Winter 2012

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Features:

• Many Disciplines, One Goal - In SSA's new Interdisciplinary Scholar Networks, researchers from disparate fields work together to build a stronger whole
• Chronic and Complicated - Expanded coverage and new programs will make the Affordable Care Act a potent weapon against diabetes in poor neighborhoods
• A Healthier Neighborhood (sidebar)
• Learning a New Way - The Network for College Success harnesses data, trust and leadership to improve Chicago's high schools
• Solving the Drop-Out Crisis (sidebar)
• The Strength of a Neighborhood School (sidebar)

Departments:

• Welcome - Peter Darrow, Chair, SSA Visiting Committee
• Viewpoint: From the Dean - Costs and Benefits
• Conversation - A Healthy Collaboration
• Ideas:
• Planning with the Full Picture - With a new blueprint, teaching and learning make a comeback at the Chicago Public Schools
• History Channelled - Knowing how evidence-based practice began leads to better implementation
• Come Together - How one union organized to unite African-American and immigrant workers
• Inside Social Service Review
• Communication Revolutionaries - A new study looks at what the Internet offers women living under military occupation
• Mental Health and Public Assistance - After welfare reform, more recipients have symptoms of depression
• All in the Family - For young single mothers, whether living with their parents is helpful or stressful may be influenced by race and ethnicity
• A Voice from the Field: Smarter Social Policy - SSA alum Frank Farrow has spent his career making big plans work at the community level
• Behind the Numbers: Building a Bridge - New approaches help practitioners use evidence-based practice

Web-only Content:

• Alumni Spotlight: Karen Reitan - AM '93, Associate Executive Director for Operations at the Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago (PHIMC)
• Extended Conversation - A Healthy Collaboration
• Moving Theory to Practice: A How-To Guide - Eliza Moeller, A.M. ’04, has become an expert at a task that few have mastered: making research results and complicated datasets informative, motivating and useful to practitioners in the field.