Research with Purpose

Initiated in Fall 2024 by BUSSW Associate Dean for Research Dr. Hyeouk Chris Hahm, Research with Purpose is a compilation of the recent peer-reviewed journal articles our faculty are most proud to have published.

This initiative seeks to increase the visibility of our faculty research within the BUSSW community and deepen our understanding of the scholarship taking place at our school. Through this effort, we hope to enrich academic discussion and collaboration among faculty and students.

Enjoy these important contributions to social work research!

Research with Purpose: Spring 2025

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia

• Neighborhood Child Opportunity and Preterm Birth Rates by Race and Ethnicity

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Clemens Noelke & Leah Shafer

• Confronting the Role of Structural Racism in Inequities in Child Neighborhood Opportunity and Child Health

Astraea Augsberger

• Bridging Success: How Institutional Adults Can Support System Involved Youth and Young Adults in Pursuing Post-Secondary Vocational Education and Career Pathways

Deborah Chassler

• “…Work is Really Being Done and It’s Very Worthwhile…”: Reflections from Community Advisory Board Members

Mary Collins

• Choosing Post-Secondary Vocational Education Pathways: Narratives of Young Adults with Previous System Involvement

Meg Comeau

• The Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network for Children With Medical Complexity
• Addressing Emerging Needs Through the COVID-19 and Children With Medical Complexity ECHO

Ashley Davis & Hope Haslam Straugan

• Forced to Choose: BSW Students’ Experiences of a College Merger

Yoonsook Ha, Juliann Nicholson, Kate Giapponi Schneider, Mary Collins & Pamela Joshi

• Experiences of Child Care Providers Serving Subsidy-Receiving Children Involved in the Child Protective Services System: Implications for Equitable Access

Hyeouk Chris Hahm

• Asian American Children’s Psychological Well-Being and Health Behaviors: Advancing a Culturally Informed Perspective on the Role of Parenting
• Saraiya, T. C., Hien, D. A., Singal, S., & Hahm, H.C. The Invisibility of Asian American, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Substance Use Research: A Call to Action

Pamela Joshi & Yoonsook Ha

• Advancing Research on Equitable Access to Early Care and Education in the United States

Jennifer M Gómez

• But Is It Okay? The Need to Still Ask Black/African American Mothers about Violence Exposure During the COVID-19 Worldwide Pandemic

Bronwyn Keefe

• State Policy Academies on Mental Health, Substance Use, and Aging

Lyndsey D. McMahan

• The Varied Perspectives of Organisational Effectiveness: What’s at Stake for Early Childhood Development in Programmes in Rwanda?

Juliann H. Nicholson

• “They Need Nurturance; They Need to Be Seen”: Early Care and Education for Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence

Clemens Noelke & Robert Ressler

• Association of Neighborhood Opportunity and Pediatric Hospitalization Rates in the United States

Ruth Paris

• Yang, Y.*, Paris, R., Hansen, H.*, & Short Mejia, A. Juggling Competing Responsibilities: Experiences with Parenting, Child Welfare, and Substance Use treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic

Robert Ressler

• In Conversation with Equity: Qualitatively Engaging Quantitative Data for Equitable Social Impact

Lindsay Rosenfeld

• The Influence of Dr. Rima Rudd’s Organizational Health Literacy Scholarship in Maryland
• Educational Attainment, Severity and Short-Term Prognosis of Intracerebral Haemorrhage

Judith Scott

• Intersectional HIV Stigma Among Black Women: Regional Differences and Implications from the Black Women First Initiative
• Beyond Survival: Harnessing Sustainability Frameworks to Assess and Support Programs Implementing Bundled Interventions for Black Women with HIV

Wade Taylor

• Acceptability of a Smartphone-Music Intervention for Chronic Pain and Problematic Opioid Use among People Living with HIV

Peter Treitler

• Implementation of an Office-Based Addiction Treatment Model for Medicaid Enrollees: A Mixed Methods Study

Bethlyn Vergo Houlihan

• What Families of Children With Medical Complexity Say They Need: Humanism in Care Delivery Change
• Trauma-Informed Leadership in Quality Improvement: What We Learned From Practicing in a Pandemic

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