Course
- 47801 Human Rights Perspective for Social Work Direct Practice
Job experience
Heartland Alliance for Human Rights & Human Needs
- Director, Social IMPACT Reasearch Center
- Director, The National Transitional Jobs Network
- Policy Analyst
Fields of Special Interest
- Policy causes, trends and policy solutions
- Pathwasy to economic security
- Causes of homelessness, program interventions and system responses
- Public housing policy
- Human rights
- Workforce development policy and program innovations
Publications or presentations
- Homelessness and the Right to Housing in the Chicago Region, Testimony for Civil Society Consultation Universal Periodic Review for the United Nations Human Rights Council, 2010
- Johnson, C., Rynell A. and M. Young. Publicly-Funded Jobs: An Essential Strategy for Reducing Poverty and Economic Distress Throughout the Business Cycle. Urban Institute. January 2010.
- Nogaski, A., Rynell A., Terpstra A., and A. Roberts. Back Home Again: LaPorte County, Indiana Plan to End Homelessness. Social IMPACT Research Center/Heartland Alliance. November 2009.
Jeff Simms, AM '12
"I chose to study social work, and especially policy, because I believe working at that level is where one can truly affect some of the wider causes of poverty and homelessness."