About Us
The Global Program on Youth, based at the University of Michigan School
of Social Work in Ann Arbor, is establishing broad-based groups of scholars,
policy makers, and service providers who are working together to address
critical and timely issues related to children and youth.
GPY addresses the translation from research to practice in an effort to make research more accessible and applicable to policy makers and practitioners.
The program is transforming the way social workers are trained, how social work research is disseminated, and how technical assistance is provided.
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Debbie Harrison, a Detroit Head Start director, talks about kids and technology. Watch the video. (30 sec) (Requires Quicktime player.) |
This project involves local and international, and inter-institutional and inter-professional collaborations. We are breaking important new ground by applying a collaboratory model in a social work context. The model is also allowing us to examine the uses of technology in the environments served by our projects. Another important contribution of this project concerns the relationship-building among collaboratory partners. Because the nature of the Global Program on Youth connects researchers, policy makers, and practitioners on a regular and sustained basis, all of the collaboratory partners negotiate the roles and responsibilities.
By design, the Global Program on Youth deals broadly with areas of children and youth. Our GPY collaboratories represent a range of topical areas with important opportunities for overlap.
Paula Allen-Meares is the Principal Investigator of the Global Program on Youth. She is the Norma Radin Collegiate Professor and Dean at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Dean Allen-Meares received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include: the tasks and functions of social workers employed in educational settings; psychopathology in children, adolescents, and families; adolescent sexuality; premature parenthood; and various aspects of social work practice. She is co-principal investigator of the NIMH Social Work Research Center on Poverty, Risk, and Mental Health; and a co-investigator on an NIMH research grant. Professor Allen-Meares serves on several editorial boards, and national professional and scientific committees promoting the intellectual and empirical advancement of the profession. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the William T. Grant Foundation. She serves on numerous committees at the University of Michigan that promote interdisciplinary research, development, and diversity. Other areas of research and scholarly interest include: School Social Work; Racial Issues; Social Work Practice.
| Cynthia Hudgins talks about the purpose of GPY. Watch the Quicktime Video. (55 sec.) |
Cynthia A. Hudgins is the Director of the Global Program on Youth. Ms. Hudgins received her MA from Indiana University, Bloomington and is a doctoral candidate in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan School of Education. Ms. Hudgins' research interests include: evaluation and assessment, diversity and curricular innovation. Ms. Hudgins is a co-author of the Association of American Colleges and Universities' Understanding the Difference Diversity Makes: Assessing Campus Diversity Initiatives Series, including To form a more perfect union: Campus diversity initiatives, and A diversity research agenda.
Last Updated: 1/9/03
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1080 South University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106 ssw.global@umich.edu