Susan Roll

Biographic Data

ID4145496
NAMESusan Roll
GIVEN NAMESSusan
FAMILY NAMERoll
SIGNATUREROLL S
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia State University, Chico
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • Understanding Student Housing Insecurity and Homelessness: A Mixed Methods and Multi-variable Analysis

    Jennifer Wilking, Susan Roll et al.ARTICLEJournal of Student Affairs…2023

    This mixed methods study explores predictive factors for housing insecurity (HI) and homelessness. Using multi-variable analyses with data from an original survey (48% response rate, n = 1,416 students), we found that income, race/ethnicity, awareness of services and being impacted by a natural disaster, all significantly impact HI and homelessness. Focus groups and interviews corroborate the quantitative results. Implications for practice are di…

  • Understanding the Implications of a Punitive Approach to Homelessness: A Local Case Study

    Open AccessJennifer Wilking, Susan Roll et al.ARTICLEPoverty & Public Policy2018Cited by: 6References: 11

    Cities large and small are increasingly using public safety policies to address local concerns about homelessness. In 2013, Chico, California, followed suit by passing several ordinances, most notably, a “sit‐lie” ordinance that prohibits individuals from sitting or lying in commercial districts and other public spaces. Broadly, this article explores the implications of this punitive approach to homelessness. Specifically, relying primarily upon …

  • Students as co-researchers to inform student learning: Findings from a poverty simulation

    Open AccessSusan Roll, Laurie BrowneARTICLEAction Research2017Cited by: 1References: 3

    Survey data reveal that poverty simulations are an effective tool in changing student attitudes about poverty. What is not well documented in the literature is exactly how students learn through this type of experiential education. Using students as co-researchers in an action research model, this study sought to better understand how students learn about poverty through a poverty simulation, which is a pedagogical tool known to impact students’ …

  • Impact of Income Inequality on Workers’ Life Satisfaction in the U.S: A Multilevel Analysis

    Open AccessHaksoon Ahn, Susan Roll et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2015Cited by: 3References: 6

  • Women, Poverty, and Trauma: An Empowerment Practice Approach: Figure 1

    Jean Francis East, Susan Roll et al.ARTICLESocial Work2015Cited by: 20References: 3

    This article describes an empowerment approach for working with diverse women who experience poverty, trauma, and multiple structural oppressions. The approach is the result of 20 years of experience developing, implementing, and evaluating this practice in a metropolitan community, and is grounded in women's empowerment theory and relational-cultural theory. The interventions combine social work's clinical interventions with community organizing…

  • Financially Vulnerable Families and the Child Care Cliff Effect

    Susan Roll, Jean F East et al.ARTICLEJournal of Poverty2014Cited by: 3References: 7

    For many families, child care is a necessity for economic self-sufficiency, as without it caretakers cannot enter and stay in the workforce. However, for many low-income families, child care expenses are so high that they often cannot afford it without government support. Also problematic is that government-supported child care benefits are incrementally lost as a family’s income increases, but often before sufficient income can be sustained to r…

  • The Effect of Neighborhood on Crime and Safety: A Review of the Evidence

    Walt Wolfram, Daniel Brisson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Evidence-Based Social…2012

    There is a growing, multidisciplinary body of evidence on the effects that neighborhoods have on family outcomes. This evidence is important for social workers as we work with clients and communities from a person-in-environment perspective. In this article the authors present findings from a systematic, integrative review of neighborhood effects specifically for crime and safety. Thirty-seven research studies using random samples from urban, U.S…

  • Child Care as a Work Support: A Socialist Feminist Policy Analysis

    Open AccessSusan Roll, Jean F East et al.ARTICLEAffilia2012Cited by: 3References: 6

    Research has shown that welfare policy plays a significant role in the subordination of women, and with each new policy iteration, it is important to continue to expose the way in which policy intentionally or unintentionally places women at a disadvantage. Using a socialist feminist framework, this article explores child care as a work-support benefit and the realities of the lived experience of those who receive child care subsidies. This polic…

  • An Adult Education Model of Resident Participation: Building Community Capacity and Strengthening Neighborhood-Based Activities in a Comprehensive Community Initiative (CCI)

    Open AccessDaniel Brisson, Susan RollARTICLEAdvances in Social Work2008Cited by: 1

    Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCIs) are of growing interest to social work and the social services field as they are an effort to move away from remediation of individual problems within neighborhoods to a comprehensive change effort that builds resident and institutional capacity for long term sustainability of healthy communities. Built on ongoing lessons learned from the community development field, CCIs are largely foundation supported…