Session: Better Measures for Better Policies: Advancing Social Policy Research (Society for Social Work and Research 30th Annual Conference Anniversary)

Schedule:

Thursday, January 15, 2026: 3:15 PM-4:45 PM

Capitol, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington DC)

Cluster: Inequality, Poverty, and Social Welfare Policy

Moderator:

Branden McLeod, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago

* noted as presenting author

An Examination of the Measurement Invariance and Construct Validity of the Housing Prioritization Tool
Amanda Fackler, PhD, University of North Dakota; Courtney Cronley, PhD, The University of Tennesee, Knoxville; Benjamin King, PhD, University of Houston

Emerging Economic Coping Strategies amidst a Growing Market for Human Blood Plasma
Analidis Ochoa, MSW, MPP, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Ethnicity and Childhood Vulnerability: Their Relation to Poverty and Inequality in Young Adulthood
Tehila Refaeli, PhD, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Edna Shimoni, PhD, The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics

Linking Subjective and Objective Measures of Economic Hardship to Parent and Child Mental Health: A Longitudinal Analysis of a Low-Income Sample
Yuanyuan Yang, MPA, Washington University in Saint Louis; Joshua Mersky, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; ChienTi Lee, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Material Hardship and Primary Caregivers' Depression: An Analysis of Pre-and-during-COVID-19 Experiences
Emmanuel Adaranijo, MSSW, State University of New York at Albany; Julianah Egbontan, M.Ed, University at Albany; Crispin Mbamba, PhD, MSW, MSc., Office of Mental Health

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