfano, BS ’43 &
Ella G. Alfano, MSW ’79
Patricia Allard, MSW ’03
William J. Allen, MSP ’71
James W. Alves, MSW ’80
Amy Amatangelo, MSW ’93
Sophia Andriotis, BA ’04, MSW ’05
Andrew J. Arena, Sr., P ’09 ’07 &
Sandra A. Arena, P ’09 ’07
Dorothy F. Argetsinger, MSW ’87
Nancy L. Ayotte, MSW ’91
Rev. Paul F. Bailey, MSW ’62
Susan Balder, MSW ’79
Callan Barrett, MSW ’05
* Mary Murphy Bean, MS ’42
Deborah Y. Beers, MSW ’07
Judith B. Bello, MSSW ’72
Linda Rene Bergeron, PhD ’98
Ronald J. Bigley, MSW ’61
Mary B. Blackman, MSW ’94
Lindsay Boger, MSW ’01
Michael Bohigian, BA ’99
George J. Boiros, MSW ’68 &
Marcia King Boiros, MSW ’69
Sara S. Booth, MSW ’79
Mary F. Bordes, MSW ’87
Bernice B. Borison, MSW ’83
Audrey R. Boucher, MSW ’83
Eileen Coogan Boyle, MSW ’87
Mary T. Brackett, MSW ’74
Diana M. Bradley, BS ’08
Leah Marie Bradley, BA ’88, MSW ’91
Phyllis H. Brody
Marilyn Bronzi, MSW ’90
Carol Barr Brown, MSW ’71
Victoria Brown, MSW ’94
Patricia Ann Bruno, MSW ’88
Julie Buckley, MSW ’01
Pauline Hurley Buckley, MSW ’50 &
Leo S. Buckley, BS ’50,
MSW ’52
Elaine G. Bucuvalas, MSW ’48
Jane A. Burke
Tim Burke, MSW ’96
Mary Byrne, PhD ’06
Mary Crudden Byrne, MSW ’55
Peter M. Caesar, MSW ’82
Deborah A. Cahill, MSW ’80
James J. Callahan, Jr., MSW ’59
Matthew Caminiti, BA ’03 &
Kristen M. DeBoy, BA ’04,
MSW ’05
Christopher Campernel, MSW ’04
Richard V. Cannarelli, MSW ’70
Ambrose R. Canty, MSW ’64
Marilyn C. Carey, MSW ’78 &
James W. Drisko, DSW ’83
Rosemary Carney, MSW ’95
Leida Cartagena, MSW ’04
Elyse Cotton Caruso, MSW ’84 &
Matthew G. Caruso, MSW ’84
Wendy Bosworth Case, MSW ’74
Anne S. Castelline, MSW ’83
Phyllis B. Cater, MCP ’79
Ronald John Celio, MSW ’77
Carol A. Chandonnet, MSW ’87
Roberto Chao, P ’09 &
Stella A. Chao, P ’09
James Stewart Chaplin, MSW ’88
Kathryn Chapman, MSW ’83
Joan E. Christel, MBA ’00,
MSW ’00
Robert D. Clark, MSW ’52
Amy Cohan, MSW ’97
Sherry S. Cohen, MSW ’80
Marylyn Dunlap Colburn,
MSW ’84
Clement E. Constantine, MSW ’48
Elizabeth O’Neal Conway,
MSW ’88
Mary T. Cook, MSW ’80
Nancy Ryan Cook, MSW ’71
Myrna W. Cooperstein, MSW ’66
Joy E. Corey, MSW ’98
Adelaide Corvelle, MSW ’72
Ronald Cosentino
Cassandra M. Costa, MSW ’68
Joseph M. Costa, MSW ’86
Barbara M. Cotter, MSW ’66
E. Carol Cotter, MSW ’59
Rev. Richard J. Craig, MSW ’69
Myrtle Rivers Crawford, MSW ’57
Leigh A. Cronin, MSW ’94
Heidi Crosier-Sypitkowski, MSW ’87
Edward Cunningham, MSW ’91
Ellen MacIntosh Curri, MSW ’87
Alicia K. Currier, MSW ’09
Kenneth A. Cwikla, MSW ’67
Anthony D’Agnenica, MSW ’05
Gary A. Dauer, MSW ’82
Bethany L. Dawson, BA ’92,
MSW ’93
Charleen M. De Stefano,
MSW ’99
Anthony R. Decubellis,
MSW ’59
Margaret M. DeFrancisci,
MSW ’91
Andrew deGaravilla, BA ’04
Luigi A. Del Gaudio, MSW ’72
Kevin P. Delano, BA ’69
Carol Hathaway DeLemos,
MSW ’61
Donald R. Delery, MSW ’73
Audrey Young DeLoffi, MSW ’74 &
Thomas V. DeLoffi
Anthony M. DeMarco, BS ’07
Denis G. Demers, MCP ’75 &
Margaret M. Demers
Maurice A. Demers, MSW ’68
Patricia Hart Denoble, MSW ’69
Katherine Chaplin Dervin,
MSW ’63
Ronald G. Desnoyers, MSW ’81
Joseph T. Devlin, BA ’45, MSW ’49
Barbara E. DiCocco, MSW ’71
Marc A. Dionne, MSW ’05
Mary Frances Dionne, MSW ’63 &
Peter L. Dionne, MA ’63
Gail L. Doherty, MSW ’79 &
Paul C. Doherty P ’90
Cecilia A. M. Dohrmann,
MSW ’93
Alvera E. Donatelle, MSW ’67
Nora M. Donoghue, MSW ’54
Erin Kathleen Donohue, BA ’99,
MSW ’06
Kevin C. Donovan, BA ’03
Matthew Stephen Dornbush,
BBA ’99
William T. Dowling, Jr., MSW ’71
John E. Doyle, MSW ’68
William Edwin Doyle II, BS ’00
Gloria Spaulding Dugan, MSW ’64
Diana Marie Durr, MSW ’96
Mary Ellen Reynolds DuVarney,
MSW ’64
Margaret Ann Dwyer, M.ED ’56,
HON ’98
Carol M. East, BA ’76, MSW ’83
Kathleen M. Egan, MSW ’85
Cynthia Monteiro Elias, MSW ’87
Patricia Siragusa Engdahl,
MSW ’91
Doreen Quinn Fagerberg, MSW ’00
Michelle Fagnano, MSW ’83
Helen Guiney Feleciano, MSW ’48
Christopher P. Ferragamo, BA ’97 &
Tara E. Ferragamo, BA ’99
Jean M. Ferrovia, MSW ’74
Kathleen Marion Fink, MCP ’78
Wayne M. Firstenberg, MSW ’83
Ann McClorey Fisher, MSW ’80
John F. Fitzgerald, MSW ’60
John R. Fitzgerald, Jr., MSW ’69 &
Alice M. Fitzgerald
Mari Jo Flanagan
Andrea C. Flint, MSW ’91
Martin Flores, Jr., MSP ’75
William J. Flynn, Jr., BS ’67,
MBA ’72 & Madeleine L. Flynn MSSW ’72
Jillian D. Foley, BS ’67, MSW ’07
Thomas G. Foley, MSW ’62
Carol Senopoulos Forbes,
MSW ’74
Daniel F. Forbes, MSW ’85
* deceased
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Anne Cloherty Fortune, MBA ’04,
MSW ’04
Carol A. Freedman, MSW ’70
Kenneth L. Freedman, MSW ’76
Rosemarie G. Frydman, MSW ’74
Beth M. Gallagher, MSW ’06
Ellen M. Galligan, MSW ’74
Amy J. Garber, MSW ’05
Constance S. Garbutt, MSW ’54
Melinda A. Taranto Garnis,
MSW ’81
Betty L. Gass, MSW ’75
Lynn Gaulin, MSW ’81
Timothy J. Gauntner, MSW ’65
Marylou P. Gauvin, MSW ’79
Frances Vozzella Gay, MSW ’61
Andrea M. Gieryic, MSW ’00
Abigail J. Gingrich, MSW ’07
Karen E. Goddard, MSW ’98
Mary Finn Goggin, MSW ’56
Leslie G. Goldberg, MSW ’90
Lolita Gonsalves, MSW ’07
Margaret A. Goode, MSW ’82
Michelle Gordon, MSW ’04
Francis Grady, MSW ’73
Valerie A. Gramolini, MSW ’90
Lisa A. Granda, MSW ’01
Ashley B. Griffin, MSW ’07
Amy Chin Guen, MSW ’52
Mary Jolene Guerra, MSW ’69
Latease A. Guilderson, MSW ’06
Therese Gupta, MSW ’92
Ellen K. Gurney, MSW ’97
Joanne Guthrie, MSW ’97
Michael E. Gutierrez, MSW ’82
Felicia A. Hagberg, MSW ’85 &
Peter K. Hagberg, P ’10
Suki Hanfling, MSW ’73
Judith A. Hanlon, MSSW ’72
Rosemary Harbeson, MSW ’01
Doreen Frances Hardy, MSW ’89
Elizabeth Harrison, MSW ’92
Alice Noonan Hart, MSW ’62 &
Robert F. X. Hart, BA ’60,
MSW ’62, MTS ’03
Edith Andisio Haughton, MSW ’50
Sharon K. Hays, MSW ’88
Ruth A. Hensley, MSSW ’72 &
Francis J. Quinn, Jr., MSW ’75
Maria E. Hermosillo, MSW ’75
Kristine S. Hersey, MSW ’93
Eugene P. Hickey, MSW ’71
Leah R. Hochler, BA ’09
Amy Elizabeth Hodge, BA ’89
Whitney S. Hodgkins, MSW ’08
Mary L. Hogan
Armando C. Holguin, MSW ’05
Ann Bernice Holleran, MSW ’90
Nancy M. Hoover, MSW ’01
Blaire K. Horner, BS ’07
Judith A. Houghton, MSW ’80
William C. Howard III, MSW ’76 &
Mayra Rodriquez-Howard, MSP ’77
Quincy Howe, P ’07 &
Esther C. Howe, P ’07
Madeline Howe, MSW ’07
Susan Howe, MSW ’79
Cheryl A. Hoyt, MSW ’81
Melissa Smith Hubbard, BA ’73
Nancy Hubbard, MSW ’02
Robert C. Hubbell, MSP ’74
Steven Hulcher, MSW ’91
Mary Gavin Hull, MSW ’58
Robert J. Hurley, MSW ’73
Paula McPhail Inglee, MSW ’76 &
Clinton A. Inglee
Christine Irwin, BA ’98
Lana Israel, MSW ’83
Charles E. Ivers, MSW ’82
Horace Spencer Ivey, PhD ’99
Nancy Nettleton Jackson, MSW ’80
Joseph F. Janas, MSW ’79
Daniel E. Jennings, MSW ’54
Anna W. Johnson, MSW ’87
Lois M. Jones, MSW ’92
Winifred E. Kaley, MSW ’71
Dr. Thomas J. Kane, MA ’60,
MSW ’61
Maria Marottoli Kavanaugh,
BA ’01, MSW ’02
Diane M. Kay, MSW ’94
Michael E. Kay, MSW ’77
Steven Kaye, MSP ’76
Joan M. Keefe, MSSW ’60
Hannah M. Keevil, MSW ’88
Robert H. Kelley, MSW ’67
Anne Desmond Kelly, BS ’73 &
Charles L. Kelly, BA ’72, MSW ’76
Pat Murray Kelly, MSW ’60
Joann Spellman Kenney, BA ’77 &
Martin Edward Kenney,
BA ’74, MSW ’78
William H. Keough, BSBA ’59
Christina M. Kerr, MSW ’84
Marybeth L. Kerr, MSW ’05
Mary O’Toole Kerrigan, MSW ’52
Sandra J. Kidd
Eleanor D. Kilbourn, MSW ’51
Mary Coyle King, MSW ’64
Susan Elizabeth King, MSW ’78
Theresa Kenny Kline, MSW ’82 &
Stephen A. Kline
Deborah Knapman, BA ’89
Katherine M. Kranz, PhD ’01
Jeannine Kremer, MSW ’95
Janet D. LaBelle, MSW ’95
Carol Ann Ladd, MA ’80, MSW ’86
Susan Rodrian Lambert, MSW ’70
Denise M. Lavallee, MSW ’86
Valerie M. Lavoie, BS ’04, MS ’05
Timothy Gartland Lena, MSW ’88
Louis Lerner
Bruce E. Levison, MSW ’69
Amy H. Li, MSW ’64
Everett A. Lilly, MSW ’70 &
Karen T. Cummings Lilly
Patricia Lindsey, MSW ’04
David A. Litwack &
Mary Anne Lambert Litwack
Janice Litwack
Mary Ellen Loar, MSW ’91
Thomas P. Lockerby
Meghan Kathleen Lowney, BA ’89
Pauline R. Ludwig, MSW ’90
Betsy L. Lundell, MSW ’83
Lisa R. Luxemberg, MSW ’91
Katherine M. Lynch, BS ’74
Kyley W. Lyon, MSW ’08
Heather A. MacDonald, MSW ’85
Cynthia R. MacDougall, MSW ’76
Donald MacGillivray, MSW ’73
Elizabeth L. Mackler, MSW ’68
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
Ms. Elizabeth A. Maguire, MSW ’48
Mary T. Mahoney, MSW ’68
Owen W. Mahony, MSW ’55
Therese A. Maloney
Sarah B. Mandel, MSW ’61
Liberato Mangione, MSW ’60
Ellen Manning, MSW ’67
William T. Margulies, BA ’09
Claire E. Markowitz, MSW ’52
Linda M. Marot, MSW ’86
Robert L. Marot, MSW ’60
Susan A. Martin, MSW ’75
Marianne Matarazzo, MSW ’76
Mary J. Matthews, MSW ’63
Helene Caryl Mayer, MSW ’82 &
Kenneth E. Virgile
Mary-Elizabeth Maynard, MSW ’89
Gabrielle B. Mazza, MSW ’82
Judith A. McAllister, MSW ’66
Mary McCall, MSW ’91
Moira McCarthy, MSW ’91
Angelo Wayne McClain, PhD ’01
John W. McClain, MSW ’72
Diana Newton McClure, MSW ’69
George P. McCormack
Katherine E. McGillivray,
MSW ’62
Brenda G. McGowan, MSW ’66
C A L L F O R N O M I N AT I O N S
distinquished alumni awards 2010
Nominate an MSW or PhD alumna/us of the Boston College Graduate
School of Social Work for the 2009 Distinguished Social Work Alumni
Awards. These awards recognize contributions to the practice of social
work made by a BCGSSW alumna/us that include:
• enhancing the profession of social work in the larger community
• improving social work education
• enhancing an area of public service
• supporting practice issues within the profession (clinical and macro)
• changing or improving social policy
• helping BCGSSW students and alumni, and/or
• representing a lifetime of achievement in the profession of social work
The award must go to an alumna/us of the Boston College Graduate
School of Social Work (MSW or PhD). Current BCGSSW Alumni Association Board members are not eligible. Nominations can be made by alumni,
faculty (past and present), administrators, and current students. Nominations must be completed and received by 5 p.m., March 5, 2010.
To nominate, submit a resume of the nominee and include the following:
1. Your name, address, daytime phone, and email.
2. Candidate’s name, address, daytime phone, and email.
Please provide a brief summary of the candidates achievements.
Nominations can be submitted in three ways:
1. Email
gsswalumni@bc.edu
2. Mail
Boston College
Graduate School of Social Work
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Attn: Alumni Award Nominations
3. Fax
617-552-1095
Attn: Alumni Award Nominations
You may also download a nomination form from our alumni web page at
http://www.bc.edu/schools/gssw/alumni/alumni.html
Questions? Contact the GSSW Alumni Association at
gsswalumni@bc.edu or 617-552-4020.
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Mary Ellen Flynn McGowan,
MSW ’68
Mary Elizabeth McGrath Durkin,
MSW ’82
Joseph W. McGreal, MSW ’64
Paul E. McGuinness, MSW ’65
William V. McKenney, BS ’63
MBA ’73 &
Kathleen A. McKenney
Carmen M. McNamara, BS ’63
Phyllis A. McVey, MSW ’80
Mary Meara-McAdam, MSW ’84
Carmen M. Mercer, MSW ’91
Linda K. Mertz, MSW ’90
Sandra Meyer
Ann H. Miller, MSW ’83 &
Henri Flikier
Cheryl A. Miller, MSW ’75 &
William E. Miller, P ’12
John Marmelo Mimoso, MSW ’89
Venise Cote Minkowsky, MSW ’90
John J. Moeling, MSW ’06
Msgr. John E. Molan, MS ’62
Mary P. Monahan, P ’86 ’82
Beatrice Duncan Moore, MSW ’55
Susan Zebley Morang, MSW ’76
Thomas K. Morgan, JD ’84 &
Debra Lussier Morgan, MSW ’83
E. Jennifer Morris, MSW ’71
Edward F. Morrissey, MSW ’58 &
Carolann Morrissey
Walter Mullin, PhD ’00 &
Kathleen P. Mullin
Gwendolyn H. Murphy, MSW ’63
Jennifer Cowen Murphy, MSW ’94
Kenneth C. Murphy, MSW ’61
Michael J. Murphy, MSW ’61
Thomas M. Murphy, BS ’50, MSSW ’56
Nancy Elizabeth Myerson, MSW ’78
Donald A. Myles, PhD, MSW ’62
Paula Beebe Nannicelli, MSW ’74
Michael A. Nardolillo, MSW ’60 &
Janet B. Nardolillo
Barbara Etchingham Nash,
MSW ’68
Cathy A. Neidich, MSW ’80
Beverly B. Nichols, MSW ’66
Eugene R. Nigro, MSW ’54
James C. Nolan, BA ’55, MSW ’61
Laurence F. Noonan, Jr., MSW ’69 &
Louise A. Noonan
Lorraine Noone, MSW ’48
Margaret Norbert, MSW ’92
Barbara Nordstrom, MSW ’93
Anne M. Norman, MSW ’79
Gina A. Nunziato-Smith,
MSW ’86
Paul J. Oates, BS ’59
Anne O’Brien
Kimberly H. M. O’Brien, MSW ’05
Edward J. O’Connell, Jr., MSW ’67
Margaret Farrell O’Keefe, MSW ’73
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
Margaret O’Neill, MSW ’02
Jennifer M. Orcutt, MSW ’91
Ellen R. Orlen, MSW ’59
Ellen M. Orsi, MSW ’84
Leah Ottow, MSW ’07
Pietrina M. Owen, MSW ’86
Gail S. Packer, MSW ’77
Steven J. Paige, BA ’84
Suzanne Muse Palma, MSW ’75
Eleanor A. Pansar, MSW ’71
Richard F. Papalia, MSW ’62
Andrea Limon Parada, MSW ’94
Jane M. Parker, MSW ’80
William J. Parks, BA ’59 &
Jane E. Parks, MSW ’86
Abby Patterson, MSW ’97
Deanne M. Payne-Rokowski,
MSW ’07 &
Joseph Rokowski
Kathryn A. Pearson, MSW ’60
Kathleen T. Peck, MSSW ’72
Shirley T. Perry, MSW ’60
Michael R. Petit, MSW ’70
Heather K. George Pistell,
MSW ’77
Jeanette Polito, MSW ’51
Robert J. Porta, MSW ’99,
MBA ’99
David J. Porter, MSW ’71
Valerie Marshall Potter, MSW ’68
Joan Langhorn Power, MSW ’59
William J. Powers &
Anne F. Powers
William M. Powers
Denis P. Pringle, MSW ’95
Paul J. Provencher, MSW ’64 &
Mary O’Brien Provencher,
BS ’63, MSW ’66
Marianne Pugatch, MSW ’98
Jesse Quam, MSW ’05
Micheila Questell, MSW ’05
Meaghan P. Quinlan, BS ’06,
MSW ’07
Owen R. Quinn, BS ’59
Judith Foster Ramirez, MSW ’94
Linda M. Ramos, BA ’86
Kathleen Houlihan Rao, MSP ’74
Katherine C. Redman, BA ’09
Nancy Reiche, MSW ’77
Elizabeth S. Reidy, MSW ’52
Jane H. Reilly, MSW ’66
Carole Bocasky Remick
Melanie Renaud, MSW ’98
Marilyn J. Reynolds, MSW ’88
Krystal Rheinwald, MA ’90,
MSW ’96
Anthony F. Ricciardi, MSW ’81
Robert J. Ridick, MSW ’59
Kristen S. Ringdahl, BA ’97,
MSW ’99
Jennifer Rivelli-Daigle, MSW ’04
Virginia Bogdan Robertson, MSW ’54
Virginia W. Robinson, MSP ’74
Lorraine A. Rogstad, MSW ’64
Dena B. Romero, MSW ’82
Linda Rosa, MSW ’84
Roland L. Rose, MSW ’75
Sandra E. Rosenblum, MSW ’76
Mary Jane Rosenfield, MSW ’99
Cecelia Bain Ross, MSW ’76
Colette M. Rowland, MSW ’95
Anne R. Rowley, MSW ’87
Helen J. Rubel, MSW ’76 &
Neal C. Allen
Barbara Naglin Ruchames,
MSW ’72
Sheila Flynn Russo, MSW ’88
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Ryan M. Rutzke, BA ’05, MSW ’06
Thomas M. Sadtler, MSW ’77 &
Jane E. Wells
Eileen Finn Salame, MSW ’60
Casey E. Sanders, MSW ’09
Nancy J. Sanders, MSW ’74
Mary Saunders
Nancy Dalsheimer Savage,
MSW ’86
Mary M. Scanlan, MSW ’56
Ann F. Schwartz, MSW ’01
Laura Scott, MSW ’06
Paul Secord, BA ’98, M.ED ’98
Nancy S. Segal, MSW ’83
Grace Murray Sexton, MSW ’48
Gregory Shea, MSW ’66
Pamela M. Shea, MSP ’72
Joseph F. Sheehan, MSW ’61
Margaret A. Sheehan, MSW ’88
Robert P. Shepardson, MSW ’54 &
Irene Nmi Shepardson, BS ’51
William A. Sherman, BS ’59 &
Lucy Irene Sherman, BA ’68
Harry Shulman, MSW ’69
Kenneth L. Sipe, MSW ’77 &
Margaret L. Sipe
Mary V. Slovic, MSW ’48
Barbara Franconi Smith, MSW ’76
Katharin G. Smith, MSW ’77
Kimberly J. Smith, MSW ’90
Rupert A. Smith, BS ’99
Lauren L. Sommer, BA ’08,
MSW ’09
Theresa Sweeney Sorota, MSW ’71
Susan Munce Soucy, MSW ’68
Roger P. Souza, MSW ’71 &
Mary K. Souza
Robert F. Spaziano, MSW ’69
Gerald C. St. Denis, MSW ’53
Margo W. Steinberg, MSW ’04
Alan C. Stewart, MSW ’67
Florence Vitale Sullivan, MSW ’59
Janet Sullivan, MSW ’81
Thomas W. Sullivan, MSW ’52
Kathleen M. Surdan, BA ’85,
MSW ’86
Pamela S. Surratt, MSW ’71
Louis M. Swan, MSW ’76
Mary Trepanier Sylvia, MSW ’56
Erin Synan
Melvin Tapper, MSW ’73, D.ED ’96 &
Jill C. Tapper, MSW ’75
Lisa M. Tarashuk, MSW ’87
Paul J. Tausek, MSW ’69
James R. Taylor, MSW ’64
Carolyn Thomas
Jane K. Thompson, MSW ’64
Sheila A. Thornton, MSW ’79
Susan Tibeijuka, MSW ’07
William R. Tietjen, MSW ’72 &
Maryilyn Tietjen
Therese A. Todd, MSW ’59
James E. Tooley, MSW ’76
Rev. Normand Tremblay, MSW ’65
Amy Troxell-Mautz, MSW ’97
Karen A. Turgeon, MSW ’01
Lisa Ann Turner, MSW ’97
Mary A. Turvey, MSW ’76
Janet Urman, MSW ’70
Joseph W. Valentine, MSW ’63
Andrew S. Valeras, BS ’01 &
Aimee M. Burk Valeras,
BA ’01, MSW ’02
Kathryn Ruda Vallon, MSSW ’72 &
Ronald M. Vallon, MSW ’79
Dale L. Van Meter, MSW ’65
Rosemarie Sacco Verderico,
MSW ’69
Kathleen Anne Vernam, MSW ’73
Delores S. Vincent, MSW ’97
Renee Waldron, MSW ’95
Margaret M. Wall, MSW ’52
Lisa Petra Wallace, MSW ’96
Richard D. Wallace, BA ’60,
MA ’67, MSW ’89 &
Sandra L. Wallace
Frank J. Walsh, MSW ’80
Brandon S. Warner, BS ’99
Loretta L. Warren-Barnes,
MSW ’86
Clara M. Weeks-Boutilier,
MSW ’72
Roberta Wentworth, MSW ’72
Judith Dio Wentzell, MSW ’85
Genevieve Madison West, MSW ’53
Joanne Ceceila Westwater,
BS ’53, MSW ’55
Christine M. Whalen, MSW ’84
Patricia J. Whitaker, MSW ’77
Doranne Whittredge, MSW ’84
Jason H. Wild, BA ’00 &
Norline R. Wild, MSW ’03
Jerome J. Wild, MSW ’62
Tracy Wilkes, MSW ’91 &
Paul Wilkes
Marianne Willett Wilson, MSW ’65
Patricia Fay Wilson, MSW ’58 &
William R. Wilson, MSW ’58
Stephen T. Witkowski &
Laura L. Witkowski
Hans Woicke, MSW ’05
Patricia Woodcome, MSW ’84
Leila Woolsey, MSW ’98
Jill M. Wussler, MSW ’93
Dianna C. Young, MSW ’95
Donald S. Zall, MSW ’69, PhD ’92
Joanne D. Zannotti, MSW ’68
Katherine A. Zeisler, MSW ’83
Ling Zhang, MSW ’92
Elisabeth Zweig, MSP ’77,
MSW ’77, DHL ’02
Fidelity Investments
General Electric Company
Insight Media
Jewish Healthcare
Foundation
Kennametal Foundation
Lucy I. Sherman
Charitable Foundation
Najarian Associates
Sisters of the Good Shepherd
United Way of Rhode Island
* deceased
A Field Day
“We want to express our appreciation for the significant
contribution by our field instructors to the professional and
personal growth of our students. You are indeed the heart of
social work by providing the mentoring that helps students
to understand the meaningfulness of their work. “
William Keaney, PhD, Director of Field Education, at this year’s Mary Mason Appreciation Breakfast
Top to bottom: Emma Bank addresses her supervisor
Andrea Flint. They worked together at Center Communities
in Brookline; Kristyn Morrissey (left), supervisor at
Brigham & Women’s Hospital, with her student Molly
McHugh; supervisor Karin Elliott (left) from the
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An orientation session was held for incoming students who participated in roundtable discussions with faculty, staff, and current students.
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