Dining on a Dollar: Financial Social Work and Healthy Food Options

For the working poor and other food-insecure families, with limited resources, the USDA monthly food budget recommendations are unattainable. Often families are faced with having to choose between paying household bills or buying food. Low income and food-insecure families, with limited resources, can apply principles of financial social work to purchase healthy foods

Interview with ZaDonna Slay

This interview was conducted for the as part of the 20th Anniversary of the September 11th Terrorist Attacks on the United States. This effort was to produce a history of the university’s, as well as the community’s, response in the days and weeks following the attacks. A key aspect of the project was a series of audio-taped interviews conducted with various members of the Rock Hill and Winthrop communities who felt their stories needed to be shared. This interview is of Ms. ZaDonna Slay, Admissions Coordinator and Instructor for the Master of Social Work at Winthrop University. In her interview with Andrew Russell, ZaDonna Slay discusses her thoughts and memories during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Mrs. Slay describes her experiences as well as the response of her local community to the events.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/1545/thumbnail.jp

Unmasking the Psychological Impacts of Structural Challenges Confronting Black Women Faculty

The strong Black woman [emphasis added] trope is often used to describe the essence of a Black woman. In reality, the term strong [emphasis added] in this sense does not have a positive connotation. A strong Black woman [emphasis added] is a psychological coping mechanism that is used to exude strength, self-pride, emotional containment. This schema known as the strong Black woman schema, along with critical race theory and the Black feminist perspective, provides an understanding of the complexities that Black women face, specifically Black women faculty. This banded dissertation explores the association between psychological health and Black women faculty. The three products of this banded dissertation aim to apply the SBW archetype to perceived stress from structural correlates of the academy. An autoethnography, conference presentation, and quantitative study were produced to advance the scholarly discussion of psychological stress among Black women faculty