Using Evidence to Reform Practice for Community and Organizational Change

About

Maria Roberts-DeGennaro (PhD. University of Texas at Austin) is professor emerita of social work at San Diego State University where she taught macro-practice related courses for 30 years. Her practice experience includes working as a case manager program director community development specialist and director of an interdisciplinary center. From 1989 to 1992 Roberts-DeGennaro served as Chair/President of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Community Organization and Social Administration (ACOSA). Sondra J. Fogel (PhD. University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign) is associate professor of social work at the University of South Florida. Her research interests include interventions in poverty and homelessness community-building strategies in low-income areas housing policy as well as mitigation evidence and its influence in capital punishment decisions. She will be chair of the Association of Community and Social Administration beginning in the Fall of 2010.