Congratulations to the Berkeley Social Welfare faculty, students, and researchers presenting at the annual SSWR conference in Washington, DC. Names of presenting authors are in bold.
Thursday, January 13, 2022
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
Examining TANF Program's Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis in California (poster presentation)
MinJee Keh, MSW, Doctoral Student, UC Berkeley; Kimberly Salazar, Undergraduate Student, UC Berkeley; Yu-Ling Chang, PhD, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
Friday, January 14, 2022
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
Rethinking the Pharmacy: Stakeholder Perceptions of Pharmacist-Prescribed Hormonal Contraception in Rural California
Monica De La Cruz, MPH, Doctoral Student, UC Berkeley; Rachel Logan, PhD, Research Associate, UC Berkeley; Erin Garner-Ford, Investigator, EGF Consulting; Sally Rafie, Pharmacist, UC San Diego; Anu Manchikanti Gómez, PhD, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Pregnancy, Parenting and Criminalization: A Social Work Perspective Grounded in Reproductive Justice
Symposium Organizer: Anu Manchikanti Gómez
Exploring the Role of Social Workers in Criminalization of Pregnancy
Reiley Reed, MPH, PhD Student, UC Berkeley; Anu Manchikanti Gómez, PhD, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
The Abundant Birth Project: Community-Centered Design of a Pregnancy Income Supplement to Disrupt Structural Racism and Advance Birth Justice
Anu Manchikanti Gómez, PhD, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley; Breezy Powell, Community Researcher, Expecting Justice; Monica De La Cruz, MPH, Doctoral Student, UC Berkeley; Sabra Bell, Community Researcher, Expecting Justice; Maile Chand, Community Researcher, Expecting Justice; Anjeanette Coats, Community Researcher, Expecting Justice; Stephanie Arteaga, Project Director, UC Berkeley; Esperanza Castillo, Program Coordinator, UCSF; Payshia Edwards, Program Associate, Expecting Justice; Zariyah Isaq, Research Intern, UC Berkeley; Nicole Jones, Program Manager, Expecting Justice; Latriece Love-Goodlett, Associate Director, Expecting Justice; Troy Roberts, Case Manager, Expecting Justice; Solaire Spellen, Associate Director, UCSF; Michaela Taylor, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley; Jazzmin Williams, Medical Student, UCSF; Zea Malawa, Physician Director, Expecting Justice; Deborah Karasek, Assistant Professor, UCSF
Relational and Structural Factors Informing the Methamphetamine-Using Behaviors of Sexual Minority Men (poster presentation)
Walter Gómez, PhD, MA, MSW, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago; Kurt C. Organista, Professor, UC Berkeley; Amy Mericle, Scientist, Alcohol Research Group; Jasper Lee, Doctoral Candidate, University of Miami; Adam Carrico, PhD, Professor, University of Miami
Saturday, January 15, 2022
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
Domestic Violence Alleged in Child Maltreatment Reports during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rebecca Rebbe, PhD, Assistant Professor, USC; Vivian Lyons, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Daniel Webster, PhD, Principal Investigator, UC Berkeley; Emily Putnam-Hornstein, PhD, UNC Chapel Hill
Does the State Impact Hope? Direct and Vicarious Police Contact and Optimism Among Urban Teens
Aaron Gottlieb, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago; Maddie Berry, Social Worker, University of Chicago; Kalen Flynn, PhD, MSW, MSSP, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago; Brenda Mathias, MSSA, PhD Student, UC Berkeley
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Profiling Expenditure Patterns of Low-Income Families in China: Impact on Child Developmental Outcomes and Suicidal Risks (poster presentation)
Yunyu Xiao, PhD; M.Phil., Assistant Professor, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis & Indiana University–Bloomington; Julian Chun-Chung Chow, PhD, Professor, UC Berkeley; Keqing Han, PhD, Professor, Renmin University of China; Shencheng Wang, PhD Candidate, Renmin University of China
Sunday, January 16, 2022
8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Associations between Family Resilience and Health Outcomes Among Kinship Caregivers and Their Children
Anthony Gómez, MSW, Doctoral Student, UC Berkeley
Social Media As a Source of Data - Lessons Learned and Implications for Utilizing Computational Methods in Social Work Research
Kelly Ziemer, MSW, UC Berkeley; Cheng Ren, MSSA, UC Berkeley; Maria Rodriguez, PhD, MSW, University at Buffalo; Woojin Jung, PhD, Rutgers University
For Those Who Love Black Children: A Conceptualization of the Radical and Liberatory Possibilities of Play for Black Children (poster presentation)
Demond Hill, MA, PhD Student, UC Berkeley
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
Coping Healthfully but Still Distressed: A Mixed Methods Study of Distress and Coping Styles during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Angie Wootton, MSW, Doctoral Student, UC Berkeley; Dylan Rice, BA, Research assistant, Massachusetts General Hospital; Anna Laura McKowen, MA, Research assistant, Columbia University; Cindy Veldhuis, PhD, Psychologist & Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
Using Machine Learning to Code Immigrant-Serving Organizations (poster presentation)
Cheng Ren, MSSA, PhD Student, UC Berkeley CA; Irene Bloemraad, Professor, UC Berkeley
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Exploring the Possibility of Equity-Enhancing Prevention in Schools Though Social and Emotional Learning: Disparity Reduction, Contextual Considerations, and Transformational Aspirations
Symposium Organizer: Valerie Shapiro
Are We Measuring the Same Social-Emotional Competence across Diverse Student Subgroups?: Testing Measurement Invariance of a Teacher-Completed Behavioral Rating Scale
Juyeon Lee, MSW, UC Berkeley; Valerie B. Shapiro, PhD, UC Berkeley; Jennifer L. Fleming Robitaille, MS; Paul LeBuffe, MA, Devereux Foundation
The Calhope Initiative: Assessing the Social Context, Stressors, and Attitudes of County Office of Education Leaders Towards Implementing Social Emotional Learning in California Following the Covid-19 Pandemic
Alejandro Nunez, BA, UC, Berkeley; Valerie B. Shapiro, PhD, UC Berkeley; Juyeon Lee, MSW, UC Berkeley; Elsy Lewis, Current Undergrad, UC Berkeley
Transformative SEL: Are Educational Leaders Embracing a New Equity-Enhancing Understanding of SEL?
Nehal Eldeeb, MSW, UC Berkeley; Valerie B. Shapiro, PhD, UC Berkeley; Alejandro Nunez, BA, UC Berkeley; Jenna Greenstein, UC Berkeley; Juyeon Lee, MSW, UC Berkeley
If we have overlooked anyone in the list of presenters, please accept our apologies and send a correction to socialwelfare@berkeley.edu.