Faculty and Staff Articles and Book Chapters
Article from Gilgun and Sharma in Indian journal
Sharma, A., & Gilgun, J. F. (2008). In their own words: Learning about child sexual abuse by listening to the perpetrators. The Indian Journal of Social Work, 69(3), 321-338.
New Minn-LInK report on homelessness and school attendance mentioned in article
Minnesota Law & Politics used the recent Minn-LInK report on school attendance and homelessness in a feature article on homeless children. See full article.
Cross system comparisons of children in treatment foster care: Using agency data to study cross-system child outcomes
Anita Larson of the Minn-LInK project is the author of a new article to appear in Children and Youth Services Review, a key child welfare journal in the field. The study of children in treatment foster care is available online in pre-publication format.
New Minn-LInK report on school attendance among children reported for education neglect.
A new Minn-LInK Report and brief No. 8 have been released. This report describes a longitudinal follow-up on the school attendance of students who were reported to child welfare for educational neglect back in 2000-2001. This was the topic of Dr. Timothy Zuel's dissertation topic, Anita Larson authored the report and Mira Swanson, an MSW student assisted on the report.
Gilgun's article on Evidence-Based Practice most downloaded
Prof. Jane Gilgun's 2005 article, The Four Cornerstones of Evidence-Based Practice, has been the most downloaded article in the journal Research on Social Work Practice for more than a year.
Minn-LInK and Ramsey County collaborate on teens in home visiting
In 2004 the Minn-LinK Project worked with Ramsey County Economic Assistance and Public Health departments to examine the outcomes of teen parents served by a unique home visiting model launched in 2002. The model combined public health home visits with Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) program monitoring requirements. This involved public health nurses not only attending to the teen parent's health needs, but also holding them accountable for school attendance via the MFIP sanction process. In 2005 Ramsey provided Minn-LinK with program data on participating teens to allow for a cross-system examination of whether or not teens served under the new home visiting model had better outcomes than teens who were served under the old, voluntary (pre-2002) model. High school graduation rates were higher for teens who received public health services (29.5% using Public health and MFIP and 32.0% for Public Health only) compared to those who received no Public Health (23.9%). Teens who received both MFIP and Public Health experienced the most stable and improved school attendance and the lowest rates of subsequent births compared to teens who participated in only MFIP or only Public Health services. The full report is here.
During the 2009 legislative session, bills were introduced in both the House and Senate that included permissive language allowing counties to incorporate public health nursing as a service delivery model for vulnerable populations, such as teen parents. The bills can be viewed at the following links: Senate, House.
Umbreit's writing being republished worldwide
Prof. Umbreit
In recent months, Prof. Mark Umbreit’s work has been published in Europe, South Africa, India, and Japan. A chapter entitled Criminal and juvenile mediation in the United States was published in Developments in Juvenile Justice, Italian Ministry of Justice, Rome. He also had a chapter entitled The practice of victim offender mediation: A look at the evidence published in the International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justice. CRC Press, Taylor Francis Group, London.
A previous article entitled Restorative justice dialogue: Evidence-based practice was re-published, with permission, by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India, Hyderabd, India. His book The Handbook on Victim Offender Mediation: An Essential Guide for Practice and Research was translated into Japanese and published. His chapter on Victim offender dialogue in violent cases: A multi-site study in the United States was published in South Africa, in Restorative Justice: Politics, Policies, and Prospects, edited by in Spuy, E., Parmentier S., and Dissel A. In addition, Umbreit’s chapter entitled Victim-offender mediation model was published in the Encyclopedia of Social Problems (Vol. 2), by Sage Publications and edited by Vincent N. Parrillo.
Gilgun's latest articles on interpersonal violence
Prof. Gilgun
Professor Jane Gilgun recently published an article called Lived Experience, Reflexivity, and Research on Perpetrators of Interpersonal Violence, that appeared in Qualitative Social Work in June 2008.
Gilgun also has an article published in the National Council on Family Relations magazine. The article is Gilgun, Jane F. (2008). Child sexual abuse: One of the most neglected social problems of our time. Report, 5(4), 507.
Recent publications on youth civic engagement
Special Edition: Journal of Child and Youth Services VeLure Roholt, R., Hildreth, R.W., & Baizerman, M. (2007). Becoming citizens: Deepening the craft of youth civic engagement. Child and Youth Services, 29(3/4), 1-182.
Book Chapter: VeLure Roholt, R.& Smyth, P. (2007). Democratic civic youthwork and implications for service-learning: Lessons from Northern Ireland. In L. McIlrath & I. MacLabhrainn (Eds.) Higher education and civic engagement: International perspectives. London: Open University Press.
Study of battered mothers and child protection published
Assist. Prof. Lee
Profs. Lee, Lightfoot and Edleson have had their paper titled Differences among Battered Mothers in their Involvement with Child Protection Services: Could the Perpetrator's Biological Relationship to the Child have an Impact? was recently published in Children and Youth Services Review. The paper compares battered mothers and their families who are involved with child protection to those with no involvement using national anonymous telephone interviews with 107 mothers.
Gilgun & colleagues publish and present on violence and resilience
Ungar, Michael, Marian Brown, Linda Liebenberg, Rasha Othman, Wai Man Kwong, Mary Armstrong, & Jane Gilgun (2007). Unique pathways to resilience across cultures. Adolescence, 42(166), 287-310.
Gilgun, Jane F. (2007, November). The Legacy of the Chicago School of Sociology for Family Theory-Building, paper presented at the Preconference Workshop on Theory Development and Research Methodology, National Conference on Family Relations, Pittsburgh, PA, November
Gilgun, Jane F. & Alankaar Sharma. (2007). Child sexual abuse. Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Gilgun, Jane F. (2007). Thought by Thought on Death
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Gilgun, Jane F. (2007). Yukee the Wine Thief. Amazon Shorts
Menanteau-Horta's new writings on poverty, social welfare & youth
Menanteau-Horta, D. (2008). Poverty and Exclusion in the United States:
Challenges to Social Work. Chapter 11 (pp.169-190), inMarcuello, Ch. &
Gutierres, A. Social Services, Models and
Perspectives, An International Approach (Spanish), Academic
Editions,Madrid, Spain.
Menanteau-Horta, D. (with Pitzer, R.L. and Meyers, S,M.). Developmental Assets in the Lives of Out-of-Home Placed Youth, in Family Forum, The Minnesota Council on Family Relations, (2008).
Menanteau-Horta, D. (2007). Imperatives of Human Development for a Sustainable Social System. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Menanteau-Horta, D. (2007). Social Complexity, Technology, War and Social Conflict. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of Sociocybernetics, RC51- International Sociological Association, Murcia, Spain.
Menanteau-Horta, D. (2007). The Role of the State and the Reform of Social Security in Chile and the United States. Review of Social Sciences (Spanish, No.10, pp. 5-22). Chile.
Menanteau-Horta, D. (2006). The Illusion of Inclusion: The Latino
Experience in the United States. Dialogue, 9, Center for Latino
Research, De Paul University, Chicago, Ill.