UCLA Social Welfare co-hosted a reception with the Pacific Region Universities at the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Conference in Washington D.C. on Friday, Jan. 12. During the conference, many UCLA Luskin faculty, students and recent graduates made presentations about topics of interest and recent research. Here is a list of presenters and topics:

Faculty

Laura Abrams

• Qualities of Successful Re-Entry Programs for Young Men:  A Focus Group Study
• From Research to Policy:  How One Good Idea Can Influence State Law
• Social Work Research in the Current Presidential Administration:  Responsibility, Ethics, and Social Justice

Mark Kaplan

• Are Social Workers Doing Enough to Prevent Gun Violence?

Stuart Kirk

• Social Worker, Psychologist, or Psychiatrist: Does Profession Matter for Treatment Decisions for Antisocially Behaving Youth?

Latoya Small

• South African Adult Caregivers as “Protective Shields”: Serving as a Buffer Between Precarious Neighborhood Conditions, Food Insecurity, and Youth Risk Behaviors
• I’m More Driven Now:  Resilience and Resistance Among Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth Experiencing Homelessness

Laura Wray-Lake

•  Hearing Youth Voices:  Experiences of Civic Empowerment Among Urban Youth  (presented by Jason Anthony Plummer)
• In Their Own Words:  Responses of Latinx Youth to the 2016 Presidential Election  (presented by Rachel Wells)

Students and Recent Graduates

Skye Allmang, Kristina Lovato-Hermann, Lauren Willner, Rachel Wells

• Social Work Research in the Current Presidential Administration:  Responsibility, Ethics, and Social Justice

Joanna L. Barreras

• Understanding Utilization of Mental Health Services Among Latinos

Marquitta Dorsey

• Does Growing up with Father Involvement Matter?  Investigating the Association of Black Women’s Early Father Involvement to Early Childbearing
• Living in Public Housing:  A Mother’s Childhood Contact with a Father Predicts Offspring’s Contact with Their Father

Sid Jordan

• Mandating Inclusion:  Trans Perspectives on Domestic and Sexual Violence Advocacy

Kristina Lovato-Hermann

• Assessing the Effectiveness of City-Wide Trauma-Informed Trainings
• Enforced Separations:  A Qualitative Examination on the Impact of Parental Deportation on Latino-a Youth and Families

Matthew Mizel

• From Research to Policy:  How One Good Idea Can Influence State Law

Jason Anthony Plummer

• Hearing Youth Voices:  Experiences of Civic Empowerment Among Urban Youth

Sarah Soakai (Urban Planning)

• The Impact of ‘Compassionate Disruption’ Policies on Indigenous Populations:  The Criminalization of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Houseless in Hawaii

Sara Terrana

• Increasing Our Understanding of Macro Practice in Low-Income Neighborhoods:  A Teaching Case Study of a Nonprofit Organization

Brenda A. Tully

• Former Foster Youth Homelessness:  A Study Using the National Youth in Transition Database

Rachel Wells

• In Their Own Words:  Responses of Latinx Youth to the 2016 Presidential Election