Full Description
The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative (GCSWI), which is spearheaded by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), represents a major endeavor for the entire field of social work. GCSWI calls for bold innovation and collective action powered by proven and evolving scientific interventions to address critical social issues facing society. The purpose of GCSWI was modeled after the National Academy of Engineering, which aimed to identify some of the most persistent engineering problems of the day and then put the attentions, energies, and funding of the entire field to work on them for a decade. The GCSWI does the same for social issues, tackling problems such as homelessness, social isolation, mass incarceration, family violence, and economic inequality.
Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society is an edited book that will present the foundations of the GCSWI, laying out the start of the initiative and providing summaries of each of the twelve challenges. The 12 main chapters that form the core of the book, one on each of the dozen Grand Challenges, are written by the primary research teams who are driving each GC project.
Contents
GRAND CHALLENGES FOR SOCIAL WORK and 2017 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Chapter 1: Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society
James Lubben, Richard P. Barth, Rowena Fong, Marilyn Flynn, Michael Sherraden, and Edwina Uehara
Chapter 2: Grand Challenge # 1: Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth
Jeffrey M. Jenson and J. David Hawkins
Chapter 3: Grand Challenge #2: Close the Health Gap
Michael S. Spencer, Karina L. Walters, Heidi L. Allen, Christina M. Andrews, Audrey Begun, Teri Browne, John Clapp, Diana DiNitto, Peter Maramaldi, Darrell Wheeler, Brad Zebrack, and Edwina Uehara
Chapter 4: Grand Challenge #3: Stop Family Violence
Richard P. Barth and Rebecca J. Macy
Chapter 5: Grand Challenge #4: Advance Long and Productive Lives
Nancy Morrow-Howell, Ernest Gonzales, Jacquelyn B. James, Christina Matz-Costa, and Michelle Putnam
Chapter 6: Grand Challenge #5: Eradicate Social Isolation
James Lubben, Elizabeth Tracy, Sandra Edmonds Crewe, Erika L. Sabbath, Melanie Gironda, Carrie Johnson, Jooyoung Kong, Michelle R. Munson, and Suzanne Browne
Chapter 7: Grand Challenge #6: End Homelessness
Deborah K. Padgett and Benjamin F. Henwood
Chapter 8: Grand Challenge # 7: Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment
Susan P. Kemp, Lawrence A. Palinkas, and Lisa Reyes Mason
Chapter 9: Grand Challenge # 8: Harness Technology for Social Good
Stephanie C. Berzin and Claudia J. Coulton
Chapter 10: Grand Challenge # 9: Promote Smart Decarceration
Matthew W. Epperson, Carrie Pettus-Davis, Annie Grier, and Leon Sawh
Chapter 11: Grand Challenge # 10: Reduce Extreme Economic Inequality
Julia Henly, Laura Lein, Jennifer Romich, Trina Shanks, Michael Sherraden, Amanda Tillotson, and Raven Jones
Chapter 12: Grand Challenge #11: Build Financial Capability For All
Jin Huang, Margaret S. Sherraden, Mathieu Despard, David Rothwell, Terri Friedline, Joanna Doran, Karen A. Zurlo, Julie Birkenmaier, Christine Callahan, and Robin McKinney
Chapter 13: Grand Challenge # 12: Achieve Equal Opportunity and Justice
Rocio Calvo, Martell Teasley, Jeremy Goldbach, Ruth McRoy, and Yolanda Padilla
Chapter 14: Conclusion
Richard P. Barth, Rowena Fong, James Lubben, and Sarah Christa Butts
