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Biographical Description
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Daniel Brisson is Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Housing and Homelessness Research at the Graduate School of Social Work. He teaches in the areas of community practice, research and statistics. Daniel's scholarship is focused on poverty, neighborhoods, housing and homelessness.
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Curriculum Vitae
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Publications
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Select Publications
Brisson, D., Wilson, J, Medina, E., Hughey, K., Chassman, S.& Calhoun, K. (2020). Experiences of youth transitioning out of foster care and corrections and the correlates of successful transitions. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. Online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10560-020-00708-x?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst. Doi. 10.1007/s10560-020-00708-x
Brisson, D., McCune, S., Wilson, J., Speer, S.R., McCrae, J. S. & Calhoun, K. (2020). A systematic review of the association between toxic stress and poverty. Evidence-Based Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2020.1769786
Brisson, D., Lechuga Peña, S, Mattocks, N., Plassmeyer, M. & McCune, S. (2019). The effects of the Your Family, Your Neighborhood (YFYN) intervention on neighborhood social cohesion and informal social control. Social Work Research. 43(4). 235-46. https://academic.oup.com/swr/article/43/4/235/5641110?guestAccessKey=297afcf5-a740-49af-9b90-f2a32f350014
Brisson, D., Lechuga Peña, S. & Plassmeyer, M. (2018). Prioritizing choice: Perceptions of neighborhood social cohesion for residents in subsidized housing. Journal of Social Service Research. 44(3). 267-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2018.1457592
Schneider M., Brisson, D. & Burnes, D. (2016). Do we really know how many are homeless? An analysis of the Point-In-Time Homelessness Count. Families in Society. 97(4), 321-29. ISSN: 1945-1350.
Brisson, D. (2015). Subsidized housing with services to address concentrated disadvantage. Administration & Society. 50(2), 295-315. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399715598340
Brisson, D. & Covert, J. (2015). Housing instability risk among subsidized housing recipients: Characteristics associated with late or nonpayment of rent. Social Work Research 39(2). 119-128. doi: 10.1093/swr/svv009. Online access: http://swr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/04/05/swr.svv009.full?keytype=ref&ijkey=fj089Ma0E5zKA9a
Brisson, D., Lopez, A. & Yoder, J. (2014). Neighborhoods and Mental Health Trajectories of Low-Income Mothers. Journal of Community Psychology, 42(5), 509-18. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.21634
Brisson, D. (2012). Social cohesion and food security: A longitudinal study of hunger incidence. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 3(4), 268-79. ISSN 1948-822X DOI:10.5243/jsswr.2012.16
Brisson, D. & Roll, S. (2012). The effect of neighborhood on crime and safety: A review of the evidence. Journal of Evidence Based Social Work. 9(4). 333-50. DOI:10.1080/15433714.2010.525407
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Research
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Daniel is engaged in a number of important research projects. His research is focused on poverty, neighborhoods, housing and homelessness. He is testing the Your Family, Your Neighborhood intervention that he developed with co-principal investigator Stephanie Lechuga Peña. He is also testing trauma informed design as an approach in affordable housing and he is conducting research on guaranteed basic income. He is frequently engaged in community-based research and has partnered with many organizations including the following:
Denver Basic Income Project
Shopworks Architecture
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's Making Connections Initiative
http://www.aecf.org/MajorInitiatives/MakingConnections.aspx
The Denver Housing Authority
http://www.denverhousing.org/Pages/default.aspx
The Piton Foundation
http://www.piton.org/
Rural Solutions
http://www.rural-solutions.org/
Mercy Housing
https://www.mercyhousing.org/
Civic Canopy
http://civiccanopy.org/
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Syllabi
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Daniel teaches courses on social work community practice including a course titled Community Economic Development. He also teaches research methods to MSW students and statistics to doctoral students.
Please contact Daniel directly if you would like to view any of his syllabi.