FEATURED PRESENTATIONS

Babitzke, J., Wendel-Hummell, C., LaPierre, Sullivan, D., Swartzendruber, D., Boyd, C, Olds, D. (2022, April 13-16) “He definitely don’t care about me”: COVID-19 politicization and the marginalization of Americans with Disabilities. Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.

Geary, C., Lessem, R., Holmes, C., Abbott, K., & Roes, M. (2022, March.) Patient engagement in research: Introduction to application [Pre-conference workshop presentation]. Midwest Nursing Research Society, Virtual.

Jen, S. & Mijin, J. (2022, Jan. 14). Sexual expression, policy, and practices in skilled nursing facilities: An updated assessment in the state of Kansas. Society for Social Work Research 26th Annual Conference “Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice,” Washington, DC.

Jeong, M. (2022, Jan. 14). Psychological challenges among older adults with early stage dementia: A systematic review. Society for Social Work Research 26th Annual Conference “Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice,” Washington, DC.

LaPierre, T., Wendel-Hummell, C., Olds, D., Babitzke, J., Sullivan, D., Swartzendruber, D. & Barta, T. (2022, June 4-7). Stakeholder engagement strategies and impact on patient centered research in home and community based care. AcademyHealth 2022 Annual Research Meeting, Washington D.C.

Levy, M. (2022). Health Center and Academic Collaboration Forum [Virtual, invited facilitator]. Community Care Network of Kansas.

Levy, M. & Matejkowski, J. (2022, May 10-13). Social work training for rural health workforce development. Annual Rural Health Conference, National Rural Health Association.

Olds, D., Wendel-Hummell, C., LaPierre, T., Sullivan, D., Babitzke, J., Swartzendruber, D. & Mullen, G. (2022, June 13-15). Provision of home-based long-term services and supports to vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN.

Sullivan, D., Wendel-Hummell, C., LaPierre, T., Babitzke, J., Swartzendruber, L., Boyd, C. & Olds, C. (2022, April 13-16) “They don’t get paid even half of what they’re worth to us”: Worker shortages and unmet care needs during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.

Wendel-Hummell, C., LaPierre, T., Olds, D., Babitzke, J., Sullivan, D., Swartzendruber, L. & Barta, T. (2022, June 4-7). Care and safety during the pandemic in home and community based services: Challenges of a fragmented system. AcademyHealth 2022 Annual Research Meeting, Washington D.C.

Wendel-Hummell, C., LaPierre, T., Olds, D., Sullivan, D., Babitzke, J., Swartzendruber, L. & Barta, T. (2022, June 4-7) “They seemed to forget about us little people”: The invisibility and neglect of essential homecare workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic. AcademyHealth 2022 Annual Research Meeting, Washington D.C.

Wendel-Hummell, C., LaPierre, T., Sullivan, D., Babitzke, J., Swartzendruber, L, & Olds, D. (2022, Nov. 2-6). Self-directed care in home-based long-term care during the pandemic: Policy and practice implications. Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2022 Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN.

CRADO’s COVID-HBCS (home and community based services) project has begun sharing findings to organizations such as Academy Health, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Gerontological Society of America, Midwest Sociological Society, and the University of Kansas. Learn more about Care and Safety Practices During COVID-19 in Home Based Care.

CRADO prepares tomorrow’s scholars and practitioners in gerontological social work. We provide strengths-based gerontological resources, training, and unique educational opportunities that help develop faculty and students’ knowledge and skills in working with older adults. Faculty and staff work with state agencies such as the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, and federal agencies as well as with a variety of other public and private service organizations and foundations, to provide research, training and technical support.

Center for Research on Aging & Disability Options website

Email: crado@ku.edu

Director

Carrie Wendell-Hummell

Featured Products

Kennedy, T. & Levy, M., Lewis, M. (2022, April 26). Grand challenges for social work: Close the health gap [Academic product/professional education]. University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, Center for Community Engagement & Collaboration.

Wendel-Hummell, C. et al. (2022, April 6). Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) during COVID-19: Challenges, triumphs, and implications [Academic product/professional education]. KU School of Social Welfare Research Impact Talk, Lawrence, Kansas.

Levy, M. (2022, Sept. 21). Integrated Health Scholars Program webinar [practitioner/community resource]. Health Resources and Services Administration, Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Pro Grantees Region 6 & 7.

Jen, S. (2022). Untold Stories Art Exhibition [practitioner/community resource]. https://storiesforall. org/story/untold-stories (live and digital).

Offered through the School’s Center for Community Engagement & Collaboration (CCEC), these events feature interactive panels of faculty members and community partners who discuss the substantive findings of their work and the process through which it was catalyzed, inviting participants into the progress around the Grand Challenge.

The events are free, open to the public and offered virtually to broaden access to more participants, who can receive professional and continuing education credit for attending.

“We know our faculty and scholars and students and staff are doing valuable work that addresses these Grand Challenges every day, so we organized the Grand Challenges series to lift up that work, invite others to partner with it and with us, and to sustain our vision of change along the fronts the Grand Challenges represent,” explains Melinda Lewis, LMSW, associate professor of practice and the CCEC’s associate director of capacity building and community evaluation.

To date, the events have highlighted areas such as anti-racist approaches in child welfare policy and practice, the role of integrated healthcare to help close the health gap, and work being done to build healthy relationships to end violence by advancing adult and child survivor-centered interventions to support child welfare-involved families experiencing domestic violence.

the grand Challenges for soCial Work

The School of Social Welfare has answered the call from the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare to address the 13 Grand Challenges for Social Work: indiVidual and family Well-being

• Ensure healthy development for youth

• Close the health gap

• Build healthy relationships to end violence

• Advance long and productive lives stronger soCial fabriC

• Eradicate social isolation

• End homelessness

• Create social responses to a changing environment

“The Grand Challenges remind social workers of the long-term impact possible through our collective efforts. Elevating the large and serious issues our society faces—and underscoring our professions’ responsibilities to contribute to solving them—takes us beyond the busy schedules and weighty daily tasks that can otherwise cloud our vision of the horizon,” Lewis says. “They serve to connect us to a shared purpose, inspire and reaffirm our passion for social justice, and sustain us in the long road toward change.”

• Harness technology for social good Just soCiety

• Eliminate racism

• Promote smart decarceration

• Build financial capability and assets for all

• Reduce extreme economic inequality

• Achieve equal opportunity and justice