Michigan Social Work

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Greer Hamilton is a place-based researcher who examines how systems of oppression are embedded into the built environment and how they thus impact individuals health, well-being and use of public spaces. As a researcher, she uses community-engaged and arts-based approaches to understand study participants experiences with places. Prior to her work as a researcher, she worked in Buffalo, New York for nonprofits focused on health inequities and community capacity building.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

You may need to read this excerpt from a story by The Marshall Project and Reveal twice, because the first time you may think: Wait that cant be right. Oh yes it can: Across the country, hospitals are dispensing medications to patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities when they or their newborns test positive for those very same substances on subsequent drug tests, an investigation by The Marshall Project and Reveal has found.

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Michigan Social Work

DECEMBER 12, 2024

M. Candace Christensens research takes a critical feminist approach to community-engaged, qualitative, arts-based research methodologies that prevent and respond to gendered, racial and anti-LGBTQ+ violence. Their commitment to this approach is grounded in their positionalities as a Femme genderqueer, poly-sexual, artist-activist and survivor of sexual violence.

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