YVONNE VISSING, PHD
Office Address: Department of Healthcare Studies, 352 Lafayette Street. Salem State University, Salem, MA USA 01970
Office Phone: (978) 542-6144
e mail: yvissing@gmail.com or yvissing@salemstate.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Sociology. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. Cognate specialty in Social Work Policy, Planning and Administration, Area exams in: Research; Child Abuse; Medical Sociology; Social Problems/Deviant Behavior.
MA in Sociology. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, alternative medicine specialty, specialty degree in drug and alcohol abuse.
BA in Sociology, minors in Religion and Psychology, concentration in Social Work. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Awards and Specialized training programs:
Human Rights Counil member. Ameican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Washington DC
Human Rights Education USA Steering Committee Board Member.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship Summer School at Swansea University, Wales. Summer 2018 with focus on human rights education for the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law and the Observatory for the Human Rights of Children. Application for 2019-2020 EU MSC Fellowship in submission on how to use human rights education to counter extremist movements globally
Human Rights Training Fellow 2017. International Human Rights Training Program (IHRTP) of Equitas, John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue (Montreal), Quebec
Judge, Child Right MOOT Court. 2017 and 2019. University of Leiden School of Law.
Whiting Foundation Fellow. Travel to Europe to meet with child rights and child studies scholars in the Irelands, Scotland and England. 2016. New application in submission for 2019 on human rights research.
Post Doctoral Research Fellow. United States National Institute of Mental Health, Washington DC
Specialist Degree in Alcohol and Drug Abuse (SPADA). Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Tenured, Full Professor
Departments of Healthcare Studies and Sociology, Salem MA
Chair, Department of Sociology 2015-2016
Founding Director, Center for Childhood & Youth Studies
Tenured, Full Profesor
Department of Sociology, Ferris State University Big Rapids, MI
Invited Visiting Professorships
Sichuan University. Chengdu, China. Professor of Anthropology and Sociology. Summer 2017.
Department of Health Management and Policy, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH
Rivier College, Department of Sociology, Nashua NH
Bunker Hill Community College, Department of Sociology
Merrimack College, Department of Sociology, Andover MA
Phillips Andover Academy, Andover MA
School of Social Work, Adjunct Professor. Salem State University
Boston University School of Medicine and Boston City Hospital Department of Pediatrics
Center for the Study of Health Promotion, and the Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH
Dual Appointment in the Department of Sociology and the College of Human Medicine Medical School, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI
Western Michigan University
Bronson College of Nursing in Kalamazoo, Mi
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & LEADERSHIP
Training 4 Excellence (www.trainig4excellence.com)
This business provides online training programs for organizations and individuals on a variety of health, education, and human service topics.
Child Abuse Prevention Training Assistance for Organizations (www.CAPTA4.Org)
This business specializes in helping organizations to conduct risk management, strategic planning, and employee training to increase child and business protection and reduce risk of injury and lawsuits around the issues of child maltreatment.
Vissing & Associates LLC
This business is designed to provide a variety of education and consultation services to organizations and businesses.
HUMAN RIGHTS WORK and INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATIONS/Travel
Specialized Human Rights Training
Human Rights Training Fellow 2017. International Human Rights Training Program (IHRTP), John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue (Montreal), Quebec, Canada. 2017.
International Appointments
Human Rights Council Steering Committee Member. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Washington DC. https://www.aaas.org/programs/scientific-responsibility-human-rights-law/coalition/governance
Hope for Children Covention on the Rights of the Child Policy Center, Nicosia, Cyprus. Dr. Vissing was appointed US Child Rights Policy Chair for the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. 2015 to present. http://www.uncrcpc.org/index.php?id=74
Human Rights Educators USA Steering Committee Member. https://hreusa.org/steeringcommittee/yvonne-vissing/#more-10763
Judge, MOOT court on international child rights law competition. Leiden University, Netherlands. 2017, 2019.
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2017/03/the-childrens-rights-moot-court-2017 ; https://www.facebook.com/pg/GrotiusCentreLeidenUniversity/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10155321416033938; https://www.facebook.com/pg/GrotiusCentreLeidenUniversity/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10155321583818938
Formal center partnerships with:
Children and Childhood Network, University of Nottingham, England
Observatory for Child Rights, Swansea University, Wales, where she was a honored guest meeting with Hillary Clinton regarding joint international projects in child rights.
Dr. Vissing’s work in human and child rights, and broadly in the area of the Sociology of Children, Peace and Community Development and Health issues have been embraced by the international community. She has received invitations to present her work at a variety of interntional forums, including: The Netherlands, Iceland, Canada, China, India, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Spain, Wales and France. She has worked with Save The Children Norway. Vissing has also traveled to Nepal, Cuba, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, Panama, Mexico, Spain, China and other countries. A few highlights include:
Creation of a bill authorizing the creation of a Commission of Child and Youth Rights for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with Senator Joan Lovely.
Yvonne was invited to participate in a Cultural Diplomacy International Human Rights and Global Peace Summit April 2016 in Iceland at their Parliament.
Vissing was an invited major speaker at the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Amsterdam, November 2014 and spoke on the role of the Untied States and children’s rights. This resulted in a book chapter and Hope for Children UNCRC Child Policy Chair appointment.
She also was an invited speaker on child rights education at the 8th International Conference on Human Rights Eduation in Montreal Dec. 2017 and the 5th International Conference on Human Rights Education in Washington, Dec. 2015.
As a Whiting Foundation Fellow in Fall 2013, Dr. Vissing visite child advocacy leaders in England, Scotland, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. She presentated:
Kings College, London. Sustainability at the Edge of Chaos: Its limits and possibilities for homeless children and youth.
University of London. Children’s Rights as Human Rights: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Queens University, Belfast. Building Community Partnerships To Safeguard Children.
University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Child Rights as a Social Movement.
Dr. Vissing was a special invited guest to join the international early child education community at a symposium at the Scottish Parliament.
She also worked with Parlimentarians in Iceland presenting her work on child rights at a 2016 International Human Rights Summit.
She has also worked in Ireland as well as international child advocacy and networkers in England and key figures in the Early Years Program of Northern Ireland, which is working to establish peace and tolerance in young children and their families.
Child Rights Legislative and Advocacy Activities
International
United Nations Policy Chair for Child Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. http://www.uncrcpc.org/index.php?id=74
Partnership with Swansea
University’s Wales
Observatory on Human Rights of children and Young People
Partnership with Center for Children and Childhood, University of Nottingham, England.
National
Child Rights Campaign, Committee participant. http://www.childrightscampaign.org/
Massachusetts
Working with Senator Joan Lovely to create a Commission on Children and Youth http://www.salemstate.edu/academics/schools/24511.php?id=1732
Working with Senate to support bill for child rights in Massaschusetts. With Jane Williams, PhD, Esq from Swansea University, Wales and Senator Joan Lovely.
Founding Director, Center for Childhood & Youth Studies, Salem State University
Founding Director, Certificate in Child Studies, Salem State University
Founding Director, Concentration in Child Studies, Salem State University
Founding of the annual Salem As a Safer Child Community Symposium. Salem State University
Founding of the annual Youth Rights Hero Award, Salem State University
Creation of a Youth Advisory Board, City of Salem
Resolution Passage designating the City of Salem as a Child and Youth Rights Respecting Community
City of Salem Partneship for annual UN Universal Children’s Day
See also contributions under Research, Teaching, Publications and Presentations.
National Research Appointments and Consultations:
Dr. Vissing has advanced quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method research training and experience, including work with the:
Juvenile Parole Board, State of New Hampshire
States of Massachsetts and New Hampshire Courts
National Institute of Mental Health
National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI)
American Sociological Association , Departmental Resources Group as strategic planning consultant
American Institute for Research (Washington DC)
Family Research Center, University of New Hampshire
Department of Pediatrics, Boston City Hospital, MA
State of New Hampshire Departments of Education, Mental Health, and Aging
National Coalition for the Homeless
New England Sociological Association
She also works with a variety of educational, health, legal, and human service and community organizations on a regular basis.
Legal Appointments and Consultations:
State of New Hampshire, Office of the Governor, Appointment to State Juvenile Parole Board
Member, American Bar Association
Member, American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Law
New Hampshire Bar Association presenter
Licensed Guardian ad Litem, States of Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Mediator, State of New Hampshire and Massachusetts
Mental Health Court development, State of MA
Regional Appointments and Consultations in Community Planning
Action must be implemented on the local level in order to evoke meaningful social change. Therefore, Dr. Vissing donates her time working with a variety of local and regional groups, including churches, schools, civic groups, and nonprofit organizations. Some of her formal associations include:
Mayor’s Office, City of Salem, MA
New Hampshire Children’s Alliance (founding member, current member of Kids Count and Research Advisory Group)
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Bootstraps Community Services, Beverly, MA, staff training and evaluation of food pantry services
Homelessness Etiology, Prevention and Treatment Training, State of New Hampshire
Foster Child Health Project, Child and Family Services of New Hampshire
Indigent health project, Community Action Agency, Portsmouth, NH
Community Mobilization for Serving Alzheimer’s Patients and their Families, Tri County CAP, NH
Adoptions Crossroads, State of Massachusetts
North Shore Catholic Charities
Child and Family Services of New Hampshire
Health Care Organization Appointments and Consultations
Dr. Vissing uses an open systems approach to her appreciation of holistic health, in which the mind, body and spirit are all influenced by what happens at both the macro and micro levels of society. Some of her formal appointments include:
National Institute of Mental Health, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Department of Healthcare Studies co-founder, Salem State University
National Alliance for Mental Illness, Family 2 Family Trainer
Department of Pediatrics Boston City Hospital, Boston MA. Researcher.
Michigan State University, Lansing, MI., College of Human Medicine. Professor of Medical Sociology, Team-Teacher with MD for Medical Students
Hurley Hospital, Flint, MI Doctor-Patient Relationship Study
Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Services, Disability study and film producer for history of the organization
Adjunct faculty for students in Nursing Schools:
Bronson Hospital, Nursing Department, Kalamazoo, MI
Grand Rapids Junior College, Grand Rapids, MI
Rivier University, Nashua, NH
Michigan Department of Public Health, Grand Rapids, MI, Kent-Ionia Substance Abuse Coordinating Agency Administrative Program
Western Michigan Health Systems Agency, Grand Rapids, MI, Creation of Community Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Program
Catholic Medical Center, Manchester, NH, Research
Wentworth Douglas Hospital, Dover, NH, Data Analysis
Northshore Medical Center, Peabody, MA, Medical Training
Children’s Hospitals, Boston and Salem, MA, Observational research
Department of Mental Health, State of New Hampshire, Research
River Region Community Mental Health Services, Louisville, KY, Counselor and Prevention Specialist
Our Lady of Peace Psychiatric Hospital, Louisville, KY, Research
Clark County Mental Health Inpatient Hospital, Jeffersonville, IN, Researcher
Department of Aging, State of New Hampshire, Researcher
Project GoodHealth,, Rockingham (NH) Community Action Program, Poverty and Health Study
Education Appointments and Consultations
Dr. Vissing educates students at all levels to gain the skills, insights, and abilities to lead them toward success. She is especially proud of her work with the:
National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth
Department of Education, State of New Hampshire
Variety of school districts throughout New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine
GRANTS and CONTRACTS
A trained grant writer who has taught workshops on fundraising, Dr. Vissing has personally secured almost a quarter million dollars of external funding for her own research, including:
Addressing Trauma symposium – $10,000
Building Resilience for Youth symposium – commumity support of $12,500
Whiting Foundation, $8,400
National Institute of Mental Health $60,000
The Peace College $40,000 from Babson Foundation
Ben & Jerry’s Foundation
Stonyfield Yogurt Foundation
Salem State College
Salem State College Public Policy Study $35,000
State of New Hampshire, Department of Education $ 25,000
Pittsfield NH School District $16,000
Pew Charitable Trust $10,000
New Hampshire Humanities Council $10,000
Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation $10,000
New Hampshire Charitable Trust $10,000
West Michigan Health Systems Agency $10,000
State of New Hampshire, Department of Mental Health $10,000
Crotched Mountain Foundation $8500
Dare Mighty Things $7000
Beverly Bootstraps Community Services, Beverly MA $5000
Merrimack Public Schools $5000
Kent-Ionia Substance Abuse Coordinating Agency $5000
Catholic Charities, Muskingum College $4000
Rockingham Community Action Program $3000
Timberlane Public Schools $3000
ADMINISTRATIVE BACKGROUND
Dr. Vissing has a doctoral cognate in the area of Social Work Policy, Planning and Administration, and has worked with hundreds of organizations to assist them with a host of administrative functions and operations. For instance, through the American Sociological Association, she provides consultations, program reviews, assessments and other services to higher educational units from coast to coast. She has developed a variety of nonprofit and educational organizations that have proven to be quite successful, and worked behind the scenes with a host of others to ensure their success.
Her skills include visionary planning, grant writing, program development and implementation, staff supervision, problem solving and decision making, human resources management, public relations, to name a few. The research background of Dr. Vissing underscores her administrative approach; she is likely to collect data and analyze situations before making administrative recommendations or decisions. As a NIMH trained researcher, her skills include Needs Assessments, Project Design and Implementation, Statistical and Data Analyses, Survey Research, Focus Groups, Meta Analyses, Program Evaluations, and the appreciation of both Quantitative and Qualitative Research.
Dr. Vissing has good interpersonal skills, and her background in education and mediation enable her to instruct, motivate, and negotiate actions that can lead toward success. She uses a partnership model whenever possible. A published author and keynote speaker at national conferences, she uses oral, written, and visual presentations to help inspire others. She has a keen appreciation of the use of technology as part of the essential administrative process.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Below are titles of various research projects on which I have been a Prinicipal Investigator or major researcher. More information can be provided about them upon request.
Child and Youth Rights
Human Rights Education and Curriculum Projects
Patnership and Community Building Sociology of Law
National Graduate Programs in Social Policy and Public Administration
Juvenile Parole and Parole Boards Homelessness and Housing Policy/Law
Poverty and Social Stratification Medical Sociology and Health Policy/Law
Pediatric Sociology Sociology of the Family
Childbearing and Childlessness Peace Advocacy and Education
Juvenile Justice Child & Community Safety
Alternatives in Policy and Practice Ethical Practices
Mental Health/Illness issues in families Food Pantry Use and Service Delivery
Mental Illness of Youth in the Legal and Criminal Justice Systems
Family Law Health Law and Medical Ethics
Suicide Prevention Film and Digital Communication
Food access and utilization Sexual Debut
School Management and Policy in Death and Dying of Members of School Family
Health Care Ethics and Practices In Child Care Providers
Physical, Sexual, Economic, Verbal and Emotional Abuse in the Family
Issues in Equity: Social Class, Age, Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Religious Equity
Building Interdisciplinary Community Based Research and Educational Coalitions
Program Evaluation, including high risk youth, parent-child communication programs,
community programs, substance abuse programs, education programs, health programs.
Needs Assessments for educational organizations, health, and human service organizations.
Impact of Training of Trainers: Do They Change Their Communities?
Community Partnerships and Neighborhood Empowerment Projects
Assessing Community Well-Being; Development of Social Functioning Models
Community Benefit Standards Development
Reducing Infant Mortality and Increasing Parent Functioning
Working With At-Risk Youth Substance Abuse
Effects of War on Children Assessing Caseworker Practices
Developing Measurement Tools for Health Practitioners to Assess Child/Family Functioning
Negotiation of Physician-Parent -Child Relationships in Primary Care Settings
Childhood Trauma: Causes, Coping, and Outcomes of early negative experiences
Obesity and Fitness in Children: Do Competitive Sports Help or Hurt?
Environmental Pollution Food Policy
Street Gangs: Etiology, Prevention and Intervention
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Project School Safety
Community Health Programs: Development in College and Community Settings
Cultural Diversity in Organizational Settings
Community social service program development
Dioxin Contamination and Health Consequences
Building Community Programs for Alzheimer’s Patients and their Families in Rural
Communities
Redefining Santa Claus as a symbol of cultural diversity and unity
TEACHING INTERESTS AND COURSES TAUGHT
Human Rights, including:
Sociology of Law
Overview of Human Rights
Human Rights Education and Training for Professionals
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Integrating a Human Rights Approach into Communities and Organizations
Child and Youth Rights
Human and Child Rights Education: Curriculum Overview and Assessment
Refugees in Contemporary Society
Gender and Human Rights
Disability and Human Rights
Physical Health and Human Rights
Mental Health and Human Rights
Ageism and Human Rights
Criminal Justice and Human Rights
Challenges for Human Rights Defenders
Human Rights Parenting and Creating a Rights-respecting Family
Higher Education and Human Rights
K-12 and Human Rights
Preschools and Human Rights
Human Rights: Organizational Strategic Planning
Community: Creating a Human Rights Climate
Seminar in Human/Child Rights
Organizational and Applied Sociology, including:
Applied Sociology Program Evaluation
Policy, Planning and Administration Research Methodology
Statistics Systems Analysis
Bureaucracy Organizational Structure and Function
Organizational Theory Building Community Partnerships
Civic Engagement Service Learning & Social Action
Social Institutions Community Development
Policy, Planning and Administration Sociology and the Law
Strategic Planning Grantwriting, Needs Assessments & Evaluations
Urban Sociology Rural Sociology
Survey Research Clinical Intervention in Families
Social Organizations Voluntary Action
Data Analysis Field Research
Participant Observation Evaluation Research
Grantwriting Needs Assessment
Community Research Social Institutions
Politics and Community Wellbeing Social Altruism and the Public Good
Organizational Issues in the Health and Human Services
Social Inequality, including:
Social Stratification Race and Ethnic Relations
Sex and Gender Sociology of Religion
Ageism Across the Lifespan Housing and Homelessness
Hunger and Food Policy Social Policy
Social Institutions Tolerance & Diversity
Education and Inequality Corporatization of Society
Gerontology/Sociology of Aging Sociology of Children & Youth
Sociology of Disability Illness, Stigmatization and Discrimination
Sociological Theory, classical and contemporary
Health Policy and Health Care Inequality
The Global Climate and Environmental Injustice
Refugees in Contemporary Society
Medical Sociology, including:
Health Policy Mental Health Policy
Medical Sociology Social-Psychology
Health, Illness, and Children Sociology of Illness & the Family
Medical Sociology for Doctors/Nurses Health Care Delivery Systems
Ethical Medicine Healing as a Socio-Medical Phenomenon
Mental Illness Self Care as Health Care Delivery
Behavioral Factors in Clinical Practice Sociology of the Wellness Movement
Alternative Methods of Healing Social Epidemiology
Complementary Care Herbalism and Pharmacology
Sociology of Disability Illness and Identity
Health Care Providers: Allopathy, Naturopathy, Osteopathy, Homeopathy & Indigenous Healers
Other Medical Sociology Teaching Assignments:
Focal Problems Preceptor, Medical School, Michigan State University. This was a small group clinical problem solving class for medical students, who are given a paper case to solve with help from readings in the social, biological, and clinical sciences. Each group has two preceptors, a physician and a social scientist who help the students integrate the basic materials in the context of a problem solving case. A few of the problems I taught concerned: diabetes; cardiovascular disease; cancer; back pain; anemia; and AIDS. This teaching assignment also required academic and personal counseling with students.
Complimentary and Alternative Medicine/Healing Teaching, Workshops, Research, and Consultation.
Sociology of the Family/ Sociology of Children courses, including:
Child Rights Child and Youth Policy
Child Abuse and Neglect Sociology of Children
Child Advocacy Sociology of the Family
Family Violence Childlessness
Parenting for Peace and Justice Human Sexuality
Child Development Alternative Family Arrangements
Nurturance and Children Divorce and the Family
Violence and Children Family Restructuring
Socialization: Infancy through Geriatric Social Child Development
Gerontology Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Social Violence Social Violence
Sex and Gender courses, including:
Sex and Gender in Society Gender Socialization
Gender and Disease Gender and Occupations
Domestic Violence Changing Role of Men
Gender and Relationships (Intimate, Family, and Social)
Social Problems/Deviant Behavior courses, including:
Sociology of Deviant Behavior Social Problems
Child Abuse Sexual Abuse of Children
Sociology of Substance Abuse Sociology of Diversity
Sociology of War Sociology of Peace
Sociology of Terrorism Global Inequalities
White Collar Crimes Mental Illness
Race and Ethnic Relations Homelessness
Violence on Contemporary Society Minority Studies
Youth and the Criminal Justice System
Food and Society courses, including:
Sociology of Food/Food and Society World Hunger
Food: Policy and Problems of Delivery Gluten Freedom
Cultural and Personal Choices of Food Selections
Guns and Butter: Food and World Security
Contemporary Society:
Introduction to Sociology Social Media
Social Psychology Film & Society
Sociological Theory Fad and Fashion
Urban Sociology Rural Sociology
AWARDS
Keynote Speaker – Child Abuse and Mental Illness. Annual Pediatrics and Neonatology Summit (APN Summit). Boston, MA. April 23 2020
Keynote Speaker – Transnational Youth Forum, Children on the Move. Cypus. Oct 2019
Child Rights Policy Chair, Hope for Children United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. 2015 – present
Whiting Foundation Fellow, 2013
Massachusetts Council of International Education, Selected Speaker of the Year
Outstanding Sociologist of the Year New England Sociological Association
Massachusetts Council of Internationl Education, Selected Speaker of the Year
Ben and Jerry’s One Heart, One World Festival Social Action Project of the Year
National Institute of Mental Health Post Doctoral Research Fellow
New Hampshire Council for the Arts, Outstanding Film of the Year
Teaching Excellence Awards, Ferris State University, Salem State College
New Hampshire Humanities Council Award.
New Hampshire Charitable Trust Award
National Institute of Mental Health Post-doctoral fellowship in Research. University of New Hampshire
World’s Who’s Who of Women
Outstanding Publication of the Year Award, Journal of the American Holistic Nursing Association.
Outstanding Young Woman of America
Graduate Associateships and Assistantships, Western Michigan University, Department of Sociology.
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor. Department of Sociology. Western Michigan University.
Dean’s List for Academic Achievement. Indiana University
SPECIALIZED TRAININGS & REVIEWS
Arizona University Department of Sociology
Chapman University Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Indiana University Kokomo Department of Sociology
Furman University, Department of Sociology
Northeastern Univerity Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Northeastern University School of Public Policy
Sacred Heart University Department of Sociology
Salem State University
Springfield College, Department of Sociology
St. Joseph University, Department of Sociology
St. Mary’s College, Department of Social Sciences
Winona University, Department of Sociology, Child Abuse Prevention Program
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Bar Association American Sociological Association
Sociological Practice Association Society for the Study of Social Problems
North Central Sociological Association Association for Humanist Sociology
Michigan Sociological Association Assoc. for Voluntary Action Scholars
Sociologists for Women in Society Society for Applied Anthropology
Union for Concerned Scientists National Council for Family Mediation
Association for Behavioral Sciences And Medical Education
ASA Sections Membership: Children & Youth, Medical, Family, Peace & Social Conflict
Phi Kappa Phi
New Hampshire Writer’s Project
REVIEWER
Dr. Vissing reviews for a half dozen journals, including the International Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect, Journal of Community Psychology and Gender and Society.
ORGANIZATION FOUNDER
Training 4 Excellence (training43xcellnce.com)
Child Abuse Prevention Training Assistance for Organizations (www.CAPTA4.Org)
Center for Childhood and Youth Studies, Salem State University
Baboosic Center for Child and Community Development
Community Organization Research Associates
Community Organization and Child Advocacy Associates
Association for the Study of Food and Society
Safety Town, USA – Jeffersonville, Indiana
CONFERENCE COORDINATION
Addressing Trauma. Salem State University. April 9-10, 2020.
Building Resilient Children and Youth in Resilient Communities. April 1, 2019. Salem State University.
Continuing the Conversation: Next Steps in Mental Health. April 4, 2018 Salem Stte University in conjunction with Senator Joan Lovely and NAMI MA President Lynda Cutrell
Salem As a Safer Child Community Initiative. Partnership with Salem State University and organizations in Salem, MA. 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017. Topics have included: community partnerships, deliberative dialogue, globalism and refugees, global citizenship, youth and terrorism, youth and media violence, children’s health and exposure to abuse and adverse experiences, international child rights, eating disorders, LGBTQ+, racism in the community, human rights training workshop and more.
New England Undergraduate Sociological Research Conference. 2007, 2006, 2005. Salem State University. Salem, MA.
The Peace College. An intergenerational conference on the exploration and promotion of peace. April 16-18, 2004. Salem, MA. www.salemstate.edu/peacecollege
Childless Women: A Conference of Healing and Celebration. Salem State College. 2003.
Annual New England Undergraduate Research Conferences in Sociology. April 2004, 2000, 1997, 1996, 1994. Salem State College.
Food and Society. Second annual conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society. Co-coordinator. Washington, D.C.
Solving Global Food Problems: A New Beginning. First annual conference and organizational meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society. Held at Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
President, Michigan Sociological Association
Metamorphosis: The Emergence of a New Health Care Approach. Ferris State College, Big Rapids, Mi.
VIDEOTAPE and PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITS
The Convention on the Rights of the Child: 5 Years after the 25th anniversary of the treaty. With Ton Leiffard, Laura Lundy, Kay Tisdall, Yvonne Vissing & Jane Williams. https://mega.nz/#!1PpxETJS or https://youtu.be/vYQ_X01o68c
What Happens When They Graduate: Studies of Pittsfield, NH alumni.
Child and Youth Rights. http://youtu.be/eIwgpFjwouc
Child Rights in Massachusetts. http://youtu.be/oFprKZ71FuM
How Safe Is Salem? Public Service Announcement, Salem as a Safer Child Community. SSU.
I Want To Go Home: Homelessness in New Hampshire. Video Verite
Winner of New Hampshire Arts Council First and Finest in Film
Arts and Social Action Presentation of the Year, Ben and Jerry’s One Heart, One World Festival.
Give Us Your Poor. Work contributed to educational DVD on homelessness
Out of Sight, Out of Mind. A Traveling photograpy exhibit of homeless children/families.
The Road Behind, The Road Ahead: Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Services.
TIMBER! Issues of forests and woodlands. US Forest Services.
Social Networking
Scholars Strategy Network. http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/scholar-profile/1031
Curator, Juvenile Curfews, for IDEA, International Debate Education Association. Idebate.org
Developed 4 online training websites for child and human rights
PUBLICATIONS IN BOOKS AND REFEREED JOURNALS
Books
Vissing, Y. Sociology of Children and Youth: A rights based approach. In submission.
Vissing, Y. Mother Muckers: Cleaning up the messes in our life. In submission.
Hope for Children and Vissing, editors. The Rights of Unaccompanied Minors: Perspectives and case studies. Springer. 2020/1.
Vissing, Y, Christopher Hudson and Diane Nilan. Homelessness: Changing Paradigms. Routledge. January 2020.
Vissing, Y. and Christopher Moore-Vissing. Going Gluten Free: A Cooking, Eating and Dining Guide. NorLights Press. 2015.
Vissing, Y. Introduction to Sociology. Bridgepoint Publishing, CA. 2011.
Vissing, Y. How To Keep Your Children Safe: A Guide for Parents. University of New England Press. 2007.
Vissing, Y. Women Without Children; Nurturing Lives. Rutgers University Press. 2002.
Vissing, Y. and Sharon Peer. Finding Information About Children: Using Human and Electronic Resources. Nova Press. 2001.
Vissing, Y.M. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Homeless Children in Small Town America. University of Kentucky Press. Lexington, KY. 1996.
Published Chapters:
Vissing, Y. Unaccompanied children at the United States-Mexico border. The Rights of Unaccompanied Minors: Perspectives and case studies. In Hope for Children (ed). Springer. 2020/1.
Vissing, Y. et al. A Clinical Sociology Framework to Understanding Challenges of Unaccompanied Youth Around The World. The Rights of Unaccompanied Minors: Perspectives and case studies. In Hope for Children and Vissing (eds). Springer. 2020/1
Vissing, Y. Children’s Human Rights as a Buffer to Extremism. This is for the book chapter that we talked about. Human Rights Education Globally. Springer. 2020.
Vissing, Y. Higher Education: An Exploration of Human Rights Education Phase 2 .Globaalisation, ideology and education reforms. Springer. 2020.
Vissing, Y. Creation of Questionable Honor: Proliferation of For-Profit Honor Societies. Forthcoming 2019/2020 in Joseph Zajda’s Globalisation, Social Change and Education Reforms: New Paradigms and Ideologies. Springer Publications.
Vissing, Y. Life, Love and the Belle of Louisville. In Kimberly Crum’s The Boom Project: Voices of a generation – Ohio River edition. Butler Books. 2019.
Vissing, Y. Human Rights Education Embedded Status in Higher Education. In Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, Joseph Zajda, editor. Springer Academic Publications. 2019/2020.
Vissing, Y. Human Rights Literacy in a Global World. In Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, Joseph Zajda, editor. Springer Academic Publications. 2018.
Vissing, Y. The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the USA: 25 years later. Ton Liefaard & Julia Sloth-Nielsen (Eds.), The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Taking Stock after 25 Years and Looking Ahead, Leiden: Brill| Nijhoff. 2017.
Vissing, Y. Changing The Culture of Human Rights Education in Globalisation, Human Rights Education and Social Justice, edited by Joseph Zajda and Sev Ozdowski. Springer Academic Publishers. 2016.
Vissing, Y. Advocacy for Children. Sociologists in Action: Sociology, Social Change and Social Justice. Edited by Shelley White, Kathleen Odell Korgen and Jonathan White. Pine Forge Press.2013.
Vissing, Y. Curfews. In William Chambliss (ed) Key Issues in Crime and Punishment. Sage Publications. 2010.
Vissing, Y. Rhetoric of Concern: Child poverty and Homelessness in the USA. Histoires d’enfant, histoires d’enfance, Stories for children, histories of childhood edited by Rosie Findlay and Sebastian Salbayre. GRAAT (Groupe de Recherches Anglo-Américaines de Tours, EA 2113). Tours, France. 2007.
Vissing, Y. Researching Homeless Children. Research Issues in the Study of Children. Amy Best, editor. Sage Publishers. 2007.
Vissing. Y. Homelessness is a Problem in Rural Areas. The Homeless: Opposing Viewpoints. Greenhaven Press. 2001.
Vissing, Y. Homelessness in Middle School Students. Educating Homeless Students: Promising Practices. James Strong and Evelyn Reed-Victor. Sage Publishers. 2000.
Vissing, Y. “Heroic Students” in Cultural Diversity in Education, Sage, 1998.
Hafferty, F., Y. Vissing. “Professional Roles and Health Behavior” in David Gochman’s Professional Behavior in Medicine. 1996.
Vissing, Y.M. and W. Baily. “Parent-to-Child Verbal Aggression” in Dudly Cahn and Sally Lloyd’s Communication and Family Violence. 1996. Sage Publications.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles and Social Media Articles
2020
Vissing, Y. The Secret Life of Colonel Sanders. In submission.
2019
Vissing, Y. Barriers in Implementation of Child Human Rights Education. World Studies in Education. 2019.
Vissing, Y. Financial Fraud and Student Exploitation: Protecting Students from “Honor Society” Predators. Phi Delta Kappan. December.
Monico, Carmen, Karen Rotabi,Yvonne Vissing, and Justin Lee. Well-being and the Zero-Tolerance Policy: Implications for Immigrant Children and Families. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work. 2019
2018
Vissing, Yvonne. Celebrating Human Rights. http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/11/celebrating-human-rights/
Vissing, Yvonne. Why the U.S. should ratify the convention on children’s rights: The Trump administration’s policy on immigrant families makes it clear that the U.S. needs a child rights treaty now more than ever. Public Seminar. June 2018. http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/06/why-the-u-s-should-ratify-the-convention-on-childrens-rights/
Vissing, Yvonne. Complexity in the Determination of Child Abuse: A Statistical and Rights Based Approach Using Type I and Type II Error. In the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Fall 2018. https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/jcred/vol32/iss1/3/
Vissing, Yvonne. Sexual Debut Education: Cultivating A Healthy Human Rights Approach to Young People’s Sexual Experiences. Sociological Studies of Children and Youth. Patricia Neff Claster and Sampson Lee Blair, editors. Emerald Press.
Vissing Yvonne. The Children’s Rights Movement Takes Off: What the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Offers Students. The Public Seminar. New School for Social Research. http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/03/the-childrens-rights-movement-takes-off/
Vissing, Yvonne. Seeing Is Believing: The Marchers of #MarchForOurLives. The Public Seminar. New School for Social Research. http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/04/seeing-is-believing/
2017
Vissing, Yvonne, Joann Gu, Andrea Jones, Sue Gabriel. Preserving Dignity in the Face of Hunger: A study of food pantry utilization. Humanity and Societey. Fall. 2017.
Vissing, Yvonne. Addressing Gluten Freedom in Early Childhood: A human rights approach. Child Care Exchange. Jan/Feb. 2017
2016
Vissing, Y. Rights Education: An exploratory analysis of what students know about their rights. Education and Society. Vol 32, No. 1: 61-74. 2016.
Vissing, Y. What Google Teaches Us About Child Rights. Sepecial issue on Social Media and Human Rights, Societies Without Boarders: Human Rights and the Social Sciences. November 2016. http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/
Vissing, Y. Comparative Analysis of Human Rights Education Curriculum K-12. In submission for the journal World Studies in Education. Fall 2016.
Vissing, Y. 2016. The Zen of Going Gluten Free. Journal of Gluten Sensitivity. Winter.
Vissing, Y. 2016. Did You Know? Lack of transparency in foods. Journal of Gluten Sensitivity. Summer.
Vissing, Y. 2016. Thoughts About Best Practices in Child Rights Education. “Investment in the rights of the child”. United Nations. “Hope For Children” UNCRC Policy Center.
Vissing, Y. 2016. Technology and Exploitation in Child Sexual Abuse. United Nations. “Hope For Children” UNCRC Policy Center.
Vissing, Y. Teaching Globalization and Diversity from a Human Rights Perspective. In submission.
Vissing,
Y. 2016. Child Rights at the
Crossroads. Submitted to journal,
pending.
2015
Vissing, Y. 2015. A Gluten Free Thanksgiving. Journal of Gluten Sensitivity. Nov. 2015.
Vissing, Y. 2015. Production of Gluten Free Foods: Let the buyer beware. Journal of Gluten Sensitivity. October.
Vissing, Y and Christopher Moore-Vissing. 2015. Fall. Children and Gluten Freedom. Journal of Gluten Sensitivity. Sept 2015.
Vissing, Y. 2015. The Zen of Going Gluten Free. Journal of Gluten Sensitivity. Summer 2015.
Vissing, Y. 2015. Guest Editorial: It Was Cooked Up In My Kitchen: A Short History of the ASFS at its 30th Anniversary. Association for the Study of Food and Society Newsletter. Spring.
Other selected:
Vissing, Y., Solloway, M. Marama, S. 2014. Engaged Learning and the Art of Mindfulness in Higher Education. NEFDC’s The Exchange. Publication of the New England Faculty Development Consortium.
Hudson, C. and Y. Vissing. 2013. Sustainability at the Edge of Chaos: Its limits and possibilities in public health. BioMed Research International. Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 801614, 7 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/801614 or http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2013/801614/
Vissing, Y. 2012. Protecting Children Also Protects Colleges. Chronicle of Higher Education. Nov. 2. http://chronicle.com/article/Protecting-Children-Also/135526/
Vissing, Y. 2012. Homeless Children and Youth: An examination of legal obstacles and directions. Vol 13, No. 2. 13 J.L. Soc’y __ (2012) Wayne State University Journal of Law in Society. http://www.yvonnevissing.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WSU-Jrnl-of-Law-Society-13.2.pdf
Vissing, Y. Hudson, Christopher and Yvonne Vissing. The Geography of Adult Homelessness in the US: Validation of State and County Estimates Health & Place. Health and Place. 2012.
Vissing, Y. Teaching The Sociology of Sport to Sociology of Children and Youth Scholars.
In Kyle Longest’s Sociology of Sport, American Sociological Association. 2008, 2011.
Vissing, Y. The Use of Volunteers in Child Care Settings. Child Care Information Exchange Nov. 2008.
Vissing, Y. Safety Issues in the Transportation of Young Children. Child Care Inforation Exchange. October. 2008.
Vissing, Y. War and Children. Sextent. Fall 2004.
Vissing, Y. Prepping Homeless Students For School. The Education Digest. March 2004. Vol 69, no 7: p 34-38.
Vissing, Y. The Yellow School Bus Project: How Religious and Community Organizations can Prepare Homeless Children For School. Phi Delta Kappan. Winter 2003.
Vissing, Y. The Subtle War Against Children. Fellowship. Spring 2003.
Vissing, Y. Homelessness in Middle School Students. The Prevention Researcher. 2001.
Vissing, Y. and J. Diament. “Homeless Youth in My Community?” International Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness. 1997.
Vissing, Y and Joseph Diament. “Counting Homeless Adolescents”. Social Work. 1996.
Vissing, Y.M, Dorothy Schroepfer and Fred Bloise. “Homeless Students, Heroic Sudents”. Phi Delta Kappa. March 1994. 535-539.
Vissing, Y.M., and D. Siress. “Training for expertise vs training for trust: Issues in educational gerontology”. Educational Gerontology. 1994.
Vissing, Y.M. and M.A. Straus. “Verbal Aggression by Parents and Psycho-Social Problems of Children”. Child Abuse and Neglect. 1991. 15,223-38.
Vissing, Y.M. “Holistic Health in Michigan: Organizational Structure and Personal Perspectives”. Journal of Holistic Nursing, Fall 1987.
Vissing, Y.M. “Self Care as Family Primary Health Care” Special Issue, Marriage and Family Review. vol. 11, no. 3/4. 1987.
Vissing, Y.M. “Primary Health Care in the Third World”. Contemporary Sociology. May 1986.
Vissing, Y.M. “Holistic Health Associations: Philosophy and Goals”. Journal of Holistic Nursing. May 1985.
Vissing, Y.M. and M.A. Burke. “Nursing Professionals and the Art of Visualization”. Journal of Psychosocial Medicine and Mental Health. Volume 22, number 1: 29-34. January 1984.
Vissing, Y.M. and J.C. Petersen. “Taking Laetrile: Conversion to Medical Deviance. Journal of the American Cancer Society, CA. November, 1981.
Wagenfeld, M.O.,Vissing, Y.M., J.C. Petersen, and G.E. Markle. “Notes from the Cancer Underground: Health Attitudes and Practices of Participants in the Laetrile Underground”. Social Science and Medicine. volume 24, number 8, 1979.
Vissing, Y.M. “Folklore and Sociology of Steamboat Workers on the Ohio River”. Waterways Journal. October 21, P 42-46. 1978.
Vissing, Y.M. “What do the Schools want in Substance Abuse Education and Prevention?” Journal of Drug Education. Volume 8, number 4, 1978.
Encyclopedia Entries
Vissing, Y. Juvenile Parole Officers. Encyclopedia of Juvenile Delinquency. Wiley. 2018.
Vissing, Y. Parole Officer Training. Encyclopedia of Community Corrections. Sage Publications. 2011.
Vissing, Y. Community Partnerships. Encyclopedia of Community Corrections. Sage Publications. 2011.
Vissing, Y. Humanitarianism. Encyclopedia of Community Corrections. Sage Publications. 2011.
Vissing, Y. Boot Camps. Encyclopedia of Community Corrections. Sage Publications. 2011.
Vissing, Y. Peace Training: Assessing Success in Peacemaking. Encyclopedia of Peace. Oxford University Press. 2009.
Vissing, Y. Eminent Person Mediation. Encyclopedia of Peace. Oxford University Press 2009.
Vissing, Y. Warless Societies. Encyclopedia of Peace. Oxford University Press. 2009.
Vissing, Y. Women’s Rights. Encyclopedia of Peace. Oxford University Press 2009.
Vissing, Y. Human Survival in the Nuclear Age. Encyclopedia of Peace. Oxford University Press. 2009.
Vissing, Y. Dialogue Circles and Groups. Encyclopedia of Peace. Oxford University Press. 2009.
Vissing, Y. Childlessness. The Encyclopedia of Human Development. Neil J. Salkind, Kim DeRuyck, Kristin Rasmussen. Sage Publications. California. 2006.
Vissing, Y. Homelessness. Encyclopedia of New England. Burt Feintuch. Sage Publications CA 2006.
Vissing, Y. Poverty and Housing. Encyclopedia of New England. Burt Feintuch. Sage Publications CA 2006.
Conference Proceedings
Vissing, Y and B. Whit. The Sociology of Food. Published by Ferris State University.
Vissing, Y. and Q. Moore-Vissing. The Peace College Conference Papers.
Reports (recent only)
Vissing, Y., Rosa Menderos, Sara Moore, Yvonne Ruiz. 2015-6. A Community Resource Guide of Salem, MA. Produced for Salem State University.
Vissing, Y. and Shraddha Gaikwad. 2014. A review of international child studies programs. 2014. Salem State University.
Vissing, Y. and Shraddha Gaikwad. 2014. Bibliography of International Child Studies Scholars. 2014. Salem State University.
Vissing, Y. 2014. Review of Whiting Foundation Fellowship Activities in the UK and Ireland: Child Studies Program Analysis of Current and Future Directions
Other
Vissing, Y. Child and Family Homelessness in New England. Homelessness: New England & Beyond New England Journal of Public Policy Special Issue, Padraig O’Malley, ed. Published by University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Mass.
Invited PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS (selected of 100+ presentations)
2019
Vissing, Y. Moot Court Judge, Third International Children’s Rights Moot Court, Child Law Department, University of Leiden Law School, The Netherlands. March.
2018.
Vissing, Y. Children’s Rights Leaders Speak Truth to Power about the UNCRC accepted at the Research Committees session “Childhood at the the XIX International Sociologial Association World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018). Toronto, Canada. https://youtu.be/vYQ_X01o68c
Vissing, Y. You Can’t Do What You Don’t Know: The Importance of Human Rights Education of Young People ,” for “Children at Risk in the Late 20th and 21st Century” at the XIX International Sociologial Association World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018). Toronto, Canada.
Vissing, Y. Resiliency Research. Presentation at North Shore Community Health Network. Salem, MA. April 24, 2018.
Vissing, Y. Mental Health Is a Human Right. Presentation at 6th Annual Salem as a Safer Child Community Symposium. April 4, 2018.
2017
Vissing, Y. Developing A Child Rights Oriented Curriculum. 8th International Human Rights Education Conference. Montreal. December 2017.
Vissing, Y. Human Rights Education. Presented at the Association for Humanist Sociology annual meeting. Havana, Cuba. November 2017.
Vissing, Y. Child Rights in the USA. Presented at Swansea University Law School. Swansea, Wales. October.
Vissing, Y. Why Children’s Rights Matter. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada. August.
Vissing, Y. Child Rights. Schichaun University, Chengdu China. July.
Vissing, Y. Child Rights. Equitas International Human Rights Training Conference. June.
Vissing, Y. Judge at the International Child Rights Moot Court held at Leiden University in April 2017. She served with other judges, including those from the Hague, to evaluate over a dozen international teams of college students who served both as prosecutors and defense attorneys in a hypothetical child rights case. More information can be found at https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2017/03/the-childrens-rights-moot-court-2017 and https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/agenda/2017/03/the-childrens-rights-moot-court-2017
2016
Vissing, Y. Comparison of Child Rights in the United States and Wales. 2016 Conference of the North American Association for the Study of Welsh History and Culture. July 20. Harvard University. Boston, MA.
Vissing, Y. Child Rights in the USA. Yale University. April 9, 2016.
Vissing, Y. Importance of Child Rights and Treaty Implementation of the UNCRC. Inter-Parliamentary Alliance for Human Rights and Global Peace Summit April 2016 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Vissing, Y. and S. Burris. How Google Shapes Perception of Child Rights in the 50 US States. Presented at the Eastern Sociological Association meetings. March 2016. Boston.
Vissing, Y. Child Rights, the UNCRC, and the Potential Benefits of This Human Rights Treaty. Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference On The Rights of Children. January 28-30 at the American University Washington College of Law.
Vissing, Y. and S. Burris. Google and Child Rights: What Technology Teaches Us. Presented at the Eastern Sociological Association Meetings, Boston, MA. March.
2015
Vissing, Y. An Analysis of Child Rights as Human Rights. Presentation at American Sociological Association conference, Chicago, IL. August.
Vissing, Y. A child-rights oriented community partnership approach towards increasing child and youth safety through a resiliency framework. International Resilience Conference Pathways III. Delhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada. June 2015.
Vissing, Y. A theoretical model to international child-rights and its relationship to resiliency. International Resilience Conference Pathways III. Delhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada. June 2015.
2014
Vissing, Y. The United States and Children’s Rights: A review of its current status. Invited presentation at the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Amsterdam. November 17, 2014.
Vissing, Y. Human Rights, Changing the Culture of Children’s Rights in the USA. Presentation at the 5th Annual International Conference on Human Rights Education. Washington DC. American University of Law. December 4, 2014.
2013
Vissing, Y. Sustainability at the Edge of Chaos: Its limits and possibilities for homeless children and youth. Kings College, London. Oct.
Vissing, Y. Children’s Rights as Human Rights: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. University of London. Oct.
Vissing, Y. Building Community Partnerships To Safeguard Children. Queens University, Belfast. Oct.
Vissing, Y. Sarah, Javier Trevino. Preparing for a Program Review. Eastern Sociological Association meetings, Boston. 3.24.13
Vissing, Y. Review of the CAST Program, Winona State University, Dean of Arts and Sciences presentation.
Vissing, Y. Review of the Sociology Program, Winona State University. Dean of Arts and Sciences presentation.
2012
Vissing, Y., K. Gamer, E. Teixteria, and H. Sufferti. Research in Practice: What the Archives from the National Coalition from the Homeless have to Teach Us and How We Can Take Research To The Next Highest Level. National Coalition for the Homeless. Washington DC. October 2012.
Vissing, Y. Economic Problems, entitlement programs and the American family. ,American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. August 2012.
Vissing, Y. Homeless children and youth: An examination of legal challenges and directions. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. August 2012.
Vissing, Y. Resiliency, risk and recidivism in juvenile offenders. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. August 2012.
Vissing, Y. and C. Hudson. Making Essential Research Essentially Easy: A Workshop To Identify Research Needs and Resources. Horizons for Children. Boston. May 2012.
2011.
Vissing, Y. Developmental Effects of Homelessness on Children. Lesley College Conference on Children and Poverty. Boston, MA. Nov. 2011.
Vissing, Y. McCie Keynote Speaker. The Power of Peaceful Pursuits. Middlesex Community College. Lowell, MA. Oct. 2011.
2010
Vissing, Y. and Joann Gu. Food Pantry Utilization and Client Satisfaction. Bootstraps. Beverly, MA.
Vissing, Yvonne. Santa Claus as a Nonmaterialism Contributor to Child Development. Child and Teen Consumer conference. June 21 Norpking, Sweden. 2010.
Vissing, Yvonne. Identifying Sources of Social Support For Children During Challenging Times. International Sociological Association. Gothenburg, Sweden. July 11-17 2010.
Vissing, Yvonne. Identifying Risk and Resiliency Factors for Juveniles. International Sociological Association. Gothenburg, Sweden. July 11-17 2010.
Vissing, Yvonne and Joseph Diament. Helping “Bad Kids” to Stay Good: An analysis of juvenile probation risk factors. International Resilience Project. The Social Ecology of Resilience. Delhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. June 7 – 10 2010.
Vissing, Yvonne. Helping Children To Be Resilient After The Death Of A Classmate.
International Resilience Project. The Social Ecology of Resilience. Delhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. June 7 – 10 2010.
Vissing, Yvonne. Conducting Departmental Reviews: A workshop for chairpersons. American Sociological Association. Atlanta, GA. August 2010.
Vissing, Yvonne. Departmental Self-study: conducting institutional research and its relationship to strategic planning. American Sociological Association. Atlanta, GA. August 2010.
Vissing, Yvonne. Conducting Institutional Research. Departmental Resources Group. American Sociological Association. Atlanta, GA. August 2010.
Vissing, Yvonne and Joann Gu. Food Pantry Utilizers and Service Improvement. Presentation at Bootstraps community meeting, Beverly MA. September 2010
2009
Vissing, Yvonne. Assessment Practices in Higher Education. International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2009). Madrid, Spain Nov 16 – 18 2009.
Vissing, Yvonne. Teacher As Consultant: Shifting the Locus of Control in the Educatioal Process. International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2009). Madrid, Spain Nov 16 – 18 2009.
Vissing, Yvonne. Advancing Undergraduate Research. New England Sociological Association. Northeastern University, Boston MA. Nov 9, 2009.
Vissing, Yvonne. Protecting Other People’s Children. American Camping Association. Orlando, Florida. February 19, 2009.
2008
Vissing, Yvonne and Christopher Hudson. How Can You Measure Homelessness More Accurately? National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth. Washington DC. Nov. 1 2008.
Vissing, Y. Definition and Measurement: The Link in Identifying Homeless Children and Youth. New Hampshire Homeless Educator’s Conference. Concord, NH. October 2008.
Vissing, Y. Building Philanthropic Behavior in Communites. New Hampshire Homeless Educator’s Conference. Concord, NH. October 2008.
Y. Vissing. Is Justice Served? National Organizational Analysis of Juvenile Parole Boards. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Sociology of Law session. Boston, MA August 2008.
Y. Vissing. The Role of Santa Claus in Families and Communities. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Sociology of Children and Youth session. Boston, MA August 2008.
Y. Vissing. Health Care and Health Risk Factors for Homeless Youth. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Medical Sociology session. Boston, MA August 2008.
Y. Vissing and Brad Frithsen. Juvenile Prole Board Organization and The Creation of Juvenile Justice. First Annual Research Conference on Children and Youth. Bridgwater State College. Bridgewater, MA. July 2008.
Vissing, Yvonne and Quixada Moore Vissing. Mobilizing Youth To Address the Public Health Problem of War and Interpersonal Violence. Building Global Health for Today and Tomorrow: Unite For Sight’s 5th Annual International Health Conference. Yale University. New Haven, CT. April12-13. 2008.
Vissing, Yvonne and Christopher Hudson. How Do They Do It? An analysis of how The Lion’s Clubs have been successful international advocates for vision. Building Global Health for Today and Tomorrow: Unite For Sight’s 5th Annual International Health Conference. Yale University. New Haven, CT. April12-13. 2008.
Vissing, Yvonne and Christopher Hudson. Impact of Housing Distress and Homelessness on Health and Well-Being. Building Global Health for Today and Tomorrow: Unite For Sight’s 5th Annual International Health Conference. Yale University. New Haven, CT. April12-13. 2008.
Vissing, Yvonne and Christopher Hudson. Health Care of the Homeless: Successful Practices of Case Managers. Building Global Health for Today and Tomorrow: Unite For Sight’s 5th Annual International Health Conference. Yale University. New Haven, CT. April12-13. 2008.
2007
Vissing, Yvonne. Listening to children in divorce and custody cases. Researching Children Conference. Hermann Gmeiner Academy, Innsbruck, Austria. December 10-12, 2007.
Vissing, Yvonne. Impact of housing distress from a child’s perspective. Researching Children Conference. Hermann Gmeiner Academy, Innsbruck, Austria. December 10-12, 2007.
Vissing, Y. Historical Trends in Child Abuse and Neglect. In The Name of The Child: The social and cultural history of children and youth. Linkoping University, Noorroping, Sweden. June 27-30, 2007
Vissing, Y. Research Protocols in Sociology of Children and Youth. Athens Instutite for Education and Research. Athens, Greece. May 13- 17, 2007.
Vissing, Y. Use of Alternative Healing Techniques To Increase Worker Productivity. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology. May 9 – 12, 2007. Stockholm, Sweden.
2006
Vissing, Y. TheYellow School Bus Project. National Homeless Educators Conference. Little Rock, Arkansas Nov. 2006.
Vissing, Y. Health Needs of Homeless and At Risk High School Students. National Homeless Educators Conference. Little Rock, Arkansas Nov. 2006.
Vissing, Y and John McGah. Curriculum for Teaching Children About Poverty and Homelessness in America. National Homeless Educators Conference. Little Rock, Arkansas Nov. 2006.
Vissing, Y. Effect of Poverty on the Health of Homeless Teens. American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada. August 2006.
Vissing, Y. and Quixada Moore-Vissing. Youth and the Development of a Peace Culture. American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada. August 2006.
2005
Vissing, Y. Rhetoric of Concern: Child Poverty and Homelessness in the United States. Stories for Childhood, Histories of Childhood. University of Tours, Tours, France. November 2005.
Vissing, Y. Effects of War on Children: Action Implementation Strategies. Childwatch Internation Research Network, University of Oslo, Norway. June 29 – July 3, 2005.
Vissing, Y. Effects of Homelessness on Children. Childwatch Internation Research Network, University of Oslo, Norway. June 29 – July 3, 2005.
Vissing, Y. Verbal Abuse of Children. Childwatch Internation Research Network, University of Oslo, Norway. June 29 – July 3, 2005.
Vissing, Y. Effects of War on Children: Sociological Imperatives for Action. 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stokholm, Sweden. July 5 – 9, 2005.
Vissing, Y. Homeless Children and Youth: Social Factors Leading Toward Resilience. Pathways to Resilience: An International Conference. Hosted by the International Resilience Project, School of Social Work, Dalhousie University. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. June 15-17, 2005
Other conferences:
Vissing, Y. A New Model for Igniting Peace Involvement: The Peace College. Association for Humanist Sociology. Annual Meeting. Louisville, KY.
Vissing, Y. Keynote Address: The Current State of Homeless Children and Youth: Causes, Consequences, and Remedies. Conference on The Invisible Child: Rural Poverty and Children. Muskegium College, Ohio.
Vissing, Y. Homeless Children: The Role and Responsibilities of the Media. Pew Charitable Trust Media Project. Akron, Ohio.
Vissing, Y. Issues in Evaluating Drug and Alcohol Programs. Society for Applied Anthropology. Merida, Mexico. .
Vissing, Y and J. Johnson. 2000. Youth At Risk: A review of adolescent and teen behavior. HIV/AIDS Conference. Waterville Valley, NH.
Vissing, YM. Verbal Abuse of Children. New Hampshire Bar Association’s annual meeting. Bedford, NH.
Vissing, YM. Homeless Children and Community Involvement. New Hampshire Bar Association’s annual meeting. Bedford, NH..
Vissing, YM. Research Issues in the Study of Homeless Children and Families. Ohio Rural Homeless Conference. Columbus, Ohio.
Vissing, YM, D. Siress, and C Hudson. “Care and Case Management: Definitions of Service Distinctions”. Canadian Health Care Annual Meeting. Toronto
Vissing, YM. and D. Siress. “Training Gerontologists for Rural Areas”. Prepared for the Association for Gerontology in Health Education. Louisville, KY.
Vissing, YM. “Evaluating HIV-AIDS education programs”. Prepared for the Southeastern Regional Educational Service Center. Manchester, NH.
Vissing, YM. “Institutionalized Abuse of Children.” Prepared for the International Conference on Child Protection. Montreal, Canada.
Vissing, Y. and Siress, D. “Organization of Alzheimer’s Services in Rural Areas’. American Geriatric Society meetings. Lexington, KY..
Vissing, Y.M,. J. C. and Chris Hudson. “Rural-Urban Issues in the Mental Health of Families and Children”. American Sociological Association.
Vissing, Y.M. and D. Schroepfer. “Homeless Children in Small Towns”. Child Welfare League of America North Atlantic Regional Conference.
Vissing, Y.M. “Family Homelessness in New Hampshire”. Presented to the New Hampshire State Department of Education.
Vissing, Y.M. and Chris Hudson. “Rural-Urban Issues in the Mental Health of Families and Children”. International Sociology Meetings, Madrid, Spain
Vissing, Y.M. “Preliminary Findings of School and Student Problems Due to Homelessness”. New Hampshire – Vermont State Education Departments.
Vissing, Y.M. “The Community Health Physician and Role as Child Abuse Protection Advocate”. Boston University School of Medicine.
Vissing, Y.M. and M.A. Straus “Verbal Aggression by Parents and Psycho-Social Problems of Children”. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. San Francisco, CA.
Vissing, Y.M. “Medical Student as Healer”. Association for Behavioral Science in Medical Education (ABSAME) annual meeting, Andover, MA.
Vissing, Y.M. “Development of Organizations to Address Multi-Dimensional Problems: The Association for the Study of Food in Society”. Association for the Study of Food in Society annual meeting, Washington DC.
Vissing, Y.M. “A Process Model to Understanding the Family Dynamics in Child Abuse Cases”. Sociological Practice annual meeting, Washington DC.
Vissing, Y.M. “Conceptualizing Child Abuse as But One Form of Child Victimization”. North Central Sociological Association meetings, Pittsburgh, PA.
Vissing, Y.M. “Child Sexual Abuse: Coping Mechanism Development”. North Central Sociological Association meetings, Pittsburgh, PA.
Vissing, Y.M. and K. Mullen. “The Great Steamboat Races Between the Belle of Louisville and the Delta Queen”. American Culture Association meetings, New Orleans, LA.
Vissing, Y.M., D.J. Kallen, and G. Johnson. “Health Care Communication Between Parent, Child, and Physician in Primary Pediatric Settings.” Popular Culture Association meetings, New Orleans, LA. .
Vissing, Y. and C. Schneider. “Steamboat Racing as Maintenance of Cultural Values” presented at Humanity and Society meetings, Big Rapids, MI.
Vissing, Y. “The Enigma of Child Sexual Abuse”. Presented at Chicago Area Society for the Study of Health Behavior, Rush Medical Center, Chicago, IL..
Vissing, Y. “The Sociological Tradition in Today’s Academia” Presented at the Sociology Department Doctoral Program Reunion, Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI.
Vissing, Y.M. and A.M. Chambers. “Childhood Sexual Abuse as a Chronic Problem in Adulthood”. Association for the Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education conference. Fallen Leaf Lake, CA
Vissing, Y.M. and Kevin Mullen. “Steamboating in the Space Age”. Presented at the Popular Culture Association’s annual meeting, Montreal, Canada..
Vissing, Y.M. “Differences Between Lay Women Healers in the United States and Nigeria”. Presented at the International Sociological Association meetings, New Delhi, India. .
Vissing, Y.M. “Making Health Care More Humane”. Association for Humanist Society. Atlanta, Georgia
Vissing, Y.M. “Sexual Abuse and Developmental Consequences”. Presented at Expressions: Our Sense of Self and Sexuality. Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine
Vissing, Y.M. “Analysis of the Holistic Health Movement”. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Holistic Nurses Association, where I was awarded my plaque for Outstanding Article of the Year. San Diego, CA.
Vissing, Y.M. “The Social Implications of Food and Nutrition Choices of Holistic Health Advocates”. Presented at the Michigan Sociological Association meeting, East Lansing, MI
Vissing, Y.M. “Self Care and Responsibility: Blaming the Victim Spiritual Pursuit?” Presented at the Association for Humanist Sociology’s annual meeting. Chicago Vissing, Y.M. “Dow Chemical Company and Dioxin: The Difficulties in Determining Elite Deviance”. Presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problem’s annual meeting, San Antonio, TX.