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Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research

Alumnae/i and Faculty in the News
2005

Addressing the mental health needs of today's citizen-soldiers

In December Professor James “Jim” Martin, as the Health Care Team Leader of the Citizen-Soldier Support Program, organized and lead a day long conference workshop, “Building Support for Our Citizen Soldiers and Their Families: A Mental Health Response." The presentation, in Pinehurst, NC, targeted medical directors and clinicians, physicians, psychiatrists, counselors and other service providers, to train them on the challenges and consequences of military service.

The Citizen-Soldier Support Program is a civilian, community-based initiative aimed at reaching all military personnel and their families, especially those in the National Guard and Reserve. Its mission is to mobilize community organizations and services to support and strengthen local citizen soldiers, their families, and loved ones. As retired Army Colonel, with a 26 year career in the Army Medical Department, Jim brings a wealth of professional and personal experience to the Program.   Link to CSSP for more

DAYTON , Ohio -- Jennifer Campbell, Ph.D., has recently been appointed the Director of the Hurricane Fund for the Elderly . This position, newly created by Grantmakers In Aging in partnership with the Administration on Aging, responds to the national need for services for elderly survivors of last summer's tragic hurricanes on the Gulf Coast . Campbell will be responsible for establishing and working with a National Advisory Committee to develop targeted objectives and procedures for the fund. She will also be responsible for creating a strategy and instituting procedures for implementing the fund's objectives under the stewardship of the National Advisory Committee.

A 30-year professional advocate for senior citizens, Campbell has led the evaluation of numerous aging-demonstration programs, including ones funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts and the Administration on Aging. An accomplished fund-raiser, she has obtained almost $2 million in grants for aging-related projects. Her experience includes developing new service delivery systems to support seniors remaining in their communities; utilizing nurse practitioners to deliver primary care for homebound seniors; training long term care staff to detect and respond to issues of elder abuse; and building coalitions to address the needs of seniors.

Formerly Director of Social Work at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia , Campbell has taught at Bryn Mawr College 's Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and has consulted for nonprofit organizations. Her areas of consultation include strategic planning, project management, policy research, curriculum development and training. She has lectured extensively in the field of ethics.

Dr. Campbell comes to the Hurricane Fund for the Elderly with the cooperation of the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, which is providing in-kind support for the project in conjunction with their new initiative in Gerontology as part of the Center for Child and Family Well-being that addresses issues across the life cycle.

Campbell holds a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College , as well as a Master's degree in Social Work from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Master's in Education and Gerontology from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She obtained her bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College.

To learn more about the Hurricane Fund for the Elderly, please contact Grantmakers In Aging at HurricaneFund@GIAging.org or at 888-435-3156. Donations may be made to the Hurricane Fund for the Elderly and mailed to Grantmakers In Aging, 7333 Paragon Road, Suite 220 , Dayton , OH 45459 .

Emeritus Professor Ruth Stallfort dies

Ruth Oliver Stallfort, Associate Professor Emeritus of Social Work and Social Research, on August 25, 2005 after a long battle with cancer ~ details in a letter from College President Nancy Vickers.

Professor Alexander Awarded NIH Grant

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Professor Leslie Alexander a grant to pursue an investigation, “Research Extenders & Research Integrity: A New Frontier.”  The two-year R01 grant, which uses qualitative methods, begins September 2005, with a first year award in the amount of $199,608. This grant builds on the web-based training that she and Professor Kenneth Richman, a bioethicist, formerly at Bryn Mawr, and now at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Technology in Boston, developed for the Office of Research Integrity, DHHS in 2004. Professor Richman is the Co-Principal Investigator on the grant.

(Posted 10/4/05)

Autism Affairs Director Appointed

Nina Wall-Cote (MSS 2000) was recently appointed by DPW Secretary Estelle Richman as Autism Affairs Director. Her primary role will be to work with Secretary Richman and various other Commonwealth agencies on the implementation of the recommendations of the Autism Task Force and to serve as a DPW's point person on issues affecting Pennsylvanians living with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Professionally, Ms. Wall-Cote has worked as a family, child and adolescent therapist with a specific focus on clinical work with families of children with special needs, and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. She has also worked in the system as a behavioral therapist. She served as co-chair of the Autism Task Force commissioned by Secretary Richman in July 2003, and she was a founding member and the first President of Pennsylvania Action Coalition for Autism Services (PACAS). She is the parent of 15-year-old with autism.

   (From the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare's June 2005, online newsletter "Alert")

PEC President Gloria Guard receives The Philadelphia Award

Gloria Guard (MSS, 1978; MLSP, 1980), President of the People's Emergency Center (PEC) and Executive Director of the People's Emergency Center Community Development Corporation (PECCDC) has been named winner of The Philadelphia Award for 2004.

Law & Social Policy Forum in Philadelphia

Corey Shdaimah, attorney, recent graduate of the School's PhD program (2005), and adjunct faculty in the Law and Social Policy Program delivered a presentation on lawyer-client relationships at the Philadelphia Cosmopolitan Club on May 23, 2005.

Professor Jim Martin - Keynote Speaker at "Building Community Networks to Support Our Military Families: A Social Service Response”

James (Jim) A. Martin, Ph.D., BCD, Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Research at the GSSWSR, and a retired U.S. Army Colonel, was the keynote speaker at a conference in Normal , IL on Thursday, March 31, 2005 sponsored by the Illinois State University School of Social Work.

Genny Dunne, MSS '85 heads career development and continuing education

The GSSWSR has a new Director of Career Development and Continuing Education, Genny Dunne, MSS who joined the School in November. She brings with her 20 years of experience in career development working directly with students and administering programs.

  Allyson Schwartz MSS '72

  wins PA 13th Congressional seat

  On November 2 nd Allyson Schwartz

  won the race for Pennsylvania 's 13 th

  Congressional seat in a hard-fought

  race that drew national attention.

Myra Bazell MSS ’04 and Mary Pat Kane MSS ’70 perform in the Philly Fringe

    GSSWSR is about more than just social work and a

    good example of this is its two alumnae,

    Myra Bazell MSS ’04 and Mary Pat Kane MSS ’70,

    who are participating at the

    ongoing Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.