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- Category: Achieve equal opportunity and justice
- Grand Challenges Releases its 5 Year Impact Report!
- Congressional Briefing – Black Lives Matter: Social Work and the Future of Policing
- Now available from NASW Press: Grand Challenges for Society
- GCSW-Supported Conference on Race, Inequality and Social Mobility
- The Journal of Teaching in Social Work highlights the Grand Challenge to Achieve Equal Opportunity and Justice for All in a Special Issue
- "When Children Grow Up Poor, the Nation Pays a Price", in The New York Times, OP-ED Section.
- TIME Magazine Article focuses on Immigration Policy. Fellow Dr. Luis Zayas is quoted.
- Society for Social Work and Research, 2018 Annual Conference, Achieving Equal Opportunity, Equity, and Justice, January 10-14, 2018 , Washington, D.C.
- Increasing Success for African American Students- Working Paper No. 21
- "Fostering Equity for All Americans" in Behavioral HealthCare Blog
- "Larry E. Davis tackles race in: Why Are They Angry At Us?"
- Achieving Equal Opportunity and Justice: The integration of Latina/o Immigrants into American Society- Working Paper No. 20
- The Grand Challenge of Promoting Equality by Addressing Social Stigma- Working Paper No. 18
- Category: Advance long and productive lives
- Call for Papers! Clinical Social Work Journal: Special Issue: Productive Aging
- The Gerontological Society of America, Public Policy & Aging Newsletter Highlights Social Isolation
- Increasing Productive Engagement Early in Life: Civic and Volunteer Service as a Pathway to Development.- Working Paper No. 23.
- Join the Grand Challenges for Social Work Webinar, Advance Long and Productive Lives, on September 19th, 10 am ET
- Grand Challenge Network Meetings will be hosted at the IAGG, San Francisco Conference July 23-27, 2017
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work Highlights Grand Challenges
- Approaches, Policies, and Practices to Support the Productive Engagement of Older Adults
- Increasing Productive Engagement in Later Life- Working Paper No. 8
- Category: Build financial capability for all
- Financial Capability and Asset Building: Achievements, Challenges, and Next Steps
- Universal Child Development Accounts Become Reality in Several States
- 2019 Social Work Day on the Hill
- Emerging Innovative Policy for Building Financial Stability
- March 21st Social Work Day on the Hill to Feature Grand Challenges
- 3 Leading Journals Bring Awareness to Grand Challenge to Build Financial Capability
- Links Added! Join Us for a GCs Webinar, January 30th, 2 pm ET/ 1 pm CT/ 11 am PT/ Title: Building Financial Capability and Assets for All
- Mayor de Blasio, Commissioner Menin and Newly Created Nonprofit "NYC Kids RISE" Announce Child Savings Account Program to Help Public School Students Save for College
- Center for Social Development Hosts Seminar for Visitors from South Korea–Part of a Training Program Focused on Developing Financial Capability for Korean Youth
- Michael Sherraden, Director for the Center for Social Development, Washington University in St Louis, Advises Israeli Government on Implementation of Universal Savings Accounts for Children.
- #OfficialMacroSW leads Twitter chat on Grand Challenge of building financial capability for all
- Financial Capability and Asset Building for All- Working Paper No. 13
- Category: Build healthy relationships to end violence
- Special Issue Call for Papers: Building Healthy Relationships to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan
- Dr. Luis H. Zayas Discusses the Psychological Impacts of Child Separation at the US-Mexico Border
- ASU Social Work Students Help Create Community Mural
- SSWR 2019 Annual Meeting: Ending Gender Based, Family and Community Violence
- Safe Children: Reducing Severe and Fatal Maltreatment- Working Paper No. 17
- Ending Gender-Based Violence: A Grand Challenge for Social Work- Working Paper No. 15
- Category: Close the health gap
- COVID-19 Webinar Series
- Strengthening Health Care Systems: Better Health Across America – Working Paper No. 22
- Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions Highlights Grand Challenges
- Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions – Call for Papers
- Health Equity: Eradicating Health Inequalities for Future Generations- Working Paper No. 19
- Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and Its Consequences: A Grand Challenge for Social Work- Working Paper No. 14
- Category: Create social responses to a changing environment
- New Infographics on Social Work and Climate Change
- Professors expand social work practice to examine impacts of environmental changes on vulnerable populations
- Lisa Reyes Mason Discusses the Impact of Social Work on Global Environmental Change
- New Book Addresses the Grand Challenge to Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment
- Climate Change in the News. OpEd Authored by Professor and Grand Challenges Leader, Lisa Reyes Mason, PhD
- Symposium highlights social justice aspects of climate change
- USC Professor’s Nonprofit Tackles Grand Challenges with Clean Technology
- Strengthening the Social Response to the Human Impacts of Environmental Change- Working Paper No. 5
- Category: Education
- Study Shows Social Work Programs Increasing Grand Challenges Content
- GCSW Educational Integration Survey Infographic
- #NYUSilverUp4TheChallenge Student Competition Announces Finalist
- ACSSW Institute on Grand Challenges
- Post-Master’s Fellowship Opportunity at the Institute for Justice Research and Development
- Integrating the Grand Challenges into Your School
- Join Us on October 25, 2018, Science For Action Series at University of Denver!
- Illinois School of Social Work Announces Lecture Series to Address Grand Challenge to Harness Technology for Social Good
- Prof2Prof Partners with Grand Challenges for Social Work: Scholars are Encouraged to Join!
- Why Social Science Blog Highlights Grand Challenges
- Join the Grand Challenges for Social Work Webinar, Harness Technology for Social Good, on March 6, 2018, 11 am EST/ 10 am CST/ 8 am PST
- Now Available: New Book on Grand Challenges from Oxford University Press!
- Attending the SSWR 2018 Annual Conference? There will be Special Interest Groups on each of the 12 Grand Challenges for Social Work
- Kick off Event Success! Social Work Grand Challenges, Science for Action Series, University of Denver, Graduate School of Social Work
- 2017 CSWE Annual Program Meeting, October 19-22, 2017, Dallas, Texas
- Registration is now open for the Smart Decarceration 2nd Annual Conference, November 2-4th at University of Chicago
- Smart Decarceration 2nd National Conference, University of Chicago, November 2-4, 2017
- Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences highlights work on Grand Challenges for Social Work
- Grand Challenges Western Consortium Inaugural Meeting, March 27th, Portland State University
- University of Maryland, School of Social Work, Highlights Grand Challenges in the Winter 2017 Issue of Connections Magazine
- "USC Opens Applications for New Online Doctor of Social Work Degree"
- Call for Papers- NASW Journal Children & Schools – Responding to Grand Challenges for Social Work Practice
- #MacroSW to Host Grand Challenges Online Chat Thursday, April 14th, 2016, on Smart Decarceration
- "The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative and Our Future" by Darla Spence Coffey, PhD, MSW, in The New Social Worker.
- Category: Eliminate racism
- Category: End homelessness
- A Brief Description of Workers in the U.S. Homeless Services Sector
- Stay Home? Housing Inequities, Covid 19, and Social Welfare Policy Responses
- NYU Silver Study Counters Narrative that Street Homeless Are “Service Resistant”
- Call for Submissions: Special Issue on Advancing Social Work Education to Meet the Grand Challenge of Ending Homelessness
- Fair Housing and Inclusive Communities: How Can Social Work Move Us Forward? – Working Paper No. 24
- Social Work Academy Taps Trojan to Lead National Effort Against Homelessness
- The Grand Challenge to End Homelessness- Working Paper No. 9
- Category: Ensure healthy development for youth
- New National Report Aligns with GC to Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth
- Capitol Hill Briefing on Reducing Weapons and Violence in Schools and Communities
- Legislative Briefing on Youth Mental Health
- Legislative Briefing from the U.S. House Mental Health Caucus: May 15
- Social Development Research Group at University of Washington School of Social Work Celebrates 40 Years of Prevention Science
- Two Grand Challenge for Social Work Meetings at University of Southern California, April 26-28th
- Putting Grand Challenges into Action to Support Healthy Futures for Seattle Youth
- Links Added! Join Us for a GCs Webinar, October 13, 2016, 12 pm ET/ 10 am MT/ 9 am PT, Title: Ensuring Healthy Development for All Youth by Unleashing the Power of Prevention
- Announcement of JSSWR Special Issue, Call for Papers, Grand Challenge to Ensure Healthy Development of All Youth
- "Promoting Prevention"
- "NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED PEDIATRIC HEALTH EXPERTS CONDUCT CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING ON PREVENTION OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROBLEMS"
- Policy Forum Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health: Integration in Research, Policy, and Practice
- Unleashing the Power of Prevention
- Unleashing the Power of Prevention – Working Paper No. 10
- Prevention of Schizophrenia and Severe Mental Illness- Working Paper No. 6
- Category: Eradicate social isolation
- Category: Grand Challenges for Social Work
- GCSW Announces Inaugural Doctoral Awardees
- GCSW Doctoral Awards – Call for Applications!
- Grand Challenges Awards Will Help Social Work Doctoral Students Turn Research Into Policy & Practice
- Just Released – Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society: Milestones Achieved and Opportunities Ahead
- Grand Challenges Featured at Seton Hall University
- New working paper: Achieving Equal Opportunity and Justice in Juvenile Justice
- Leading in a time of crisis: Technology resources you can use right now
- 17th Annual POWER Conference
- Grand Challenges for Social Work Calendar
- Dr. Hoefer poses Modest Challenges that are needed to ensure that social workers can address the Grand Challenges.
- The Grand Challenges for Social Work: An Update
- GCSW Leadership: Restructuring for Greater Impact
- Read about Grand Challenge activity in the latest issue of our newsletter, UP!
- #NYUSilverUp4theChallenge
- GCSW Mission & Principles: Draft available for feedback
- UP! The inaugural issue of the Grand Challenges e-newsletter is now available!
- Oxford University Press Announces new book, Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society
- Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society
- University of Denver, Graduate School of Social Work, Announces Kick-Off Event for Social Work Grand Challenges Science for Action Series
- Photos from the March for Science, April 22nd
- JSSWR publishes Special Section, Implementing the Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative
- 5th Annual Yuma Social Work Month Celebration to Focus on Grand Challenges
- NASW Maryland Chapter Conference: Grand Challenges, March 30-31, 2017
- 12 Grand Challenges for Social Work is Evolving into Something Very Special
- Journal of the Society for Social Work & Research Announces Special Section on Grand Challenges
- Creating Bigger Problems: Grand Challenges as Boundary Objects and the Legitimacy of the Information Systems Field
- Congressional Research Institute for Social Work & Policy, "12 Grand Challenges Gain Momentum at Brown School Forum".
- "Social Innovation for America’s Renewal" Conference Takes on Nation’s "Grand Challenges".
- Brown School conference to focus on ‘12 Grand Challenges’ for America
- Grand Challenges for Social Work- Draft Policy Briefs Announced
- "Social Work Organizations Launch Grand Challenges"
- Social Work Podcast "The Grand Challenges for Social Work: Interview with Dr. Richard P. Barth"
- #MacroSW to Host Grand Challenges Online Chat Thursday, Feb. 4
- "Innovating Social Work Practice for the Future"
- “Three ways social network research can solve the Grand Challenges”
- “The Top Twelve Grand Challenges Facing Society Today”
- “Grand Challenges for Social Work: Identify 12 Top Social Issues Facing America”
- LAUNCH PRESS RELEASE: “GRAND CHALLENGES FOR SOCIAL WORK” IDENTIFY 12 TOP SOCIAL PROBLEMS FACING AMERICA
- MEDIA ALERT: American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare to Launch Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative
- American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare to Launch Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative, SSWR Conference, Washington, D.C., January 14, 2016
- New Directions for Social Work in the 21st Century
- University of Washington, School of Social Work, 2015 Annual Report Highlights Grand Challenges
- Identifying and Tackling Grand Challenges for Social Work- Working Paper No. 3
- GCEC Meets in San Antonio, TX- January 2014
- Grand Accomplishments in Social Work- Working Paper No. 2
- Introduction and Context for Grand Challenges for Social Work – Working Paper No. 1
- Category: Harness technology for social good
- Technology innovations in criminal justice reform
- Virtual Reality Tool Aids Social Workers
- Artificial Intelligence Is Now Ready For Social Entrepreneurs
- Practice Innovation Through Technology in the Digital Age: A Grand Challenge for Social Work- Working Paper No. 12
- Harnessing Big Data for Social Good: A Grand Challenge for Social Work- Working Paper No. 11
- Category: In the Media
- Category: Policy
- Advancing the Work of the Grand Challenge Promote Smart Decarceration
- Join Experts in D.C. on Thurs 6/28/18 at 2pm for a Discussion on Sentencing Reform
- Join Us on April 18th, 3 pm ET, for a Special Grand Challenges Webinar, titled: Make Your Research Useful to Policymakers for Maximum Impact.
- Twitter Chat on Minimum Wage, August 31st, 3 PM ET
- AASWSW takes lead in organizing participation in the March for Science
- March for Science, April 22, 2017, National Mall, Washington, D.C.
- Grand Challenges for Social Work Policy Actions and Advice on Advancing Social Policy
- Grand Challenge Policy Action Statements
- Please vote for the Presidential Debate questions, issued by the AASWSW
- Questions for the Presidential Candidates are Issued by the AASWSW
- Social Work Groups Join Forces with Rock the Vote to register voters #SWRocktheVote campaign will run September 12-30th.
- Save the date! Ideas to Action: Grand Challenges for Social Work Policy Conference, September 14 through 16, 2016
- Save the date! Ideas to Action: Grand Challenges for Social Work Policy Conference, September 14 through 16, 2016
- Category: Practice
- Category: Promote smart decarceration
- Ecologies of juvenile reoffending: A Systematic Review of Risk Factors
- Drug Court through the Lenses of African American Women: Improving Graduation Rates with Gender-Responsive Interventions
- A behind-the-scenes perspective on the key components of drug court: A Narrative Analysis
- Treating Opioid Use Disorders in Drug Court: Participants’ Views on Using Medication-Assisted Treatments (MATs) to Support Recovery
- Improving graduation rates for African Americans in drug court: Importance of human relationships and barriers to gaining and sustaining employment
- Improving Graduation Rates in Drug Court Through Employment and Schooling Opportunities and Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)
- Participants’ views on the strengths and limitations of drug court: Recommendations to enhance assessment and treatment of mental illnesses
- Improving graduation rates in drug court: A qualitative study of participants’ lived experiences
- Guideposts for the Era of Smart Decarceration
- Post-Master’s Fellowship Opportunity at the Institute for Justice Research and Development
- Call for Papers – Criminal Justice and Behavior Journal – Manuscripts Due by May 31, 2019
- FSU College of Social Work to launch re-entry initiative with $1M grant
- Smart Decarceration book is forthcoming from Oxford
- From Mass Incarceration to Smart Decarceration- Working Paper No. 4
- Category: Publication
- Category: Reduce extreme economic inequality
- Category: Research
- Category: Resource
- Category: Webinar
Events
- Harness Technology for Social Good Webinar Series on AI in Social Work
- Social Impact Horizon: Navigating the Grand Challenges in Social Work
- Social Impact Horizon: Navigating Grand Challenges in Social Work
- Building a Better Future through Innovative Policy Solutions and Action
- Parting the Fog of Techno Determinism: The Future of Social Work & Artificial Intelligence
- GCSW Activities at SSWR 2023
- Gender as an Issue in Each Grand Challenge
- What Does Economic Security Look Like and How to Get There
- Taxes and Social Justice: An Agenda for Social Workers
- Wealth, Financial Health, and the State of the Native Asset Building Field
- Ending Ageism Isn't Enough: Applying An Intersectional Lens on Health and Work
- Empowering Voting and Democracy Virtual Education Series
- 2022 Social Work Day on the Hill
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Social Work Hosts Series on Harnessing Technology for Social Good
- KU School of Social Welfare Hosts Grand Challenges for Social Work Event Series
- Daniel Thursz Social Justice Lecture: Our World on Fire: Is there a Social Worker in the House?
- Grand Challenge Activities at SSWR
- Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism Webinar Series – Part 3: Reduce Extreme Economic Inequality and Build Financial Capability and Assets for All
- Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism Webinar Series – Part 5: Creating Social Responses to a Changing Environment and Harnessing Technology for Social Good
- Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism Webinar Series - Part 4: End Homelessness and Eradicate Social Isolation
- Income Support: How can Basic Income and Child Allowances reduce extreme economic inequality?
- Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism Webinar Series - Part 2
- Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism Webinar Series - Part One
- Environmental and Racial Justice Series - Webinar Series from the Grand Challenge to Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment
- Financial Capability and Asset Building 2021 Conference
- Institute for Justice Research and Development Summer Institute
- Advancing Smart Decarceration Through Research
- Ensure Healthy Development for Youth: Behavioral Health Prevention Training Modules for the Classroom
- Close the Health Gap Month
- End Homelessness Month
- State of Incarceration Virtual Summit
- Build Healthy Relationships to End Violence Month
- Advance Long and Productive Lives Month
- Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment Month
- The Art of Policy Practice: Navigating the Legislative Process
- Webinar - Making Change: Messaging your Issue for Policy Audiences
- Harness Technology for Social Good Month
- Harnessing Technology for Social Good Webinar Series
- Eradicate Social Isolation Month
- Stay Home? Housing Inequities, Covid-19, & Social Welfare Policy Responses
- Covid19: Learning from History about Disaster and Economic Inequality
- Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth Month
- Build Financial Capability for All Month
- 8th Annual Social Work Awareness Day with San Diego Padres
- Social Work Day on the Hill
- Promote Smart Decarceration Month
- Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults
- HILL BRIEFING: The Intersection of Health and Justice: A look inside county jails
- 2nd Annual Summit for Homeless Service Providers - University of Maryland School of Social Work
- 2020 Legislative and Policy Conference
- Science for Action — Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment
- Achieve Equal Opportunity and Justice Month
- Reduce Extreme Economic Inequality Month
- SSWR Annual Conference: Reducing Racial and Economic Inequality
- CSWE 65th Annual Program Meeting
- Teaching about Equality and Justice: New Paradigms from a Grand Challenges Perspective
- SI SE PUEDE: Social Workers United For Latino Advancement Conference
- Thinking Money: The Psychology Behind our Best and Worst Financial Decisions
- Third Convening on Financial Capability and Asset Building: Using Evidence to Influence Policy and Practice
- Coin a Better Future: Reaching Out to Financially Vulnerable Households
- NASW Virtual Forum: Domestic Violence Through the Social Work Lens
- 2019 Western Consortium Meeting
- WEBINAR: Current Strategies for Reducing Economic Inequality
- 2019 Symposium on Solutions to End Youth Homelessness
- 2019 CRISP Social Work Day on the Hill
- ACSSW Conference: School Social Workers Rise to the Grand Challenges for Social Work
- 2019 SSWR Annual Conference
- Social Work Grand Challenges Kickoff Event at University of Denver, October 31, 2017.
- 25 Years of Answering the Call of Social Challenges, April 21, 2017, University of Maryland, School of Social Work
- March for Science, April 22, 2017, National Mall, Washington, D.C.
- Save the date! Ideas to Action: Grand Challenges for Social Work Policy Conference, September 14 through 16, 2016
- Grand Challenges for Social Work in the Next Decade: Maximizing Contributions from the Policy Front. June 2 - 4, 2016, Washington University, St. Louis.
- The Network for Social Work Management 27th Annual Conference "Grand Challenges" June 16th and 17th, 2016, Hosted by USC, School of Social Work.
- Nationally Recognized Pediatric Health Experts Conduct Congressional Briefing On Prevention Of Behavioral Health Problems
- Si Se Puede: Social Workers United for Latino Advancement, Conference April 25-27, 2016, NYU, Silver School of Social Work
- Council on Social Work Education, 59th Annual Program Meeting, Grand Challenges Presentation
Publications
- Which Environmental Social Work? Environmentalisms, Social Justice, and the Dilemmas Ahead
- Financial Access and Financial Behavior
- Social Work and the Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism
- Behavioral Health Interventions for Incarcerated Adults With Histories of Trauma: A Scoping Review
- JSWE Special Issue on Preparing Students to Address the Grand Challenges for Social Work
- Preparing Allied Health Students to Address Social Work’s Grand Challenge to End Homelessness
- An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Grand Challenges: Tackling the Climate Crisis Using Multisolving
- Recommendations for Social Work Researchers and Journal Editors on the Use of Generative AI and Large Language Models
- Evaluation of African American Language Bias in Natural Language Generation
- Experiential Learning Labs in Field Education: Tackling the Grand Challenges Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Which Environmental Social Work? Environmentalisms, Social Justice, and the Dilemmas Ahead
- Social Work Education and the Grand Challenges Approaches to Curricula and Field Education
- Effect of the Communities That Care Prevention System on Adolescent Handgun Carrying A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial
- Associations Between State TANF Policies, Child Protective Services Involvement, And Foster Care Placement
- Promote Smart Decarceration and Eliminate Racism Grand Challenges for Social Work: Reimagining Marijuana Policy
- Social Work Roles in Elder Abuse Prevention and Response
- Association Between State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Policies, Child Protective Services Involvement, and Foster Care in the US, 2004-2016
- Strengthening Relationships between Couples to Respond to Domestic Violence: a Commentary on Policy Changes Needed to Support this Evolution
- From social justice to abolition: living up to social work’s grand challenge of eliminating racism
- Interventions Designed to Improve Financial Capability: A Systematic Review
- The Science of Social Work: Public Perceptions
- Grand Challenges for Social Work in the Encyclopedia of Social Work
- Special Issue: Building Financial Capability and Assets in America’s Families
- Differential Response and the Reduction of Child Maltreatment and Foster Care Services Utilization in the U.S. From 2004 to 2017
- Promoting Health Equity by Paying for Social Care
- Integrating Smart Decarceration Content Across Social Work Curricula
- Targeted deposits in Pennsylvania’s Keystone Scholars Child Development Account program
- Social Work and Environmental Justice
- Principles of Prosecutor-Led Gun Diversion Programming
- Global Climate Change, Population Displacement, and Public Health: The Next Wave of Migration
- Financial Capability and Asset Building: Achievements, Challenges, and Next Steps
- Teaching to Tech: A Quasi-Experimental Assessment of a Technology-Enhanced Social Work Course
- 2021 Policy Recommendations: Advance Long and Productive Lives
- Socially Connected Communities: Solutions for Social Isolation
- Race and Ethnicity in the Social Work Grand Challenges
- Will I be able to cast my vote? Race, income, and voting access on election day
- Grand Challenges 5 Year Impact Report
- Gerontological Social Work and the Grand Challenges: Focusing on Policy and Practice
- The Promise of Research to Advance Smart Decarceration
- SPECIAL ISSUE: Mainstreaming Gender: An Intersectional Feminist Approach to Social Work’s Grand Challenges
- State-Level Strategies to Promote Prevention Practice, Policy, and Science
- Financial Inclusion to Help Mitigate the Economic Consequences of COVID-19
- Basic Income, COVID-19, and Economic Security
- Job Training and So Much More for Low-Income Older Adults: The Senior Community Services Employment Program
- Productive Aging in the Social Work Profession: A Comparison of Licensed Workers 60 Years and Older with Their Younger Counterparts
- Theoretical Orientation to Integration Home Sharing: Implications for Direct Social Work Practice on Addressing Student Debt and Aging-in-Community
- Voices from the Field: Ecological Factors that Promote Employment and Health Among Low-Income Older Adults with Implications for Direct Social Work Practice
- The Grand Challenge to End Homelessness: Policy Proposals for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.
- The Grand Challenges for Social Work: An Update
- The Routledge Handbook on Financial Social Work Direct Practice with Vulnerable Populations, 1st Edition
- Homelessness Prevention and Intervention in Social Work: Policies, Programs, and Practices
- NYU Silver Study Counters Narrative that Street Homeless Are “Service Resistant”
- Grand Challenges for Society
- Advancing Social Justice in Field Settings: What Social Work Can Learn from Allied Health Professions
- People and Climate Change
- Better Social Policies for a Better America: Agenda and Progress
- Teaching Social Work with Digital Technology
- International View of CDAs
- GCSW Guiding Principles
- Facing segregation: Housing policy solutions for a stronger society
- Five Dimensions of Climate Science Reductionism
- Rules for talking about Our Changing Environment
- Financial Capability and Asset Building in Vulnerable Households: Theory and Practice
- Policy Recommendations for Financial Capability and Asset Building by Increasing Access to Safe, Affordable Credit
- Policy Recommendations for Helping U.S. Households Build Emergency Savings
- Policy Recommendations for Expanding Access to Banking and Financial Services
- How Will Higher Minimum Wages Affect Family Life and Children's Well‐Being?
- Considering a national paid leave policy
- Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society
- Fair Housing and Inclusive Communities: How Can Social Work Move Us Forward? – Working Paper No. 24
- Increasing Productive Engagement Early in Life: Civic and Volunteer Service as a Pathway to Development.- Working Paper No. 23
- Strengthening Health Care Systems: Better Health Across America – Working Paper No. 22
- Social Work Research and Global Environmental Change
- Equipping Social Workers to Promote a Social Development Response to Population Aging
- Smart Decarceration: Achieving Criminal Justice Transformation in the 21st Century
- Does Volunteering Buffer Health During the Relocation Process? A Propensity Score Analysis
- Raising Awareness about Health Equity, Productive Aging, and At-Risk Older Adults
- Affiliate Group Meeting
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work Highlights Grand Challenges
- Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions Highlights Grand Challenges
- Special Section: Implementing the Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative
- Grand Challenge Policy Action Statements
- Policy action statement: Advance Long and Productive Lives
- Policy Action Statement: Stop Family Violence
- Policy Action Statement: Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth
- Policy Action Statement: Stop Family Violence
- Policy Action Statement: Promote Smart Decarceration
- Policy Action Statement: Advance long and productive lives
- Policy Action Statement: Create social responses to a changing environment
- Policy Action Statement: Ensure healthy development for all youth
- Policy Action Statement: Build Financial Capability and Assets for All and Reduce Economic Inequality
- Policy Action Statement: Reduce Extreme Economic Inequality
- Develop policies targeting environmentally induced displacement in the United States
- Approaches, Policies, and Practices to Support the Productive Engagement of Older Adults
- Translating Grand Challenges From Concept to Community: The “Communities in Action” Experience
- Journal of the Society for Social Work & Research Announces Special Section on Grand Challenges
- Announcement of JSSWR Special Issue, Call for Papers, Grand Challenge to Ensure Healthy Development of All Youth
- Self-employment in later life: Implications for financial, physical, and mental well-being
- Increasing Success for African American Students- Working Paper No. 21
- Grand Challenges for Social Work: Policy Briefs
- Preventing Schizophrenia and Severe Mental Illness: A Grand Challenge for Social Work
- Reducing Illinois prison population is a marathon, not a sprint
- Congressional Briefing on Healthy Parenting Programs in Primary Care
- Editorial by G. J. Botvin, The New York Times
- Achieving Equal Opportunity and Justice: The integration of Latina/o Immigrants into American Society- Working Paper No. 20
- Health Equity: Eradicating Health Inequalities for Future Generations- Working Paper No. 19
- The Grand Challenge of Promoting Equality by Addressing Social Stigma- Working Paper No. 18
- Safe Children: Reducing Severe and Fatal Maltreatment- Working Paper No. 17
- Reversing Extreme Inequality- Working Paper No. 16
- Report and recommendations concerning the use of restrictive housing: Final report
- Within Our Reach- A National Strategy to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities
- Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and Its Consequences: A Grand Challenge for Social Work- Working Paper No. 14
- Personal network structure and substance use in women by 12 month post treatment intake
- Formerly incarcerated individuals are a crucial element in building a decarceration movement
- Ending Gender-Based Violence: A Grand Challenge for Social Work- Working Paper No. 15
- Financial Capability and Asset Building for All- Working Paper No. 13
- Practice Innovation Through Technology in the Digital Age: A Grand Challenge for Social Work- Working Paper No. 12
- Commentary: Social network analysis and the social work profession
- Smart decarceration: Guiding concepts for an era of criminal justice transformation
- The Case for a National Health Social Work Practice-Based Research Network in Addressing Health Equity
- Harnessing Big Data for Social Good: A Grand Challenge for Social Work- Working Paper No. 11
- Unleashing the Power of Prevention
- Unleashing the Power of Prevention Commentary
- Unleashing the Power of Prevention Discussion Paper
- Solitary Confinement: Can the Courts Get Inmates out of the Hole
- Unleashing the Power of Prevention - Working Paper No. 10
- The Grand Challenge to End Homelessness- Working Paper No. 9
- Personal networks of women in residential and outpatient substance use disorder treatment
- Increasing Productive Engagement in Later Life- Working Paper No. 8
- Social Isolation Presents a Grand Challenge for Social Work- Working Paper No. 7
- Prevention of Schizophrenia and Severe Mental Illness- Working Paper No. 6
- Strengthening the Social Response to the Human Impacts of Environmental Change- Working Paper No. 5
- From Mass Incarceration to Smart Decarceration- Working Paper No. 4
- Personal network recovery enablers and relapse risks for women with substance dependence
- Identifying and Tackling Grand Challenges for Social Work- Working Paper No. 3
- Grand Accomplishments in Social Work
- Social isolation in childhood and adult inflammation: Evidence from the National Child Development Study
- Identifying and Tackling Grand Challenges for Social Work
- Social is Fundamental: Introduction and Context for Grand Challenges for Social Work
- Does the Village model help to foster age-friendly communities?
- Grand Accomplishments in Social Work- Working Paper No. 2
- Introduction and Context for Grand Challenges for Social Work - Working Paper No. 1
- Grand Challenges for Social Work Impact Model
- Journal of the Society for Social Work Research Grand Challenges for Social Work Invited Manuscript
- New Directions for Social Work in the 21st Century
- Social supports: A mixed blessing for women in substance abuse treatment
- Prolonged solitary confinement and the Constitution
- Social network, cognitive function and dementia incidence in elderly women
- The psychological effects of solitary confinement on prisoners in supermax units
- How do relationships support parenting?
- Global age-friendly cities: A guide.
- Performance of an abbreviated version of the Lubben Social Network Scale among three European community-dwelling older adult populations
- The effects of solitary confinement on prison inmates: A brief history and review of the literature
- Emotion regulation across the life span: An integrative perspective emphasizing self-regulation, positive affect, and dyadic processes
- Centrality of social ties to the health and well-being of older adults
- Social isolation predicts re-hospitalization in a group of older American veterans enrolled in the UPBEAT program
- Social isolation kills, but how and why?
- Social integration, social networks, social supports and health
- Chronic parenting stress: Moderating versus mediating effects of social support
Resources
- Build Financial Capability and Assets for All - Five Year Impact
- Harness Technology for Social Good - Five Year Impact
- Advance Long and Productive Lives - Five Year Impact
- Eradicate Social Isolation - Five Year Impact
- Promote Smart Decarceration - Five Year Impact
- Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment - Five Year Impact
- Reduce Extreme Economic Inequality - Five Year Impact
- Eliminate Racism - Five Year Impact
- Achieve Equal Opportunity and Justice - Five Year Impact
- Build Healthy Relationships to End Violence - Five Year Impact
- Close the Health Gap - Five Year Impact
- End Homelessness - Five Year Impact
- Ensure Healthy Development For Youth - Five Year Impact
- The Grand Challenge to End Homelessness network offers Policy Proposals for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.
- Webinar: Current Strategies to Reduce Extreme Economic Inequality
- GCSW Wikipedia Article
- Prevention Education Modules
- Social Work and Criminal Justice Website
- GCSW Guiding Principles
- Website: Campaign to End Loneliness
- Lubben Social Network Scale
- Website: AARP Foundation Priority Area: Social Isolation
- Boston College Talks Aging: Social Isolation
- GCSW Policy Briefs
- Website: Communities that Care: The Power of Prevention in Action
- On inSocialWork podcast, Mason discusses climate change and social work
- Housing expert Metzger discusses fallacies of neighborhood segregation
- Lisa Reyes Mason on the social equity of disaster and disruption
- New Materials for IJRD Post-Master’s Fellowship Available on Website
- Strategic Plan
- Lisa Reyes Mason on Threats from Global Warming
- Policy Recommendations to Address the Grand Challenges
- NASW Webinar: Making Research Useful to Policy Makers
- USC Article on Activism and Advocacy Highlights Grand Challenges
- Smart Decarceration Initiative 2017 Conference Highlights
- Grand Challenges Faculty Development Institute: Eradicate Social Isolation
- Singapore starts FCAB project to train social workers
- Symposium: People and Climate Change: Vulnerability, Adaptation, Social Justice
- Webinar: Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth
- Journals turn attention to financial capability and asset building
- Framework for Isolation in Adults Over 50
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- Achieve equal opportunity and justice
- Advance long and productive lives
- Build financial capability for all
- Close the health gap
- Create social responses to a changing environment
- Education
- End homelessness
- Ensure healthy development for all youth
- Eradicate social isolation
- Harness technology for social good
- Policy
- Practice
- Presentation
- Promote smart decarceration
- Reduce extreme economic inequality
- Research
- Stop family violence
- Webinar
