Professional
Interests
Social
Work Administration and Management (particularly
(a) service technology, client needs and
program effectiveness and (b) managing diversity)
Substance
abuse treatment, services and policy
Online
Teaching and Cross Disciplinary Collaboration
Child
Welfare and Family Violence treatment, services and
policy
Current
Research
Currently
the principle researcher and evaluator for the
Portal Project, Women, Co-Occurring Disorders and
Violence study, one of nine sites funded by SAMHSA
for a three year multi-site project. This study
is testing the effectiveness of integrated multi-focal
services for trauma, substance abuse and mental health
problems for women with these multiple troubles.
Recent
Funded Projects
1998-03 Principal
Researcher: Women, Co-Occurring Disorders and
Violence With Project Return Foundation, Portal Project
[SAMHSA, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services]
1994-97 Principal
Investigator: Evaluation of the Continuing Care, Dreitzer
Women and Children's Program, Project Return
Foundation [CSAT, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services]
1993-96 Project
Director: Discovering Practice Wisdom for Effectively
Serving Culturally Diverse Substance Abusers and Their
Families [New York Community Trust]
1990-93 Project
Director: Responding to the Crack Crisis In-Service
Training for Public Child Welfare Workers in New York
City [Office of Human Development, U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services]
1988-90 Project
Director: Leadership Development In-Service Training
for Public Child Welfare Staff [Office of Human
Development, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services]
Selected
Publications
Andrea
Savage, Book Review of: Skills for Effective
Management of Nonprofit
Organizations, Administration
in Social Work, (2000).
Andrea
Savage, et al., “Final Evaluation Report: Continuing
Care Program,
Dreitzer
Women and Children’s Center, Project Return
Foundation, September 1997
Andrea
Savage, “Maximizing Effectiveness Through Technological
Complexity,”in Patti et al. (eds) Managing for
Service Effectiveness in Social Work Organizations. New
York: Haworth Press, 1988. This was also published
as Administration in Social Work, Fall-Winter
1987.
Andrea
Savage, “Integrating Additional Gender Sensitive
Material Into An Administration Course for Non-Administration
Majors in a Social Work Program,” in Abramovitz,
Mimi and Helly, Dorothy O. Report on a Project
to Integrate Scholarship On Women In The Professional
Curriculum at Hunter College. Women's Studies, Hunter
College, 1987.
Harold
Weissman, Irwin Epstein and Andrea Savage, "Expanding
the Role Repertoire of Clinicians," Social Casework,
March, 1987.
Harold
Weissman, Irwin Epstein and Andrea Savage, Agency-Based
Social Work, Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
1983.
Courses: Administration,
Research, Professional Seminar
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