Registration fee: $50/session

Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
RMW-1: Social Work Research and Technology: Leveraging AI, Topic Modeling, and Community-based Methods for Research on Human Services, Violence, and Grief
RMW-2: (CANCELLED) Expanding Research Opportunities: Making the Argument for the Fit between HBCUs and Community-Based Prevention Research
RMW-3: Spatial Regression Models: Opportunities for Social Work Research

Registration fee: $10/session

Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
SSRPCB-1: Building the Evidence to Demonstrate Social Work’s Role in the Integration of Social and Health Care: Using Recommendations from the 2019 NASEM Report and the 2020 Health Affairs Special Issue
SSRPCB-4: Developing Anti-Racist Research from Research Questions to Dissemination (switched with “Social Work’s Grand Challenge: What does it Mean to Eliminate Racism?”)
SSRPCB-3: Influencing Policy at the Local, State and National Levels

Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 2:15 pm – 4:15 pm
SSRPCB-2: Social Work’s Grand Challenge: What does it Mean to Eliminate Racism? (switched with “Developing Anti-Racist Research from Research Questions to Dissemination”)
SSRPCB-5: NIH, Funding opportunities in Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health

See below for additional information (title, speakers, and descriptions)

Tuesday, January 19, 2021
The registration fee is $50. Register early as space is limited!

12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

RMW-1: Social Work Research and Technology: Leveraging AI, Topic Modeling and Community-Based Methods for Research on Human Services, Violence, and Grief 

Desmond Patton, Columbia University (bio)
Courtney Cogburn, Columbia University (bio)
Maria Rodriguez, Hunter College, City University of New York (bio)

RMW-2: (CANCELLED) Expanding Research Opportunities: Making the Argument for the Fit between HBCUs and Community-Based Participatory Research

The research discusses the history of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), their unique missions, and the alignment of these elements relative to engaging in community-based participatory research (CBPR). The works reflects on both the research and service learning aspects of these institutions that make them such a good “fit” for CBPR.

Kim Dobson Sydnor, School of Social Work at Morgan State University (bio)
Anita Smith Hawkins, School of Social Work at Morgan State University (bio)
Lorece V. Edwards, School of Social Work at Morgan State University (bio)

RMW-3: Spatial Regression Models: Opportunities for Social Work Research

Danlin Yu, Montclair State University (bio)

Tuesday, January 19, 2021
These training-oriented sessions target cutting-edge topics vital to contemporary social work research. The registration fee is $10. Enroll early for these important opportunities to engage with national experts, funding institutions, and research colleagues.

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

SSRPCB-1: Building the Evidence to Demonstrate Social Work’s Role in the Integration of Social and Health Care; Using Recommendations from the 2019 NASEM Report and the 2020 Health Affairs Special Issue

Jorge Delva, Boston University (bio)
Tamara Cadet, Simmons University (bio)

SSRPCB-4: Developing Anti-Racist Research from Research Questions to Dissemination (switched with “Social Work’s Grand Challenge: What does it Mean to Eliminate Racism?”)

Moderator: Nikki Wooten, University of South Carolina(bio)

Discussants:
Todd Herrenkohl, University of Michigan (bio)
James Herbert Williams, Arizona State University (bio)

Presenters:
Katie  Schultz, University of Michigan (bio)
Darrell Hudson, Washington University (bio)
Trenette Clark Goings, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (bio)

SSRPCB-3: Influencing Policy at the Local, State and National Levels

Chair: Charles Lewis, CRISP (bio)

Presenters: (pending confirmation)
Michael Sherraden, Washington University in St. Louis (bio)
Miriam Abramovitz, Hunter College, The City University of New York (bio)
David Pate, University of Wisconsin-Madison (bio)

2:15 pm – 4:15 pm

SSRPCB-2: Social Work’s Grand Challenge: What does it Mean to Eliminate Racism? (switched with “Developing Anti-Racist Research from Research Questions to Dissemination”)

Dante Bryant, University of North Carolina, Charlotte (bio)
Sonyia Richardson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte (bio)

In 1971 the Council on Social Work Education publicly acknowledged the need to develop practices that would better prepare social work (SW) to respond to racially-marginalized, and non- racially-majoritarian populations. As a result, by the mid-1980s, SW programs across the country began to import a range of cultural-competency and diversity, training, workshops, and curriculum requirements; some of which have become synonymous with today’s profession. However, over the past decade, many of these efforts have come under considerable scrutiny. The primary criticisms have focused on the a-political nature of these activities, and their failure to address the underlying causes of racial injustice. In keeping with these criticisms, on June 6th, 2020, the Social Work Grand Challenge confronted the SW profession with the task of Eliminating Racism. While this gesture is noteworthy, it raises questions. For example, what does it mean to end racism? And furthermore, what role can social work play? In an effort to resound to these uncertainties, this presentation will attempt to guide participants in their efforts to 1. Contextualize social work’s role and commitments to this process, 2. Critically examine current pedagogical and research practices within the profession, and 3. Actively engage in building and operationalizing models that can support this challenge.

SSRPCB-5: NIH Funding Opportunities and Implementation Research in Health

Chair: Denise Pintello, NIMH (bio)

Presenters:
Tisha Wiley, NIDA (bio)
Gila Neta, NCI (bio)
Cheryl Boyce, NHLBI (bio)