Disseminating Research to Influence Policy and Practice: A Skills-Based Workshop on Public Impact Scholarship for Social Work

This skills-based workshop will offer a conceptual model for public impact scholarship in social work, differentiating it from models of community-engaged or participatory action research. The presenters will highlight strategies used by social work researchers to initiate or support policy change or to translate research into practice environments. Workshop participants will draft and refine a public impact statement for one or more of their central findings and identify appropriate mechanisms to disseminate their message to target audiences.