The Center on Race and Social Problems at the University of Pittsburgh

Abstract

In 2002, the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh established the Center on Race and Social Problems (CRSP). CRSP, which is the first race research center to be housed in a school of social work, has six foci: economic disparities; educational disparities; interracial group relations; mental health; youth, families, and elderly; and criminal justice and substance abuse. The main activities are promoting research, mentoring young scholars, and disseminating knowledge. CRSP fosters research by organizing research advisory panels, funding pilot studies, and assisting with applications for outside funding. The center mentors young scholars through postdoctoral fellowships and guidance by senior faculty. The center disseminates knowledge through a lecture series, conferences, summer institutes, courses, and academic publications.

Depression and Rural Environment Are Associated With Poor Oral Health Among Pregnant Women in Northern Appalachia

“…West Virginia has one of the highest rates of depression of any state in the USA (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010), and depression is prevalent elsewhere in Appalachia, including Appalachian counties of Pennsylvania (Davis, Bangs, Wallace, & Crawley, 2007). It is estimated that 20% of women experience significant depression during pregnancy, but that the majority of these cases are left untreated (Marcus, Flynn, Blow, & Barry, 2003).…”

Social work in Azerbaijan: Achievements and challenges of the profession

“…Building the social work profession is a multifaceted process that involves creating education programs and legislation, developing, and continually strengthening curricula to keep up with the progress of societies, developing licensing and practice standards to guard the professionalism of the profession, nurturing professional social work associations, and raising awareness about social work and the need for social workers (Davis and Blake, 2008). A few models are suggested to distinguish professionals from nonprofessionals.…”

“…The third pillar of social work development related to the establishment of social work education: Armenia started its first social work education program in the early 1990s at Yerevan State University (Khachatryan, 2011), Estonia in 1991 at Tallinn University (Kiik and Sirotkina, 2005), Russia in 1991 (Iarskaia-Smirnova, 2004), Ukraine in 1994 (Boiko and Kabachenko, 2016), Lithuania in 1995 at Vytautas Magnus University (Constable et al, 1999; Ritchie, 2003), Moldova in 1997 at the Moldova State University (Rodgers and Wermeling, 2018), Azerbaijan in 2005 at Baku State University (Huseynli, 2017), Uzbekistan in 2005 at the Tashkent State Institute of Culture (Ganieva and Kim, 2010), Georgia in 2006 at Tbilisi State University (Saitadze and Dvalishvili, 2021), Kyrgyzstan in 2006 (Davis and Blake, 2008), and Kazakhstan in 1991 (Grebneva, 2006).…”

AIDS at 30: Implications for Social Work Education

“…HIV/AIDS: An Issue of Social, Racial, and Economic Justice Increasingly, social work educational programs are promoting the advancement of social, racial, and economic justice as an important professional competency and key goal of social work education (Brown, 2004;CSWE, 2010;Davis & Bangs, 2007). HIV/AIDS can be regarded as a case study demonstrating the ways in which forms of oppression related to race, class, gender, and sexual orientation have converged, producing devastating consequences for certain communities.…”