Michael Sherraden, the George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and founding director of the Next Age Institute, has been named a Social Work Pioneer. The honor, announced on July 19 by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Foundation, has been previously bestowed upon such social work luminaries as Jane […]
Under the new policy, every child in the Central Asian nation is receiving an account with assets from natural-resource wealth. In a historic move to prepare future generations for emerging economic realities, Kazakhstan has launched a national Child Development Account (CDA) policy informed by research from the Center for Social Development (CSD) and Next Age […]
(Clockwise from top right) Jin Huang of St. Louis University, Next Age Institute (NAI) Director Michael Sherraden and NAI Co-Director Li Zou discuss Child Development Account (CDA) policy, the long-running SEED for Oklahoma Kids experiment and a vision for global CDAs with moderator Irene Ng of National University of Singapore (top left) in the virtual […]
Next Age Institute Co-Director Li Zou shares vision for a global Child Development Account policy. Li Zou has given many presentations on Child Development Accounts (CDAs) in other countries, but this one was different. Li Zou was at the World Bank to deliver invited remarks on the bank’s plan to evolve its mission and operations. The bank’s […]
The Society for Social Work and Research honored Michael Sherraden with the 2023 Distinguished Career Achievement Award. The award recognizes a career of applied research innovations, major contributions to social work knowledge.
In Singapore, an innovative project is training frontline social workers to give financial guidance to low-income families.
A multinational group of partners gathered virtually in July to mark the launch of Financial Capability and Asset Building in Africa (FCAB Africa), a new collaboration aimed at enlisting financial-service providers and human-service professionals to improve the financial knowledge of disadvantaged populations, and access to quality financial service.
Now, a new book edited by Jin Huang, Li Zou and Sherraden—Inclusive Child Development Accounts: Toward Universality and Progressivity—showcases the global context of those advancements. Over seven chapters, the book examines CDA policies and programs in Singapore, Israel, the United States, Taiwan, Uganda, Korea and mainland China.
A new article in the China Journal of Social Work, titled “Re-emergence of social work in modern China: A perspective by Chinese and U.S. partners” charts the complex history of social work’s return to China and describes the true academic partnerships that helped to make it possible.
The Singapore Financial Capability and Asset Building (SG FCAB) initiative was planned as a three-phase process. Now entering its third phase, SG FCAB curriculum training will be rolled out as a Continuing Professional Education Program for practicing social workers on a nationwide scale by the Department of Social Work at NUS.
Next Age Institute Director Michael Sherraden and two research professors from the Brown School, Margaret Sherraden and Jin Huang, recently headlined an international policy conference on Innovation and Evaluation for Anti-Poverty Initiatives at National Taiwan University (NTU), a McDonnell International Scholars Academy partner university. The Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare organized the conference, and the […]
Child Development Accounts take center stage in a newly released special issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development. The sweeping, seven-article issue shows the global context of the emerging asset-building policy. “Many countries are exploring new policy innovations that encourage asset building,” said Michael Sherraden, who co-edited the issue and co-authored the […]
The new book People and Climate Change: Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Social Justice now may be ordered in advance of its April 1 release. Edited by Lisa Reyes Mason and Jonathan Rigg, the 256-page book explores how climate change threatens the well-being, livelihood and survival of people in communities worldwide. “Too often, those who have contributed least […]
In the December issue of the journal Nature Climate Change, Jonathan Rigg and Lisa Reyes Mason articulate in their commentary article of “Five Dimensions of Climate Science Reductionism”, that science tends to extract climate change from its social and environmental contexts, making climate change a “detached physical process.” “Pertinent, non-physical evidence is overlooked or underplayed, and the ways in which climate change […]
Mary McKay, Neidorff Family and Centene Corporation dean of the Brown School, was the lead speaker at the Workshop on Social Innovation & Public Health, at Tsinghua University in Beijing. She highlighted Brown School faculty members’ research and innovation related to social work and public health. The October 14 workshop included four additional experts. The […]
Chen is the director of the Center for Social Work Study and a faculty member of the School of Social Sciences at Tsinghua University, in Beijing. He also is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Cross-Strait Research and a senior research fellow at the Center for Sino-American Relations. In the early years of the […]
President Tsai Ing-wen in June signed into law the Act on Savings Accounts for the Education and Development of Children and Teenagers. The legislation encourages disadvantaged families to save for their children’s future by creating publicly subsidized saving accounts. The scholar Li-Chen Cheng, who earned her PhD in Social Work at Washington University, has spent decades […]
Michael Sherraden, the S.R. Nathan Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and co-director of the Next Age Institute, has the lead paper in the forthcoming book “Critical Issues in Asset Building in Singapore’s Development.” Singapore has led in asset-based policy since the1960s. “Asset building has become the backbone of Singapore’s strategy for […]
The book “Asset-Building Policies and Innovation in Asia” – a valuable resource for students and scholars of Asian social policy – is now available in paperback. This book offers macro- and micro-level analyses on asset-based social development and compares and contrasts national social policies across the Asia-Pacific region. Next Age Institute Co-Director Michael Sherraden and International Director Li Zou edited the book […]
The Next Age Institute (NAI) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) faculty of Arts and Social Sciences are collaborating to introduce a Financial Capability and Asset Building (FCAB) initiative in Singapore. The curriculum will be piloted with NUS social work undergraduates and about 100 social workers next year. Soon Singaporean social workers will develop knowledge and […]