Tuesday, March 23, 2009
Take part in any or all of the day's three events
Social worker CEU’s available
Sponsored by the Bluffton University Social Work Program
10:15-10:45 a.m. in Marbeck Center Gallery Lounge
11 a.m. in Founders Hall
Dr. Gringeri's Forum presentation will explore several questions, including: Where is social work in the immigration debate in the United States? How are we using our professional voice to reflect our Code of Ethics? What is just practice in working with people who risk everything to improve their quality of life, and that of their families?
led by Dr. Gringeri
1:15–4:30 p.m. in Marbeck Center Room AB
We will examine the bigger picture of health care in the United States, with particular attention to how much is spent, where the money goes and what we achieve in terms of health. We will discuss, based on these indicators, what health care reform needs to address and whether current options will do that. Finally, we will ask, where is social work's voice in health care reform? How can social work promote social justice with respect to health care reform?
Dr. Gringeri hails from Northeast U.S., having started out life in inner city Philadelphia as the granddaughter of Italian immigrants. She completing her bachelor's degree at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. After some time spent teaching in Mexico, she returned to the U.S., where she and her husband settled in Wisconsin and completed graduate programs. Christina earned her M.S.W. and Ph.D. in social welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation research focused on rural families, home-based work and economic development. Currently, Dr. Gringeri is on the faculty of the college of social work at the University of Utah, where she teaches social policy, health policy and qualitative research methods, and researches diverse areas such as women, work and poverty, social capital, and feminist and qualitative research in social work. As a migrant and transplant to Utah in 1990, and a liberal, Democratic, Catholoic social worker, Dr. Gringeri is still considered a "newcomer."
