Jason M Sawyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4217790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason M Sawyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sawyer |
| SIGNATURE | SAWYER J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Old Dominion University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8584-5886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Learning Science innovations in child welfare
Drawing from child welfare training, technical assistance, evaluation initiatives, prevailing scholarship, and the work of the Children’s Bureau’s Child Welfare Capacity Building Centers, this article extracts key high‐level information from the Learning Science literature and related sources on how theories and research findings are applied to the development, execution, and evaluation of training and technical assistance (T/TA) in child welfare…
Using a Place-Based Harms Typology to Inform Community Practice and Research
Place-based harms comprise direct threats to community wellbeing within the spaces where people live. These harms, rooted in structural and cultural violence, are codified in policies and programs that contribute to poverty, homelessness, over-policing and surveillance, and environmental injustices. This paper argues, although community practitioners are needed to work alongside communities impacted by place-based harms, there are critical tensio…
Addressing disproportionality and systemic racism in child welfare
Understanding the Behavioral Health Risk Factors that African American and Latinx Women Experience within a National Context
In an effort to address social determinants of health and to reduce barriers to care, there have been increased attempts to understand and mitigate public health concerns in ethnic minority communities. As knowledge increases regarding the impact of health disparities on ethnic minority communities, social workers practice knowledge must expand to include intersectional approaches and methods that are inclusive of mechanisms that address inconsis…
Contested places
In response to historic and ongoing devaluation of certain people, and concurrently, the places they live, many communities are grappling with how to respond to place-based harms. This has produced a wide range of responses, such as calls for “Land Back,” reparations programs, arts-based neighborhood regeneration, and local history initiatives. This paper explores the potential roles community practitioners can play in these contested places. Dra…
Understanding the complexity regarding the behavioral health risks that Latinx women experience within a national context
There has been an increase in awareness as it relates to women’s health, particularly regarding psychosocial health risks as it relates to social determinants of health in communities of color. However, there have been minimal studies conducted that have examined the overall health and wellbeing of women representing the Latinx community. Using data from the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), the following study examines self-re…
A Critical Community Practice Theory for Forging Alliances across Difference
Increasingly diversity practice skills are imperative to socially just practice in community. Conceptually driven constructs and approaches grounded in ideology dominate practice across difference in communities. This project centers a setting historically challenged by urban renewal, segregation, racism, and systemic oppression. Using critical grounded theory, authors develop a tentative practice theory to forge alliances across differences of p…
Applying Critical Grounded Theory to Community Intervention Development Methodology
Multiple factors contribute to community practice's ongoing challenge of developing effective, evidence-informed, and socially just practice interventions. Currently, rationally driven systematic reviews dominate intervention design and development in various interprofessional applied health and human service fields, including community practice. As a result, community interventions often undergo significant development outside complex community …
Beyond Cultural Competence
Cultural competence and cultural humility dominate discourses on practice across difference within social work and other helping professions. Despite their prominence, they remain contested constructs, thoroughly critiqued within the literature, and fall short in providing guidelines for intersectional practice across myriad differences. This article analyzes challenges inherent in approaches to preparing social work students for practice across …
Critical Difference Engagement
Although community practice increasingly deals with differences across race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and their intersections, approaches continue to be dominated by historical precedent, conceptual frameworks, practice wisdom, and case study. Informed by intervention development, community-engaged research, critical perspectives, and rooted in practice; this study utilizes critical-grounded theory methods to bu…
A Framework for Analyzing, Developing, and Applying Community Practice Interventions
Due to multiple factors, the community practice field struggles with incongruent community practice language and activities. In this article, authors unpack various challenges associated with community practice and explore implications for analysis, development, and application of effective interventions. Grounded in applied social science paradigms, authors offer a framework incorporating multi-paradigmatic approaches to inform intervention deve…
Debunking the myth of the ‘radical profession’
The social work profession has often been portrayed as a progressive, critical and even radical movement for social justice and social change (Wagner, 1990; Reisch, 2013). This article analyses the basis of these claims and critiques the labelling of social work as radical, utilising a philosophy-of-science lens and critical theories and perspectives to interrogate the professionalisation of social work, the current knowledge base and practices, …
Critiquing and Analyzing the Effects of Neoliberalism on Community Organizing
Although community organizing has historic and current roots as a mode of practice, characterized by people coming together to collectively address unmet needs and/or challenge inequality, neoliberal trends beginning to form in the 1980s have negatively impacted community organizing. Neoliberal values, which promote individualism, capitalism, the existence of welfare states, and reform from solely within the system are concerning to the future of…
Critiquing and Analyzing the Effects of Neoliberalism on Community Organizing
Although community organizing has historic and current roots as a mode of practice, characterized by people coming together to collectively address unmet needs and/or challenge inequality, neoliberal trends beginning to form in the 1980s have negatively impacted community organizing. Neoliberal values, which promote individualism, capitalism, the existence of welfare states, and reform from solely within the system are concerning to the future of…
A Framework for Analyzing, Developing, and Applying Community Practice Interventions
Due to multiple factors, the community practice field struggles with incongruent community practice language and activities. In this article, authors unpack various challenges associated with community practice and explore implications for analysis, development, and application of effective interventions. Grounded in applied social science paradigms, authors offer a framework incorporating multi-paradigmatic approaches to inform intervention deve…
Debunking the myth of the ‘radical profession’
The social work profession has often been portrayed as a progressive, critical and even radical movement for social justice and social change (Wagner, 1990; Reisch, 2013). This article analyses the basis of these claims and critiques the labelling of social work as radical, utilising a philosophy-of-science lens and critical theories and perspectives to interrogate the professionalisation of social work, the current knowledge base and practices, …
A Critical Community Practice Theory for Forging Alliances across Difference
Increasingly diversity practice skills are imperative to socially just practice in community. Conceptually driven constructs and approaches grounded in ideology dominate practice across difference in communities. This project centers a setting historically challenged by urban renewal, segregation, racism, and systemic oppression. Using critical grounded theory, authors develop a tentative practice theory to forge alliances across differences of p…
Critical Difference Engagement
Although community practice increasingly deals with differences across race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and their intersections, approaches continue to be dominated by historical precedent, conceptual frameworks, practice wisdom, and case study. Informed by intervention development, community-engaged research, critical perspectives, and rooted in practice; this study utilizes critical-grounded theory methods to bu…
Using a Place-Based Harms Typology to Inform Community Practice and Research
Place-based harms comprise direct threats to community wellbeing within the spaces where people live. These harms, rooted in structural and cultural violence, are codified in policies and programs that contribute to poverty, homelessness, over-policing and surveillance, and environmental injustices. This paper argues, although community practitioners are needed to work alongside communities impacted by place-based harms, there are critical tensio…
Applying Critical Grounded Theory to Community Intervention Development Methodology
Multiple factors contribute to community practice's ongoing challenge of developing effective, evidence-informed, and socially just practice interventions. Currently, rationally driven systematic reviews dominate intervention design and development in various interprofessional applied health and human service fields, including community practice. As a result, community interventions often undergo significant development outside complex community …
Critiquing and Analyzing the Effects of Neoliberalism on Community Organizing
Although community organizing has historic and current roots as a mode of practice, characterized by people coming together to collectively address unmet needs and/or challenge inequality, neoliberal trends beginning to form in the 1980s have negatively impacted community organizing. Neoliberal values, which promote individualism, capitalism, the existence of welfare states, and reform from solely within the system are concerning to the future of…
Debunking the myth of the ‘radical profession’
The social work profession has often been portrayed as a progressive, critical and even radical movement for social justice and social change (Wagner, 1990; Reisch, 2013). This article analyses the basis of these claims and critiques the labelling of social work as radical, utilising a philosophy-of-science lens and critical theories and perspectives to interrogate the professionalisation of social work, the current knowledge base and practices, …
Critical Difference Engagement
Although community practice increasingly deals with differences across race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and their intersections, approaches continue to be dominated by historical precedent, conceptual frameworks, practice wisdom, and case study. Informed by intervention development, community-engaged research, critical perspectives, and rooted in practice; this study utilizes critical-grounded theory methods to bu…
A Framework for Analyzing, Developing, and Applying Community Practice Interventions
Due to multiple factors, the community practice field struggles with incongruent community practice language and activities. In this article, authors unpack various challenges associated with community practice and explore implications for analysis, development, and application of effective interventions. Grounded in applied social science paradigms, authors offer a framework incorporating multi-paradigmatic approaches to inform intervention deve…
Beyond Cultural Competence
Cultural competence and cultural humility dominate discourses on practice across difference within social work and other helping professions. Despite their prominence, they remain contested constructs, thoroughly critiqued within the literature, and fall short in providing guidelines for intersectional practice across myriad differences. This article analyzes challenges inherent in approaches to preparing social work students for practice across …
A Critical Community Practice Theory for Forging Alliances across Difference
Increasingly diversity practice skills are imperative to socially just practice in community. Conceptually driven constructs and approaches grounded in ideology dominate practice across difference in communities. This project centers a setting historically challenged by urban renewal, segregation, racism, and systemic oppression. Using critical grounded theory, authors develop a tentative practice theory to forge alliances across differences of p…
Applying Critical Grounded Theory to Community Intervention Development Methodology
Multiple factors contribute to community practice's ongoing challenge of developing effective, evidence-informed, and socially just practice interventions. Currently, rationally driven systematic reviews dominate intervention design and development in various interprofessional applied health and human service fields, including community practice. As a result, community interventions often undergo significant development outside complex community …
Understanding the complexity regarding the behavioral health risks that Latinx women experience within a national context
There has been an increase in awareness as it relates to women’s health, particularly regarding psychosocial health risks as it relates to social determinants of health in communities of color. However, there have been minimal studies conducted that have examined the overall health and wellbeing of women representing the Latinx community. Using data from the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), the following study examines self-re…
Understanding the Behavioral Health Risk Factors that African American and Latinx Women Experience within a National Context
In an effort to address social determinants of health and to reduce barriers to care, there have been increased attempts to understand and mitigate public health concerns in ethnic minority communities. As knowledge increases regarding the impact of health disparities on ethnic minority communities, social workers practice knowledge must expand to include intersectional approaches and methods that are inclusive of mechanisms that address inconsis…
Contested places
In response to historic and ongoing devaluation of certain people, and concurrently, the places they live, many communities are grappling with how to respond to place-based harms. This has produced a wide range of responses, such as calls for “Land Back,” reparations programs, arts-based neighborhood regeneration, and local history initiatives. This paper explores the potential roles community practitioners can play in these contested places. Dra…
Addressing disproportionality and systemic racism in child welfare
Learning Science innovations in child welfare
Drawing from child welfare training, technical assistance, evaluation initiatives, prevailing scholarship, and the work of the Children’s Bureau’s Child Welfare Capacity Building Centers, this article extracts key high‐level information from the Learning Science literature and related sources on how theories and research findings are applied to the development, execution, and evaluation of training and technical assistance (T/TA) in child welfare…
Using a Place-Based Harms Typology to Inform Community Practice and Research
Place-based harms comprise direct threats to community wellbeing within the spaces where people live. These harms, rooted in structural and cultural violence, are codified in policies and programs that contribute to poverty, homelessness, over-policing and surveillance, and environmental injustices. This paper argues, although community practitioners are needed to work alongside communities impacted by place-based harms, there are critical tensio…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Community Health and Development (5 works) · Engineering ethics (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)