(Posted 1-21-00)
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News Service Contact: Laurie Gengenbach,  336-334-5371

UNCG SOCIAL WORK PROFESSOR TO SPEAK
 
 GREENSBORO — Dr. Robert Wineburg, professor of social work at  The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has been invited to address the national symposium, "Empowering American Indian Families: New Perspectives on Welfare Reform," at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., May 5-6.

Wineburg, who spent one year as a VISTA volunteer at the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana in the 1970s, will speak on the devolution of the federal government's responsibilities to states and local governments. He also will discuss the impact of welfare reform and devolution on federal, state and tribal programs and services.

Devolution is the term used in social policy to describe the trend of the past 20 years in which the federal government has increasingly shifted responsibility for social welfare programs to the state and local level. Devolution and its impact on social services and the religious community has been the topic of  Wineburg's research during his tenure at UNCG. His book on the subject has been accepted for publication by Columbia University Press.

In other recent writings, he also contributed two chapters  to "The Newer Deal: Social Work and Religion in Partnership," by Ram A. Cnann, published last fall by Columbia University Press. He also contributed a chapter entitled "The Reverend and Me" to "Cases in Macro Social Work Practice" edited by David Fauri, Steven Wernet, and Ellen Netting,  published by Allyn and Bacon in 1999. The chapter describes his affiliation with the Rev. Odell Cleveland, executive director the Welfare Reform Liaison Project of Greensboro, a faith based  organization that emerged out of Mt.Zion Baptist Church in Greensboro.

Wineburg also is serving a two-year term on the Research Fund Grant  Advisory Committee of the Aspen Institute which meets Jan. 20-21. Wineburg has been on the UNCG faculty since 1980. He served as department chairman from 1990 to 1995, and has written extensively on social welfare policy and the role of religious organizations in community service. He received his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh.

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