Society for Social Work and Research 31st Annual Conference: Workshops

Thursday, January 21, 2027

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1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Immigrants and Refugees

[Workshops] Accounting for Context, Culture, and Stress In Asylum Client Interviews: A Hands-on Workshop Using the CIAS Practitioner Toolkit (Union Station 17 & 18)
Organizer: Venera Bekteshi, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Maria Ferrera, PhD, LCSW and Siobhan Albiol, JD

Research Design and Measurement

[Workshops] Using Interactive Dashboards to Make Research Findings from State Education and Foster Care Data More Accessible (Union Station 21)
Organizer: Antionette Stroter, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Jamie Cage, PhD , Jazel Barqueror, BS and Jaylynn Floyd, BS

3:15 PM-4:45 PM

Communities and Neighborhoods

[Workshops] Advancing Collective Power for Social Change through Community-Driven Research (Union Station 5 & 6)
Organizer: Amber Majors Ladipo, PhD
Speaker/Presenter: Amber Majors Ladipo, PhD

Organizations and Management

[Workshops] AI Systems, Democratic Participation, and Social Work Research: Strategic Foresight for Defending and Advancing the Common Good (Union Station 17 & 18)
Organizer: Ian Williams, MSW
Speakers/Presenters: Jimmy Young, PhD, MSW, MPA , Gokul Mandayam, PhD and Beth Counselman-Carpenter, PhD

Research on Social Work Education

[Workshops] Evaluating the Impact of an Anti‑Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI)–Centered Dsw Curriculum through a Critical Race Theory Lens (Union Station 21)
Organizer: Elisabeth Counselman-Carpenter, PhD
Speaker/Presenter: Beverly Araujo-Dawson, PhD

Friday, January 22, 2027

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8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Adolescent and Youth Development

[Workshops] Centering Youth Voice across the Program Lifecycle: Using Youth Participatory Action Research In Design and Evaluation (Union Station 5 & 6)
Organizer: Andrew Palomo, MSW
Speakers/Presenters: Kassidy Tingle and Quadirah Locus

Research Design and Measurement

[Workshops] Introduction to the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study Dataset (Union Station 17 & 18)
Organizer: Yu Yang, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Yu Yang, PhD and Panpan Yang, PhD

Research Design and Measurement

[Workshops] Multimodal AI for Social Work Research: Analyzing Image, Audio, and Video Data Using Large Language Models (Union Station 21)
Organizer: Nari Yoo, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Nari Yoo, PhD , Cheng Ren, PhD and Gaurav Sinha, PhD

9:45 AM-11:15 AM

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Global Indigenous Populations (Indigenous Cluster)

[Workshops] Weaving Relational Accountability: A Workshop on Building Indigenist Relational Ethics and Approaches for Participatory Research (Golden Gate 7)
Organizer: Santino G. Camacho, MPH
Speakers/Presenters: Koa L. Beck, MSW and Sam Harrell, MSW

Research Design and Measurement

[Workshops] Foundational Skills for Incorporating Biological Data into Social Work Research: Methodological Considerations for Inflammatory and Neuroimaging Data (Golden Gate 8)
Organizer: Jay O'Shields, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Jay O'Shields, PhD and Lindamarie Olson, LCSW, PhD

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

Asian and Asian-Pacific Islander Focused-Research

121

[Workshops] From Hidden Barriers to Engagement: Workshop on AI-Supported Digital Storytelling for Immigrant Mental Health (Union Station 5 & 6)
Organizer: Sangmi Kim, MSW
Speakers/Presenters: Go-Eum Cha, MS , Youseung Kim, PhD and Sooyeon Jeong, PhD

Research Design and Measurement

122

[Workshops] Designing Effective Surveys for Social Work Research: A Hands-on Workshop (Union Station 17 & 18)
Organizer: Carolina Herrera, PhD, LCSW
Speakers/Presenters: Carolina Herrera, PhD, LCSW and Soohyoung Rain Lee, PhD, MSW

Social Work Practice

123

[Workshops] Guardrails, Literacy, or Silence? Social Work Educators Deliberate AI and the EPAS (Union Station 21)
Organizer: Patricia Desrosiers, PhD
Speaker/Presenter: Patricia Desrosiers, PhD

3:45 PM-5:15 PM

Black and African Diaspora Focused-Research

150

[Workshops] Understanding and Addressing the Psychological Health and Safety of Black Professionals (Union Station 5 & 6)
Organizer: Marci Gray, PhD
Speaker/Presenter: Marci Gray, PhD

Research Design and Measurement

151

[Workshops] Life History Calendar Methods: An Innovative and Rigorous Approach to Collect Mixed-Methods Retrospective Longitudinal Data (Union Station 17 & 18)
Organizer: William Hall, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: William Hall, PhD and Spenser R. Radtke, PhD

Social Work Practice

152

[Workshops] Social Work Practice and AI: Reverence, Resistance and Reflection (Union Station 21)
Organizer: Lauri Goldkind, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Eunhye Ahn, PhD , Bryan Victor, PhD and Johanna Creswell Baez, PhD

5:30 PM-7:00 PM

Child Welfare

173

[Workshops] Policy Driven Research and Expertise: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Advocacy (Union Station 5 & 6)
Organizer: Kristen D. Seay, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Kristen D. Seay, PhD , Amanda Moon, PhD and Amanda Stafford McRell, PhD

Research Design and Measurement

174

[Workshops] Let’s Get Crafty with It: Engaging Zines In Your Research (Union Station 17 & 18)
Organizer: Gillian Bryant, MSW
Speaker/Presenter: Gillian Bryant, MSW

Social Work Practice

175

[Workshops] Using Ssdforr: An R Package for Analyzing Single-Subject Design (Union Station 21)
Organizer: Charles Auerbach, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Christine Vyshedsky, PhD , Hanni Flaherty, PHD and Carolina Herrera, PhD, LCSW

Saturday, January 23, 2027

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8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Research Design and Measurement

198

[Workshops] Claude Code As the Agentic RA: Using AI Coding Agents to Democratize Quantitative Methods In Social Work Research (Union Station 17 & 18)
Organizer: Nari Yoo, PhD
Speaker/Presenter: Andrew Kim, MSW, LCSW, LCADC

School Social Work

199

[Workshops] Learning Together In Mental Health: Co-Production of Knowledge through Lived Experience, Recovery-Oriented Practice, and Social Work Education (Union Station 1 & 2)
Organizer: Paula Garber Epstein, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Paula Garber Epstein, PhD , Dana Kirshenbaum, MSW and Renana Elran, PhD

Substance Misuse and Addictive Behaviors

200

[Workshops] Network Analysis for Spatial, Social and Psychological Systems (Union Station 21)
Organizer: Keith Warren, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Gia Barboza-Salerno, Ph.D. , Taylor Harrington and Amy Watson-Grace, OTD

9:45 AM-11:15 AM

Disability

224

[Workshops] Accessible Social Work Pedagogy and Research for People with Energy-Limiting Conditions (Union Station 5 & 6)
Organizer: Victoria Copeland, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Victoria Copeland, PhD , Melanie Sonsteng-Person, PhD and Kathleen Banks, PhD

Research Design and Measurement

225

[Workshops] Training Task-Specific Language Models for Social Work Research: Active Learning and Uncertainty Sampling for Efficient Text Analysis (Union Station 17 & 18)
Organizer: Zia Qi, MSW
Speaker/Presenter: Zia Qi, MSW

4:15 PM-5:45 PM

Communities and Neighborhoods

256

[Workshops] Contemplative Inquiry for Making Meaning Among Social Work Scholars and Educators (Golden Gate 8)
Organizer: Kimberly Bender, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Kimberly Bender, PhD , Shannon Sliva, PhD and Kristen Parker, MSW

Research Design and Measurement

257

[Workshops] Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis As a Method for Democratic Inquiry (Union Station 1 & 2)
Organizer: Umaira Khan, MSW
Speakers/Presenters: Marcus Brown, MSW , Gregory Gomez, MSW and Tierra Murray, MSW

Sunday, January 24, 2027

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8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Communities and Neighborhoods

285

[Workshops] Cultivating Communities for Change: Promoting Collective Action to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse (Union Station 5 & 6)
Organizer: Heather McCauley, ScD
Speakers/Presenters: Morgan Wright, MSW , Emily Bremer, MSW and Joanne Smith-Darden, PhD

Research Design and Measurement

286

[Workshops] Beyond the UCLA Scale: Evaluating and Operationalizing Loneliness Measures Among College Students (Union Station 17 & 18)
Organizer: Shirin Sultana, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Shirin Sultana, PhD and Jemel Aguilar, PhD, LCSW, MPH

9:45 AM-11:15 AM

Gender-Based Violence

309

[Workshops] Advancing the Trauma and Interpersonal Violence Workforce: Competency Development and Program Evaluation (Union Station 5 & 6)
Organizer: Julia Cusano, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Julia Cusano, PhD and Simone Snyder

Research Design and Measurement

310

[Workshops] Calculating and Interpreting Effect Sizes In Single Subject Research Design Using R (Union Station 17 & 18)
Organizer: Christine Vyshedsky, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Charles Auerbach, PhD and Susan Mason, Ph.D.

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

History

334

[Workshops] Policy Making In Historical Perspective: A Critical Discourse Analysis Workshop on the Public Charge Doctrine (Union Station 5 & 6)
Organizer: Kathryn Libal, PhD
Speakers/Presenters: Madri Hall-Faul, PhD , Craig Mortley, MS, MAT, MSc. and Gilean Chikwati, MSc

Research Design and Measurement

335

[Workshops] Application of Mokken Scale Analysis In Social Work Research (Union Station 17 & 18)
Organizer: Lujie Peng, Ph.D.
Speakers/Presenters: Lujie Peng, Ph.D. , Margaret Lombe, PhD and Mansoo Yu, PhD