The Dynamics of Family Policy

Alice K. Butterfield (PhD, MSW, Washington University) is professor at the Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of more than thirty-five journal articles and book chapters, many of which are devoted to housing policy and service delivery for homeless families, community practice, and international social work.

Cynthia J. Rocha (PhD, Washington University; MSSW, University of Texas at Austin) is acting associate dean and associate professor at the College of Social Work, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has taught family policy and policy practice for fourteen years and has researched the challenges faced by poor and dislocated workers throughout her career. She has published numerous articles on the family, the family well-being of dislocated manufacturing workers, economic justice, and the working poor.

William H. Butterfield (PhD, MSW, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor) held a joint appointment at the University of Wisconsin in social work and at the Medical School as director of Family Counseling in the University Family Health Service. Subsequently, he joined the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, where he served as associate dean and director of the PhD program.