Noteworthy
Michael Woolley on Childen and Neighborhood Safety
Assistant Professor Michael Woolley discusses the issue of neighborhood safety -- and the fear that many children have about playing outside.
Read the Chicago Sun-Times article
Susan Lambert on the Hidden Toll on Employment
Associate Professor Susan Lambert discusses employment trends and about employees forced into part-time work.
Read the New York Times article
View her interview on the NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams
Jens Ludwig: Discusses Supreme Court's Decision on Guns
Professor Jens Ludwig discusses who is really affected by guns with Supreme Court reporter David Savage on NPR, and comments on the City of Chicago's gun ban in the Chicago Tribune.
Read the Chicago Tribune article
Dexter Voisin: Ideas to Stop Gun Violence
Associate Professor Dexter Voisin offers insights about reducing gang activity and gun violence, and comments about the recent shooting of a young boy in Chicago.
Read the Chicago Tribune article
View the interview with Fox News Chicago
Voisin explains how children find themselves in the middle of the cross-fire; and one Chicago neighborhood offers ideas about keeping their children safe.
View the second interview with Fox News Chicago
Evelyn Brodkin on the record increase in the use of food stamps
Associate Professor Evelyn Brodkin comments in a Chicago Tribune story about the record use of food stamps in Illinois in the last several months.
Mayor Daley's Press Conference at the SSA:
University of Chicago joins collaboration with City of Chicago to reduce youth gun violence
Jens Ludwig, Professor of Social Service Administration, Law and Public Policy, and Harold Pollack, Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, and faculty chair of the Center for Health Administration Studies will lead a team of University and national scholars. They will work with the City to develop interventions to reduce youth crime within a research framework that will provide the most scientifically rigorous evidence on effective solutions.
Watch the video of the press conference
Read the press release
See ABC Channel 7 news coverage
Faculty/Research Links
Colleen Grogan receives first Valerie Jarrett Award
Colleen Grogan, Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, has received the first Valerie Jarrett Faculty Leadership and Mentoring Award, in recognition of her contributions to the school.
Read the full article in the University of Chicago Chronicle
Exploring Relationships of Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care
Gina Miranda Samuels, assistant professor and Chapin Hall faculty associate, interviewed 29 young adults who aged out of foster care to better understand their existing support networks and how they learned to cope with people coming in and out of their lives. All the young adults in the study reported having a network that included friends as well as biological, adoptive, and foster family members, but most said they lacked emotional support. The study recommends that child welfare policy and practice address the social-emotional health of youth aging out of foster care as well as their economic and physical well-being.
Read the report, A Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime: Relational Permanence Among Young Adults with Foster Care Backgrounds, by Gina Miranda Samuels.
Student News
Mies Building Closed
The Mies Building at 969 E. 60th Street is closed for renovations as its window frames are undergoing maintenance and repair. The building is slated to re-open in early September. The administrative offices will remain open but be re-located one-half block south to the Edelstone Center at 6030 S. Ellis Ave. The main number for the SSA will be the same: (773) 702-1250.
If you are a student and need access to SSA's library, the main collection of books and journals will be available at the Regenstein, A-level. For questions, please call (773) 702-1199 or e-mail ssad@lib.uchicago.edu.
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