Selected Presentations

  • Tracking Undergraduate Attitudes Toward Those Who Live in Poverty. National Faith, Justice, and Civic Learning Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, Il. June 16-17, 2011.
  • Best Practices for Teaching Undergraduate Students About Poverty. Baccalaureate Program Directors Conference, Atlanta, March 17-20, 2010.
  • Developing a Commitment to Addressing and Ending Poverty From Undergraduate University Students. Social Justice: Pursuing an Elusive Goal. Oxford Round Table, Oxford, England, March 22-27, 2009.
  • The Strengths and Stressors Tracking Device: A tool to assess the well being of kinship caregivers and their families. David Taylor-Co -presenter. Children, Youth, and Families At Risk (CYFAR) National Conference, Atlanta, May 16-19, 2006.
  • Kinship Caregiver Summit: Relatives Caring for Children. Presentation and Panel Discussion regarding the needs of kinship caregivers and their families, Catholic Charities and the Western New York Kinship Care Coalition, June 7, 2006.
  • Consequences of Welfare Reform: focus groups with kinship caregivers receiving monies via TANF's Child Only Initiative. David Taylor-Co -presenter Families and Poverty Research Conference, Brigham Young University, March 10-12, 2004.
  • Results of analysis of Niagara County Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Child Only Initiative Grantee Population to the Niagara County Executive and Board, June 16, 2003.
  • Social Work Practice and the Transmission of Culture. Joint International Conference of the International Association of Social Workers and the International Association of Schools of Social Work, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 29, 2000.
  • The Practice of Social Work and the Transmission of Culture. National Association of Social Workers-New York State Conference on October 24, 1998.
  • Using Ethnography and Economic Anthropology in the Teaching of Social Welfare Policy. New York State Social Work Education Association, 31st Annual Conference on October 23, 1998.
  • Workshop for parents of children with a disability. Baker Victory Services, Lackawanna, NY. March 1998.
  • The Theories of William Glasser for School Improvement: A Case Study and Critique. A Presentation for the Hartmen International Conference on June 18, 1995
  • Use of Psychiatric Hospitals by School Services Personnel. A workshop given at the Illinois Association of School Social Workers annual conferences on 11/8/90 and 11/10/89.
  • Divorce Mediation Education Workshop for Teachers. Presented to the faculty of Park Ridge, Illinois School District #64 in January 1988