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Featured Conference
Speakers
| Presidential
Plenary: “Promoting Social and Emotional
Well-Being for Vulnerable Children and Youth:
What We Know and Where We Are Going” |
|  Bryan
Samuels, M.S., is the Commissioner
of the Administration on Children, Youth and
Families (ACYF). Samuels has spent his career
formulating service delivery innovations and
streamlining operations in large government
organizations on behalf of children, youth,
and families. As Chief of Staff for Chicago
Public Schools (CPS), Mr. Samuels played a leadership
role in managing the day-to-day operations of
the third largest school system in the nation
with 420,000 students, 623 schools, 44,000 employees,
and a $5 billion budget. Prior to this role,
from 2003 to 2007, Samuels served as the Director
of the Illinois Department of Children and Family
Services (DCFS). While Director, he moved aggressively
to implement comprehensive assessments of all
children entering care, redesigned transitional
and independent living programs to prepare youth
for transitioning to adulthood, created a child
location unit to track all runaway youth, and
introduced evidence-based services to address
the impact of trauma and exposure to violence
on children in state care. As a result of his
efforts, DCFS established the lowest caseload
ratios for case managers in the nation; reduced
the number of youth “on run” by
40 percent and number of days “on run”
by 50 percent; decreased the use of residential
treatment or group homes by 20 percent; and
eliminated the number of past due child protection
investigations by 60 percent. Prior to 2003,
Samuels taught at the University of Chicago’s
School of Social Service Administration. Samuels
holds a Master’s Degree from the University
of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy Studies
and a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree from the
University of Notre Dame.
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| Aaron
Rosen Lecture: "Transforming An Aging Society" |
|  Nancy
Morrow-Howell, Ph.D., received her
BSW and MSW from the University of Kansas (1975)
and her Ph.D. at the University of California,
Berkeley (1984). She has been on the faculty
at the George Warren Brown School of Social
Work at Washington University since 1987. In
2003, she was named the Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey
Professor of Social Work. Dr. Morrow-Howell
is a national leader in gerontology, widely
known for her work on productive and civic engagement
of older adults. With support from the National
Institute on Aging, the Atlantic Philanthropies,
the Metlife Foundation, and the Longer Life
Foundation, she explores strategies to maximize
the engagement of older adults in productive
roles. Her research has contributed to understanding
outcomes for individuals, families, and society
associated with expanding work, volunteering,
and civic service opportunities for older adults.
At the Brown School, she coordinates the gerontology
concentration and teaches gerontology courses
as well as research methods. She received Washington
University’s Outstanding Faculty Mentor
Award in both 2008 and 2011. Dr. Morrow- Howell
is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of
America (GSA), past chair of the Social Research,
Policy, and Program (SRPP) section of the GSA,
past-Vice President of the Association for Gerontological
Education in Social Work (AGE-SW), and actively
involved with the John A. Hartford Geriatric
Social Work Initiative.
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| Opening
Plenary: “Building Capacity and Supporting
the Search for Solutions: A New Model for Conducting
Research that Makes a Difference” |
|  Melissa
Roderick, Ph.D., is the Hermon Dunlap
Smith Professor at the School of Social Service
Administration, University of Chicago. She is
a co-director at the Consortium on Chicago School
Research and the Principal Investigator for
the Network for College Success. Professor Roderick
is an expert in urban school reform, high stakes
testing, minority adolescent development, and
school transitions. Her work has focused attention
on the transition to high school as a critical
point in students' school careers and her new
work examines the transition to college among
Chicago Public School students. In prior work,
Professor Roderick led a multi-year evaluation
of Chicago's initiative to end social promotion.
She has conducted research on school dropout,
grade retention, and the effects of summer programs.
She is an expert in mixing qualitative and quantitative
methods in evaluation. Her new work focuses
on understanding the relationship between students'
high school careers and preparation, their college
selection choices, and their post-secondary
outcomes through linked quantitative and qualitative
research. Professor Roderick has a Ph.D. from
the Committee on Public Policy from Harvard
University, a Master's in Public Policy from
the John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University, and an A.B. from Bowdoin
College.
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Invited
Symposium: “Promoting Positive Development
in Children, Youth, and Families” |
| Invited
Symposium Moderator |
 Jeffrey
M. Jenson, Ph.D., is the Philip D.
and Eleanor G. Winn Professor for Children and
Youth at Risk and Associate Dean for Research
in the Graduate School of Social Work, University
of Denver. Dr. Jenson’s teaching and research
interests address the etiology and prevention
of childhood and adolescent problems of bullying,
aggression, school dropout, and juvenile delinquency.
His research focuses on the application of a
risk and resilience approach to preventing childhood
and adolescent health and behavior problems
and on the evaluation of prevention strategies
aimed at promoting positive youth development.
Dr. Jenson has published four books and numerous
articles on the topic of adolescent problem
behavior. Dr. Jenson has received several awards
for his scholarship, including the Aaron Rosen
Award from the Society for Social Work and Research.
He was awarded the University of Denver Distinguished
Scholar Award in 2003 and the University Lecturer
Award in 2007. He was Editor-in-Chief of the
journal Social Work Research from 2004 to 2008.
Dr. Jenson was inducted as a Fellow of the American
Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare in
2011. He is a current member of the board of
the Society for Social Work and Research.
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| Invited
Symposium Speaker |
 Richard
F. Catalano, Ph.D., is the Bartley
Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention
of Violence and the Director of the Social Development
Research Group in the School of Social Work
at the University of Washington. He is also
Adjunct Professor of Education and Sociology.
For over 30 years, he has led research and program
development to promote positive youth development
and prevent problem behavior. His work has focused
on discovering risk and protective factors for
positive and problem behavior, designing and
evaluating programs to address these factors,
using this knowledge to understand and improve
prevention service systems in states and communities.
He has published over 250 articles and book
chapters and developed several intervention
programs. His work has been recognized by practitioners
(1996 National Prevention Network’s Award
of Excellence); criminologists (2007 August
Vollmer Award from the American Society of Criminology,
2003 Paul Tappan Award from the Western Society
of Criminology and Fellow of the Academy of
Experimental Criminology); and prevention scientists
(2001 Prevention Science Award from the Society
for Prevention Research). He has served on numerous
federal and private foundation review committees
and advisory boards.
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| Invited
Symposium Speaker |
 Neil
B. Guterman, Ph.D., M. S. W., serves
as Dean and is the Mose & Sylvia Firestone
Professor at the School of Social Service Administration
at the University of Chicago. He has served
as principal or co-principal investigator for
numerous federally- and privately funded studies
concerning child abuse prevention, children’s
victimization, and early home visitation services.
Dr. Guterman is the author of over fifty related
scientific and professional publications in
the field including Stopping Child Maltreatment
Before It Starts: Emerging Horizons in Early
Home Visitation Services (2001), and a forthcoming
reference work, Child Maltreatment Prevention.
As a noted authority on children’s victimization
and its prevention, Dr. Guterman has served
on national and local home visitation advisory
boards, and has provided collaborative expertise
and consultation to federal, state, and local
governmental bodies, foundations, national and
international advocacy organizations, and legal
firms. As well, he consults as an editor to
an array of scholarly journals in the field
including Child Abuse and Neglect, Social Service
Review, American Journal of Public Health and
he serves on the editorial board of Child Maltreatment.
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| Invited
Symposium Speaker |
 Mary
McKernan McKay, Ph.D., is Professor
at Silver School of Social Work, New York University
and Director of McSilver Institute for Poverty
Policy and Research. Dr. McKay is a prominent
researcher nationally and internationally. She
has received substantial federal funding for
her research focused on meeting the mental health
and prevention needs of inner-city youth and
families. Dr. McKay has developed a substantial
body of research findings around engagement
practices to improve engagement with mental
health services in urban areas. She has worked
closely with New York State Office of Mental
Health, New York City Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene, and the National Institute of
Mental Health to create evidence-based engagement
interventions and to test models of dissemination
and training for mental health professionals
in engagement best practices. One of her most
successful research projects is the CHAMP (Collaborative
HIV Prevention and Adolescent Mental Health
Project) Family Program which is a collaborative
effort between university and community members
to provide HIV prevention and mental health
promotion services in urban, low income communities.
Dr. McKay has published over 100 peer-reviewed
publications on the topics of HIV/AIDS, mental
health, and urban health issues.
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Invited
Symposium: “Race and Ethnicity in Research
and Practice: What Difference Have We Made?” |
| Invited
Symposium Moderator |
|  Rowena
Fong, Ed.D., is the Ruby Lee Piester
Centennial Professor in Services to Children
and Families in the School of Social Work at
the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently
the President of the Society for Society Work
and Research and has served as a SSWR Board
member in 2004-2007. Dr. Fong received her B.A.
in Chinese Studies and Psychology from Wellesley
College, her M.S.W. in Children and Families
from UC Berkeley, and her Ed.D. in Human Development
from Harvard University. Her areas of research
are focused on adoptions and child welfare,
parental socialization and ethnic identify formation
of Chinese adoptive children and families, domestic
and international victims of human trafficking,
and disproportionality in public child welfare.
She has received research and training grants
from the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services; Department of Human Services, Office
of Refugee Resettlement; Texas Department of
Family Protective Services; and Texas Health
and Human Services. She is currently researching
the ethnic identity formation of transracial
adopted children from China; the availability
of child welfare and social services for victims
of human trafficking, and community engagement
in dealing with disproportionality in the public
child welfare system. She has numerous publications,
including seven books: A. Detlaff & R. Fong
(Eds.) (in press). Child Welfare Practice
with Immigrant Children and Families. New
York: Taylor and Francis; C. Franklin &
R. Fong, (Eds.) (2011). The Church Leader’s
Counseling Resource Book. New York: Oxford
University Press.; R. Fong, R. McRoy, &
C. Ortiz Hendricks, (Eds.). (2006). Intersecting
child welfare, substance abuse, and family violence:
Culturally competent approaches. Washington,
D.C.: Council on Social Work Education; R. Fong,
(Ed.). (2004). Culturally competent practice
with immigrant and refugee children and families.
New York: Guilford Press; M. Smith & R.
Fong (2004). Children of neglect: When no
one cares. New York: Brunner-Routledge
Press; R. Fong, & S. Furuto (Eds.). (2001).
Culturally competent social work practice:
Skills, interventions and evaluation. Boston,
MA: Allyn & Bacon; and E. Freeman, C. Franklin,
R. Fong, G. Shaffer, & E. Timberlake (Eds.).
(1998). Multisystem skills and interventions
in school social work practice. Washington,
D.C.: NASW Press. Dr. Fong received the 2008
Distinguished Recent Contributions in Social
Work Education Award of the Council on Social
Work Education; the 2007 Texas Exes Teaching
Award of the University of Texas at Austin;
the 2001 Regent's Teaching Award of the University
of Hawaii at Manoa, and the 2001 Social Worker
of the Year in Education and Training of the
National Association of Social Work, Honolulu
Chapter. She has served on the editorial boards
of Social Work, Journal of Social Work Education,
Research and Social Work Practice, Journal of
Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work
and is currently serving on Child Welfare,
Journal of Public Child Welfare, and Religion
and Childhood, Journal of Social Work Education.
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| Invited
Symposium Speaker |
 Karina
Walters, Ph.D., is a professor in the
UW Social Welfare Doctoral Faculty, William
P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professorship.
Dr. Walters’ professional interests include
American Indian and Alaska Native health, mental
health, alcohol and substance abuse. She is
also interested in other wellness areas, multicultural
social work practice identity, enculturation
and cultural factors that buffer the effect
of historical trauma, discrimination, and other
forms of trauma and violence on indigenous wellness
outcomes.
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| Invited
Symposium Speaker |
 Sean
Joe, Ph.D., holds a joint position
as Associate Professor in the School of Social
Work and Department of Psychiatry at the University
of Michigan's School of Medicine. He is the
Director of the Emerging Scholars Interdisciplinary
Network and the Associate Director for Research
and Training at the Program for Research on
Black Americans at the Institute for Social
Research at the University of Michigan. Dr.
Joe’s research which has been supported
by NIMH as well as other government and foundations
sources, focuses on suicidal behavior among
blacks and father-focused family-based interventions
to prevent urban black adolescent males from
engaging in multiple forms of self-destructive
behaviors (e.g., suicidal behavior). He is currently
the principal investigator on projects examining
the role of religion in Black American suicidal
behavior (NIMH), adolescents mental health service
use patterns, and salivary biomarkers for adolescent
suicidal behavior. He has published in the areas
of suicide, violence, and firearm-related violence.
Dr. Joe serves on the
scientific advisory board of the National Organization
of People of Color Against Suicide and the Public
Policy Council of the American Foundation for
Suicide Prevention. He is Founder and Director
of the Emerging Scholars Interdisciplinary Network
(ESIN), and the Co-chair of ESIN’S Research
Study Group on Race, Culture, and Suicide, a
national interdisciplinary group of researchers
committed to advancing suicide research on populations
of color. Dr. Joe is the 2009 recipient of the
Edwin Shneidman Award from the American Association
of Suicidology for outstanding contributions
in research to the field of suicide studies,
the 2008 recipient of the Early Career Achievement
Award from the Society for Social Work and Research,
and he was inducted in the fall of 2010 as a
Fellow of New York Academy of Medicine. He is
a member of the Psychosocial Development, Risk
and Prevention Study Section of the NIMH, Associate
Editor for several journals (e..g, Suicide and
Life Threatening Behaviors, Research in Social
Work Practice), and is a reviewer for several
journals (e.g., JAMA, British Journal of Psychiatry)
and scientific conferences.
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| Invited
Symposium Speaker |
 Vincent
Guilamo-Ramos, Ph.D., is a Professor
and the Director of the Doctoral Program at
New York University Silver School of Social
Work. He is also the Director of the Center
for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH),
a research center that investigates the role
of the Latino family in shaping the development
and well-being of Latino adolescents. CLAFH
serves as a link between the scientific community,
Latino health and social service providers,
and the broader Latino community through research
that addresses key issues that affect Latino
families. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos’ principal
focus of investigation is the role of families
in promoting Latino adolescent health, with
a special focus on preventing HIV/AIDS, sexually
transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies.
Additional research interests include parent-adolescent
communication and intervention research. Dr.
Guilamo-Ramos has conducted research primarily
in urban, resource-poor settings, most recently
in the South Bronx, Harlem and Lower East Side
communities of New York City. He also has international
projects in India and the Dominican Republic.
Currently, Dr. Guilamo-Ramos has active programs
of research funded by the National Institutes
of Health.
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Invited
Symposium: “Shaping Public Policy: Poverty
and Low Income Families” |
| Invited
Symposium Moderator |
|  Roberta
Rehner Iversen, Ph.D., is an associate
professor in the School of Social Policy &
Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and
member-at-large on the SSWR Board. Her ethnographic
research concerns economic mobility among low-income
urban families. Iversen’s 2006 book, Jobs
Aren’t Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility
for Low-Income Families (co-author, A.L. Armstrong;
Temple University Press), illuminates that and
how the critical social institutions of family,
education, labor market and the state (policy)
intersect to influence family mobility. Iversen’s
current research with middle-income families,
which is lodged in stratification and capital
theory, assesses how the recent economic recession
has impacted parent’s jobs and children’s
education. One of the early publications from
this two-country, multi-site research is Iversen,
Napolitano & Furstenberg, “Middle-Income
Families in the Economic Downturn: Challenges
and Management Strategies over Time,”
forthcoming (autumn 2011) in Longitudinal and
Life Course Studies: International Journal.
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| Invited
Symposium Speaker |
 Daniel
Meyer, Ph.D., is the Mary C Jacoby
Professor Social Work and an Affiliate of the
Institute for Research on Poverty at the University
of Wisconsin – Madison. In addition to
his faculty appointment in the School of Social
Work, he has been a practicing social worker,
a policy analyst for US DHHS/ASPE, and a Visiting
Scholar at the University of York (UK). From
2001 through 2008, he was the Director of the
School of Social Work. His current research
interests include effects of child support and
welfare reforms; international approaches to
child support policy; the economic well-being
of women after they leave welfare; multiple-partner
fertility, and how much individuals know about
the social policies that affect them. He is
Principal Investigator, with Maria Cancian,
of the Child Support Research Agreement, a long-standing
agreement to conduct policy-relevant research
in collaboration with the Wisconsin Department
of Children and Families.
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| Invited
Symposium Speaker |
 Susan
J. Lambert, Ph.D., is an Associate
Professor in the University of Chicago’s
School of Social Service Administration. She
is a social work scholar who studies employer
practices, the realities of hourly jobs, and
the work-family issues facing low-income workers.
Lambert has conducted a series of studies on
employment conditions in low-level, hourly jobs
with the goal of identifying ways to improve
workers’ economic security, health, and
well-being. The sites for Lambert’s research
span both production and non-production industries,
including retail, hospitality, financial services,
transportation, and manufacturing, and both
publicly-held and family-owned companies. Her
research designs combine quantitative and qualitative
strategies, from comparative organizational
case-studies to, currently, a cluster-randomized
field experiment of the causal effects of improved
scheduling practices in a national retail firm.
Lambert’s research has contributed to
the “business case” for progressive
employer practices by providing hard evidence
that well-designed jobs can benefit both employees
and employers.
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Symposium Speaker |
|  Yolanda
C. Padilla, Ph.D., L.M.S.W.-A.P., is
Professor of Social Work and Women’s Studies
and Research Associate, Population Research
Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Padilla focused her studies on poverty in
U.S. society and sociological theories on the
structure of status and power. She is involved
in several initiatives on ways to connect research
and policy. She is currently a member of the
National Commission on Paternal Involvement
in Pregnancy Outcomes of the Joint Center for
Political and Economic Studies, which is doing
work on closing the gap in the large racial
disparities in birth outcomes in the United
States. She is also a part of the Latino Research
and Policy Alliance, a group of Latino scholars
who are discussing ways to bring a Latino perspective
to research and policy. Dr. Padilla’s
research is in racial and ethnic disparities
in health and well-being, with a focus on the
social determinates of health, including poverty
and immigration, and the implications for the
Latino population. She has published extensively
on the topics of Latino immigration and social
mobility. Dr. Padilla was principal investigator
of a recent study on the impact of immigration
and poverty on Mexican American child health
and well-being funded by the National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development.
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Invited
Symposium: “Research and Career Development
to Make a Difference: Stories from Mid-Career
Scholars” |
| Invited
Symposium Moderator |
|  Yoonsun
Choi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor
at the School of Social Service Administration,
University of Chicago. She currently serves
as the Vice President for SSWR. Professor Choi's
research seeks to understand the familial and
environmental processes that influence and impact
ethnic minority children and their development
and serves to inform the development of age-
and culturally appropriate preventive interventions.
Professor Choi was a recipient of the Research
Scientist Development Award from the National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), with which
she has begun a series of interrelated research
projects to identify the multiple developmental
trajectories of Asian American youth and the
factors that predominate in the determination
of these outcomes. One of her current research
projects includes the Korean American Families
(KAF) Project. This survey research is particularly
interested in racial prejudice and discrimination,
ethnic identity, parent-child cultural conflicts,
culturally unique family socialization processes,
and culture change and formation (acculturation)
that may all be unique issues of adolescent
behavior for this target group as well as other
ethnic and immigrant youth.
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Symposium Speaker |
 Taryn
Lindhorst, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., is an Associate
Professor of Social Work at the University of
Washington. Prior to receiving her doctorate
in 2001, Dr. Lindhorst spent 15 years providing
social work services in public health settings
in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her research focuses
on institutional policies and practices as sites
for the creation of social inequalities, particularly
as this relates to issues of violence against
women and health. Her research has been funded
by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of Justice and the William T. Grant
Foundation and has been honored with three national
awards. She is currently engaged in policy and
practice studies related to domestic violence,
mental health and end of life care. Dr. Lindhorst
has co-authored two books and over 40 articles
and chapters in journals such as Social Service
Review, American Journal of Public Health and
Social Science and Medicine.
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Symposium Speaker |
 Seana
Golder, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor
of School of Social Work at the University of
Louisville, Kentucky. Her research interests
include woman’s illicit substance use,
related high risk behaviors, and criminal justice
involvement, criminal justice issues particularly
as they relate to community reentry. Dr. Golder
is currently conducting research titled “Victimization
and Women in Criminal Justice System”
in which she examine the heterogeneity of victimization,
its' relationship with substance use and psychological
distress, as well as the combined affect of
these factors on the health seeking process
among victimized women in the criminal justice
system. This longitudinal study is funded by
NIDA. Dr. Golder received her Ph.D. from the
University of Washington, Seattle and was an
Assistant Professor at School of Social Work,
Columbia University before joining the University
of Louisville.
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Symposium Speaker |
 Yoosun
Park, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor
at the Smith College School for Social Work.
Her scholarship, framed within the broad substantive
area of immigration, pursue two overlapping
lines of inquiry: social work’s history
with immigrants and immigration, and the study
of contemporary issues pertinent to immigrants
and the issue of immigration. Both strands of
Dr. Park’s scholarship, as well as her
approach to pedagogy are informed by poststructuralist
theories and methods of inquiry. She serves
on the editorial boards of Social Service Review
and Affilia: Journal of Women in Social Work.
Dr. Park's article, "Facilitating injustice:
tracing the role of social workers in the World
War Two internment of Japanese Americans,"
in Social Service Review (2008) received honorable
mention of the 2010 Society for Social Work
and Research Excellence in Research Award from
SSWR.
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Symposium Speaker |
|  Kristen
Shook Slack, Ph.D., is Professor at
School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin
at Madison. Dr. Slack’s research interests
focus on the etiology of different forms of
child maltreatment and the relationship between
poverty and child neglect. She is also interested
in the relationship between welfare and child
welfare systems, particularly in the context
of the economic recession. She is currently
investigating the role of community response
programs in the child maltreatment prevention
arena, and testing the impact of an intervention
designed to reduce child maltreatment through
the provision of economic supports. Additional
research includes a study of low-income families
participating in an innovative home visiting
program in Dane County, a survey of Women, Infant
and Children (WIC) participants across the state,
and comparative analyses of child protection
system involvement across multiple longitudinal
studies of low-income families with young children.
Her work is supported by the National Institutes
of Health, the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation,
and the Wisconsin Children’s Trust Fund.
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