Professional Presentations Presented (for the past 5 years):
“Career reflections on Cross-cultural human service initiatives, “ Philadelphia Human Relations Meeting, November 8, 2004
“Locally Initiated Planned Change: Social Work’s New Social Reform Agenda?” with Marsha Zebalese Crawford, paper which formed basis of presentation at 52nd Annual Program of the Council of Social Work Education: Chicago, IL, February 17, 2006
Training Hillel Fellows for North American campuses, Jerusalem, 2006, 2007
Organized conference, gave introductory message and co-wrote paper with panelist Ram Cnaan on “The Future of Faith-Based Services,” at Univ. of Pennsylvania, moderated by former Provost Ira Schwartz and involved Temple (incl. SSA) students. March 5, 2009
Professional Publications (for the past 5 years):
Making faith-based programs work. Sunday editorial page op-ed response, Sept. 5, 2003
Book Review of Elisabeth Reichert, Social Work and Human Rights , Columbia University Press, 2003, in Journal of Professional Development,: Philadelphia, Temple University , 2005
“Doing Good and Making it Work: A Reflective Commentary on the Past Fifty Years,” Professional Development: Philadelphia, Temple University volume 1 no. 1, 2006
“The Safety Net and Faith Based Services,” lead paper, with Ram Cnaan, for forthcoming special edition, Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work, presented at Faith-based conference (above) 2009
A call-for-papers, due December 15, 2009, has been announced. The special edition of the Journal of RSSW will be simultaneously published as a book. Editors: Ram Cnaan and Edward Newman.
