Elizabeth B. Pearce, Linn-Benton Community College

Elizabeth aka Liz (she/her) is a faculty member who teaches Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) classes at Linn-Benton Community College (LBCC). She has served as Department Chair, Faculty Fellow in Technology and Teaching, and as the Difference, Power, and Oppression Faculty Lead. Previously she directed the Family Resource Center, a full-time child care and parent cooperative for LBCC student and staff families. This textbook, mostly original work, originated in collaboration with LBCC students.

Her passion is creating opportunities and resources for transformative learning through open pedagogy in the community college classroom. She has presented locally, regionally, and nationally on this topic. She also leads and mentors faculty in equity-based teaching, active learning, technology use, and open pedagogy.

Liz earned a Bachelor of Arts in Child Study at Tufts University and a Master of Education degree in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has completed post-graduate coursework in child/family development, life course theory, educational policy, and sociology at Wheelock College (now Boston University) and Oregon State University. She is the author of Introduction to Human Services and a contributor to Human Services Practicum: An Equity Lens also published by Open Oregon Educational Resources.

Martha A. Ochoa-Leyva, Portland Community College

Martha A. Ochoa-Leyva (She/Ella) was born in what is now called Mexico and is part of the Nahuas people. She immigrated to Oregon with her parents and two sisters in the early 90’s. Her indigenous roots are an essential part of her teaching and who she is overall in education and her social justice formation. She is a part-faculty member at Portland Community College (PCC) and the author of Introduction to Human Services: An Equity Lens. She teaches in the Child and Families Studies Department and mentors BIPOC students as part of how she gives back to her community. Martha earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a minor in Legal Studies at Western Oregon University. She earned her Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from George Fox University. Her current work includes founding the Child and Families Studies Department at PCC, being an Oregon Infant Mental Health Association Board member, and leading trauma-informed equity-centered workshops for school district leadership teams.

Contributing Authors

Yvonne M. Smith LCSW, Clackamas Community College; Nora Karena, Unaffiliated; Alexandra Olsen, Umpqua Community College; and Terese Jones, Linn-Benton Community College, all contributed significantly to the foundations and writing of this textbook.

Openly Licensed Works

This new textbook benefitted from several other openly licensed works, and we would like to acknowledge them here.

Scholars from the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas

Scholars Kelichi Wright, MEd, LCPC, LPC; Kortney A. Carr, LCSW, LSCSW; and Becci A. Akin, PhD, all associated with the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas, wrote an article for the openly licensed peer-reviewed journal Advances in Social Work. Their seminal work “The Whitewashing of Social Work History: How Dismantling Racism in Social Work Education Begins With an Equitable History of the Profession” was published in 2021. Adapting their work is just the beginning. In future editions of this textbook, we will strive to more fully incorporate our understanding of how whitewashing currently affects the human services profession.

Social Work & Social Welfare: Modern Practice in a Diverse World

Authors Mick Cullen, LCSW, CADC, MA, professor and chair of the social work/human services department at College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois, and Matthew Cullen, LICSW, LCSW, M.Ed., a counselor at Green River College in Auburn, Washington recently updated their text.

Ferris State University Department of Social Work

Ferris State University created an openly licensed text, Introduction to Social Work at Ferris State University in 2017.

From Dr. Jessica Gladden: “This book was written by MSW students as their final project for their Capstone class. Students were each assigned a chapter of the book to write to show that they had achieved competency as a Master’s level social worker. Chapters were assigned based on student interest and experience in certain areas of the field.” In addition, Ferris State had a team of editors: Dr. Jessica Gladden, Professor Danette Crozier, Dr. Kathryn Woods, Dr. Janet Vizina-Roubal, and Professor Michael Berghoef.

DePaul University

Leonard A. Jason, Olya Glantsman, Jack F. O’Brien, and Kaitlyn N. Ramian are the lead authors of The Introduction to Community Psychology text. Individual contributing authors are credited for their work in their work used in this text.

Saylor Academy

Saylor Academy is a nonprofit initiative that has been working since 2008 to offer free and open online courses to all who want to learn. The authors of the text Social Problems: Continuity and Change are anonymous.