Joan Merlin Palmer
Courses
- 42800 Clinical Intervention with Socially Vulnerable Clients
- 43001 Person/Environmental/System: Clinical Assessment in Social Work
- 43000 Advocacy and Policy Development in Clinical Practice
Job experience
- Clinical Consultant, Institute for Community Peace
- Clinical Consultant, Harborquest, Inc.
- Clinical Social Worker, Illinois Department of Human Services
- Clinical Consultant, Catholic Charities Continuum of Care Program
- Clinical Consultant, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Division of Clinical Services
- Consultant, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Office of the Inspector General
- Coordinator of Social Work-WITS, The University of Illinois Medical Center
Fields of Special Interest
- Socially vulnerable clients
- Clinical/policy interface
Publications or presentations
- Palmer, Joan Merlin (2007), Earnfare Participants: Improving Attachment to the Competitive Labor Force
Chicago, Illinois: Harborquest, Inc. - Bowen, L., Palmer, J.M., Brown, M., Gwiasda, V., Feldman, L., and Potapchuk, M. (2006), Structural Violence, Racial Disparity and the Courage for Peace: Exploring the Intersection of Violence, Race, Power and Peace
Flint, Michigan: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Jelani McEwen
When Jelani McEwen begins his new job as Charter Support Manager of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools upon graduation from the School of Social Service Administration in June 2013, in some ways he will have come full circle.