Dr. Doris M. Houston is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Illinois State University (ISU), and the Associate Director of the ISU Center for Adoption Studies. Her areas of specialty include foster care and adoption, culturally responsive family practice, outcome evaluation, and organizational development. Dr. Houston is the Co-Author of “Community-Centered Child Welfare Practice: Strategies for Working with Multicultural Families (in Press). Prior to joining the faculty at ISU, Dr. Houston served as an Outcome Evaluation Specialist at the University of Illinois, Center for Prevention Research and Development (CPRD). While at CPRD, she provided organizational development training and program evaluation services to 300+ youth prevention programs. Dr. Houston began her professional career with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services where she served as a Public Service Administrator, Adoption Specialist, and Foster Care Casemanager.
University of Minnesota - Saint Paul, Minnesota (other locations via video stream and interactive television)
This seminar focuses on historical and generational trauma from the perspective of American Indians and African Americans. Community and university professionals discuss cultural ways of knowing, how healing and wellness take place within families and communities, and where the science of historical and intergenerational trauma currently exists.
by S. Greg Thompson, Ph.D., and Kimberly A. Wallet, Ph.D., both of Lamar University
Family scholars can and do contribute to build social capital, and thereby, elevate quality of life in a community. By training, many of us have insight into assessing community needs and, by employment, we have standing to help direct resources toward resolving those needs.
by Laura E. Gültekin, M.S., FNP-BC, RN, graduate student, University of Michigan School of Nursing, and Barbara L. Brush
In recent years, aggressive national efforts have yielded modest reductions in the overall number of individuals facing homelessness. Nonetheless, the number of homeless persons in families has increased by 20% since 2007.
