Research
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A Look Inside SWORPS-Joint Task Force on Children’s Justice and Child Sexual Abuse
The Joint Task Force on Children’s Justice and Child Sexual Abuse (JTF), a multi-disciplinary group of child welfare professionals, develop a plan and implement recommendations for improving the prevention, investigation, prosecution, judicial handling, and treatment of cases of child sexual abuse and exploitation, and other forms of severe child abuse and neglect. JTF Impact Child…
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Increase in Employment-based Field Placements Allows Students Greater Opportunities
Director of Field Education and Professor of Practice Kim Crane Mallory discusses a marked increase in employment-based field placements (EBPs) which has made a big difference for Social Work students. Over 30 percent of all field students have a paid internship this year, a number which has nearly doubled from last year. What do you…
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Dr. Jennifer First Receives Federal Grant
Dr. Jennifer First and colleagues were recently awarded a federal grant of over $350,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Center’s Weather Program Office for their research titled, While you were sleeping: Improving warning reception and response to nocturnal rapid-onset hazards in the Southeast. The Southeast region experiences a high proportion of rapid-onset hazards (e.g.,…
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A Look Inside SWORPS
Tennessee Child Support Employment and Parenting Program (TCSEPP) The UT Social Work Office of Research and Public Service (SWORPS) specializes in program evaluation, applied research, software development & systems engineering, and staff training & development. They have the capacity to help design, implement, and/or evaluate projects of any scale. As a center within the College of…
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PhD Student Chesney Ward Presented at the World Vaccine Congress
PhD Student Chesney Ward recently presented at the World Vaccine Congress in Glasgow Scotland. Ward made an oral presentation on the results of a study about uptake of the HPV vaccine in Appalachian women who were surveyed anonymously over social media about their unmet reproductive health care needs. Ward is the lead author and was…
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SWORPS Deidre Ford Spent Summer in South Africa as a Fulbright Specialist Award Recipient
The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board recently announced that Deidre Ford received a Fulbright Specialist Program award. Ford worked to complete a project at the Tshwane Leadership Foundation that aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefitting participants, institutions, and communities both in the U.S. and overseas through a variety…
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Check Out Some of the Exciting Work Completed by our Faculty Over the Summer
While the students were away on summer break, the UTCSW faculty had been working hard. Check out their papers and projects from the last few months. Dr. Michael BlackwellDr. Michael Blackwell and Augusta O’Reilly recently published an article in ScienceDirect on “Access to Veterinary Care- A National Family Crisis and Case for One Health.”https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666450X23000081 Dr.…
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UTCSW Assistant Professor of Practice Stephanie Weatherstone Receives International Validated Credentials
UTCSW Assistant Professor of Practice Stephanie Weatherstone recently obtained the IAEDP-Approved Supervisor designation from the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (IAEDP) Foundation. This is an internationally validated credential, and Weatherstone is only the fifth therapist in the state of Tennessee to earn it. Weatherstone previously earned the CEDS in 2019, and this supervisory level…
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Study: Guaranteed Income Improved People’s Health During Pandemic
Final results from Stockton pilot program show connections between financial security and better health UTCSW Associate Professor Dr. Stacia West is a Founding Director of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research (CGIR), along with Dr. Amy Castro. CGIR’s team led the design and research for the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED). (Stockton, CA) — People…
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First Comprehensive Textbook on Veterinary Social Work Published
In conjunction with celebrating the 20-year anniversary of Veterinary Social Work at the University of Tennessee Colleges of Social Work and Veterinary Medicine, a new book titled The Comprehensive Guide to Interdisciplinary Veterinary Social Work was recently published, with UTCSW’s Research Associate Professor Dr. Pamela Linden as co-editor. The book, published by Springer, has contributions…