Justice-Involved Youth and Trauma-Informed Interventions

Three ambitious Master of Social Work students just had their first journal article published! Congratulations to MSW students Mara Liggett, Laura Mangan and Michelle Kerrigan, as well as Dr. Precious Skinner-Osei, Instructor in the FAU Phyllis and Harvey Sandler School of Social Work, and Dr. Jill Levenson, Professor in the Barry University School of Social Work, on their successful collaboration and publication in  Justice Policy Journal :

Skinner-Osei, P., Mangan, L., Liggett, M., Kerrigan, M., & Levenson, J.S. (2019).  Justice-involved youth and trauma-informed interventions. Justice Policy Journal 17(1)

“Mara, Laura and Michelle were very hands-on and got to experience the publishing process and collaboration with someone from another university,” Dr. Skinner-Osei said. “Our article covers a very powerful and relevant topic and illustrates how dire the need is for social work and criminology/criminal justice to work together.”

The students began their research for the article when they were all undergraduate students in Dr. Skinner-Osei’s research class.  Now as master’s students, they worked in partnership with Drs. Skinner-Osei and Levenson to complete the article and see it published.

“This was an exceptional opportunity for undergraduates to work with two amazing authors and professors,” Liggett said. “We are so grateful to Professor Skinner-Osei for her support and guidance in the process. The more we can understand about the treatment of incarcerated youth, the more we are able to carve a path for their success.”