Stephen Edward McMillin

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Courses

30200 Social Intervention: Research and Evaluation

43700 Health Social Work

44505 Clinical Research: Integrating Evidence into Practice 

Job experience

• Research Data Analyst, Illinois Birth to Three Initiative
• Research Assistant, Office of the Inspector General - Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
• Chief Executive Officer, Our Lady of Angels Retirement Community
• Director of Social Services, Addolorata Villa Retirement Community
• Community Mental Health Counselor, Proviso Family Services

Fields of Special Interest

• Staff Training and Professional Development in Health and Social Services
• Clinical Practice and Management in Health Care and Gerontology Settings
• Evidence-Based Social Work: Theory, Policy, Practice, and Translational Research
• Political, Social, and Religious Contexts for Social Work Training and Practice

Publications or presentations

• McMillin, S.E. (2012, January). Integrating gerontology content into interdisciplinary health care education for social work, business administration, and public policy students. Paper presentation for the 16th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, D.C.
• Thullen, M.J., McMillin, S.E., & Hans, S.L. (2012, January). Father participation in a perinatal home-visiting intervention for young mothers. Paper presentation for the 16th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, D.C.
• Briggs, H.E., & McMillin, S.E. (2012). Implementing evidence-based management and evidence-based practice in community agencies: Lessons from a case study. In T.L. Rzepnicki, S.G. McCracken, & H.E. Briggs (Eds.), From the Task-Centered Approach to Evidence-Based and Integrative Practice: Reflections on History and Implementation (pp. 156-178). Chicago, IL: Lyceum.
• McMillin, S.E. (2011). Faith-based social services: From communitarian to individualistic values. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 46(2): 482-490. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01189.x
• McMillin, S. E. (2011, October). Evidence-based balance: Increasing the accessibility of research courses for today's students. Paper presentation for the 57th Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, Atlanta, GA.
• McMillin, S. E. (2011, September). The right to name hate: Utilizing hate group designations to reframe political challenges to LGBT rights. Paper presentation for the 107th Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA.
• McMillin, S. E. (2011, July). Combining meta-analysis and component profiling in child and family program research: Promises and pitfalls. Paper presentation for the 4th National Research Conference on Child and Family Programs and Policy, Bridgewater, MA.
• McMillin, S. E. (2011, March). With friends like these...Proposing a test for policy-based evidence-making: A case study of the Don't Ask Don't Tell review. Paper presentation for the 69th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.
• McMillin, S. E. (2010, November). Dissemination of empirically supported interventions as a matter of social justice: Using a public health framework to improve social welfare. Paper presentation for at the 138th Annual Meeting & Exposition of the American Public Health Association, Denver, CO.
• McMillin, S. E. (2010, October). Evidence-based balance: Teaching research and evaluation courses for sustainable learning. Paper presentation for the 56th Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, Portland, OR.
• McMillin, S. E. (2010, August). Translating social research for social justice: Giving translational research an equity focus rather than a market focus. Paper presentation for the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Atlanta, GA.
• McMillin, S. E. (2010, July). Translating research to policy: Evaluating home visiting programs for teenage mothers from a transition to adulthood perspective. Paper presentation for the 3rd National Research Conference on Child and Family Programs and Policy, Bridgewater, MA.
• McMillin, S. E. (2010, April). Does evidence-based policy help protect LGBT rights? Paper presentation for the 68th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.