FSWI Steering Committee member and UMSSW Associate Professor Haksoon Ahn, PhD, and colleagues, including UMSSW Dean Richard Barth, PhD, authored a paper in Children and Youth Services Review. The full citation is:
Ahn, H., DePanfilis, D., Frick, K., & Barth, R. P. (2018) Estimating minimum adequate foster care costs for children in the United States. Children and Youth Services Review, 84, 55-67. Contact the author for a copy of the article.
FSWI's Dr. Christine Callahan and UMSSW doctoral candidate Sally Hageman presented at CSWE 2018 (November 8-11, 2018, in Orlando, FL) as part of a panel presentation entitled "Curricular Approaches and Teaching Strategies for Financial Capability and Asset Building Content".
Dr. Christine Callahan presented on "Screening and Brief Intervention for Clients in Consumer Credit Counseling" on October 8, 2018, at the 19th Annual National Center for Responsible Gaming's Conference on Gambling and Addiction.
Dr. Christine Callahan presented on "Patient Costs of Cancer" at the Illinois Cancer Symposium in Urbana, IL, on September 27, 2018.
Financial Social Work 101 and How You Can Integrate It Into Your Practice
Devon Hyde of Guidewell Financial Solutions (FSWI Steering Committee member and UMSSW alum) and Dr. Christine Callahan presented a workshop at the NASW-Maryland annual conference on March 23, 2018 entitled "Financial Social Work 101 and How You Can Integrate It Into Your Practice".
Building Financial Capability for All in Unexpected Places and Spaces
Dr. Jodi Jacobson Frey, Associate Professor and Chair of FSWI, organized a symposium at SSWR 2018 entitled "Building Financial Capability for All in Unexpected Places and Spaces".
The Social Work Grand Challenge of “Building Financial Capability for All” stresses the need to build financial stability and reduce poverty through social work intervention such as the interventions described in this symposium. The first paper described an innovative approach to adapting standardized screening for problem gambling and brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) into credit counseling settings. Results have the potential to lead to the development of evidence-based interventions for problem gambling in settings where gambling is a problem, but where providers are not currently equipped to intervene. The second paper focused on the recent proliferation of employee financial wellness programs for low-to-moderate income employees. Results highlight the need for customized programs that effectively meet the needs of our most vulnerable employees. Finally, the third paper focused on the financial needs of youth aging out of the foster care system. Youth in foster care do not receive financial education or financial socialization by foster parents, and they suddenly have to make major financial decisions when they age out of the foster care system. Not only is this scary for youth, but former foster care youth have to make financial decisions with limited knowledge, guidance, and support. Taking a social work approach to assessing and responding to the complex financial needs of young adults who leave the foster care system may help to ensure financial capability and security of vulnerable young adults for decades to come. Taken together, these three studies have the potential to lead to new programs and policies that can support the financial and overall well-being of low-to-moderate income adults and their families.
Integrating SBIRT for Problem Gambling into Credit Counseling Settings
Jodi Frey, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Paul Sacco, PhD, LCSW, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Christine Callahan, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Formal and Informal Financial Coaching for Young Adults Emerging from Foster Care
Clark Peters, PhD, JD, University of Missouri-Columbia
Can Financial Capability be Built at Work?
Ellen Frank-Miller, PhD, Washington University in Saint Louis; Mathieu Despard, PhD, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Meredith Covington, MPP, Washington University in Saint Louis; Michal Grinstein-Weiss, PhD, Washington University in Saint Louis
Click here for Dr. Frey's slides
Promoting Social and Economic Justice for Oppressed Communities is a Core Value of Social Work
Dr. Christine Callahan participated in a roundtable on FCAB education at SSWR 2018.
Sally Hageman, MSW, PhD candidate at UMSSW, also presented and co-presented several times at SSWR 2018 around FCAB education and research.
2018 PUBLICATIONS
Now Available: New Book on Grand Challenges from Oxford University Press!
Oxford University Press recently published Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society, an impressive scholarly review of the initiative and the 12 Grand Challenges. Edited by Rowena Fong, EdD, MSW, James Lubben, PhD/DSW, MPH, MSW, and Richard P. Barth, PhD, MSW, the book details the origins of the initiative and includes a chapter on each of the 12 Grand Challenges. Of note, several members of the Financial Social Work Initiative led the development of the Grand Challenge to Build Financial Capability for All.
We encourage you to take a look at the Oxford blog post created to promote the book and share it with your colleagues and friends via email, social media (#Up4theChallenge), and your own university or organization publicity channels, as appropriate.
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Questions? Contact Sarah Christa Butts, MSW, Executive Director of the Grand Challenges of Social Work, at sbutts@ssw.umaryland.edu.
A new book on Financial Capability and Asset Building with Diverse Populations now available!
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