The transition into college education imposes a significant amount of stress on students, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Cohorts are an avenue in which students can seek support from other students who share similar experiences. While the research on cohort models shows this technique succeeds through generating strong social capital, there is limited research that assesses how students in cohorts perform academically. Through the collection of quantitative data and qualitative interviews, this study seeks to determine the effectiveness of these programs by investigating whether groups of students in cohorts experience an increase or decrease in college educational outcomes. This study also seeks to understand what factors contribute to the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of academic achievement in diverse groups in multiple cohort modeled programs.

There are multiple dimensions of segregation including exposure, clustering, concentration, centralization, and evenness. These dimensions contribute to segregation in multiple social areas including residential and hospital. Residential segregation has been improving since the 1950s, but there are still areas with substantial residential segregation rates. Residential segregation has an impact on hospital segregation, and while these rates have also been improving, there are still areas that face higher levels of hospital segregation. These areas include major metropolitan areas such as Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This research examines hospital segregation and its effect on patient discharge. The term discharge refers to when a patient no longer needs to receive care and can leave the hospital – this definition includes death of the patient. This research will focus on the discharge reasons and rates for infants and older individuals. For infants, the project will look at infants who were born, and whether they were discharged for successful birth, or death. Older individuals who were admitted due to heart attack will also be reviewed to see whether they were discharged for improved condition, or death. The goal is to find whether infant and older patients of color, particularly Black and Latino patients, will be discharged from the hospital due to death at higher rates. The project also aims to provide evidence that hospital segregation does still exist. This project can promote research into the resources available in hospitals, as well as explore potential solutions to hospital segregation.

This paper explores the criminalization of mental illness and addiction within the U.S criminal justice system. Non-violent offenders are discussed at length, focusing on major life factors leading up to incarceration such as adverse childhood experiences, substance use, severe mental illness, and lack of access to social support programs. In this light, non-violent offenders are considered to be victims of modern-day mass incarceration in the United States. It explores the historical origins of zero-tolerance legislation for substances in the United States and their role as a catalyst in ever-increasing zero-tolerance policing methods. This research project also looks at Labeling Theory as a perpetuating factor in societally labeled “deviant behavior” and eventual incarceration. By labeling this vulnerable population as especially dangerous, it is theorized that this label inherently leads to police responding with more lethal force or arrest that further perpetuates mass incarceration. Lastly, a proposed resolution to this ongoing issue is a recommendation to increase unarmed police response teams that include trained social workers, especially in response to mental health crisis calls.

Aging is challenging, as the risk of mental and/or physical health decline can manifest in the form of cardiovascular disease, limited mobility, and cognitive impairment (i.e., dementia). An estimated 2.7 million Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) adults aged 50 and over (defined as “older” for the purposes of this study) have specific care and cultural needs. Many older LBGT individuals do not trust health care workers and may not disclose their sexual orientation or true gender identity to their physicians, for fear of discrimination. Such cultural sensitivities pose roadblocks to providing care in assisted living facilities or nursing homes. When moving into care facilities, many older LGBT adults are forced back into the closet and face the stress of being a sexual minority in a new community, leading to increased isolation and loneliness. LGBT older adults are more likely to be refused housing or evicted based on homophobic and transphobic beliefs, and some nursing homes ban same-sex partners from facilities. LGBT older adults face health disparities such as depression, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and HIV/AIDS – all of which are known risk factors for dementia. Utilizing sources obtained through databases such as PsycINFO and Social Sciences Full Text, this review analyzes the current state of research and real-world health care applications regarding this population. So far, some common approaches to attending to older LGBT adults include cultural competency training among caregivers, creating opportunities to build community, using inclusive language, and including same-sex partners and “chosen family” members in discussions of care.

Policing is a multidimensional occupation that requires officers perform many different functions in their day-to-day job-related activities, including problem solving (Goldstein, 1974), providing service (Eck & Rosenbaum, 1994), maintaining order (Wilson, 1968), and, of course, fighting crime (Manning, 2001). As a result of this diversity in roles and routine exposure to traumatic events, policing is considered a dangerous (Sierra-Arevalo, 2021) and stressful occupation (Brown & Campbell, 1994). The current study explores the role of officers’ perceived stress on their evaluation of job satisfaction and organizational attachment among a sample of ~225 police officers working for the Detroit Police Department. *Lydia Becker (Undergraduate Student, Villanova University), Danielle Rice (Graduate Student, Wayne State University), Bethany Stoddart (Undergraduate Student, Wayne State University), Karen Veloz (Undergraduate Student, Washington State University), Charles Klahm (Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Wayne State University), Brad Smith (Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Wayne State University), Samuele Zilioli (Departments of Psychology and Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Wayne State University), and Malcolm Cutchin (Department of Biomedical Sciences, Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences)