{"title":"Congregations Serving Homeless Populations: Examining Predictive Factors and Policy Implications","authors":"Catherine Fisher, L. Ortiz, Qais Alemi, N. Malika","doi":"10.1093/SWR/SVAA016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/SWR/SVAA016","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this study, authors analyzed data from the 2012 National Congregations Study (NCS) to explore what factors are predictive of a congregation’s engagement in programs serving people experiencing homelessness. Using a cross-sectional sample of 1,328 congregations derived from the third wave of the NCS, authors applied multivariate logistic regression to identify congregational characteristics associated with programming for homeless adults. Approximately one-fourth of all congregations in our sample reported some type of homeless programming. The authors’ final model indicates that 10 variables predict greater likelihood of congregations having programs serving the homeless, which include factors such as larger annual spending and lower percentage low-income congregants; recent formation of a nonprofit entity; collaboration with another organization; certain religious traditions; and the presence of other sponsored programs such as (a) services targeting a specific gender, (b) services helping sexual assault and domestic violence victims, and (c) services for older adults. Given the ongoing U.S. homelessness crisis, this study may help housing authorities and local continuums of care identify congregations for potential partnership to help achieve the Housing First policy priorities and meet specific homeless subpopulation needs.","PeriodicalId":47282,"journal":{"name":"Social Work Research","volume":"54 1","pages":"234-245"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80145141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking Back, Looking Ahead: 2020 and What Comes Next","authors":"C. Bright","doi":"10.1093/swr/svaa020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svaa020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47282,"journal":{"name":"Social Work Research","volume":"65 1","pages":"219-220"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88845116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Calling Social Work to the Movement for Educational Justice","authors":"Anna L. Ball","doi":"10.1093/swr/svaa014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svaa014","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The persistent and systemic inequities within the U.S. public education system have grave implications for children’s and youth’s outcomes, yet these inequities go far beyond academics. Marginalized and vulnerable students experience injustices across the educational system, including disproportionality in school discipline, unequal access to advanced courses, and poor conditions for learning. Social work has a solid history of addressing issues that intersect across families, schools, and communities, but the profession has had little engagement in the recent educational justice movement. As educational scholars advance a movement to address educational inequities, it will be increasingly important for social work researchers to provide valuable insight into the multiple components that make up youth development and support positive well-being for all individuals within a democratic society. This article encourages social work researchers to extend lines of inquiry that investigate educational justice issues by situating social work practice and research within educational justice and suggesting an agenda for future social work research that will advance equity for all students.","PeriodicalId":47282,"journal":{"name":"Social Work Research","volume":"108 1","pages":"267-277"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78654276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spirituality and Religion in Leading Social Work Journals: A 10-Year Content Analysis","authors":"D. Hodge, B. Carpenter, R. Yepez, Bryan C. Lietz","doi":"10.1093/SWR/SVAA026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/SWR/SVAA026","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the inclusion of content on spirituality and religion in leading social work journals. To accomplish this aim, the authors preformed a content analysis of 10 years of publication (2008 to 2017, inclusive) in nine discourse-shaping journals (Social Work, Social Work Research, Families in Society, Social Service Review, Child Welfare, Research on Social Work Practice, Journal of Social Service Research, Journal of Social Work Education, and Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research). In addition to determining the prevalence of spirituality and religious content, the authors examined the frequency with which various religious groups are depicted, the substantive area of focus (for example, micro, macro), and methodological characteristics (for example, conceptual, empirical). The results suggest that spirituality and religion receive minimal attention in the profession’s most prestigious journals, which, in turn, may negatively affect the profession’s ability to comply with its ethical and educational standards regarding spirituality and religion.","PeriodicalId":47282,"journal":{"name":"Social Work Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87429702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Work Education in 2021","authors":"C. Bright","doi":"10.1093/SWR/SVAA021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/SWR/SVAA021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47282,"journal":{"name":"Social Work Research","volume":"146 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86023565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Exclusion among African Immigrants in the United States","authors":"Sherinah K Saasa, J. L. Allen","doi":"10.1093/SWR/SVAA022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/SWR/SVAA022","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Research suggests exclusionary mechanisms fostering negative socioeconomic outcomes for African immigrants. This study explored predictors of social exclusion among immigrants from African countries living in the United States. The authors examined four dimensions of social exclusion that entail social–cultural and structural–economic exclusion. Authors used structural equation modeling to analyze cross-sectional survey data from first- and second-generation African immigrants across the United States (N = 409). Findings highlighted the negative effects of discrimination on all four dimensions of social exclusion. In addition, higher levels of education were associated with higher levels of social–cultural exclusion, whereas higher levels of income were protective from social and structural–economic exclusion. Authors also found health status, religion, race, and immigrant generation to have significant effects on social exclusion. Study findings have important implications for social workers seeking to identify and prevent exclusionary mechanisms and practices affecting African immigrants in the United States.","PeriodicalId":47282,"journal":{"name":"Social Work Research","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89930772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Jaekel, Elizabeth I. Johnson, L. M. Reyes, Kayla N Layton, M. Harris
{"title":"Conducting Research with Families of Infants Born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Recommendations from Rural Appalachia","authors":"J. Jaekel, Elizabeth I. Johnson, L. M. Reyes, Kayla N Layton, M. Harris","doi":"10.1093/SWR/SVAA024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/SWR/SVAA024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47282,"journal":{"name":"Social Work Research","volume":"123 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86432789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Zerden, Brianna M. Lombardi, Ting Guan, Shiyou Wu
{"title":"Social Work Workforce Development and Medicaid Expansion: Mapping Areas of (Mis)alignment","authors":"L. Zerden, Brianna M. Lombardi, Ting Guan, Shiyou Wu","doi":"10.1093/SWR/SVAA015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/SWR/SVAA015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47282,"journal":{"name":"Social Work Research","volume":"108 1","pages":"285-291"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80840206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning from “Racism, Not Race” for Intersectionality Research and the Research Enterprise","authors":"E. Wu","doi":"10.1093/swr/svab014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svab014","url":null,"abstract":"T o understand and address better the myriad and entrenched disparities faced by Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), researchers have increasingly begun to focus on racism rather than race itself as a driver of health and social inequities (Boyd, Lindo, Weeks, & McLemore, 2020; James & Iacopetti, 2021; Mateo & Williams, 2021). Racism, sexism, ciscentrism and transphobia, heterocentrism and homophobia, and ableism, among other “isms,” and health and social inequities all have long-standing and entrenched histories, but recently attention to intersectionality has been increasing in frequency and depth (Bowleg, 2020). Coined by Crenshaw (1989), intersectionality refers to the interaction and interplay of multiple forms of discrimination, marginalization, exclusion, and stigma (herein referred to as “oppression” for the sake of brevity). Research on intersectionality has mirrored the growth in attention, including challenges for state-of-theart research (for reviews, see Bauer et al., 2021; Jackson-Best & Edwards, 2018; Layland et al., 2020; Nichols & Stahl, 2019). This article builds on the “racism, not race” imperative to (a) derive lessons learned for more valid and rigorous intersectionality research; (b) identify gaps, challenges, and opportunities that have received less, if any, attention in the literature; and (c) describe action steps for social work researchers and the larger research enterprise.","PeriodicalId":47282,"journal":{"name":"Social Work Research","volume":"116 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88256767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}